God is Love

. . . and the call for love as well

God is Love.

Let that be my stance in the world; let that be my response. Let this is where I meet and lay down with the Beloved, the ground on which I work out my salvation with fear and trembling, joy and desire, cooperation and collaboration. God is Love; from this I will not be moved.

I do not experience God in the world as a duty or a burden (much less as a being) but as a cry in the heart, my heart and your heart. It is a cry that begs to be remembered throughout the world. It is a cry for love to which the only possible response is love.

I offer up this cry. And I respond to this cry. I have no other being than this.

The form of the cry - and the response - are embedded in that which cries and hears the cry. Some of us need to move across the country and start our lives over. New job, new home, new hobby. Some of us just need a hug. Some of us need to welcome weary pilgrims and help them find a home. Some of us need to invite an old friend for coffee.

All cries for love; all met with love.

The cry for love and the love which answers is a spiritual call-and-response, a single song, a single continuous note in which the whole cosmos rests. It is the Song of God inviting us to remember who and what we are in truth, and with us, all of us.

A Course in Miracles links this song to the body and the world - to form - by clarifying once for all that "projection makes perception" (T-21.In.1:1).

As a man thinketh, so does he perceive. Therefore, seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. Perception is a result and not a cause (T-21.In.1:6-8).

Vision reflects our decision to see as Christ sees - we see either the pure call for love or the love that answers it. Anything else is chaos. Thus, notice the world you create: do you see Jesus crucified or resurrected? Is Love being sold in the temple or given away for free everywhere?

If you see even a hint of crucifixion - if the moneychangers have taken over the temple - then you have not yet changed your mind in order to bring it into alignment with Christ, which is the Love of God remembered and extended.

Perfect happiness waits only on the decision to see as Christ sees - which is to bring our thinking in line with Christ. If you see crucifixion, then bring resurrection. If you see lies, then bring truth. If you see hypocrisy, bring righteousness.

The form does not matter. Always we are bringing love to fear, love to hate, love to confusion, love to sorrow, love to suffering and pain. This one gesture will take many forms; it will be many works of peace and love. The outcome is not our responsibility; only the integrity of crying out in earnest and responding in earnest.

We will fail in this - we have all failed to offer a hug or cup of coffee, we have all failed to forgive our brothers and sisters for not hugging us or buying us coffee - but even failure is used by the Holy Spirit to restore the memory of God to our shared mind, awakening it to the light which "expands and covers everything, extending to infinity forever shining and with no break or limit anywhere" (T-21.I.8:4).

Nothing is excluded from this light (T-21.I.8:4), and there is "nowhere this light is not" (T-21.I.8:6).

The world you see but shows you how much joy you have allowed yourself to see in you, and to accept as yours. And, if this is its meaning, then the power to give it joy must lie within you (T-21.In.2:7-8).

Is it clear? We are saved because the power to save is already given to us. How else could we remember it? Joy is our teacher and peace is the lesson. How grateful I am to share with you this classroom!

Love,

Sean