VI. The Light of Communication, P 4
4 Death yields to live simply because destruction is not true. The light of guiltlessness shines guilt away because, when they are brought together, the truth of one must make the falsity of its opposite perfectly clear. Keep not guilt and guiltlessness apart, for your belief that you can have them both is meaningless. All you have done by keeping them apart is lose their meaning by confusing them with each other. And so you do not realize that only one means anything. The other is wholly without sense of any kind.
Journal
Jesus tells us that we must not keep guilt and guiltlessness apart from each other. I was wondering how it is that I do this. What came to me is that I keep guilt and guiltlessness apart when I think that sometimes guilt is true and warranted. When I think that someone really did something and that they really are guilty of it, I am trying to believe that guiltlessness is true, but sometimes guilt is true. Jesus says that when I do this, they lose their meaning, and I confuse them with each other.
There was once a woman in my life that I didn’t like and who felt like a threat to me. She was someone I used to work with, and I spent a long time justifying my belief that she was guilty. There just seemed to be so much proof that I was right. When I looked for people to support my belief, I found it.
When someone would see her value, instead, I would simply ignore it. I refused to bring the guilt to guiltlessness. I wanted her condemned and so I kept guiltlessness apart from my belief in her guilt. I did this for as long as I could tolerate the loss of peace. When I had made myself too miserable to stand it anymore, I changed my mind.
I stopped asking ego to define this woman, and I started asking the Holy Spirit to heal my mind. I wanted to see her as guiltless and I wanted that more than anything. In that moment, the miracle occurred and suddenly, I knew she was guiltless. Her behavior didn’t entirely change, though, in the light of my love, she did behave differently at times. But no matter what she said or did, I saw it differently.
I stopped arresting my sight at her body/personality, and I saw her light. I no longer saw her behavior as mean and hateful, but only as confused. Like all of us, she wanted to be happy but was confused as to how to do that. What I felt from her when I began to see her as guiltless, had nothing to do with her behavior. When I gave up guilt, love took its place. I came to love my enemy. There was a time when I would never have believed that was possible in this case, but then I brought guilt and guiltlessness together.
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