Hidden

Advent/Twenty

The interior bell rings and those who have ears to hear, know what this means. It is time to leave the soft autumn sun and prepare for the cold, dark winter ahead. It is time to turn inward, it is the season of safety, rest, and trust. It is time to be hidden. It is here in the darkened quiet that stillness dissolves us and helps us to escape the busyness of our sleep-walking life. In the interior silence, we know what we are and what everything is for. In quiet communion with God and with every particle of Love, we hear the notes of heaven rise and fall and we become the song.

I have led myself with fear and projection for far too long. I have witnessed what I believed to be the beauty and the tragedy of this world, and given every thought, feeling, sight, and impression the gift of my belief, but for what? To hide. To hide from myself. To hide from you. To hide from God.

But now? I would hear your voice, and I would call to You. I would hear the bell and I would let you lead me to safety, rest, and trust. With Love I follow You into the darkness for a time. Only now, unafraid, I am hidden in you. And what will become of me but the memory You?

⁴Therefore, you have used the world to cover your love, and the deeper you go into the blackness of the ego’s foundation, the closer you come to the Love that is hidden there. (ACIM, T-13.III.4:4)

²For you call for love to your Father as your Father calls you to Himself. ³In that place which you have hidden, you will only to unite with the Father, in loving remembrance of Him. (ACIM, T-13.III.8:2-3)