March 28, 2017
The section of the Course we are reading addresses special relationships and how our use of them deny us the awareness of our Divine nature and the Oneness we are. Our use of and attachment to special relationships keeps us focused on all our past hurts and resentments and denies us the peace and love of the present moment. This is not to say we should avoid relationships altogether. The relationships we encounter on our journey are purposeful to us as a learning experience in letting go of our attachment to our past and allowing our relationships to be healed through forgiveness and thus be made holy. We might actually welcome relationships into our journey as a learning experience. Perhaps some of the relationships we enter are too abusive to safely continue in, but Spirit will guide us in these decisions if we will allow our minds to open to Its guidance.
Look within for Spirit’s guidance in each relationship. Are we willing to let go of the past hurts and brokenness we have burdened them with? Out attachment to our past, that we bring forward to the present, is what makes our relationships “special” through all the conditions we place on the other in those relationships to atone for our past mistakes. The other in our relationships need do nothing to heal our relationships. It is our mind, our egoic thought system, that needs to release its need to control and blame the other. We may, at any time we choose, release our egoic control on our mind and allow ourselves to enter the holy instant with Spirit. We cannot underestimate the intensity of the egoic thought system’s obsession with every aspect of our past that troubles us. Its obsession keeps us distracted from the awareness of our Oneness quite successfully through the denial of our divine essence. However, at any moment we can choose to release our fixation on our past and, instead, ask ourselves what we can learn in this relationship.
The past is gone; seek not to preserve it in the special relationship that binds you to it, and would teach you salvation is past and so you must return to the past to find salvation. There is no fantasy that does not contain the dream of retribution for the past. Would you act out the dream, or let it go? T-16.VII.4:1-3
The lessons in each relationship we encounter have great value for us if we will allow Spirit to enter our mind’s thought system. As Spirit enters our thoughts about any given relationship, we will find the holy instant there and the wisdom we seek in healing. Once we allow healing into a relationship, that relationship may continue or it may dissolve as its lesson is finished. In all this, our inner Higher Holy Spirit Self will guide us if we will remain aligned with It. In this state of awareness, we will reconnect with our peace of mind, our completeness and our wholeness.
Against the ego’s insane notion of salvation, the Holy Spirit gently lays the holy instant. We said before that the Holy Spirit must teach through comparisons, and uses opposites to point to truth. The holy instant is the opposite of the ego’s fixed belief in salvation through vengeance for the past. In the holy instant, it is understood that the past is gone, and with its passing the drive for vengeance has been uprooted and has disappeared. The stillness and the peace of now enfold you in perfect gentleness. Everything is gone except the truth. T-16.VII.6:1-6
Enter the stillness of the Divine within you. Here is your holiness. Here is your completion. Here is your peace of mind and the abundance of love. Let go of all the thoughts that limit your awareness of who you really are as you learn the lessons perfect for you in the healing of your “special” relationships. Each relationship has a holy purpose. Allow yourself to see each one’s lesson as you enter the holy instant and the awareness of Paradise now.
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