Relationship is Healing

. . . and forgetting this is not a crime

In you, I meet myself, and in us, together, we meet our Creator.

This is the Holy Trinity proposed by A Course in Miracles: you, me and our creator completing one another in a shared act of communion, which is creation.

Your identification is with the Father and with the Son. It cannot be with One and not the Other. If you are part of One you must be part of the Other, because They are One. The Holy Trinity is holy because it is One (T-8.IV.8:6-9).

Our meeting - which is our relationship - is a site of peace, founded on mutual trust and understanding. In full acceptance of one another in and through Creation, Love is created and extended, and knows Itself as One.

Knowing this - feeling it in our living - is a sweet sweet space.

But what happens we forget this Trinitarian oneness? When we don't accept our relationship with one another? When we refuse God and the sweetness of inner peace seems to disappear?

Short answer? Nothing at all.

Slightly longer answer?

Forgetting happens. In a sense, forgetting oneness is what ego is. We forget our oneness - we turn our back on God and the Holy Spirit, turn our back on our brothers and sisters - and instead live in bodies in the world, where everything is kill or be killed, a grim, high-stakes, zero-sum game under the watchful eye of a cruel game-maker. Nobody actually wins; at best we just stave off losing a little longer than others.

When we believe something is at stake (a job, our health, our kid's health, who's going to walk the dog or do the dishes, life itself) and that we are responsible for fixing or saving it, then we have forgotten our place in the Holy Trinity. This is a form of dissociation that alienates us from the peace that is our natural state and inheritance.

The recognition of God is the recognition of yourself. There is no separation of God and His creation (T-8.V.2:7-8).

"There is no separation of God and His creation" is not conditional. We don't have to notice God and creation in order to bring them into existence; rather, we want to notice them in order to claim through remembrance the peace and happiness that is our shared reality.

Unity with God, open lines of communication with the Holy Spirit, and the presence of our brothers and sisters are our reality, regardless of whether we remember or notice. It's like going to be the beach. I can close my eyes and say "where's the ocean, I don't see the ocean" but the ocean is still there.

It is the same with God, the Holy Spirit and our brothers and sisters. They are given; we couldn't be without them if we wanted to be. We can only pretend to be without them.

Therefore, it is not a big deal to forget the oneness of the Holy Trinity, which is inclusive of us. Our forgetting has no effects. We forget God but God cannot actually be forgotten. We forget Love but Love remains the law of our being. "Neither God's light nor yours is dimmed because you do not see" (T-9.VI.4:3).

When we find ourselves drifting from the sweet remembrance of unity with God, we simply come back to attention, which is the Holy Spirit. Attention will gently restore to our mind the light of Heaven in the form of sunsets, horses grazing, emails from friends, a good cup of coffee, an afternoon nap. And we will remember that all is well.

All is well because God is immanent in each part of our experience. Each part is the whole. A blade of grass, a grain of sand, and a cat's meow are all the holiness there is. Can you imagine living that way? The gratitude, the peace of mind, the happiness? Nothing missing and everything grace-filled? It is ours for the asking.

Because the Sonship must create as one, you remember creation whenever you recognize part of creation. Each part you remember adds to your wholeness because each part is whole. Wholeness is indivisible, but you cannot learn of your wholeness until you see it everywhere (T-9.VI.4:4-6).

Therefore, let us look fearlessly on the world and our experience in it, ever desiring the peace of God, utterly confident there is nothing else to find.

The grace of God rests gently on forgiving eyes, and everything they look on speaks of God to the beholder. He can see no evil; nothing in the world to fear, and no one who is different from himself . . . He is not an arbiter of vengeance, nor a punisher of sin. The kindness of his sight rests on himself with all the tenderness it offers others. For he would only heal and only bless (T-25.VI.1:1-2, 4-6).

God does not condemn; the Holy Spirit is everpresent, and the love of Jesus is unconditional. We are forgiven; we are not guilty. Nor is anybody or anything else. "No one is punished for sins, and the Children of God are not sinners" (T-6.I.16:4).

In this understanding - received as we offer it to one another - the suffering endemic to separation ends.

Thank you, as always, for helping me remember.

Love,

Sean