There is no cruelty in God and none in me.
I watched a horrifying movie last night: The Kite Runner.
I can’t get the details out of my head. It is about Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Taliban. I thought when I rented it would be some sweet coming-of-age story between two boys. I had no idea it was about the cruelty and atrocities in this world. Entirely devastating and shocking.
It is good to be remember these things. This world needs help. People are in terror right this very minute, scared for their safety and life.
This world is healed through the healing of your own mind. The terror in the world is the terror in your own life. What you fear in your personal private life is being played out in a larger grander scale that affects everyone.
If you have been having difficulty letting go of anger, rage, attack, fear, defense … not really seeing a valid reason to do so … maybe now you will think of the people being raped, beaten, torn, jailed and executed around the world and you will think twice.
As you remember God (which is to remember love), the world is healed.
This is the reason for responsibility. You start taking responsibility for what you see (think and do) in your relationships, in your job, in your life … because the world is in hell because you continue to allow yourself to remain in hell.
“This moment can be terrible. But it can also be the time of your release from abject slavery. You make a choice, standing before this idol (the god of cruelty), seeing him exactly as he is. Will you restore to love what you have sought to wrest from it and lay before this mindless piece of stone? Or will you make another idol to replace it? For the god of cruelty takes many forms. Another can be found.”
Yet … why would you do this to yourself ?????? Why would you hold the world in chains when you have been told exactly how to release the world from its slavery and chains?
This lesson is so great. You rise up out of the ashes. You let go of cruelty and fear.
“You have reached this place before, but you have chosen that this cruel god remain with you in still another form. And so the fear of God has returned with you. This time you leave it there. And you return to a new world, unburdened by its weight; behold not in its sightless eyes, but in the vision that your choice has restored to you.”
So, there you have it. You have come to this place before, and yet you wandered off again to serve fear. Now you have another choice to let fear go forever. It doesn’t take time. All it takes is choice and decision that you will be as God created you, and relate only to that which is eternal.
This is not difficult.
A Course in Miracles says: “The way is not hard, but it is different.”
Now do your eyes belong to Christ, and He looks through them. Now your voice belongs to God and echoes His. And now your heart remains forever at peace. You have chosen Him in place of idols, and your attributes, given by your Creator, are restored to you at last. The Call for God is heard and answered. Now has fear made way for love, for God Himself replaces cruelty.”
We choose again, and make our choice for all our brothers, knowing they are one with us.
We do this for Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, and for everyone else who lives in this world of terror. We dedicate our minds to salvation -which means to restore our minds to the memory of God -and we do this for the homeless, the lonely, the afraid, the sick, the dying, and the fearful.
We give thanks to all of them who render us complete. In them we see Your glory, and in them we find our peace.
Holy are we because Your Holiness has set us free. And we give thanks.
Amen.
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With all the cruelty mankind inflicted on Jesus is there any left? Our beloved carries our burdens and sets us free to love him and all are brothers thru him. I love my lord Jesus christ