Robert:
Today we read in A Course in Miracles, “Only appreciation is an appropriate response to your brother. Gratitude is due him for both his loving thought and his appeals for help, for both are capable of bringing love into your awareness if you perceive them truly.” (T-12.I.6:1-2)
If I am disturbed by anyone’s behavior, it does not seem like they deserve appreciation. This is because I am perceiving my brother as a body, which is a false image. Being an image, the body has no value or meaning of its own. No appreciation is due to a body, which is simply an empty image. Appreciation is due to what my brother really is, which is an extension of God’s Love.
The appearance of a brother as something that I need to protect myself from, something capable of disturbing my peace, is a call for help. At the very least it is my own call for help, for I am perceiving myself as a body and therefore denying the Love that I am. I need help to let go of this misperception and to accept the Love that is always there.
The same is true if a brother appears to be reacting to me as if I were a body. He is really asking for help to look past the denial of Love (the body) and to remember the Love he is. The answer to this is always to respond with Love. This is how I learn, with the Holy Spirit’s help, to look past appearances and see only Love. This is how I learn that only Love is real.
Today my prayer is to be open to Holy Spirit’s vision to recognize calls for Love and answer them with Love.
Mary:
As I went to Spirit in a place of quietness, I received an image of an ocean of Love. This picture represents the beingness of Love That we all share. This beingness of Love is What God is and What we are. I am reminded that there are no separate parts. It is all just one beingness of Love. I am told that this is how I am to see every brother — see every brother as the same beingness of Love That God is and That I am. This is the opposite of what I see through the body’s eyes.
It is my opportunity today to practice letting the veil be lifted so that I can recognize the one beingness of Love That is everywhere. To do this consistently I need to recognize all the barriers to Love that I am giving meaning to and be willing to let the Holy Spirit show me the Love that is behind each separate image.
The Holy Spirit has often reminded me that there are no differences and that the differences I give meaning to are simply mistaken thoughts that come from joining with the ego split mind. If I really want to wake up from the fearful dream of being separate from Love, I will choose often to join with my inner Teacher to see the Love That is always there. This is my opportunity today. And I give thanks.
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