(Blue Moon Super Sunday)

About four months ago a beloved friend fell and suffered brain stem injury. After sinking into depression and reaching the threshold of death, this most positive thinking man DECIDED to live. Feeling that he wasn't getting sufficient physical therapy, I have been gently working his arms and legs during one of my twice-daily visits. Having worked with this man for 18 years, we have a strong mind connection, and I can sense his feelings and desires.

A couple of days ago one of his sons expressed fear that I was hurting his father during these workouts, and my immediate response was that you cannot hurt someone when you are coming from love. On my way to visit him last night, that thought became a complete KNOWING, integrating a recent dream with experiences I have had over the past few years and intellectual understanding from many books and articles. I was filled with awe at the complexity with which Divine Intelligence perfectly guides our spiritual growth, weaving together seemingly unrelated experiences until we get the message.

Having experienced the profound joy of just SOME of the many facets of joining and sharing with other human expressions of God (see Multi-Media), I see the utter insanity of keeping our human selves alone and separate when we are allONE, futilely attempting to withhold our love from others. I deeply felt and REALIZED (see Realization) the deep yearning of our souls to join in that Oneness that IS God (see Yearning), and saw that was from fear of being hurt.

LOVE CAN'T HURT!!!!

Knowing the love inside me I totally KNEW that I could not hurt my friend when trying to help him recover.

Knowing the love of my soul IS in my heart I totally KNEW that I could not betray the love I feel for another BEing, especially when they feel emotionally hurt by imperfect (human) attempts at expressing love in the past (until they realize THEIR perfect love, they may be living in the past instead of the NOW and therefore may not RECOGNIZE Divine love, but that is part of THEIR process).

Knowing that the love inside me IS the love of God, I totally KNEW that I could not BE hurt by another in the process of discovering their Divinity, no matter how their outward expression appeared to the human senses, for they, too are expressions of God with that same Divine love in their hearts.

Until we learn the TRUTH of love, it is the imperfect human counterpart, colored by our own feelings of need and desire. When the "other" fails to fulfill those desires in the manner we deem proper, we feel hurt, and withhold our love. In response, our partner feels the denial of our love, and the relationship ends with hurt feelings, anger and blame.

TRUE love, God's love, is full and complete BEFORE its human expression, and therefore that expression CANNOT be imperfect. There CAN BE no personal needs and desires that interfere. As Pope John Paul II expressed in Crossing The Treshold Of Hope, "Love for a person excludes the possibility of treating him as an object of pleasure." In TRUTH there IS no pleasure other than the Love of God.

When we fear, we deny our BEingness as God's expression, and therefore are vulnerable to being hurt. Lesson 26 in A Course In Miracles states "My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability." If we feel we CAN hurt another, that we are NOT expressions of God, then we justifiably fear BEING hurt, and therefore try to shield ourselves from love. Yet as ACIM (text) also states "Only perfect love exists. If fear exists, there cannot be perfect love. So fear creates a condition that CANNOT exist. ONLY perfect love exists."

And to cap off this wondrous knowing, today's guide in Science of Mind magazine quotes Lenny Bruce - "There's no "what should be", there is only what IS."