May 16, 2017
Last week I wrote about the glittery bejeweled frame that distracted us from the picture within the frame. This section goes on to describe the picture as that of death and destruction, a different concept than the concept I mentioned last week. Our egoic thought system wants to keep us distracted from the awareness of the misery of separation from the awareness of our divine nature in Oneness – who we really are. Our egoic thought system encourages us to look at the trappings of the frame and value the frame’s beauty while it distracts us from the unhappiness and loneness of our separated life depicted in the picture. Look beyond the glitzy frame to the picture of how we perceive ourselves within it and recognize the misery depicted there. We have chosen to align our thought system with this misery and value the frame that holds it rather than seeing it for what it is.
That is why the holy instant is so important in the defense of truth. The truth itself needs no defense, but you do need defense against your acceptance of the gift of death. When you who are truth accept an idea so dangerous to truth, you threaten truth with destruction. And your defense must now be undertaken, to keep truth whole. The power of Heaven, the Love of God, the tears of Christ, and the joy of this eternal Spirit are marshalled to defend you from your own attack. For you attack Them, being part of Them, and They must save you, for They love Themselves. T-17.IV.10:1-6
There is another picture. This picture depicts the truth about who we are. It depicts the Holy Child of the One – Us as we ae created. It glows with love and peace. It radiates happiness. It depicts us as we are, whole, complete and divine. It depicts the reality of who we are and always have been. All there is to value is depicted in the picture so beautifully that no frame is even needed. On its own it is all. On its own it is complete and whole. There is no need for a frame to make it attractive and distract us from the picture itself. This becomes apparent when we allow ourselves to be guided by Spirit to the holy instant. That instant when we let go of our attachment to our perception of the past and allow our divine nature to well up within us and emerge as the light we truly are.
The holy instant is a miniature of Heaven, sent you from Heaven. It is a picture, too, set in a frame. Yet if you accept this gift you will not see the frame at all, because the gift can only be accepted through your willingness to focus all your attention on the picture. The holy instant is a miniature of eternity. It is a picture of timelessness, set in a frame of time. If you focus on the picture, you will realize that it was only the frame that made you think it was a picture. Without the frame, the picture is seen as what it represents. For as the whole thought system of the ego lies in its gifts, so the whole of Heaven lies in this instant, borrowed from eternity and set in time for you. T-17.IV.11:1-8
We are offered these two pictures. One is a depiction of ourselves as perceived by our egoic thought system – an incomplete lonely and unhappy person hidden within an expensive glitzy frame. The other is a depiction of ourselves as perceived by our higher Holy Spirit Self – a whole, complete, divine person shining with the love and peace of our divine nature. Which picture will we choose to identify with? In which picture will we choose to recognize our true Self? Only one picture depicts who we really are. Be the divine One you are.
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