WHO ARE THEIR PUPILS?
page 6, paragraph 5
WHO ARE THEIR PUPILS
WHO ARE THEIR PUPILS?
5 When pupil and teacher come together, a teaching-learning situation begins. 2For the teacher is not really the one who does the teaching. 3God’s Teacher speaks to any two who join together for learning purposes. 4The relationship is holy because of that purpose, and God has promised to send His Spirit into any holy relationship. 5In the teaching-learning situation, each one learns that giving and receiving are the same. 6The demarcations they have drawn between their roles, their minds, their bodies, their needs, their interests, and all the differences they thought separated them from one another, fade and grow dim and disappear. 7Those who would learn the same course share one interest and one goal. 8And thus he who was the learner becomes a teacher of God himself, for he has made the one decision that gave his teacher to him. 9He has seen in another person the same interests as his own.
Same Interests
We are reminded that all it takes to become a teacher of God is that we see in another person the same interests as our own. So when we come together to study the Manual for Teachers as we are doing now, we are sharing the same interest. We put aside our apparent differences, all that seems to separate us, in this coming together. Your interest is the same as mine and mine the same as yours and so we are both teachers of God.
Teacher of God
What comes through me comes from the Teacher. This Teacher is the real teacher. What comes from you comes from this same Teacher of God. Coming together like this creates a holy relationship and guarantees His presence in it. You may not say anything aloud in response to what is said in this writing, but within your mind much is happening.
Giving is Receiving
A shift, sometimes immediate, sometimes slowly, occurs. Perhaps it has something to do with what is written here, or maybe not. maybe it is simply the joining for one purpose that opens the mind to healing. The same is true for me. I might take on the role of teaching, but I am the student receiving the teaching. I am the student receiving the healing from what comes through, and sometimes from responses that open to me to another way wat to see. But always, I receive as I give and as I join in the giving.
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