Beautiful Friends Somewhere Under the Rainbow
I’ve been contemplating the idea of belonging — belonging to book clubs, belonging to churches, finding “your tribe”. I think of numerous people I know who feel they don’t belong anywhere. We shouldn’t feel we belong in this world, because we are in it but not OF it. Having been taught this concept from the time I was taken in by people who were old Christian Scientists, apparently I’ve always known it to be true. None of the other children were as different as I was, yet it never bothered me. Not only having old parents, but a Mexican mother (when no one else had anyone other than Donna Reed types), playing piano in public from a very early age, making grades that were too good, being the teacher’s pet — well, if I’d realized how that would/should make me a pariah, I probably would have felt I was one! A memory comes up of a day when children ganged up on me and another girl and chased us around the playground throwing rocks at us. It did not bother me emotionally, although there were a few physical bruises. Hum … Definitely not of this world! I wish I could find a way to pass on this extreme self-confidence to others. Maybe that’s why I write these daily messages …
“For perfect effectiveness the Atonement belongs at the center of the inner altar, where it undoes the separation and restores the wholeness of the mind. Before the separation the mind was invulnerable to fear, because fear did not exist. Both the separation and the fear are miscreations that must be undone for the restoration of the temple, and for the opening of the altar to receive the Atonement. This heals the separation by placing within you the one effective defense against all separation thoughts and making you perfectly invulnerable.”
—A Course in Miracles T-2.III.2:1-4
“Another change will come as to the nature and origin of man, and this revelation will destroy the dream of existence, reinstate reality, usher in Science and the glorious fact of creation, that both man and woman proceed from God and are His eternal children, belonging to no lesser parent.”
—Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 529:6-12
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