May 17, 2011
What image do we paint of ourselves? How do we perceive ourselves? Is there sacrifice, suffering, lack, or unfairly treated in those images of how we see ourselves? This is the self we are presenting to each other. And we present this image because we believe that this is who and what we are. This is the picture we hold up to the one who we encounter in this moment that we have chosen as our teacher for the moment. So when this one looks at this image we hold up, they naturally see themselves reflected in that image. Why? We are all one, and so what we see in another is what we see in ourselves. And so we project what we see in ourselves on another. And so we go round in circles, traveling far, but getting nowhere.
This image we portray is our own crucifixion, and so becomes our brother’s or sister’s crucifixion. Crucifixion is the act of sacrifice and suffering. We really want no part of it, but somehow we have convinced ourselves that we must give up something in order to have something. This something we think we want that we think we don’t have takes many forms. But they all have one thing in common; they aren’t real. They only appear real because we believe they are real. We have consented to this image and actually began believing it. We looked at another and believed the illusion that was held up for us to see instead of looking beyond the image to the Truth beyond it.
Here is the power of our belief and our conviction. The witness we present to others points beyond ourselves to what we represent. If we represent guilt and separation, that is what we will present to each other. But we have the choice to present a different image to each other. We have the choice to present a different witness that points beyond ourselves to the truth of what we represent and who we really are. The image of suffering and sacrifice crumbles in the light of the Truth shining beyond it. And we then see the face of Christ shining form another, reflecting the Christ within us that shines from beyond the mistaken image we have portrayed.
Look beyond the appearance of what we think we see. Let the representation of who we really are shine away the images of suffering and crucifixion we so readily believe. The beauty of our Oneness cannot be marred by the image of sacrifice and suffering. When we allow ourselves to see beyond the suffering to Truth, we rise ever so gently from the depths of this hell we have made in this illusion to the peace and joy of Heaven. Here we are home and there is no better time to transcend there than right now in this very moment.
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