December 13, 2016
By believing our idea that we are separate, we have believed that we must sacrifice something for love and happiness. Yet, love and happiness are impossible in the presence of sacrifice. Reality is all about love and peace. There is nothing in reality besides love and peace. We are integral with all of reality as we are created. And the Course teaches us nothing else exists. If we sacrifice anything at all of love, we deny part of ourselves and who we are. We have been learning that our true essence is whole, complete and limitless. We have been learning that the love and peace we seek is within us. We have been learning that we need not look outside ourselves for anything real for it is already within us waiting for us to recognize its presence within us. The Course gives us this tip:
Do not try longer to keep apart your thoughts [sacrifice and separation] and the Thought that has been given you. When they are brought together and perceived where they are, the choice between them is nothing more than a gentle awakening, and as simple as opening your eyes to daylight when you have no more need of sleep. T-15.XI.1:5-6
The awareness of what we are seeking that is within us is as simple as waking from a dream.
Our true essence is a light that burns without ceasing. This light shines as brightly as we allow it to be seen. We may hide it “under a bushel” as we deny it, or let it shine brightly as we accept the reality of who we are. Lesson 61 in the Workbook of the Couse teaches us, I am the light of the world. What could be more empowering that this? Yet we continue to deny the awareness of its power by thoughts of darkness. We are the light shining in the darkness for all our brothers and sisters to follow out of darkness to the awareness that they are of the same light. Our brothers and sisters are also the same light that guides us out of darkness into the awareness of the light within us.
The sign of Christmas is a star, a light in darkness. See it not outside yourself, but shining in the Heaven within, and accept it as the sign the time of Christ has come. The Christ Spirit comes demanding nothing. No sacrifice of any kind, of anyone, is asked by The Christ Spirit. In the Christ’s Presence the whole idea of sacrifice loses all meaning. For the Christ Spirit is Host to God. And you need but invite the Christ Spirit in Who is there already, by recognizing that the Christ Spirit’s Host is One, and no thought alien to Oneness can abide with the One there. Love must be total to give the Christ Spirit welcome, for the Presence of Holiness creates the holiness that surrounds it. No fear can touch the Host Who cradles God in the time of Christ, for the Host is as holy as the perfect Innocence which the Host protects, and Whose power protects the perfect Innocence – our true Self. T-15.XI.2:1-9
We are the Christ Spirit in our Oneness as we are created, recognizing our wholeness, completeness and limitlessness. We have never left the Mind of our Creator as the Mind of the Creator has never left us. Only the simple mistaken thought that we need sacrifice to get love has blocked the awareness of the total love within us. The Christmas season symbolizes the awakening to the awareness of this love that is a light eternally shining within us.
This Christmas give the Holy Spirit everything that would hurt you. Let yourself be healed completely that you may join with Spirit in healing, and let us celebrate our release together by releasing everyone with us. Leave nothing behind, for release is total, and when you have accepted it with me you will give it with me. All pain and sacrifice and littleness will disappear in our relationship, which is as innocent as our relationship with our Creator, and as powerful. Pain will be brought to us and disappear in our presence, and without pain there can be no sacrifice. And without sacrifice, there love must be. T-15.XI.3:1-6
Choose to accept your healing now and celebrate our release from sacrifice and fear. We find love it its place and rejoice in the joy we find there.
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