Commentary on ACIM Lesson 246

©2010 Rev. David Seacord

To love my Father is to love His Son.

Todays lesson gives me the answer as to why I am compelled and drawn to the issue of 'law'. It is so I may be healed of some deep pains of hatred in my heart by forgiving those within the legal system that I have made responsible for my previous sufferings. For in my past are legal events that so inflamed my sense of outrage against injustice that all I was able to do was internalize the violence, lest it destroy my life by external expression.

Of course I intellectually know now I am not a victim (ever), and in most arenas of life, I also experience it. But 'the law' still looks like a different story. But it's not. The whole thing is just another smokescreen trying to get us/me to abandon our/my Peace.

The 3rd Zen Patriarch teaches us to: Move among and intermingle without distinction. The Dalia Lama says: Whatever the person's station in life, I treat everyone the same.

All this comes from practice. And every moment is a practice of moment, especially inside our own heads. As the Course says, we are responsible for the thoughts we think, and they are all creative. Today while doing my art related work, my head was fixated, imagining cross-examining my citing officer. At first, I could see I was trying to trap him in his testimony, stuff like that, where I could pounce on him and make him suffer too. But gradually, my hearts voice got through to me, and I saw I did not really wish to do that, for he was my Self also. So my imaginary interrogation evolved into satsang in a court room, and I envisioned the miracle of reconciliation happening (instead of a victory for one, and more suffering for the other).

If it is possible in my head and heart, it is also possible to walk into that world and bring to it a heart that is whole and healed. That, I see, is the goal.

The path to the goal? Simply do not run away from your pain. Stand in it, and allow the Self to be the Healer.

Namaste,

David

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Lesson 246

To love my Father is to love His Son.

Let me not think that I can find the way to God, if I have hatred in my heart. Let me not try to hurt God's Son, and think that I can know his Father or my Self. Let me not fail to recognize myself, and still believe that my awareness can contain my Father, or my mind conceive of all the love my Father has for me, and all the love which I return to Him.

I will accept the way You choose for me to come to You, my Father. For in that will I succeed, because it is Your Will. And I would recognize that what You will is what I will as well, and only that. And so I choose to love Your Son. Amen.