March 14, 2017
This next section of the Course continues to teach about the healing of our “special” relationships. In our effort to find love in our relationships we make “special”, we actually deny love for ourselves. This seems upside down or even insane and the Course would agree. We get all tied up in our search for love when the love we seek is already within us waiting to be recognized. Rather than seeking love in joining, we seek love in separation. We are created One with all creation. We are One with each other – no exceptions. And we are One with our creator. Nothing can change that for that is who and what we are. We are One – whole complete, limitless and eternal. However, we have chosen to believe that we have a separate individual identity that is uniquely ours that begins at birth and perhaps ends at death. How is that eternal? The Course tells us this about Love:
Love is freedom. To look for it by placing yourself in bondage is to separate yourself from it. For the Love of God, no longer seek for union in separation, nor for freedom in bondage! As you release, so will you be released. Forget this not, or Love will be unable to find you and comfort you. T-16.VI.2:1-5
Do we really seek freedom in our relationships? Do we give freedom in our relationships? I think, if we are truly honest with ourselves, we want our own freedom but are unwilling to grant the same freedom to others we are in relationship with. Perhaps it would be helpful to look at this a bit differently. What is real – eternal – in our relationships? When we enter a romantic relationship, we have certain expectations of our partner. Ideally those expectations are loving, mutual and reasonable. We have decided to journey together in this world as we learn to recognize and live the truth about who we really are – our One Divine Self. We are learning to recognize the Love – freedom – we really are and see it in all those we encounter in this world. We are learning to recognize we are all One. We are learning to recognize the eternal and the temporary in our relationships. We are learning what has true value and let go of the rest. There is no need to call out our faults and mistakes. Our direction is to turn toward what we recognize as true and eternal and release the rest. Aligning our minds with reality and eternity puts us in alignment with love and freedom – who we really are. We then can easily release any idea that is not in this alignment.
As we journey in this temporal world learning to see ourselves for who we truly are, Spirit offers us many opportunities to experience the Divine essence of who we are. Spirit provides us with the holy instant where all that is not real drops away and we experience a moment of true peace and love. In that instant our “special” relationships are healed – made holy – just so we can experience reality and eternity. Any importance of the temporary fades for this instant and we experience only what has true value. This is Spirit’s most helpful aid in protecting us from our attraction to what has no value in our relationships. The holy instant helps us recognize what does and doesn’t have value in our relationships. If we are open to Spirit’s guidance we will make the choices that lead us to the awareness of our Divine nature and who we really are. This is the choice for completion – the choice for freedom and Love.
The Great Rays evident in the holy instant will guide us in the discernment of what has eternal value. In the light of the Great Rays what has no value in eternity disappears. And what does have eternal value glows vibrantly with the light of the Great Rays leaving no doubt that Love and freedom are real within us. Let the Great Rays guide you to the bridge to the real world even as we remain in this temporal world to be truly helpful.
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