A Course In Miracles – San Jose Karl J Vidt, ACIM Student/Teacher

ACIM T-20.VI The Temple of the Holy Spirit

July 17, 2018

We continue to look at our relationships and ask ourselves how they reflect our relationship with Source – the One or God. Are our relationships healthy? Do they reflect the love we really are? Do they extend unconditional love? If our minds remain aligned with the belief in separation, we find our relationships are rooted in darkness and are not real relationships at all. We may even think that our relationship will save us from loneliness. However, a relationship that is not fully joined – without exception – is no relationship at all, for it leaves most of our mind unjoined. There is no partially joined in reality. We are either joined or not.

There is no order in relationships. They either are or not. An unholy relationship is no relationship. It is a state of isolation, which seems to be what it is not. No more than that. The instant that the mad idea of making your relationship with Source unholy seemed to be possible, all your relationships were made meaningless. In that unholy instant time was born, and bodies made to house the mad idea and give it the illusion of reality. And so it seemed to have a home that held together for a little while in time, and vanished. For what could house this mad idea against reality but for an instant?   T-20.VI.8:1-9

While we are invested in the idea of separation and isolation, we cannot experience real peace or happiness. Real peace and happiness cannot exist in isolation and separation. They can only thrive in sharing and communion with others. Isolation breeds stagnation and death. Joining breeds vitality and life, circulation and refreshing newness. The idea of separation perpetuates itself in our attachment to our identity as a body. How limiting is that? We believe we have walled off a little bit of Oneness with flesh and called it ”me.” Yet we are so much more that that walled off bit of flesh. As we look out from this little bit of flesh, we think we see so much “out there” when there is nothing real “out there” that is anything more than a projection of our misperception. When we redirect our attention within we find a vast eternal reality that shines with light and power. What is within is eternal and what is without is temporal. Put your belief and your faith into that which is eternal and everlasting. What do our relationships tell us about ourselves?

The holy relationship reflects the true relationship We have with Source in reality. The Holy Spirit rests within it in the certainty it will endure forever. Its firm foundation is eternally upheld by truth, and love shines on it with the gentle smile and tender blessing it offers to its own. Here the unholy instant is exchanged in gladness for the holy one of safe return. Here is the way to true relationships held gently open, through which you and another walk together, leaving the body thankfully behind and resting in the Everlasting Arms. Love’s Arms are open to receive you, and give you peace forever.   T-20.VI.10:16

Release yourself from the limiting confines of your belief that the bit of flesh you call “you” defines who you are. It does nothing more than imprison you. Instead, redirect your attention to the limitlessness within you. See the relationships you form healed as they are transformed to holy healed unconditional relationships. See beyond their earthly appearance to their heavenly holiness. They reflect our own relationship with Source. Be honest and allow Spirit to guide your mind in the transformation of all your relationships. Offer the miracle of healing to all your relationships – withholding it from not a one. We – as we are joined – are the temple of the Holy Spirit, for we, in communion, are the Holy Spirit. We are the embodiment of Oneness in this world. Let Heaven be apparent on earth in your extension of Oneness.

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