October 27, 2009

We have all come up, over time, with some idea of who we are.  This identity is based on our interpretation of every experience we have ever had.  It is based on what we have been told.  It is based on what we have “figured out” about ourselves.  And after all that effort of figuring and analyzing, it still doesn’t feel right.  It doesn’t make sense.  Or perhaps it almost but not quite makes sense.  And if we look too hard, we know we will find that very little of what we have figured out makes any sense at all.

All of this has been made from our trying to make sense out of a world that is made of illusion.  The world we think we see is made up of our interpretation of our thoughts about our experiences whether we thought them or were told or taught them.  They have no basis in Truth.  We have looked with our body’s eyes, the eyes of the impermanent body that is born of separation, not recognizing our true place in Oneness.  And so we continue seeing with the body’s eyes, and seeing only what eyes made of separation and illusion can see; separation ad illusion!

No wonder we are confused.  Our true Self is not of separation, so it cannot understand thoughts and interpretations of separation.  But it can understand Oneness. Our true Self can understand what is real and True.  It can understand what our God-given vision shows us.  When we let ourselves see with eyes of vision we need not figure anything out.  We need not interpret anything.  For what is of God and Truth and of our true selves resonates deep within our being.  We recognize it as the Truth we have always known.  We recognize the Self that is who we really are and have always been, just as God created us.  It is our eternal Self, One with each other and God that has always been, has never not been. As we relax, let go of our self made ideas and let Gods vision come to us, we discover a freedom, a sense of wholeness, an innocence, a knowing and an understanding of all holiness and love.  We feel the peace of God well up from deep within us and let the love and light that shines within us extend so brightly to all the world for it to see.  We will know that all the world is a part of us, whole, innocent, free, and loved.  The love of God is poured freely to all the world.  All we need do is recognize and accept it.  Let your sight be transformed to vision and recognize God’s realm of Heaven before you.  Heaven is for us now, not in some distant future.  Step over the threshold and be who you really are!

October 20, 2009

What is the condition of our relationships?  We know we are all One.  We know we are One with God and all of Creation.  We know our will is one with God’s Will.  We know there is no lack and that we have all we need and could possibly want.  We know we are innocent, pure and whole as God created us.  To see whether we really know or even believe this, we need look only at our relationships.

Because we have mistakenly thought we were separate, God has given us our relationships to teach us who we really are.  It is imperative that we see our brothers and sisters correctly for us to see ourselves and God correctly.  And if we don’t see another as innocent, pure, and whole as they really are, we can choose to change our perception.  We can choose to see with vision, the eyes of Spirit within us that has never forgotten who we really are.  What a gift this is.  All it requires is a willingness to let go of our preconceived ideas and let ourselves be shown Truth.

As we let ourselves see with forgiveness, we free each other and ourselves from the imprisonment of what we thought we knew.  We give each other the gift of salvation which frees all the limitations we think we have.  We allow all of us to experience the soaring freedom of our true being.  We soar like the eagle.  We love and are loved with abandon.  And the peace and joy of all that we are and that God is flood over and through us in absolute abundance.

Take the risk, let go of all we have made up and set the world free of all the limitations we have projected on it.  We will step into Heaven and find we have always been there in our home we never really left.

October 13, 2009

Now is the time to let our relationships be healed and thus transformed.  It is in our relationships that we show each other who we really are and where we show ourselves who we really are.  We let our true nature, our true being, shine through all the illusions we have believed in.  We have seen ourselves as lacking, and thus also seen our relationships lacking.  We thought we could find what we thought we lacked in our relationships and thus gain it from the other.

Our relationships tend to be based on differences, where we think the other has what we have not.  So we find a relationship where we think we can gain what we think we lack from another.  We stay there until we find there is nothing more to gain, then move on.  And so we wander from relationship to relationship, seeing what we can gain from each one, sometimes remaining with them for a lifetime even though we have moved on.  Many times we stay with those relationships because we are afraid we will lose something if we move on.  The Course calls these “unholy” relationships.

God sees relationships differently.  God sees relationships from a different premise.  In these relationships, we look within and see the truth, that there is no lack in us.  We accept our completeness, our wholeness, and extend that wholeness by joining with each other in what the Course calls “holy” relationships.  We allow ourselves to see ourselves and each other in the vision of clarity that comes from within us, held there by Spirit, for our use when we are ready to accept our wholeness.  Our relationships are transformed because we see the truth that we are whole and complete, lacking nothing, and share that completeness with each other.

Our life transcends limitations of the body.  We feel the Spirit of Oneness within us.  We experience the peace, joy, and love of God as we allow ourselves to accept the truth of who we really are.  We stand just under Heaven, close enough not to return to our old way of thinking.  Our relationships have Heaven’s Holiness.  How far from home can a relationship so like to Heaven be?  Here in our transformed relationships we find salvation, the return to the awareness of who we really are.