Reflections of Love

"To infinite, ever-present Love, all is Love, and there is no error, no sin, sickness, nor death." -- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy; Page 567, Line 8

"I am as God created me." -- A Course in Miracles

What does it mean to see myself, and every living thing, as God created us? What does it mean to BE a reflection of Divine Love? How can I even begin to see all the separate parts of my world as one reflection of Love... endlessly varied, but forever One?

I have been working with a client on framing. No, not picture framing... conceptual framing. Current cognitive science has shown that all the laws and rules and supposed powers that we think run our lives are actually conceptual frames. There is even a type of therapy that deals with cognitive reframing, called Relational Frame Therapy (RFT). The gist of it is that all human behavior is governed by the networks of relationships, relational frames, which are conceptually created and known. As A Course in Miracles puts it, "I have given this all the meaning it has for me."

Because the number of possible relationships in the world are infinite, so are the possible relational frames. Some of the ones that have been 'named' by psychologists are: Frames of Coordination (such as 'same as,' 'similar to' or 'like'); Temporal or Causal Frames (such as 'before and after,' 'if/then,' 'cause of,' 'parent of,' etc.); Comparative and Evaluative Frames (a whole family of relations such as 'better than,' 'bigger than,' 'faster than,' etc.); Deictic Frames (frames of perspective, like 'you/me' and 'here/there'); and Spatial Frames ('near/far' or 'high/low,' etc.). What all these frames have in common is that: a/ they are learned relationships, and can be applied at your whim to anything at all; and b/ they are all exclusive frames, i.e., they all depend on relations between supposedly separate people, places, things, even ideas.

So it's all made up, and it's based on mentally separating and comparing. Isn't it fun that so much of science is mirroring the Truth? And why should we be surprised? As Mary Baker Eddy points out again and again, the Allness of Divine Love is the only Reality. What else could be reflected here or anywhere? It's like any reflection within the dream we call the world. It can be refracted and distorted in perception only, but the Source is not changed. The Source remains untouched by the perceptual distortions of the mirrors, or the lenses we are looking through. So no matter what we think we are seeing, it is pure and eternal Love.

Frames are like the lenses we put on to view and create the world according to our separated selves... they are the laws of the world as we think we know it, ways of looking at and framing so-called reality. All made up. A Course in Miracles tells us that there are no real laws in the world... all the so-called rules and laws and powers that make up the world are simply frames that distort and refract our experience of Love, but don't actually do anything at all. We are under no laws but God's. And God is Love.

What does it mean to BE a reflection of Love? To see only Love, everywhere, always? It means we allow our world to be reframed, inclusively. No exceptions and no exclusions. Infinitely varied reflections of One Love. Everywhere. Always.

"What is all-encompassing can have no opposite." -- A Course in Miracles; Introduction, 1:8

"Relationships in this world are the result of how the world is seen." -- A Course in Miracles; Chapter 19, IV, i, 12:1