“No intermediary is needed when you exist in union. It is recognized that the knowledge, wisdom, guidance, or information that is needed each moment is available within each moment and that the interaction, rather than being one of taking something from an outside source into the self where it is learned and then regurgitated or even applied, has given way to an interaction that begins within and extends outward. (A Course of Love: Dialogues, p. 186)”
Affirmation: “May I exist in union.”
Reflections:
Day Twenty One elaborates upon the previous day’s commentary We are led to understand more completely that we cannot rely upon external sources for the truth. We are led to realize that we cannot even rely upon Jesus to impart the truth to us. We must reach inward, and in dialogue with the Self that is the All of us, we will come to know. This will not be an external seeking, but an internal transition to relying on the Self.
Jesus is preparing us to cease thinking of him as our teacher. He has said in these commentaries that he is our companion, but he is resigning as our teacher. We are not to look outside ourselves for the answers, but to turn inward. Ideas such as these are reiterated throughout the Forty Days and Forty Nights.
Life itself is a channel, and we are constantly both receiving and giving. There is nothing channeled to one that is not always available to all others. Teacher and learner are equal, an idea that was presented in A Course in Miracles; in ACIM, though, it was said that only time separated the teacher from the learner, because the teacher temporarily knew more, and was therefore in a position to help. In these concluding chapters to A Course of Love, we are led to realize that time no longer separates the teacher from the learner. We have walked farther along the pathway. We are assuming Christ-consciousness for ourselves.
Prayer:
Dear Father/Mother,
Thank You for reassurance that I have come farther along on the pathway, and that union with the Self that I am will answer my questions. I want to be in union with You. I do not want separation any longer. Help me to know union with You.
Thank You for the spectacular promise of this day. I do not have to rely on external sources, but I only need to turn inward to You and the Self that I am.
Amen.
ACIM Workbook Lesson for Day 114:
For morning and evening review:
I am spirit.
I will accept my part in God’s plan for salvation.
Mari Perron
/ April 27, 2010Again I’ll add “expression” to what Celia has shared in her reflection:
“You have now been told to own this dialogue and to realize that its wisdom is your own. Are you accepting this? Are you beginning to ready yourself to hear this voice as your own? To express the voice of Christ-consciousness as only you can express it?”
This feels so much to me like a maturation. Not only an acceptance of our changed state but an acceptance of our own wisdom and a growth in willingness to express it in our own voice.
Mari
celiaelaine
/ April 27, 2010Dear Mari,
I remember that you told me, in St. Paul, several years ago, that you were now writing in your “own voice.” You were expressing your innate nature, not any longer channeling. This is perhaps the “expression” to which this day refers. We are meant to go beyond just absorbing what Jesus has said, and to add our voice to that of his. He has repeatedly told us that he is resigning as our teacher, and that we are equals and companions. This is what the “Dialogues of a Course of Love” are about.
So often we don’t accept the great blessing that Jesus’s message, herein, really gives to us. He wants to hear our expression, as you alluded to above. We all have a unique part. What a joy it will be to express our nature, as we progress, without the limitations in mind and spirit that have heretofore held us back!
Love, Celia