A Year Without Blame

"Only the ego blames at all. Self-blame is therefore ego identification, and as much an ego-defense as blaming others. You cannot enter God's presence if you attack His Son." -- A Course in Miracles; Chapter 11, Section IV, 5:4-6

"Art Thou not from everlasting, O Lord my God, mine Holy One? Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity." -- The Bible; Habakkuk 1:12-13

Happy New Year to everyone! I love the way I'm seemingly led to a topic. Today is New Year's Day, and I'm at peace with the world. There's no one I seem to be struggling with or blaming at the moment. And yet this topic chose me. Thank goodness the Holy Spirit knows better than I do what's needed.

The fact that only the ego blames at all is important. I woke up yesterday morning after a fearful dream, in which I felt personally responsible for the evils happening to others in my night-time dream. This type of self-blame is the source of all guilt and all projection of guilt and blame in the dream we call the world. And while it remains unconscious, we just keep projecting and experiencing the dream of it, night and day. It's the product of a deluded mind that imagines it's separate from God and thinks it's creating stuff in opposition to the Goodness of God. Rationally we can agree that if God is All, then what else exactly could we be creating that is other than All? Rationally we can agree with this.

Yet our eyes keep beholding iniquity. Habakkuk tells us that God is "of purer eyes than to behold evil," and that God doesn't even see iniquity. So what are we seeing? If God doesn't see it, it can't exist. GOD IS ALL. That means ALL. When ACIM tells us we can't enter God's presence if we attack His Son, that means we can't experience our Oneness with God and each other if we attack ourselves. The buck starts and stops with self-condemnation. Because all seemingly external blame and attack comes from projected self-guilt and self-blame. Because deep-down, in the part of us that remembers Who We Are, we know that God is All, and that we are One with All. We know we can't have a power that opposes or rebels against what is Whole-ly Self. And so we feel guilty for wanting to be separate and autonomous, and project it all as a huge holographic dream universe of imagined opposing forces, and attempt to lose ourselves in a haze of dreaming and forgetting. All because we fear our own imaginary and illusory rebellion against the inclusiveness of Self.

So here we are on the first day of the imaginary year of 2009. Years are, of course, a human construct. We have tried our darnedest to segment the eternal into a progression of years, and to label and judge them all. The good news is that as we give this holy instant and every holy instant to God, our perception (projection) is released and healed. The miracle of sight is returned. For a holy instant, there is no blame, no judgement, no problem at all in the endless Oneness that We Are. This is the Peace of God. And this is the hope of 2009 and every other year... that we remember we are One, and that we don't need to look so hard for solutions to the problems that seem to appear, that are actually our projections. It's the observation (projection) of iniquity that keeps it in our dream experience. Kind of like it's people going to movies that keeps the industry going. We're the producer and director and viewing audience of this film. To behold the world without iniquity... to see self and each other, including Israelis and Palestinians, as innocent and as my Self, is to behold a year without blame and without blemish. This is my prayer for us all.

"All power is of God. What is not of Him has no power to do anything." -- A Course in Miracles; Chapter 11, Section V, 3:6-7