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By: Santi Chacon
Executive Coach
Divorce
The central theme here is not marriage but spirituality. Jesus doesn't start his conversation with an explanation but a command and a consequence. It is important that we consider the 'Why?' to his statement.
Was Jesus attempting to reveal the spiritual nature of relationships?
Intimate relationships are mirrors to our inner world. Relationships will reflect on our self-hatred or self-love, on our spirituality or carnality. Ongoing romance has the potential to grow our capacity to be spiritual or to be fearful. The fashion, in which Jesus presents the concept of marriage is very basic and uncomplicated. If a person is willing to put away a relationship that has given much in the way of healing, service, dedication, obedience, and the nurturing of mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical needs, then her commitment in other relationships is unstable. Relationships that carry less weight then a marriage will suffer as a consequence of instability of character and spirituality.
Spirituality is tested by the positive and negative waves of a meaningful relationship. The moment a person commits herself romantically to another human being is the moment she begins to discover the depth of her own spirituality. Will she continue to love, forgive, and nurture in the light of difficulty and unrest?
Let's consider a few thoughts about marriage and the inferences and implications if spirituality is our goal:
Indicators Of A Whole Person
No institution exemplifies love, wholeness, union, and stability (elements that define spirituality) more than a healthy marriage.
Personification Of Love
Marriage is a personification of love. A persons' hidden character displays whether she is capable of loving herself and then extending that love to her husband. If she is capable of loving another person the marriage will shine and if she fails then marriage will serve as a crushing blow.
The Secret To Truth And Happiness In Marriage
What God attempts to teach us in marriage are spiritual principles. Every moment is created for you to extend yourself in love, to forgive, and to withhold judgment. When two lovers learn to do this they will not only discover a healthy marriage, happiness and fulfillment, but spirituality.
The holy instant is the Holy Spirit's most useful learning device for teaching you love's meaning. For its purpose is to suspend judgment entirely. Judgment always rests on the past, for past experience is the basis on which you judge. Judgment becomes impossible without the past, for without it you do not understand anything. You would make no attempt to judge, because it would be quite apparent to you that you do not understand what anything means. You are afraid of this because you believe that without the ego, all would be chaos. Yet I assure you that without the ego, all would be love.
The past is the ego's chief learning device, for it is in the past that you learned to define your own needs and acquire methods for meeting them on your own terms. We have said that to limit love to part of the Sonship is to bring guilt into your relationships, and thus make them unreal. If you seek to separate out certain aspects of the totality and look to them to meet your imagined needs, you are attempting to use separation to save you. How, then, could guilt not enter? For separation is the source of guilt, and to appeal to it for salvation is to believe you are alone. To be alone is to be guilty. For to experience yourself as alone is to deny the Oneness of the Father and His Son, and thus to attack reality.
-ACIM
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