“Re-establishing your relationship with your brother is what will show your Self to you. You have one brother who wears but many faces in your perception of who he is and, while you know him not, you cannot know yourself. (A Course of Love, 12.9)”
Affirmation: “I love my brother.”
Reflections:
1 – Forgiveness of Our Brother/Sister
This passage from A Course of Love highlights the way of salvation from A Course in Miracles: forgiveness of our brother (or sister). Forgiveness is not mentioned in this brief passage, though, but we can know that in order to re-establish our relationship to our brother, we must forgive him for the various transgressions that we think he has committed against us. Forgiveness is the only sane response, because these transgression are not real in actuality (being illusion in an illusory world), but, more important, these transgressions are a call for help and love.
2 – Adverse Happenings
If we reframe all the things that happen to us in this world that are adverse, we can recognize that those from our brothers and sisters that hurt us were actually their own calls of love. We would rush to their side with aid (if they are open to our aid).
3 – See Our Self
When we re-establish our appropriate relationship to our brother, A Course of Love goes a step farther in recognizing the blessings that will come to us: We will see our Self, perhaps (probably) for the first time. This Self is the Christ within, and in this world the combination of divine and human that is within becomes established in the physical world as the elevated Self of form. There is no higher goal for us in this world, but, of course, we must wish for this blessing for all others as well, and we must do our part to make that goal a reality for them as well.
4 – Perception
We see many sides of our brothers and sisters in our perception of them. That is because perception is so variable, being projected from within our own self. And our brother does seem to have a multifaceted personality, some parts of which we like and some parts of which we don’t like. We too are variable to him/her. Part of this variability is just the reflection of different moods in ourselves and our brothers and sisters. Bad moods do not mean that the person is bad, only feeling down or depressed, or acting out attack or anger because the inside of the person is hurting so much.
5 – Insane Behavior
The good news is that we don’t have to figure out what makes another act as he/she does. We just recognize the attitude or behavior as insane, when it is anything but loving, and then we forgive. We do not forgive reality, for we are not seeing reality. We forgive illusion, and we forgive for ourselves as well as for the other.
Prayer:
Dear Father/Mother,
Naturally we are going to get upset with our brothers and sisters as we walk through this world. They will sometimes make mistakes that involve us or our loved ones. Help me to handle such times in an appropriate manner. I realize that this may mean speaking up, but help me to know that anger does not have to rise to the surface. But, if it does, You will see that my attitude is adjusted. I would only love my brothers and sisters who make mistakes, even serious ones.
Be with me today as I settle down from a difficult yesterday. We are very human, and our Christ/Self as the divine does not always appear obvious to us. As time goes by, may more and more of our time be spent in glimpses of Christ-consciousness. May we live the life that You would have us lead.
I know that You have already forgiven me for any misdeeds that I made yesterday. I will always fall short if You do not pick me up. Do pick me up and allow me to try again.
Amen.
MIRACLES EACH DAY 