What does this lesson mean to me?
Because the world is the thought of separation, it tries to splinter even love, making it into different kinds, bestowed on some and not others, withheld where we don’t see it as deserved. If we could do this to love then we would have destroyed love because love is complete and cannot be changed or divided or withheld. It simply is.
This splintered and destroyed shadow of love that we claim as our own is not the love that is God. But love remains, unchanged and unharmed by our silly dreams, and waits for our acceptance. We only need make a place for it in our lives and it will fill us with its light and beauty, bringing an undisturbed state of peace and joy with it.
How can I apply this to my life right now?
I will make a place for love in my mind by clearing the clutter of my unloving thoughts. Of course I cannot clean house unless I can see what needs to be cleared away. So I will watch my thoughts closely and look for the ones that are not love. If I judge or withhold love or imagine that one person is more special than another then I have tried to make of love something it is not. I will bring those thoughts to the Holy Spirit and ask Him how I could see it differently.
My message from Holy Spirit
Holy Spirit, I understand the concept of love being equal, and in fact, I understand that it isn’t love if it is not equal in all ways and at all times. But I don’t understand how to do this. I have to say in all honesty that I love my kids more than someone else’s. I cannot seem to undo that feeling. And of course, that is just one example of how I fail to truly love. Could you please help me to understand how I am supposed to do this?
Myron, you distort love when you use it to fill your perceived needs. Your only true need is to remember that you are not separated from God and so are not separated from Love. Because you perceive yourself as lacking God’s love you continue to seek for love outside of God and outside of yourself. You are seeking in a place that does not exist and so you are never going to succeed.
You think you love your children more than other children because they seem to be filling your needs in a way others do not. You want to feel needed and appreciated and cared for and they seem to do that for you. You call this love and because they are giving it to you, your children are very important to you. You return the favor and make them feel like they are special to you and so you hope to sustain the feeling of being loved. It is an unholy bargain conceived out of a sense of lack.
Do not try to change how you feel or how you act. These are merely the effects and not the cause. Go to the thought that you could be separate from God, that you could fail to be worthy of His love, and that His love is something that can be changed or contained, withdrawn or withheld. Go to the thought that you can make of love what you will and that your creation will fulfill your needs. Go to the thought that you are so guilty that you dare not ask for God’s love to return to your awareness. These are the thoughts you need to look at with Me and that you need to give Me. I will take them from you and give you the thoughts of God to take their place.
My message to Holy Spirit
I must believe You when You tell me that I am using the word love to mean fulfillment of my needs because when you said that I responded with a fierce protectiveness. I felt a need to defend my strategy, as if You planned to strip me of what little love I am allowed. I know this is not true and not what You want to do, but on another level it is what I expect and fear. Thank you for helping me to see this.
I am reminded that God never asks for sacrifice, so I must be wrong to think that You are asking me to give up the love of my children. I know this is crazy. You are asking me to trust You to give me something better. I can almost laugh at this. I imagine myself a homeless woman clinging desperately to the card board box I have been sleeping in because someone is offering to trade it for a house. The card board box may not be much but it is all I know and I am being asked to trust the promise of something better but first give away all you have. That is what it feels like.
Myron, your defenses go even deeper than you realize. To accept the endless unchanging love of God is to reject the ego altogether. It is to let go of the idea of being separate, unique, different, which means deciding against being your own creator. Accepting the love of God is accepting wholeness and oneness. But you looked at your fear and you spoke it aloud and you are still here and nothing bad happened. That is the first step.
What I am asking you to consider is that accepting God’s love is not going to destroy you. You will not cease to exist if you bring your mind back to the Oneness that you are. I am asking you to hold My hand and walk through your fear with Me by your side.
Ok, Holy Spirit. I give this my willingness. I ask You to join Your willingness to mine and strengthen it.
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