Perhaps it is not yet quite clear to you that each decision that you
make is one between a grievance and a miracle. Each grievance stands
like a dark shield of hate before the miracle it would conceal. And as
you raise it up before your eyes, you will not see the miracle
beyond. Yet all the while it waits for you in light, but you behold your
grievances instead.
Today we go beyond the grievances, to look upon the miracle instead. We
will reverse the way you see by not allowing sight to stop before it
sees. We will not wait before the shield of hate, but lay it down and
gently lift our eyes in silence, to behold the Son of God.
He waits for you behind your grievances, and as you lay them down he
will appear in shining light where each one stood before. For every
grievance is a block to sight, and as it lifts, you see the Son of God
where he has always been. He stands in light, but you were in the dark.
Each grievance made the darkness deeper, and you could not see.
Today we will attempt to see God’s Son. We will not let ourselves be
blind to him; we will not look upon our grievances. So is the seeing of
the world reversed, as we look out toward truth, away from fear.
We will select one person you have used as target for your grievances,
and lay the grievances aside, and look at him. Someone, perhaps, you
fear and even hate; someone you think you love who angers you; someone
you call a friend, but whom you see as difficult at times, or hard to
please; demanding, irritating or untrue to the ideal he should accept as
his according to the role you set for him.
You know the one to choose; his name has crossed your mind already. He
will be the one of whom we ask God’s Son be shown to us. Through seeing
him behind the grievances that we have held against him, you will learn
that what lay hidden while you saw him not is there in everyone, and can
be seen. He who was enemy is more than friend when he is freed to take
the holy role the Holy Spirit has assigned to him. Let him be savior
unto you today. Such is his role in God your Father’s plan.
Our longer practice periods today will see him in this role. We will
attempt to hold him in our mind, first as you now consider him.
We will review his faults, the difficulties you have had with him, the
pain he caused you, his neglect, and all the little and the larger hurts
he gave. We will regard his body with its flaws and better points as
well, and we will think of his mistakes and even of his “sins.”
Then let us ask of Him Who knows this Son of God in his reality and
truth, that we may look on him a different way, and see our Savior
shining in the light of true forgiveness, given unto us. We ask Him in
the Holy Name of God and of His Son, as holy as Himself:
“Let me behold my Savior in this one
You have appointed as the One for me
To ask to lead me to the holy light
In which he stands, that I may join with him.”
The body’s eyes are closed, and as you think of him who grieved you, let
your mind be shown the light in him beyond your grievances. What you
have asked for cannot be denied. Your Savior has been waiting long for
this. He would be free, and make his freedom yours. The Holy Spirit
leans from him to you, seeing no separation in God’s Son. And what you
see through Him will free you both.
Be very quiet now, and look upon your shining Savior. No dark grievances
obscure the sight of him. You have allowed the Holy Spirit to express
through him the role God gave Him, that you might be saved. God thanks
you for these quiet times today, in which you laid your images aside,
and looked upon the miracle of love the Holy Spirit showed you in their
place. The world and Heaven join in thanking you, for not one Thought of
God but must rejoice as you are saved, and all the world with you.
We will remember this throughout the day, and take the role assigned to
us as part of God’s salvation plan, and not our own. Temptation falls
away when we allow each one we meet to save us, and refuse to hide his
light behind our grievances. To everyone you meet, and to the ones you
think of, or remember from the past, allow the role of Savior to be
given, that you may share it with them. For you both, and all the
sightless ones as well, we pray:
“Let miracles replace all grievances.”