Day 161: Give me your blessing, holy Son of God.

Today we See each other as We Really Are.  Today we recognize that each person we encounter is our Savior.  They may be young or old, fit or fat, black or white, intelligent or not; they may appear to you as doctor, lawyer, teacher, priest or prisoner; you may see them in the grocery store, sit with them on the bus, or toss coins into their jars as they lay shivering on the streets... but it does not matter how they come.  These are illusions anyway, just labels that obscure the Truth of Who We Really Are.  Everyone we meet is our Savior, a Holy Son of God.  We See the Light in them today and ask for their blessing:

Give me your blessing, holy Son of God.  I would behold you with the eyes of Christ, and see my perfect sinlessness in you.

Our meditation from A Course in Miracles today reminds us that to See the Light in one another is to See the Light within ourselves.  This is what the Course refers to by "the eyes of Christ."  If you don't believe in Christ, it is no matter.  Christ is but a symbol for the Perfect Child of God, who exists in all of us.  For some it is the Buddha they believe.  For others it may be another figure.  In the end, it makes no difference.  The goal here is to recognize the Light in everyone, for that is our True Self.  And that is how we See our Self reflected in each other.

We cannot ask someone to bless us if we see them as beneath us.  Know, then, that we are equal, each and every one of us.  We cannot ask someone to bless us if we see them as attacking.  Know, then, that attack is only in our minds, our fear projected outward.  We cannot ask someone to bless us if we see them as unholy.  Know, then, that we are Divine, our bodies only shells hiding the Light of Truth within.

I know this isn't easy.  It's still a struggle for me, too.  It is one thing to know something intellectually, but putting it to practice is another thing entirely.  How, then, do we see each person we encounter as our true equal?  How do we perceive their assaults as illusions in our mind?  How do we envision them as Holy, bearing gifts of our salvation?

The Course advises that we start with just one person in our mind:

Select one brother, symbol of the rest, and ask salvation of him.  See him first as clearly as you can, in that same form to which you are accustomed.  See his face, his hands and feet, his clothing.  Watch him smile, and see familiar gestures which he makes so frequently.  Then think of this: What you are seeing now conceals from you the sight of one who can forgive you all your sins; whose sacred hands can take away the nails which pierce your own, and lift the crown of thorns which you have placed upon your bleeding head.

Our daily practice will make way for us to See more clearly.  One will turn to many, and before we know it, we will find that Vision has replaced our former faulty way of seeing.  Everyone we look upon will only come as Light.

So I say to all of you, some I know and some I don't, wherever you may be I want to thank you for your presence.  Inside yourself there is a Light so bright it moves my heart.  That Light is powerful enough to outshine our very sun.  It gives life to those around you, for it is Life of itself.  Without your Light, we would not be - not any single one of us.  For your Light is the same that shines from God and All Creation.  It is there, in you, even when you do not realize it.  So I ask of you, oh Holy one, my Brother here on earth, that you offer me your blessing, as I offer you my own.  Let us give that Light we share together to one and another, so that we may reunite ourselves in Brotherhood and Love.

Until tomorrow,
Journeyman