“You can be faithful to but one thought system. One is the thought system of the separated self and is based on separation. The other is the thought system of creation and is based on union. Your faith in what you have made has been shaken now, and you realize you would like to place your faith elsewhere. (A Course of Love, 11.6)”
Affirmation: “I choose union today, with God and my brothers and sisters.”
Reflections:
1 – Separation
We have long believed that we are somehow separated from God because we fell from grace and were expelled from Paradise due to our missteps. Perhaps we need to take another look at these concepts.
2 – Did We Separate from God?
What if we only thought that we had been rejected by God? What if we have never really separated from Him at all? These are the thoughts of A Course in Miracles and A Course of Love. Our belief in separation is based on the illusion in which we live. It would be impossible to actually separate from God, but we can imagine that we have done so, and thereby experience what it might be like to be “other than” God. By such thinking, we recognize, eventually, that we are lost in dreams and that we want to return home. And home is heaven. We find ourselves welcomed home as the Prodigal Son was welcomed back by his earthly father.
3 – Union
What does “union” mean in this context? Union is the consciousness of All That Is, the choice to join with God in knowingness and love, and with our brothers and sisters in knowingness and love. We are One, and in union we come to see how this can be. There is no separation among those who love each other. We will all meet again those in our lives whom we have loved, either on this earth or in the world beyond (from the Manual of A Course in Miracles).
4 – We Have Not Separated
Let us put our fatih in a different place today. Let us reaffirm that we have not actually left God at all, that this choice would be an impossibility. But that we think that we have left is very possible, and it goes a long way toward explaining our fears and apprehensions. We think that He is angry with us for “rejecting” Him, and we cringe in tribulation. All of this is illusory.
5 – A Better Day
May the faith that we reach today, the turning aside from the separated state and the choice for union, give us a better day–and may this better day be the harbinger of many good days ahead. Would not Jesus choose this for us? Yet we ourselves make the choice, and if it is in line with what Jesus would see as best, we are poised for a new tomorrow.
Prayer:
Dear Father/Mother,
I would choose today to place my complete faith in You. You know my needs, and You care for me. You will guide me to make the right decisions, in the things that I must do to be safe and loved by those about whom I care so much. Your way is best. Your way is actually the only sane response. May my day go well in Your light.
I would join in union with all today, and with All, meaning You. May any obsessions about my continued safety drop away before Your grace.
I know that to separate from You would be impossible. But all of my brothers and sisters do not have this knowledge. May I reach today those whom You would have me reach with this blessed news of Your constant presence in our lives.
May the day go well. If I am true to You all the day long, paying attention to the promptings, then this day will be good indeed. Thank You.
Amen.
MIRACLES EACH DAY 