Tonight I had a stupid argument with my partner. Moments before, I had become frustrated while trying to connect our TV antenna to an RF modulator to the VCR so that we could record live television. I know, I know, we need to get cable. But really, talk about being overly concerned with matters of the physical world. Anyway, it was a huge waste of time, and it set off a chain reaction of "bad luck." In between my electronic cable-connecting fiasco, I was making frequent trips to the laundry room to wash and dry about a month's worth of clothes. While bending down with a heavy sigh to pick up some shirts that had fallen on the dirty floor, I came up with a WHACK as I hit my head on the metal coin slot protruding from the machines. Not too long afterward, and I can't even say for sure how it happened, my partner and I were shouting at each other - judging one another, placing undue blame, digging up the past (all the things you're not supposed to do). Both of us were more concerned with being "right" than being loving. So far today's lesson was going great (note the sarcasm).
Now, being right is not the same as being truthful. Being right implies that someone else is wrong, which stems from the thought of separation. And separation is false, any way you look at it. The only Truth is that We are All One.
After our argument, I thought about today's lesson: No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth. I also considered the content for today's fifteen-minute meditations on the lesson:
I ask to see a different world, and think a different kind of thought from those I made. The world I seek I did not make alone, the thoughts I want to think are not my own.
Immediately after I thought of this, I took a deep breath to calm down, and I called my partner over and apologized. "This is ridiculous," I told him. And it was. Neither of us had been coming from a place of Love, and the argument we had was completely meaningless. There was no real "issue" there. I was already pissed off, and it had nothing to do with him. My frustration became his, and so an argument ensued - over nothing.
I was fortunate to remember today's lesson in that moment. A miracle had happened, for my perception shifted instantaneously from fear to Love. In that moment I was able to See a different world. I was able to think a different thought from those I had been thinking in the minutes prior. These new thoughts - these loving and forgiving thoughts - were not my own, but the thoughts of a higher Source. In calling my partner to me, I was seeking to inhabit that other world, one of Love and Joy and Peace. But without him, that world could not exist, for one cannot create such a world alone. God's world is one of sharing. The Gates of Heaven open only to those who carry with them their Brothers and Sisters, for in doing so they recognize the One Universal Truth that We are All One.
In the midst of all our silly confrontations, in the midst of all perceived competition, let us not forget these important Words of Wisdom: We are All One. You may not yet understand it in its entirety. But don't let that discourage you, for as A Course in Miracles tells us today, "No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth."
Until tomorrow,
Journeyman
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