T. 20. VI. 10 – 12. Jesus: “Your holy relationship reflects the true relationship the Son of God has in reality with his Father. The Holy Spirit rests within it in the certainty that it will endure forever. Its firm foundation is eternally upheld by truth, and love shines on it with the gentle smile and tender blessing it offers to its own.
Here in the holy relationship, the unholy instant is exchanged in gladness for the holy one of safe return. Here is the way to true relationships held gently open, through which you and your brother walk together, leaving the body thankfully behind, and resting in the Everlasting Arms. Love’s Arms are open to receive you and give you peace forever.
The body is the ego’s idol; the belief in ‘sin made flesh,’ and then projected ‘outward.’ This produces what seems to be a wall of flesh and bone around the mind, keeping it prisoner in a tiny spot of space and time, beholden to an inevitable death, and given but ‘an instant’ in which to sigh and grieve and die in honor of its master! This ‘unholy instant’ seems to be all there is to your life; an instant of despair, a tiny island of dry sand bereft of water and set uncertainly upon oblivion. Here does the Son of God stop briefly by, to offer his devotion to death’s idols and then merely ‘pass on.’ And here indeed, he is more dead than living!
Yet it is also here that he will learn to choose once again between idolatry and Love! Here it is given him to choose to spend this instant paying tribute to the body, as he has before, or let himself be given freedom from it. Here he can accept the holy instant, offered him to replace the unholy one he chose before. And here can he learn relationships are his salvation, and not his doom!
You who are learning this may still occasionally be fearful, but you are not immobilized! The holy instant is of greater value to you now than its unholy seeming counterpart, and you have learned you really want but one. This is no time for sadness; some confusion perhaps, but hardly discouragement!
You have a real relationship now, and it has meaning. It is as like your real relationship with God as equal things are like unto each other. Idolatry is past and meaningless. Perhaps you still fear your brother a little; perhaps a shadow of the fear of God remains with you. Yet what are such fading obstacles to those who have been given one true relationship beyond the body?
Can they who have accepted the Holy Spirit’s purpose be long held back from looking on the face of Christ? And can they long withhold the memory of their relationship with their Father from themselves, and keep remembrance of His Love apart from their awareness?”