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

ACIM T-22.I Salvation and the Holy Relationship

November 3, 2009

What God gives us is always clear and understandable.  It is so because God gives us everything we need.  And everything God gave us is an innate part of us that has always been within us and can never be separated from us by ourselves or anyone else.  God’s understanding is always within us.  And it needs no interpretation.  We understand as we let ourselves see with vision, God’s sight, and hear with God’s ears, recognizing our innate Oneness with God and all of creation.

We have spent a lifetime learning to look outward for understanding and for God’s presence in the world.  But we have been looking to something that is founded in illusion that is separate from who we really are and who and what God is.  This effort is always to try to make sense of all we see and experience.  Once we realize that we are not separate, not of the world of illusion, but One with God, we can begin to learn to see correctly with the vision that is already ours.

The relationships we have developed along our way are usually characterized as dependant, perhaps dysfunctional, and fraught with unreasonable expectations.  We place our worth, our sense of self, and our happiness in another person we are in relationship with.  In doing so we remove ourselves even more from the awareness of all God has provided.  When we look to someone else for all this we can’t see that we have all we need within us.  We have been looking outward to another we see as separate from ourselves instead of looking within for what is already there. As we begin to see each other as One with ourselves and God, we open ourselves to the idea of the Truth that we are all One and lack nothing.  We open ourselves to the idea that our true identity is pure, whole and awash in blessing.  We find that we are less confused as we let Spirit direct us.  We begin to understand the presence of divinity within all of us that cannot be interpreted but can only be understood from the place of the God within us.  The message of the holy or healed relationship then shows us our wholeness and reveals the understanding deep within us of who we really are.  Let go of all we don’t understand and let our divine understanding be revealed.  It becomes possible when we release it all and surrender to Spirit.

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