IV. The Holy Spirit’s Plan of Forgiveness, P 3
3 The Atonement is a lesson in sharing, which is given you because you have forgotten how to do it. The Holy Spirit merely reminds you of the natural use of your abilities. By reinterpreting the ability to attack into the ability to share, He translates what you have made into what God created. If you would accomplish this through Him you cannot look on your abilities through the eyes of the ego, or you will judge them as it does. All their harmfulness lies in the ego’s judgment. All their helpfulness lies in the judgment of the Holy Spirit.
Journal
I was a little confused at first when I read this. But then I read it again and sentence three really clicked for me. “By reinterpreting the ability to attack into the ability to share, He translates what you have made into what God created.” Here is an example of this. At the sales meeting yesterday I discovered that something important had been overlooked by a member of the team. This could have serious repercussions for me and I immediately attacked him.
I stopped myself as quickly as I could, but still, I did attack. I said something like, “You can’t do that. This is important.” Just reading the words it doesn’t seem like much, but in my mind it was a full out attack. If I said what my ego mind was thinking, it would have been more like, “You are such an idiot! How could you do something so dumb? You are attacking me with your behavior and I’m going to return the attack. Then we will see how you feel.” Luckily, I do have a filter and I generally use it.
This is the ego use of my abilities. The ego uses everything as either an attack or a defense. The ego felt that his behavior was an attack on me and could affect my income. The ego response was to do something about this. It wanted to defend through making him do better, which is an attack on him. I recognized this and I was able to recover my senses and ask for healing before it got too far out of hand.
How is it that the Holy Spirit could use my abilities to share? In this same situation, once I allowed my mind to be corrected and I had returned to peace, I saw it as a situation to be resolved. I thought about it during the day and came up with some solutions. It was no longer about assigning blame and defending myself. Now I can honestly say that I love this person. I see him differently. I see with greater vision because I asked for vision. Instead of projecting blame and assigning guilt, I feel like I just want to extend love and understanding.
It’s funny that during the same meeting I discovered I had made a mistake that could negatively affect a member of the team. My first reaction was to defend and lash out (in my mind at least) doing what the ego always does, projecting the fault on others. I saw that desire right away and I knew that isn’t what I want. I looked at it again with Holy Spirit and felt led to make amends. I did this and the other person was gracious in accepting my apology, and even in insisting it was no big deal.
There is a world of difference in the ego’s judgment and the Holy Spirit’s judgment. I have learned to value the peace and joy that comes from judging through the Holy Spirit rather than judging through the ego. The ego judgments pop up in my mind, and to the degree that I believe them, I suffer. But the truth is in my mind as well, and even in the middle of an ego storm of resentment and rage, I know what I want. Eventually, and usually soon, I choose peace.
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