October 13, 2015
The Course has told us many times that time is an illusion and therefore not real. It has also told us that time does have a Holy function as used by Spirit. Its one function is healing. As with all things in the world of form – the unreal world – there is another Holy function when perceived correctly. We tend to focus on the past and then project the past into the future, obliterating the present moment – now – from our awareness, thus denying ourselves the one place in time that is real. When we dwell upon the past and project it into the future, we are held captive in all the fear and pain we have been feeling. The past is gone, over with, done. Yet we hold ourselves captive by projecting the past into the future and denying ourselves the release from the past the “now” offers us. Every encounter we experience is a holy encounter, but do we recognize it so? The Couse tells us this:
Would you recognize a holy encounter if you are merely perceiving it as a meeting with your own past? For you would be meeting no one, and the sharing of salvation, which makes the encounter holy, would be excluded from your sight. The Holy Spirit teaches that you always meet yourself, and the encounter is holy because you are. The ego teaches that you always encounter your past, and because your dreams were not holy, the future cannot be, and the present is without meaning. T-13.IV.7-10
Spirit uses time to teach us. Time serves the function of learning. Since we have decided to believe we are separate from each other and the One, we are blinded by the illusion of time, hiding the freedom of the present “now” from our awareness. We rarely take the time to rest in the present moment without fretting about the past or fretting about the future. These thoughts are currently occupying our mind in the “now.” Yet if we release these thoughts and worries we will find a freedom to experience who we really are in this present moment. The light of our Divine essence will come welling up within us and bubble to the surface, bringing peace and joy to us we thought we never knew. Our salvation – the awareness of who we really are – is known in eternity and the present moment is the only time in our temporal “existence” that is an approximation of eternity. This is the introduction and the experience of the Holy Instant. This is the moment when the remembrance of who we really are erupts from deep within our mind and floods our whole being with peace, love and joy.
However, it is our choice to open ourselves to this freedom. Spirit will never force it on us. Though this knowledge is deep within us, our awareness of it is blocked by our attachment and belief in all the blocks we have placed to prevent us from recognizing who we really are. Ask yourself how you perceive your function in your world. What is you answer?
You, too, will interpret the function of time as you interpret yours. If you accept your function in the world of time as one of healing, you will emphasize only the aspect of time in which healing can occur. Healing cannot be accomplished in the past. It must be accomplished in the present to release the future. This interpretation ties the future to the present, and extends the present rather than the past. T-13.IV.9.1-5
Are you ready for your healing? Are you willing to accept the Holy function of time and release all other perceived functions of time? It is our choice. Do we choose to be limited by the past, or do we change our interpretation of time to its Holy function and realize our freedom? Time will be as we interpret it, for time has no purpose of its own.
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