One of my favorite childhood memories is of waiting for election results on the square in my hometown, Berryville, Arkansas. At the time, it was an actual square, with traffic driving around the large circular area in the middle. There was a big speaker on the courthouse and updates would be broadcast loudly as we whooped and hollered when our parents’ choices were announced. The grassy area was full of people in lawn chairs, with kids chasing each other and playing happily. There were groups of men leaning on parked cars, laughing and talking. I suppose mothers were in the middle area with the kids, but for whatever reason, I have no memory of them. But the feeling was wonderful! The excitement of a political race, the fun of seeing friends, the camaraderie of small town living. Are we really so different now than we were 50 years ago? Surely we still have the same values, the same desire for safety and comfort, the same love of freedom. I will continue to focus on our unity, knowing that separation is an illusion we have allowed to seem real, certain we can recognize truth.
“A sense of separation from God is the only lack you really need correct. This sense of separation would never have arisen if you had not distorted your perception of truth, and had thus perceived yourself as lacking. The idea of order of needs arose because, having made this fundamental error, you had already fragmented yourself into levels with different needs. As you integrate you become one, and your needs become one accordingly. Unified needs lead to unified action, because this produces a lack of conflict.”
A Course in Miracles T-1.VI.2:1-5
“It should be thoroughly understood that all men have one Mind, one God and Father, one Life, Truth, and Love. Mankind will become perfect in proportion as this fact becomes apparent, war will cease and the true brotherhood of man will be established. Having no other gods, turning to no other but the one perfect Mind to guide him, man is the likeness of God, pure and eternal, having that Mind which was also in Christ.” Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 467:9-16
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