October 2, 2018
I think there are many things about ourselves we are afraid of. We may be afraid of failure, success, getting hurt, getting what we want. No matter what we are afraid of, it often paralyzes us and forfeits any benefit we might gain just because we are afraid of something that may or may not happen. We often settle for that which is familiar just because it’s familiar. We are more content to stay with what we know rather than take any risks. What if there were no risks? What if what we really want is guaranteed? We’re also afraid of that, too.
The Course tells us we have everything we need within us. Yet, we refuse to accept this fact we have denied. We have convinced ourselves we are inadequate. We have convinced ourselves we are limited, lacking and even sinful. We are created in the image of the Holy One! The Course teaches this. The Course teaches us we are sinless and could never really sin as we are one with the Holy One. The Course teaches us that each and every one of us is One with the Holy One – no exceptions. The only mistake we ever made was to believe we are separate from each other and the Holy One. We believe that if we look within we will see something sinful, something awful and perhaps evil. Our faith that sin is there witnesses to our desire that it be there to see. This merely seems to be the source of fear. What if there is an even deeper fear?
What if you looked within and saw no sin? This “fearful” question is one the ego never asks. And you who ask it now are threatening the ego’s whole defensive system too seriously for it to bother to pretend it is your friend. Those who have joined their sisters and brothers have detached themselves from their belief that their identity lies in the ego. A holy relationship is one in which you join with what is part of you in truth. And your belief in sin has been already shaken, nor are you now entirely unwilling to look within and see it not. T-21.IV.3:1-6
Perhaps we have suffered enough to allow Spirit to take our hand as we turn to look within at what just might be there hidden beyond the egoic identity we thought we were.
To be willing – even just a little – to open our eyes and see what lies beyond in truth and reality allows Spirit – also within us – to guide us to a new understanding of who we are. We find that understanding as we allow Spirit to join in our relationships and heal them into holy relationships. We will see them healed in a holy instant even as we tend to look away again. But once we have seen the healing we will want to return again and again. Spirit will guide us there as we desire and allow. Realize that this holy Self has always been within us. This holy Self is who we really are in Oneness with each and every other One we encounter.
The Holy Self within us – awakened in our healed relationship – recognizes the sweetest song that echoes through the ages. The song of freedom, which sings the praises of another world, brings to it hope of peace. For it remembers and now sees that Heaven has come to earth. Heaven has come because it found a home in our relationship on earth. And earth can hold no longer what has been given Heaven as its own.
Look gently on each other, and remember the ego’s weakness is revealed in both your sight. What it would keep apart has met and joined, and looks upon the ego unafraid. Little child, innocent of sin, follow in gladness the way to certainty. Be not held back by fear’s insane insistence that sureness lies in doubt. This has no meaning. What matters it to you how loudly it is proclaimed? The senseless is not made meaningful by repetition and by clamor. The quiet way is open. Follow it happily, and question not what must be so. T-21.IV.8:1-9
Look within and allow yourself to see your strength, to see your limitlessness, to see your holiness in unity in all your relationships. We are the holy One in Oneness and nothing less. Be not afraid to look within and find there what you’ve been seeking.
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