August 11, 2015
Once we choose to look within and accept our function to extend and share peace and love, we will find peace and love which is already within us. Peace and love are not static, for they need to be freely shared to be vibrant. Peace and love are dynamic by nature and thus cannot remain static. The Course gives us this promise:
When you have accepted your mission to extend peace you will find peace, for by making it manifest you will see it. Its holy witnesses will surround you because you called upon them, and they will come to you. I have heard your call and I have answered it, but you will not look upon me nor hear the answer that you sought. That is because you do not yet want only that. Yet as I become more real to you, you will learn that you do want only that. And you will see me as you look within, and we will look upon the real world together. Through the eyes of Christ, only the real world exists and only the real world can be seen. As you decide so will you see. And all that you see but witnesses to your decision. T-12.VII.11.1-8
We must decide what we want, what we really want. A soul searching look within will reveal the desire to recognize our wholeness when we allow Spirit to guide our choice. We have no idea how much effort we have expended blocking Spirit’s guidance within our mind. We will sigh in great relief when we relinquish that effort and allow Spirit to guide our choices and wonder why we fought our true nature so diligently through all our separated days.
Whenever we look without, outside ourselves without the guidance of Spirit, and react unfavorably to what we see, we have condemned our consciousness to our egoic thought system – our split mind, judging ourselves unworthy. Nothing could be further from the truth, for we are undeniably worthy, whole and complete in our creation. Our egoic thought system cannot change who we are or mar our divine nature. However, it can block our awareness of that divine nature, wholeness and completeness when we align our mind with its desire to separate from our true nature. This mistaken thought system has convinced us we have displeased our Creator, a feat that is impossible for we are One with our Creator. Yet, we have believed this mistaken concept.
When we are tempted to yield to the desire to look outward and be apart, remember that Spirit holds our true nature in our mind, waiting for us to turn around and look within to the truth of our divine nature. Look within and again choose to accept our function to extend and share peace and love. We will find and recognize that same peace and love within us in all its dynamic grace and grandeur. See only what is within us that is eternal and limitless and free. It cannot be stopped. It cannot be compromised. Look within and allow Spirit to guide us back to the awareness of who we really are and look upon the world from within with divine loving eyes. We will see what we know we are. Look within and let it be so.
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