June 28, 2011

A healed mind recognizes the truth about who we really are. It recognizes that we are all One, that there is no separation between the Children of God. It recognizes there is no sin, and no possibility that we can really hurt each other. It recognizes that there is no death and no punishment. It recognizes there is no need for suffering and that we are limitless and powerful. But we cling to our mistaken idea that we are the opposite from all the previously mentioned characteristics.

Every relationship we encounter in this world is an opportunity to heal and be healed. Each one is a chance to recognize the Oneness of all in the one we are engaging at the moment. It doesn’t matter haw fleeting, how brief, how challenging, are how easy the encounter or relationship is. Each moment is an opportunity to recognize the Divine in that one, see that one in the light of Spirit, and see the light of God shining from that one. It that moment we realize the joining of all of creation in that encounter. Be grateful each encounter and bless it. It is a holy relationship and all we need do is recognize it as it really is. Spirit will do the rest.

We are so afraid of losing the identity we have made for ourselves. We have made it in isolation. We have made it to look like it is independent from others. We have made it look like something it isn’t and can never be. We are all One. We are all joined, never to be separated. The reality of our Oneness is blessed, joyful, full of love, and radiating light. Recognize our reality as One and soar on the wings of eagles. The salvation of the world is soaring with us. Let it be so.

June 21, 2011

We all fear healing. And we fear healing because we believe a mistaken idea that we must be different from each other in some way. In some way we believe we are better or worse than another, more right or wrong than another, more or less spiritual than another. We believe in sacrifice and suffering. One might believe that they must suffer so another may be elevated. Another might believe that another must suffer or pay penance for how they have treated them. All of these ideas which we place our belief in color our perception of each other and the world and hide reality from our awareness at the present moment.

Only when we are willing to begin to let the Holy Spirit correct our perception are we able to see with the Mind of Spirit and see each other and the world clearly. Forgiveness is our function here, not correction. We cannot correct by ourselves, for we will attempt to accomplish correction from a mind of ego. The ego mind seeks to reinforce our ideas of separation and individual identities independent from the whole identity of Self and Oneness. The function of forgiveness opens us to the idea that we are all One and that there is no way we could have caused any harm to any Creation of God. Created as an extension of God, we are as indestructible as God, and as loving as God.

Believe that we all are who we really are, that we all are extension(s) of God. Allowing this thought allows Spirit to correct our perception and let the light of Spirit shine brightly in our mind. We see a new Truth about each other and ourselves, as we see the light of God shining within each and every one we encounter. Every one we meet, and every one who comes across our path is a new opportunity to heal and to be healed. We need make no effort to heal. We need only to allow healing to enter our mind. There is nothing to fear. There is nothing to lose. But there is everything to gain. We are not healed alone. We are healed with each other, together. Let Spirit open our minds and hearts and see the reality of our Oneness. The love and peace of God extends to all, and there is joy!

June 14, 2011

The miracle of healing proves that separation can have no real effect. And the power of the miracle comes in our belief in it. Power is in the belief that healing is possible. We always act form our belief. Everything we say or do or think testifies to what we actually believe. And so healing comes simply in what we believe. Our belief in each other’s innocence speaks with a power far greater than a thousand tongues. This is another’s forgiveness proven to them.

The miracle of healing offers nothing less to another than it gives us. Healing happens with another. The workbook says, “When I am healed, I am not healed alone. And I would share my healing with the world. That sickness may be banished from the mind, of God’s one Child, who is my only self.” In our healing, forgiveness is given for what that one did not do, and so that one is convinced their innocence was never lost, and they are healed with us. In this healing are all things undone that we thought could not be undone. We see the world with new eyes, fresh vision and understanding given by Spirit and seen through Spirit’s eyes and mind. How beautiful it is to finally see each other as we really are.

There is noting to fear in the miracle of healing. What could we possibly lose but misery, lack, and weakness? The freedom of stepping into the Truth of who we really are washes away all that is not real, all that we have mistakenly believed in. The belief in our own innocence and that of each other opens the door to Heaven for all of us. We are suddenly free, and unfettered, free to soar in the love of the God we know within us. We are blessed with the radiance of our own Being, that which has always been within us, waiting for us to change our mind and just believe in the Truth about ourselves.

Our mistaken ideas and beliefs fall away. In the light of our Truth we see the radiance of all of Heaven shining from each face. We recognize the face of Christ shining from every one we encounter. Don’t be afraid anymore. Let the Spirit of Holy Being shine from you on another and feel it reflected from them beck to you. It takes two to heal!

June 7, 2011

True healing is very frightening to many of us. It asks us to change how we view the world and each other and even ourselves. It asks us to give up the way we have thought all our lives. It asks us to let go of our attachment to the way we have always thought things should be. It asks us to question the rationale and sanity of all we have ever thought rational and sane. All we have been taught, all we have believed, all we have trusted is up for review. No wonder we are afraid of healing. It may upset our applecart!

Understanding true healing is dependant on our understanding of true forgiveness. True forgiveness lets go of the notion that one can ever wrong another. “Forgiving” one who has wronged us and retaining the idea that they have hurt us is not true forgiveness. In this way we still retain our attachment to the idea that we can be hurt. We are still hanging on to the identity of ourselves we made up, still not ready to believe the truth about who we really are. And so we still cannot see who another really is. In this way we “put on” and air of “forgiveness” while still believing we have been wronged.

If we say we are as we were created by God, whole and innocent and unattaclable, no one can wrong us. In Truth, one can never really wrong another. In reality it is impossible for me to wrong you and for you to wrong me. Understanding this idea is foreign to most of us and certainly doesn’t agree with what we have learned in this world. For we have immersed ourselves in a world of separation and illusion, trying to understand the world from the idea of separate identities rather than Oneness. We must begin to see and to believe that however it appears that we’ve been wronged in this world of separateness is not as it appears to our mind.

The Course provides us with a method of learning that we can change our mind. It gives us lessons that when done will help us, step by step, to change the way we think just a little at a time until a huge hole bursts open in what we thought was true and we begin to see the Mind of God in ourselves and each other. We begin to make sense of the idea that we are whole and innocent and that our true self cannot be wronged or hurt by anything unreal or of the world of form, no matter what it may look like to us at the moment. The love and peace of God is there within us. And as we change our way of thinking and believing, we experience that love and we understand true forgiveness and we see who the one with us and ourselves are truly One, the One holy creation of God. Be healed and know who you really are.

May 31, 2011

Our function in this world is to show each other that sin is impossible, that sin has no cause. This is our base function. It takes many forms in this world, as many as there are ideas and thoughts. But it is our one underlying function in this world. To understand this function is important to understanding who we really are and what our purpose is.

The image we hold of ourselves, the picture we hold up for another to see is reflective of our understanding of our function. It is reflective of where our mind is at any given moment. The Holy Spirit’s picture of ourselves which we allow to be placed in our hands doesn’t change us in any way to something we are not. It merely removes all the mistaken ideas and purposes we have taken on over time. It removes us from our thoughts about past experiences and presents us with a new openness. Free of our attachment to the past, our mind is now free to choose again our purpose in this world.

In this place of openness are we free to allow Heaven to be remembered. Its peace comes and perfect healing can take the place of all our mistaken thoughts. We begin to reflect the idea of who we really are. There no longer is any pain and suffering, no sacrifice in our image of ourselves. Instead, innocence, love, and forgiveness radiate from our presence. The face of Christ shines from deep within us, revealing a new image to each one that they are whole and innocent, that they are no longer limited by their limited view of their own purpose. The picture we hold up shows them the same openness in them waiting for their mind to choose a new purpose in this world. A purpose that spawns healing in each and every mind.

This is simple. Let the body have no purpose from the past. Let it be free to receive a new purpose revealed by Spirit. As our function is revealed to us by Spirit and we release our idea of our body’s purpose, our true function and our body’s purpose become one. They are united in the awakening of our true Self and the awareness of who we really are. Allow Heaven to fill your being. Let the peace and love and joy of Heaven fill your mind. The radiance that shines from our faces will be the reflection of who we really are and the reflection of who each one we encounter really is. We celebrate each others’ wholeness and foster the healing of the world in this moment.

May 24, 2011

We have been talking about the picture, the image of ourselves we hold up for another to see. This image is both what we believe about ourselves and what we believe about another. As we ponder what we now believe, or at least want to believe about ourselves, we hold out our hands made gentle by Spirit. In those gentle hands Spirit places a new and different picture, image, idea of ourselves. This new image still manifests in the form of a body, for our true Self cannot be seen or pictured. But this new image has not been used for attack and so has never suffered pain at all.

This is a truly new image, different from all we have imagined before. It speaks of forgiveness, love, and compassion. This new image points beyond what we perceive to our innocence and wholeness. And as we hold this new image up to each other, we both find our tears and sorrow have been wiped away in laughter and love. The freedom of healing rises up in both of us as we see each other with healed eyes. We are released from all the mistaken ideas we thought of each other, our attack, our guilt, our sin, and any other idea that we thought justified our feeling of fear. The freedom and release we feel in this moment carries a joy and peace we only dreamed of before. Healing has washed over and through us.

Receive the gift of the image Spirit places in our hands. Gladly hold it up for all you encounter to see. It speaks of their healing and attests to their innocence. They are called forth to be believed and replace our old beliefs. They lend conviction to the system of healing they speak for and represent. We needn’t worry about the right form, or what image is right for this one we encounter now. Spirit in its wisdom and knowledge has made this for us perfectly. It has many voices and speaks to each one and ourselves in many different ways. Yet, the message is always the same for each of us and comes to us in the perfect way for each of us in that moment. The Miracle Worker’s Prayer says, “I need not worry what to say or what to do, for the One who sent me will direct me.”

Let Spirit place that perfect image in your hands made willing by your willingness. See your friend and so yourself in the image Spirit made for you and recognize each other’s innocence and wholeness. This image points us to the remembrance and awareness of who we all really are. And thus know that we are all One with each other, all creation, and God.

May 17, 2011

What image do we paint of ourselves? How do we perceive ourselves? Is there sacrifice, suffering, lack, or unfairly treated in those images of how we see ourselves? This is the self we are presenting to each other. And we present this image because we believe that this is who and what we are. This is the picture we hold up to the one who we encounter in this moment that we have chosen as our teacher for the moment. So when this one looks at this image we hold up, they naturally see themselves reflected in that image. Why? We are all one, and so what we see in another is what we see in ourselves. And so we project what we see in ourselves on another. And so we go round in circles, traveling far, but getting nowhere.

This image we portray is our own crucifixion, and so becomes our brother’s or sister’s crucifixion. Crucifixion is the act of sacrifice and suffering. We really want no part of it, but somehow we have convinced ourselves that we must give up something in order to have something. This something we think we want that we think we don’t have takes many forms. But they all have one thing in common; they aren’t real. They only appear real because we believe they are real. We have consented to this image and actually began believing it. We looked at another and believed the illusion that was held up for us to see instead of looking beyond the image to the Truth beyond it.

Here is the power of our belief and our conviction. The witness we present to others points beyond ourselves to what we represent. If we represent guilt and separation, that is what we will present to each other. But we have the choice to present a different image to each other. We have the choice to present a different witness that points beyond ourselves to the truth of what we represent and who we really are. The image of suffering and sacrifice crumbles in the light of the Truth shining beyond it. And we then see the face of Christ shining form another, reflecting the Christ within us that shines from beyond the mistaken image we have portrayed.

Look beyond the appearance of what we think we see. Let the representation of who we really are shine away the images of suffering and crucifixion we so readily believe. The beauty of our Oneness cannot be marred by the image of sacrifice and suffering. When we allow ourselves to see beyond the suffering to Truth, we rise ever so gently from the depths of this hell we have made in this illusion to the peace and joy of Heaven. Here we are home and there is no better time to transcend there than right now in this very moment.