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Shop eCoursesAny moment of real change is the past made perfect through the reconciliation of the will of Heaven acting upon the will of earth, and in that union creating the birth of a brand-new creature.
Any moment of real change is the past made perfect. Not the past reconfigured, disguised as some new plan, but the past made perfect - and the past is made perfect in this intersection of what is perfectly celestial and timeless in its activity working upon what has been created in this world, in this earth called myself.
In the reconciliation of the will of the earth with the will of heaven, a union brings forth a brand-new creature. A brand-new creature doesn't have to try to change. It is the expression of what is changeless in time itself.
What is any moment of "now" that is in the world but not of it? That is, that which is created being acted on by what is the perfect creative force? What is any moment of that intersection other than an endless interaction, an endless relationship. You can see it - "as above, so below." There's no moment where change - meaning rebirth - isn't taking place.
Maybe that's the problem for us - that we don't really get this idea that when something is changed, it's changed. It hasn't become a better version of itself. It isn't some strange extension of what was almost okay and now it's nearer to that. Real change must be understood as being synonymous with becoming a new creature, a new creation in that moment. Because everything around us is, in fact, becoming reborn, remade moment to moment.
If that's true - and you can see that - then why in the name of God are you and I not changing? Why do we live outside of this celestial, harmonious relationship between what is timeless and what is in time? Between what is true and loving and that which is intended to be the reflection of that?
Evidence suggests that we don't see at all - not really. When a moment comes along and our attention is seized by it - and it always is - the reason our attention is seized by the moment is because this consciousness sees that moment as something that is set against itself. So I am literally, in that moment, looking only at a negative reaction to the moment, and the negative reaction is suggesting - as it always does - what I need to do to change the moment, what I have to do to make that moment just go away.
We don't really see at all, because this summary resistance - born of a conditioned consciousness that is looking for the confirmation and the continuation of itself through time - is a blinding force, and it is also a binding force. In those moments when we are filled with this resistance, all we see is what our negative reaction points to outside of us and then blames accordingly for the pain of our experience in that moment.
First and foremost: it is impossible to blame any moment for the pain we're in and be changed in that moment as well. If you blame a moment, there will never be any change in that moment. The change will only be what you see from the past as causing it, or the future you hope to reach where you're not in pain anymore.
If you want to change, you've got to get rid of the whole notion of blame. It has to go - it is a lie, it is a deceit. This blaming nature does not exist apart from the conditioning that measures the moment according to its expectation - and when the moment doesn't match how it is supposed to be, then this consciousness can't find fault with itself, so it blames the circumstance for not being the way it's supposed to be. Then it plans how to change it.
Have you not heard the word, the expression, "the change of life?" Mostly it has to do I think with getting older, as in, "I'm going through a change of life." I want you to understand there is no change of life, in the highest sense of being changed into a new human being, without you and I being willing to go through the change of light.
The real change of life, at every level, requires that we go through a change in light that can only take place in that light - because, as I said, what is blame other than a conditioned manifestation of a mind that, looking out, wants "that" and doesn't want "that" - or doesn't want "that" and correspondingly wants something else. It is a mind that lives in a perpetual divided state, endlessly comparing and measuring each moment to what it expects it to be. And when it doesn't hit the mark, then everything's got to change about "you," everything's got to change about the world.
The last thing that we suspect is that the reason we keep meeting these same moments is because this consciousness blames the experience of the moment on the condition instead of its own conditioned state.
Just for grins, just for 24 hours, resolve to set an intention: anything that comes up in me that wants to blame him, her, this, or that for this rush of negativity, this anxiety, this fear - anything that comes up that wants to find something to blame - I absolutely under no circumstances will agree with it. I will become the observer of this consciousness that wants to blame, instead of serving it unconsciously and hoping that the changes it suggests I make will produce a change in the way I experience my life. We have the evidence in front of us all the time, it doesn't work.
Can you see how futile it is to immediately identify with anything that wants to blame a circumstance for what, ostensibly, is this consciousness that's resisting anything that doesn't match its own image?
If we can see that, then we should be able to see - given what we've described - that what we are really blind to is that we live from a mind that never stops resisting its own expectation. That never stops resisting anything that doesn't grant it what it has desired.
A consciousness like that is never in the light of the moment, but rather is always shining what it calls its light on the moment - and when that light reveals what it doesn't expect to see in that moment, it says the moment is dark.
No moment is dark. Every moment is a marriage of infinite divine forces, each and all interacting, blending, and bringing about endless new creations, of which you and I are intended to be a part, but are not yet.
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