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Study of Manual for Teachers 6-17-12

6-17-12
5 Now there are no distinctions. Differences have disappeared and Love looks on Itself. What further sight is needed? What remains that vision could accomplish? We have seen the face of Christ, His sinlessness, His Love behind all forms, beyond all purposes. Holy are we because His Holiness has set us free indeed! And we accept His Holiness as ours; as it is. As God created us so will we be forever and forever, and we wish for nothing but His Will to be our own. Illusions of another will are lost, for unity of purpose has been found.

I remember those hidden pictures that used to be so popular. I had one that was poster sized. I would look and look at it and all I saw was a lot of colored dots. Slowly as I held my head this way and that, squinted my eyes just right, a picture began to take form. Then suddenly I could see a dolphin jumping out of the water. Once I saw it, it was obvious and I had no trouble seeing it from then on.

I envision the resurrection like this, only the opposite way. There is a picture of all these different forms, people and trees and houses, clouds and mountains and on and on. I see stories of anger, fear, guilt, rage, depression.  Each of these pictures within the picture seems separate and distinct.

Slowly, as I do my practices and let go of my usual way of seeing things, the different forms dissolve into each other and there is only light, many lights blending into each other to form a single, pure and blazing light. For awhile I can shift back and forth, first seeing forms and then easily seeing that the forms are really a single light.

In my blindness, I love this one because he fills a perceived need. I love to hate that one because he is the one I project my rage onto. This place symbolizes stability for me. That place seems to be my own personal hell, the punishment I so deserve for my many sins. Each of the forms within my story are discrete, and each serves a different purpose for me.

As I forgive this picture of the world, and my vision clears, I see only Christ, innocent and One. With only one purpose I have no need to shatter the Son into millions of pieces. I see the light behind the forms as I accept the innocence, the sameness, the holiness that is each thing, and I let go of my many purposes I have for them and accept there is only one purpose.

Today, I look at time. I have given it the purpose of proving I am victim. Time seems to chase me, barking and snapping at my heels, a constant threat as I try to stuff too many things into a day. I am willing to see this differently. I am willing to that time is innocent and so am I, and so is the day.

I give it all to the Holy Spirit and trust that as I release my will to have things a certain way, that time will be made for all that matters. I have given time the purpose of binding and limiting me. But in His hands time is elastic and malleable as it serves His single purpose. We made time to imprison God’s Son, but the Holy Spirit uses time to help us awaken.

It’s the same with all my miscreations. As soon as I become willing to acknowledge that I see amiss, I am given Vision. I let go of my own perceived purpose for a thing, and I see a single purpose and with that single purpose comes clarity and peace.

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