X. The Equality of Miracles, P 7
7 The only judgment involved is the Holy Spirit’s one division into two categories; one of love, and the other the call for love. You cannot safely make this division, for you are much too confused either to recognize love, or to believe that everything else is nothing but a call for love. You are too bound to form, and not to content. What you consider content is not content at all. It is merely form, and nothing else. For you do not respond to what a brother really offers you, but only to the particular perception of his offering by which the ego judges it.
Journal
Jesus is being brutally honest here. We really have no basis on which to order our thoughts. We look at a situation or a person and think we know something, and on this shaky understanding, we think we can judge and, therefore, make decisions. We cannot. This is why we have the Holy Spirit in our mind. He will make all judgments for us if we will let Him.
The ego mind rejects this offer out of hand. It is insulted by, and threatened at, the idea of giving up its ineffective but closely guarded right to judge and decide. I have looked at the effects of the ego efforts to order my mind and based on these efforts to make decisions. I see it doesn’t work.
Here is a simple example. When I was still working, I had some fractured relationships with coworkers. I thought the problem was our basic differences. For instance, I felt like one of my coworkers was dishonest and one of those people who would smile to your face and then stab you in the back. She seemed to prove I was right at every turn.
I used to wish she would quit. Then I ordered my thoughts differently by using what I had learned in the Course, and I saw her as confused and tried to forgive her for her actions. When that didn’t work, I gave up judging the situation altogether and asked the Holy Spirit to help me see this differently, though I couldn’t imagine how that could be.
Two things happened. I began to look inward instead of outward and to see in me what I thought was in her. Then I saw that we were both calling for love, and I gave it to us both. I could not have come to that place on my own. I thought the situation was about the relationship between me and a difficult co-worker, but that was just the form. I was so distracted by the form that I didn’t see the content, which was a lack of love.
Fortunately, I am not the ego and I don’t have to believe the ego thoughts in my mind. The one choice I can safely make is to decide between the part of my mind I made and the mind that God created. I happily surrender the job of judging and correcting to the Holy Spirit. He sees past the form the story takes and to the content. He sees that it is love or a call for love and He answers that call on my behalf.
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