January 3, 2017
We do not understand holiness or even miracles, for that matter. Our minds are still focused on the egoic thought system we’ve been developing all our lives. It is impossible for us to hang onto what we think we know and understand the Holiness of all at the same time. Our true power lies in our Holiness, yet we have denied that power by believing we are separate. Even as we begin to change our minds about what we believe we are, we struggle to apply holiness to all. The Course explains it this way:
You may still think that holiness is impossible to understand, because you cannot see how it can be extended to include everyone. And you have been told that it must include everyone to be holy. Concern yourself not with the extension of holiness, for the nature of miracles you do not understand. Nor do you do them. It is their extension, far beyond the limits you perceive, that demonstrates you do not do them. Why should you worry how the miracle extends to All of Us when you do not understand the miracle itself? One attribute is no more difficult to understand than is the whole. If miracles are at all, their attributes would have to be miraculous, being part of them. T-16.II.1:1-8
We are just beginning to accept the idea that we are all One in Oneness and do not fully understand this concept. Yet, Oneness is our true nature and our holiness and the giving of miracles happens on a level that transcends the current level of our awareness. We are beginning to catch glimpses of who we really are as we allow our minds to follow the higher guidance within us.
Invested in our egoic thought system, we tend to fragment our thoughts, and then to be concerned about the truth of just a little part of the whole. This is a way of avoiding, or looking away from the whole, to what we think we might be better able to understand. For this is another way in which we would still try to keep understanding to ourselves. A better and far more helpful way to think of miracles is this: We do not understand them, either in part or in whole. Yet miracles have been done through us. Therefore, our understanding cannot be necessary. Yet it is still impossible to accomplish what we do not understand. And so there must be Something in us that does understand. This is the natural essence of who we are that cannot be changed, that cannot be corrupted, that cannot be lost. We can deny it all we want, but it remains within us, hidden from our awareness only by our denial of its being. We have extended miracles from the power of our holiness in Oneness even as we have denied our own holiness.
You have done miracles, but it is quite apparent that you have not done them alone. You have succeeded whenever you have reached another mind and joined with it. When two minds join as one and share one idea equally, the first link in the awareness of the All of Us as One has been made. When you have made this joining as the Holy Spirit bids you, and have offered it to Spirit to use as Spirit sees fit, Spirit’s natural perception of your gift enables Spirit to understand it, and you to use Spirit’s understanding on your behalf. It is impossible to convince you of the reality of what has clearly been accomplished through your willingness while you believe that you must understand it or else it is not real. T-16.II.4:1-5
Releasing ourselves and each other from the limiting thoughts of our egoic thought system is key to opening our minds to the limitless possibilities of our natural being. It is opened only in the joining of our minds as we allow the awareness of our Oneness to rise in our minds. This has nothing to do with making it happen in physical form first. That is impossible, for physical form is born of fragmentation. Unity and Oneness are natural. In the acceptance of this truth is the awareness of who we really are. Let go of division and step into the power of holiness that lies within us. It is waiting for nothing more than our willingness to let it rise in our minds.
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