ACIM Movie Gathering (Chances Are), 12/1/24

They don’t make love stories like this one anymore. Love is free. It can’t be bound by time nor by any of the characters of time, yet time can be used to serve love's recognition. To open our minds
And our cast is stellar: Robert Downey Jr. and Cybil Shepard. Supporting cast is just as great: Mary Stuart Masterson, and Ryan O’Neal.

This 1989 treasure depicts an artistic/comedic rendition of a reincarnation scenario. And it’s also a romantic comedy, which aims to help us see that true love never dies, but always takes us deeper into itself. This tale is all about love’s deepening. Yet, healing as we’ll see, can be fun and funny— as we watch our characters outgrow the past. They choose to let love reorganize their lives and lift them to greater heights. Love always teaches us that our character can’t be who we are... our roles aren’t really who we are... our relationships aren’t who we are… the past is gone. Love is who we are.

The form that love seems to take is never love’s reality. Lifetimes (and all cycles of time) are sometimes referred to as karma, the suffering of the past which seems to repeat over time. But no time or form is a problem for the Spirit. Time can collapse instead of drag on. Form can unravel, instead of imprison. Consciousness can heal instead of fragment into pieces. When love is true, it calls us to recognize the real lesson— there is no loss or danger in letting go, but only gain, only relief, only innocence found. Love has no cost to anyone because it can only bless. Love takes nothing except our suffering away, and gives us everything. Every relationship brings us back to one common lesson of recognizing the holy instant, forgiving the past, and being the love we share and are.

How does love generalize to include everyone? Spirit knows how to use our relationships to show us love naturally includes everyone, because it belongs to everyone equally. Love can’t be limited, and can’t ever be contained, because it’s always increasing.

We are all in love with each other in reality because in reality we are all the same Self. In this world, we all want the same thing— to find a love that will last. The ego fails to make love exclusive, because wholeness and inclusion are love's keynotes. Time serves no other purpose but to bring about this recognition and let all things be exactly as they are right now. Love is incapable of being possessive or exclusive. To the Spirit of Love, ownership means sharing His mind, His perception, His peace, His time, His being, His love— with all our brothers and sisters. When we stop trying to control the form, we perceive that all forms naturally serve love.

Laughs are guaranteed to help us feel our hearts open, as Louie (Christopher McDonald) reincarnates into Alex (Robert Downey Jr.). When Alex meet Corinne (Cybil Shepard), his memories of Louie’s lifetime return, which throws Alex for a loop-- pun intended! The love Louie shared with Corinne comes rushing into Alex’s memory, revealing a choice to either hold on, or actively step out of past roles and definitions— so love can flourish.

In our opening to be led by love, love isn’t lost but strengthened and increased in new and surprising ways. Isn’t that beautiful? Isn’t this what we are all asking for?

May Love increase in our awareness and blow our minds, please...
Brian & Alexandra ✨💞✨