May 1, 2018
The Course has taught us that giving and receiving are the same. One cannot happen without the other and vice versa. What do we offer each other? Is what we offer truly helpful? In this world of separation there is only one helpful thing we can offer each other. That one thing is forgiveness and healing – though they may appear in many forms. There is no grace of Heaven we cannot offer to another and receive from our most holy Friend. Do not let them withhold it, for by receiving it we offer it to them. And they will receive of us what we receive of them. Healing has been given us to give each other, and thus receive it. Whomever we forgive is free, and what we give we share. Forgive whatever another thinks they have done, and all the guilt we think we see in them. What we offer and receive is freedom from separation – Oneness.
Free your friend here, as I freed you. Give them the selfsame gift, nor look upon them with condemnation of any kind. See them as guiltless as I look on you, and overlook the sins they think they see within themselves. Offer your friend freedom and complete release from error, here in the garden of seeming agony and death. So will we prepare together the way unto the resurrection of the One’s Child, and let them rise again to glad remembrance of their Source, Who knows no sin, no death, but only life eternal. T-19.IV.D.18:1-5
The blame and guilt we harbor against ourselves and each other are the obstacles to peace we must allow peace to flow over. They are the dark veil that hangs between us and peace. We placed these obstacles there by denying the holiness of ourselves and each other. We can flow together beyond the veil, the obstacles to peace, not to be lost, but to be found and to be known. This is the purpose of our journey. Our journey is meaningless without its purpose. Here is peace, given to us eternally by the One. Here is the rest and quiet that we seek, the reason for the journey from its beginning. Heaven is the gift we owe each other, the debt of gratitude we offer to the One Child of God in thanks for what they are, and what their Creator created them to be. Our mission, should we choose it, is to join together and flow across every seeming obstacle to peace into the awareness of our Oneness.
You came this far because the journey was your choice. And no one undertakes to do what they believe is meaningless. What you had faith in still is faithful, and watches over you in faith so gentle yet so strong that it would lift you far beyond the veil, and place the Child of the One safely within the sure protection of their Creator. Here is the only purpose that gives this world, and the long journey through this world, whatever meaning lies in them. Beyond this, they are meaningless. You and your friend stand together, still without conviction they have a purpose. Yet it is given you to see this purpose in your holy Friend, and recognize it as your own. T-19.IV.D.21:1-5
Though the obstacle to peace seem insurmountable and the veil appears heavy, dark and impenetrable, they have no real substance. They are merely illusion made by our denial of each other’s holiness and Oneness. We are truly One – being whole, complete, limitless and free. Nothing can change who we really are, yet our denial of each other’s true nature denies us the awareness of our own true nature. Forgiving our misperceptions, and those of each other, sets us on the road to healing and the awareness of who we really are – to Heaven and Eternity. Step into Love and Peace right now.
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