March 7, 2017
In all things, do not mistake form for reality. Do not mistake the temporal for the eternal. In an effort to establish a “separate” identity, we have denied the truth about who we really are. We adopt a separate identity when we choose to enter this physical world of form. We identify as this body and the past experiences this body has had in this world. Perhaps we even carry past life identity into this identity we have made for the journey in this dimension. The relationships we enter into on this journey are learning experiences in this dimension. It is our choice whether to use them to learn and support a separate identity or an identity that joins us in union with each other in Oneness. When our relationships support separate identities, we support separation and non-completion. But when our relationships embody joining and union, we support Oneness and completion. We are already and have always been complete. We have merely lost sight of the reality of our Oneness and our completeness.
The relationships we make “special” involve some sort of dysfunction in how we perceive them and what we expect from them. The dysfunction is of our own making through our unreasonable expectations. I may expect another to make me happy. Yet, they cannot make me happy, no matter how hard they try, for my happiness can be found only within me. In the same way, I may expect another to “complete” me. In the same way, they cannot complete me for I am already complete and that completion may be found only within me when I recognize that I am One with all others in that completion. Recognizing Oneness just as we are in completion is the healing of our “special” relationships into holy relationships. This shift in thought is forgiveness, healing, and the miracle we offer each other in this world of form. Our spiritual purpose in this world is to allow our thoughts to heal and shift to support the realty of our divine nature within. Our purpose is to allow the divine light within us to shine from within to illuminate the world of form we are journeying in. The Course tells us we are the light of the world. This light has the power to heal if we will recognize it and let it shine.
Whenever any form of special relationship tempts you to seek for love in ritual, remember love is content, and not form of any kind. The special relationship is a ritual of form, aimed at raising the form to take the place of the One at the expense of content. There is no meaning in the form, and there will never be. The special relationship must be recognized for what it is; a senseless ritual in which strength is extracted from the death of the One, and invested in the One’s killer as the sign that form has triumphed over content, and love has lost its meaning. Would you want this to be possible, even apart from its evident impossibility? If it were possible, you would have made yourself helpless. The One is not angry. The One merely could not let this happen. You cannot change the One’s Mind. No rituals that you have set up in which the dance of death delights you can bring death to the eternal. Nor can your chosen substitute for the Wholeness of the One have any influence at all upon it. T-16.V.12:1-11
Love is our true essence and it is eternal. Love is life. Because life is eternal, there is no beginning or end to life. Beginnings and endings only occur in the idea of separation. Death is merely the end of our belief in separation, the end of our function on our journey in this world of form. It is possible to walk with our Mind in Oneness and eternity and our body in this temporal world as we are truly helpful to each other. This is our function as miracle workers.
See in the special relationship nothing more than a meaningless attempt to raise other gods before the One, and by worshipping them to obscure their tininess and the One’s greatness. In the name of your completion you do not want this. For every idol that you raise to place before the One stands before you, in place of what you are. T-16.V.13:1-3
Recognize the light and love within you that is your completion. Choose completion over whatever else you have chosen in your allegiance to separation. Let the light of Love and Completeness shine from within your divine nature and heal your special relationships making them holy as we dwell in Heaven on earth. Choose the awareness of your completeness. Choose to be who you really are. Doing so changes the world you see.
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