Day 173

Today's Review:

God is but Love, and therefore so am I.

(155) I will step back and let Him lead the way.
God is but Love, and therefore so am I.

(156) I walk with God in perfect holiness.
God is but Love, and therefore so am I.

Miracles I'm noticing:

Yesterday's text was very inspiring to me. It talked of the holy instant, which is all we really have. It's the present - the time at which we choose to let all littleness go. It's very simple, really. Complexity is of the ego, and the text says that it is nothing more than the ego's attempt to obscure the obvious. We could live forever in the holy instant, beginning now and reaching to eternity, but for a very simple reason. Do not obscure the simplicity of this reason, for if we do, it will be only because we prefer not to recognize it and not to let it go.

Today's text talks about the holy instant and special relationships. I love how it talks about judgment always resting on the past, and how judgment is impossible without the past. We are afraid to give up the past because we believe that without the ego all would be chaos. But the text assures us that without the ego, all would be love.

The text goes on today to say that because of guilt, all special relationships - those relationships that we deem separate from other aspects of relationships - those that we separate out and treat differently - have elements of fear in them. This is why they shift and change so frequently. They are not based on changeless love alone. And love, where fear has entered, cannot be depended on because it is not perfect.

The Holy Spirit knows no one is special, meaning apart from anyone else. Yet He also perceives that we have made special relationships, which He would purify and not let us destroy. We can trust that He will translate those relationships into holiness by removing as much fear as we will let Him.

The ego's use of relationships is so fragmented that it frequently goes even farther; one part of one aspect suits its purposes, while it prefers different parts of another aspect. Everyone on earth has formed special relationships, and although this is not so in Heaven, the Holy Spirit knows how to bring a touch of Heaven to them here. In the holy instant, no one is special, for our personal needs intrude on no one to make anyone seem different. Without the values from the past, we would see everyone the same and like ourselves. We would not see any separation between ourselves and them. In the holy instant, we see in each relationship what it will be when we perceive only the present.

God knows us now. We remembers nothing, having always known us exactly as He knows us now.

What a profound way to see all people - in the holy instant. That's a miracle for sure! Look around today and recognize the light in everyone you see, regardless of the past. Let's create and allow love and light to surround us in all our interactions today and notice what miracles that illuminates!