December 5, 2017
The section we are reading is called “The Two Worlds.” Yet, there is only one real world. We have made up the other world through our perception and the belief that we can be separate, that we can be out of Oneness. We can choose to let go of this other world and allow ourselves to reawaken to the real world. The only thing that keeps us unaware of the real world is our attachment to our own perception of the world we see. That perception is the block that keeps us unaware of the real world. It’s all a matter of perception. We have made a bargain with our own egoic thought system to not look beyond our limited beliefs and thinking. We think this protects us from harm. However, it merely serves to protect us from the love, peace and happiness that dwells within us. What do we really want? In which world do we really want to dwell? Which world have we prepared for?
This preparation is the work of the Course. It is not hard work unless we make it hard. We have everything within us we need to do this work efficiently and expeditiously once we choose to allow Spirit within us to guide our minds. We have assistants we have brought with us to help us along the way. They help us achieve every goal we set whether that goal is helpful or unhelpful. The people we encounter in any situation – the Course calls them our brothers and sisters – are there to help us learn who we are. They are there to help us remember our worthiness, our completeness, our wholeness, our limitlessness. They are there to show us love, peace, joy and happiness. When we don’t see these qualities and characteristics in them or ourselves, we are misperceiving the world and thus seeing a “little” world. The real world – one we need simply awaken to – still surrounds us as it always has and merely awaits our recognition. We know this world of love so well.
Love is not learned. Its meaning lies within itself. Love is not learned, because there never was a time in which you knew it not. T-18.IX.12:1-2, 5
Our relationships with each other – each one we encounter on our journey – are our learning and teaching opportunities. We can allow Spirit to show us healing through forgiveness in these relationships or we can reinforce separation instead. It’s our choice. What do we will for ourselves?
Your relationship with another has been uprooted from the world of shadows, and its unholy purpose has been safely brought through the barriers of guilt, washed with forgiveness, and set shining and firmly rooted in the world of light. From there it calls to you to follow the course it took, lifted high above the darkness and gently placed before the gates of Heaven. The holy instant in which you and another were united is but the messenger of love, sent from beyond forgiveness to remind you of all that lies beyond it. Yet it is through forgiveness that it will be remembered. T-18.IX.13:1-4
Be willing to let go of your attachment to the world you think you see. Look beyond its appearance, for appearances founded in separation are merely incorrect. They are illusions. Forgiveness is our willingness to see things differently, our willingness to allow Spirit within us to show us its holy meaning. It’s our choice to be willing. The rest will rise within us. Then will we begin to remember who and what we really are.
And when the memory of Oneness has come to you in the holy place of forgiveness you will remember nothing else, and memory will be as useless as learning, for your only purpose will be creating. Yet this you cannot know until every perception has been cleansed and purified, and finally removed forever. Forgiveness removes only the untrue, lifting the shadows from the world and carrying it, safe and sure within its gentleness, to the bright world of new and clean perception. There is your purpose now. And it is there that peace awaits you. T-18.IX.14:1-5
Step into the world of light and leave the world of darkness behind. Peace awaits us. We need not delay it any longer. Do this now because you really want it now. And so it is.
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