March 22, 2011
Our beliefs hold incredible power in determining the world we see and experience. And we don’t even realize they have that power. We see our beliefs as truth when in fact they are probably some form of illusion. We say God is love, yet we believe in a God of wrath and punishment and perceive wrath and punishment rather than love. We don’t realize how much our beliefs affect our experience of our lives. We have no idea that we have a choice in what we believe! We also don’t realize we have a choice in every experience and situation.
The world we live in is experienced through our mind and our thoughts. Even the sensations of smell, sight, sound, touch, and taste are experienced though our mind and thoughts. Whatever our thoughts are about anything is colored and influenced by our past experiences and what thoughts and ideas we formed about those past experiences. It is no wonder that no two of us have the same perception of anything in our lives even when we share the experience. Some of us have agreed to perceive some experiences very similarly, but even so, there are still differences and the differences grow with time and experience.
Reality and Truth are unchangeable. Perception and past experience have nothing to do with reality and truth. The Course says sin is more that just an error because we believe in it. Yet God tells us there is no sin at all. So why do we believe this untruth? We are One with God and God is not sinful, so how can we be sinful? The belief in the idea of sinfulness is the perception that clouds our vision and hides our true Self from ourselves only because we believe we are sinful more that we believe we are One with God.
God has given us the never ending opportunity to choose to see differently. It is not so much that we must try to see differently, but we must be wiling to let go of all the ways we think we see and all the beliefs we hold to be true and let Spirit show us what is true and real. There is great freedom in this letting go. There is a deep peace that washes over us and fills us with the recognition of the Presence of God within us. In this Presence we recognize the Truth of who we really are and find the Oneness with our brothers and sisters in this world that Is in the real world, the state of Oneness and Unity. We have all the time we need to practice and rediscover this Heaven. What better time to start than now?
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