VI. The Holy Instant and the Laws of God, P 4
4 You do not find it difficult to believe that when another calls on God for love, your call remains as strong. Nor do you think that when God answers him, your hope of answer is diminished. On the contrary, you are more inclined to regard his success as witness to the possibility of yours. That is because you recognize, however dimly, that God is an idea, and so your faith in Him is strengthened by sharing. What you find difficult to accept is the fact that, like your Father, you are an idea. And like Him, you can give yourself completely, wholly without loss and only with gain. Herein lies peace, for here there is no conflict.
Journal
The idea that we are created in the image of God has always confused mankind because we think that we are these bodies, each one different than the other. We think that we are separate individuals with separate desires and conflicting goals and that we are each a different self. So which of these is God’s image of which we were created?
When we understand that God is not an image of any kind and that He is an idea, then we can begin to understand, at least a little, what God is. And if we are created like God, then we, too, must be an idea. What a strange thought that is to us who have become attached to the idea of form and think we are that. It might be scary even until the mind has become accustomed to the idea.
Ideas seem so insubstantial to us after believing in flesh and blood for so long. And yet, flesh and blood, even in the illusion, dies and decays, whereas, an idea never ceases to exist and, in fact, gets only stronger as it is shared. It is because we are not sharing ourselves as an idea while we identify with the ego, that we feel weak and vulnerable. Thank goodness, that we cannot actually be a body and that we remain a thought in the Mind of our Source.
Cate Grieves suggested a helpful meditation for me to do. She said: You might try to imagine your body floating in the sea or a river. Just allowing it to “be”. Let it float and surrender all control. Then let it float next to leaves on the surface and watch how the water takes your body and moves it in the flow of the water. Just keep releasing any resistance to allowing it to be taken in any direction. Stretch your arms out wide and legs apart and completely give yourself over.
I think this meditation is my practice in total surrender. Because God is an idea and I am an idea in Him, I can give myself completely, wholly without loss and only with gain. After all, that is what He did in our creation. He gave all of Himself to us. I would emulate this unreserved giving and fearlessly and joyfully give all of myself to Him in gratitude for my creation.
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