Jesus at the Racetrack. (2 min 50 sec)

Alright Mighty Companions, let's dive into something a bit different today: horse races. But not just any horse races—these are a metaphor for understanding the ego and the correction Love offers us. Ready? Let's go!

Picture this: at the start, we as one Son looked at a tiny, mad idea and turned to the ego for guidance. We bet on the ego's horse, believing in sin, guilt, and fear— thinking we deserved death. Welcome to the ego thought system: a system of death.

However, the moment we chose this horse, it dropped dead. But in our delusion, we think it's alive. We keep beating it, urging it to go faster, sitting on a horse that's already dead. This is the insanity of the ego. Jesus tells us in the Course that the only sane response is to laugh. Imagine us feverishly beating a dead horse, with friends and family cheering us on, betting their life savings, pleading for it to run. It's a joke!

And we make it even crazier. We drag Jesus from the right mind, where he gently encourages us to choose love over fear, and bring him to the track. "Get this horse going, Jesus! Heal it like Lazarus!" We want him to inject it with anything to get it moving. And in our delusion, we think he's helping us heal our bodies, become wealthy, fix our relationships, and save the world. But he's not on a track that doesn't exist, and we're still on this dead horse.

In the right mind, Jesus isn't mocking us. He's gently laughing, saying, "Don't you see what you're doing? Don’t drag me to the track to revive what doesn’t exist. Come join me and laugh at this nonsense." Jesus asks us to join the Holy Spirit in this gentle laughter, seeing our mistaken thought as a simple error, not a sin. Sin calls for punishment, but errors call for correction. Jesus is above the battleground, asking us to join him, look back, and laugh at our actions and the world's actions since time began—trying to get a dead horse to run and divine help to make it function better.

All we need to do is leave the track, the world, and the body. Go back to the decision-making mind, join Love above the battleground, and look down with gentle laughter, saying, "How silly. I could see peace instead of this. I could bet on the right horse, the horse of the Atonement, which leads me Home."

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