A spiritual lesson- “Understanding RESPECT through an EYE POKE”
RESPECT must be UNDERSTOOD to be UNIVERSAL. Perceiving RESPECT is a TRAP for an individual’s ever-changing idea of what it is like to be or not be respected. This is a formula for living in HELL.
The etymology of the word Respect comes from the latin terms to LOOK BACK OR LOOK AGAIN. Whenever there is a feeling of being disrespected (HELLO RODNEY DANGERFIELD, “I don’t get no respect”), someone feels discounted. It’s time to look again at this term and its use.
So, this morning I woke up with my eye completely swollen. It is the eye from which I recently had a cancer surgically removed. It is not pretty and it doesn’t feel good. Nonetheless, I try to see the humor in it because I have asked Spirit to help me become ONE-EYED, seeing the singularity of Truth instead of the hell of perception through DUALITY, which I also call “Duel”-ality- a constant state of war..
I have repeatedly experienced and have recently shared on my YouTube Channel @SunBeAMonRetreat that everything I perceive through my body’s senses reflects a process in my own mind. In A Course in Miracles, Lesson 325 entitled All things I think I see reflect ideas, Jesus emphasizes salvation’s keynote:
What I see reflects a process in my mind, which starts with my idea of what I want. From there, the mind makes up an image of the thing the mind desires, judges valuable, and therefore seeks to find. These images are then projected outward. From insane wishes comes an insane world. From judgment comes a world condemned. And from forgiving thoughts a gentle world comes forth, with mercy for the holy Son of God.
So, I am not surprised to see in my projected world my swollen eye referenced in an insane distortion of a world condemned in the headline of the scandalous reporting of Indiana Fever superstar Caitlin Clark’s eye poke.
There is not a single person that would disagree that a dynamic and energetic game of 10 professional athletes competing for the control of a 28.5 inch, 20 ounce inflatable ball has inherent in it the likelihood that someone’s eye is going to get poked. The way the drama has played out, every one loses: Carrington feels bad about unintentionally poking Clark; Clark has a swollen, painful eye; and the reporter who asked a question for drama’s sake goes on the defensive.
How can this be converted to the promise of a forgiving, gentle world with mercy for each one of us? It’s as simple as LOOKING AGAIN with vision of God’s teacher, seeing each one of us a drop of water in the same raging ocean wave. No one is is disrespected when we let it flow and let it go in LOVE.