One

You cannot perpetuate an illusion about another

Without perpetuating it about yourself.

              Gifts from a Course in Miracles, Vaughan & Walsh

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overcome

overcome evil

overcome evil with good

good

how do we create good?

how do we create evil?

it becomes all about comparisons

and judgments

I am good

They are bad

I am righteous

they are evil

I am God’s beloved

they are god’s enemies

we create a world of contrasts and formulas

a world of black and white

it is a fragile world

hanging tenuously

and held in place

only by our ability

to hold on to our illusions

the illusion that we represent the God of love

as we fling spittle laden words of hate at another

the illusion that we are righteous

“Warriors of God”

when we give away guns to draw young men to church

and neglect the poor

and oppress those different than us

the illusion that whatever weaknesses or faults we have

are not important

compared to the flaws of “them”

the illusion that God is for us

and hates everyone we hate

it is false

this dichotomy

this belief that for us to be included in the circle of God’s love

they must be outside it

we can only be blessed if some are damned

for us to be right, they must be wrong

the truth

is that we are all in this together

all of us

doing the best we can

moment by moment

the truth emerges only when

we let go of our illusions

love is birthed

only when we can drop the fundamental delusion

that we are separate

and remember that we are one

one

in sin

one in fear

one in failure

one in success

one in joy

one in the sacred

one

“all God’s children” (thank you MLK)