I trust my brothers who are one with me.

6-30-2026

“Trusting your brothers is essential to establishing and holding up your faith in your ability to transcend doubt and lack of sure conviction in yourself.” [CE W-181.1:1]

The word ‘trust’ drew me into this lesson. My having had a breakthrough with my trust in God in 2025 makes me feel sentimental and open hearted. This made me feel connected to this lesson.

Can I take the feeling of the trusting relationship I have with God outward into this world that I share with my brothers and sisters?

I was just reading through Robert Perry’s commentaries on Lessons 177-180 in which he stepped through each sentence of paragraphs 6-9 of Review 5 Introduction. He felt that Jesus’ words are speaking of a journey we take through time to our Atonement. Jesus says that he is with us through out it all and that by joining with our brothers/sisters that we, as a group, One, return to where we began in God.

In the first line from this lesson, I trust in my brothers because I see myself in them. If I see them stumble, I have compassion because I stumble too. Through noticing that their missteps are OK, I come to accept that my missteps are OK too.

6-30-2024

“Remove your focus on your brother’s sins, and you experience the peace that comes form faith in sinlessness.”

Is this lesson about trusting or seeing? The title mentions trust but the text of the lesson emphasizes seeing the sinlessness in ourselves and others.

The prayer in paragraph 6 answers my question for me.

“It is not this that I would look upon. I trust my brother, who are one with me.”

Yes, we are meant to see the innocence in others, but again (even after realizations with lessons 158 and 164) my expectation is that my physical vision will change. What I realized in those lessons was that an open-hearted state overrides physical vision to allow our ‘seeing’ others in their original eternal innocence.

Trust is of the heart. Trust requires quieting of the mind as well as the opening of the heart.

Neti, neti. (Sanskrit meaning ‘not this, not this.)

It is time to question what I think I see and to take a moment for my heart to speak of what is the truth of my experience in relations with others. _/\_

So let it be.

6-30-2023

“Remove your focus on your brothers sins, and you experience the peace that comes from faith in sinlessness.”

I am ready for this new series of lessons; my willingness is strong. I am intent on looking for the sinlessness in others. And, I am purposely writing this post in the present tense as acknowledgement of the lesson’s secondary instruction to keep our attention on the Now.

“The past is gone; the future but imagined.”

The lesson calls us out in our lack of willingness due to “depressing and restricting though that, even if you should succeed, you will inevitably lose your way again … these concerns are just defenses against present change of focus in perception.”

I am willing to be in the present moment and see my brother/sister as sinless. I seek to see the innocence in all, in every experience that appears me.

There … intent set!

6-30-2022

I can’t help but think of a dear one as my example for this.

Lord, please let me see him in his sinlessness.

I do know that all he desires is good and true, to be a good man for his family. He likes laughter and fun as well … people around him. Continue to aid me in what I look upon in the important people in my life and assist me in opening up to trust others.

‘… creating a world where we trust in each other’s goodness more.’ ~Hollie Holden