God indeed can be reached directly, for there is no distance between Him and His Son. His awareness is in everyone’s memory, and His Word is written on everyone’s heart. Yet this awareness and this memory can arise across the threshold of recognition only where all barriers to truth have been removed.
If God were reached directly in sustained awareness, the body would not be long maintained. Those who have laid the body down merely to extend their helpfulness to those remaining behind are few indeed. And they need helpers who are still in bondage and still asleep, so that by their awakening can God’s Voice be heard.
Do not despair, then, because of limitations. It is your function to escape from them, but not to be without them. If you would be heard by those who suffer, you must speak their language. If you would be a savior, you must understand what needs to be escaped. Salvation is not theoretical. Behold the problem, ask for the answer, and then accept it when it comes. Nor will its coming be long delayed. All the help you can accept will be provided, and not one need you have will not be met. Let us not, then, be too concerned with goals for which you are not ready. God takes you where you are and welcomes you. What more could you desire, when this is all you need? (A Course in Miracles, M-26.1:1-3;3:8-10;4)
We teach by demonstration. When we act on our perceptions based on our identity as a body, we teach that separation and lovelessness are real. We will continue to teach these false lessons as long as we follow the ego’s dictates.
If we would teach salvation, we must have the habit of remembering that we do not know what anything means and asking for the Holy Spirit’s reinterpretation of our perceptions. When we accept His help to heal our misperceptions, we teach forgiveness. We demonstrate that peace can be accepted in the midst of turmoil. We teach that mistaken beliefs can be released and we clear a channel for God’s Love to flow through us by letting our misperceptions be transformed.
Our direct connection with God becomes clearer as we let the beliefs that stood as a barrier to Love be dispelled with the Holy Spirit’s clear vision. With this practice, we serve as teachers of God representing His Teacher in our mind to the world. We become Love’s assistant for It’s expression in the world.
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