Love Reflections VI

(Continued as part of Love Reflections series based on a prompt. I recommend starting with Part I.)

Earlier (Part I) I mentioned the goal of A Course In Miracles (ACIM) was “.... removing the blocks to the awareness of love's presence, which is your natural inheritance”. What makes it hard to experience this love? ACIM says we have an authorship problem – we want to be the authors of our lives. Instead of God in control, we want to be. Instead of us being made in God’s image, we want to make God and everyone into our image. The good news is the blocks don’t really exist (Yes, but try telling that to my ego).

In the Infinite Way, Joel Goldsmith tells the story of Marconi, inventor of wireless radio. When Marconi was asked how as a young engineer, he was so confident he would be the one to invent wireless communication given that so many more experienced people were working on it, he said that the people that were working on wireless were trying to solve the problem of resistance (how it would deal with physical structures, other obstructions, space, etc.) while He already knew there was no resistance.

I would like to think if we asked a mystic or enlightened person how they are able to have this connection or conscious union with God when so many people in the world are trying, they would say something similar such as, “Most people are trying to solve some form of resistance that they think keeps them separate from God, like sin, judgment, guilt, attachment, pray right, not knowing who they are or other worldly problems they need to fix, while I already knew there is no resistance to God. God is here now and there is no resistance. Like the seeming physical obstacles to wireless communication, it is an illusion” (My Mythical Mystic).

Love is constantly expressed, but are we picking it up or is the connection broken? People can feel it even when they may not recognize or put a finger on it. The good news: This connection allows us to make a difference without even realizing it - Just like people can feel your underlying contempt (remember the MLK Jr quote in Part II?), they can feel your underlying love.

May we end the resistance to this love, connect and allow this natural and freeing love to flow through us..

Next reflection: Love is …… (the last in this series…for now)

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By Ben Phipps • October 9, 2024

With coffee, always coffee. In the “About” section I wrote - It has been said that there is one Truth spoken in many different ways. Whether spiritualist, scientist, atheist, “religionist” or another “ist”, I know that if we set seeking Truth as our goal, we may use different language, but will end up in a similar place.... Seeking Truth is a good place to start. The purpose of this blog is to inspire people to think differently about the world and go deep within and seek Truth, so we can live in freedom, free from inner conflict and free to be who we are, in peace and love. My starting point God or whatever term you want to use for this universal force or as Joel Goldsmith calls the Infinite Invisible is All Powerful, All Knowing, All Present and All Loving. I start this as the basis of my seeking for one simple reason – If God is not these things, then I’m not interested because how could you have a God that is not these things? But I also recognize that when I start here, it leads me to questioning, has the world done a poor job of presenting or explaining God? What is Truth? Not your everyday material world truth such as is it true that you are reading this? But Truth with a capital “T” that is not of this world. I start with, can it change? Truth is that which cannot change. Go deep within – Words can only take us so far. This Truth is in the “journey beyond words”. According to A Course In Miracles (ACIM) “Truth is eternal, unalterable, and unambiguous. It is beyond time and process, and can only be known, not learned or believed.” But do not take ACIM’s word for it, we must each experience it for ourselves. May you enjoy the journey. Ben Phipps © 2024

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