"I am under no laws but God's." -- A Course in Miracles; Workbook Lesson 76

It's finally really spring.  The crocus started blooming three weeks ago, and now the daffodils are in full bloom and the spring grass is greening.  It fills me with a sense of beauty, renewal, and gratitude for new beginnings in this world.  But for many people this beautiful spring weather has been apparently deadly, with tornadoes and thunderstorms and hurricane force winds in epic proportions.  Is this the handiwork of a loving God?  It would appear we're all under the crap shoot laws that govern the weather, which quite frankly can be very unloving.  Can these chaotic laws be real?  Can it be that we're misinterpreting the very nature of reality and what the projections that pass for real mean?

A Course in Miracles helps us see beyond the seeming reality of projected sensory experience:
"Think you that you can bring truth to fanstasy, and learn what truth means from the perspective of illusions?  Truth has no meaning in illusion.  The frame of reference for its meaning must be ItSelf." -- ACIM; Chapter 17, Section I, 5:1-3

It's sort of like trying to map the terrain while you're walking in a valley.  You're going to have major distortions from that perspective.  The only way to see the big picture and map it properly is to view it from above.  Similarly, the only way to know what's True is to see the world through the eyes of Truth, or the expanded awareness that is called Spirit, or God. 

"The natural man does not perceive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, for they are spiritually discerned." -- The Bible; 1 Corinthians, 2:14

It's foolishness to tell anyone that everything I see is my projection, and that every projection is simply a contracted way of seeing.  Only from the perspective of the expanded awareness of Spirit doesn the Truth become evident to us.  We mostly choose to remain in the contracted awareness that subjects itself to systems with chaotic laws and punitive judgment.

Every day we willingly put ourselves into contracted systems, ways of seeing the world.  Sometimes we call those systems pleasure, sometimes pain.  We submit to rules and laws that seem unavoidable, because we have a vested interest in the world we see and experience (it is, after all, the one we're pretending is real).  We're no different than my oldest grandson, who day after day submits to the sometimes physically punishing rules and requirements of being a football or basketball player because he loves it.  And he does, as the world defines love.  Just as each of us loves our situation, whether we say we do or not.  We simply wouldn't be where we are if we didn't.

I know, I know.  How can I say that I LOVE struggling for health, or money, or approval, or (fill in the blank)?  How can I say that I LOVE watching the world at war with itself?  How can that be LOVE?  Well, because Love is all that exists, what we're experiencing in these situations are a false sense of what IS.  And because we're really not capable of anything but Love, even the things we think we hate are simply a warped (distorted) sense of what IS.  To the closed mind, everything looks closed, right or wrong, good or bad, black or white.  To the unsealed and open mind, everything is Love.

The laws of God, as A Course in Miracles calls the Reality of things, can only be Love, and thus can only be Loving.  There isn't anything else.  So when we're experiencing a false sense of being, a sense of lack or limitation or suffering, our mind is self-limiting by believing in the apparent sense of things we're convinced must be true or real.  We're willingly participating in a system of made-up rules... laws that limit us and so (we think) keep us safe and normal... even when they seem to kill us.  At least we're like everyone else, right?  At least we're not being weird. 

What happens if we're willing to entertain the scandalous thought that it's all made up?  That every problem, every fear, every pain, every death is a false sense of what IS?  Or even more scandalous, that it's all a form of self-limiting very like being a football player... we are self-limiting by willingly taking on the rules of the game and culture, whatever it may be.  There is nothing outside of mind.  Whose mind is experiencing the limitation?   So whose mind has willingly adopted those rules (laws) as real?  Where are all the situations and relationships taking place, if not in your own (or in my case, my own) consciousness?

The fact that we have never been subject to any law but Love is the key to liberation.  Nor could we ever be.  Love IS.  You are subject only to the laws of your own consciousness in this world.  But in Reality, you are both subject and object, completely One with the Love that is All in All.

"There are no laws but Gods.  God's laws forever give, and never take." -- A Course in Miracles; Workbook Lesson 76, 9:1 & 6