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Study of Text, Chapter 13: VII. Attainment of the Real World, P 4. 9-27-16

VII. ATTAINMENT OF THE REAL WORLD, P 4
4 Yet the real world has the power to touch you even here, because you love it. And what you call with love will come to you. Love always answers, being unable to deny a call for help, or not to hear the cries of pain that rise to it from every part of this strange world you made but do not want. All that you need to give this world away in glad exchange for what you did not make is willingness to learn the one you made is false.

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Love always answers every call for help, whether it is a call from one who knows he or she needs help, or one from someone who doesn’t even know help is available, or even from one who asks even in denial that help is needed. Love is not confused by the form of the request. It knows what is needed and gives answer to the call. However, we must accept the answer. Love will not force Itself on us. We will not be aware of the answer we do not want.

When I was divorced the first time, I lost the privilege of receiving the sacraments of the Catholic Church. I took this as a rejection of God because I had not learned to separate the laws of Love from the laws of religion. I was very afraid and so I was very angry with God who I imagined had abandoned me. I spent about a year ranting and raving at God.

What God heard was my desire to be loved and accepted. This call for love, he answered. But it took me some time to accept the answer. When I was ready, the answer was there waiting for me. Interestingly, when I was ready to put my own feelings aside in an act of love toward another, I discovered a God I had not learned about at church, a good I could trust and depend on. I suppose that in giving love I was receiving love.

Sometimes I still slip back into the idea that God is like me rather than the truth that I am like God. God is not a person with an ego. He cannot be hurt or offended. He cannot judge or condemn. It is essential that I remember this or I will hate and fear God. Here is an idea that helps me to see God differently.

I think of God as more like the law of gravity than as a person. Gravity simply is. If I step off a cliff I will fall. Gravity did not do it to me, gravity simply was. If I was then laid up in the hospital recovering from my fall, I would not lay there berating gravity for my accident. I would not feel abandoned by gravity, angry with gravity, or afraid of gravity. I would not curse gravity. I would just realize that I ignored the law of gravity and my fall was the consequence, and I would decide not to do that again.

It is the same with God. God is Love and there are laws of Love just as there are laws of gravity. For instance, if I hold a grievance this is going to solidify my belief that I am what I projected onto my brother. As a result, I am going to be unhappy. God did not make me unhappy. God did not want me to be unhappy. God simply is, and when we ignore the law of Love, we take a tumble and it hurts. God did not stop loving me, and is not responsible for my tumble.  I am the one that stepped off that particular cliff.

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