June 28, 2011

A healed mind recognizes the truth about who we really are. It recognizes that we are all One, that there is no separation between the Children of God. It recognizes there is no sin, and no possibility that we can really hurt each other. It recognizes that there is no death and no punishment. It recognizes there is no need for suffering and that we are limitless and powerful. But we cling to our mistaken idea that we are the opposite from all the previously mentioned characteristics.

Every relationship we encounter in this world is an opportunity to heal and be healed. Each one is a chance to recognize the Oneness of all in the one we are engaging at the moment. It doesn’t matter haw fleeting, how brief, how challenging, are how easy the encounter or relationship is. Each moment is an opportunity to recognize the Divine in that one, see that one in the light of Spirit, and see the light of God shining from that one. It that moment we realize the joining of all of creation in that encounter. Be grateful each encounter and bless it. It is a holy relationship and all we need do is recognize it as it really is. Spirit will do the rest.

We are so afraid of losing the identity we have made for ourselves. We have made it in isolation. We have made it to look like it is independent from others. We have made it look like something it isn’t and can never be. We are all One. We are all joined, never to be separated. The reality of our Oneness is blessed, joyful, full of love, and radiating light. Recognize our reality as One and soar on the wings of eagles. The salvation of the world is soaring with us. Let it be so.

June 21, 2011

We all fear healing. And we fear healing because we believe a mistaken idea that we must be different from each other in some way. In some way we believe we are better or worse than another, more right or wrong than another, more or less spiritual than another. We believe in sacrifice and suffering. One might believe that they must suffer so another may be elevated. Another might believe that another must suffer or pay penance for how they have treated them. All of these ideas which we place our belief in color our perception of each other and the world and hide reality from our awareness at the present moment.

Only when we are willing to begin to let the Holy Spirit correct our perception are we able to see with the Mind of Spirit and see each other and the world clearly. Forgiveness is our function here, not correction. We cannot correct by ourselves, for we will attempt to accomplish correction from a mind of ego. The ego mind seeks to reinforce our ideas of separation and individual identities independent from the whole identity of Self and Oneness. The function of forgiveness opens us to the idea that we are all One and that there is no way we could have caused any harm to any Creation of God. Created as an extension of God, we are as indestructible as God, and as loving as God.

Believe that we all are who we really are, that we all are extension(s) of God. Allowing this thought allows Spirit to correct our perception and let the light of Spirit shine brightly in our mind. We see a new Truth about each other and ourselves, as we see the light of God shining within each and every one we encounter. Every one we meet, and every one who comes across our path is a new opportunity to heal and to be healed. We need make no effort to heal. We need only to allow healing to enter our mind. There is nothing to fear. There is nothing to lose. But there is everything to gain. We are not healed alone. We are healed with each other, together. Let Spirit open our minds and hearts and see the reality of our Oneness. The love and peace of God extends to all, and there is joy!

June 14, 2011

The miracle of healing proves that separation can have no real effect. And the power of the miracle comes in our belief in it. Power is in the belief that healing is possible. We always act form our belief. Everything we say or do or think testifies to what we actually believe. And so healing comes simply in what we believe. Our belief in each other’s innocence speaks with a power far greater than a thousand tongues. This is another’s forgiveness proven to them.

The miracle of healing offers nothing less to another than it gives us. Healing happens with another. The workbook says, “When I am healed, I am not healed alone. And I would share my healing with the world. That sickness may be banished from the mind, of God’s one Child, who is my only self.” In our healing, forgiveness is given for what that one did not do, and so that one is convinced their innocence was never lost, and they are healed with us. In this healing are all things undone that we thought could not be undone. We see the world with new eyes, fresh vision and understanding given by Spirit and seen through Spirit’s eyes and mind. How beautiful it is to finally see each other as we really are.

There is noting to fear in the miracle of healing. What could we possibly lose but misery, lack, and weakness? The freedom of stepping into the Truth of who we really are washes away all that is not real, all that we have mistakenly believed in. The belief in our own innocence and that of each other opens the door to Heaven for all of us. We are suddenly free, and unfettered, free to soar in the love of the God we know within us. We are blessed with the radiance of our own Being, that which has always been within us, waiting for us to change our mind and just believe in the Truth about ourselves.

Our mistaken ideas and beliefs fall away. In the light of our Truth we see the radiance of all of Heaven shining from each face. We recognize the face of Christ shining from every one we encounter. Don’t be afraid anymore. Let the Spirit of Holy Being shine from you on another and feel it reflected from them beck to you. It takes two to heal!

June 7, 2011

True healing is very frightening to many of us. It asks us to change how we view the world and each other and even ourselves. It asks us to give up the way we have thought all our lives. It asks us to let go of our attachment to the way we have always thought things should be. It asks us to question the rationale and sanity of all we have ever thought rational and sane. All we have been taught, all we have believed, all we have trusted is up for review. No wonder we are afraid of healing. It may upset our applecart!

Understanding true healing is dependant on our understanding of true forgiveness. True forgiveness lets go of the notion that one can ever wrong another. “Forgiving” one who has wronged us and retaining the idea that they have hurt us is not true forgiveness. In this way we still retain our attachment to the idea that we can be hurt. We are still hanging on to the identity of ourselves we made up, still not ready to believe the truth about who we really are. And so we still cannot see who another really is. In this way we “put on” and air of “forgiveness” while still believing we have been wronged.

If we say we are as we were created by God, whole and innocent and unattaclable, no one can wrong us. In Truth, one can never really wrong another. In reality it is impossible for me to wrong you and for you to wrong me. Understanding this idea is foreign to most of us and certainly doesn’t agree with what we have learned in this world. For we have immersed ourselves in a world of separation and illusion, trying to understand the world from the idea of separate identities rather than Oneness. We must begin to see and to believe that however it appears that we’ve been wronged in this world of separateness is not as it appears to our mind.

The Course provides us with a method of learning that we can change our mind. It gives us lessons that when done will help us, step by step, to change the way we think just a little at a time until a huge hole bursts open in what we thought was true and we begin to see the Mind of God in ourselves and each other. We begin to make sense of the idea that we are whole and innocent and that our true self cannot be wronged or hurt by anything unreal or of the world of form, no matter what it may look like to us at the moment. The love and peace of God is there within us. And as we change our way of thinking and believing, we experience that love and we understand true forgiveness and we see who the one with us and ourselves are truly One, the One holy creation of God. Be healed and know who you really are.