March 6, 2018
The second obstacle that peace must flow across, and closely related to the first, is the belief that the body is valuable for what it offers. Here is the attraction of guilt made manifest in the body and seen in it. We tend to think that anything worthwhile requires sacrifice. Is it reasonable to think we must sacrifice happiness to attain peace? We have come to believe in this world that our identity is our body. We believe our identity is what our body does, how it speaks, how it looks. We may also think we have some soul identity, but it is secondary to our body and the history of our body’s life. This idea places our identity squarely in our past. We so strongly place our identity in this past experience of the body that we end up denying our present. Thus, we deny who we really are. We never found real happiness in this idea, so we identify with some sort of guilt for the failing we identify with. We feel we have sacrificed happiness for some sense of identity. Here is the source of the idea that love is fear. And so, we send out messengers of fear.
The Holy Spirit’s messengers are sent far beyond the body, calling the mind to join in holy communion and be at peace. Such is the message that I gave them for you. It is only the messengers of fear that see the body, for they look for what can suffer. Is it a sacrifice to be removed from what can suffer? The Holy Spirit does not demand you sacrifice the hope of the body’s pleasure; it has no hope of pleasure. But neither can it bring you fear of pain. Pain is the only “sacrifice” the Holy Spirit asks, and this Spirit would remove. T-19.IV.B.3:1-7
We may not realize it, but Spirit is working within us. Spirit knows us intimately. Spirit quietly dwells within our being and gently calls to us, waiting until we are ready to listen to the Holy within us. We’ve forgotten the Holy was there within us. We’ve been so busy seeking it outside ourselves that we missed the fact it has always been right here within us. Each of our relationships in this world reflect how aware we are of our true Holy Identity. Our Holy Identity has never left us. It has never been sullied. It is wholly intact.
Peace is extended from you only to the eternal, and it reaches out from the eternal in you. It flows across all else. The second obstacle is no more solid than the first. For you want neither to get rid of peace nor limit it. What are these obstacles that you would interpose between peace and its going forth but barriers you place between your will and its accomplishment? You want communion, not the feast of fear. You want salvation, not the pain of guilt. And you want your Source, not a little mound of clay, to be your home. In your holy relationship is your Source’s Creation. We have not lost communion with Source, nor with yourself. When you agreed to join another, you acknowledged this is so. This has no cost, but it has release from cost. T-19.IV.B.4:1-11
We have paid the price of our illusions with the sacrifice of the awareness of peace in our minds. Yet, it is a simple matter to reconnect with that peace. Simply releasing our attachment to the value we place on our body as our identity will bring an opening of our minds to the reality of our Holy Identity. Spirit gently holds it for us and our readiness to welcome it back into our minds. We cannot sacrifice Heaven at all. There is no obstacle we can place between ourselves and peace that our holy relationship cannot diminish to nothing. In the light of our Holiness, all that is fear and guilt must fade away. Nothing can dim or extinguish the light we are. Look to one-another in your holy relationship and see all separation vanish. We truly are One in eternity and there is no real reason not to step into that awareness in this moment. Delay no longer, for the time is now.
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