Spirit
Speaks
to My Heart 
Daily
Inspiration #291
Listen
with your
Heart
The
Bridge to the Real World
(taken from: Text,
Chapter 16, IV)
You see the
world you value.
On this side of the bridge you see the world of separate bodies,
seeking to join each other in separate unions and to become one
by losing.
When two individuals seek to become one,
they are trying to decrease their magnitude.
Each would deny his power,
for the separate union excludes the universe.
Across the
bridge it is so different!
For a time the body is still seen, but not exclusively,
as it is seen here.
The bridge
itself is nothing more than a transition in the perspective of reality.
On this side,
everything you see is grossly distorted and completely out of
perspective.
What is little
and insignificant is magnified,
and what is
strong and powerful cut down to littleness
In the transition
there is a period of confusion,
in which a sense
of actual disorientation may occur.
But fear it not,
for it means only that you have been willing to let go
your hold on the
distorted frame of reference that seemed to hold your world together.
The
period of disorientation, which precedes the actual transition,
is far shorter than the time it took to fix your mind so firmly
on illusions
Delay will hurt you now more than before,only because you realise it is
delay,
and that escape from pain
is really possible.
Find hope and
comfort Wholy Child of God,
you cannot keep part of the thought system that taught you it was real,
and understand the Thought that knows what you are.
You have
allowed the Thought of your reality
to enter your mind,
and because you invited it, it will abide with you.Your love for it
will not allow you to betray yourself,
and you could not enter into a relationship where it could not go with
you, for you would not want to be apart from it.
Be glad you
have escaped the mockery of
salvation the ego offered you,
and look not back with longing on the travesty it made of your
relationships.
Now no one need suffer,
for you have come too far to yield to the illusion of the beauty and
holiness of guilt.
Only the wholly insane could look on death and suffering, sickness and
despair, and see it thus.
The new
perspective you will gain from
crossing over will be the understanding of where Heaven is.
From this side, it seems to be outside and across the bridge.
Yet as you cross to join it, it will join with you and become one with
you.
And you will think, in glad astonishment, that for all this you gave up
nothing!
The joy of
Heaven, which has no limit,
is increased with each light that returns to take its rightful place
within it.
Wait no
longer, for the Love of God and you.
And may the holy instant speed you on the way,
as it will surely do if you but let it come to you.
The Holy
Spirit asks only this little help
of you
Whenever your thoughts wander to a special relationship which still
attracts you,
enter with Him into a holy instant, and there let Him release you
He needs only your willingness to share His perspective to give it to
you completely.
And your willingness need not be complete because His is perfect.
It is His task to atone for your unwillingness by His perfect faith,
and it is His faith you share with Him there.
Out of your recognition of your unwillingness for your release,
His perfect willingness is given you.
Call
upon Him,
for Heaven
is at
His
call.
And let
Him call
on
Heaven for you.
