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Manual for Teachers: III. The Function of the Teacher of God, P 3. 2-2-18

III. The Function of the Teacher of God, P 3
3 Not once do the advanced teachers of God consider the forms of sickness in which their brother believes. To do this is to forget that all of them have the same purpose, and therefore are not really different. They seek for God’s Voice in this brother who would so deceive himself as to believe God’s Son can suffer. And they remind him that he did not make himself, and must remain as God created him. They recognize illusions can have no effect. The truth in their minds reaches out to the truth in the minds of their brothers, so that illusions are not reinforced. They are thus brought to truth; truth is not brought to them. So are they dispelled, not by the will of another, but by the One Will with itself. And this is the function of God’s teachers; to see no will as separate from their own, nor theirs as separate from God’s.

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What a great paragraph! First, we are reminded that there is no difference between the forms the sickness might take. One is not harder to heal than another. The reason this is so is that they all share one purpose. I am reminded of the question, “What is it for?” This is all that matters, not the form itself.

Then Jesus expands on what he has said before about how to be helpful. The teacher of God understands that the problem is in the mind not the body. They know that this one has forgotten who he is or he could not be sick. The teacher of God knows that we are always just as God created us and anything else is an illusion and that the effects of illusions are illusions as well. How could it be that one illusion is more real than another illusion? That’s just funny.

So we help by allowing the truth in our mind to reach out to the truth in our brother’s mind. In this way, the illusion is not reinforced. In this way the illusion is brought to the truth so that it can be dispelled, not by my will overcoming another’s but through the power of God in us. This is our function, to see the teacher’s my will is joined with the patient’s will, which is joined with God’s Will.

Here is how this looks in my mind. I have someone on my prayer list who needs a job. I hold her in my mind and I see her perfection expressed as a skill set that someone else needs. I see her and the perfect company being magnetically drawn to each other. I see her joyfully joining with that company and the people working there, each to the other’s benefit. It is such a happy picture that I love thinking about it. It is love finding its way to love, expressing itself in the way most useful at this time and in this place.

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Study of Text, C 15: V. The Holy Instant and Special Relationships, P 9. 2-1-18

V. The Holy Instant and Special Relationships, P 9
9 God knows you now. He remembers nothing, having always known you exactly as He knows you now. The holy instant reflects His knowing by bringing all perception out of the past, thus removing the frame of reference you have built by which to judge your brothers. Once this is gone, the Holy Spirit substitutes His frame of reference for it. His frame of reference is simply God. The Holy Spirit’s timelessness lies only here. For in the holy instant, free of the past, you see that love is in you, and you have no need to look without and snatch love guiltily from where you thought it was.

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This is simple. How is it that I have a holy relationship instead of a special relationship? I give the past to the Holy Spirit and accept myself as God knows me now. Since God knows me as I am, as the Love of which I was created, and I accept His judgment of me as my own, I know myself as love. Now, where is the need to “find” love? Do I need someone to love me if love is already in me?

This leaves me free to be in a relationship that is free of neediness. I love and want nothing in return. I love because love is natural and joyful. There will be no strings attached, no secret bargains in the relationship. When I first began to understand how special relationships work, I was dismayed at my own part in this.

Even the little things we take for granted in a relationship. For instance the thought I might have of a friend: He will be there for me when I need him. How about, I will be there for myself when I need it. Then I can just enjoy the love I have for him regardless of any response he might like to make or not make.

Have you ever had one of those days where you just felt battered by the world and you thought, “Let me just get home to that special one, and he will make me feel better.” Then you get home and he is not there. Or he is there but doesn’t seem to have an interest in your day, or doesn’t understand what you need. Or you get there and all he wants to do is talk about his problems.

Expectations unmet, secret bargains not lived up to, needs not met by the one you chose to meet them, love not given and received. Yet, is that love at all?  Maybe love seems lost because the interpretation of love is so strange that we no longer know what love is. What if, instead, we choose to see love where it is?

It is within us because that is where God placed it, or rather perhaps it would be more accurate to say that as an extension of Love, you are love. That is the love we each really seek. If we keep looking for it outside ourselves, we are never going to find it. Accept God’s decision about ourselves and we will have no need to look without and snatch love guiltily from where we thought it was.

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