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 Here's looking at you, kid of God.
Have you ever considered taking that statement as a compliment?
I know, if someone has ever said that to you, it probably wasn't in a positive light. You probably got caught lying (who...you?) or someone saw through your ulterior motive. Maybe it's never happened to you ;)
Do you remember back in school...okay...we are talking probably 10 years and back...before real computers in the classroom. I am talking about when teachers and professors used overhead projectors to diagram problems, etc. and they did so with transparencies. Yes, the transparency.
Remember those?
Clear plastic. Sometimes they would overlay numerous sheets on top of on another...but when you looked and it and aligned it just right...it looked like one sheet. Kind of a cool visual.
As I was doing some spiritual study last week...I came across this quote in one of my favorite spiritual guidebooks, Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy . She writes, "The mortal mind through which Truth appears most vividly is that one which has lost much materiality — much error — in order to become a better transparency for Truth. Then, like a cloud melting into thin vapor, it no longer hides the sun."
It hit me. This is what I aspire to do. I pray each day...work each day...to be the cleanest transparency I can be. So to me, "the error and materiality" that I try to clean away on a daily basis is doubt, fear, personality, ego, as well as my own physical limitations. As an actor, there are plenty of factors that try to muck up my transparency. Being an independent contractor, there are different errors that try to fog up my perfectly clear sheet.
But in reality, I know that my transparency is just that. Transparent. There are no smudges, obstructions, or blemishes. I have all of the talent and ability as provided by Spirit. My transparency was created perfectly...and can never be anything but perfect. So, throughout the day I try to be conscious of ink marks, lies, and the false overlays that try to cover my beautifully clear transparency...and not allow them to attach themselves to me.
What is the result?
If my life is the transparency...and Spirit is the light...what happens when my transparency is clear? Perfection. Seamless. Complete. Beautiful. My only work is to be clear and allow perfection to shine right through me. I don't need to create the Light...I only need to make sure that I am allowing the Light to shine through me. How do I do this? Thought by thought...action by action...prayer by prayer.
Here is an exercise...take a fully covered transparency. Now, all of the darkness represents negative ideas you have about yourself. How does the Light shine through? Not very well. Now, take all of those negative ideas that really aren't true about you...and now reverse them with the way that Spirit, Love sees you. With a cloth...for every lie you reverse...wipe away some of the dirt from the transparency. Now, how does the Light shine through?
Keep doing this.
How long will it take for you to have a perfectly clear transparency? To know this, you need to watch yourself thought by thought.
Here is the good news...your transparency is always perfectly clear in Spirit...we just need to get all of the false overlays out of the way. Remember, just because it looks like they are apart of us, they never really have been. There is no connection, just illusion!
Now, you have cleaned up yourself...how are you still viewing your co-workers?
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