The Birth of Grace An Excerpt from Grace to Ascension Hal Schroeder

Spirit of Lifeby Daniel Chester French1CHAPTER1The Birth of GraceAmazing Grace, how sweet the sound, That saved a wretch like me.I once was lost but now am found, Was blind, but now I see.---John Newton (1725-1807) Thank God for grace, as it is the grace of the Lord that allows us to ascend. It is not us, and could not be us, because we are nothing.We are stick fgures. We are holographs of refracted light, playing and acting out a super dream of limitation and lack, thinking we are the masters of our fate. We keep on trying to affect fate, right into these mysterious graves of shadowy death. By ourselves, we can do nothing. By ourselves, we are powerless. Where in this entire world does a shadow, does a hologram, have power? As the song says, we desperately needAmazing Grace to escape this illusion and to ascend to our reality of Light and Love. Without grace, we are stuck as shadows acting out scripts of limited minds, waiting for grace to come into our life. The timing is not up to us. The timing is up to Holy Spirit and those beings of Light and Love, whether it be Brother Jesus, angels, or Our Father Mother Source. In our powerlessness of illusion, all we can do is submit and surrender to their will and direction. Why else would we have been told to follow the divine will, to pray for guidance, to simply say and act upon this affrmation? I forgive all that is not; I remember all that there is.Submission and surrender is all we can do to ascend to our rightful place at the right side of Father Mother Source. We dont like this fact; ego mind claims to be the master of our fate, and by following it, we can force our way into Gods good graces. Of course, ego minds "good graces" is the phony concept of what God is and is not.Thus, both the fastestand onlyway to Ascen-sion is through this submission and surrender to the One Will of the Universe of the One and All. And the One Will is to empower for all of us the affrmation that eliminates all of the falsity of our dream world with the power, completeness, and simplicity of the affrmation: I forgive all that is not; I remember all that there is.2The best example may be any of the Twelve Step programs, which began with the premise of total surrender to a Higher Power, because by our-selves we are powerless.For many who have never attended a Twelve Step meeting, or have never studied its origins, it is simply a program for addicts of one sort or another, whether the addiction is alcohol, food, debt, drugs, smoking or co-dependency.Do your studying. Because that is wrong, wrong, wrong. The program, through the inspiration of Holy Spirit, was developed by concerned citizens between World War I and World War II as a way to avoid war and gain a spiritual perspective for each of us. Obviously, ego mind has kept this goal from being realizedwith its levels of confusion and obfuscation. But why should this surprise us, since we have totally missed the message of the Crucifxion, Resurrection, and Ascension frombeloved Elder Brother Jesus? It was Bill W. who was looking for a way to help alcoholics, including himself. He took the Twelve Steps and formed Alcoholics Anonymous. It eventually evolved into many other programs treating addictions. It cannot be emphasized enough that this was not the programs original intention. The program on its own is a great spiritual pro-gram that depends on submission to the will of the Lord. In the 3rd and 11th steps, conscious contact with Holy Spirit, Higher Power, or what-ever one calls it, is essential for the success of the program.So the only choice we all have is to follow that conscious contact within and recognize it as grace personifed. We need to know exactly what the Universe of the One and All wants each of us to know, where to go, what to say, and how to lead our lives within this dream until we are called home to ascend to our place at the right side of Father Mother Source. The entire point of this Ascension Series is to re-mind you of that germane spiritual concept, which is that those who are called need to answer the biblical summons: Those to whom much is given, much is expected.This never means just material goods, but includes truth, wisdom, and knowledge. This isnt done by re-inventing the wheel, but by rediscovering the essential message of the Cross and the sacrifce of Brother Jesus to bring us the fundamental les-son of Resurrection and Ascension.Please take this gift of grace, and choose to act on it, to bring this most fundamental message to one and all by becoming a fellow messenger of forgive-ness, extolling the power and truth of:I forgive all that is not; I remember all that there is.I await all of you on the other side of the curtain of consciousness, as we drop our Saul-like identi-ties by falling off our horses of illusion, dropping off of our cliffs into our individual abysses, and be-coming the Saint Pauls of Ascension and Light. Please answer the call, and lets ascend together, creating Heaven on Earth, right here and right now. Amen. I forgive all that is not; I remember all that there is.OBSERVER REPORT Report from National LeagueReport from NJ LeaguecAscensionist Series The Ascension SeriesCheck the prices on Amazon.comAwakenings to AscensionThe purpose ofyour life is to ascend to be with Father Mother Source. Awakening is the way.to Ascension, de-scribed in this book.Love Letters from an Angel is a collection of essays from An-gel Hal to women everywhere. His concern is their spiritual welfare---but this is an angel who canlaugh. Ascension Is All That There Is continues Awakenings to Ascen-sion, with essential meditations on all aspects of ascending. Grace to Ascension leads you to recognize that grace is all around you; each and every instant, grace is in your life, propelling you towards Ascension.Ascension and Nothingness takes you through experiencing nothingness andits role in all we believe and all we can believe. 3Hal Schroeder Hal Schroeder is a student, facilitator, and writer on A Course in Miracles subjects. Although Halhas three traditional degrees, he asserts that his most important degree is from The University of the Holy Spirit, with whom he has been communing since 1988. It was revealed to Hal that his writings are a continu-ation of the ideas contained in A Course in Miracles.Hals writing is centered on forgiveness and ways to practice it. The forgiveness affrmation is the center of each of his books and the basis of each essay: I forgive all that is not; I remember all that there is.Hal organized and ran two humanitarian foun-dations, one in Ethiopia, one in the Philippines, both devoted to empowering people.He was also a superintendent of schools three times in the United States and abroad, creating numerous innovative programs, while en-countering the wrath of those who did not want fundamental change. Email: hal.schroeder@aol.comEmail: hal.schroeder@aol.com Ascensionist Press blog http://ascensionistpress.blogspot.com