When a horrible event happens, why must we find someone to blame? Why can’t we simply say this is awful and it must stop? The priest at the church where I play keyboards opines it is because we go to our tribe for consolation, and then we end up banding together with them, which sets up an us-against-them situation. I remember when the terrible attack occurred on 9/11, I felt this was a turning point in which the world would band together and stand against terrorism and other heinous crimes. I saw us all coming together for goodness and love, overwhelming the forces which want to cause harm to others and the world at large. We didn’t see that happen, not visibly, but I still feel the great majority of us are standing on the side of love. If we can only see ourselves as One, created in the image of Love, as the reflection of divine Mind, then we can easily unite for the Universal Good, knowing that differences of opinion are no more than that. Reaching out in Love allows true forgiveness into our hearts. We can release judgment and blame, and pray that “walls of pride and prejudice shall cease when we are instruments of peace.” [from Make Us Instruments of Your Peace]
“This scientific sense of being, forsaking matter for Spirit, by no means suggests man’s absorption into Deity and the loss of his identity, but confers upon man enlarged individuality, a wider sphere of thought and action, a more expansive love, a higher and more permanent peace.”
Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 265:10-15
“All forms forgiveness takes that do not lead away from anger, condemnation and comparisons of every kind are death. For that is what their purposes have set. Be not deceived by them, but lay them by as worthless in their tragic offerings. You do not want to stay in slavery. You do not want to be afraid of God. You want to see the sunlight and the glow of Heaven shining on the face of earth, redeemed from sin and in the Love of God. From here is prayer released, along with you. Your wings are free, and prayer will lift you up and bring you home where God would have you be.”
A Course in Miracles S-2.II.8:1-8
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