Miracles News
April-June, 2004
Weeding Out Specialness
This morning I am asking for assistance from Jesus. When I call to Jesus I can “hear” His Voice. This Voice, this Presence, is very real to me. I call this taking a “Light” break and try to remember to stop several times a day to do this for the insurance and assurance of my sanity.
I find that by listening to what Jesus says and applying His messages to my life, I experience more peace. However I find there are some areas where I “hold back” from receiving peace — like seeing specialness.
This reminds me of a poem I’d like to share:
As children bring their broken toys with tears for us to mend, I brought my broken dreams to God because he was my Friend.
But then instead of leaving Him in peace to work alone, I hung around and tried to help with ways that were my own.
At last I snatched them back and cried, ”How can you be so slow?” “My child,” He said, “What could I do, you never did let go.”
I asked, “Jesus, would you please help me on this specialness business?”
He responded: Sure thing, child! Remember the Creeping Bend in the grass in the yard? It is a good symbol for specialness. Once it is introduced into the grass, it grows pervasively. It is green like the grass, so unless your trained eye is looking for it, it remains hidden (especially if you don’t want to see it!).
You ask what is wrong with leaving it there — well, its tough vine presence can choke out much of the healthy grass in time unless it is weeded out. What was once soft grass becomes a bunch of tough vines that you could trip on.
Specialness will “trip you up.” It is a guilt trip. Let it go. I will help you. It is only because you mistakenly think you don’t measure up to your own Creator that you have times when you think someone else is favored or loved more than you. In those times, you are deluding yourself and have been caught up in the dis-ease of EGO PROJECTIONITIS.
Another mistake is in thinking your own Creator doesn’t measure up to you — in which case you are hallucinating that you are favored above all others. Believe me, there are NO OTHERS!! There is only ONE — ONENESS, an idea that is only resisted by a meaningless and powerless thought system.
Specialness can remain hidden to you if you don‘t really want to see it, just like the vines in the grass. It can overtake your life experience unless you and I do some serious gardening, and of course, we will have fun in the process. It is good that you are recognizing specialness thoughts in your own mind — your “trained eye” is a valuable asset.
The next step is to let these thoughts go. I will help you by removing each “vine,” one by one, as you recognize them and offer them to me. I will be gentle. I will never rip them out. This process, I promise, will be painless.
I will heal the mistaken thought with a soft beam of God’s Light. It will feel like a little “tickle” in your mind! Stay at peace, for peace is like the antivirus program that will help you to “clean up” the specialness thoughts that you thought were of value. Where there is peace, there can be no ego!
Another image you can use is that of unplugging an electrical appliance. Specialness is no longer an “ego appliance” plugged into your mind. Specialness has no “juice” for you.
Remember that what you perceive “others” as having to learn — most likely you are in need of learning — again there are NO OTHERS! Thoughts of unity and equality that are not acceptable to the ego thought system will become your Reality as you let go of specialness. You have everything to gain as you claim your Divine Birthright — Oneness. You have nothing to lose as you let go of seeing any value in the ego.
Take a few moments now to “slip into something more comfortable” — peace, your best friend. Open to the Love you are — be like a sponge — soak it in. You are worthy and deserving of unconditional Love. Thank you for stopping by so I could tell you — you and I share Oneness.
Thank you for your help Jesus!
Rev. Christine Anderson is a Pathways of Light minister who lives in Chicago, Illinois.
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