May 2, 2017
We are light. We are love. We are peace. We are whole, complete and free. This is our true essence. This encompass who we really are. But do we agree? Do we feel this in our bones? The Course tells us that we are the light of the world in lesson 61. Yet we deny this about ourselves because we have come to believe something completely opposite. We have these characteristics within us as this is who we are, yet we have denied them by trying to make an identity for ourselves that establishes us as a unique individual separate from all of creation; something that cannot be done successfully because it denies our very essence. We can deny our very essence as much as we want, but we cannot change it. It remains within us waiting to be recognized again as it inevitably will be. The Course tells us this:
The Holy Spirit wants only to make Its resolutions complete and perfect, and so It seeks and finds the source of problems where it is, and there undoes it. And with each step in Spirit’s undoing is the separation more and more undone, and union brought closer. Spirit is not at all confused by any “reasons” for separation. All Spirit perceives in separation is that it must be undone. Let Spirit uncover the hidden spark of beauty in your relationships, and show it to you. Its loveliness will so attract you that you will be unwilling ever to lose the sight of it again. And you will let this spark transform the relationship so you can see it more and more. For you will want it more and more, and become increasingly unwilling to let it be hidden from you. And you will learn to seek for and establish the conditions in which this beauty can be seen. T-17.III.6:3-11
Our relationships are the opportunities we have to offer healing to each other. Each one we encounter is a chance to let our light shine and see another in unity as we are one with them. When we offer another the willingness to see the holiness within them, we offer them the miracle of healing. The weekly thought from the Foundation for Inner Peace this week said, “The Holy Spirit is the mechanism of miracles. Holy Spirit recognizes both God’s creations and your illusions. Holy Spirit separates the true from the false by the Holy Spirit’s ability to perceive totally rather than selectively.” (T-1.I.38:1-3) The Holy Spirit can also be referred to as our Higher Spirit Self. It is the essence of who we really are that has never separated from Oneness and remembers who we really are even as our egoic thought system denies who we really are.
The spark within us is strong. Its light cannot be extinguished. Our light remains beckoning to us even as we hide it under a bushel basket. Our light remains lit for eternity, waiting patiently for us to open the lamp and let our light shine the way, not only for us, but for our sisters and brothers, too. This light is the light of the miracle we offer. This light is the light of healing that reveals the truth about who we really are to our minds that have believed we are separate. This light is the light that enters our relationships as we allow it to heal those relationships from “special” to holy. It reveals the Oneness we are and how inseparable we have been created. Only joining together in Oneness can bring us home to the awareness of our divine nature we all share in totality.
While the past is the justification for entering into a continuing, unholy alliance with the egoic thought system against the present, the present is forgiveness. The present is where all the misperceptions of the past are released. Forgiveness is the release of misperceptions. It is the changing of our minds about who we really are. The holiness of our creations is now clearly seen. What thought system do we choose to align our minds with? The egoic or Oneness? It is our choice, totally. And at any time, we may choose one or the other.
It is still up to you to choose to join with truth or with illusion. But remember that to choose one is to let the other go. Which one you choose you will endow with beauty and reality, because the choice depends on which you value more. The spark of beauty or the veil of ugliness, the real world or the world of guilt and fear, truth or illusion, freedom or slavery–it is all the same. For you can never choose except between Oneness and the ego. Thought systems are but true or false, and all their attributes come simply from what they are. Only the Thoughts of Oneness are true. And all that follows from them comes from what they are, and is as true as is the holy Source from which they came. T-17.III.9:1-8
We make this choice for ourselves. What do we really want in our relationships? Do we wat to live in the shadows of the past in an illusion that is an alternative to reality. Or do we want to accept the guidance of the higher Spirit Self within us that knows who we really are and leads us to the light that heals our relationships? Choose to be the light you are. Choose the love and peace you are. Step into the light of eternity and leave the shadows of the past behind.
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