October 30, 2018
Nothing happens in this world in isolation. Nothing ever happens in isolation. We are all part of everything. We may think that some things happen either to us alone or don’t affect us alone, but we are a part of everything. Isolation is an illusion as is separation. What we seem to see happening is a result of how we perceive the world. This is a difficult concept to grasp, especially as we ponder recent events in the world around us. We each perceive them differently and thus understand them differently. The Course tells us we are not attacked alone, but neither can we accept a miracle alone, for we are all blessed equally by the miracle’s healing of pain. Reason, like love, reassures us, and seeks not to frighten us. The power to heal is given all of us because we must be one with each other. Because we are all One, it is our responsibility how others see themselves. This responsibility may seem overwhelming in this world until we begin to see with our spirit Vision that is deep within our true being.
Does this feel like an immense burden? The instant that we choose to let ourselves be healed, in that same instant is another’s whole salvation seen as complete with ours. We are given reason to understand that this is so. For reason, kind as is the purpose for which it is the means, leads steadily away from madness toward truth. Here we will lay down the burden of denying truth. This is the burden that is terrible, and not the “burden” of truth. The reality that we are all joined in Oneness and responsible for recognizing just that is the truth and therefore not any kind of burden.
You are another’s savior. They are yours. Reason speaks happily indeed of this. This gracious plan was given love by Love. And what Love plans is like Itself in this: Being united, It would have you learn what you must be. And being one with It, it must be given you to give what It has given, and gives still. Spend but an instant in the glad acceptance of what is given you to give another, and learn with them what has been given both of you. To give is no more blessed than to receive. But neither is it less. T-21.VI.9:1-9
The release of our burdens frees us from all the limitations of the world we think we see. The world we think we see is a major distortion of reality. Our belief in separation, long fortified in our split mind, shows a world full of attack, hate, fear and isolation that cannot be real in a reality where only wholeness, limitlessness, love and peace are real. We have made up this distorted world and then believed it was thrust upon us making us miserable. Perhaps we do feel miserable right now as we ponder this distorted world. However, we can see this world differently by following and living the principles of the Course.
The One Child of God [Us as One] is always blessed as one. And as another’s gratitude goes out to you who blessed them, reason will tell you that it cannot be you stand apart from blessing. The gratitude another offers you reminds you of the thanks your Source gives you for completing Oneness. And here alone does reason tell you that you can understand what you must be. Your Source is as close to you as is any other one. Yet what is there that could be nearer you than is your Self? T-21.VI.10:1-6
Allow yourself to join in Oneness with each other. Allow yourself to join again and again. We begin to glimpse our true nature in this way. We begin to understand the difference between illusion and reality. We begin to realize that our efforts to remain isolated and build walls between us does not serve our happiness and joining together in Oneness does. Rejoice in this awakening. Allow reason within your holy mind to come forward and guide you to the realization and awareness of who you really are in Oneness with all creation. Blessings and gratitude are abundant in this state of mind. Be here in holiness and Oneness now.
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