“All fear is past and only love is here.” CIM Lesson 293

This is a most important lesson to practice today, when it seems that violence in your world has spiked, fear has spiked. It is as important as always to practice love, to know that in this moment, there is only love. In any moment, underneath the world you see, of chaos and pain and violence, as a vast ocean under an oil slick, lies Love. Whomever the deaths, they fall back into that ocean of Love. 

It is not that it is not to be wished that you would live in peace and love with one another. It is. It is wished. It is that love would not be taken from you because you choose differently. Just as a child who slaps another is not really a bad child, but is generally one who is experimenting. A parent who removes her love from that child only reinforces a sense of badness. Whereas a parent may wrap her child in a hug of love, and say “Oh, that wasn’t kind. What can I do for you? You are feeling troubled or you would not have done that.” When one is responded to with love, there can be healing. 

The other has to choose to accept the love and the healing. There are many still caught in chaos, confusion and struggle. They don’t know how to accept the love and the healing, even when it’s offered. But some do. 

Responding to chaos, confusion and struggle with anger, vengefulness and righteousness is like throwing spears into a fight. You are going to hurt people, bloody them, and make them angry; it will only escalate the fight. 

But to bring peace, to bring love, to remember and to hold in every moment that always there is Love, like the planet underneath you of whom you are so little aware. You walk upon earth, but you rarely realize that you walk upon a planet millions of times bigger than you are. So it is with God and with Love, just as you live and breath and are nourished within the atmosphere of this planet. You don’t live on this planet, you live in her. So too you live in God. And while you may do things that harm this planet, she will go on. She has resources far beyond yours, far beyond human knowing. So too does God. 

There is loss in God when you hurt and fight. There are tears, but there is no real harm done, because you will return to God, like a scratch healing. And so, though it seems that you really hurt one another, all of you, all of you, every little thing, resides in, is born in, lives in, and if you die, dies in, God. You are all in the sea of Love, of the sea of Love, and will fall back into the sea of Love. There is nothing but Love, nothing but God, nothing but Creation, the Creator in it, of it, with it, as it. 

And so, when you see the oil slick, the smear on the ocean of God’s Creation, you can bring peace and love to this by remembering that no matter what happens, everything, everything, returns to Love. There can be no response but Love. There can be no presence but Love. And so there can be no fear, because there is Love. There is Love always, and if you learn to feel it, in each moment, it will be there for you in every moment, in your awareness, your communion, your joining, your opening, and you will grow in Being Love.

(From Stephanie: I apologize for being away so long. As I was transcribing today, I came across this. I imagine many of you will find it supportive. I hope so. Many Blessings to you.)