March 9, 2021
Lesson 68 –
Love holds no grievances.
Why are we here in this world? To remember who we are and who all of us are. We are created whole. We are created complete. We are created with all we will ever need, abundant and free. And, we blocked our awareness of that knowledge by believing we are separate. We appear to have walled off this little bit of mind that we call “me” and identify as our past experiences experienced by our egoic thought system. We convinced ourselves we are separate from our Creator and each other. Now we seem to have all these grievances we carry around and on which we dwell incessantly. What have we done?
You who were created by love like itself can hold no grievances and know your Self. To hold a grievance is to forget who you are. To hold a grievance is to see yourself as a body. To hold a grievance is to let the ego rule your mind and to condemn the body to death. Perhaps you do not yet fully realize just what holding grievances does to your mind. It seems to split you off from your Source and make you unlike Them. It makes you believe that They are like what you think you have become, for no one can conceive of their Creator as unlike themself. W-pI.68.1:1-7
Our true and real Self knows who we are. Self has never lost its awareness of who we are.
Shut off from our Self, which remains aware of Its likeness to Its Creator, our Self seems to sleep, while the part of our mind that weaves illusions in its sleep appears to be awake. All this arises from holding grievances. One who holds grievances denies they were created by love. Our dream of hate has made us fearful of even love and fearful of all we are One with! Is it any wonder we feel split down the middle and conflicted?
It is as sure that those who hold grievances will redefine their Creator in their own image, as it is certain that the Creator created them like Itself, and defined them as part of Them. It is as sure that those who hold grievances will suffer guilt, as it is certain that those who forgive will find peace. It is as sure that those who hold grievances will forget who they are, as it is certain that those who forgive will remember. W-pI.68.3:1-3
Don’t you think you’d be willing to relinquish your grievances if you believed all this were so? Perhaps we do not think we can let our grievances go. That, however, is simply a matter of motivation. Maybe we can be willing to try to find out how we would feel without them. If we succeed even by ever so little, and taste just a bit of who we really are, we’ll never have a problem with motivation again. Just a taste will open our eyes to the love and peace of the real world.
As we go through the day, we can try to think of ourselves as completely at peace with everyone and everything, safe in a world that protects us and loves us. A world that we love in return. Try to feel safety surrounding us, hovering over us, and supporting us. Try to believe, however briefly, that nothing can harm us in any way. This way we begin to shift our perception of who we are and how we see the world. Each little try, each little step opens our mind to Oneness and the awareness of who we really are. Be patient. None of the grievances we hold have any substance. Let them go and love and peace will flood our hearts and minds as we remember who we really are in Oneness.
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