June 28, 2016

Today’s lesson in the Workbook for Students is a review lesson. The reviews are framed with this idea: God is but love and therefore so am I. We are created One with God. How could we be anything else but love? Every miracle at its core is the shift in our mind from the idea that we are whatever we have made as our identity to the idea and truth that we are indeed Love. We spend a lifetime convincing ourselves that we are not whole, not complete, unlovable and lacking when the opposite is true. We have always been whole, complete, lovable and limitless. At the core of every miracle is the shift in our mind to the awareness of our divine Identity – Love. In this essence all miracles are equal and thus there is no order of difficulty in miracles as all are the same no matter what their form in the world of form and perception – the temporal world.

Left to the egoic thought system, ideas will seem perfectly logical as long as they are perceived alone. Yet, when we bring all those separate ideas together they make no sense when joined as they conflict with each other in a myriad of ways and appear irrational. So what do we do? Rather than questioning their rationality, we separate them from each other and only view them separately. All true thoughts must coexist in harmony if they are all true. So perhaps if thoughts are in conflict we should take a look at them and see what gives. Spirit is within us to aid in this process. In fact, Spirit will make it perfectly clear to us what is true and what is mistaken if we will simply allow Spirit to guide our mind. Spirit is one with us, so is within us as God is. And it is impossible to keep any idea hidden or in secret, for we are all One – God, Spirit, brother and sister and us. There is no possibility of hidden or secret in Oneness. This becomes evident in our remembrance of who we really are.

Communication is constant in Oneness.

As God communicates to the Holy Spirit in you, so does the Holy Spirit translate God’s communications through you, so you can understand them. God has no secret communications, for everything of God is perfectly open and freely accessible to all, being for all. Nothing lives in secret, and what you would hide from the Holy Spirit is nothing. Every interpretation you would lay upon another is senseless. Let the Holy Spirit show another to you, and teach you both another’s love and their call for love. Neither their mind nor yours holds more than these two orders of thought.  T-14.X.11.1-6\

The miracle is the recognition of love and the recognition that what is not love is a call for love. All love and all calls for love are the same – equal. Spirit uses perception to bring each miracle to us in a form that will help us in whatever state of awareness we are currently in. Some may appear larger or smaller, but they are all the same.

The miracle is the recognition that this is true. Where there is love, your friend must give it to you because of what it is. But where there is a call for love, you must give it because of what you are. Earlier I said this course will teach you how to remember what you are, restoring to you your Identity. We have already learned that this Identity is shared. The miracle becomes the means of sharing It. By supplying your Identity wherever It is not recognized, you will recognize It. And God, Who wills to be with Us forever, will bless each recognition of Us with all the Love God holds for us. Nor will the power of all God’s Love be absent from any miracle you offer to any of Us. How, then, can there be any order of difficulty among them?   T-14.X.12.1-10

Love is the One constant, period. All else is merely a dream that may appear to be real but cannot be real for it is not of love. Fear not any miracle for they are all equal. They are simply love and their outcome is simply love.

June 21, 2016

Miracles take many forms in this world of perception. Some may appear grander than others and some may appear very small or insignificant. Yet all miracles achieve the same thing – a change in thought and perception to a more correct thought or perception. And they are always guided by our Higher Holy Self or Spirit. The Course tells us many times there is no order of difficulty in miracles. This is very true as all miracles are equal in their basic function – the correction of our misperception. When we strip the particulars of our temporal condition from each miracle, they are all equal and move toward our recognition of our true Self and who we really are.

Each miracle functions in time, yet moves us out of time to eternity. As we journey in this world of perception, the reflections we accept into our minds bring eternity closer or farther. Eternity is reflected in our minds as we journey in this temporal world. Yet eternity is beyond all time. Reach out of time and touch it with the help of its reflection in you. You will surely turn from time to holiness as surely as the reflection of holiness calls all to lay aside guilt. Reflect the peace of Heaven here, and bring this world to Heaven. The reflection of truth draws everyone to truth who by entering into truth leave all reflections behind.

In Heaven reality is shared and not reflected. By sharing its reflection here [in this temporal world], its truth becomes the only perception We accept. And thus, remembrance of our Creator Source dawns on us, and we can no longer be satisfied with anything but our own reality. You on earth have no conception of limitlessness, for the world you seem to live in is a world of limits. In this world, it is not true that anything without order of difficulty can occur. The miracle, therefore, has a unique function, and is motivated by a unique Teacher Who brings the laws of another world to this one. The miracle is the one thing you can do that transcends order, being based not on differences but on equality.   T-14.X.2.1-7

We determine what we allow to be reflected in the mirror of our mind and our consciousness. It is our choice. Left to our egoic thought system, we will see only the cloudy shadows of misperception behind the veil of separation we cling to. As we decide to and allow Spirit to guide the unveiling of the mirror of our mind, we begin to see reality reflected there. As reality and eternity call to us reflected there, we find we no longer need the mirror, turn around and find ourselves smack dab in the middle of Heaven. We see the world around us in a new light. We see with the peace and light in our mind the peace and light in each other and around us. This is the unique function of every miracle. They are all equal in this transcendence of the temporal world. Let the miracles of your perception carry you to the eternity of Heaven right now.

June 14, 2016

We are Holy. We are created holy and unchangeable. We live in the eternal Oneness of our Creator. No shadow can diminish this truth about us. Only our own choice to believe something less about ourselves draws us into the seeming darkness that hides our true essence form our awareness.

In this world you can become a spotless mirror, in which the Holiness of your Creator shines forth from you to all around you. You can reflect Heaven here.  T-14.IX.5.1-2

Nothing else can be reflected in that mirror. If we place barriers on the mirror, cover the mirror with veils, or cloud the mirror with fog, we dim the mirror that reflects the light of our soul, our true essence. The temporal world can reflect Heaven or hell, Holiness or unholiness, Love or hate, Peace or upset. When we simply leave the mirror clean and clear of all images of hidden darkness we have drawn upon it, we will see the light of holiness within us shine clearly in our own mind and for all the world to see.

Clear reflections can only be seen in light. When we make darkness by hiding our own light behind the obstacles of our mistaken beliefs about who we are, the reality of our true nature is obscured and appears to shift from one perception to another, making the world we see confusing and insecure. The reflection of our holiness needs no interpretation. It is clear. Clean the mirror, and the message that shines forth from what the mirror holds out for everyone to see, no one can fail to understand. It is the message that Spirit is holding to the mirror that is in each one. Each one recognizes it because they have been taught their need for it, but know not where to look to find it. Let each one, then, see it in you and share it with you. In this are we all healed.

Could you but realize for a single instant the power of healing that the reflection of the One, shining in you, can bring to all the world, you could not wait to make the mirror of your mind clean to receive the image of the holiness that heals the world. The image of holiness that shines in your mind is not obscure, and will not change. The meaning to those who look upon the image of the holiness that shines in your mind is not obscure, for everyone perceives it as the same. All bring their different problems to the healing light of the holiness you allow to shine in your mind, and all their problems find but healing there.   T-14.IX.7.1-4

The Course tells us we are the light of the world. The song tells us to let our light shine. Our holiness is this light. It is our true nature and our true essence. Holiness’ one response is healing, without regard to what is brought to its light. We are ready at last for Heaven where holiness is not a reflection, but rather the actual condition of the reality that was reflected here. We journey back to the awareness of who we really are by reflecting the truth that we really are. This is the salvation the Course offers us. It is our choice when we choose what we will inevitably choose. Allow the mirror of your soul to reflect the real – the holiness – within you that you are.