December 12, 2017
I think I can say without argument that all of us want peace. We may not always act that way, but peace is what we really want. And when we reach peace, we have so much more, more than we could ever imagine. Peace is attainable. Its attainability is within each of us as we release our perceived need for and belief in separation. We do not need to expend great effort to attain peace. But, we do need to be willing to change the way we look at ourselves and others and the world around us. Furthermore, peace is the result of our dedication to truth. And, faith is our dedication to truth as we journey to the awareness of who we are.
We said before that when a situation has been dedicated wholly to truth, peace is inevitable. Its attainment is the criterion by which the wholeness of the dedication can be safely assumed. Yet we also said that peace without faith will never be attained, for what is dedicated to truth as its only goal is brought to truth by faith. This faith encompasses everyone involved, for only thus the situation is perceived as meaningful and as a whole. And everyone must be involved in it, or else your faith is limited and your dedication incomplete. T-19.I.1:1-5
Every situation, every encounter, is an opportunity to heal ourselves and each other. Remember, we are not healed alone. We are healed together. One is healed because we offered faith to them, giving them to Spirit and releasing them from every demand our egoic thought system would make of them. Thus, do we see them free. Spirit shares wholly in this vision, and in sharing that vision Spirit has given that vision to us, and so heals through us. It is this joining in a united purpose that makes this purpose real, because we make it whole. Do not think that healing is for the body, for the body is part of the illusion of separation. A segment of the mind can see itself as separated from the Universal Purpose. When this occurs, the body becomes its weapon, used against this Purpose, to demonstrate that separation has occurred. The body thus becomes the instrument of illusion; seeing what is not there, hearing what truth has never said and behaving insanely, being imprisoned by insanity.
The faith we need is the faith that we are all One, that we are One with each other and, thus there is no separation. Faithlessness leads straight to illusions, for faithlessness is the perception of another as a body, and the body cannot be used for purposes of union. If, then, we see another as a body, we have established a condition in which uniting with them becomes impossible. Our faithlessness to them has separated us from them, and kept both of us apart from being healed. Our faithlessness has thus opposed Spirit’s purpose, and brought illusions, centered on the body, to stand between us.
It cannot be difficult to realize that faith must be the opposite of faithlessness. Yet the difference in how they operate is less apparent, though it follows directly from the fundamental difference in what they are. Faithlessness would always limit and attack; faith would remove all limitations and make whole. Faithlessness would destroy and separate; faith would unite and heal. Faithlessness would interpose illusions between our true Self and our Creator; faith would remove all obstacles that seem to rise between them. Faithlessness is wholly dedicated to illusions; faith wholly to truth. Partial dedication is impossible. Truth is the absence of illusion; illusion the absence of truth. Both cannot be together, nor perceived in the same place. To dedicate yourself to both is to set up a goal forever impossible to attain, for part of it is sought through the body, thought of as a means for seeking out reality through attack. The other part would heal, and therefore calls upon the mind and not the body. T-19.I.5:1-11
Have faith in the idea that we are One – that we are unified in Oneness. The willingness to have faith in Oneness is the starting place for Spirit to work in our minds, showing us a new perception of ourselves, others and the world. This opens us to a new perception of healing and the Universal Purpose we have blocked from our awareness. Be open to new perceptions of what we think we see. With faith in Oneness, look beyond the appearance of everything and allow Spirit to show you a new meaning as you are led to truth and the attainment of peace.
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