Subject: Obstacles to Peace

Truly there are no "obstacles to peace" we cannot transcend together

in forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of valuing the ego, which

could also be called death. The ego is an attempted denial of Oneness.

Yet such a belief cannot really change the truth of Oneness, for

nothing can change eternal Love. Yet while the ego seems to offer

something of value, the One's Answer cannot be completely heard or

accepted. For the ego is the belief that there can be a substitute

for Oneness. And the Spirit teaches that there is no Love but One's

All-encompassing Love.

The "attraction of death" is an attraction to a made up identity

image and to all the distractions and defenses that are part of the

image. The image is the ego, or death, and it attempts to masquerade

as a real entity with a life of its own with the power the sleeping

mind gives to it. The ego cannot be an obstacle to peace if belief is

withdrawn from it and faith is placed in the Spirit.

There seem to be pleasures associated with the made up image and its

world, fleeting as they may be. And to the sleeping mind these

pleasures are attractive and therefore sought after. Yet idols never

give lasting joy and contentment, for they are temporal. They rise

and they fall, for they could never substitute for eternal Love.

While the ego and its idols are valued or attractive, by

definition "death" still seems attractive to the sleeping mind. For

again, the ego is synonymous with death.

There is no death. This is realized in the Light of Oneness. The

ego has no foundation and illusions are but error. Once faith has

been withdrawn from the error, the error is no more to be experienced

as real. This is the meaning of Awakening, the overcoming of death.

You allow the Spirit to raise the ego error to the Light of Truth

(bring illusions to truth), and the darkness of death is no more.

Death is not the death of the body. Death was the error that

separation from Oneness could actually occur. To transcend the ego then,

is to transcend a belief in the impossible. Once death is seen for

the illusion it is, it is no longer attractive. For who would choose

illusions when the Light of Truth is Experienced as Love, and when

Love is no longer feared.

I am joined with you in the Life and Love of Oneness. You are as perfect

and changeless as the One. And I give thanks we are One Self.

Amen.

Blessings,

David