July 07, 2008 
Standing in the shower I glanced up and saw what I thought were drops of water leaking from the top of the shower structure. Since our days in our new home have been about “fix and repair” my first reaction was, “Oh no, not another thing to fix.”
Then I looked again and saw that what I was seeing was the reflection of the shower hooks on the ceiling. There was nothing to react about, the problem was an illusion.
Here’s the thing that we often forget. All problems are an illusion. Uh huh, I know. We all know the many ways that problems do not feel like an illusion. But that doesn’t make them real.
This includes the often said, but almost always misinterpreted, statement, “There are no accidents.” Yes, that’s right. There are no accidents. They are an illusion. Not that an accident leads to something good as often stated.
No, there are no accidents. Yes, because we have a choice of how to react to what appears as an accident (the illusion) then that learning, that growth, that awareness, can and often does, lead us to good.
But, an illusion is an illusion whether it is drops of water on the ceiling or an accident, or mistreatment, hunger, lack, sickness or an accident, they are all illusions.
In each case where an illusion tempts us to believe that it is real, we have a choice of reaction or replacement. We can react to the illusion or replace what the outside is telling us to be true with what we know to be True within.
Where does this statement that “anything that is not good is an illusion” come from? It comes from the Principle that you know and accept. It is the Principle that God is Love and Love is omnipresent and omniscience. This statement, this Principle, leaves absolutely no room for something other than Love as the only Reality.
The next question is, “Doesn’t Love give us these “accidents” and bad things in order to teach us?” No. Omnipresent Love couldn’t know anything other than Love. It doesn’t know us as humans needing to be taught a lesson. Divine Love isn’t a glorified human personality.
It is a human interpretation of love that Love punishes, denies, or takes a break. Divine Love, as a Principle of being, knows nothing about anything other than Love Loving. This means that if we are not seeing direct evidence that Love is omnipresent, then we are being hypnotized by the illusion; remember that it is only an illusion of the non-presence of Love.
Feelings of fear, anger, hate, discouragement, despair, not knowing, lack, unhappiness, and doubt all stem from that illusion of the lack of omnipresent Love.
In the shower I looked again at what appeared as something “bad” and saw my mistake. In life, we need to look again at the illusion representing itself as real, and see that right there is also the evidence that it is an illusion.
It takes practice, but that is only because we have practiced so long in the illusion of lack that we have to rebuild our awareness of Truth. Within each of us is an already present awareness that right where lack appears to be is the direct experience of Love Loving Itself.
Either Love is omnipresent, or it isn’t. Since what we determine and perceive is Reality is our personal reality, is what we experience, then whether we actually believe that Love is omnipresent, or have a direct experience that it is, or even if we don’t believe it, why not choose that perception that it is.
Since our perception is our reality, why not choose the big R Reality where God, Divine Love, Infinite Intelligence with Its constant care and provision is the Truth of being? I’d rather be practicing that point of view, and living in that state of mind, then the one that demands constant, fix and repair. Wouldn’t you?
