A
Course in Love & Healing
Lesson 9
Dissolving
Hate
By
Shannon Peck
I
put down the newspaper, having read yet another story of a hate crime
against an innocent person. The
paper also described the entire atmosphere and history of hate in this
area of town. I felt like
crying. When will it ever
end? I asked.
Then
I thought of the higher question, How will it ever end?
If Love could only pray one prayer that would end all the hate,
anger, revenge, violence, and evil on earth, what would that prayer be?
Years
ago I revisited my old neighborhood with my husband. We drove by the house where I had lived and along the street
where I took daily walks. Just
then I saw the back of a woman. I
knew her. Immediately my
stomach was gripped with pain. I
had to pull over and stop the car.
My
husband asked what was wrong. I
tried to explain the venomous hate this woman had expressed towards me on
a number of occasions hating me for no apparent reason.
As I sat in the quiet car, I listened for divine guidance.
I was led to confront the mental picture I held of this woman being
hateful, and to replace the picture with a pronounced, spiritual view of
the woman. It was clear that,
in order to be healed of sharp pain, I was being led to heal my own view of her.
I
stated out loud that, since divine Love is the source of all life, this
woman was also created by Love. As
I listened for further inspiration, many of the evil acts she did against
me flashed before my thought. I
persisted in prayer. It then
occurred to me that perhaps no one had seen her spiritual identity and
that I might be the first to do so. Years
earlier, my prayers were motivated to be protected from her but had not
touched on the real issue of her spirituality.
As
I sat there in the car with my husband, we received divine inspiration
that reminded us she was of a good source.
We took a strong stand for her true spiritual identity.
The pain began to leave.
I
then continued to drive the car through the neighborhood, tracing old
footsteps. But a few blocks
down the road, I was again struck with pain and had to pull off the
street. Back to prayer. We again reasoned that there could be no evil or harm since
there was no creator of it. I
thought of the woman and decided that, for the rest of my life, whenever I
thought of her, I would picture her in my mind as precious and completely
good. It was a spiritual
decision. The pain
immediately left. Since that
time I have not altered my decision of her spiritual identity as the fact
about her true being.
This
is a lesson that proved to me the power of loving, spiritual thought to
dissolve hate. What happened?
I exchanged a mistaken picture of reality of hate for a
true and higher picture of the reality of Love.
This taught me that the spiritual reality of Love though it may
not seem to be so is always present and has the ability to dissolve
hate, which appears to be so real and powerful.
It wasnt a question of the lady changing.
It was a question of my own shift of consciousness that removed
hate from my experience.
What
would happen if just one percent of the critical mass required to change
the collective whole would decide today that divine Love is the true power
and that hate is a projected and mistaken thought?
It would change life as we know it today. What if we spent the rest of the day picturing the world in
this state void of hate and full of love?
It is our divine, inherent right to live from the consciousness of
Love. Our very spiritual
identity depends upon it.
The
picture of hate presented to us constantly on the news seems so real, permanent and even dreadfully expected. How can we ever dissolve such a
huge, negative force? The
answer lies in spiritually redefining what we see.
Instead of hate, we can see the enormous absence of love as the
calling for divine Love. Hate
is a cry for love. The real news story is the power of Love to dissolve hate.
Each
of us can step outside the box of limited thoughts that would confine us
to a life of unempowerment. Each
of us can resolve world conflict in our own neighborhood and family by
addressing what we carry around in thought.
Each of us can decide to love more in exchange for every hate.
Take
a moment and picture the world without hate. Imagine your life and the lives of those you love without
hate or anger. What a
beautiful and powerful thought!
Together
we can create the world we most want to live in. Our decision to do this means that when tempted to react with
anger at the office, on the freeway, in our home, or wherever we are
we can immediately change our thought. We can decide that there will be no
situation allowed to pull us into hate.
We have within us the power to dissolve all hate.
Rather than projecting hate, repeating it, modeling it, or fearing
it we can be LoveMasters
experts in utilizing the power of divine, healing Love to dissolve
hate. Welcome to the heart of Love!
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Shannon Peck
is a spiritual healer & teacher, as well as past TV talk show host and prison chaplain.
Shannon is passionate about spiritual healing and relies exclusively on
meditation, prayer, inspiration, & intuition for healing. She is the
Co-Founder, with Scott Peck, of TheLoveCenter, a
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of Love. This article draws from
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