So, not only is the Kingdom come; it is yours ... and yours ... and yours ... and yours ... The Kingdom is everyone’s - and Its Fullness is not only not diminished by being shared, it is expanded ... Infinitely.
What a Gift ... freely Given of the Father-Mother God to All. You are not left out. I would say: “from the least of You to the greatest” only there are no least. You are All the Greatest!
May 22, 2006
It is the maximal service one individual can render another. Miracles come from acknowledging another as the Christ. This is, indeed, the greatest Gift You can give. Any other view of your brother - your sister - simply perpetuates the pain they are in. And mark what I am saying here: the entire human dream is an experience of pain; either pain remembered, pain experienced now, or pain dreaded in the future. What is the origin of this pain? It is the fear brought on by the insistence on separation of your thought from Love, from God - the fear of annihilation that You all call death, the petty god You have raised up to replace Love. The institution You have set in place denying eternal Life.
You have made up other strange ideas to mitigate the terror this brought on: there is the removal of heaven to the sky with a prerequisite of death. There is the hell You’ve buried deep within what You call the earth - a place You cheerfully condemn the others to, while reserving the ‘airborne’ for yourself.
Then there is karma, which ensures repeated dreams in which You can sin now and pay later, hoping later never comes. The dullest of them all is still ‘death’ - the one on which they all depend which makes You nothing but a bag of bones consigned to come to ‘life’ but briefly before being sent eternally to dust. Do these sound like just desserts for the very Presence of God Himself/Herself?
There need be no hell beneath, for You have created it right here - a hell of mind - of mindlessness.
And so You see the Gift that the acknowledgement of Christ is right where your brother stands. He is suddenly freed from these strange bonds that strangle every soul who opts to dream as humans do. Right here and now his freedom comes and shines with a Light that blesses You. This is the Gift of Love so Pure that everyone is blessed.
It is a way of loving your neighbor as yourself. The doer recognizes his own and his neighbor’s inestimable worth simultaneously. Do You not wish to be seen as the beautiful one you know that you must be? So does your brother.
And to have your “holiness as plain to see” as is your body? So does your sister.
Your hopes and dreams are parallel to theirs, so why not give to them this precious Gift. It costs You nothing, and the return on it is absolutely priceless. The Gift comes back to You, multiplied by Infinity, for Love is a coin increasing exponentially each time You spend it.
Just that small acknowledgement that embraces You and all as well: ‘My sister is the Christ. Right where she is is God.’ - And this in the face of whatever might be spewing from her mouth. They would be words of Love if she could just remember Who She Is. Your brother is the same. All of Us are Priceless, minted straight from God, eternally.
The unseen Perfection You acknowledge for another uncovers yours to You.