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Study of Text, Chapter 11: I. The Gifts of Fatherhood, P 6. 8-13-15

I. The Gifts of Fatherhood, P 6

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Jesus tells us that we have a place in the Mind of God that is ours forever, but a condition of keeping that place is to give it, as it was given us. We are creators and we are meant to increase the Mind of God through creation. We are without limits because Love is without limits, and thus we are to share in this way to know the joy of our boundless love.

What a picture this is! I am in God forever, creating forever, loving and joyful forever! There are no limits on Self and no limits on love. With no body made to limit and separate, there is nothing to fear, no sickness, suffering or death. Without an “other,” there is no one to push away and no reason to and no place to push him. In God all have all, so there is nothing to be jealous of, no reason for resentment, no feelings of rejection, abandonment, loss or lack.

Of course I examine my life and I see that this is not happening. In making this world of illusion, I have not created, that is I have not increased the Mind of God. This is not a world of limitless sharing and limitless love. In my desire to experience something else, I have tried to freeze love into forms I call bodies and other objects that are separate from each other, thus arresting creation at these artificial boundaries.

I have tried to limit the limitless. I have tried to lessen God. I do this again and again all day long. I see a homeless person and instead of recognizing God in this one, I see him as less than in so many ways, and different than me; please God, different than me. I see a beautiful and wealthy person and I fail to see God, and I fail to recognize this one is me, playing the beautiful and wealthy woman. Instead, I see only differences and feel only less than.

Where is the wholeness, the boundless love, the joy of creation in this thing I have made, and that I renew every day, every minute of the day? Where is God in this, where is Love? Yet, even here in this dream of not-God, I can choose to perceive differently and thus bring our sleeping mind closer to Awakening, closer to God and my place in God.
As I do this, as I allow more and more healing, I begin to feel something that is not a dream, or at least is a dream of something not a dream. As I see this homeless man, my mind expands to include him, to know him as the light hidden within those rags, in that stench. I know that light because that light remains in my mind as well. As our lights merge, our minds are enlightened.

If you saw us on the street you would never know that a miracle had occurred, but my heart feels it, and I never again feel quite the same degree of separation as I did before. There is a crack now in wall of isolation I have built between me and not-me that can never be sealed again. I find it easier and even joyful to continue this practice, to continue to allow the light in my mind to find the light in minds all around me.

This is how I find my way back to God, to Love, to creation, to my eternal place in the Mind of God. I notice someone near me and I think to myself, “There I am.” I open my heart and mind to this one, no barriers, no defenses, just the joy of reunion. I have, in the past, prayed and prayed for union, for Christ Vision, for forgiveness. All along, there was nothing for me to do except open to Love and let it in. I only needed to stop defending separation and just desire wholeness.

Holy Spirit, I love the thought of spending the day reuniting with my selves. As I go to work, see customers, drive in heavy traffic, and face all the other forms of separation we have put into place, please help me to remember my purpose. Help me to remember what you have shown me this morning. Please heal the mind that imagines separation. This is the experience I asked for but now I long for love and for union and I long for God.

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