July 27, 2010

We always choose what we see in each other.  We may not realize that what we see is our choice, but it is our choice every time we encounter each other.  As we choose how we see each other we either limit or set free.  We either withhold love or extend love.  We either attack or forgive.  We either see Truth or illusion.  As we look upon each other we will see another as they really are or something they are not.

Before we even get to what we choose to see, we must choose what we want to see in each other.  Our desire is really what drives our motivation in what we want to see.  As we choose separation, we see according to our desire to be separate.  We make specialness of one kind or another and project it on each other, masking the reality of who they really are.  We are often afraid to see another as they really are because we are afraid of what we will see.  It is inevitable that we will see what we really think about ourselves reflected back to us!  And that doesn’t jive with the image we have made up about ourselves.

Are we willing to see another as they truly are?  Are we willing to see another in their holiness?  Such a transformation comes in the willingness to see with Spirit’s eyes.  The Christ in them shines brightly through.  The God within them shines so bright we wonder why we missed it before.  Forgiveness for all their mistaken thoughts floods our mind, lifting the veil from our eyes, allowing us to see clearly.  And reflecting back to us is the true beauty of ourselves we have forgotten about.  We have freed each other as we celebrate the holiness we truly are.

God’s blessings can no longer be withheld from either of you as you abandon your unwillingness.  Throw it away.  Let it drop into the vanishing mists of illusions gone. We celebrate with each other the wholeness of our One Self.  We welcome the peace of eternity within us.  We find all we ever needed and will ever need in the presence of God that dwells within us.  How could we have been so blind?  How could we have chosen to want anything but Truth?  It has always been our choice.  Let yourself be willing to make the choice to see holiness for both of you.  It’s easier than you might think when you just choose and let go, letting the transformation wash through you.  Choose holiness.

July 20, 2010

What is the purpose of the world we see?  Perhaps if we understand the purpose of the world we will begin to see the truth about who we really are.  Perhaps we will begin to understand how we are not so much a victim of the world.  Our mind may say we are a victim of the world we see, but it is our misunderstanding of the world we see that makes it seem like we are a victim.  The Course tells us we cannot be victims of the world we see.  It is impossible for any facet of creation by God to be anything less than whole.  God created us whole and One with God, so we can be nothing contrary to our reality.

The purpose of the world is nothing less than the healing of God’s One Child.  The one purpose of the world is the return to the full complete awareness of each and every one of us that we are God’s One Child, One with God.  We are whole, complete, and sinless.  The world is the collection of experiences and thoughts that come to our mind to remind us who we really are.  Each experience is an opportunity for each of us to see with Spirit’s eyes rather than the body’s eyes.  Each encounter is an opportunity to see each one’s true nature as God created them rather than something untrue.  As we see each one as they really are, we see our true nature, we see ourselves as we really are and as God created us.

The world’s seeming laws of separation, lack, and victimization are nothing more than illusion.  Yet our belief in those laws hold us captive, hold us limited, and hold us from the freedom of the awareness of who we really are.  Every moment of every hour and day we have the opportunity to make a choice whether to see with Spirit’s eyes or with unseeing eyes of separation.  Each relationship that comes our way is an opportunity to make a correct choice in how we see each other.  Are we willing to step away from the busy thoughts we become so accustomed to and that we choose to believe as true and let the Holy Spirit show us what is real in the stillness of the present moment?

As we allow ourselves to see beyond the specialness we made up in our relationships to the Truth therein, we free each other from the laws of separation, lack and victimization and find the truth about ourselves.  We begin to understand how each experience in our lives, no matter what its form, has the higher purpose of returning us to the awareness of who we really are.  Can you imagine a world where all see each other in the Truth of who they really are?  Yes it is possible.  That is the purpose the Holy Spirit gives the world we made up from our belief in our thoughts about our experiences.  Take a step back.  Allow the stillness of Spirit to come over you.  You will begin to see the real purpose of the world.  It is the discovery of our peace, innocence, and freedom.  We are One in the bond of God’s unconditional love.

July 13, 2010

Before each one’s holiness the world is still.  Its gentle peace settles in and around us.  We find ourselves in a blessing so complete that conflict is impossible.  Not a trace of darkness remains to haunt us.  We are complete.  We see this completeness in our brother, our sister, and they are the healing from our sense sacrifice and fear that all we have will scatter to the wind and turn to dust.

As we look at our brother and sister and see them as they truly are we are filled with the stillness we see in them.  We are filled with and surrounded by a gentle peace.  We experience a joy like we have never known before.  We are blessed with an assurance so complete our fears are scattered to the winds.  We have found the God we have been looking for all along.  We have seen the completeness and Oneness of creation in another and thus see ourselves in that Oneness of creation.  We now know we are inseparable from God.  We realize it is impossible to see another and not see God and ourselves.

Without any one of us, there would be a lack in God, a Heaven incomplete, a universe not reality.  The indivisible would be made divided.  God’s will would not be so.  But God’s will is Oneness,wholeness and it is always so.  Nothing can prevail against the Will of God for it is unchangeable and unfailing.  God made creation whole.  And nothing real can threaten what is God’s creation.  And how could anything unreal be of any threat to reality?

There is nothing to fear.  All of reality is of God.  As we look at each other we see all that God has created and we know it is all goof and holy.  The One we see is showing us our salvation.  That One is showing us the beauty, the holiness, the peacefulness that we are and have always been.  Let it wash over and through you.  Recognize your Oneness in the One God has sent you to show you.  There you see the Christ in them, and the Christ in you.  There is no more fear for it has vanished in the assurance of peace.  Here is our Salvation

July 6, 2010

What we seek is a source of joy as we conceive it.  What we wish for is true for us.  It is also impossible to wish for something and not have faith that it is true.  What do we wish for?  This is an important question we must ask ourselves.  Are we wishing for what is real or are we wishing for specialness, something of illusion?  We must look at this closely.  If we are placing our wishes in specialness, we may find little glimmers of joy or peace, but it will fade away just as quickly as it appears.  Wishing makes the appearance of real.  Faith in illusion will bring us nothing more than illusion, for it is not really real.

The illusion of specialness may seem very attractive.  It may seem to be so exquisite in its form.  It may seem to bring us joy and peace.  It may appear to be that quiet retreat into stillness.  But if it is not based in reality, in God and the Oneness of creation, it will not last.  It will be a fleeting experience that will eventually bring us to the suffering that characterizes an illusion based way of thinking.  And where do our brothers ad sisters fit into this world of specialness?  They probably fall short of our expectations of them.  How could they do anything but fall short?  We have set up the illusion so they MUST fall short.  They, and we as a result, are destined to let each other down as a result of our attachment to the illusion we made up.

Within us is the answer to this dilemma.  The Christ with us is always there.  It holds the real essence of our being.  It wills only truth and what is real for us.  It remains still in it peacefulness within us.  It knows who we really are.  And it waits for us to reach out and take its hand.  Once we let that Christ within begin to guide us, we can learn to see with the eyes of Spirit.  We can begin to listen with the ears of Spirit.  We can reach out with the hand of Spirit and take each others’ hand and walk as One, knowing that we are One with God and all Creation.

How beautiful is this walk we walk as One.  How peaceful it is.  How lovely the sound of our footsteps and the path of forgiveness.  Forgiveness is the letting go of our attachment to all that is specialness or illusion.  Spirit gives us the tools and the help we need to use them on our journey.  We are never alone in this walk.  We always have the Christ within which we see in each other as we walk our journey.  There will be challenges along the way, but the Christ Spirit within will guide us through them all if we will just place our faith in it to show us the way.  We are all in this together, not because we are all here, but because we are all One.  Celebrate our Oneness and walk the path in peace love, and joy!