The pitfalls of Specialness…

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There was once a “Great Teacher”.  Many would come from near and far to see him.

Yet, no matter what praise or glories people would say of him he remained humble.

He could understand “great” many things yet the one thing he could not understand was the fuzz over him..

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The funny thing about the “Great Teachers” is that all they want to teach you is that they are not special.  They are simply you without the need for specialness.

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If you think they are special you simply reinforce the idea within your own mind that they have accomplished something that you can’t. You unknowing set up a limit within yourself.By setting them up as special you unconsciously  stop yourself from being that very thing to prove that they are special.

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The lengths we go thru to prove our idols are real is unparalleled.

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Every “Great Teacher” has to overcome this obstacle in his “students” to teach that not only is he not special but that they are One..

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If I am special Love is special, and if Love is special it means Love is rare.

How can you see that Love is here and now if you think its rare??

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You set up a separation within your own Self that Love can not overcome.

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Love does not force so it merely waits for you to simply allow…

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What happens when you remove the specialness from Love?

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Since now you have not set up conditions and prerequisites you See that all you have ever looked for in specialness is Love and that Love is all you have ever been..

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The following is a blog of a great "student" that finally realized that Love is not special.

By realizing this she entered into the oneness where Love is all there is.

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The Master and his student

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“The Master and his student sat on a rock together. In front of them, the world.

The student gazed at the Master in awe. How beautiful he is. Inside his light extends and dances on his skin. How holy he is. This man of love and of kindness, how amazing he is.

The Master saw the student staring at him and said, "I am not looking to be made an idol out of. I would prefer you stand by my side and walk with me".

The student did not understand. The student was not strong like the Master. The student fell time and time again. How could he walk with the master? He made mistakes. He lost his temper again and again. He felt sorrow, fear, and loneliness. The Master felt none of these things. The student was not equal with the Master. No, not yet.

And so years passed. The Master never leaving the student. At times, the student would get so angry with the Master. "You did not come through for me!" the student would yell. "You will not grant me my wishes! I will never be where you are. I will never be like you. But i cannot let you go because you are the unobtainable hope that keeps me tied with you. I need hope, i need light, and you are it. Though i will never be that."

The Master did not get mad or upset with the student. He continued to teach, and when the student would fall, he would remind them that "This is your beauty, and your love, that is pulling you up. This is just you". The student could not accept his own beauty and so every day his Master grew more radiant, but more out of reach.

The place of Love that the student had met the Master in became a place where the student hoped to walk beside the Master in the future. Perhaps someday the student would become as kind and caring, as loving and selfless as the Master.

And still the Master would say "We are One. I am you". And still the student could not accept that was his truth. More time passed.

One day the memory of the Master saying, "I walk beside you as an equals" came into the students mind. The student felt his loneliness, sadness, worthlessness, and anger come up from his depths. The Master said "I am not special". The student said, "Master what mountains do i have to climb to be where you are? what prayers do i have to say and how long must i pray to be where you are?" Silence

The next day, the student sat with the Master on the rock. In front of them, the world. He looked at his master. The luster on the Master's skin had gone. The clothes that he wore had a bit of dirt on them. The face was that of a man, a normal man. Light lay on the master, the same way it lay on the student, the same way it lay on the world.

The Student said to the Master "You are not glowing. You have dirt on your clothes. You are not less to me now that you are not a gem. Instead I feel strong. You are not special and I am strong just as you are. Master, I can not climb the mountain to be where you are. I can not pray until one day, i am granted the gift that is yours. Master, you are like me. Not weak as i thought myself, but i am strong as i had thought only you to be.

I share this with you Master, because my illusion has been swept away by a gentle breeze that always blows. We are not lustrous like a diamond. We are not rare like a gem. We are not an idol that can never be attained. The pebbles are strong in their likeness.”

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My dear dear friends I am not special WE ARE ONE!

We are the same beautiful thing!

Remember this simple truth

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And all truth is seen as YOU

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Love is~

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.. It took me a while to find these most powerful and simple lessons for you my angel...

..I know that you will love and understand these lessons as I have. 
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..Love teachers to what thinks itself not Love thru
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..Here is one of my beautiful Teachers helping you understand..

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SONG OF PRAYER

Introduction:

S-1.in.1. Prayer is the greatest gift with which God blessed His Son at his creation. 2 It was then what it is to become; the single voice Creator and creation share; the song the Son sings to the Father, Who returns the thanks it offers Him unto the Son. 3 Endless the harmony, and endless, too, the joyous concord of the Love They give forever to Each Other. 4 And in this, creation is extended. 5 God gives thanks to His extension in His Son. 6 His Son gives thanks for his creation, in the song of his creating in his Father's Name. 7 The Love They share is what all prayer will be throughout eternity, when time is done. 8 For such it was before time seemed to be.

S-1.in.2. To you who are in time a little while, prayer takes the form that best will suit your need. 2 You have but one. 3 What God created one must recognize its oneness, and rejoice that what illusions seemed to separate is one forever in the Mind of God. 4 Prayer now must be the means by which God's Son leaves separate goals and separate interests by, and turns in holy gladness to the truth of union in his Father and himself.

S-1.in.3. Lay down your dreams, you holy Son of God, and rising up as God created you, dispense with idols and remember Him. 2 Prayer will sustain you now, and bless you as you lift your heart to Him in rising song that reaches higher and then higher still, until both high and low have disappeared. 3 Faith in your goal will grow and hold you up as you ascend the shining stairway to the lawns of Heaven and the gate of peace. 4 For this is prayer, and here salvation is. 5 This is the way. 6 It is God's gift to you.

1. TRUE PRAYER

S-1.I.1. Prayer is a way offered by the Holy Spirit to reach God. 2 It is not merely a question or an entreaty. 3 It cannot succeed until you realize that it asks for nothing. 4 How else could it serve its purpose? 5 It is impossible to pray for idols and hope to reach God. 6 True prayer must avoid the pitfall of asking to entreat. 7 Ask, rather, to receive what is already given; to accept what is already there.

S-1.I.2. You have been told to ask the Holy Spirit for the answer to any specific problem, and that you will receive a specific answer if such is your need. 2 You have also been told that there is only one problem and one answer. 3 In prayer this is not contradictory. 4 There are decisions to make here, and they must be made whether they be illusions or not. 5 You cannot be asked to accept answers which are beyond the level of need that you can recognize. 6 Therefore, it is not the form of the question that matters, nor how it is asked. 7 The form of the answer, if given by God, will suit your need as you see it. 8 This is merely an echo of the reply of His Voice. 9 The real sound is always a song of thanksgiving and of Love.

S-1.I.3. You cannot, then, ask for the echo. 2 It is the song that is the gift. 3 Along with it come the overtones, the harmonics, the echoes, but these are secondary. 4 In true prayer you hear only the song. 5 All the rest is merely added. 6 You have sought first the Kingdom of Heaven, and all else has indeed been given you.

S-1.I.4. The secret of true prayer is to forget the things you think you need. 2 To ask for the specific is much the same as to look on sin and then forgive it. 3 Also in the same way, in prayer you overlook your specific needs as you see them, and let them go into God's Hands. 4 There they become your gifts to Him, for they tell Him that you would have no gods before Him; no Love but His. 5 What could His answer be but your remembrance of Him? 6 Can this be traded for a bit of trifling advice about a problem of an instant's duration? 7 God answers only for eternity. 8 But still all little answers are contained in this.

S-1.I.5. Prayer is a stepping aside; a letting go, a quiet time of listening and loving. 2 It should not be confused with supplication of any kind, because it is a way of remembering your holiness. 3 Why should holiness entreat, being fully entitled to everything Love has to offer? 4 And it is to Love you go in prayer. 5 Prayer is an offering; a giving up of yourself to be at one with Love. 6 There is nothing to ask because there is nothing left to want. 7 That nothingness becomes the altar of God. 8 It disappears in Him.

S-1.I.6. This is not a level of prayer that everyone can attain as yet. 2 Those who have not reached it still need your help in prayer because their asking is not yet based upon acceptance. 3 Help in prayer does not mean that another mediates between you and God. 4 But it does mean that another stands beside you and helps to raise you up to Him. 5 One who has realized the goodness of God prays without fear. 6 And one who prays without fear cannot but reach Him. 7 He can therefore also reach His Son, wherever he may be and whatever form he may seem to take.

S-1.I.7. Praying to Christ in anyone is true prayer because it is a gift of thanks to His Father. 2 To ask that Christ be but Himself is not an entreaty. 3 It is a song of thanksgiving for what you are. 4 Herein lies the power of prayer. 5 It asks nothing and receives everything. 6 This prayer can be shared because it receives for everyone. 7 To pray with one who knows that this is true is to be answered. 8 Perhaps the specific form of resolution for a specific problem will occur to either of you; it does not matter which. 9 Perhaps it will reach both, if you are genuinely attuned to one another. 10 It will come because you have realized that Christ is in both of you. 11 That is its only truth.

II. The Ladder of Prayer

S-1.II.1. Prayer has no beginning and no end. 2 It is a part of life. 3 But it does change in form, and grow with learning until it reaches its formless state, and fuses into total communication with God. 4 In its asking form it need not, and often does not, make appeal to God, or even involve belief in Him. 5 At these levels prayer is merely wanting, out of a sense of scarcity and lack.

S-1.II.2. These forms of prayer, or asking-out-of-need, always involve feelings of weakness and inadequacy, and could never be made by a Son of God who knows Who he is. 2 No one, then, who is sure of his Identity could pray in these forms. 3 Yet it is also true that no one who is uncertain of his Identity can avoid praying in this way. 4 And prayer is as continual as life. 5 Everyone prays without ceasing. 6 Ask and you have received, for you have established what it is you want.

S-1.II.3. It is also possible to reach a higher form of asking-out-of-need, for in this world prayer is reparative, and so it must entail levels of learning. 2 Here, the asking may be addressed to God in honest belief, though not yet with understanding. 3 A vague and usually unstable sense of identification has generally been reached, but tends to be blurred by a deep-rooted sense of sin. 4 It is possible at this level to continue to ask for things of this world in various forms, and it is also possible to ask for gifts such as honesty or goodness, and particularly for forgiveness for the many sources of guilt that inevitably underlie any prayer of need. 5 Without guilt there is no scarcity. 6 The sinless have no needs.

S-1.II.4. At this level also comes that curious contradiction in terms known as "praying for one's enemies." 2 The contradiction lies not in the actual words, but rather in the way in which they are usually interpreted. 3 While you believe you have enemies, you have limited prayer to the laws of this world, and have also limited your ability to receive and to accept to the same narrow margins. 4 And yet, if you have enemies you have need of prayer, and great need, too. 5 What does the phrase really mean? 6 Pray for yourself, that you may not seek to imprison Christ and thereby lose the recognition of your own Identity. 7 Be traitor to no one, or you will be treacherous to yourself.

S-1.II.5. An enemy is the symbol of an imprisoned Christ. 2 And who could He be except yourself? 3 The prayer for enemies thus becomes a prayer for your own freedom. 4 Now it is no longer a contradiction in terms. 5 It has become a statement of the unity of Christ and a recognition of His sinlessness. 6 And now it has become holy, for it acknowledges the Son of God as he was created.

S-1.II.6. Let it never be forgotten that prayer at any level is always for yourself. 2 If you unite with anyone in prayer, you make him part of you. 3 The enemy is you, as is the Christ. 4 Before it can become holy, then, prayer becomes a choice. 5 You do not choose for another. 6 You can but choose for yourself. 7 Pray truly for your enemies, for herein lies your own salvation. 8 Forgive them for your sins, and you will be forgiven indeed.

S-1.II.7. Prayer is a ladder reaching up to Heaven. 2 At the top there is a transformation much like your own, for prayer is part of you. 3 The things of earth are left behind, all unremembered. 4 There is no asking, for there is no lack. 5 Identity in Christ is fully recognized as set forever, beyond all change and incorruptible. 6 The light no longer flickers, and will never go out. 7 Now, without needs of any kind, and clad forever in the pure sinlessness that is the gift of God to you, His Son, prayer can again become what it was meant to be. 8 For now it rises as a song of thanks to your Creator, sung without words, or thoughts, or vain desires, unneedful now of anything at all. 9 So it extends, as it was meant to do. 10 And for this giving God Himself gives thanks.

S-1.II.8. God is the goal of every prayer, giving it timelessness instead of end. 2 Nor has it a beginning, because the goal has never changed. 3 Prayer in its earlier forms is an illusion, because there is no need for a ladder to reach what one has never left. 4 Yet prayer is part of forgiveness as long as forgiveness, itself an illusion, remains unattained. 5 Prayer is tied up with learning until the goal of learning has been reached. 6 And then all things will be transformed together, and returned unblemished into the Mind of God. 7 Being beyond learning, this state cannot be described. 8 The stages necessary to its attainment, however, need to be understood, if peace is to be restored to God's Son, who lives now with the illusion of death and the fear of God.

III. Praying for Others

S-1.III.1. We said that prayer is always for yourself, and this is so. 2 Why, then, should you pray for others at all? 3 And if you should, how should you do it? 4 Praying for others, if rightly understood, becomes a means for lifting your projections of guilt from your brother, and enabling you to recognize it is not he who is hurting you. 5 The poisonous thought that he is your enemy, your evil counterpart, your nemesis, must be relinquished before you can be saved from guilt. 6 For this the means is prayer, of rising power and with ascending goals, until it reaches even up to God.

S-1.III.2. The earlier forms of prayer, at the bottom of the ladder, will not be free from envy and malice. 2 They call for vengeance, not for love. 3 Nor do they come from one who understands that they are calls for death, made out of fear by those who cherish guilt. 4 They call upon a vengeful god, and it is he who seems to answer them. 5 Hell cannot be asked for another, and then escaped by him who asks for it. 6 Only those who are in hell can ask for hell. 7 Those who have been forgiven, and who accepted their forgiveness, could never make a prayer like that.

S-1.III.3. At these levels, then, the learning goal must be to recognize that prayer will bring an answer only in the form in which the prayer was made. 2 This is enough. 3 From here it will be an easy step to the next levels. 4 The next ascent begins with this:

⁵ What I have asked for for my brother is not what I would have. 6 Thus have I made of him my enemy.

7 It is apparent that this step cannot be reached by anyone who sees no value or advantage to himself in setting others free. 8 This may be long delayed, because it may seem to be dangerous instead of merciful. 9 To the guilty there seems indeed to be a real advantage in having enemies, and this imagined gain must go, if enemies are to be set free.

S-1.III.4. Guilt must be given up, and not concealed. 2 Nor can this be done without some pain, and a glimpse of the merciful nature of this step may for some time be followed by a deep retreat into fear. 3 For fear's defenses are fearful in themselves, and when they are recognized they bring their fear with them. 4 Yet what advantage has an illusion of escape ever brought a prisoner? 5 His real escape from guilt can lie only in the recognition that the guilt has gone. 6 And how can this be recognized as long as he hides it in another, and does not see it as his own? 7 Fear of escape makes it difficult to welcome freedom, and to make a jailer of an enemy seems to be safety. 8 How, then, can he be released without an insane fear for yourself? 9 You have made of him your salvation and your escape from guilt. 10 Your investment in this escape is heavy, and your fear of letting it go is strong.

S-1.III.5. Stand still an instant, now, and think what you have done. 2 Do not forget that it is you who did it, and who can therefore let it go. 3 Hold out your hand. 4 This enemy has come to bless you. 5 Take his blessing, and feel how your heart is lifted and your fear released. 6 Do not hold on to it, nor onto him. 7 He is a Son of God, along with you. 8 He is no jailer, but a messenger of Christ. 9 Be this to him, that you may see him thus.

S-1.III.6. It is not easy to realize that prayers for things, for status, for human love, for external "gifts" of any kind, are always made to set up jailers and to hide from guilt. 2 These things are used for goals that substitute for God, and therefore distort the purpose of prayer. 3 The desire for them is the prayer. 4 One need not ask explicitly. 5 The goal of God is lost in the quest for lesser goals of any kind, and prayer becomes requests for enemies. 6 The power of prayer can be quite clearly recognized even in this. 7 No one who wants an enemy will fail to find one. 8 But just as surely will he lose the only true goal that is given him. 9 Think of the cost, and understand it well. 10 All other goals are at the cost of God.

IV. Praying with Others

S-1.IV.1. Until the second level at least begins, one cannot share in prayer. 2 For until that point, each one must ask for different things. 3 But once the need to hold the other as an enemy has been questioned, and the reason for doing so has been recognized if only for an instant, it becomes possible to join in prayer. 4 Enemies do not share a goal. 5 It is in this their enmity is kept. 6 Their separate wishes are their arsenals; their fortresses in hate. 7 The key to rising further still in prayer lies in this simple thought; this change of mind:

⁸ We go together, you and I.

S-1.IV.2. Now it is possible to help in prayer, and so reach up yourself. 2 This step begins the quicker ascent, but there are still many lessons to learn. 3 The way is open, and hope is justified. 4 Yet it is likely at first that what is asked for even by those who join in prayer is not the goal that prayer should truly seek. 5 Even together you may ask for things, and thus set up but an illusion of a goal you share. 6 You may ask together for specifics, and not realize that you are asking for effects without the cause. 7 And this you cannot have. 8 For no one can receive effects alone, asking a cause from which they do not come to offer them to him.

S-1.IV.3. Even the joining, then, is not enough, if those who pray together do not ask, before all else, what is the Will of God. 2 From this Cause only can the answer come in which are all specifics satisfied; all separate wishes unified in one. 3 Prayer for specifics always asks to have the past repeated in some way. 4 What was enjoyed before, or seemed to be; what was another's and he seemed to love,--all these are but illusions from the past. 5 The aim of prayer is to release the present from its chains of past illusions; to let it be a freely chosen remedy from every choice that stood for a mistake. 6 What prayer can offer now so far exceeds all that you asked before that it is pitiful to be content with less.

S-1.IV.4. You have chosen a newborn chance each time you pray. 2 And would you stifle and imprison it in ancient prisons, when the chance has come to free yourself from all of them at once? 3 Do not restrict your asking. 4 Prayer can bring the peace of God. 5 What time-bound thing can give you more than this, in just the little space that lasts until it crumbles into dust?

V. The Ladder Ends

S-1.V.1. Prayer is a way to true humility. 2 And here again it rises slowly up, and grows in strength and love and holiness. 3 Let it but leave the ground where it begins to rise to God, and true humility will come at last to grace the mind that thought it was alone and stood against the world. 4 Humility brings peace because it does not claim that you must rule the universe, nor judge all things as you would have them be. 5 All little gods it gladly lays aside, not in resentment, but in honesty and recognition that they do not serve.

S-1.V.2. Illusions and humility have goals so far apart they cannot coexist, nor share a dwelling place where they can meet. 2 Where one has come the other disappears. 3 The truly humble have no goal but God because they need no idols, and defense no longer serves a purpose. 4 Enemies are useless now, because humility does not oppose. 5 It does not hide in shame because it is content with what it is, knowing creation is the Will of God. 6 Its selflessness is Self, and this it sees in every meeting, where it gladly joins with every Son of God, whose purity it recognizes that it shares with him.

S-1.V.3. Now prayer is lifted from the world of things, of bodies, and of gods of every kind, and you can rest in holiness at last. 2 Humility has come to teach you how to understand your glory as God's Son, and recognize the arrogance of sin. 3 A dream has veiled the face of Christ from you. 4 Now can you look upon His sinlessness. 5 High has the ladder risen. 6 You have come almost to Heaven. 7 There is little more to learn before the journey is complete. 8 Now can you say to everyone who comes to join in prayer with you:

⁹ I cannot go without you, for you are a part of me.

10 And so he is in truth. 11 Now can you pray only for what you truly share with him. 12 For you have understood he never left, and you, who seemed alone, are one with him.

S-1.V.4. The ladder ends with this, for learning is no longer needed. 2 Now you stand before the gate of Heaven, and your brother stands beside you there. 3 The lawns are deep and still, for here the place appointed for the time when you should come has waited long for you. 4 Here will time end forever. 5 At this gate eternity itself will join with you. 6 Prayer has become what it was meant to be, for you have recognized the Christ in you.

S-2.in.1. Forgiveness offers wings to prayer, to make its rising easy and its progress swift. 2 Without its strong support it would be vain to try to rise above prayer's bottom step, or even to attempt to climb at all. 3 Forgiveness is prayer's ally; sister in the plan for your salvation. 4 Both must come to hold you up and keep your feet secure; your purpose steadfast and unchangeable. 5 Behold the greatest help that God ordained to be with you until you reach to Him. 6 Illusion's end will come with this. 7 Unlike the timeless nature of its sister, prayer, forgiveness has an end. 8 For it becomes unneeded when the rising up is done. 9 Yet now it has a purpose beyond which you cannot go, nor have you need to go. 10 Accomplish this and you have been redeemed. 11 Accomplish this and you have been transformed. 12 Accomplish this and you will save the world.

I. Forgiveness of Yourself

S-2.I.1. No gift of Heaven has been more misunderstood than has forgiveness. 2 It has, in fact, become a scourge; a curse where it was meant to bless, a cruel mockery of grace, a parody upon the holy peace of God. 3 Yet those who have not yet chosen to begin the steps of prayer cannot but use it thus. 4 Forgiveness' kindness is obscure at first, because salvation is not understood, nor truly sought for . 5 What was meant to heal is used to hurt because forgiveness is not wanted. 6 Guilt becomes salvation, and the remedy appears to be a terrible alternative to life.

S-2.I.2. Forgiveness-to-destroy will therefore suit the purpose of the world far better than its true objective, and the honest means by which this goal is reached. 2 Forgiveness-to-destroy will overlook no sin, no crime, no guilt that it can seek and find and "love." 3 Dear to its heart is error, and mistakes loom large and grow and swell within its sight. 4 It carefully picks out all evil things, and overlooks the loving as a plague; a hateful thing of danger and of death. 5 Forgiveness-to-destroy is death, and this it sees in all it looks upon and hates. 6 God's mercy has become a twisted knife that would destroy the holy Son He loves.

S-2.I.3. Would you forgive yourself for doing this? 2 Then learn that God has given you the means by which you can return to Him in peace. 3 Do not see error . 4 Do not make it real. 5 Select the loving and forgive the sin by choosing in its place the face of Christ. 6 How otherwise can prayer return to God? 7 He loves His Son. 8 Can you remember Him and hate what He created? 9 You will hate his Father if you hate the Son He loves. 10 For as you see the Son you see yourself, and as you see yourself is God to you.

S-2.I.4. As prayer is always for yourself, so is forgiveness always given you. 2 It is impossible to forgive another, for it is only your sins you see in him. 3 You want to see them there, and not in you. 4 That is why forgiveness of another is an illusion. 5 Yet it is the only happy dream in all the world; the only one that does not lead to death. 6 Only in someone else can you forgive yourself, for you have called him guilty of your sins, and in him must your innocence now be found. 7 Who but the sinful need to be forgiven? 8 And do not ever think you can see sin in anyone except yourself.

S-2.I.5. This is the great deception of the world, and you the great deceiver of yourself. 2 It always seems to be another who is evil, and in his sin you are the injured one. 3 How could freedom be possible if this were so? 4 You would be slave to everyone, for what he does entails your fate, your feelings, your despair or hope, your misery or joy. 5 You have no freedom unless he gives it to you. 6 And being evil, he can only give of what he is. 7 You cannot see his sins and not your own. 8 But you can free him and yourself as well.

S-2.I.6. Forgiveness, truly given, is the way in which your only hope of freedom lies. 2 Others will make mistakes and so will you, as long as this illusion of a world appears to be your home. 3 Yet God Himself has given all His Sons a remedy for all illusions that they think they see. 4 Christ's vision does not use your eyes, but you can look through His and learn to see like Him. 5 Mistakes are tiny shadows, quickly gone, that for an instant only seem to hide the face of Christ, which still remains unchanged behind them all. 6 His constancy remains in tranquil silence and in perfect peace. 7 He does not know of shadows. 8 His the eyes that look past error to the Christ in you.

S-2.I.7. Ask, then, His help, and ask Him how to learn forgiveness as His vision lets it be. 2 You are in need of what He gives, and your salvation rests on learning this of Him. 3 Prayer cannot be released to Heaven while forgiveness-to-destroy remains with you. 4 God's mercy would remove this withering and poisoned thinking from your holy mind. 5 Christ has forgiven you, and in His sight the world becomes as holy as Himself. 6 Who sees no evil in it sees like Him. 7 For what He has forgiven has not sinned, and guilt can be no more. 8 Salvation's plan is made complete, and sanity has come.

S-2.I.8. Forgiveness is the call to sanity, for who but the insane would look on sin when he could see the face of Christ instead? 2 This is the choice you make; the simplest one, and yet the only one that you can make. 3 God calls on you to save His Son from death by offering Christ's Love to him. 4 This is your need, and God holds out this gift to you. 5 As He would give, so must you give as well. 6 And thus is prayer restored to formlessness, beyond all limits into timelessness, with nothing of the past to hold it back from re-uniting with the ceaseless song that all creation sings unto its God.

S-2.I.9. But to achieve this end you first must learn, before you reach where learning cannot go. 2 Forgiveness is the key, but who can use a key when he has lost the door for which the key was made, and where alone it fits? 3 Therefore we make distinctions, so that prayer can be released from darkness into light. 4 Forgiveness' role must be reversed, and cleansed from evil usage's and hateful goals. 5 Forgiveness-to-destroy must be unveiled in all its treachery, and then let go forever and forever. 6 There can be no trace of it remaining, if the plan that God established for returning be achieved at last, and learning be complete.

S-2.I.10. This is the world of opposites. 2 And you must choose between them every instant while this world retains reality for you. 3 Yet you must learn alternatives for choice, or you will not be able to attain your freedom. 4 Let it then be clear to you exactly what forgiveness means to you, and learn what it should be to set you free. 5 The level of your prayer depends on this, for here it waits its freedom to ascend above the world of chaos into peace.

II. Forgiveness-to-Destroy

S-2.II.1. Forgiveness-to-destroy has many forms, being a weapon of the world of form. 2 Not all of them are obvious, and some are carefully concealed beneath what seems like charity. 3 Yet all the forms that it may seem to take have but this single goal; their purpose is to separate and make what God created equal, different. 4 The difference is clear in several forms where the designed comparison cannot be missed, nor is it really meant to be.

S-2.II.2. In this group, first, there are the forms in which a "better" person deigns to stoop to save a "baser" one from what he truly is. 2 Forgiveness here rests on an attitude of gracious lordliness so far from love that arrogance could never be dislodged. 3 Who can forgive and yet despise? 4 And who can tell another he is steeped in sin, and yet perceive him as the Son of God? 5 Who makes a slave to teach what freedom is? 6 There is no union here, but only grief. 7 This is not really mercy. 8 This is death.

S-2.II.3. Another form, still very like the first if it is understood, does not appear in quite such blatant arrogance. 2 The one who would forgive the other does not claim to be the better. 3 Now he says instead that here is one whose sinfulness he shares, since both have been unworthy and deserve the retribution of the wrath of God. 4 This can appear to be a humble thought, and may indeed induce a rivalry in sinfulness and guilt. 5 It is not love for God's creation and the holiness that is His gift forever. 6 Can His Son condemn himself and still remember Him?

S-2.II.4. Here the goal is to separate from God the Son He loves, and keep him from his Source. 2 This goal is also sought by those who seek the role of martyr at another's hand. 3 Here must the aim be clearly seen, for this may pass as meekness and as charity instead of cruelty. 4 Is it not kind to be accepting of another's spite, and not respond except with silence and a gentle smile? 5 Behold, how good are you who bear with patience and with saintliness the anger and the hurt another gives, and do not show the bitter pain you feel.

S-2.II.5. Forgiveness-to-destroy will often hide behind a cloak like this. 2 It shows the face of suffering and pain, in silent proof of guilt and of the ravages of sin. 3 Such is the witness that it offers one who could be savior, not an enemy. 4 But having been made enemy, he must accept the guilt and heavy-laid reproach that thus is put upon him. 5 Is this love? 6 Or is it rather treachery to one who needs salvation from the pain of guilt? 7 What could the purpose be, except to keep the witnesses of guilt away from love?

S-2.II.6. Forgiveness-to-destroy can also take the form of bargaining and compromise. 2 "I will forgive you if you meet my needs, for in your slavery is my release." 3 Say this to anyone and you are slave. 4 And you will seek to rid yourself of guilt in further bargains which can give no hope, but only greater pain and misery. 5 How fearful has forgiveness now become, and how distorted is the end it seeks. 6 Have mercy on yourself who bargains thus. 7 God gives and does not ask for recompense. 8 There is no giving but to give like Him. 9 All else is mockery. 10 For who would try to strike a bargain with the Son of God, and thank his Father for his holiness?

S-2.II.7. What would you show your brother? 2 Would you try to reinforce his guilt and thus your own? 3 Forgiveness is the means for your escape. 4 How pitiful it is to make of it the means for further slavery and pain. 5 Within the world of opposites there is a way to use forgiveness for the goal of God, and find the peace He offers you. 6 Take nothing else, or you have sought your death, and prayed for separation from your Self. 7 Christ is for all because He is in all. 8 It is His face forgiveness lets you see. 9 It is His face in which you see your own.

S-2.II.8. All forms forgiveness takes that do not lead away from anger, condemnation and comparisons of every kind are death. 2 For that is what their purposes have set. 3 Be not deceived by them, but lay them by as worthless in their tragic offerings. 4 You do not want to stay in slavery. 5 You do not want to be afraid of God. 6 You want to see the sunlight and the glow of Heaven shining on the face of earth, redeemed from sin and in the Love of God. 7 From here is prayer released, along with you. 8 Your wings are free, and prayer will lift you up and bring you home where God would have you be.

III. Forgiveness-for-Salvation

S-2.III.1. Forgiveness-for-Salvation has one form, and only one. 2 It does not ask for proof of innocence, nor pay of any kind. 3 It does not argue, nor evaluate the errors that it wants to overlook. 4 It does not offer gifts in treachery, nor promise freedom while it asks for death. 5 Would God deceive you? 6 He but asks for trust and willingness to learn how to be free. 7 He gives His Teacher to whoever asks, and seeks to understand the Will of God. 8 His readiness to give lies far beyond your understanding and your simple grasp. 9 Yet He has willed you learn the way to Him, and in His willing there is certainty.

S-2.III.2. You child of God, the gifts of God are yours, not by your plans but by His holy Will. 2 His Voice will teach you what forgiveness is, and how to give it as He wills it be. 3 Do not, then, seek to understand what is beyond you yet, but let it be a way to draw you up to where the eyes of Christ become the sight you choose. 4 Give up all else, for there is nothing else. 5 When someone calls for help in any form, He is the One to answer for you. 6 All that you need do is to step back and not to interfere. 7 Forgiveness-for-Salvation is His task, and it is He Who will respond for you.

S-2.III.3. Do not establish what the form should be that Christ's forgiveness takes. 2 He knows the way to make of every call a help to you, as you arise in haste to go at last unto your Father's house. 3 Now can He make your footsteps sure, your words sincere; not with your own sincerity, but with His Own. 4 Let Him take charge of how you would forgive, and each occasion then will be to you another step to Heaven and to peace.

S-2.III.4. Are you not weary of imprisonment? 2 God did not choose this sorry path for you. 3 What you have chosen still can be undone, for prayer is merciful and God is just. 4 His is a justice He can understand, but you cannot as yet. 5 Still will He give the means to you to learn of Him, and know at last that condemnation is not real and makes illusions in its evil name. 6 And yet it matters not the form that dreams may seem to take. 7 Illusions are untrue. 8 God's Will is truth, and you are one with Him in Will and purpose. 9 Here all dreams are done.

S-2.III.5. "What should I do for him, Your holy Son?" should be the only thing you ever ask when help is needed and forgiveness sought. 2 The form the seeking takes you need not judge. 3 And let it not be you who sets the form in which forgiveness comes to save God's Son. 4 The light of Christ in him is his release, and it is this that answers to his call. 5 Forgive him as the Christ decides you should, and be His eyes through which you look on him, and speak for Him as well. 6 He knows the need; the question and the answer. 7 He will say exactly what to do, in words that you can understand and you can also use. 8 Do not confuse His function with your own. 9 He is the Answer. 10 You the one who hears.

S-2.III.6. And what is it He speaks to you about? 2 About salvation and the gift of peace. 3 About the end of sin and guilt and death. 4 About the role forgiveness has in Him. 5 Do you but listen. 6 For He will be heard by anyone who calls upon His Name, and places his forgiveness in His hands. 7 Forgiveness has been given Him to teach, to save it from destruction and to make the means for separation, sin and death become again the holy gift of God. 8 Prayer is His Own right Hand, made free to save as true forgiveness is allowed to come from His eternal vigilance and Love. 9 Listen and learn, and do not judge. 10 It is to God you turn to hear what you should do. 11 His answer will be clear as morning, nor is His forgiveness what you think it is.

S-2.III.7. Still does He know, and that should be enough. 2 Forgiveness has a Teacher Who will fail in nothing. 3 Rest a while in this; do not attempt to judge forgiveness, nor to set it in an earthly frame. 4 Let it arise to Christ, Who welcomes it as gift to Him. 5 He will not leave you comfortless, nor fail to send His angels down to answer you in His Own Name. 6 He stands beside the door to which forgiveness is the only key. 7 Give it to Him to use instead of you, and you will see the door swing silently open upon the shining face of Christ. 8 Behold your brother there beyond the door; the Son of God as He created him.

I had post this sometime in June 2008.

I mentioned it in my last blog and many emailed me to post it again

so I have.

A friend wanted to turn this story into a children's book and so

my friend Jodie helped me out with some drawings for it.

The project fell tru but here I post it again with one of her beautiful drawings.

The little wave .. A short story I share with you now ....

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  There was once a little wave that was very sad.
It did not know why it was sad but just knew
that it was.......

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  One day the little wave saw a even smaller wave passing
by..  The little wave noticed two things rather odd. The smaller wave was not a
wave at all.  It was merely a ripple..  Even odder then this, the ripple was so happy and full of love... ....

 The little wave asked, ....

 "My dearest ripple you so small yet so happy and I so much greater then you seem not be able to find my joy can you help me?!"....

 Then the little wave started to cry.. The little ripple found itself sadden a bit by the state of the wave but then started to laugh......

The little wave said,....

 "Why do you laugh at me I’m so sad and come to you with great pain and ask but that you may help me and instead you laugh? "
The cute little wave started to turn away to leave......

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 The ripple quickly said,
"My dearest dearest wave I'm sorry, I did not mean to seem to laugh at you.
I laugh because I too once felt the way you do and I laugh at the thought not
at you.." ....

 "Can you help me then?" said the little wave with his little eyes full of
grief. ....

 "I shall!",  the little ripple said,....

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 "Your sad because you feel alone, your sad because you think yourself so small yet the truth is that your just not really looking at all YOU are. My dearest wave you're aware of just a small part of you!"  The little wave reply, ....

" I don't understand." ....

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 The ripple then said,....

 "Come hold my hand and behold all you are!" ....

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 The little wave then reluctantly agreed and reached out his cute little hand. ....

 With a gentle smile did the ripple held it and moved him more out to the great wide Ocean.. The little wave at first did not understand but soon later the little wave felt himself growing more and more.  He still saw himself as before but some how his experience change from a small little wave to the Ocean itself......

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 " Behold all that you are my blessed friend!  All this time you thought yourself a small lonely wave yet all you ever been was part of the Ocean itself." ....

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 "I understand", cried out the little wave with great Joy. “I understand!!”  ....

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After that the little wave was always happy for eventhough at times things may come up but he could always remember he was one with all that is and ever was…....

God is~....

J....

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