July 30, 2019
In this moment there is another we encounter for a little while or for some time. How do we choose to see this one? Do we see them as their mistakes and shortcomings, or do we see their holiness? Whichever we choose we will see and believe is true. Yet, we must ask ourselves whether or not we are seeing the Christ in them or denying the Christ in them. It is a matter of whether or not we are willing to see with holy Vision or deny holy Vision. Spirit is waiting patiently within us to guide our vision to see clearly. When we ask, Spirit will gladly and gently guide our vision looking beyond the appearance of another in this world to their holiness beyond that which we think we see. By glimpsing the truth in another, we then glimpse the truth in ourselves. Our holiness is revealed in us as another’s holiness is revealed in them to us.
Another’s holiness is sacrament and benediction unto you. Their errors cannot withhold God’s blessing from themselves, nor you who see them truly. Their mistakes can cause delay, which it is given you to take from them, that both may end a journey that has never begun, and needs no end. What never was is not a part of you. Yet you will think it is, until you realize that it is not a part of them who stands beside you. They are the mirror of yourself, wherein you see the judgment you have laid on both of you. The Christ in you beholds their holiness. Your specialness looks on their body and beholds them not. T-24.VI.8:1-8
See another as what they are, that your deliverance may not be long. A senseless wandering, without a purpose and without accomplishment of any kind, is all the other choice can offer you. Futility of function not fulfilled will haunt you while another lies asleep, till what has been assigned to you is done and they are risen from the past. They who condemned themselves, and you as well, are given you to save from condemnation, along with you. And both shall see God’s glory in God’s Child, whom you mistook as flesh, and bound to laws that have no power over them at all. T-24.VI.9:1-5
The Course asks us to merely pursue another goal with far less vigilance; with little effort and with little time. The power of God maintains this holy goal and promises success. Of the two goals, it is this holy one you find more difficult. We seem to understand “sacrifice” of self, yet we do not consider the cost too heavy for the little we get. However, a tiny willingness, a nod to God, a greeting to the Christ in you, you find the burden of the unholy goal wearisome and tedious, too heavy to be borne. No sacrifice is asked in the dedication to the truth as God established it, no strain is called forth, and all the power of Heaven and the might of truth itself is given to provide the means, and guarantee the holy goal’s accomplishment.
Which goal will you pursue? Will you continue to believe in your own “specialness” and judge another as less? Choose again! Choose to see another’s holiness as revealed to you by Spirit within you. Let Spirit reveal the truth about another through your holy Vision and hear the song of truth from another’s holy Voice through your holy Ears. When you allow this communication, you sweep you both into the awareness of Heaven on earth and the awareness of the holiness you both are. Celebrate the peace and joy of this awakening, for it is who you both really are in Oneness.
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