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| "Mark in Mongolia, 2009" photo by Aaron Springston |
A Course in Miracles Lesson #234
“Father, today I am Your Son again.”
For those who are hyper-sensitive to gender issues, today's topic will once again cause you to cringe. But I hope you can see past any connotations you have attached to words such as father and son and open your mind to what today's lesson is attempting to illustrate. "Father, today I am Your Son again" is saying that any false sense of sin or guilt we have attached to ourselves can now be discarded in recognition of our true nature as the child of God. And this "today" which is spoken of is eternity. There never was a time, nor will there be a time, when we have lapsed from this perfection. Yes, there are times when we have failed to realize who we are, and we may cover up our understanding of our relation to God, but the Truth has never changed. I love watching eyes light up when people remember this about themselves! But as often as not, this truth does not want to be remembered, and denial clouds the eyes. I am reminded of an elderly neighbor named Margaret. Some of you may remember I've spoken of her before. There were no mirrors in her house. At one point when we were helping her with household chores, someone put up a mirror in her bathroom. When she saw it, she immediately started trying to pull it off the wall. It wouldn't come off. She started beating on it with her fists and we had to promise to take it down. Margaret hadn't looked at herself in years, and couldn't wrap her mind around what she saw. The look in her eyes while she was experiencing this trauma was similar to what I often see when people are afraid to accept their being as spiritual. After a lifetime of seeing illusion as truth, some can't fathom anything else. In our acceptance of the idea that now is the time to acknowledge the eternal truth of our being, we let loose limiting illusions. Let's not be afraid to look deep into the mirror, past those illusions, to this truth. And through that sight, we'll come to understand the timelessness of eternity and what that means in relation to Life.
Mary Baker Eddy quote:
“Life is without beginning and without end. Eternity, not time, expresses the thought of Life, and time is no part of eternity. One ceases in proportion as the other is recognized. Time is finite; eternity is forever infinite. Life is neither in nor of matter. What is termed matter is unknown to Spirit, which includes in itself all substance and is Life eternal. Matter is a human concept. Life is divine Mind.”
Science & Health Page 568:26-4
