Mary:
This morning we read the beginning of part of A Course in Miracles Text, Chapter 25 (on pages 518-520). What stands out to me the most is, “The body needs no healing. But the mind that thinks it is a body is sick indeed! And it is here [in the mind] that Christ sets forth the remedy. His purpose folds the body in His light, and fills it with the holiness that shines from Him. And nothing that the body says or does but makes Him manifest. To those who know Him not, it carries Him in gentleness and love, to heal their minds. Such is the mission that your brother has for you. And such it must be that your mission is for him.” (T-25.Int.3)
This makes it very clear to me that my purpose is to focus on the Christ in every brother. My two choices are either I focus on the body or I focus on the Christ. Focusing on the body leads to hell (separation) and focusing on the Christ leads to Heaven (the recognition of Oneness). When I think of it this way, it encourages me to remember that seeing the Christ is my real mission while it still appears that I am in a body. This is how I learn through the Holy Spirit to see oneness. Looking past bodies to the Light is how the veil [of separation] is lifted to see the face of Christ in everyone I meet. This is my practice for today. This is how I wake up from the dream of death. Thank God I have so much help.
Robert:
What stood out to me in today’s reading was, “Perception is a choice of what you want yourself to be; the world you want to live in, and the state in which you think your mind will be content and satisfied.” (T-25.I.3:1-2)
Perception always shows me what I want to be real. It always filters out what does not conform to what I want. That is why the Course focuses on helping me to recognize what I really want is Love’s extension, and what I have chosen is a substitute for Love. Having wholeheartedly embraced the ego thought system and its substitute for Heaven, the reality of Heaven in incomprehensible.
But the good news is that I have a Teacher in my mind to teach me that what I have chosen is not real and is not what I really want and that I can learn to recognize and choose what I really want.
Today is a day to practice choosing Holy Spirit as my Guide for seeing. Its purpose is always to show me the steps to Heaven. Holy Spirit will show me the reality of Love in all my brothers. It will teach me that I am eternally safe. And I will experience the blessing of knowing that I am Love and seeing only Love.
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