X. RELEASE FROM GUILT, P 11
11 You cannot enter into real relationships with any of God’s Sons unless you love them all and equally. Love is not special. If you single out part of the Sonship for your love, you are imposing guilt on all your relationships and making them unreal. You can love only as God loves. Seek not to love unlike Him, for there is no love apart from His. Until you recognize that this is true, you will have no idea what love is like. No one who condemns a brother can see himself as guiltless and in the peace of God. If he is guiltless and in peace and sees it not, he is delusional, and has not looked upon himself. To him I say,
Behold the Son of God, and look upon his purity and be still. In quiet look upon his holiness, and offer thanks unto his Father that no guilt has ever touched him.
Journal
Clearly I have never entered into a real relationship with anyone because I have not loved all equally. I have some people in my life I love more or differently than I do others. I also have some in my life that I love less or not at all. I used to be very confused by passages like this. I thought it meant that the love I feel for my children, for instance, is wrong because it makes them special to me.
Now I understand that there is nothing wrong with the love I feel for my children. The problem is that I reserve that love only for them. In doing so, I have made love something it could never be. I have limited it, and love is limitless. So now I don’t really know what love is; I only know what I have made to take its place. Even the love I have for my children, the purest form of love that I can know in this reduced state, is tainted by the belief in guilt. This sentence stands out to me and I know that it is essential I understand and accept it: No one who condemns a brother can see himself as guiltless and in the peace of God.
So to make this very simple for myself, I am going to say what I want to do about this. I know that I want to remember love, real love, the love of God. I want to extend that love so that others will have that present experience, too. I think this must be possible because Jesus is asking me to do it. So here is my plan. I am not going to try to be more loving. I am going to increase my willingness to desire love above all things.
I am going to notice the signs that I am making someone special. It doesn’t matter if I see them in special love or special hate, I am going to be vigilant for signs of specialness. Then I am going to recognize that I have chosen the ego as my guide as to what love is and how to return to it, at which point I will change my mind and choose the Holy Spirit as my guide. I will ask that my mind be healed of the belief in special love and the belief that I need it. I will ask to be healed of the belief that there is an opposite to love and that it has some value.
Then I will sit in stillness for a moment and allow the healing to take place. I will give myself this present moment, this holy instant, in which I will accept the healing. The idea of special love and special hate is as ingrained as is the belief in guilt, so I will be patient and gentle with myself as I do this practice. If it takes time, then I will remember that this is now the purpose I have given time, and is the only value time has for me.
I am grateful for this understanding and I think that Jesus has given us the perfect prayer to use in our practice.
Behold the Son of God, and look upon his purity and be still. In quiet look upon his holiness, and offer thanks unto his Father that no guilt has ever touched him.
I know that the Holy Spirit will bring into my mind the relationships that need my attention. In fact, I know the very one to work with right now, and so I will… What happened first, is that I saw his guilt and seeing it I knew what it was that was obscuring the truth, So I rested my mind a moment and then I asked the Holy Spirit to show me his holiness instead. Then I thanked my Father that no guilt has ever touched him. This is a good practice.
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