The world I see holds nothing that I want.

5-8-2026

“Peace, and be still a little while, and see how far you rise above the world when you release your mind from chains and let it seek the level where it finds itself at home.” [CE W-128.6:1]

In his commentary on this lesson, Robert Perry described paragraph 6 as a metaphor of the mind being like a caged bird. When we can bring stillness to the mind, the cage drops and the mind flies free in truth. (I’m imagining truth as a field of life, like air or the sky.)

Oh, to be in the world but not of the world, what can that look like for me? I can recognize that what is important is beauty, connecting me to the sacredness of creation, and the souls that I meet. Other souls are my opportunity to extend love (or stop blocking the love of Source that already exists) to experience what I long for — connection with Love.

5-8-2024

I look around the world wanting my vision to come upon beauty and those that I love. In theory, I know that those I love are not the bodies that I see. I want something new now. I want a view of my loved ones’ spirit, true Selves apart from these bodies. I believe I am asking for true vision.

Will it be magnificent?

I think so!

5-8-2023

I thought this morning about a thing I gave to my adult child that I then worried might get damaged. And yet, I also accept the lesson’s teaching that the world holds nothing that I want.

Who am I right now?

I am the Tricia who is engaged in the world at this moment as I am resisting – feeling attachment to some things.

But, I hold no guilt about this as I know with a prayer, some breaths, or a centering intent, that I will shift into my Higher Self perspective. Sometimes I want to play the game. I mostly like to be connected to the light, joy, and peace that abide within me.

Dear Lord, help me to stay aware of the times I choose to be a player in the game. _/\_

5-08-2022

As I read the first paragraph, my mind sought to find something in this world that I do want, that is of importance, to prove Christ’s words wrong.

First, I thought of my children and then at other people in general. I thought I had done it, bettered Christ.

But, then I realized that the world I see doesn’t actually hold our souls. We are all limited and distorted images in this world.

God, you are right again! LOL!