April 24, 2018
Everyone who comes into our lives, no matter how brief, has a purpose in our life. Their real purpose is healing, the salvation of our sanity. We have chosen them. They arrive in the form that Spirit uses to teach us. It is our choice whether to choose to learn the lesson or deny the lesson. That is the free will we are given in our creation. Perhaps we are too quick to judge this one we have encountered. Perhaps we are so apt to put up the walls of separation between us and anyone else that we do so without thinking. Would we allow a bit of compassion to enter our mind? Perhaps this would allow us to perceive this one a bit differently. They may be simply calling for love or even extending love to us. Perhaps we can set aside our habitual denial of love, look beyond the first appearance of things and allow Spirit to guide us to see and perceive this one through the lens of love and compassion.
Forget not that you came this far together, you and this one. And it was surely not the ego that led you here. No obstacle to peace can be surmounted through the ego’s help. The ego does not open up its secrets, and bid you look on them and go beyond them. The ego would not have you see its weakness, and learn it has no power to keep you from the truth. The Guide Who brought you here remains with you, and when you raise your eyes you will be ready to look on terror with no fear at all. But first, lift up your eyes and look on this one in innocence born of complete forgiveness of their illusions, and through the eyes of faith that sees them not. T-19.IV.D.8:1-7
We tend to journey through life with our eyes cast down. What are we avoiding? What are we afraid to look at? Keeping our eyes cast down is an avoidance of seeing correctly. We can’t look beyond the appearance of things unless we look up. We need to look up to see reality, to see the abundance before us, to see the one we travel with at this moment as they really are. When I encounter you at the store, you bring joy to me and thus I bring joy to you in this present moment. When I raise my eyes, I have a chance at seeing the Heaven that is my home. I am already there, but I don’t recognize it because I am keeping my eyes averted. When I encounter you, it is an opportunity for us to recognize our holy relationship in this holy instant and rejoice in our Oneness. In the same manner, when I encounter a stranger in any situation, it is an opportunity for me to recognize the holy in that one and thus they can recognize the same in me, whether at this moment or at some point in the illusion of time. The forgiving of misperception is our purpose in this world.
We fear the One because we look upon each other with fear We have misperceived each other as fearful. What if we could look upon each other without fear and allow ourselves to see holiness and love in each other? This is the meaning of forgiveness, to see another as they really are. Who is this one who stands beside me, even if only for a short while? They are meant to be there with me. Perhaps they are a teacher, a learner, a messenger. They have something for us – and we for them – guided from Spirit. We can pause a moment and look beyond our busy day to the gift that lies beyond and is offered us.
Beside you is one who offers you the chalice of Atonement, for the Holy Spirit is in them. Would you hold their sins against them, or accept their gift to you? Is this giver of salvation your friend or enemy? Choose which they are, remembering that you will receive of them according to your choice. they have in them the power to forgive your sin, as you for them. Neither can give it to themselves alone. And yet your savior stands beside each one. Let them be what they are, and seek not to make of love an enemy. T-19.IV.D.13:1-8
Look again at the one beside you. Look beyond the first appearance to what is beyond. See them anew. Let the heavy dark veil be pulled aside. How holy and how beautiful they are. Their light shines brightly as their light joins with the Great Rays that shine from your holy Self and remember your Oneness. Joy, Peace and Love rise in us having always been there waiting to be recognized. Join with your friend and share in your Oneness. Know the truth about who you both really are, One with all Creation. There are no obstacles left for Peace to flow over. Peace is within you.
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