“When your heart can feel, you need no judgment to tell you the difference between one thing and another. You thus can begin to quit relying on your body’s eyes to distinguish the true from the false, the real from the unreal. (A Course of Love, 21.3)”
Affirmation: “May I listen to my heart today.”
Reflections:
1 – The Heart
Today’s passage is another indication of the primacy of the heart in our new experience of being one with Christ. If we listen to the heart (this passage is saying), we will know the good. We will no longer be mired into the egoism of the mind, which wants to understand and/or prove all things. We do not need to “prove” all things. This is an egoic interpretation, and we would be wise to quit such rationalizing immediately. Our benefit will come immediately also.
2 – Look Inward
We have relied on our body’s eyes to tell us what we see, but we see illusions. And so we need to look inward. What we see from within is a changed world, a world of true reality, a real world. Our body’s eyes deceive, and we would be deceived no longer.
3 – Little Edges of Light
When we have seen the little edges of light around familiar objects (from A Course in Miracles), we will know that vision will come quickly. This perceptual indication will not last, because no perception lasts. But the knowing that comes with the perception will last. And what we know will help us to realize that God is always with us, that Jesus is our companion, and that we are surrounded by help from our brothers and sisters. We do not have to go it alone any longer. Indeed, we must not. We are placed in this world with others for a reason. We are never meant to be isolated.
4 – Reach Out
When we reach out to others (if they welcome it), then we are helped immediately. We must be careful not to force our unwelcome attentions on another, though. This is a mistake often made in special relationships, and we would have all of our special relationships evolve into holy ones. Then we will have an inner knowing about when to act, and when not to act. We will function in the dark no more.
5 – Inner Vision
Be with us today as we seek to follow your inner vision. We will not trust the perceptions of our outer eyes, our physical eyes. We know that the ego deceives, and we would be deceived no longer. Help us to follow Your way, and Your way alone.
Prayer:
Dear Father/Mother,
Help me to follow my heart in all circumstances today. There is a time for the mind, but the heart knows in a way that the mind can never know. I have all too often looked at life in an intellectual way, and this has skewed my view of this world. May such skewing fall by the wayside, and fall immediately.
Help me to reach out to others who may be hurting. Help me to respond to others in a way that would be helpful. Thank You for the camaraderie of kindred spirits. Thank You for this experience.
Be with us as we seek to see with inner vision today. The inner is always preferred to the outer, for the outer is illusory. I would see the real today, the intangibles of peace, hope, harmony, joy, serenity. Help me to do so.
Amen.
MIRACLES EACH DAY 