Miracles News

April-June, 2012

I See

by Rev. Sherry Jonckheere, O.M.C.

Rev. Sherry Jonckheere It has been clearly and methodically proven to me over the years that everything I see is a total creation of my mind. I have a world inside my head that I can choose to see as my truth, and be a slave to its whims and crazy circumstances or I can see the truth as shown me through ACIM. My study of quantum theory and other sciences, as well as energy methodologies have given me the understanding of the concept that there is nothing out there. ACIM has taken these studies to another level by offering further explanation about the nothingness that lies beyond energy.

I took a day recently to sit with and study Lesson 132 from the Course again, as it challenges my beliefs in this world of form and brings to mind the truth of what I am seeing and all that I have created. The idea that, “I loose the world from all I thought it was” allowed me to practice really freeing myself from the chains of this world. It offered me the opportunity to look again at the hologram I have created.

As I sat with the idea and felt myself squarely in the moment, I could see the edges of what I had made. Having an understanding of this mad idea, with the time to work and ponder its intricate illusion, I am now more keenly aware of the flimsiness of what I think I see. I feel that as I back away from my dream of this world and move toward what is real, I have the feeling of having one foot in the dream and one foot in reality. The dream we look upon each day is often likened to a play being acted out on stage that allows us to see our dream from an observer perspective.

The vision I had while working with this lesson was a picture of myself peeking out through a curtain, watching a dream play out. Behind the curtain, which is where I want to go, is where truth lies and so I love this perspective. Although there are still areas where I am still connected to the dream, I am more and more aware of the illusion that is happening right in front of me.

In a previous Course lesson I went into meditation with the idea for the day, and what was coming up seemed blurry to me. I have always had great eyesight, but for the past couple of years I have found that there are times when I have trouble seeing things as clearly as I once did. These times come and go and usually get worse during times of stress or hormonal imbalance. So, although it is frustrating at times, I have a pair of light reading glasses that help me and I just accept.

Many times a thought has come to me that, as I do the work to loosen the grip of the world, I see that my body’s eyes are less clear in what they are seeing because there is nothing here to see. Real vision has nothing to do with the body’s eyes. And so, in yesterday’s blurry meditation (and for a moment I was frustrated that everything seemed unclear even there) I heard that my inner vision is adjusting to see clearly while my outer sight is becoming more and more out of focus to symbolize the inner clarity and understanding of what is real vs. what is an illusion.

I would like to move towards clarity in both worlds as I grow in my understanding, but appreciate the symbolic nature of what is happening. I love the visions and thoughts that I receive that show me where I stand right now as I continue to trust and have faith in the knowledge and understanding of what lies beyond the dream that I have made, and the energy that makes up everything that I think I see. I get it. Thank you.

Louise Hay writes that eyes “represent the capacity to see clearly — past, present and future.” Her corresponding affirmation is: “I see with love and joy.” She goes on to say that eye problems are “not liking what you see in your own life,” and offers a beautiful affirmation, “I now create a life I love to look at.”

One of the challenges I find as I do this work is functioning in the dream as life’s seeming little glitches arise. I keep Louise’ book, Heal Your Body close by and refer to her mastery when I need to reboot or tweak my thinking about something that may be going awry in my body.

So as much work as I am doing in loosening the grip of this world I think I see, I am clearly still dreaming and so I take care to stay healthy and understand all of the strange and wonderful happenings taking place in and around me. What fun!

“Yet if you are as God created you, you cannot think apart from Him, nor make what does not share His timelessness and Love. Are these inherent in the world you see? Does it create like Him? Unless it does, it is not real, and cannot be at all. If you are real the world you see is false, for God’s creation is unlike the world in every way. And as it was His Thought by which you were created, so it is your thoughts which made it and must set it free, that you may know the Thoughts you share with God.” (W-pI.132.11)

Thank you. I see.

Rev. Sherry Jonckheere, O.M.C., is a Pathways of Light minister living in Brighton, Michigan.

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