June 4, 2019
At some point we have made an incorrect decision. We have made a decision to see ourselves separate from each other and our Creator. It probably looked like some other decision, but whatever it was, its result was that we perceived and believed that we are separate and in competition with each other. This belief thus blocked our awareness of our true Self – our holiness and Oneness, our limitlessness and wholeness. What a thing to forget. What a thing to hide from ourselves. Our true nature, though permanent and incorruptible, cannot be seen as we believe something contrary about ourselves. The belief in specialness and the need to make ourselves special and different from those we journey with is the mistaken purpose we have adopted in this world.
Would it be possible for us to hate the one we travel with if we were like them? Could we attack them if we realized we journey with them, to a goal that is the same? Wouldn’t we help them reach it in every way we could, if their attainment of it were perceived as ours? We are their enemy in specialness; their friend in a shared purpose. Specialness can never share, for it depends on goals that we alone can reach. And they must never reach them, or our goal is jeopardized. 7 Can love have meaning when the goal is triumph?
The one you travel with is your friend because their Creator created them like you. There is no difference. You have been given to this one that love might be extended, not cut off from them. What you keep is lost to you. Your Creator gave you and this one Itself, and to remember this is now the only purpose that you share. And so it is the only one you have. Could you attack this one if you chose to see no specialness of any kind between you and them? Look fairly at whatever makes you give this one only partial welcome, or would let you think that you are better off apart. Is it not always your belief your specialness is limited by your relationship? And is not this the “enemy” that makes you and this one illusions to each other? T-24.I.7:1-10
Any fear we feel comes from our unrecognized belief in specialness. We have become so accustomed to this illusion that we don’t recognize we are perpetuating it. Specialness has become a habit. The Course asks us to begin a new habit – or to be willing to consider a new habit. It takes time to learn a new habit, but Spirit is within us offering its help if we will just accept it. The real purpose that we share with each other becomes obscured from both of us as we continue this old habit. We would oppose this course because it teaches us we are alike. We have no purpose that is not the same, and none our Creator does not share with us. Our relationship has been made without any special goals. Would you defeat the goal of holiness that Heaven gave us?
Will you not begin a new habit? What if your habit is to extend love rather than divide through specialness? When we begin to realize we are all One and the same in Oneness, we lose the need to attack, or make special, or to create conflict where one must win and another must lose. Set all this aside. We do not love each other while we attack each other. Here is the ground of battle where we wage conflict against each other. We will never find peace among those we see as different. This one we journey with is our friend because we are the same. The miracle is that as we extend love, we see each other as One and the same. Let Oneness begin.
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