“The relationship becomes the known. While it is your nature to seek for more, it is also the nature of life to exist in relationship and to become known through relationship. This is how knowing comes to be. Knowing through relationship is not a ‘second best’ situation. It is how life is. It is how love is. (A Course of Love, 23.2)”
Affirmation: “I focus on relationship today.”
Reflections:
1 – What Relationship Means
This passage does not only mean relationship with other human beings. This passage means relationship with all that we know, our inner Self and the world as we see it. We stand in relationship to all, and that is how we learn, and that is what we love.
2 – Not Solitary Creatures
What does it mean to be “in relationship” to all? We can take these words literally. They mean what they say. We are not solitary creatures; we were not created that way. We are meant to be in relationship to all that surrounds us.
3 – With Significant Others
Of course, we focus most of all on our relationship to our significant others. This is the way that A Course in Miracles defined salvation to be found. And here A Course of Love picks up where ACIM left off, and also amplifies the concept. It is a progression, because we were not ready for the full truth when we were dislodging the ego, as in ACIM.
4 – Reciprocity
We need to give our significant others the love that they need. They in turn need to reciprocate, but this is not mandatory for the blessing to happen to us. We will learn from love even when it is unrequited. And we will learn from love when it ebbs and when it flows. There is nothing that we learn outside of love, for Love is all that there is. Everything else is illusion.
Prayer:
Dear Father/Mother,
I would recognize today that the world that I see is illusion, though it seems real enough to me. I would recognize that the love that I feel in relationship and unity is the only true reality. Help me to live peacefully with this knowledge, for it is knowledge, not perception.
Be with me throughout this day, to make of it a good day. You will make of it a good day, and it is only I who would rue it. I would not rue today.
Amen.
MIRACLES EACH DAY 