December 11, 2018

Over the course of our lives we have been receiving messages of healing from Spirit and each other. We may not have understood these messages, but they have spoken to us on a different level. Viewing the world from our egoic thought system invested in separation we do not see or understand reality. And we do not seem to understand real communication at the level of truth because our attachment to separation blocks communication from our awareness. Yet, truth and understanding and communication are present within us. The Course tells us we must become as little children to begin the journey back to the awareness of who we really are.

So in each holy relationship is the ability to communicate instead of separate reborn. Yet a holy relationship, so recently reborn itself from an unholy relationship, and yet more ancient than the old illusion it has replaced, is like a baby now in its rebirth. Still in this infant is your vision returned to you, and this infant will speak the language you can understand. This infant is not nurtured by the “something else” you thought was you. This infant was not given there, nor was received by anything except yourself. For no two people can unite except through Christ, Whose vision sees them one.   T-22.I.7:1-6

This child will teach us what we do not understand and make it plain. For this child will speak the ancient language within us. This child will need no interpreter to us, for it was we who taught them what they know because we knew it. They could not come to anyone but us, never to “something else.” Where Christ has entered no one is alone, for this child could never find a home in those who believe they are separate. We must be reborn into our ancient home, seeming new and yet as old as Creation, a tiny newcomer, dependent on the holiness of our relationship to let Them live.

Communication must have been restored to us as we join, for we could not do this through our bodies. What has joined us? Reason will tell us that we must have seen each other through a vision not of the body, and communicated in a language the body does not speak. Nor could it be a fearful sight or sound that drew us gently into joining as one. Rather, we saw in each other a perfect shelter where our Self could be reborn in safety and in peace. Our reason tells us this; we believe because it is the truth.

Here is the first direct perception that you can make. You make it through awareness older than perception, and yet reborn in just an instant. For what is time to what was always so? Think what that instant brought; the recognition that the “something else” you thought was you is an illusion. And truth came instantly, to show you where your Self must be. It is denial of illusions that calls on truth, for to deny illusions is to recognize that fear is meaningless. Into the holy home where fear is powerless love enters thankfully, grateful that it is one with you who joined to let it enter.   T-22.I.10:1-7

Open your mind to the holiness that is already within you. As we allow the little child within us to teach us and remind us of the ancient holiness we are, we will begin to understand what we have blocked form our awareness. We will understand the ancient language of our holy relationship and understand truth once again. The path to healing our relationships is already deep within us waiting for us to open ourselves to the massages we want to hear and understand. Communication, not of the body, but of Spirit is ready for us to accept and embrace. Allow that little child to rise in you and learn.

December 4, 2018

We are often at cross purposes with ourselves. This seems impossible and one might even think it insane, but we do engage in insanity when we lose sight of who we really are and identify with the idea of separation. The Course has taught us we are holy and divine as we are created. We are whole and complete. We are peace and love embodied in this world. Yet our actions and beliefs contradict who we really are. We already have everything we need, yet we believe we lack. We listen to our egoic thought system only because it is louder and supports our misconception of who we are. We have the capacity to Reason correctly. We have the capacity to see with the eyes of our One Mind rather than the body’s eyes. What will it take for us to make the shift to rely on the holy guidance within us?

Your sight was given you, along with everything that you can understand. You will perceive no difficulty in understanding what this vision tells you, for everyone sees only what they think they are. And what your sight would show you, you will understand because it is the truth. Only your vision can convey to you what you can see. It reaches you directly, without a need to be interpreted to you. What needs interpretation must be alien. Nor will it ever be made understandable by an interpreter you cannot understand.   T-22.I.5:1-7

We have become so attached to the ways we have always seen the world in this lifetime that we have blinded ourselves to reason and reality. We have blocked our awareness of the free flow of communication between ourselves and Source and each other. Communication still flows freely, but we have ignored it for so long we have become impervious to it. This free flow of communication is a part of our holy relationships with each other. The natural state of our relationships is holy – nothing else. Anything less than holiness is made up, manufactured by the distorted beliefs of our egoic thought system that is invested in perpetuation separation.

It’s time to let go of the desire for separateness. It does not serve us well. Joining ourselves in Oneness is the return to the awareness of our true being. True lasting joy and peace are there in the awareness of Oneness. We start the return journey to our awareness of this bliss with a simple willingness to be guided there by the reason and knowledge within us. Spirit within us is ready and waiting to guide us there. We will make mistakes along the way, but the reality of who we really are and the willingness to return to that awareness will always bring us back to focus on the reality of who we are. Take a moment to forgive yourself. There’s no need to berate or punish yourself for past mistakes. They are over. They are done and in the past. They have no place in the present where we are now. Let the past be past and step into the awareness of the present moment where we are as we are and always have been. Allow your relationships to be transformed into the holy relationships they are. The world will be transformed as we allow our relationships to be transformed. We will begin to see a new understanding in our restored awareness. Choose your reawakening and know each other as you really are.

November 27, 2018

The healing of our relationships is the center of our wholeness. Our natural state of being is wholeness. We are unblemished, free of any sin. Any idea that says otherwise is simply mistaken and is born out of the mistaken idea that we believe we are separate from each other and from Oneness. The holiness of our relationship forgives us and our friend, undoing the effects of what we both believed and saw. When we see our relationships healed, seeing them holy once again, we return to the awareness of who we really are. This simple inner shift is our salvation. It is so simple and easy that we may wonder why we didn’t make this shift sooner. Yet, if we have delayed it, what better time is there to make this shift than now? What if we were to look toward what we share rather than our differences? It may seem small, but it opens to a vast difference.

A holy relationship starts from a different premise. Each one has looked within and seen no lack. Accepting his completion, they would extend it by joining with another, whole as themselves. They see no difference between these selves, for differences are only of the body. Therefore, they look on nothing they would take. They deny not their own reality because it is the truth. Just under Heaven do they stand, but close enough not to return to earth. For this relationship has Heaven’s Holiness. How far from home can a relationship so like to Heaven be?   T-22.in.3:1-9

This holy relationship can and will teach great things. It contains all the power of the universe. And the appearance of differences are transformed to vision where we now see what joins us rather than what divides us. Great joy rises in this transformation. Peace flows like a river throughout all the world in this transformation. Let each of us be joined in this holy relationship – the golden circle where we recognize our One Holy Self in eternity.

We discussed Reason in the previous chapter and that Reason remains within our mind protected from any distortion. Reason holds the real purpose of our relationships. It holds the remembrance of the holiness of our relationships. It holds the means by which our relationships can be transformed to their original holy nature, letting go of all the distorted values we believed they were tainted with. We have been looking through the body’s eyes, which cannot see truth. We have denied our Vision which shows us our relationships transformed. It shows us the truth that we are joined, not separate. It shows us the Holy nature of Oneness that we are.

Your sight was given you, along with everything that you can understand. You will perceive no difficulty in understanding what this vision tells you, for everyone sees only what they think they are. And what your sight would show you, you will understand because it is the truth. Only your vision can convey to you what you can see. It reaches you directly, without a need to be interpreted to you. What needs interpretation must be alien. Nor will it ever be made understandable by an interpreter you cannot understand.   T-22.I.5:1-7

Let this sight rise in you, for it is already yours. Let it rise in our holy relationship where we are joined as One. Truly see with the Vision that is ours for eternity. All distortion is now gone. And Holiness is seen everywhere as our Holy Vision transforms all the distortions we have ever seen in this world. Here is the simplicity of our salvation made real.

February 2, 2010

The holy relationship is the means for God’s plan.  Our relationships with each other are the place where we either accept or deny God’s plan as our own.  They are the place we demonstrate our willingness to see the divine in each one we encounter in this world.  Whatever our walk, whatever mistakes we have made, whatever misguided thoughts we have believed, we have the opportunity each moment of each day to see each other as God sees us; lovely in our innocence, mighty in our strength, and blazing with light far brighter than the sun that lights the sky.

Think how each of our relationships are transformed when we look for the good in each other.  We see each other in a new light, often realizing something totally new and marvelous that we never allowed ourselves to see before.  This is where we meet the God that we all are so one with.  The divine presence of God is within each and every one of us.  And that presence which we can never be apart from is the presence that makes us One.

And don’t be surprised to find these holy relationships in the most unusual of places, and in the most seemingly insignificant of encounters.  In God, where we are all One, there are no insignificant relationships.  Every relationship is as holy as the next.  It is our choice whether to recognize the holiness of each encounter or not.  And when we choose not to recognize its holiness and the divineness of each one, we do no more than separate ourselves from the awareness of who we really are for that moment.  For in the next moment we will have another opportunity to make that encounter a holy relationship. But why wait?  For this encounter in this moment may be your opportunity to show this one who they really are.  It may be the first time they are shown their divineness.  Go ahead.  Let yourself see with divine vision.  Let the loveliness of innocence, the mightiness of strength, and the blazing light that shines brighter than the sun light up the face and soul of each one you meet.  For they will, in turn, return it to you.  Let each encounter be the holiest of relationships, and let it be so with abandon.

January 26, 2009

We are One with God.  Yes, we are God, inseparable from God and all God is.  This is our true being.  This is the Truth about who we are.  But do we really believe this?  Do we even come close to believing even part of this Truth about us?  God created us in God’s image.  Jesus said we would do greater things than he did on this earth.  We just don’t get this Truth about us.  Or perhaps we are afraid to step into this Truth about us.

If we are as God tells us we are, we have no need of defense.  A belief in the need for defense is a belief in weakness.  And this belief is contrary to everything God tells us we are.  Where does this belief in littleness and weakness come from?  It comes from the mistaken idea that we are or have ever been separate from God.  We have spent a lifetime building this mistaken image of a weak, sinful, lonely creature struggling for acceptance in God’s eyes and others’ eyes.  And all of this struggle has kept us so focused on the illusion of separateness that we have lost sight of who we really are.  We have lost the awareness of God that dwells deep within our own being.

Reason overcomes all illusion and does it effortlessly.  Reason knows that Reality offers no opposition.  Reality just is and has no weakness and therefore needs no defense.  Illusion, mistaken ideas need defense because of their weakness.  It cannot be difficult to walk the way of Truth when the only opposition is weakness.  We have strength within us that is of God and so we are the strong one in this seeming conflict.  A conflict with illusion, or nothing.

Only the idea of weakness and the resulting “need for defense keeps us from our true nature.  It is only this mistaken thought that keeps us from the awareness of God’s nature within us and the quiet power that is our gift.  Allow the gift of reason to rise within you and see the true nature of our being.  In the light of this reason, all illusion will fade away into nothingness and the light of Christ within us will shine brightly to light our way and the way of each one of us together.  Only in the light of reason will we see and be who we really are.  Let is be so.

January 19, 2010

We encounter many branches in the road on our journey through life.  And every one requires a decision on our part.  The important thing we need to know at each branch in the road is how to see it.  Seeing that branch correctly will give us great insight into which path is the one to take on our journey.  It may actually be even more important how we see those paths rather than which one we decide to take.

We stand there with each other, waiting to make that decision.  Yet we must see clearly in order to make that decision.  As we stand with each other and recognize ourselves as who we really are, the confusion we see begins to fade away.  Allowing ourselves to see with Spirit’s eyes helps us see that what looks solid is only an illusion.  What looks solid is actually a mere veil of thought that easily draws aside and allows us to see reality.

When we see our choices in Spirit’s vision from the awareness of who we really are we see the path that is ours to walk with God.  We see it laid out before us.  The valleys are raised up, the mountains made low, the crooked path is made straight, and the rough places are made smooth.  This is our walk with God.  The great rays of light shine bright along our way.  Peace flows like a mighty river pouring out of us and setting all of creation free.  What a joy comes in being who we really are.

Let the presence of God well up within you and shine the light of love on your path.  Let your path be seen as it really is.  We join together and walk hand in hand along the only way there is.  All other branches in the road have vanished in the light of Spirit’s vision.  Look within.  See God there.  And rejoice in the knowledge that God walks with us every moment of the way.  It’s our choice.  What are we waiting for?

January 12, 2010

Our errors take many forms.  There really is only one error, but that error can take any form that we can dream up.  Some are quite creative, some rather ordinary.  But we are always coming up with new forms for our one error.  What is our error?  It is merely an incorrect thought.  It is the mistaken idea that we are anything other than who and what we are.  It is the mistaken idea that we are separate from God.  We have hidden our awareness of our true Self, our true nature.

As we journey through our life which we think we are on alone, we see many blocks and challenges that we encounter along the way.  We may think others place these in our way.  We may think God presents us with challenges along the way.  Or we may think they just happen arbitrarily.  Our understanding of anything we encounter is completely based on every past experience we have had in this “life” separated  from God and each other.  And so we encounter each and deal with it as we are accustomed to doing.

In truth, there is nothing arbitrary about where we are or what we have encountered.  Every decision we have ever made in combination with every decision everyone else has ever made has brought us to where we are and the experience we are having in this moment, now.  There is no judgment in that fact; it just is where we are now.  We see with the perception we understand right now.  But God has given us another way of seeing and understanding.  It has always been available to us and the Holy Spirit has been holding it at the ready for us to let it come to our awareness.

Reason, which is the ability to see and understand with Spirit’s vision is the gift that Spirit holds for us.  It is an ability that is carried within the depths of our being.  It is part of our Divine nature.  Reason can show us the understanding we need to understand that whatever block or challenge we encounter can be seen differently.  It shows us that the many forms of blocks we see are really a mistaken idea that is no more than an error.  Seeing that thought as a correctable error is the understanding that allows it to melt away into nothingness and a new understanding of our own Divine nature to come flooding forward into our awareness.  We understand that we are One with God.  We understand that all of creation operates under Divine principles and laws.  And we see the holiness that is our destiny come forward and carry us through our life experience with a new understanding. Such is the life of the One Holy Child of God.  Allow yourself to be who you really are.  Reason will show you the understanding you need.

January 5, 2010

Our misperceptions of what we see are the blocks to vision.  They are the blocks to our awareness of Truth.  These misperceptions take many forms.  They are based on our interpretations of our past experiences.  And when we see something new that we have no experience with we apply our misperceptions about what we have experienced to our new experience.  It’s no wonder we sometimes think we are insane and we often find things confusing.

The Holy Spirit, sent to help us gives us reason.  Reason is the tool that allows us to see beyond the error we have made in our perceptions.  It is the sane voice that tells us that even though something may appear to be something; it is actually not that something and is something else entirely or maybe even nothing at all.  The roadblock to peace may appear as substantial as a huge megalith of stone, yet reason can show us that it is really nothing at all, a figment of our imagination, an illusion.

In our efforts to make sense of something ourselves, we usually see only a small fraction of the picture and mistakenly think that that is all there is.  But reason is there, held for us by Spirit, waiting for us to allow it to expand our sight to allow reason to show us the big picture, or better yet the whole picture.  With the blinders of separation on, we see only a little bit and don’t see how that bit fits into the whole.  But reason melts away the blinders and reinterprets for us, correcting the errors in our perception, correcting our sight to a more correct view.  The judgment we hold so dear is often the defining limit in our perception. So perhaps we are finally ready to let Spirit show us how to see.  Perhaps we can allow the blinders of judgment to fall away and let the whole picture be revealed to us.  Perhaps we are ready to let the solidness of our perception errors melt away and realize there is no solidness to our roadblocks at all and we can happily and peacefully pass through them without effort.  Hold only the peace and love of God in your mind and freely float along the path God has set for you.  It is truly like being carried down a gentle path in a soft summer breeze.  Let go, be, and enjoy.

December 29, 2009

I extend to you a Christmas wish, a wish of the season, if you will.  I extend to you a will that this moment, we will all take a moment to be still, and let the spirit of Oneness, the Christ Spirit well up within us and spill forth, bringing us the awareness of our true Self.  We experience the knowing, in this quiet moment that we are One with God and that we are One with each other.  There is no separation.  This moment is irrefutable evidence that this is true.  In this moment there is no doubt.

So we enjoy this moment for a time, and return to our usual way of thinking about things.  What if we changed this way of thinking.  What if we kept our awareness we have allowed ourselves to be in this now moment and carry it with us into our daily living?  What if we approached all our interactions and relationships with the knowledge of our Oneness in our thoughts?  Might we see everything differently?  Might we learn valuable lessons from each other?  Might we be at peace with whatever comes our way?

What a great light shines in this way of being.  All we see will be bathed in the radiant light of God’s presence.  We will see holiness shine from all we encounter if only we let ourselves see with the vision of the Christ Spirit.  This vision is given us by God to light our way and all we encounter.  The trying relationships become less trying and so loving in this moment of light.  We are willing to see and this present moment is the time to see what we are willing to see.

Let the Will we share with God be in our mind today.  Beyond the body that we interpose between ourselves and each other, and shining in the golden light that reaches us from the bright, endless circle that extends forever, is our holy relationship, beloved of God.  How still we rest, in time and yet beyond, immortal yet in our human experience.  How great the power that lies in our choice.  Time waits upon our will, and our experience will be as our will would have it be.  Choose the Will we share with God this very moment.  For it is already ours.  Only the time we choose it is our choice.

December 22, 2009

I wish or you a joyous Christmas season filled with wonder and an awakening of the Christ Spirit, God within you.  Christmas can be a time of new discovery.  We honor the birth of the Christ Child into the world.  But we also allow who we really are to birth again in our awareness about ourselves and each other.  All of us are inextricably and beautifully connected at the core of our being, being One in God’s eye.  We are never apart, we are never separated, even when we make the mistake of thinking we are alone and separate.

Allow the spirit of Christmas to bring peace to you and all you come in contact with.  Allow joy to well up within you and spill over in its abundance.  Allow the boundless love that dwells deep within you to extend to all you encounter as you go about you holiday activities.  That warm smile, that “hello” or “Merry Christmas” will make someone’s day.  It may even make your day.

To borrow a phrase that you have most probably heard:  Today is the first day of the rest of your life.  Allow the awareness of your wholeness to rise up from within and let it shine so others you encounter will see their wholeness reflected back to them in your eyes, you words, and your actions. Our wholeness is unchangeable.  Our unawareness of it is changeable.  Let spirit rise up within you and see the wondrous love that you already are.  Feel the peace you already are.  And share the joy you can’t possible contain as you celebrate who you really are, the One Child of God, rediscovered this season.  Merry Christmas to all of you!  God’s blessing is yours.