August 14, 2018

Our healing – our return to the awareness of our holiness – is Spirit’s goal for us. It is the return to the awareness of our true Self that has never been touched by any force that can harm us. The mistake we make is that we think we see anything real with our body’s eyes. This perception is clouded and distorted by our egoic though system rooted in the belief that we are what we are not. We believe we are broken, limited, unholy and condemned and so that is what we think we see. What if we were to entertain the thought that none of what we think we see is true, that none of it is real? The Course asks us to consider this question. Do we like what we think we see? Do we want to be a part of that world? I don’t think so. We really want something better if we are honest with ourselves.

We have the choice to accept Spirit’s gift of Vision, a way of seeing that looks beyond the appearance of the world to the truth of reality beyond. Isn’t this what we really want?

Everything looked upon with vision falls gently into place, according to the laws brought to it by Spirit’s calm and certain sight. 2 The end for everything Spirit looks upon is always sure. For it will meet Spirit’s purpose, seen in unadjusted form and suited perfectly to meet it. Destructiveness becomes benign, and sin is turned to blessing under Spirit’s gentle gaze.   T-20.VIII.6:1-4

Our egoic thought system wants none of this. It uses our relationships in ways that support its purpose, keeping us thinking we are limited and broken. Yet, Spirit transforms our relationships through the Vision It offers us – which is already ours – bringing us the reawakening of the awareness of our holiness, our limitlessness and the love and peace that are deeply rooted within us. What if we recognized this world we think we see is a hallucination? What if we really understood we made it up? What if we realized that those who seem to walk about in it, to sin and die, attack and murder and destroy themselves, are wholly unreal? Entertain this thought just for a moment.

Hallucinations disappear when they are recognized for what they are. This is the healing and the remedy. Believe them not and they are gone. And all you need to do is recognize that you did this. Once you accept this simple fact and take unto yourself the power you gave them, you are released from them. One thing is sure; hallucinations serve a purpose, and when that purpose is no longer held they disappear. Therefore, the question never is whether you want them, but always, do you want the purpose that they serve?   T-20.VIII.8:1-7

There are only two purposes possible. One is separation, the other holiness. Nothing is in between, and which purpose we choose determines what we see. What we see is simply how we elect to meet our goal. Hallucinations serve to meet the goal of madness. They are the means the outside world, projected from within, adjusts to illusion and witness to its seeming reality. It still is true that nothing is without. Yet all projections are made on nothing. It is projection that gives the “nothing” all the meaning that it holds.

When you have looked on what seemed terrifying, and seen it change to sights of loveliness and peace; when you have looked on scenes of violence and death, and watched them change to quiet views of gardens under open skies, with clear, life-giving water running happily beside them in dancing brooks that never waste away; who need persuade you to accept the gift of vision? And after vision, who is there who could refuse what must come after? Think but an instant just on this; you can behold the holiness the One gave Us. And never need you think that there is something else for you to see.   T-20.VIII.11:1-4

What will you choose now? Choose the Vision Spirit offers you now in this moment. It is the choice that transforms all you see. Your relationships will reveal their true holy purpose, to unite you in Oneness with all others. Let your mind be healed in this moment and realize the holiness of your being. Love and peace are your reward.

August 7, 2018

My friends, indulge me for just a moment. What if our lives are perfect just as they are? What if our relationships are already holy. What if we already dwell in Heaven? What if we simply need to change how we see the world we live in? I think and believe the Curse is telling us just this. Our world appears to be anything but peaceful. Our relation ships appear to be anything but holy. And, this world appears to be anything but Heaven. When the Course asks us to look beyond the appearance of things to the holy reality beyond, it means for us to do just that. How could this possibly be so? Yet, we are not alone in changing the way we perceive this world. We are given all the help we could possibly need or want to make this so. Are we seeing with our body’s eyes

or our Spirit vision? We must learn to use and trust our Spirit Vision if we want to see clearly.

Do you not want to know your own Identity? Would you not happily exchange your doubts for certainty? Would you not willingly be free of misery, and learn again of joy? Your holy relationship offers all this to you. As it was given you, so will be its effects. And as its holy purpose was not made by you, the means by which its happy end is yours is also not of you. Rejoice in what is yours but for the asking, and think not that you need make either means or end. All this is given you who would but see another sinless. All this is given, waiting on your desire but to receive it. Vision is freely given to those who ask to see.   T-20.VIII.2:1-10

We are given Spirit’s Vision in shining light in which to look upon each other’s sinlessness and rejoice in it along with Spirit. Peace will come to all who ask for vision with real desire and sincerity of purpose. This we share with Spirit and at one with Spirit on what salvation is. Be willing to see each other sinless, so that the One may rise before our vision and give us joy. This merely asks us to be willing to allow Spirit to guide our vision to a more correct perception of our world. Think of the song, “Open my eyes that I may see.” Allow Spirit to open your Spirit eyes so you may see clearly. The world we think we now see around us is transformed by our Spirit vision to show a world full of peace, love and joy. We simply need to trust Spirit to show us this real world and release our attachment to the world we think we see. Reality is there for the seeing beyond the chaos and misery we think is real.

This is our purpose now, and the vision that makes it ours is ready to be realized. We have the vision that enables us to see beyond the body. And as we look upon each other, we will see an altar to our Creator glowing with radiant purity and sparkling with the shining lilies we laid upon it. May we relax into this light. May we allow it to well up within us to shine brightly for all to recognize as a reflection of their own light. We are truly the light of the world.

Everything looked upon with vision falls gently into place, according to the laws brought to it by Spirit’s calm and certain sight. The end for everything Spirit looks upon is always sure. For it will meet Spirit’s purpose, seen in unadjusted form and suited perfectly to meet it. Destructiveness becomes benign, and sin is turned to blessing under Spirit’s gentle gaze.   T-20.VIII.6:1-6

Ask Spirit to reopen your Spirit eyes so you may see clearly. The reward is the return f our awareness of our relationships’ holiness and our own holiness. We also see the world clearly without the distortion our egoic mind places on it. Open you Spirit vision and let the light of the world shine through you to all who wish to see clearly. Allow vision to fall gently into place. This needs merely an allowing rather than any great effort. Allow reality and peace to reveal all that is loving, peaceful and holy to you and let it be so.

July 31, 2018

As we journey on our spiritual path, our perception of those we journey with is crucial. How do we see each other? Are we making judgements about each other? As we judge each other we fail to see their reality. If our mind is aligned with the idea of separation, the reality of those we journey with is invisible to us. The eyes of our body show us other bodies. The bodies we think we see are distorted images of the holy ones we journey with. Yet because we see them as separate bodies – or bodies separate from us – we cannot see the realty of who they really are and thus the reflection of who we really are.  We are essentially trying to see light in a darkness from which we have shut light out. We imagine each other as something we are not.

There is indeed a difference between this vain imagining and vision. The difference lies not in them, but in their purpose. Both are but means, each one appropriate to the end for which it is employed. Neither can serve the purpose of the other, for each one is a choice of purpose, employed on its behalf. Either is meaningless without the end for which it was intended, nor is it valued as a separate thing apart from the intention. The means seem real because the goal is valued. And judgment has no value unless the goal is sin.   T-20.VII.7:1-7

What goal have we chosen for ourselves? What is our chosen end? Is our chosen end the one we really want? If our end is separation, the eyes of our bodies will show us the means to see separation. But, if our goal is healing, the healing of our relationships and thus our minds, our spirit eyes will show us the means. If we keep shifting between the body’s eyes and Spirit eyes, we will remain confused as we are confusing means that lead to two different ends. Is it any wonder we find ourselves conflicted and lost in chaos?

Spirit has given us vision to see clearly the means to the healing of our relationships. Spirit asks that we be consistent in seeking the means Spirit gave us to guide us. Even when we stray from the means Spirit has given us, we can simply stop a moment and return to our holy vision which is always within us and which Spirit will always guide us to. Choosing our Spirit vision guides us to seeing reality. And seeing the ones we journey with in their reality as holy relationships is our release from all limitation. We see the reality of our wholeness and Oneness.

Your question should not be, “How can I see another without the body?” Ask only, “Do I really wish to see them sinless?” And as you ask, forget not that their sinlessness is your escape from fear. Salvation is the Holy Spirit’s goal. The means is vision. For what the seeing look upon is sinless. No one who loves can judge, and what they see is free of condemnation. And what they see they did not make, for it was given them to see, as was the vision that made their seeing possible.   T-20.VII.9:1-8

Set your mind on the goal you seek: Oneness. Allow Spirit to guide you in the means to this goal. Allow your Spirit eyes to see for you. There is no need to not see the body. Rather, look beyond the appearance of the body to the reality beyond. The healing of our relationships is the result of these means. And the return to the awareness of who we really are in Oneness is the end. This is what we really want. Be consistent in seeking to see with your Spirit eyes. When you are unsure, seek Spirit’s guidance. We will all be swept into the realm of Heaven as we allow this practice to transform our lives.

July 24, 2018

The Course requires almost nothing of us. It is impossible to imagine any path that asks so little or could offer more. Yet we make it seem very complicated. Our own egoic thought system prefers to make itself seem indispensable by making happiness, joy and peace seem difficult and complicated.  Peace, love and happiness are our natural state. They are effortless in their true form. The egpic thought system has no place in our natural state of being for it is not real. It is an invention – a mistaken idea that we have believed – that preoccupies our minds with made up “dangers” and “enemies”. These ideas bring uncertainty and insecurity and fear into our minds that tend to dominate our thoughts. Within us, and no stranger to us, is another reality we have forgotten in our preoccupation with our distracted fear. Our minds are so full of discrepancies that we are focused on that we miss the peace, love and joy within us. What happens after we decide to allow our relationships to be healed – to be made holy?

The period of discomfort that follows the sudden change in a relationship from sin to holiness may now be almost over. To the extent you still experience it, you are refusing to leave the means to the One Who changed the purpose. You recognize you want the goal. Are you not also willing to accept the means? If you are not, let us admit that you are inconsistent. A purpose is attained by means, and if you want a purpose you must be willing to want the means as well. How can one be sincere and say, “I want this above all else, and yet I do not want to learn the means to get it?”   T-20.VII.2:1-7

We need to want the end – peace, yet we are often not willing to also be consistent in the means to attain peace. What must we do? The means are second to the end, the goal. And when we hesitate, it is because we fear the purpose, and not the means. Remember this, otherwise we will make the error of believing the means are difficult. The healing of our relationships is the easiest thing if we will simply allow the Spirit within us to take the lead and show us the way. The holiness of our relationships is within us as their true nature needs no healing. We simply must release our attachment to their seeming unholiness and allow our vision of them to be healed. Step back a moment and see with your holy vision what is beyond appearance in this world.

The body is the means by which the egoic thought system tries to make the unholy relationship seem real. The unholy instant is the time of bodies. But the purpose here is sin. It cannot be attained but in illusion, and so the illusion of another as a body is quite in keeping with the purpose of unholiness. Because of this consistency, the means remain unquestioned while the end is cherished. Seeing adapts to wish, for sight is always secondary to desire. And if you see the body, you have chosen judgment and not vision. For vision, like relationships, has no order. You either see or not.   T-20.VII.5.1-9

How can I not see another’s body? This seems impossible. Yet it is very possible and also quite easy if we are willing. The means of healing our relationships is to not see the body. Perhaps we can look at this differently. The Course always asks us to look beyond the appearance of things to the truth beyond. We have learned that we are not bodies, but that we are free. We are Thoughts in the One Mind. So, begin by looking beyond another’s body and allow your Higher Holy Spirit Self to see what is real beyond their body. Their Holy essence will become visible in your holy vision. You will begin to see they are joined with you in Oneness. You will begin to see your Holy Self reflected in hem to you and recognize the peace, love and joy that are there within both of you. Our unholy instant transforms to a holy instant where all judgement falls away and we see what is real and eternal. Rest with that vision for a moment. Even if it falls away, we can return by releasing our attachment to the appearance of the body and looking beyond its appearance. What is real and eternal will never fade. Only our consistency of seeking the means that lead to our desired end will move us into more and more healing. Trust the guidance of your inner Guide and be consistent in following that guidance. We are in this world to be transformed, so be transformed. Be consistent in following the means to your holy purpose. Do not be hard on yourself, for that will only deter you. Be consistent in your means and be led gently into peace, love and joy.

July 17, 2018

We continue to look at our relationships and ask ourselves how they reflect our relationship with Source – the One or God. Are our relationships healthy? Do they reflect the love we really are? Do they extend unconditional love? If our minds remain aligned with the belief in separation, we find our relationships are rooted in darkness and are not real relationships at all. We may even think that our relationship will save us from loneliness. However, a relationship that is not fully joined – without exception – is no relationship at all, for it leaves most of our mind unjoined. There is no partially joined in reality. We are either joined or not.

There is no order in relationships. They either are or not. An unholy relationship is no relationship. It is a state of isolation, which seems to be what it is not. No more than that. The instant that the mad idea of making your relationship with Source unholy seemed to be possible, all your relationships were made meaningless. In that unholy instant time was born, and bodies made to house the mad idea and give it the illusion of reality. And so it seemed to have a home that held together for a little while in time, and vanished. For what could house this mad idea against reality but for an instant?   T-20.VI.8:1-9

While we are invested in the idea of separation and isolation, we cannot experience real peace or happiness. Real peace and happiness cannot exist in isolation and separation. They can only thrive in sharing and communion with others. Isolation breeds stagnation and death. Joining breeds vitality and life, circulation and refreshing newness. The idea of separation perpetuates itself in our attachment to our identity as a body. How limiting is that? We believe we have walled off a little bit of Oneness with flesh and called it ”me.” Yet we are so much more that that walled off bit of flesh. As we look out from this little bit of flesh, we think we see so much “out there” when there is nothing real “out there” that is anything more than a projection of our misperception. When we redirect our attention within we find a vast eternal reality that shines with light and power. What is within is eternal and what is without is temporal. Put your belief and your faith into that which is eternal and everlasting. What do our relationships tell us about ourselves?

The holy relationship reflects the true relationship We have with Source in reality. The Holy Spirit rests within it in the certainty it will endure forever. Its firm foundation is eternally upheld by truth, and love shines on it with the gentle smile and tender blessing it offers to its own. Here the unholy instant is exchanged in gladness for the holy one of safe return. Here is the way to true relationships held gently open, through which you and another walk together, leaving the body thankfully behind and resting in the Everlasting Arms. Love’s Arms are open to receive you, and give you peace forever.   T-20.VI.10:16

Release yourself from the limiting confines of your belief that the bit of flesh you call “you” defines who you are. It does nothing more than imprison you. Instead, redirect your attention to the limitlessness within you. See the relationships you form healed as they are transformed to holy healed unconditional relationships. See beyond their earthly appearance to their heavenly holiness. They reflect our own relationship with Source. Be honest and allow Spirit to guide your mind in the transformation of all your relationships. Offer the miracle of healing to all your relationships – withholding it from not a one. We – as we are joined – are the temple of the Holy Spirit, for we, in communion, are the Holy Spirit. We are the embodiment of Oneness in this world. Let Heaven be apparent on earth in your extension of Oneness.

July 10, 2018

We have been learning about the role our relationships with each other have in our journey back to the awareness of who we really are. This is the role our relationships play in the healing of our mind and the attainment of peace. In a like manner, our relationships with each other reflect our relationship with our Creator, God, the One, Oneness, or Source – whatever we call that force which we inherently are. Our real relationship with our Creator is wholly loving and forever. Yet we have invented an unholy – “special” –  relationship between ourselves and our Creator. Our real relationship is one of perfect union and unbroken continuity. The relationship we made is partial, self-centered, broken into fragments and full of fear. The relationship created by our Creator is wholly Self-encompassing and Self-extending. The one we made in separation is wholly self-destructive and self-limiting.

Nothing can show the contrast better than the experience of both a holy and an unholy relationship. The first is based on love, and rests on it serene and undisturbed. The body does not intrude upon it. Any relationship in which the body enters is based not on love, but on idolatry. Love wishes to be known, completely understood and shared. It has no secrets; nothing that it would keep apart and hide. It walks in sunlight, open-eyed and calm, in smiling welcome and in sincerity so simple and so obvious it cannot be misunderstood.   T-20.VI.2:1-7

Which kind of relationship have we chosen for our own? Is it fearful or loving? Are we or are we not at peace? The relationships we have with others in our life will reflect some aspect of this primary relationship. And, if we are not in Oneness, we will not feel love and peace in our lives. We cannot share when we are aligned with separation. We can be loved, but cannot love. We do not understand what we are offered, and any relationship in which we enter has lost its meaning. The love of an unholy relationship has made love meaningless. We live in secrecy, hating the sunlight and happy in the body’s darkness, where we can hide and keep our secrets hidden along with them. Thus we have no relationships, for no one else is truly welcome there. We smile on no one, and those who smile on us we do not truly see. These unholy relationships are a sham, merely excuses for real relationships. They are relationships that survive only in darkness, fearing the light at all costs.

Love has no darkened temples where mysteries are kept obscure and hidden from the sun. It does not seek for power, but for relationships. The body is the ego’s chosen weapon for seeking power through relationships. And its relationships must be unholy, for what they are it does not even see. It wants them solely for the offerings on which its idols thrive. The rest it merely throws away, for all that it could offer is seen as valueless. Homeless, the ego seeks as many bodies as it can collect to place its idols in, and so establish them as temples to itself.   T-20.VI.4:1-7

Our true temple, filled with Spirit’s wisdom, love and peace, is our relationships. As we allow Spirit to fill and transform our relationships, we are filled with light, love, and peace. We find the power we are given in our creation limitless yet needing no effort. All fear melts away as the light within us shines away any darkness we may have harbored. As our relationships heal, so does our mind heal. We discover, again, the limitlessness of our divine nature. We find that we have never been lost in darkness. We find that love and peace are the all-encompassing qualities we share with each other and our Creator in this holy and complete reality. What seemed unknown and unreachable has always been within us waiting for us to look within and find it there in the holiness of our true Self. Look again at those around you and allow the holiness of your relationships shine forth. Here is Spirit’s temple in you.

July 3, 2018

We are in this temporal world of form on a journey back to the awareness of who we really are. We are really One with each other and all that is. We are One with Source. We are One with all that is eternal and limitless. All that is real is connected and innocent. All that is real is completely without any kind of sin or any kind of flaw. We are created whole and we remain whole in Oneness. Any idea that tells us otherwise is merely a mistake, born of a misperception of truth and reality. We have blocked our awareness of our true nature, our true being, by believing we are somehow separate from all others and all else. And, we reinforce this belief by making our relationships in this temporal world appear as we believe them to be. This belief blocks the awareness of who we are from our minds.

The journey back to the awareness of our natural state of being is through the healing of our relationships. Each one we encounter on this journey is there to help us remember who we really are. They come into our lives so we may change our mind and look beyond their appearance to their irrefutable wholeness hidden by what we think we see. We offer the miracle of healing our relationships by offering each other the awareness of their wholeness as we join with them in Oneness.

In this world, We come closest to ourselves in a holy relationship. There we begin to find the certainty our Creator has in them. And there we find our function of restoring our Creator’s laws to what was held outside them, and finding what was lost. Only in time can anything be lost, and never lost forever. So do the parts of the One Child gradually join in time, and with each joining is the end of time brought nearer. Each miracle of joining is a mighty herald of eternity. No one who has a single purpose, unified and sure, can be afraid. No one who shares their purpose with them can not be one with them.   T-20.V.1:1-8

We are the heralds of eternity. We are the ones who call out in the darkness proclaiming light that shines away the darkness. Once we awaken to the light and wholeness within us we begin to remember we are all joined in Oneness. The light within each and every one of us has never dimmed nor was ever extinguished. We simply, in our denial of our own light, shuttered our light so we could not see it ourselves. Our partners on our journey could see our light, but we denied it was there and refused to see it reflected in their faces. Thus, we created a symbolic hell of the darkness we believed was there. We can open the shutters with which we blocked our light. This is what begins our return to the awareness of reality and eternity.

Each herald of eternity sings of the end of sin and fear. Each speaks in time of what is far beyond it. Two voices raised together call to the hearts of everyone, to let them beat as one. And in that single heartbeat is the unity of love proclaimed and given welcome. Peace to your holy relationship, which has the power to hold the unity of the One Child together. You give to your friend for everyone, and in your gift is everyone made glad. Forget not Who has given you the gifts you give, and through your not forgetting this, will you remember Who gave the gifts to this One to give to you.   T-20.V.2:1-7

Offer your relationships to Spirit for healing. In this offer, you can rest assured you will see correctly. You will see you friend as they truly are, whole and complete. In their healed appearance will you see your whole and complete Self reflected back to you. You will see you relationship joined in Oneness, never again to be seen as separate. Your example will be the Herald of Eternity shining in Holy Oneness for others to see and return to. Let the light within you shine. It truly is the Light of world.

June 26, 2018

What if our real world is nothing but peace, love and joy? Could we be open to this possibility for just a moment? The Course teaches there is nothing but peace, love and joy. It also teaches that all fear, limitation and suffering is merely a mistaken perception and is not real. However, for those of us who experience these feelings, they seem very real and we see no way to escape from them. The world we think we see with our bodies’ eyes is a world distorted through the lens of separation. As we have aligned our thoughts with our belief that we are many separate beings, we have perceived a world of many unlike identities. The world appears to be comprised of many competing beings and ideas. Sometimes it can feel very lonely. Could it be possible that there is another interpretation? Most of us have felt some sort of wider connection with others at some point in our existence. Whether of not we believe in a God or some other larger concept, we have somehow felt this connection among beings some way. Perhaps there is a deeper or higher connection.

The Course teaches there is another way, another plan. We give as we receive. There is power within us to see power within another and share with them the power of the release from separation we offer them. To each who walks this earth in seeming solitude a savior is given, whose special function here is to release them, and so to free themselves. In the world of separation each is appointed separately, though they are all the same. Yet those who know that they are all One do not need salvation. Each one of us finds our savior when we are ready to look upon the face of Oneness within another and see them whole and joined. In reality we are all joined in Oneness with each other and with Source. Nothing can change this fact, yet we can perceive our world differently.

Our purpose given to us in this world is to heal this belief in separation. Do not think the forgiveness of another serves only the two of you alone. The whole new world rests in the hands of every two who enter here to rest. As we rest, the face of Heaven shines on us and we remember the reality of Oneness, forgetting all else that is not real. We can no more leave one of us outside than Source could leave us and forget part of what is One. Through our relationships we heal our belief in separation and remember we are One with each other and One with all of Creation. The friend with whom we will heal our relationship is with us when we are ready. Is that time now? It is our choice. We will decide to open our minds when we are ready to accept real happiness, love, and peace. There the awareness of our Oneness will follow our willingness to leave separation behind.

You may wonder how you can be at peace when, while you are in time, there is so much that must be done before the way to peace is open. Perhaps this seems impossible to you. But ask yourself if it is possible that God would have a plan for your salvation that does not work. Once you accept God’s plan as the one function that you would fulfill, there will be nothing else the Holy Spirit will not arrange for you without your effort. Spirit will go before you making straight your path, and leaving in your way no stones to trip on, and no obstacles to bar your way. Nothing you need will be denied you. Not one seeming difficulty but will melt away before you reach it. You need take thought for nothing, careless of everything except the only purpose that you would fulfill. As that was given you, so will its fulfillment be. God’s guarantee will hold against all obstacles, for it rests on certainty and not contingency. It rests on you.  And what can be more certain than the One Child of God?   T-20.IV.8:1-12

Do not think that you do not need to do your part in the whole. In your part lies all of it, without which is no part complete, nor is the whole completed without your part. The ark of peace is entered two by two, yet the beginning of another world goes with them. Each holy relationship must enter here, to learn its special function in Spirit’s plan, now that it shares Spirit’s purpose. As this purpose is fulfilled, a new world rises in which separation cannot enter, and where we can enter without fear and where we rest a while, to forget imprisonment and to remember freedom. Choose today to see another as they really are and step into the ark of peace that is the Heaven we seek.

June 19, 2018

As in the previous section, Section IV teaches us about our relationships and the importance of healing our relationships. The One we are in relationship with in this world right now is the one to whom we are to offer healing. The Course has taught us there is only one problem – belief in separation. It has also taught us there is only one solution – the end of separation in the awareness of Oneness. If we give our friend the power to hurt us, we have believed that power can be split – separated – that we can give something away and no longer have it. This is impossible in reality where everything is shared. The Course has taught us that giving and receiving are the same. Thus, everything real is shared. The body’s eyes do not see this, for they are designed to see separation. Whatever we seem to have seen in this world has another interpretation. Our own Higher Holy Spirit Self within us will show us the correct interpretation if we will allow ourselves to be open minded. The answer is already within us.

Sin has no place in Heaven, where its results are alien and can no more enter than can their source. And therein lies your need to see your friend sinless. In them is Heaven. See sin in them instead, and Heaven is lost to you. But see them as they are, and what is yours shines from them to you. Your savior gives you only love, but what you would receive of them is up to you. It lies in them to overlook all your mistakes, and therein lies their own salvation. And so it is with yours. Salvation is a lesson in giving, as the Holy Spirit interprets it. It is the reawakening of the laws of the One in minds that have established other laws, and given them power to enforce what the One created not.   T-20.IV.2:1-10

Salvation is freedom. Our salvation is the release of our friend from the perception we have of them that limits them and thus likewise limits us. We are limited by the perception we hold true of our friend. The insane world we made up rooted in our mistaken belief in separation is the world we have given power over our freedom and relationships. We have believed this world is our “just reward” when it can’t really reach our true holy Self. This is nothing but madness! Is this what we would see within our savior from insanity? Our savior is as free from this as we are, and in the freedom that we see in them we see our own. For this freedom – salvation – we share.

Those who choose freedom will experience only its results. Their power is of the One, and they will give it only to what the One has given, to share with them. Nothing but this can touch them, for they see only this, sharing their power according to the Will of the One. And thus their freedom is established and maintained. It is upheld through all temptation to imprison and to be imprisoned. It is of them who learned of freedom that you should ask what freedom is. Ask not the sparrow how the eagle soars, for those with little wings have not accepted for themselves the power to share with you.   T-20.IV.4:1-7

What will you accept for yourself? What will you accept for your friend? Your friend is your savior and you are your friend’s savior. It doesn’t matter what your friend does in this temporal world. Begin by recognizing the holy within them they may not see right now. Grant your friend freedom from all you have previously believed about them and reveal their holy Self in your mind. This is what begins the healing of your relationship. Take the first step, for that is a step toward Heaven that is within both of you. Thus, we enter peace hand in hand with our friend. Take this first step right now.

June 12, 2018

Through the lens of separation, we perceive our relationships adjusted from their true meaning. The belief in the idea of separation adjusts our relationships to appear “special” – meaning not holy. All our relationships are holy in reality. It is only in this “adjusted” world that they appear “special.” Are we not tired of relationships that seem to attack, produce guilt or appear dysfunctional in any way? We have made this misperception, this adjustment, through our alignment with our own egoic thought system. Believing this adjusted perception is real blocks our awareness of the true nature of our relationships. We have made our relationships appear to be something they are not, nor have they ever been in reality. This adjusted world and this adjusted relationship is merely a puff of madness in a moment of mistaken thinking in separation.

Does one ask judgment of what is totally bereft of judgment? And if you have, would you believe the answer, and adjust to it as if it were the truth? The world you look on is the answer that it gave you, and you have given it power to adjust the world to make its answer true. You asked this puff of madness for the meaning of your unholy relationship and adjusted it according to its insane answer. How happy did it make you? Did you meet your friend with joy to bless the One Child of God, and give them thanks for all the happiness that they held out to you? Did you recognize your friend as the eternal gift of God to you? Did you see the holiness that shone in both you and your friend, to bless the other? That is the purpose of your holy relationship. Ask not the means of its attainment of the one thing that still would have it be unholy. Give it no power to adjust the means and end.   T-20.III.8:1-11

Reach out to your friend and offer them freedom from this adjusted world. Offer them the freedom you so crave. We may not recognize it at once, for we are so aligned with the world we made up, we find the freedom of the real world frightening and even daunting. It seems so strange to us, yet somehow familiar. Allow yourself the time to adjust again. We can adjust again to the real world, the holy world – to real relationships, holy relationships. Spirit will guide us in the healing and transformation of our relationships into their natural state. Give it time. This is the holy purpose of time. The miracle of healing our relationships brings the real world without our adjustments to light. The light within us is shining on the real world within us. Remove the shutters on your inner light and let it illuminate the real world around you.

Your gift unto your friend has given me the certainty our union will be soon. Share, then, this faith with me, and know that it is justified. There is no fear in perfect love because it knows no sin, and it must look on others as on itself. Looking with charity within, what can it fear without? The innocent see safety, and the pure in heart see Source within Us, and look unto Us to lead them to Source. And where else would they go but where they will to be? You and your friend now will lead the other to Source as surely as Source created Us holy, and kept us so. In your friend is the light of Source’s eternal promise of your immortality. See them as sinless, and there can be no fear in you.   T-20.III.11:1-9

Set your friend free – and yourself, too. The prison of separation is merely a distortion and an adjustment to freedom. Freedom is our truth. Holiness is our truth. Completeness and wholeness is our truth. Offer your friend the gift of forgiveness and healing; release from the adjustment of sin and misperception. Wholeness is waiting to take its place. Love and peace are already welling up within us. Make your choice today and set the world free.