The Holy Work of Change

"God rests in action. Imparting has not impoverished, can never impoverish, the Divine Mind. The highest and sweetest rest, even from a human standpoint, is in holy work." -- Mary Baker Eddy

"Change is always fearful to the separated, because they cannot conceive of it as a move towards healing the separation." -- A Course in Miracles

"All things pass. God never changes." -- Theresa of Avila

A Course in Miracles says we are not capable of being tired, but that we are very capable of wearying ourselves. This is in alignment with the above quote from Mary Baker Eddy. We exhaust ourselves resisting change, resisting the flow of Spirit that emanates from our very core. It's exhausting trying so hard to be what we are not. Like trying to fit into clothes that are many sizes too small. Who We Are is Infinite. How could we feel at ease in such imagined limitations? Resisting change is to limit our infinite Mind.

The holy work of change in this dream world is that it ultimately shows the unreal nature of all material form... but the bonus is that it shows that nothing is limited by form. Forms morph and shift and change, and nothing is ever really lost. Coming to know and remember this is what we call Awakening. The core of Infinite Changelessness is the heart of All That Is. God, the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Allness, Oneness, is at the heart of all and yet untouched by change.

The Tao te Ching says: "You can't know It, but you can be It, at ease in your own life." This is the holy work of change. In the midst of what comes and goes, in the core of stillness that is always effortlessly present, is the True Self, the Beloved that We Are. So allow change to have its way with you... allow it to do its holy work.

"The miracle attests salvation from appearances by showing they can change. Your brother has a changelessness in him beyond appearance and deception, both. It is obscured by changing views of him that you perceive as his reality. The happy dream about him takes the form of the appearance of his perfect health, his perfect freedom from all forms of lack, and safety from disaster of all kinds. The miracle is proof he is not bound by loss or suffering in any form, because it can so easily be changed. This demonstrates that it was never real, and could not stem from his reality. For that is changeless, and has no effects that anything in Heaven or on earth could ever alter. But appearances are shown to be unreal because they change." -- A Course in Miracles