January 2, 2018
Faith is joining, and faithlessness is separation. Our belief that we are separate is a symptom of our faithlessness. As we journey in this world of separation, we are asked to have faith that we are really all joined – that we are all One in Oneness. There are no exclusions. Our relationships are where we put this faith into practice. The idea in which we need to have faith is the idea that we are whole, complete and free as we are created and that we are sinless. Every encounter and experience in this world is an opportunity to put this faith into practice. We have faith to look beyond the appearance of anyone and anything and see the reality of wholeness there. We have the faith to recognize the One Holy Child of God in each One. This takes practice. This takes faith.
I think faith is about recognizing and honoring the holy and divine within ourselves and each one of us as we journey back to the awareness of who we really are. When we choose to live the principles of A Course In Miracles, we choose to believe that the divine essence of each one of us is what we have faith is true. We choose to be guided by the Spirit within us – our Higher Holy Spirit Self. This guidance sorts out the confusing and competing thoughts in our mind and helps us see with new eyes the world around us. When we allow ourselves to see anew, the world is transformed in our mind and we see the reality of truth where we previously saw pain, hurt and suffering. Our hearts and minds are now beginning to see peace, joy and love rather than the misery we saw before. Then, we are clearer about what we are to do and say in this world to be truly helpful in healing the world.
Faith is as easily exchanged for knowledge as is the real world. For faith arises from the Holy Spirit’s perception, and is the sign you share it with Spirit. Faith is a gift you offer to the One Child of God through Spirit, and wholly acceptable to the Creator as to Spirit. And therefore, offered you. Your holy relationship, with its new purpose, offers you faith to give unto another. Your faithlessness has driven you and them apart, and so you do not recognize salvation in them. Yet faith unites you in the holiness you see, not through the body’s eyes, but in the sight of the One Who joined you, and in Whom you are united. T-19. I.12:1-7
The holy instant is where we come together in a transformed perception, recognizing what is right now, and seeing anew what has always been One, but appeared separate. The misperceptions of the temporal world fade as we gaze with new eyes through new perception and begin to see the Oneness of which we all are. Can we live the Course and set aside our attachment to pain and suffering? Can we allow ourselves to follow Spirit’s guidance within and rise in the holy instant to the awareness that we are all whole and joined in Oneness – that we can only see our completeness when we include all Creation in our joining? In the holy instant we exchange our faithlessness for faith and begin to relate with each other in a new way. Look again at where your dedication lies and if it is eternal.
Let, then, your dedication be to the eternal, and learn how not to interfere with it and make it slave to time. For what you think you do to the eternal you do to you. Whom the One created as the One Child is slave to nothing, being sovereign of all, along with their Creator. You can enslave a body, but an idea is free, incapable of being kept in prison or limited in any way except by the mind that thought it. For it remains joined to its source, which is its jailer or its liberator, according to which it chooses as its purpose for itself. T-19. I.16:7-5
Look within, then, to how you see another. This one could be your life partner, your friend, your boss, your coworker or someone you encounter on the street. Would you describe your relationship as having faith or faithlessness? Allow Spirit to awaken faith in your mind towards this one. Allow yourself to have faith that this one is One with you, is whole and complete as you are and that you share all there is in this eternity we find as we join in Oneness. This transformation is the return to the awareness of who you really are and who we all really are. Have faith that we are all One and we will remember we are all One in Oneness.
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