November 29, 2016
Reality, and eternity, is a perfect union of us and our Source – God – the One. This perfect union is our natural state. It is who we really are. This perfect union is communication, constant and unencumbered. Separation is not possible in this perfect union for all is open and unlimited. This is not a one-sided union as we may have been taught where one gives all and the other receives all. In this perfect union, all is shared wholly. Giving and receiving are one and the same and are limitless in the abundance of eternity. The only thing that keeps us from the awareness of this limitlessness is our belief that we need to be separate and carve out a piece of this limitlessness as our identity separate from everything. If we really look at this idea, we will realize that we are settling for something much less than what is already ours.
It is in your power, in time, to delay the perfect union of the Creator and the One Child. For in this world, the attraction of guilt does stand between them. Neither time nor season means anything in eternity. But here it is the Holy Spirit’s function to use them both, though not as the ego uses them. This is the season when you would celebrate my birth into the world. Yet you know not how to do it. Let the Holy Spirit teach you, and let me celebrate your birth through the Holy Spirit. The only gift I can accept of you is the gift I gave to you. Release me as I choose your own release. The time of Christ we celebrate together, for it has no meaning if we are apart. T-15.X.1:1-10
We are entering the season of Christmas. It is a time when Christianity celebrates the birth of Jesus into the world. We believed that we were hopelessly sinful and that it would take a grand sacrifice to make us acceptable in the sight of God. What we really needed was a change of perception to make God acceptable and equal to us. This means raising our perception of ourselves to the level of God as we are created and always have been rather than bringing God down to the level of our mistaken perception. The purpose of Jesus’ birth into this world was to show us that we are whole, complete, holy and limitless, and to teach us how to change the way we perceive ourselves and each other to reach that perception and accept it for who we really are.
One Christmas season, our pastor set up the Christmas scene so people would pass the manger where Jesus lay on their way to receive communion. As each one walked past and gazed into the manger, they saw, looking back at them, their own reflection in a mirror placed there. The message? We are each the Christ in this world. When we release our attachment to separation and are willing to rejoin in Oneness, we are the savior of each other as we see each other and ourselves as we truly are – sinless, whole, complete, holy and limitless. We are One with each other and our Source in Oneness. What gift could be better?
We who are One cannot give separately. When we are willing to accept our relationship as real, saparation will hold no attraction for us. For in our union we will accept all our sisters and brothers. The gift of union is the only gift that Jesus was born to give.
It is in your power to make this season holy, for it is in your power to make the time of Christ be now. It is possible to do this all at once because there is but one shift in perception that is necessary, for you made but one mistake. It seems like many, but it is all the same. For though the ego takes many forms, it is always the same idea. What is not love is always fear, and nothing else. T-15.X.4:1-5
Let your mind join in Oneness as Spirit guides you to the awareness of who you really are. Let this be a season of rebirth in the knowledge of your wholeness, completeness, holiness and abundance. Let the holy instant be reborn in your mind and let it carry you into eternity. This is in your power now!
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