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January-March, 2011

When You Meet Anyone, Remember It Is a Holy Encounter

by Rev. Myron Jones

When two people meet, it is such a special moment. Stretched before them are infinite possibilities of discovery. What is this person’s story this time? Where do their stories cross? How will their stories be helpful to each other? How will their interactions affect the awakening of the Sonship?

Wouldn’t it be extraordinary if every time two people interacted, they could set aside what they think they know about the other person (the story they have written about the other through the filter of their own ego) and meet them anew? Each meeting would be exciting and interesting. Who, in this very moment, is this person standing before me?

What an incredibly loving thing it would be to allow each person to lay aside the past and taking up a clean slate, be the person they are in this now moment without the lie of a past. It seems that it should be possible to do this. A Course in Miracles tells us that there is no past and no future. There is only now. When meeting someone again, I could ask myself, “Who is this person before me? What gift does he bring with his presence?”

I imagine meeting John on the street. I look at him and see the ego I created to take the place of this holy Son of God.

I say, “Hi, John. Haven’t seen you in a while. How’s the wife?”

I think, “Been getting drunk and yelling at her lately?”

I have a picture in my mind about this man and allow it to define him. I saw something, or heard some gossip about something John did in the past, and I refuse to let the past go. I allow it to define everything I think I know about this man. To step even further from the truth, I allow what I heard to filter through my own past experiences with an abusive alcoholic father.

I have imprisoned this man in a box that defines him according to my own judging thoughts. In being unwilling to see him outside the prison house of my judgments, I have made it impossible to free my own mind from those judgments. As I judge him to be just another man like my father, I sustain in my mind a victimization story I chose for myself many years ago. And so, at least in my own mind, we two stand in the street pretending to chat amiably, but actually frozen together in the past, like bugs in amber, with no hope of escape.

There is a way out, a way to freedom for both of us and, make no mistake, freedom can be experienced only if it is experienced for both. We go home together. I would release John from the prison house of my mind so that I could be free as well.

From A Course in Miracles T-13.VI.

“You would anticipate the future on the basis of your past experience, and plan for it accordingly. Yet by doing so you are aligning past and future, and not allowing the miracle, which could intervene between them, to free you to be born again.”

“The miracle enables you to see your brother without his past, and so perceive him as born again. His errors are all past, and by perceiving him without them you are releasing him. And since his past is yours, you share in this release.”

I would like to be free of my past and I see the way to become free is to offer this blessing to my brother. As he is freed, so will I be freed. All that is required is my willingness. I stand in the street before my brother. Who is this man? Is he a reflection of his past? Or a reflection of mine, for that matter?

“Holy Spirit, my mind is so clouded by ego beliefs based on the past that I cannot see what stands before me. I created the clouds in my mind with judgments long ago and cherished all this time as truth. I am willing to see that I have been mistaken. I am willing to be wrong. I am asking for the miracle. Please help me receive it by correcting my thoughts and healing my mind. Please show me the man you see. Please let him be born again in my mind.”

I imagine meeting John on the street. I look at him and see another aspect of my Self. I wonder what his story is? I wonder who he is today?

I say, “Hi John. How lovely to see you again. It’s been awhile. Tell me what’s been happening.”

I think, “Holy Spirit, let no dark cloud from my past obscure from me the holiness of this man.”

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