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April-June, 2015

How Can We All Get Along?

by Rev. Peggy Rivera, O.M.C.

When we incarnate into this earthly existence, it becomes our nature to fight with each other, attack, discriminate and disregard those that we associate with every day. It isn’t uncommon to have a smile on our faces while, under the mask, we are seething. If we are all the “Son Of God,” how can we be so cruel to each other?

From the time we are small children, fighting with our siblings and throughout our lives with our classmates and then spouses and others, we seem to have continuous strife with our brethren. So why do we seem so compelled to continue to manifest war in our lives?

A Course in Miracles tells us that, because we believe we separated from God, we believe we deserve to be punished.

“The ego is the part of the mind that believes in division. How could part of God detach itself without believing it is attacking Him? We spoke before of the authority problem as based on the concept of usurping God’s power. The ego believes that this is what you did because it believes it is you. If you identify with ego, you must perceive yourself as guilty.” (T-5.V.3:1-5)

And the truth also is the ego doesn’t want to acknowledge God’s Love for us. To the ego, Love means defeat and annihilation.

“Your fear of attack is nothing compared to your fear of Love. You would be willing to look even upon your savage wish to kill God’s Son, if you did not believe that it saves you from love. For this wish caused the separation, and you have protected it because you do not want the separation healed. …For still deeper than the ego’s foundation, and much stronger than it will ever be, is your intense and burning Love for God, and His for you. This is what you really want to hide.” (T-13.III.2:3-5,8-9)

We set ourselves up early on in life. By identifying with a tiny thought that we were separate and powerful on our own, we began a journey of self-contempt, projection and retaliation. In this journey we lost our one, true Self. The ego thinks of itself as God. It feels that Love is weakness and hate is strength, so when we identify any sign of weakness in our brother, we attack to gain power for ourself.

Lucky for us we are all safe in the mind of God and He has left us a clear pathway back to our Home. Through our connection with Holy Spirit, we are taught to see past the illusions that we created.

When we feel insulted by someone, we can ask Holy Spirit what needs to be healed in our own mind. So if I get in an argument with a neighbor or a friend felt I had insulted them, or if I get insulted for some reason, this is an indication that there is something that needs to be healed in me. So then I can take it to Holy Spirit for healing. When we remember that in God there is nothing else, we will realize there is no room for anything else but peace.

The ego thought system is so terrified that it will be rendered helpless in the presence of God. With the ego, we believe that God’s Love would crush us, but in truth it will make us whole. I have learned there is no peace without the Love of God, because without God we are left to our own devices, where hate and guilt and chaos reside.

In lesson 183 of the Workbook for Students it says, “God’s name is holy, but no more holier than yours. To call upon His name is but to call upon your own. A father gives his son his name, and thus identifies the son with him. His brothers share his name, and thus are united in a bond to which they turn for their identity. Your Father’s Name reminds you who you are, even within a world that does not know; even though you have remembered it.” (W-pI.183.1:1-5)

Therefore, it is our job to see that we can remember the truth for our brothers until they can remember for themselves. This is how we all begin to get along, holding the Light for each other. For me it is a daily walk, taking time in my day to remember not to judge anyone else, to accept them wherever they are on the path. We will all find our way home. God forgets no one. We all heal together. ❦

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