Our boundaries sometimes look like country lines, steel gates, and screen doors. They look like ID cards, passwords, uniforms, organizational labels, religious jargon. They also take on the forms of silence, distance, and indifference.
We keep other people out because they're not like us and they might attack us with their guns or pamphlets, with contrasting ideas that they peddle, with behaviors that they display. In their 'attack,' we believe in our vulnerability.
In setting up boundaries, we like to believe we safely keep Darkness out.
But in setting up fear-based boundaries, we also box ourselves in and keep our Light to ourselves. Within our boundaries, we keep Light from entering.
Would we not rather tune in and listen to God, the Voice Within, the Holy Spirit, our Inner Guidance for perfect direction? Like celestial beings, we are guided to stay within Divine gravitational boundary so that as we spin round and round in this thing called Life, we remain in orbit.
We remain in orbit not because we fear or disdain other stars but because it is our place in the universe. Our orbit is our direction, our boundary. Such a boundary is not set up in fear or in separation, but in celestial order.
When the 'time' comes for us to 'leave,' then we receive the Go signal to implode, or explode into heavenly smithereens, or collide with other stars to transform into... bright StarLights!
So when we tune in to God, we will not need to build human boundaries out of fear. God will set up Divine boundaries to keep us in His orbit while Life Lessons are ongoing - a soft 'no,' a sudden 'stop!'... a hushed 'not yet.'
Boundaries will disappear when the Lessons shall have been learned.
And then Light is upon us, and we Light up the world.
(Reflections on ACIM Workbook Lesson 69, Matthew 5:14-16, John 8:12)
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