Today’s reading makes two primary points:
- Past choices appear in the present, which provides the opportunity to choose differently now.
- Through love, you shall know only love.
On Day 198, I provided a link to a message and audio called, “Is Attack Real?” When I received that message, I posted it to an online discussion group where I posted regularly at the time. A spiritual teacher had started the group, although he rarely posted there himself. The group was moderated, and every post was approved before others saw it. That day, the moderators approved my post. However, after the post was approved, the spiritual teacher who owned the group wrote a strongly worded email to the moderators and Cc’d me. He told them not to allow any more of my posts in the group. He called me a fake who made up everything I wrote because I wanted to be a famous spiritual teacher.
When I first saw his email, I felt attacked. I saw his face in my mind’s eye. It was red and all scrunched up with anger. And then I remembered the definition of love that came from the very message I had posted that day:
Love is giving through spirit to spirit that which spirit requests.
I realized that this situation appeared before me now because of past thoughts I had believed. I realized I had believed in attack in the past, so it made perfect sense that I should appear attacked now. I realized that I was simply witnessing the creative principle in process, and it was working in exactly the way it works.
What I think, I see.
What I see, I experience.
As I looked at the situation with this clarity, the image in my mind’s eye changed. Instead of seeing this spiritual teacher with an angry red face, his face softened into a smile. He stood before me in a waiter’s tuxedo holding a silver tray. He offered me a gift on a silver platter!
This teacher, through his current apparent attack, offered me the opportunity to see the creative process in motion. I had believed attack in the past, and so now attack came back to me through the creative process. Since the creative process is love, that means that I looked upon love appearing as attack.
As I chose to see love through my understanding of the creative process, I realized this teacher offered me the opportunity to let go of the belief in attack. I chose to accept his gift. When I did, my heart filled with joy!
Through choosing to see the creative process and all of its effects as love, I injected love into the process instead of the belief in attack, and love is what I experienced.
What I think, I see. [Attack]
What I see, I experience. [Attack]
Discernment : Take out attack; replace it with love.
Free redo : What I see, I experience. [Love]
Note: The spiritual teacher didn’t offer me this opportunity on purpose. He actually felt threatened by my post, believed his thoughts and issued an order to block all of my future posts. However, all of his thoughts came from the creative process, which included my prior belief in attack. The creative process delivered what I had asked for through my prior believing attention.
The choice to see love instead of appearance is always available to us. All we have to do is remember that any and every appearance is created through a perfectly allowing creative process, and perfect allowance is love. Therefore, every appearance appears through love, which means it is love.
Note: If you are interested in the full story about Is Attack Possible?, listen to parts 1, 2 & 3, which are archived on this page starting at 2/28/10. You may want to listen over the next few days, since each part is 1 hour and 15 minutes long.
Note: The next tip will be available tomorrow morning after 3:50am ET at this link.
