June 19, 2018
As in the previous section, Section IV teaches us about our relationships and the importance of healing our relationships. The One we are in relationship with in this world right now is the one to whom we are to offer healing. The Course has taught us there is only one problem – belief in separation. It has also taught us there is only one solution – the end of separation in the awareness of Oneness. If we give our friend the power to hurt us, we have believed that power can be split – separated – that we can give something away and no longer have it. This is impossible in reality where everything is shared. The Course has taught us that giving and receiving are the same. Thus, everything real is shared. The body’s eyes do not see this, for they are designed to see separation. Whatever we seem to have seen in this world has another interpretation. Our own Higher Holy Spirit Self within us will show us the correct interpretation if we will allow ourselves to be open minded. The answer is already within us.
Sin has no place in Heaven, where its results are alien and can no more enter than can their source. And therein lies your need to see your friend sinless. In them is Heaven. See sin in them instead, and Heaven is lost to you. But see them as they are, and what is yours shines from them to you. Your savior gives you only love, but what you would receive of them is up to you. It lies in them to overlook all your mistakes, and therein lies their own salvation. And so it is with yours. Salvation is a lesson in giving, as the Holy Spirit interprets it. It is the reawakening of the laws of the One in minds that have established other laws, and given them power to enforce what the One created not. T-20.IV.2:1-10
Salvation is freedom. Our salvation is the release of our friend from the perception we have of them that limits them and thus likewise limits us. We are limited by the perception we hold true of our friend. The insane world we made up rooted in our mistaken belief in separation is the world we have given power over our freedom and relationships. We have believed this world is our “just reward” when it can’t really reach our true holy Self. This is nothing but madness! Is this what we would see within our savior from insanity? Our savior is as free from this as we are, and in the freedom that we see in them we see our own. For this freedom – salvation – we share.
Those who choose freedom will experience only its results. Their power is of the One, and they will give it only to what the One has given, to share with them. Nothing but this can touch them, for they see only this, sharing their power according to the Will of the One. And thus their freedom is established and maintained. It is upheld through all temptation to imprison and to be imprisoned. It is of them who learned of freedom that you should ask what freedom is. Ask not the sparrow how the eagle soars, for those with little wings have not accepted for themselves the power to share with you. T-20.IV.4:1-7
What will you accept for yourself? What will you accept for your friend? Your friend is your savior and you are your friend’s savior. It doesn’t matter what your friend does in this temporal world. Begin by recognizing the holy within them they may not see right now. Grant your friend freedom from all you have previously believed about them and reveal their holy Self in your mind. This is what begins the healing of your relationship. Take the first step, for that is a step toward Heaven that is within both of you. Thus, we enter peace hand in hand with our friend. Take this first step right now.
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