February 27, 2018
Is it really possible that we are afraid of love? We are the ones who place the obstacles to peace in our own way. It makes no sense whatsoever, but we do it anyway. Perhaps we are afraid of the power of real peace and love. Perhaps we are afraid of happiness. Perhaps we have become so accustomed to the misery in our lives that we are afraid of anything different. What if there were nothing to blame anyone or anything for? Perhaps it’s just too impossible to imagine a reality where we are complete, whole and filled with love and peace. The perfect world we seek is already within each one of us waiting for us to allow it to rise in our consciousness.
What messages do we send out consciously or unconsciously? Who and what are the messengers we project in this temporal world we seem to see around us?
Love’s messengers are gently sent and return with messages of love and gentleness. The messengers of fear are harshly ordered to seek out guilt and cherish every scrap of evil and of sin that they can find, losing none of them on pain of death, and laying them respectfully before their lord and master. Perception cannot obey two masters, each asking for messages of different things in different languages. What fear would feed upon, love overlooks. What fear demands, love cannot even see. The fierce attraction that guilt holds for fear is wholly absent from love’s gentle perception. What love would look upon is meaningless to fear, and quite invisible. T-19.IV.A.11:1-7
We have a choice. We can choose what we want to attract in our consciousness by sending out that message. The Course tells us that what we believe we will see. What we send out we will receive back. One of the principles of the Course states that giving and receiving are the same. When we give peace, we will receive peace. Similarly, when we believe we are peace, we see peace. What we put out there we will get back. The light within us is all powerful. When we choose to let it shine, all darkness vanishes in light’s presence. The obstacles we made to block peace are merely insubstantial shadows waiting for the light to shine them away.
Our relationships in this world reflect how we see this world. Our view of the world is determined by what we believe about it. It is totally about our perception of the world. The real world is beyond the world we think we see. The real world is perfect, whole, peaceful and filled with love. Look beyond the appearance of the world you see to the real world. It is there, within each of us, waiting to be recognized, so it can rise in our awareness whenever we choose to allow it to manifest. Look to your relationships with one another to begin the healing journey. We have a reservation at the banquet.
Love, too, would set a feast before you, on a table covered with a spotless cloth, set in a quiet garden where no sound but singing and a softly joyous whispering is ever heard. This is a feast that honors your holy relationship, and at which everyone is welcomed as an honored guest. And in a holy instant grace is said by everyone together, as they join in gentleness before the table of communion. And I will join you there, as long ago I promised and promise still. For in your new relationship am I made welcome. And where I am made welcome, there I am. T-19.IV.A.16:1-6
The banquet is set. It has always been set. Spirit invites us to sit with infinite gentleness. There is no need to hurry, for the invitation is in the present now of eternity, yet we still delay. As Spirit extends the invitation to us, extend the invitation to another in your holy relationship. Watch as the obstacles to peace vanish in the light of your invitation and peace fills your relationship and the world around you. You – we are home at last.
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