My Australian friend Veronika sent me this link in response to yesterday’s posting:
I am here only to be truly helpful
Here’s an excerpt:
What I have learned is that when I see another person as needing to be fixed, this is wrong-minded thinking. Now I am learning to trust my brother, to know that he is not his actions, but rather he is perfect as God created him.
I have learned that if I truly want to be helpful, then the most useful thing that I can do is to hold him in the Light. By holding him in the Light, I mean that I never lose sight of his wholeness, of his holiness. I know who he is. He is God’s perfect child.
This dovetails with another passage I’ve been contemplating as part of this week’s Bible Lesson on Soul:
Man is the reflection of Soul. He is the direct opposite of material sensation, and there is but one Ego.
The phrase "direct opposite of material sensation" always catches on my mind when I read it. It’s just a few words, but such a radical concept.
For if I’m the opposite of material sensation, nothing about me physically has any reality. How I sound, how I look, how I feel. I am actually the opposite of these things. And so are the people around me. How they sound, look, feel is inherently limited and can’t tell me who they really are.
So who are we? "The reflection of Soul." In order to discover what that is, an exploration of Soul is in order. And then, once that deeper understanding is gained, this is the only frame of reference to use when regarding our fellow beings. Anything less than seeing them in the light of Soul is a smokescreen, temporary, phantasmagorical.
What a person is on the outside is not who he is on the inside. To truly relate and to help, we need to respond to the inner unseen man, not react to the external appearance. Sometimes we’re required to see it even when he doesn’t. But what a relief to find that that "material sensation" is not the final word on anybody. We can indeed "hold the in the Light."
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1 comment:
from John's comment above:
"I think Soul represents the infinite individual expression of God as us and everything we see around us (and much, much more that we don't see.) Is that a correct understanding, Laura?"
I think if that understanding is helpful to you, it's as correct as anything I could articulate. :) That's what's so amazing about infinite Soul -- it has infinite expressions, including our own inspiration about it. Thanks for sharing it, too, because in sharing, we widen each other's inspiration as well.
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