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A Course in Miracles Lesson #246
“To love my Father is to love His Son."
One of my favorite Mary Baker Eddy quotes is, "Clad in the panoply of Love, human hatred cannot reach you." I've always thought of that statement as meaning that the human hatred of others cannot reach me. I now see that it procludes the hatred I may feel toward others, also. It's very easy for me to think that I don't hate anyone or anything. Actually, it's a word I have pruned from my vocabulary and simply do not use. BUT if I am irritated by another's actions or words, or if I replay a past situation in my mind which caused anger in the past, or if I allow criticism to gnaw at me and I think of retaliatory statements which could have been made -- isn't that human hatred? Wearing this cloak of Love calms these nagging feelings and thoughts. I know that if I'm wearing the armor of Love, hatred cannot enter from inside or out!
"God is universal; confined to no spot, defined by no dogma, appropriated by no sect. Not more to one than to all, is God demonstrable as divine Life, Truth, and Love; and His people are they that reflect Him -- that reflect Love."
Miscellaneous Writings 1883-1896 Page 150
This is one of your creations which returns to my mind many times during the day you posted it AND many times during days after the posting. Penguins are such a perfect representation of community (wholeness, oneness) which is a high-priority experience for me. Then you apply MBE's statement to "within" as well as "from without." Then you move past hatred through anger and irritation to acknowledging that even "gnawing" is hatred. Beautiful development. All I could add is that, for me, each of my judgments made absent from love is hatred. Richard (in Texas)
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