February 5, 2019
We are called to examine the basis of our relationships. Not just the relationships we like and are comfortable in, but we must examine the relationships that we see as problematic or challenging. Yes, we can get the pleasant relationships wrong, but the challenging relationships are calling us to really look at them and see them beyond the form they seem to take. Our relationships with everyone are holy in their true nature when we see them clearly by looking beyond their form to the truth that lies beyond their form. We are all One, joined, unified in our real nature. We are pure love and peace in our real nature. When we seem to see anything less in our relationships, we have chosen to separate ourselves from truth and the true nature of each other and even our Self. We have chosen to project the misperceptions we believe about ourselves onto another rather than admitting we believe those same misperceptions about ourselves.
It is time to offer healing from those misperceptions to each other and thus to ourselves. Healing is letting go of those misperceptions. Healing is looking beyond the appearance of each other’s perceived wrongdoing to the wholeness they really are. Healing is being willing to see clearly with our holy vision rather than the appearance we see with the body’s eyes. The Course teaches us that we can see differently. It teaches us we can see peace instead of this – whatever form this tales. Reason, remaining within us and held holy by Spirit within us, guides us to the holy vision we need to look beyond the appearance – form – of anything and see the true nature of all that is real beyond. All we need is a little willingness to begin this shift in our perception. It is simply a return to the awareness of our true nature that we have blocked from our awareness. Let go of the misplaced judgment and let forgiveness change your mind.
Let not the form of another’s mistakes keep you from them whose holiness is yours. Let not the vision of their holiness, the sight of which would show you your forgiveness, be kept from you by what the body’s eyes can see. Let your awareness of your friend not be blocked by your perception of their sins and of their body. What is there in them that you would attack except what you associate with their body, which you believe can sin? Beyond their errors is their holiness and your salvation. You gave them not their holiness, but tried to see your sins in them to save yourself. And yet, their holiness is your forgiveness. Can you be saved by making sinful the one whose holiness is your salvation? T-22.III.8:1-8
Do not look on the form of anything and believe that its form is real. Use your Vision and look beyond the form of everything to the truth and reality that lies there waiting for your acceptance. Truth will never fail you. Reality will never deceive you. Truth and reality will always speak with gentleness, with love and with peace and joy. It will always contain a deep resonance that cannot be thwarted. It will always ring with the peals of truth and glow with the radiance of the Great Rays of light within all of us. Do not deny yourself of the truth of who you and your friend are any longer. Open your eyes to the truth of your divine nature and suffer no longer.
Remember; your holy relationship – no matter how newly born – must value holiness above all else. Yet reason sees each holy relationship as what it is; a common state of mind, where both give errors gladly to correction, that both may happily be healed as one. Let your relationships be transformed to their natural state of holiness and step into the awareness of Oneness. We are now all home.
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