March 27, 2018
The third obstacle that peace must flow across is our strange devotion to death. This idea may puzzle us and sound irrational. But we have devoted ourselves to the idea of death through our fear of death. According to the Course, there is no death. It is merely a mistaken thought. We are created in the image of the One – our Source – who does not know death. If the Divine cannot die and we are Divine, how could death affect us in any way? Only our identification as a body, which we have given value due to our belief in separation, do we fear death in any way. We have forgotten that we are created eternal and remain eternal even when we block our awareness of our eternal being. Because we fear the end of the body will be the end of us, we fear death. The Holy Spirit offered us release from this dedication to death and we accepted that release when we invited Spirit into our relationships. We offered Spirit a little willingness to accept the miracle of healing. Though we can place obstacles to peace entering our awareness, we cannot remove it from our true being. Peace dwells within us. Nothing can change that fact. We can do no more than block peace from our awareness. Death is no more than a shadow of a mistaken idea.
And yet a shadow cannot kill. What is a shadow to the living? They but walk past and it is gone. But what of those whose dedication is not to live; the black-draped “sinners,” the ego’s mournful chorus, plodding so heavily away from life, dragging their chains and marching in the slow procession that honors their grim master, lord of death? Touch any one of them with the gentle hands of forgiveness, and watch the chains fall away, along with yours. See them throw aside the black robe they were wearing to their funeral, and hear them laugh at death. The sentence sin would lay upon them they can escape through your forgiveness. This is no arrogance. It is the Will of our Creator. What is impossible to you who chose your Creator’s Will as yours? What is death to you? Your dedication is not to death, nor to its master. When you accepted the Holy Spirit’s purpose in place of the ego’s you renounced death, exchanging it for life. We know that an idea leaves not its source. And death is the result of the thought we call the ego, as surely as life is the result of the Thought of our Creator. T-19.IV.C.2:1-15
Put aside the melodramatic description of separation and the dedication to death, for it is an insane illusion of an idea. The idea of death does not even occur to our Creator. Our home in Heaven is not capable of death, sin or anything else of separation’s nature. We have been released form that idea which seems to imprison us. Accept that release and step into the freedom that is ours. Accept and honor the Will of our Creator by releasing each other from the idea of death and separation. Free another from any limitation you harbor in your mind and find yourself also free of limitation. Free each other from this obstacle to peace.
You have another dedication that would keep the body incorruptible and perfect as long as it is useful for your holy purpose. The body no more dies than it can feel. It does nothing. Of itself it is neither corruptible nor incorruptible. It is nothing. It is the result of a tiny, mad idea of corruption that can be corrected. For the One has answered this insane idea with Its Own; an Answer which left the One not, and therefore brings the Creator to the awareness of every mind which heard the One’s Answer and accepted It. T-19.IV.C.5:1-7
We have the power, the strength, to release each other and thus all Creation from the bonds with which we have imprisoned them. We need do nothing more than accept the Gift offered us which is already ours. Allow peace to flow across any obstacle you still harbor that seems to protect you from the awareness of your true identity. You are and have always been whole, complete and limitless. Let this be so in your awareness and remember who you really are. Heaven is your only home.
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