Forever One

"This is the miracle of creation; that it is one forever. Every miracle you offer to the Son of God is but the true perception of one aspect of the whole. Though every aspect is the whole, you cannot know this until you see that every aspect is the same, perceived in the same Light and therefore One." -- A Course in Miracles T.13.VIII.5:1-3

Our everyday experience of the world is one of multiplicity. Multiple bodies, multiple personalities, multiple gifts, multiple problems. We're fascinated by this. We love to collect new experiences, new stories, new people to tell stories about, new sensations, new ideas... as ACIM puts it, we want more and still more, and it doesn't even matter more of what. We are addicted to stimulus and response.

The mistake we so often make in our spiritual journey is to try to make sense of this dream that continues to morph, as all dreams do. It will always divide and sub-divide, like the cells that seem to make up the creatures and people in the dream. It's what dreams do. We will never find the Truth in the dream. Like Mary looking for Jesus in the tomb, we look for salvation in the dream, over and over. It is not there. It will never be found in what comes and goes, what is essentially unreal. How could the eternal and unchanging be found in what is constantly morphing?

A Course in Miracles tells us that the healing of this dream lies in release from a belief in the past. "All healing is release from the past. That is why the Holy Spirit is the only Healer. He teaches that the past does not exist." It's hard to collect stories when there is no past to tell a story about. As we gently forgive and release all our complicated notions about what has been or what must be, about what did or did not happen, we settle into the radiant Truth of Being. None of it ever happened... none of it ever existed.

We always have been and always will be One, whole and complete, in the Mind of God. Every complicated scenario that confronts us in the dream that calls itself life is simply another opportunity to offer the miracle of forgiveness, and what is True and forever One is revealed in the midst of it all.

"They are all the same; all beautiful and equal in their holiness. There is one miracle, as there is One Reality." -- A Course in Miracles T.13.VIII.6:1,3