YOUR BROTHER

Two sentences come to mind that sum up this chapter: “Love your brother as you love yourself” and “Do onto others as you would have them do onto you.” Both well known and easily understood on one level but on a deeper level so hard to carry out because to do either I must first love myself. For how can I love or do onto another as I would like until I know what that is?

It is becoming clear in this chapter that to forgive another is to clear the way for me to let go of all the trash and forgive myself. However I treat another, I treat myself. Every look at the brother is a look into my own reflection.

So, how do I treat that brother and in the end treat myself? I bless him, en joy his time with me, realize that I am not here to fix him but only myself. If he asks for help, I let him work beside me but if he wishes to leave I wish him well. Let him go freely and while he stays treat him as an equal. Equality is not easy. It is easier to blame or put him on a pedestal. Equality means to accept what he freely gives and give what I am feel free to give without a sacrifice for either of us.

In this world this is not an easy chapter. But then I am not reading this to stay a part of this world but to help bring about the world that is possible if I allow myself to think with my Higher Source or the Christ mind.