June 4, 2013
The Course tells us that God has given us everything. There are no conditions. This is an absolute truth. This knowledge is present in our sane mind, the mind in constant communication with the Mind of God. This sane mind is our true mind. But we have chosen to separate our awareness from this sane mind where we have and are all and walk in the Realm of Heaven. This is our choice. God created us with free will and we can choose to use our creative gifts to make this separate mind we think is who we are. When we perceive with this separate mind – the ego – we block our perception from the Light and Presence of the Divine within us, for that true identity is always in our sane mind – our right mind.
God gave us this free will to create. It is our choice whether we Co-create with God, in partnership with God, from our right mind or make from our separate mind on our own. The Holy Spirit respects our choices and will never interfere unless asked to do so. But we have to really mean it when we ask. Any reservation, any part of our mind held back, will prevent the fullness of what we already have from blossoming. We’ve built this wall in our mind that we believe is impenetrable. We have effectively blocked the Light of Love from our awareness with this wall. Spirit sees through it. Our right mind sees through it. But we have believed so strongly in this separate identity we cannot see back through it to who we really are. It’s like a one way mirror. Our real right sane mind can see clearly exactly what we are doing and how we are thinking while our separate identity – our mistaken separated mind – looks and sees itself and what it made reflected back, confirming that what it made is indeed real. From this state of mind we experience all the conflicts, lacks, and fears of the world of illusion – the world we have perceived without the guidance of Spirit.
This isn’t the existence God wills for us. This isn’t the existence we will for ourselves. The separate existence we made up with our split mind can’t really harm us. We are really One with God and unchangeable. But can surely feel painful. Spirit knows we can’t harm who we really are. But it also knows it cannot fight with us or go against our will. That would violate God’s creation. So Spirit waits with our sane right mind for an opening in our perception, a willingness to reawaken to the awareness of who we really are. How bad does the world we made up have to seem before we are ready to see differently? Lesson 153 says, “In my defenselessness my safety lies.” (Sunday’s lesson) There is no need to defend any perception we have made up. Nothing real can be threatened for nothing unreal exists at all. This is the comfort that surrounds and enfolds us. The Light and Love of the Realm of Heaven are invincible and infinite. Let all that is already you well up and shine from your radiant eyes illuminating the way for all your brothers and sisters. It only takes this moment to shift your mind and your world. You will realize you won’t be doing it alone. Let it be so.
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