If you've also reached a state of utter despondency about the vast cost of real estate in Israel, then there may be one tactic that you haven't yet considered. Most people searching for a home to buy or a place to live in Israel are familiar with the website called Yajdaim. Yajdaim literally means second hand in Hebrew and is also the name of a popular online marketplace that includes real estate listings as well as all manner of second hand goods. By searching within the real estate category you can attempt to find the very cheapest real estate located anywhere in Israel and then make your decisions from there. This does require a bit of playing around with the filters because Yajdaim also lists parking spaces, yes parking spaces within its real estate category. But if you're persistent enough you'll eventually hit on some legitimately cheap real estate. The first listing that I stumbled upon which both had a price tag and photographs was this property on Shmuel Salon Street in the center It was listed for 100,000 shackles which add today's dollar rate clocks in at just over 26k USD. Note that according to Yajdaim nearby properties have been retailing in the region of 3 million shackles so this listing on you is almost certainly an error. Nevertheless I thought I'd give the a call. So much for that. I decided to raise my virtual budget past the 100,000 shackle price mark because all those listings were also mistakes. At the 130,000 shackle mark I began to find agricultural plots located in different parts of Israel. For 140,000 shackles the equivalent of about 38,000 USD you can become the proud owner of a plot of agricultural land in the Hothash Aron area in northern Israel. There are a couple of catches however. Firstly the listing is only 80 square meters and the second flaw is that it's not listed in the taboo which is sort of like Israel's official land registry. Around the 200,000 price mark in shackles we found an unlikely contender. While claimed to be a five-room penthouse in Kriyat Atah, knowing that this was likely also an error I thought I would try my luck again. Unfortunately this inquiry also ended without me finding the bargain of my dreams in Israel. After the several discouraging faltering attempts I struck upon this listing in Jerusalem located in the Arnona neighborhood not too far from where I currently live. At 271,000 shackles this place clocked in at just over 72,000 USD. Its deficits are that it's firstly intended as a storage unit and therefore doesn't include any sources of natural light or electricity. Nevertheless I thought I would chance my luck and see if they'd have me in spite of these shortcomings. Finally after my virtual budget approached the half a million shackle mark, more than 129,000 USD at today's race I found my winner. Selling for just under half a million shackles is this 25 square meter apartment located in the desert town of Bersheva. It's located on the fourth floor and is a one room property which is essentially a studio. So there you have it guys, if you want to own property in Israel you're going to need at least $100,000. If you can muster up this summer capital you may just be able to afford a one-bedroom property in the southern desert metropolis of Bersheva. I hope this video provided a laugh, wasn't too depressing and perhaps gave you a sense for how crazy the housing bubble in Israel has become. If you would like to get more videos from me about everything to do with living in Israel then please consider subscribing to this channel.


QuickBooks Online 2024 Budgeting Overview Get ready, some coffee and some trail mix because we're hiking on QuickBooks Online, our audit trail to success. Here we are in our Get Great Guitars 2024 QuickBooks Online sample company file we set up in a prior presentation. We're going to open up the major financial statement reports, the balance sheet and income statement as we will do every time the reports located on the left hand side. Within the favorites, we should always have the balance sheet in the favorites, right clicking on it. We're going to open a link in a new tab that we can see up top. We should always have the profit and loss or income statement in the favorites, right clicking on it. Open a link in a new tab and I would argue we should have the trial balance as well, right clicking on it. In a new tab, but if you don't have the trial balance as a favorite, you can search for it up top. Let's go to the tabs we just opened starting with the balance sheet. I'm going to close the hamburger for a little bit more space and then we'll change the range to the range where there's data in this particular file. That being from 010124 tab, 033124 tab, I'd like to see the months broken out separately. Therefore, I'm going to go from totals to months and then run to refresh the report. Tabbing to the right, same thing. I'm going to close the hamburger. I'm going to change the range to the area where there's actual data in this file. 010124 tab, 033124 tab, selecting the dropdown to see it month by month broken out, running to refresh it. There we have that one. Let's tab to the right, same process. I'm going to close the hamburger, closing it, changing the ranging, 010124 tab, 033124 tab. I'd like to see it broken out by months and run it. Okay, first a word from our sponsor. Actually, we're sponsoring ourselves on this one because apparently the merchandisers, they don't want to be seen with us.  Like our crunching numbers is my cardio product line. Now, I'm not saying that subscribing to this channel, crunching numbers with us, will make you thin, fit, and healthy or anything. However, it does seem like it works for her. Just saying. So, subscribe, hit the bell thing and buy some merchandise so you can make the world a better place by sharing your accounting instruction exercise routine. If you would like a commercial free experience, consider subscribing to our website at accountinginstruction.com or accountinginstruction.thinkific.com. Let's go back to the balance sheet and now we're going to be thinking about the budgeting process. So a couple things just to note about the budgeting process starting out. One is that it's not really a traditional thing that falls directly and squarely in the accounting department's area. It's going to be crossing the lines between what the accounting department does and what basically the management does. And that's because, of course, the budget has a predictive element to it predicting what's going to happen into the future. And the accounting department's main job is to try to record the transactions as they are happening, meaning past transactions and current transactions that are happening with the help and the use of the forms broken out by cycle, which will record the journal entries which create the financial statement reports, balance sheet and income statement reports. The bookkeeper and accounting department also communicates with the people that they do business with and typically that might be done with the help and use. I'm going to the tab to the left of the centers, meaning the sales center or the customer center. We can communicate with the customers and then the expenses center or vendor center. So we can communicate with our vendors who are purchasing stuff from goods and services and if we're processing payroll within QuickBooks, the payroll center so we can help to facilitate communication with our employees. So when we get to the to a budget, now we still have a format that looks like financial statements, but they're not for past data, they're for future data. Therefore accountants are quite useful for the construction of the of the budgets because they know how financial statements are built better than even like finance people typically because they understand debits and credits and how these reports are linked together more intimately most times than someone who deals in finance who never really dealt with the building of the financial statements just with the interpretation of them. So the accountant will often still be involved, but you're also going to be needing to pull in management. So if you're a bookkeeper then and you're doing bookkeeping for a client, then you could do basic budgets based on the prior year information and that might be something that would give some minimal usefulness to you. But to really do a comprehensive budget, you would need more information. So it would be kind of unreasonable is what I'm saying is for a client to just say where you should just be making quality budgets based on just the past information. You can't really make a quality budget based on past information. You can just make a budget that's been based on past information. You'd have to communicate with the client to then get their input to basically create the budget that's going to give you information that might be more accurate or give you a goal to shoot for in the future. If you're working on your own books, then of course you can put the two hats on, right? You're doing your accounting and then you're also going to be thinking how can I put my management hat on as well as my accountant hat to figure out what the budget will be going forward. If you're working in a corporation, then the accounting department will probably be on part of the team that is going to be in place to help to do the budgeting because the management of the people that are going to try to make all the bright ideas on what they're going to do to make things better and then you as the accountant are often going to be there trying to figure out what that actually looks like according to their projections into the future. So that means that really what happens with the budget is first we often think about the profit and loss budget, right? Because the profit and loss is the performance statement. So in other words, we have income and expenses. The income and expenses are temporary accounts in that they generally only go up. Income goes up during the month or year. Expenses go up during the month or year. And then we reset them in a similar way like if you were driving a car for a day and then or a year even and then you wanted to reset the odometer to get back to zero to see how far you're going to drive in the next year. That would be similar to what happens with the income statement. If I change these dates up to the next year, 010125 to 010125, there's nothing in it, right? It's gone because we're starting from zero and then we're counting up in all of the profit and loss reports. So I'm going to go back again 010124 to 033124. So now note that the information that's being populated here doesn't like go away. It gets condensed and becomes part of the accounting equation. It's all part of the accounting equation, which is on the balance sheet. So in other words, in the balance sheet over here, we have our profit and loss or income. Here's the net income that's being brought into the income statement. And if I was to, I mean the balance sheet and you can see the net income, it would close out then to equity the equivalent of retained earnings. So if I bring this one up a year to 010125 to 010125, this is as of a point in time. Those income statement accounts, this income line item, rolled into owner's equity, which is basically like retained earnings if it were sole proprietorship. So the whole income statement is a performance statement breaking out information about the performance of the company. When we think about the company from the accounting equation perspective of assets minus liabilities equals equity. That means equity is kind of like the book value attributed to the owners in total, whether that be a sole proprietor, a corporation, a partnership, it's in total. Then we have to think about how it would be broken out if it was a corporation versus a partnership or whatnot. But in total, that's the total. And then the income statement is giving us performance information usually about the prior year about what we did in order to get to this point in time, assets minus liability, book value, equity. Okay, so let's go back then. I'm going to change this again, 010124 to 033124 and run it. So that means the first report we think about is usually the income statement when we're projecting into the future, because we're trying to think, what's our performance going to be in the future? What's our income going to look like next year as compared to last year? What are our expenses going to look like next year as compared to last year? Now, when you think about the budgets, you can get very detailed on the budgets, and we have whole courses if you want to look into budgeting in more detail, or we can get to a general budget that could give us something to shoot for. So it's really a question of how detailed you want to be getting into the budgeting process. But oftentimes we start thinking about the income statement, and usually the starting point is to say what happened last year, right? So we're going to use the past data, but that's not the ending point, because then we're going to decide what we're going to do to change it, hopefully to improve it. And this is where all the bright ideas come from all the different departments, or from your own head, if you're looking at it, the accounting department, or the advertising department's always going to say, predictively, oh, you know, if you give us more money, then what we'll do is we'll spend it on a bunch of advertisements, and then we'll, and that'll generate more revenue. It works every time. Didn't you see what happened with Bud Light?  They're going to try to say, well, you give us, and often time it works, right? So that's going to be, so then the budget would be, okay, we're going to take last year's numbers, and we're going to predict revenue is going to go up because you spent more money on ads. You spent more money on advertising, right? And then you've got the people that are in the product design, or the engineering area, or whatnot, who are saying, hey, you know, maybe we should actually spend more money on making quality stuff.  Maybe we should tell like a decent story or something and like spend money on people that know how to like write stuff that is enjoyable. I mean, or just copy like old comic books or mongas instead of changing them and stuff. Maybe we should, and if we did that, then our revenue would go up. But obviously they'll be shut down. They'll be shut down. And the owners will be like, I don't think that's a good idea. Anyway, so we could have something like that in there, right? So we're going to be, and then of course we have to take into consideration, what's the economy going to look like next year? Is there going to be inflation and whatnot? Is that going to impact? What if we increase prices in the current year? We might have less sales that we make, but we could maybe we'll generate more revenue because we have a higher cost or maybe we decrease prices and so on and so forth. So then we have to have all this added information of what we're going to do to change things and then budget for it. So how do we do that within QuickBooks? Well, typically you're not going to do all those little tweaks within QuickBooks. The best tool for that, in my opinion, is Excel, right? So what you would typically do is take prior period numbers and export them to Excel. So I might take, in our case, we only have three months of data. If we had a whole year of data last year, you might export that to Excel as the starting point and then use Excel as your tool to run all these different scenarios, right? And you can do a whole lot of different methods on how you can play with these different scenarios. And then once you have the budget from Excel, you're going to want to import it back into QuickBooks. And so why would you do that? Because QuickBooks is good at running comparative reports, which is the main thing, right? As time passes, we would like to say, hey, did all that advertising money that we spent, like when we hired that advertiser from Bud Light, did that really increase the revenue on our side and whatnot? And we can compare and say, wait a second, I think maybe we didn't do the right move. And then maybe we should change based on the numbers that are populating in here. The entertainment industry will be like, I don't know if we took the right coin. Anyway, and so then we can do comparisons and adjust it. So that's going to be the general idea. Now, note that the income statement is the performance report. We could do the similar thing for the balance sheet, right? So the balance sheet is where we stand after a certain period. So we might make a balance sheet on a monthly basis or a quarterly basis. If the income statement performs the way it's going to perform, then the balance sheet will be kind of like the end result of that. It's a little bit more complicated than that because you could have balance sheet investments like you invest in equipment and stuff. So if you did all the budgeting process, you would have your production budget and then you'd have your income statement. You'd have a cash flow budget and so on. And then you can have your balance sheet, which will be the end result. So the balance sheet is a level up of complexity oftentimes for basic type budgeting. But you can do the same kind of thing and say where will we stand after a month or a year worst of time if what we budget to be happening actually happens. And again, we probably do that in Excel and then import it into QuickBooks if we could so that QuickBooks can do actual comparisons of what actually happens as time passes to what we budgeted to happen. That's what QuickBooks does well. Now, notice on the income statement, there's a couple of approaches that you might start with. If you're going to export the profit and loss to Excel and then adjust it and then import it back into QuickBooks, you might say, OK, well, maybe I'll take all of last year's data and I'll export each month just like this. And that could be useful in the event that you have a seasonal business because then some months will generally make more money than other months. So that's one method you could use. But you also might be saying, hey, look, our business is changing rapidly. Maybe we're in a situation of growth. If that's the case, then I might not want to export a whole year's worth of data because January will no longer be reflective of what's going to happen in the future because we're doing better in December than January. So in that case, you might be saying, OK, I'm just going to take December's numbers or possibly be more conservative and take the year to date numbers. And then so you might take the whole year's numbers and then divide it by 12, right? So that you'd say each month I'm going to take the total and divide it by 12. And that's what I think the average is going to be. That'll be my starting point. Or again, if you're growing, you might say, hey, I think December's what is going to happen. December's my biggest month. We've been growing from January to December. I think the growth trend will continue. I'm going to start with December's numbers and then make adjustments from there based on what we're going to do in the future.  Also note that I'm not going to export the actual profit and loss. I'm going to export the trial balance and then adjust it because the trial balance doesn't have all the subcategories. So when I model this in Excel, it'll be easier if I just have one line of income statement accounts, income and expenses. So we'll do that in future presentations. Now the actual budget, if we go into the first tab, we're going to say if there's a couple of ways you can get to the budget. But if I hit the drop down up top, this is one way you can get there under the tools, you have the budgeting. Notice where the budget is not. The budget is not under the normal plus button over here typically or it's not in the normal areas over here because the budget isn't part of the normal accounting cycle. The budget is something that is going to be done possibly periodically, but it's not really even part of the accounting cycle. Again, it's kind of a mixture between the accounting and finance areas or management and accounting. So if it's going to be up here, we have the budgeting. We can make multiple budgets so it says here plan better with budgets. Manage all your profit and loss and balance sheet budgets. Now the balance sheets are fairly new within QuickBooks Online. The desktop version had the capacity for balance sheets, but they're leveling it up here with the balance sheet on the online. So good for them, good for them. So use the latest data available in QuickBooks to make budgets. See if you're on track comparing actual performance with budget numbers. Bring in profit and loss budgets created elsewhere into QuickBooks. So then we would of course, if we had the import, we can import, but we would and we might do that later after we build the budget. But right now let's just take a look at it. How do you want to set up your budget? Select your preference options so budget type. You have either won the profit and loss or the balance sheet, which is great. And then you have the period that you can be choosing. So January to December of 2024 is the default and then we've got budget format. Consolidated or subdivided budget and subdivided to create individual budget based on location class, department or customers. So all of those are kind of specialized areas, meaning you might have class tracking on or location tracking, helping you usually to think about more of the income statement, income statement accounts broken out by location or class. We have a whole nother course or section on class tracking and different uses of it. So if you want to take a look at that, we're not going to focus on that here available set up options and then you could import the budget and we could then continue from there. We will continue from there in future presentations. Our general goal here, what we're going to do, we're going to export basically the income statement, but we'll do it with an actual trial balance and then adjust it. We're going to take our period in numbers for February, because we only have two months of data in our practice problem. And we'll use the method of taking those two months and then dividing it by two, right? We'll take the income divided by two and say that's my average monthly income over the two months that I have thus far. That's what I'm going to use to start my budget into the future and then we'll make adjustments from it from that point, budgeting out 12 months into the future. However, we're actually going to kind of pretend that these two months were the last months of the prior year, November and December, so that we can get our numbers, our budget from January through December, import it back into QuickBooks and then we can run budget versus actual reports where the first two months will have the budgeted numbers that we can compare to the actual. So hopefully that makes a little sense. We'll try to explain that in more detail as we go through the practice problem, which we'll start doing next time.


Bill at BBQDricks.com and unboxing today of the Charved Royal Digital Electric Smoker. I'm actually writing a cookbook called the Complete Digital Electric Smoker Cookbook. You can find out details on that in the comments or in the description box. But this is one of the biggies out there to use. I'm going to do an unboxing today. They also share with you a very, very important step you've got to do, almost a warning for all electric smokers. And give you like four things that I really love about the Charved Royal. By the way, you will have some drippings here despite what this photo shows you. So beware, you will have drippings, especially if you do ribs. There's not a speck of drippings, but you'll have, let's get started with the unboxing. Obviously, the glass door, you can see what's going on inside. This smoker box, just, you know, some of these electric smokers use box and biscuits. This is just regular old wood chips. So it's not going to be expensive to keep up with and keep working. I love the stainless steel construction. This hefty latch is really good to, it keeps, that really forms a pretty good tight seal to keep breeze out of it or any sort of leaks. And in general, the simplicity of this Charved Royal smoker is really good because although it does have a remote control and a thermometer, which you really need these days, there's not a lot of technology in this one. Certainly all the makers have like the Bluetooth models, but I like that this is a simple unit. Now the thing is, before you get going, our word of warning is really any electric smoker is you got to season it. So you're going to want to basically fire it up highest heat. So these have been washed. You want to watch out for your first rack of ribs, you want them to have the new car smell. So that's why we're going to season this and burn off any impurities. Another reason why you probably have to season it, if you look closely, there are little micro beads of styrofoam that I even didn't get out before I started the process. So I'm going to pick a little bit out, but it's one thing to watch for as much as you can. Once we have two hours of this thing seasoning, getting hot, you can turn it off and let it cool and you'll be ready to go. While it's seasoning, one other thing to look at is some of the things inside the box. This big thermometer, of course, is the internal thermometer. We're not seasoning that, no real need, nor would we do this remote control. Also in the box, this grilling guide, which has your basic information and some recipes that are always good to get. While this thing is seasoning, another thing you could do is get batteries. It takes two triple A's for this remote control and, alas, Charbroal does not include them. Luckily, I was prepared. In two hours, it's been highest heat. And interesting, at the highest heat, you can still touch it. A little warm here, warm here, warm here on the back. Hot, but not too hot. So it's keeping the heat in very good. And this is a 90-degree day out here today. Next step for this, by the way, this definitely is cool enough to heat up. So next step is going to be putting some food in there. And we'll do that in the coming weeks here. I'm releasing the complete Electric Smoker Cookbook. We'll try some of them out here. And if you want some free recipes right now, a free recipe book, I do have one. I'll put a link to the free cookbook in the notes. And go get it and come back here for more recipes. If you want tips, tricks, other fun stuff, always here, www.barbecuetricks.com.


What do you mean? My name is Nat. I'm currently working in Shopify as a React Native team. But today's topic is not really about React or React Native at all. You talk about GraphQL. I just want to show you guys why I really love GraphQL and you guys should too. So let's start about, it started about three or four years ago that I started learning React. So I used the common practice, which is Redux. And by the time Facebook also introduced, and now the new open-source library is called Relay. And I was frustrated because I thought it's gonna be like replacement for Redux.  Anyway, but it's turned out it doesn't. So it's kind of like a way, a gate to a new experience on the amazing technology called GraphQL. You can say GraphQL is like a replacement for Reds API, but actually it's have a growing con. But now I'm only gonna talk about GraphQL and the con of Reds API, of course. Yeah, so usually when you fetching the data from the server, we will use the HTTP because it's very simple. Every browser can perform HTTP requests. And the protocol is very simple as well.  So yeah, you can do everything there with the actual HTTP request. But the bad thing also, you can do everything there because it's really generic. You don't really like the new guy that you want to like request the data, you need to learn everything about your how server built in to able to perform a request. That why we kind of invent a common practice like a best practice or a guide for building your API server. So I think this one is a popular one, like Reds API, which is look like this. So I'm not really gonna talk about it because I'm also not sure what is really called Reds API but it's used like a full method of HTTP and then have some like semantic name in URL. But clearly as you see this, it's just a common practice which means there is no rule that you can apply to this. And you also, it's just a string so you don't know what is result when you requesting this. You need to try requesting this API or you may need to like lead to the server API document anyway. So that why GraphQL is introducing. So it's introducing as a query language. So it's a language which means there is a syntax. You have only limitation way that you can make a request but for server side, you need to serving a thing called schema. So this is like a extra work that you need to do and you also need to serve the data let's make by the schema. So the schema is also writing in GraphQL language and for every client that want to request from you, you need to, so this is how schema look like which have like a simple, look like a tie definition in typescape offer. Have a primitive tie, have an array, have a, you can do an array of another time as well. So this is very simple. And every client when you want to request data from the GraphQL server, you need to like a query which your query cannot just randomly write it. You need to let's make the schema that the server serving and server will return you the data that you request like in the same manner that you request. So this is how you work. Actually other than that, you will join her. But it's kind of, please look like a lot of work that need to be done but why is this good? So a lot of people might introducing you, GraphQL like to as an architecture that solve some technical issue of the less API like overfishing, underfishing, or you can do a batching the request. But for me, the most benefit is having a tie system in the API schema. So what can you do with the schema? So it's clear. The simple example is this one is like a GraphQL which is like a document for your GraphQL server but it's kind of go to the next level because it can serve as a simple IDE and you can really have a auto suggestion and you can pay a lot like keep typing and then try it right away. So this is a really simple example of it but actually the schema can enable you more than that. So I want you guys to think about the way that connect the server to the client and have a really strict type system between it. So the really first UK that I can think of is generating a type because type in schema is really lean, right? So it can possible that you can generate any like language, type system language like not only TypeScript for like a reason you can also generate like a server code like a C++ or GraphQL or Golang, like anything can be generated from this. And another thing is auto mocking. So you can do auto mocking your query or even your component level. So the mocking here is not for me it's not really just for unit test. You can also doing while you development and then you're working on your UI state, logic or something, right? And then you just don't really care about the business layer from the server. You're just mocking everything of that. And then it's like have more less dependency when you start developing it. And then when you really want to integrate it you're just changing the mock query into the real actual query and then everything works seamlessly because it have a type. And another thing that I want to introduce is Apollo Engine with its lean name to Graph Manager recently is performance enhancing. So the idea is you upload the schema into that server and also upload the performance enhancing of each field of every user that try to request that, right? So this one is, and it will keep track of the performance of each field and also how user really use your schema. And they also shift another amazing product which is IDE integration in VS Code. It's a Apollo VS Code. So all of that that I talking is also, you can see all the thing here in your, right away in your IDE.  You don't need to open the document API anymore. It's right here in IDE. And other than that it's also able to like prefetch your schema and verify that you do something wrong with your, when you type it or not. Like this case it have a deprecation flag and this flag is not really exist in the type and it verify in your IDE at that time. Okay, another thing is also what they can integrate back to the Apollo Engine that I say early and it can show the performance of each field right away when you, so I feel like this one is very easy to really optimize some performance because when you move some field right to another, like let's say another request, you can, the other information is kind of get inside your IDE already and refactoring is very easy. So actually this is just an example of like how we really use the schema but there is a lot of usage of it. Like the Gatsby also use it to like optimize at build time or some like helping P catch for your server side before the client view deploy. So yeah, so for me is having a strict type schema is kind of enable you to like have a better developer experience. So that's why I think I love Graphio. Thanks.


and we are taking it one lesson a day. Here we are in February. We've made it here to February 13th, and we are on workbook lesson 44 today. I think you're going to really enjoy the collaboration with Jesus today. Today is like a, I'll call it a Jesus Christ guided meditation coming to us. So we all know that guided meditations can be very, very helpful and have been helpful. I know in my life there's been so many guided meditations, music meditations, closed-eyed meditations, open-eyed meditations, yeah, all kinds of meditations that have been very, very helpful at sinking much, much, much deeper in the mind beyond the surface of consciousness where all the images are and appearances and all the sights and sounds that aren't really sights and aren't really sounds, but they're just the projections of the belief in separation from God, the belief in differences, the belief in separate objects even, even to believe a tree is a tree. The ego has named the tree and pulled it out of the, we'll say the tapestry that the Holy Spirit is leading us towards, is toward the forgiven world, towards the happy dream, towards the simultaneous tapestry of unity, of unified awareness, seeing that illusions are all one and illusions are not many and illusions are not even dual and there are no opposites in heaven. God is a God of love and oneness and pure innocence and infinity and God doesn't create opposites or multiplicity, but we practice with everything that the ego made and that's what this Jesus Christ guided meditation and workbook lesson is about, listen 44 today, because we practice with what the ego made and letting the Holy Spirit use what the ego made to transform our consciousness and transform our awareness to take us up to the tippy top of consciousness, which is the domain of the ego and then to the leaping off point of the happy dream or the forgiven world and it just takes mind training. So we're worried for it. So here we go, we're going into workbook lesson 44 today. God is the light in which I see. Today we are continuing the idea for yesterday, adding another dimension to it. You cannot see in darkness and you cannot make light. You can make darkness and then think you see in it, but light reflects life and is therefore an aspect of creation. Creation and darkness cannot coexist, but light and life must go together being but different aspects of creation. Beautiful. So again, we're reinforcing that amazing, amazing revelatory truth that creation is eternal, God is eternal, that the idea of Christ, the creation of God is eternal and that Christ's creations are eternal as well. Spirit creates, spirit creates spirit. Love creates, love creates love. Light creates, light creates light and he's saying light and life, light reflects life. So when we talk about the vision of Christ, we're talking about that light of Christ, it's not of the five senses, it's not of the body's eyes or the body's ears. None of the five senses are involved in light and none of them are involved in eternity either. Five is not one, five senses. And it seems like the five senses are of the body, but the body's a projection of the ego and so are the five senses. So there's people that have near-death experiences and they report coming out of the body and being above the body in a corner of the room and hearing all the sounds and perceiving all the things that are happening as they're in the room, the body's laying there, whether it's laying there or being revived by the paramedics or whatever, they're perceiving something, but they're not perceiving themselves as in the body. That's another good symbol to the mind that the five senses are not in the body. They're part of the ego and the ego's fragmented filter or perception of separation. Again, five is not one. There's one God, one life, one Christ, one heaven and everything is eternal oneness and love. And that's creation. And then creation just extends itself, so. But we're also being reminded here in the first paragraph, creation and darkness cannot coexist. So spirit and ego, spirit and linear time, spirit and differences, oneness and multiplicity, they don't coexist, they cannot coexist, but light and life must go together being different aspects of creation, being different aspects of, we'll say, eternity. And even the word different is, not the way we think of it in this world, because Jesus tells us in the Course that the seeming levels of the trinity, Father, Son, Holy Ghost, the trinity, Holy Spirit, those levels, he said, never conflict. So we always say levels, how many levels are there in oneness? There aren't really any. Jesus is like, he's giving us some words to say, wake up, know the oneness of God. In paragraph two, in order to see, you must recognize that light is within, not without. You do not see outside yourself, nor is the equipment for seeing outside you. An essential part of this equipment is the light that makes seeing possible. It is with you always making vision possible in every circumstance. So again, we follow on from paragraph one. You must, in order to see, you must recognize the light is within, not without. At one point in the Course, Jesus says, the body is outside you, but it seems to surround you, shutting you off from others. Yeah, that's what he's saying. There's another line in the Course where Jesus says, mind reaches to itself, it does not go out. Within itself is everything, you within it and it within you. Again, he's teaching us that there's nothing outside of the mind and there's nothing outside of the light of Christ, the light of heaven, the light of God's love. And the projection is the attempt to get rid of something you do not want, which is fear. It's kind of a sneaky device, the ego invents a linear cosmos to try to hurl the fear out and seem as if the fear is in the cosmos. But the fear is just a belief in the ego, in the mind. And you have to go deep, deep, deep before you realize that the ego is just a false belief. It's just false evidence appearing real. That's the whole acronym for the synonym that it's not real, fear is not real. But if you see it in the world, then you're seeing it where it's not. He's telling us you do not see outside yourself. You do not see with the vision of Christ when you look out through the images. When you look through the image that the ego is, it's an image, a picture of the separation from God. When you look through the image, you see images and you believe in those images and then it's like you're looking outside for meaning, for purpose, for truth. It's not possible. An essential part of this equipment is the light that makes seeing possible. He's saying that you can only see with the vision of Christ. You can only see with spiritual vision. Sometimes it's called the spiritual eye.   And I am light is a statement of truth, identity. I am light. I am the light of the world, statement of truth. I bring light with me wherever I go. It's a statement because who you are is light. So he's going to set us up here with those first two paragraphs by basically saying the only way that you truly see in the real sense, spiritual vision is Christ vision and that is light. Paragraph three. Today we are going to attempt to reach that light. For this purpose, we will use a form of exercise which has been suggested before and which we will utilize increasingly. It is particularly difficult form for the undisciplined mind and represents a major goal of mind training. It requires precisely what the untrained mind lacks yet this training must be accomplished if you are to see. Have at least three practice periods today, each lasting three to five minutes. A longer time is highly recommended but only if you find the time slipping by with little or no sense of strain. The form of practice we will use today is the most natural and easy one in the world for the trained mind. Just as it seems to be the most unnatural and difficult for the untrained mind. Your mind is no longer wholly untrained. You are quite ready to learn the form of exercise we will use today but you may find that you will encounter strong resistance. The reason is very simple. While you practice in this way you leave behind everything that you now believe and all the thoughts that you have made up.  If you can stand aside from the ego by ever so little you will have no difficulty in recognizing that its opposition and its fears are meaningless. You might find it helpful to remind yourself from time to time that to reach light is to escape from darkness. Whatever you may believe to the contrary.  You are attempting to reach him. Begin the practice period by repeating today's idea with your eyes open and close them slowly repeating the idea several more times. God is the light in which I see. God is the light in which I see. God is the light. In which I see. Then try to sink into your mind letting go of every kind of interference and intrusion by quietly sinking past them. Your mind cannot be stopped in this unless you choose to stop it. It is merely taking its natural course. Try to observe your passing thoughts without involvement and slip quietly by them. While no particular approach is advocated for this form of exercise. What is needful is a sense of the importance of what you are doing. It's an estimable value to you and an awareness that you are attempting something very holy. Salvation is your happiest accomplishment. It is also the only one that has any meaning because it is the only one that has any real use to you at all. If resistance rises in any form pause long enough to repeat today's idea keeping your eyes closed unless you are aware of fear. In that case you will probably find it more reassuring to open your eyes briefly. Try however to return to the exercises with eyes closed as soon as possible. God is the light in which I see. God is the light in which I see. If you are doing the exercises correctly you should experience some sense of relaxation and even a feeling that you are approaching if not actually entering into light. Try to think of light formless and without limit as you pass by the thoughts of this world. And do not forget that they cannot hold you to the world unless you give them the power to do so. Throughout the day repeat the idea often with eyes open or closed as seems better to you at the time. But do not forget above all be determined to not forget today. God is the light in which I see. And to support us with this beautiful lesson beautiful Jesus Christ guided meditation let's go back to chapter 12 and section six the vision of Christ. Oh my, the ego is trying to teach you how to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. The Holy Spirit teaches that you cannot lose your soul and there is no gain in the world. For of itself it profits nothing. To invest without profit is surely to impoverish yourself and the overhead is high. Not only is there no profit in the investment but the cost to you is enormous. For this investment cost you the world's reality by denying yours and gives you nothing in return. You cannot sell your soul but you can sell your awareness of it. You cannot perceive your soul but you will not know it while you perceive something else is more valuable.  He is perfectly aware that you do not know yourself and perfectly aware of how to teach you to remember what you are. Because he loves you, he will gladly teach you what he loves for he wills to share it. Remembering you always, he cannot let you forget your worth for the father never ceases to remind him of his son and he never ceases to remind his son of the father. God is in your memory because of him. You chose to forget your father but you do not really want to do so and therefore you can decide otherwise. As it was my decision, so is it yours. You do not want the world. The only thing of value in it is whatever part of it you look upon with love. This gives it the only reality it will ever have. Its value is not in itself but yours is in you. As self-value comes from self-extension so does the perception of self-value come from the extension of loving thoughts outward. Make the world real unto yourself for the real world is the gift of the Holy Spirit and so it belongs to you. Correction is for all who cannot see. To open the eyes of the blind is the Holy Spirit's mission for he knows that they have not lost their vision but merely sleep. He would awaken them from the sleep of forgetting to the remembering of God. Christ's eyes are open and he will look upon whatever you see with love if you accept his vision as yours. The Holy Spirit keeps the vision of Christ for every son of God who sleeps. In his sight the son of God is perfect and he longs to share his vision with you. He will show you the real world because God gave you heaven. Through him your father calls his son to remember. The awakening of his son begins with his investment in the real world and by this he will learn to reinvest in himself. For reality is one with the father and the son and the Holy Spirit blesses the real world in their name.  He's talking about the happy dream of forgiveness. He's talking about the forgiven world. He's talking about a reflection of light so that you still seem to see the images but you don't invest in them at all. You don't interpret them. You open totally to the Holy Spirit, to Jesus, the forgiveness, the release of error and the acceptance of the truth and you open to a unified awareness. If you're a scientist you open to the quantum field and you let go everything else that you seem to learn about the world, about physics, not everything. When you have seen this real world as you will surely do you will remember us, capital US, capital U. He's talking about Christ and the Holy Spirit, the essence, the eternal nature. If you must learn the cost of sleeping and refuse to pay it, only then will you decide to awaken and then the real world will spring to your sight for Christ has never slept. He is waiting to be seen for he has never lost sight of you. He looks quietly on the real world which he would share with you because he knows of the Father's love for him. And knowing this he would give you what is yours? In perfect peace he waits for you at his Father's altar holding out the Father's love to you in the quiet light of the Holy Spirit's blessing. For the Holy Spirit will lead everyone home to his Father where Christ waits as his self, his divine self, his spiritual self. Every child of God is one in Christ for his being is in Christ as Christ is in God. Christ's love for you is his love for his Father which he knows because he knows his Father's love for him. And the Holy Spirit has at last led you to Christ at the altar to his Father. Perception fuses into knowledge because perception has become so holy that his transfer to holiness is merely its natural extension. Love transfers to love without any interference for the two are one. As you perceive more and more common elements in all situations, the transfer of training under the Holy Spirit's guidance increases and becomes generalized. Gradually you learn to apply it to everyone and everything for its applicability is universal. This has been accomplished. Perception and knowledge have become so similar that they share the unification of the laws of God. What is one cannot be perceived as separate and the denial of separation is the reinstatement of knowledge. At the altar of God, the holy perception of God's Son becomes so enlightened that light streams into it and the spirit of God's Son shines in the mind of the Father and becomes one with it. Very gently does God shine upon himself loving the extension of himself that is his Son. The world has no purpose as it blends into the purpose of God. For the real world has slipped quietly into heaven where everything eternal in it has always been. There the Redeemer and the Redeemed join in perfect love of God and of each other. Heaven is your home and being in God it must also be in you. The vision of Christ, the kingdom of heaven is within. The kingdom of God is within. Amen, hallelujah, all glory to God. Truth is true and only the truth is true and we rejoice in that high happy note. But all the angels are rejoicing with us today as we go forward. Deep dive, first Christ Jesus Christ meditation, guided meditation of the workbook. Enjoy it, sink deep in it today. God is the light in which I see. Amen.


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