May 23, 2017
We continue to discuss the two pictures. What are they and what do they represent? There are two pictures, very different, that represent two very different ways of thinking. They are also a result of our free will. We are free to choose whichever picture we want and live with the consequences of that decision. Yet, because we have free will, we are always free to choose again. Whenever our choice doesn’t serve us well, we can revisit the decision and choose again. It is a choice between darkness and light, evil and good, nothingness and substance, unrealness and reality. One picture will show us darkness or even nothingness made attractive by an attractive frame that disguises the darkness or nothingness, thus making it attractive to us. The other picture shows us reality in all its peace, love and light in a frame that is designed to let the beauty of the reality of the picture shine through. Take a moment and really look at the pictures we are choosing between. The choice should be obvious, but that depends on how clearly we are thinking.
The other picture is lightly framed, for time cannot contain eternity. There is no distraction here. The picture of Heaven and eternity grows more convincing as you look at it. And now, by real comparison, a transformation of both pictures can at last occur. And each is given its rightful place when both are seen in relation to each other. The dark picture, brought to light, is not perceived as fearful, but the fact that it is just a picture is as what it is; a picture of what you thought was real, and nothing more. For beyond this picture you brought home at last. And what you see there you will recognize will see nothing. T-17.IV.14:1-7
The first picture – the one with the fancy frame – will give us separation. The picture with the light frame will show us Heaven and eternity. Which one would you choose? Even when we choose the one we don’t really want, we can choose again. And choose again and again until we choose the one we really want. You see, there is no other choice but the right one. Even the choice we don’t want is an illusion, made from the mistaken idea that we could possibly be less than the divine One we are in Oneness with all Creation. The choice for Heaven and Oneness will always be there until we choose it. Then we will realize that was the only real choice after all. It is the choice between what is and what isn’t.
The picture of light, in clear-cut and unmistakable contrast, is transformed into what lies beyond the picture. As you look on this, you realize that it is not a picture, but a reality. This is no figured representation of a thought system, but the Thought itself. What it represents is there. The frame fades gently and the One rises to your remembrance, offering you the whole of creation in exchange for your little picture, wholly without value and entirely deprived of meaning. T-17.IV.15:1-5
Let the light you see shine brightly and join with the light within you, for they are the same light. Your mind will clear. Your sight will begin to focus with a sharpness you haven’t seen for some time. You will hear the song of Heaven again and recognize the ancient song had been playing in your mind all along.
We ascend in peace to our rightful place and experience again the meaning of relationship and know it to be true. This light shines in every one of us, as in the whole. The whole reality of our relationship with the One lies in our relationship to one another. The holy instant shines alike on all relationships, for in it they are one. For here is only healing, already complete and perfect as we are and always have been. Look at the two pictures and let be the one you really are. You will recognize the real you there.
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