October 26, 2010

The Grace of God rests on forgiving eyes.  For those eyes bring salvation to the world we live in.  We have gone through life making mistakes, involved in special relationships, and living the effects of our misperceptions as our experiences.  This is what we call life.  As a result we feel the experiences of hurt, pain, guilt, attack, and blame.  Oh what a world we have made.

But the Holy Spirit has a plan for all this, a special function for all we made.  Everything we have dome, experienced, and made to this moment has a special function as reinterpreted by the Holy Spirit.  As we release each other from the bonds and limitations we placed on each other, we are forgiving each other.  We grant each other the gift of freedom to be who we really are.  And as we forgive and free each other, we in turn forgive and release ourselves from the bonds we have kept ourselves imprisoned in.

We begin to see the special function Spirit places in all we have ever made, transforming all into the means to forgive and free all of us.  The connection of unconditional love wells up within all of us, joining us as the One Child of God we really are.  We begin to remember what has always been, hovering just above our unconsciousness; there, but not seen or experienced.  But when we let Spirit show us the special function of our world, we begin to see that our true being has never left us.  And we begin to remember who we really are.

So love follows forgiveness.  It floods into our awareness and extends to all we know, extending and connecting all that is One, showing us it has never been otherwise.  Are we not ready to look gently on each other with eyes of forgiveness?  The Grace of God is in those eyes and sees truly the perfection of all of God’s Children in unity.  Let us gently rest the Grace of God on all the world by seeing with forgiving eyes.  As we look deep into those eyes we see the limitless unconditional love of God as it extends to and unites all of creation into the Divine Oneness we truly are.

October 12, 2010

What is our aim?  And what means do we choose to reach our aim?  What do we truly believe that we must do to reach our aim?  We all want happiness, peace, love, joy, safety, and freedom.  In reality, we have all we want, but just don’t realize it.  We have chosen not to see and experience what we want because we have chosen to believe something else.  We have chosen to believe that we must attain these things, and so must do some thing or some things to experience them.

We all are pursuing the same aim, so what are our means for attaining those aims?  For how we choose to achieve those aims is the key to actually experiencing them.  The means must be consistent with the aim.  It’s so simple, but we tend to miss it.  If we use unpeaceful, unloving, unjoyful, threatening, and limiting means to achieve love, peace, joy, safety, and freedom, we can’t possibly experience them while we are believing in and experiencing means to the contrary of the aim.  Can we just stop a moment and observe what we are doing?

The Course says that giving and receiving are the same.  Would it not make sense to believe that giving peace and using peaceful means would achieve the aim of peace?  It is the same with happiness, love, joy, safety, and freedom.  As we align the means we use with our aim, we allow that which we really want to become manifest in our life.  Soon we are experiencing the very things we desire as we use them as a means to achieve our desire.  It comes from within us; from within all of us.  It is the totality of Heaven within us.  All of creation reflects it back to us, allowing us to see it for ourselves.

The light we bring from within us transforms our brother and sister and, in turn, transforms us.  It shines brightly and the darkness retreats into nothingness at its light.  No more need we be fearful or limited.  Our willingness to bring the light of Heaven with us brings the light of truth to our mistakes as we walk beyond the world of darkness into light.  And thus all of our mistakes are brought to the light of truth and fade into nothingness.  Be love and achieve love.  Be peace and achieve peace.  Be joy and experience joy.  Be safety and freedom and experience safety and freedom.  Be who you want to be; the real One you are, always have been and always will be.

October 5, 2010

Do we choose to see each others’ errors or mistakes?  Or do we allow our Helper to show us the real One before us?  When we realize that the questions “What is justified?” and “What do we want?” are the same question, we will see the choice is made.  In that realization is the release from the idea that there are two ways to see.  This one way to see offers us peace at any moment in all opportunities.  In that peace our forgiveness extends to all we encounter bringing peace to all and bringing light to the seeming darkness.

We rejoice at what we see, for it brings us joy, true lasting joy.  This fulfills the law of perception, the law that what we believe is what we will see and experience.  We all want joy.  It is only our means for reaching joy that we choose.  Once we release ourselves from our choice of suffering and guilt to obtain joy will we realize that joy is already within us.  We see it in each other, recognize it, and let it bloom within us, each other and all of creation.

The peace of God is within each of us.  It has always been there and always will be.  As we allow this world of peace to rise within us, it will grant each one we encounter rest.  From us will a world rise which any can rejoice in.  Our vision will extend to all and bring them gentleness and light.  This widening world of light will push back the darkness they think they see until it fades into nothing.  The light of Oneness will permeate every corner of each one, showing the, the peace and joy that is already there within and shared by all.

This light and peace of Heaven is within each and every one of us.  Every bit of creation is given life in us and this awareness.  Not one thing in this world we see is not given life in us.  The peace, love, and joy of God is evident in all the world through us.  Pull the veil from your eyes.  Let Spirit see through you to show the grandeur of creation to all.  Salvation and freedom are inevitable for all as we allow the light we are to rise in us and show all of creation the light they are.  We truly bring light to all the world.  We are the light of the world.