February 8, 2011
God, Truth, Reality, Creation, Oneness are all simple. They are all the same, they are One, and there is nothing other than One. There is no complexity in what Is, for there is nothing other than what Is. But we have thought our way to complexity. We have created a world based on our thoughts about every experience we have ever had. It is a world full of choices, many of which seem unclear to us. We go through our lives trying to make the choices we think we see, and to make the right choices for us. The biggest problem we have about making these choices is not the complexity or the rationale of the choices, but the way we make those choices. We try to make those choices ourselves, with only the thoughts we have made up about our experiences in this world.
But there is another way to approach these choices. There is another way to make these decisions, and it’s easier than we might think. The Course tells us: “There is a borderland of thought that stands between this world and Heaven. It is not a place, and when you reach it is apart from time. Here is the meeting place where thoughts are brought together; where conflicting values meet and all illusions are laid down beside the truth, where they are judged to be untrue. This borderland is just beyond the gate of Heaven. Here is every thought made pure and wholly simple. Here is sin denied, and everything that is received instead.”
The “place” we make the choice is in our mind. And the choice we must make is not the choice we think is facing us, but the choice of how we actually make the choice! All our lives we have been relying solely on ourselves to make these choices, judgments, and valuations. The borderland the Course refers to is a place in our mind we have always had, but never really looked to. It is a place where all the wisdom of Spirit is available to us to show us what is real or illusion. Here is where our thoughts may be placed along side Truth and judged without prejudice. What is Tue and real stands, and what is not true falls gently away, fading into nothingness.
This borderland is the meeting of timelessness and time. It is where the world meets reality. It is the mindset given us to live in this world and keep our eyes on Truth. It is the state of mind where the holy instant becomes Vision. It is where we choose and experience Heaven whenever we choose to remember to do so. This borderland never goes away, it never fades. It is where we remember who we really are, and see each other in the light of Truth, reawakening the awareness of our Oneness. Even when we forget who we are, Spirit holds this borderland in our mind, calling us back until we hear the Voice again and return to this place. Rejoice in it and make the choice again today.
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