III. The Fear of Redemption, P 12
12 To “single out” is to “make alone,” and thus make lonely. God did not do this to you. Could He set you apart, knowing that your peace lies in His Oneness? He denied you only your request for pain, for suffering is not of His creation. Having given you creation, He could not take it from you. He could but answer your insane request with a sane answer that would abide with you in your insanity. And this He did. No one who hears His answer but will give up insanity. For His answer is the reference point beyond illusions, from which you can look back on them and see them as insane. But seek this place and you will find it, for Love is in you and will lead you there.
Journal
We see ourselves as separate and alone, each in our own little bodies. This is a state that induces pain and suffering and ultimately death. Then we blamed God and said He kicked us out of paradise for disobedience. Maybe the first attempt to use projection to make the other guy guilty. From that story we made up about God, we taught ourselves guilt and fear of God.
None of this is true. God did not create suffering and He has not condemned us for thinking separation thoughts. We have certainly condemned ourselves, though. We asked him for pain and suffering and He could not give it to us. How could Love give hate? Not possible. But neither could he deny our desire for the experience of it. He had given us creation and would not take that back. So we made for ourselves what Love did not have and so could not give us.
God loves us, though, and did not leave us without help. He answered our insane question with sanity. That answer is in us, and as Jesus tells us, it is a reference point. We can stand in love and look back on what we made. The comparison lets us know what is real and what is not. This is what we are doing right now. We are learning to disregard the outer illusion, to go within and find the love that God placed there.
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