April 5, 2016
One of our most mistaken thoughts is that we can make decisions on our own that affect no one but us. This is simply impossible. We are all, every one of us, within the Mind of God, the One. Every thought we think is in the Mind of the One and every thought in the Mind of the One is in our mind. Separation is impossible, so separate thoughts are also impossible. The pastor at my church gave two descriptions of God and our relationship with God in her Homily last Sunday. First was God as a huge circle and us as much smaller circles under the huge circle of God, which depicts a God separated from us with power over us. The second was God as the same huge circle and us as smaller circles within the greater circle called God, One with God and each other, all part of the One. The second illustration is, to me, what the Course tells us about ourselves. We are inseparable from the One as the One is inseparable from us.
The Course tells us this about making decisions:
Whenever you choose to make decisions for yourself you are thinking destructively, and the decision will be wrong. It will hurt you because of the concept of decision that led to it. It is not true that you can make decisions by yourself or for yourself alone. No thought of God’s One Child can be separate or isolated in its effects. Every decision is made for the whole of Oneness, directed in and out, and influencing a constellation larger than anything you ever dreamed of. T-14.III.9.1-5
We have convinced ourselves that the thoughts we think in separation have power. The only power our thoughts generated from our egoic thought system have is over our state of mind, nothing more. Separation is an illusion, so any thought rooted in separation has power only to block our awareness of who we really are; our Oneness in the Mind of the One. The effects of our thoughts simply support the sense of Oneness or the sense of isolation, fear, and unhappiness.
We need never make decisions on our own. Within us is our connection to Spirit and the whole of Creation. We need simply turn our attention within and accept Spirit’s guidance in any choice we find ourselves facing. The right and best answer is within us. It is in the wisdom we are within. We have thought we are undeserving of any gift of wholeness from the One. Yet, we are that Oneness. We are inseparable form that deserved Oneness. Accept the answers to the choices that you face from the wisdom of Spirit within you. Trust that it is there, for it is in your creation.
Would you deny the truth of the One’s decision, and place your pitiful appraisal of yourself in place of the One’s calm and unswerving value of You? Nothing can shake the One’s conviction of the perfect purity of everything that the One created, for it is wholly pure. Do not decide against it, for being of Oneness it must be true. Peace abides in every mind that quietly accepts the plan the One set for its At-One-ment, relinquishing its own. You know not of salvation, for you do not understand it. Make no decisions about what it is or where it lies, but ask the Holy Spirit everything, and leave all decisions to Spirit’s gentle counsel. T-14.III.12.1-6
Decide now to decide with Spirit rather than in separation. Spirit is within us, so Spirit’s guidance is within us. The decision to deny guilt is the acceptance of guiltlessness. We open ourselves to the awareness of the wholeness and completeness of our being, knowing it is not ours alone but shared with the One, each other and all of Creation. Open your mind to the peace, joy and love that radiate from within you and are shared in abundance with all. This is the Oneness we are.
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