A Clearer Transparency

photo credit: Aaron Springston

ACIM Workbook Lesson #44

"God is the Light in which I see."

At a recent function, someone leaned in close to me and said, sotto voce, something derogatory about another person. I was reminded of Olympia Dukakis in Steel Magnolias when she said, “If you don’t have anything nice to say about anybody, come and sit by me”.  I wanted to say just the opposite and ask this person to go away! But I also wanted to see her comments with the light of Love and interpret them through Mind rather than my judgment of the words. So I just smiled at her. I was standing there asking Holy Spirit what to say, and nothing came, so I didn’t nervously babble something meaningless, nor did I condemn her as I am wont to do. I hope to remember on a daily basis that light is within, not without. My work is to become a clearer transparency from which this light may glow!

Mary Baker Eddy quote:

“The manifestation of God through mortals is as light passing through the windowpane. The light and the glass never mingle, but as matter, the glass is less opaque than the walls. The mortal mind through which Truth appears most vividly is that one which has lost much materiality — much error — in order to become a better transparency for Truth. Then, like a cloud melting into thin vapor, it no longer hides the sun.” Science & Health Page 295:16-24