October 6, 2015
The Course keeps telling us we are afraid of the Course. What’s that about? Our problem is fear. The list of what we fear goes on and on. Yet, there is only one basic fear. It is the fear that we are not who we think we are. We have invested a lifetime developing an identity that we think we are. It is embodied in our physical bodies whether we like them or not. It is built on our perception of everything that has ever happened to us and every one whom we have ever encountered and related to in our lives. We have placed value on all of this and determined our worth based on all of this. Then, when the Course tells us this is all an illusion, we balk at the idea. How could all that we have invested in as our identity not be real?
The Course tells us our worth is far greater than we could imagine in our split mind. It tells us we don’t recognize the truth about ourselves that is within us. The responsibility of our true Identity seems far too great for us to ever live up to. So, how can we look at this differently and begin to find the healing we so desire? Perhaps we are afraid of simply being wrong or mistaken. Perhaps we can begin by opening our minds enough to be willing to entertain the thought that we might be mistaken about who we really are. Perhaps there is something beyond this separate physical identity that has a greater meaning and purpose. Perhaps there is a divine spark of light within us that reminds us of the Holiness of our true Identity. Our Source, the One, creates like Itself, extending its Oneness to all of Creation. All that is created is whole, complete, perfect, limitless, and loving as the One is, none of which can be even threatened. It is only in our thoughts apart from the One that we can make the illusion of something less.
What we fear is the past which we remain so attached to. We are also afraid of the future, which we think of as the past projected into the future. We are afraid that the past will repeat itself in the future. Guess what? The past will repeat itself as long as we continue to remain attached to it and believe it is who we are. What if we were to let go of the past and look at the present?
“Now” has no meaning to the ego. The present merely reminds the ego of past hurts, and it reacts to the present as if it were the past. The ego cannot tolerate release from the past, and although the past is over, the ego tries to preserve its image by responding as if it were present. It dictates your reactions to those you meet in the present from a past reference point, obscuring their present reality. In effect, if you follow the ego’s dictates you will react to another as though they were someone else, and this will surely prevent you from recognizing them as they really are. And you will receive messages from them out of your own past because, by making it real in the present, you are forbidding yourself to let it go. You thus deny yourself the message of release that every One offers you now. T-13.IV.5.1-7
Be willing to set aside everything you know and believe. We all have the holy wisdom of Spirit within us waiting to be remembered and recognized. Given the opportunity – allowing – our Higher Holy Spirit will transform our mind, rejoining its awareness with the One Mind, and bring us to the awareness of our true Identity by recognizing the Identity of Oneness in each other. We do not return to the awareness of who we are alone. We return to this awareness in communion with all of Creation. Love, Joy, and Peace are the recognition of reality. Allow Spirit to open your mind and rejoin with the awareness of our true Identity. Now is the moment, whenever we are willing to let it be.
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