October 25, 2016
The Course tells us we are Host to God in this world. Yet our egoic thought system also demands that we be host to it. The ego counsels, therefore, that if we are host to it, it will enable us to direct its anger outward, thus protecting us. And thus, it embarks on an endless, unrewarding chain of special relationships, forged out of anger and dedicated to but one insane belief; that the more anger we invest outside ourselves, the safer we become. If we choose to be host to our egoic thought system, we cannot see that we are Host to God, for the ego is not real and cannot exist in the presence of our awareness of our role as Host to God.
It is this chain of special relationships that binds us to guilt and thus the denial of our holiness. We block our own awareness of our divine nature by continually placing our faith in the idea that we must give something up in us that is “bad” and replacing it with something from outside us that will save us. Truly, what we are seeking we already have, but deny. What we believe about ourselves, that we are unholy and flawed, is merely not true and impossible. How could One who is One with God be unholy or flawed? The reality of our divine nature cannot be undone, yet we believe it has been. Every time we make a relationship “special” or unholy and project any expectation on it we erect a barrier to the expression of Love in that relationship. Isn’t it about time to allow each of our relationships to be transformed from special to holy? Every relationship is an opportunity for the miracle of healing, for transformation.
It is this chain that binds Us to guilt, and it is this chain the Holy Spirit would remove from our holy mind. For the chain of savagery belongs not around the chosen host of God, who cannot make themselves host to the ego. In the name of our release, and in the Name of the One Who would release us, let us look more closely at the relationships the egoic thought system contrives, and let the Holy Spirit judge them truly. For it is certain that if we will look at them, we will offer them gladly to Spirit. What Spirit can make of them we do not know, but we will become willing to find out, if we are willing first to perceive what we have made of them. T-15.VII.5:1-5
How often have we believed that we must give up or sacrifice something to find peace or love? We firmly believe that nothing good can be gained without sacrifice. Yet we already are the peace and love we are looking for. And all that stuff we believe we must sacrifice is inconsequential and not real at all. The Course tells us this:
In one way or another, every relationship the ego makes is based on the idea that by sacrificing itself, it becomes bigger. The “sacrifice,” which it regards as purification, is actually the root of its bitter resentment. For it would prefer to attack directly, and avoid delaying what it really wants. Yet the ego acknowledges “reality” as it sees it, and recognizes that no one could interpret direct attack as love. Yet to make guilty is direct attack, although it does not seem to be. For the guilty expect attack, and having asked for it they are attracted to it. T-15.VII.6:1-6
The minute sacrifice enters any relationship, we become resentful, no matter how willing we are to make that sacrifice. So, we go from relationship to relationship making unnecessary sacrifices until we become wiling to realize that we want something different. Spirit is waiting for that moment. Spirit is waiting for that realization that we want something different. Ask Spirit to show you that something different. Spirit will transform your mind and how you see those relationships. They will be healed in your mind. The reflection of that healing in the world will vary, but the miracle of transformation will take place in your mind. Take a moment and pause. Look within to the Higher Holy Spirit Self and allow each relationship to be healed. All you need sacrifice is sacrifice itself.
Recent Comments