Miracles News

October-December, 2014

The Laws of Love

by Rev. Maria Kingsley, O.M.C.

Rev. Maria Kingsley, O.M.C. I must have passed right over the mention of The Laws of Love when I read that section of the Course before, but last Sunday someone mentioned The Laws of Love, and it rang out to me like a loud bell. It had an amazing reaction within me: As I heard these words, there was a feeling of another kind of awareness within me. It was profound and gentle and what I noticed about it was that it radiated from me through the body into the world.

I noticed the difference between that energy and my normal feeling: It was somehow pure and strong and was just there. It did not have a source within me. It was very energizing, alive, almost tingling but gentle. Others in the group noticed the energy as I talked about it as they later told me as it seemed to radiate from me to everyone. I was thrilled to feel this — it was an amazing feeling of freedom and peace in a different way than I have experienced it before.

Later I noticed that even though I did not focus on it always, when I did ‘feel for it,’ it was right there.

Each time I found myself in meetings since then, I have been able to feel and extend this love. I can see my brothers and sisters as beings of Light, not in the seeing-with-my-eyes kind of seeing, but in the vision of my mind. I feel like a small child who has discovered something wonderful, and I am playing with it. When I focus on the people in the group, I can sense their desire to move forward, their strong intentions to ‘get it,’ to want to follow the principles of the Course.

After I heard about ‘the laws of Love,’ I had to looked it up and read about it again in the Course.

So, here are a couple of quotes from the Course about the Laws of Love found in Chapter 13, Section VI on page 253:

Love always leads to Love.

“Awakening unto Christ is following the laws of love of your free will, and out of quiet recognition of the truth in them. The attraction of light must draw you willingly, and willingness is signified by giving. Those who accept love of you become your willing witnesses to the love you gave them, and it is they who hold it out to you.” (T-13.VI.12:1-3)

“And yet the laws of love are not suspended because you sleep. And you have followed them through all your nightmares, and have been faithful in your giving, for you were not alone. …Although he slept, Christ’s vision did not leave him.” (T-13.VI.13:1-3, 8)

I have since noticed that it feels wonderful to choose Reality in my mind, and to see joy and Love instead of analyzing what may have happened, how It could be seen, to question whether something is right or wrong, all of which I used to do all the time. We all know the answer already, because the answer we are searching for is not in this world. But somehow we need to ‘do something,’ and so it takes us into the opposite direction and we move away, and with just a little doubt in our mind, the balance is tipped in favor of the ego.

I am overjoyed that all my diligent letting go and forgiving lessons have brought me to this freeing feeling and I can look at anyone and not be triggered by my thoughts of what they may think or want me to do or expect. Yet, it is not a constant presence. I need to bring it forward and focus on it, but then it is right there.

Of course, we all know that Love feels better than any of the negative emotions, but we don’t allow it, and we all have our secret reasons for hiding behind some perception that we can’t let go of, at least not now. I surely have done that.

Here are some more quotes from another source:

The book “The Holy Spirit’s Interpretation of the New Testament” by Regina Dawn Akers also talks about the law of Love in Ephesians, Chapter 1, 2 and 3.

Chapter 1:

“The law of Love is used for Love and by Love without exception, and so the law gives as it is asked.

The law of Love is not separate from you, and it does not rule over you. The law of Love is you and it works through you, so that you may never be separate from the Love that you are.”

And … in Chapter 2:

“The Christ shall be the symbol for the law, for through the Christ the ones that seemed many are one. Through this law the ones that seem many are one. And in fact, they have always been one, as they are bound as one through the law.”

In Chapter 3 it states:

“Through Christ all are bound together and there is no separateness. This is the law of Love. This is what you are. You are inseparable from it.

When you think you are thinking alone, you are not. Your thoughts which are heard by your brothers are answered through them. This is the law of Love. This is why all things are Love. Only Love exists. Every experience that is given you is unequivocally the gift of Love given in answer to your request for Love.

Christ is the truth of all you see and sense and experience, because all that you see and sense and experience is given you through Christ at the request of your own desire. This is the law of Love. What you ask for you receive through the unfailing Love of your oneness. This is the truth of all existence. This is the law of Love.

Give, therefore, through your every thought only that which you would receive. For as you give to your brothers, they hear a request. In Love, they give back to you exactly as you have asked.”

Thank you for listening and you may know exactly what I am talking about. I feel your joy.

Rev. Maria Kingsley is a Pathways of Light minister living in Tucson, Arizona. Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

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