January 24, 2017
Have you ever felt conflicted? Have you ever felt like there were two or more different “yous” fighting for control of your identity? Perhaps the conflict inside your mind made you feel a bit crazy. The Course tells us this would be our egoic thought system trying to take control of our mind. Our egoic thought system battles for the separate identity it makes for us in an attempt to keep us thinking we are separate and thus maintain the egoic thought system’s illusion of its existence and autonomy. It is invested in us maintaining that each of us has a unique identity of our own that is completely separate from any other. Yet, the Course tells us we are not two selves in conflict. We, in our holy nature, are One with all the universe. There is nothing else that is real and there is no conflict in reality.
One might ask how we can teach truth and not learn truth. This concept is perplexing, especially when we look at it from the perspective of separation. We are the One Holy Child of the One. That means all of us in Oneness are the One Holy Child. Our Holy Self teaches truth and yet we, in our perception from separation, do not have faith in what we have taught. We do not have faith in who we really are, our One Self. So, we have no faith in what our One Self teaches. This is nothing more than a misperception and can be corrected if we are willing.
This year you will begin to learn, and make learning commensurate with teaching. You have chosen this by your own willingness to teach. Though you seemed to suffer for it, the joy of teaching will yet be yours. For the joy of teaching is in the learner, who offers it to the teacher in gratitude, and shares it with them. As you learn, your gratitude to your Self, Who teaches you what your Self is, will grow and help you honor your Self. And you will learn you Self’s power and strength and purity, and love your Self as your Creator does. Your Realm has no limits and no end, and there is nothing in your Self that is not perfect and eternal. All this is you, and nothing outside of this is you. T-16.III.7:1-8
Teaching and learning are the same – they are One. And there is great joy in the awareness of the limitless freedom this realization brings us. It begins in our willingness to allow ourselves to have faith in our teaching. Thus do we bridge the gap between separation and Oneness.
Sooner or later we all must bridge the gap we imagine exists between our two perceived selves. Each one of us builds this bridge, which carries us across the gap as soon as we are willing to expend some little effort on behalf of bridging this gap. Our little efforts are powerfully supplemented by the strength of Heaven, and by the united will of all who make Heaven what it is, being joined within Heaven. And so, the one who would cross over is literally transported there across the gap.
Your bridge is builded stronger than you think, and your foot is planted firmly on it. Have no fear that the attraction of those who stand on the other side and wait for you will not draw you safely across. For you will come where you would be, and where your Self awaits you. T-16.III.9:1-3
We do not yet see who we really are, so the reward of teaching does not yet make sense to our egoic thought system. Do not dwell on what doesn’t make sense, for it never will make sense. Instead, allow yourself to have faith that your Holy Self will teach you who you are and the learning of that truth will fill you with the joy of all you truly are in Oneness. Let this be the lesson you choose to learn this year and realize the reward of teaching.
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