I. The Judgment of the Holy Spirit, P 6
6 Only appreciation is an appropriate response to your brother. Gratitude is due him for both his loving thoughts and his appeals for help, for both are capable of bringing love into your awareness if you perceive them truly. And all your sense of strain comes from your attempts not to do just this. How simple, then, is God’s plan for salvation. There is but one response to reality, for reality evokes no conflict at all. There is but one Teacher of reality, Who understands what it is. He does not change His Mind about reality because reality does not change. Although your interpretations of reality are meaningless in your divided state, His remain consistently true. He gives them to you because they are for you. Do not attempt to “help” a brother in your way, for you cannot help yourself. But hear his call for the Help of God, and you will recognize your own need for the Father.
Journal
This is so simple that I am amazed at how long it took me to see the simplicity of it. I don’t understand anything and I don’t know what anything is for. I have no way to judge so I should not judge. My brother is always loving me or calling for love, and if I think something else is happening it is because I have asked the ego for an interpretation, and the ego is the part of me that doesn’t know anything.
I am confused because I listen to two diametrically opposed voices and try to believe both of them. But I can change this. I can learn to listen to only the Voice for God. Even in this world I can do that. As I listen to the Holy Spirit’s interpretation of my brother’s words and actions, I learn that he only wants love however he may be confused about that. I give him the love he asks for by remembering who he is. At the same time, the memory of who I am becomes stronger in my mind. Perfect.
The Holy Spirit’s interpretation is always the same because reality is always the same. The ego mind sees fear and guilt, attack and defense, pain and suffering. The Holy Spirit sees only the Son of God, perfect, free, joyful and peaceful. He sees only innocence regardless of what seems to be happening in the illusion. He sees the truth because He looks right through the illusion to the only thing that is real. I cannot do this with the ego mind. This is why I must learn to listen only to the Voice for God.
After Jesus helped me to use yesterday’s paragraph to work out my confusion with a particular situation, I was freed from my distorted vision of this brother of mine. I saw him as he is, not as his story. This freed me of my confusion about my own story and left me feeling peaceful and happy. I no longer had a need to change anything, and my mind was clear.
Later that day I had an occasion to talk to this person. We had a nice conversation that led effortlessly into talking about his troubled relationship. The words that needed to be said came easily and were well accepted, because I was no longer trying to help him in my way. In fact, I was now so clear that my way was insane that it would never have occurred to me to do that. I didn’t plan this conversation, or even know I was going to have it. I just allowed the words to come when they did.
Will this be helpful to him? I’m sure it will because it came from a source outside my ego mind. Will I see a difference, will the relationship change in form? I don’t know and it is none of my business. I did the part I was to do. I saw that my mind needed to be healed and I accepted the Atonement for myself. That was my function.
Then with a clear mind, I was able to be a channel for healing. There is nothing left for me in this particular story. To judge it by appearances would be to fall into error again. To think I know what it means would be to listen to another voice. My part is over. I feel only appreciation for my brother and for this opportunity to choose salvation.
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