Happy New Year & Epiphany! As we step into not only a new year, but a new decade, and the auspicious year of 2020, we have many opportunities to look with “new eyes” on this world…
We have many opportunities to see the truth of God and Spirit beyond the illusions that result from identifying only with the body. For those who resonate with A Course in Miracles, there is much shared about “real vision” and seeing with the eyes of God, or “Holy Vision.” For me, this 2020 offers a daily reminder of how I want to experience this whole new year... with the Holy Vision of Spirit, and the vision that restores us to peace.
Lesson 158 in A Course in Miracles shares some helpful practices that can lead to the experience of this vision and peace. An excerpt from lesson 158 shares, “Christ's vision has one law. It does not look upon a body, and mistake it for the Son whom God created. It beholds a light beyond the body; an idea beyond what can be touched, a purity undimmed by errors, pitiful mistakes, and fearful thoughts of guilt from dreams of sin. It sees no separation. And it looks on everyone, on every circumstance, all happenings and all events, without the slightest fading of the light it sees...”
Though this might seem like a “tall order” to learn, perhaps it isn’t as difficult as we might think. And instead, maybe living with the limited vision of our body’s eyes is actually the more difficult way to live. It seems that this might be just what Jesus was referring to when he said something to the effect of, “These things I have spoken to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have troubles; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”
When we live this life looking only with our body’s eyes and not calling on the vision of the Holy Spirit, we undoubtedly live in fear and illusion. But, when we choose to live this life with perfect and holy vision and the “eyes of God,” thus overcoming this world by seeing the light beyond all illusion, while still living in this world, we will undoubtedly live in love and truth. We will live in peace and joy...