July 7, 2015
If we are truly honest with ourselves, I think we will each say that what we are seeking is love. That is, real love. Love that brings us peace, completeness, wholeness and security. This sounds like we are seeking reality, and so we are. We have lost the awareness of reality by investing in the idea of separation and thus invested in our own egoic thought system we made up in our mind. And for our egoic thought system to exist, it invests in maintaining and reinforcing the belief that we are separate from each other and all creation, thus maintaining a split mind.
Everyone who believes their egoic thought system’s plan for salvation seems to be intensely engaged in seeking love. Yet the egoic thought system, though encouraging the search for love very actively, makes one provision; do not find it. This is the one thing the ego is completely consistent in. It does everything in its power to keep us from finding what we are really seeking. Thus the search we take guided by the egoic thought system is bound to be defeated. The Course tells us:
And since the ego also teaches that it is your identification, its guidance leads you to a journey which must end in perceived self-defeat. For the ego cannot love, and in its frantic search for love it is seeking what it is afraid to find. The search is inevitable because the ego is part of your mind, and because of its source the ego is not wholly split off, or it could not be believed at all. For it is your mind that believes in it and gives existence to it. Yet it is also your mind that has the power to deny the ego’s existence, and you will surely do so when you realize exactly what the journey is on which the ego sets you. ACIM T-12.IV.2,2-6
Our salvation, our certainty, is that we cannot completely sever our split mind from the One Mind. It is impossible. The fact is, the split is not possible at all for we always remain completely connected to the One. Any sense of being split is a complete illusion or a dream from which we will awaken.
The journey on which the belief in separation takes us is anything but joyous. Its purpose is to keep us from finding love and reality, wholeness and completeness. But Spirit offers us a different promise, one that will lead to joy. Spirit promises, “Seek and you will find.” As we accept Spirit’s guidance, we cannot fail and we will not be defeated. The Course tells us this about our journey:
You will undertake a journey because you are not at home in this world. And you will search for your home whether you realize where it is or not. If you believe it is outside you the search will be futile, for you will be seeking it where it is not. You do not remember how to look within for you do not believe your home is there. Yet the Holy Spirit remembers it for you, and will guide you to your home because that is Spirit’s mission. As Spirit fulfills Its mission Spirit will teach you yours, for your mission is the same. By guiding each other home you are but following the One. ACIM T-12.IV.5.1-7
Changing our belief about who we are is the healing of our mind that is Atonement. In our mind’s healing we begin to awaken to the reality that we are really One and that there is no separation. Spirit is our guide on this journey showing us in each one we encounter a lesson in seeing who we really are, seeing the Divine within. Our journey is not an outside journey, it is an inner journey. Spirit guides us to and interprets every lesson on this journey if we will allow ourselves to see. The return to the awareness of our own Divine essence is inevitable. It’s our choice when we will allow ourselves to go there. Choose now and let us be on our way to the awareness of Heaven and Love within us.
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