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Mental Illness Can Be So Subtle
From Freedom Principles; At-One-Meant Now
by Debra Yvonne Simmons, Not Ashamed Of Christ
I have known someone since birth and it is only 45 years later that I see what I cannot undo.
Try as I might to be kind and extend love it is sent back to me as an attack that I can no longer “not see” and that others close to her refuse to see or address.
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Mental illness is the costume we wear on our ego that hides the divine identity of Christ within each of us.
I do realize that I have no choice but to continue to be knifed or walk away.
In my walk of life, I see atonement (undoing of the belief in separation from God and one another and its consequences) as the only thing that can redeem any of us.
Struggling with these behaviors (that I had thought were chemical abuse issues for all these years) had me very prepared spiritually and emotionally to receive the message of A Course In Miracles.
I believe that the awareness of these attitudes and the harm they can do is a sign that Christ (all that is) is waking up and realizing that this is not who He really is.
