LESSON 176
God is but Love, and therefore so am I.
1 (161) Give me your blessing, holy Son of God.
God is but Love, and therefore so am I.
2 (162) I am as God created me.
God is but Love, and therefore so am I.
I just so much want always to see the holy Son of God in everyone. Sometimes I do, at least to the degree that I can. I see their bodies and I am aware of their personalities. But I know that this does not in any way define them. I know it is just a script being played out and that it is in their best interest and in mine as well.
It is in everyone’s best interest because everyone’s script gives all involved another chance to wake up to the truth. I also am aware that we are all playing at being human, that right now we are dual in nature, one foot in the world and the other in eternity. But that is not going to last because duality is an illusion.
I don’t want to sustain the illusion any longer than necessary. I want to be consistent in choosing to see past the human and into the essence of each person I meet. I want to never be confused or to be fooled by the outward appearance. This would be truly helpful. Right now, I have an understanding that I fully accept about what is going on here, and that helps a lot. What I really want, though, is to have a knowing, true Christ Vision that is consistent.
Manual for Teachers
3. WHAT ARE THE LEVELS OF TEACHING?
1 The teachers of God have no set teaching level. Each teaching-learning situation involves a different relationship at the beginning, although the ultimate goal is always the same; to make of the relationship a holy relationship, in which both can look upon the Son of God as sinless. There is no one from whom a teacher of God cannot learn, so there is no one whom he cannot teach. However, from a practical point of view he cannot meet everyone, nor can everyone find him. Therefore, the plan includes very specific contacts to be made for each teacher of God. There are no accidents in salvation. Those who are to meet will meet, because together they have the potential for a holy relationship. They are ready for each other.
Every sentence in this paragraph tells me something I am happy to know. Relationships have different forms but all have the same goal. Through the teaching-learning process they have the potential to become holy relationships in which they look on each other and see only innocence. While this can happen with any two, there are very specific contacts for all of us and they will show up in our lives.
I have had relationships that have been very challenging and some of them took most of my life to resolve. I fully accept that there are no accidents in salvation. Every one of these relationships was important to my awakening. Even though some of them were quite painful for a time, I am grateful for the healing that came through them.
I know that I certainly didn’t approach them from the point of view that they had the potential for a holy relationship, yet I know now that they did. I will say that the relationships in my life have been healed of any anger or guilt. I think back on some of them and I see that all contention was just a thought in my mind and had nothing to do with the other person. So, as my thoughts were healed, the relationships were healed.
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XI. Christmas as the End of Sacrifice P 2
T-15.XI.3. This Christmas give the Holy Spirit everything that would hurt you. 2 Let yourself be healed completely that you may join with Him in healing, and let us celebrate our release together by releasing everyone with us. 3 Leave nothing behind, for release is total, and when you have accepted it with me you will give it with me. 4 All pain and sacrifice and littleness will disappear in our relationship, which is as innocent as our relationship with our Father, and as powerful. 5 Pain will be brought to us and disappear in our presence, and without pain there can be no sacrifice. 6 And without sacrifice there love must be.
This Christmas what will you be giving to the Holy Spirit for Him to heal? I have given Him all grievances and if the tiniest of grievances comes into my mind, I am quick to release it to the Holy Spirit because there is nothing tiny or big, just true or not true. What feels like a little grievance to me will deprive me of peace just as what feels like a big grievance will deprive me of peace so it makes no difference in its effect how I measure it. A grievance causes me the pain of losing my peace and so it is not something I intend to tolerate. The cost is too high.
I have given Him guilt and have no intention of taking it back. Not even tempted. The gift of guiltlessness is a gift beyond measure. This Christmas season, I am giving him sickness of the body. Sickness in the body is just a form of sickness no different than sickness that takes the form of poverty or broken relationships. All are symptoms of the belief in lack. I didn’t choose sickness as the issue I would work on, it chose me, or rather, the Holy Spirit chose it for me.
First, I was led to certain of the Pathways courses and certain places in A Course in Miracles. I have done these courses with fellow students and have learned a lot about sickness and healing, and I am taking them again with others who want to work on healing. I had a bronchial infection some months ago and it never completely went away. Recently, just in the last week or so, it has gotten worse so I thought how propitious this was. Here I am working on healing and here is something to practice on.
I am looking at how we value sickness above healing and in each case, I am checking in to see if I am doing this. I ask the Holy Spirit to show me what I need to see so that I can hand it over to Him. I am also looking at the idea of sickness as a defense against the truth, a defense against God. I am willing to see this if it is there. And there is also sickness as an attack. It is an attack on Love (God) because it attacks our very nature as His Son. Here is something from one of the Pathways courses I wrote about how I worked with attack in the past.
I love this from our book: “Now, when we attack or see attack in others, we can recognize this is just the effect of not valuing Love, followed by feeling the loss of Love, and then projecting that someone else is taking Love from us.”
If I use the situation with the two people on Facebook who I judged as judging (Ha ha) I could see it this way. They seem to be attacking me with their opinions which are so different than mine. Why does that upset me? Because I might be wrong about some basic spiritual principle. Why would that upset me? Because I believe I stand on shaky ground with God. Why is that? Because I separated from Him. So we are now at the beginning. I failed to value Love (God) which is an attack on Him. I feel the loss of Love acutely and so when these people seem to threaten my attempts to regain God, I see them as the problem. The thing about my reasoning is that it all rests on a false foundation. It rests on the belief that my choices have undone Love and that I must regain it and I can’t let anyone get in my way.
After working on the idea of attack and practicing what I learned, I almost never fall for that ego defense anymore. But I seem to have perhaps fallen for it in a different form since I am experiencing the effects of attack in my body. This is going to be such a valuable experience as I continue to bring up all forms of defense, attack and false value so that the Holy Spirit can heal my mind. And as Jesus says, . 3 Leave nothing behind, for release is total, and when you have accepted it with me you will give it with me. I look forward to both receiving and giving.
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