You who hold your brother’s hand also hold mine, for when you joined [in a holy relationship with] each other you were not alone. Do you believe that I would leave you in the darkness that you agreed to leave with me? In your relationship is this world’s light. And fear must disappear before you now. Be tempted not to snatch away the gift of faith you offered to your brother. You will succeed only in frightening yourself. The gift is given forever, for God Himself received it. You cannot take it back. You have accepted God. The holiness of your relationship is established in Heaven. You do not understand what you accepted, but remember that your understanding is not necessary. All that was necessary was merely the wish to understand. That wish was the desire to be holy. The Will of God is granted you. For you desire the only thing you ever had, or ever were.
Each instant that we spend together will teach you that this goal is possible, and will strengthen your desire to reach it. And in your desire lies its accomplishment. Your desire is now in complete accord with all the power of the Holy Spirit’s Will. (T-18.III.4:1-5:3)
A relationship is made holy by the desire that it be holy. Being holy means knowing oneness. Heaven is the oneness of Love.
In this dream of separation we cannot comprehend oneness. But the desire to be holy (whole) opens the door to let our inner Teacher teach us of our oneness. The choice for a holy relationship becomes the Holy Spirit’s classroom. If we already knew all the lessons in a classroom, we wouldn’t need to be there. By choosing the classroom of the holy relationship, we have chosen the means to awaken from the dream of specialness.
The holy relationship may sometimes seem very unholy as the ego’s conflicting goals come to the surface. Our desire to have the relationship be holy opens the door for the Holy Spirit to use these times of conflict as teaching opportunities. Thus the relationship dedicated to holiness has the purpose of leading us out of the dream and back to the holiness of Heaven, our true Home.
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