Day 38
4 With this idea is pain forever gone. But with this idea goes also all confusion about creation. Does not this follow of necessity? Place cause and effect in their true sequence in one respect, and the learning will generalize and transform the world. The transfer value of one true idea has no end or limit. The final outcome of this lesson is the remembrance of God. What do guilt and sickness, pain, disaster and all suffering mean now? Having no purpose, they are gone. And with them also go all the effects they seemed to cause. Cause and effect but replicate creation. Seen in their proper perspective, without distortion and without fear, they re-establish Heaven.
To be free of disease, pain, suffering and death for all time, I need only put cause and affect in their proper order. I have spent this lifetime trying to prove to myself that I am not guilty, that my pain is caused by someone or something else, and then trying to fix it through magic solutions.
Now I am being vigilant for those times when I have confused cause and effect so that I can ask for correction. The Holy Spirit is helping me to remember my innocence so I can afford to withdraw my projections without fear of increasing my guilt. As I do this I begin to understand that my plan to get rid of guilt by trying to place it outside myself through making someone else guilty never worked. As long as I believe in the guilt, I am affected by the guilt no matter where I see it.
Its like I carry around this heavy sack of guilt, and all through the day I try to get rid of it by dumping it on other people or on circumstances. Someone cuts me off in traffic and I think how guilty he is. My friend lets me down. Guilty. A customer doesn’t reorder. Guilty. My hotel room is not as clean as I like. Guilty. The whole world becomes a repository for this guilt I’m trying to get rid of.
You would think that by the end of the day my sack would be empty, and I would feel clean and safe. But instead, by the end of the day I feel exhausted. The world is my enemy and I have spent the day trying to defend myself from it. And my sack of guilt feels just as heavy, because if it has gone nowhere. And so I start over again on my fruitless and never ending task of trying to rid myself of guilt.
Jesus is helping us to see that not only can we not get rid of guilt by giving it away, but that we don’t have any guilt to get rid of. We have never done anything wrong, and the guilt never existed except in our fevered imaginings. The very act of trying to rid ourselves of guilt is what fixed it firmly in our minds as if it were real.
As I allow the Holy Spirit to heal my mind, I lose my morbid fascination with guilt. It has been my belief in guilt that has caused the appearance of pain suffering and death in my life, and without that belief, all those effects disappear. As Jesus says, “Having no purpose, they are gone.”
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