Gentle Healing Lesson 180
God is but Love, and therefore so am I.
1 (169) By grace I live. By grace I am released.
God is but Love, and therefore so am I.
2 (170) There is no cruelty in God and none in me.
God is but Love, and therefore so am I.
Grace is acceptance of the Love of God within a world of seeming hate and fear. By grace alone the hate and fear are gone, for grace presents a state so opposite to everything the world contains, that those whose minds are lighted by the gift of grace can not believe the world of fear is real. P 2
All of the study and practice that make up my life are the way I prepare for grace, the way I prepare my mind to accept this gift. But neither the study nor the practice transforms my mind. No amount of logical thinking can show me a world without fear. It is the grace of God that does this for me. How else could I ever see this world as it truly exists except by accepting the Love of God right here, right now, in this world of time and space, right in the midst of separation with all its fearful effects.
Manual for Teachers
3. WHAT ARE THE LEVELS OF TEACHING? P 5
5 The third level of teaching occurs in relationships, which, once they are formed, are lifelong. These are teaching-learning situations in which each person is given a chosen learning partner who presents him with unlimited opportunities for learning. These relationships are generally few, because their existence implies that those involved have reached a stage simultaneously in which the teaching-learning balance is actually perfect. This does not mean that they necessarily recognize this; in fact, they generally do not. They may even be quite hostile to each other for some time, and perhaps for life. Yet should they decide to learn it, the perfect lesson is before them and can be learned. And if they decide to learn that lesson, they become the saviors of the teachers who falter and may even seem to fail. No teacher of God can fail to find the Help he needs.
Like many people, my lifelong relationships have been with family. I have a different relationship with each of them and while overall, they are good, sometimes the relationships have been challenging. My relationships with my children have offered me the richest opportunities for healing and I am grateful for that even though at times it has been painful. As Jesus indicates, the perfect teaching relationships are not always the most comfortable. One good thing about your children is that you can’t divorce them so you have to find a way to release any grievances and guilt.
They may even be quite hostile to each other for some time, and perhaps for life.
When I read this sentence, I thought of my maternal grandparents. This was the relationship they had. There was a lot of hostility between them for as long as I knew them. They lived in a time, though, where divorce was uncommon, and I know my grandmother would never be able to take care of herself even if she would ever consider divorce.
At one time, I might have thought that it was sad to be stuck in a relationship that was not happy and loving. Now though, I see that it was a perfect relationship for what they came to work on. Jesus tells us that everything is in our best interests and what I have seen is that the situation can be something we want, but sometimes it is simply something we need. They had the relationship they needed.
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XI. Christmas as the End of Sacrifice P 7
T-15.XI.7. In the holy instant the condition of love is met, for minds are joined without the body’s interference, and where there is communication there is peace. 2 The Prince of Peace was born to re-establish the condition of love by teaching that communication remains unbroken even if the body is destroyed, provided that you see not the body as the necessary means of communication. 3 And if you understand this lesson, you will realize that to sacrifice the body is to sacrifice nothing, and communication, which must be of the mind, cannot be sacrificed. 4 Where, then, is sacrifice? 5 The lesson I was born to teach, and still would teach to all my brothers, is that sacrifice is nowhere and love is everywhere. 6 For communication embraces everything, and in the peace it re-establishes, love comes of itself.
Journal
One of the reasons we grieve when someone close to us dies is because they feel lost to us at least until we join them. Jesus is reminding us that true communication does not depend on the body. In fact, I am sure that using words is probably the hardest way to communicate since it is so easy to be misunderstood when we talk to each other. I am learning that there is a better way to communicate.
As my mind has healed more and more, I have seen that the love which is naturally communicated when there is nothing blocking its extension needs no words. It is felt by anyone even a little open to it. People I don’t even know respond with a smile as I pass them by. My relationships are more loving without any real change that you can see. I feel a connection to Jesus that is more loving and clearer than ever before. When I do communicate with words, the words that are most helpful just come to me. The only time this type of communication is broken or limited is when my mind becomes preoccupied with the story. This seems to block true communication.
Because the only real use of the body is for communication while we are here and communication mind to mind is limited, loss of the body is not a real sacrifice as we have thought before. I have been experimenting with this. My mom died a few years ago and I have been having conversations with her. I sometimes use words but I don’t hear words from her. What I do experience is love and the love is purer than it was when she was embodied and we had more life stuff blocking the expression of love. While mom was here, our relationship was sometimes difficult and we didn’t always communicate in the best way, but now our relationship is simple and peaceful and more loving than ever. I think this is what Jesus is telling us.
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