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January-March, 2015

Seeing Past the Illusion

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

Over the past week I have been communicating with an old friend, a woman whom I was close to when I was in my 20’s. We were discussing our first marriages and the heartache we felt when the marriages ended. In the past I would have felt a little bitter and victimized, but today I don’t feel that way at all. I feel only compassion for the men who left us. I understand that they were feeling there own sense of lack. My first husband was killed in a car accident shortly after we divorced and I had just married my present husband. He never got to spend time with his only son.

I know he is basking in the Love of God now and is able to feel God’s perfect Love. There is no lack in God. We forget this from the perspective of the body because of an ancient feeling of guilt and remorse and separation. I Love remembering that we are not the body, we are pure Love. It makes me see my brother differently now. There is no emptiness in me there is only joy, peace and Love.

When I focused on being a victim, I felt I lacked something. That I was somehow unlovable. I tried to stuff those feelings down with food and criticism of others and myself and that led to more separation.

I have been thinking a lot about trust lately. From the perspective of my ego I would have thought, “How can I trust others when I have clearly seen what others are capable of?” Then when I read my lesson for the day it said on the lesson comments that comes to my e-mail from # 201, “In this world it seems impossible to trust anyone…  The reason we feel we cannot trust anyone is because the trust is misplaced. Of course we cannot trust an illusion, they can shift and change.” So as long as we see each other as a body and separate from God, it isn’t possible to trust. But when we begin to see that each of us is an extension of God, Ray’s of pure Love and Light, beautiful in every way, there is no place for any other belief.

I am so happy now seeing past the illusion that my ego created. When we learn the truth, it is such a relief to realize that we are all free to see the Light in each other and to have compassion for those who are blind. As we gain our sight and see through the illusion with our compassion and Love and non judgement, we create a safe place for our brothers to see through it also. This is how we heal together. We drop the thought that we are separate so we see past the illusion to our true nature.

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