October 27, 2020
Lesson 302 –
Where darkness was I look upon the light.
We have no need to remain in darkness. Darkness is not real and can be sent away in an instant if we want it to be so. We are light. We are the light of the world. We shine the dark away with our light. The light is within us – all of us – and thus we are the light of the world. Darkness cannot persist in the presence of light, for darkness is simply the absence of light. When we look upon the light, there is no more darkness.
I think most of us are afraid of the light when we have enveloped ourselves in darkness. We have become accustomed to the darkness since we denied the light within us. Light speaks to and reveals who we really are. Darkness conceals who we really are from our awareness. As we each step into the light we find we are surrounded by and filled with love and peace. We find ourselves relaxing into the comfort of our true Identity. What more could we ever want? This is our purpose while we are in this world. We are meant to see clearly.
Our Love awaits us as we go to Oneness, and walks beside us showing us the way. Love fails in nothing. Love the End we seek, and Love the Means by which we go to Oneness. W-pII.302.2:1-3
A simple shift in thought, a simple change of mind, a simple realignment of our thought system is all we need. The result is a healed mind rejoined with all other minds willing and waiting to reunite in Oneness. Is this what you are really seeking? I think so. Then let go of any thought or belief that doesn’t serve you. Allow the truth about who you are to wash over you and lift you up. Help and guidance is there within us, too. The Course offers us this prayer as an example:
Creator, our eyes are opening at last. Your holy world awaits us, as our sight is finally restored and we can see. We thought we suffered. But we had forgot the Child whom You created. Now we see that darkness is our own imagining, and light is there for us to look upon. Christ’s vision changes darkness into light, for fear must disappear when love has come. Let me forgive Your holy world today, that I may look upon its holiness and understand it but reflects my own. W-pII.302.1:1-7
The world we think we see has many false appearances. And they are not based in reality. The chaotic world we think we see is a world seen through the lens of past experiences and misperceptions. It is made by the thoughts of split minds that have denied their innate holiness. Our effort to make our own identity separate from Oneness has denied the true essence of creation. Our essence is holy. Our essence is complete and limitless. As we allow our eyes to open to the reality of who we really are and the connectedness of all creation, we find the essence of holiness within us that we truly are. As we look upon the world with our Spirit eyes we see beyond the pain and suffering and chaos to the light and holiness beyond. The light is much stronger than the darkness we had adopted and gave in to. Even though the light is stronger, it will never force us to “deprive” ourselves of that darkness. Light knows that darkness cannot really hurt us, so It waits for us to accept the light and allow the light to rise in our mind where it already is. Make the choice for light today and allow your eyes to open to the love and peace of perfect light in Oneness. It’s the only rational choice. Be willing to make it now.
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