February 19, 2019
Have you ever heard someone say, “Thou protesteth too loudly?” It’s usually in response to a very vigorous defense of something one does not want to admit may not be true or real. When we have given our allegiance to our own egoic thought system, we want to vigorously defend any questioning of whatever thought we have aligned with. We don’t really care whether our thought is wrong or right, we just want to insist it’s right no matter what. We’ve invested our worth in it being right. We are reluctant to consider any questioning of our thought at all. This is the way we persist in the world of separation. We have become invested in the world of separation and are reluctant to even entertain the thought that this may not be real – that it may be an illusion. We are afraid that questioning this illusory thought may weaken us. And so, we see ourselves as being weak.
In this seeming weakness our egoic thought system wants defenses to justify what goes against the truth, flies in the face of reason and makes no sense. This is an invitation to insanity, to save us from the truth. We would thus be saved from what we fear – truth. Our egoic thought system’s belief in separation needs great defense, and at enormous cost. All that Spirit offers must be defended against and sacrificed. The idea of separation is carved into a block out of our own peace and laid between us and the return of peace.
Yet how can peace be so fragmented? It is still whole, and nothing has been taken from it. See how the means and the material of evil dreams are nothing. In truth you and your another stand together, with nothing in between. Oneness holds your hands, and what can separate whom Oneness has joined as one with Oneness? It is your Source Whom you would defend against. Yet it remains impossible to keep love out. Source rests with you in quiet, undefended and wholly undefending, for in this quiet state alone is strength and power. Here can no weakness enter, for here is no attack and therefore no illusions. Love rests in certainty. Only uncertainty can be defensive. And all uncertainty is doubt about yourself. T-22.V.3:1-12
Fear is weak – little and meaningless. Fear is insignificant before the quiet strength of those whom love has joined! Fear is our “enemy,” – a frightened mouse that would attack the universe. How could it succeed? Its feeble squeaks boast of its omnipotence and would drown out the hymn of praise to its Source that every heart throughout the universe sings as one forever. Which is stronger? We and our friend are not joined together by this mouse, but by Oneness. Can a mouse betray those Oneness has joined?
If you but recognized how little stands between you and your awareness of your union with each other! Be not deceived by the illusions it presents of size and thickness, weight, solidity and firmness of foundation. Yes, to the body’s eyes it looks like an enormous solid body, immovable as is a mountain. Yet within you is a Force that no illusions can resist. This body only seems to be immovable; this Force is irresistible in truth. What, then, must happen when they come together? Can the illusion of immovability be long defended from what is quietly passed through and gone beyond? T-22.V.5:1-7
Set aside your belief in separation. Look beyond what appears to be a huge blockade to the freedom of love and peace beyond. The blockade is not real, it is an illusion made from our belief in separation. As we look beyond that illusion, the blockade fades to nothingness. We see our companions as they truly are – One with us and each other. Joy rises in our hearts as we hear the ancient hymn of peace and love that wells up within our minds reminding us of who we really are. Only our unwillingness to overlook what seems immovable and impenetrable and forgive each other our misperceptions that hinder our awareness of the peace, love and joy of the Oneness we really are. Be willing and realize the truth about yourself and all the universe where all is well.
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