July 11, 2017
What do you believe about your relationships? What do you value them for? How do you honor those who you have a relationship with? Do you see the real goal of your relationships clearly? There are a lot of ideas we have about our relationships. Do we see those ideas clearly and do they honor the purpose and goal of relationships? Maybe it’s time we really look at our relationships with the guidance of Spirit by looking deep into our thoughts and goals for our relationships.
We begin relationships for a wide variety of reasons. Some are expected of us, such as familial relationships; parents, siblings, etc. Others we begin for other reasons. We are looking for someone to make us feel wanted, loved, happy, valued, important, secure, safe and/or loved. All of these reasons are goals we project on our relationships. And when we don’t feel they provide us with all these reasons, we blame them for failing to fulfil our goals for these relationships. Have we stopped and really thought about what we really want from our relationships? The Course teaches us to set the goals or reasons for our relationships with the guidance of Spirit. Spirit and guidance are always found within us when we allow our minds to be quiet and listen for that guidance. Our relationships are the vehicles for learning the lessons we need to learn about who we really are and what our purpose is in this world of form.
Every situation in which we find ourselves – every situation is a relationship – is an opportunity for us to step into a healing of our mind. We have misinterpreted this world and everything in it as we reinforced our belief that we are separate. We really believe we are separate from, not only the One, but each other. We have lost sight of the fact that we are all One in Oneness and eternity because we believe the opposite. We cannot believe we are One and separate at the same time. We have brought everyone we have a relationship into our lives for a purpose. Not one of them is accidental. They will either support our belief that we are separate or support our belief in the Oneness of all creation. We have created every one of our relationships and situations in our lives and what we see as their purpose or goal. Where do we place our faith in each of our situations and relationships? Do we place our faith in truth or illusion?
Enter each situation with the faith you give another, or you are faithless to your own relationship. Your faith will call the others to share your purpose, as the same purpose called forth the faith in you. And you will see the means you once employed to lead you to illusions transformed to means for truth. Truth calls for faith, and faith makes room for truth. When the Holy Spirit changed the purpose of your relationship by exchanging yours for Spirit’s, the goal Spirit placed there was extended to every situation in which you enter, or will ever enter. And every situation was thus made free of the past, which would have made it purposeless. T-17.VII.9:1-6
Call for faith in the wholeness of every situation and relationship because of the One who walks with us always. We are no longer wholly insane, nor alone. Loneliness is impossible when we walk in Oneness. We whose relationship shares Spirit’s goal are set apart from loneliness because the truth has come. Its call for faith is strong and calls us to peace. Have faith that every situation and relationship we enter in is, at its core, divine. Set the purpose of every relationship to reflect its divine purpose. Let the truth of its divine peace and love shine from within your divine being as Spirit guides our minds in their healing. Have just a little faith that this is so and see where Spirit takes your mind. This allows the presence of Heaven to rise within you.
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