Robert:
The ego is constantly on the lookout for signs that confirm separation is real. It needs this confirmation to affirm that the ego is real and exists. And so it is always looking for situations, circumstances and images that confirm the “reality” of separation. It will interpret a facial expression as disapproval. It will interpret a lack of communication as disrespect.
The ego considers it a “win” when it is able to interpret what it perceives as an offense or even a confirmation of specialness. All that matters to the ego is that separation continues to be believed as real. Naturally with this as its focus, it ignores, disregards and denies anything that does not support separation.
Along with this always comes guilt. It is impossible to perceive someone as separate from yourself without guilt because with the belief that you have separated, you must believe you have harmed by somehow changing your brother and yourself. This goes on unconsciously but effects all your conscious interpretations. This is the attraction of guilt, the wish to make separation real. The effect of this wish can only be unhappiness because it is the denial of God’s gift of perfect happiness.
The antidote to all this is very simple. All we need do is forgive, let go of the images of separation. We need to look past images to the reality of the one Love that joins us in the unity of one Self. We cannot change our perception alone, but the presence of the Holy Spirit in our mind provides us the means to see anew. This seeing does not use the body’s eyes. The Holy Spirit’s seeing is through the Light of Love, which shines away the self-deceptive veil that seems to make separation real.
My prayer today: Holy Spirit, I open my heart and mind to You to receive Your gift of vision that I may see my brother, not as a body, but as Love, as the one Self we share, created by Love, eternally in Love. Guide my vision today that I may see as You see, Love as You Love.
Mary:
This is my prayer today: Holy Spirit, I give You the past and I give You the future. I need not decide anything on my own. I am willing to let go and be carried by Your healing, peaceful perception.
I have one focus today and that is to step back and follow You. As I listen and pay attention to Your inner promptings, I will be brought to an awareness that I truly do rest in God eternally. Everyone truly is safe in the Mind of God and has never left. I leave my mind open to Your healing perception. Amen.
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