VIII. The Attraction of Love for Love
1 Do you really believe that you can kill the Son of God? The Father has hidden His Son safely within Himself, and kept him far away from your destructive thoughts, but you know neither the Father nor the Son because of them. You attack the real world every day and every hour and minute, and yet you are surprised that you cannot see it. If you seek love in order to attack it, you will never find it. For if love is sharing, how can you find it except through itself? Offer it and it will come to you, because it is drawn to itself. But offer attack and love will remain hidden, for it can live only in peace.
Journal
How is it that I attack the real world every day, every hour, every minute? First I realize that the real world is love and love is sharing. Then I realize what is opposite to that. Attack in any form is not love and not sharing, and though attack does not destroy reality, it keeps reality from my awareness. I cannot lose God and Self, but I can be unaware of God and Self and it is as if I have lost it.
I am eternal and perfect and joy and peace. I do not have these things; I am these things. I am divine in my nature. I am one with all things, I am part of God, I am safe, I am complete. I have chosen against my true nature to the point that I have lost any memory of what I am and live as if I am something completely opposite of that, and so I suffer. But I am beginning to awaken from this dream of separation.
I began this awakening process as I learned to recognize attack and decide against it. It is odd I had to learn to recognize something so far from my true nature, but I had become so accustomed to living in fear, and so my life as I experienced it seemed natural and necessary. I felt I had to defend myself and one defends only through attack.
Here is what I discovered. When I am angry that is an attack. It is an attack on my true nature which is love. It doesn’t matter what triggered the attack thoughts and feelings. Blame, cause, and justification are completely irrelevant. Only that I am angry and anger keeps me in hell, matters.
I can choose to release anger and ask the Holy Spirit to heal my mind of the belief it has any value to me at all. I can do this in spite of circumstances. I simply desire to be free and if the desire to be free is greater than the desire to build my defenses by feeding my anger, then it is done. It requires only trust in Jesus, in God.
As Jesus tells us, we don’t have to believe what he says or even understand it. We only need to trust enough to do it. I can muster that much trust. After all, what do I have to lose? When I am free of anger, I am free of what kept me from love. Letting anger go, I become aware of love, and love naturally shares itself. It flows from me to everyone. As it does so it is reinforced in my own mind. As I give, I receive.
This is as true of guilt, whether directed inward or outward. It is as true of depression, jealousy, spite, fear, lack, and loss. These all seem different, with different causes and different effects, but they are all the same. They are the same because they are not love and are attack. They attack reality. They attack the Son. They attack the Father. And each one, as it appears in its special form, can be denied as easily. True denial is very powerful because it is a return to reality.
It requires only that we be vigilant for what is an attack on God, and that we be willing to receive healing. Our part is simple and not hard to do. It may feel hard as we resist it, but if we stay persistent we receive much support and our continued success will motivate us further. Jesus said that we can do anything he asks of us.
When my resistance is strong, I find it helpful to remind myself of this.
In the beginning, I was deeply discouraged by my level of resistance, but then I came to understand that it is not that I am lazy or that this is too much for me, but only that I did not believe I was worthy of this level of effort or this lofty goal, much less its conclusion.
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