Injustice

If you’ve ever shouted “This is unfair!” at your partner, the news, or your neighbor, you’re not alone. Humanity has a long-standing obsession with justice…or better said : injustice.

We spot it everywhere: in politics, parking tickets, and especially when someone disapproves what you are doing. It’s like injustice has a personal vendetta against us.

But what if that injustice is a concept made by the ego, dressed up as a noble cause?

Let’s take a look.

According to A Course in Miracles, there is no such thing as real injustice, because nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. But the ego? Oh, it lives for injustice. It watches it like an endless daily soap opera (like ‘The Bold and The Beautiful’) : “He did what to her? That’s outrageous!” It thrives on division, on right and wrong, on blame and victimhood.

And guess what? It hires a very charming spokesperson to justify all this drama. Its name? Ridge…oh no sorry….: Common Sense!

“Common Sense”….the ego in a suit and tie.

Ah yes, common sense. That wise-sounding, no-nonsense advisor that says things like: You can’t trust people like that. You have to fight for your rights. That’s just how the world works….and so on.

But let’s be honest: most of what passes for common sense is just fear in disguise. It’s based on past experiences, limited beliefs, and often, a good dose of inherited generational anxiety. It’s like using a pirate’s treasure map to navigate a modern city: it may feel familiar, but it won’t get you anywhere you truly want to go.

So… what’s the alternative?

Instead of listening to the ego’s idea of justice or logic, the Course invites us to go a little deeper or should we say, higher.

Ask the Holy Spirit….: show me how to see this differently.

And like magic (or …you know…miracle! ), the same situation starts to soften. We begin to see that the “injustice” we thought we suffered was actually a call for love. Not a reason to attack, but an opportunity to forgive. Not a drama, but a classroom.

From this higher view, nothing is truly unfair, because everything is either LOVE OR A CALL FOR LOVE. In that light, justice is no longer about winning arguments, but about remembering unity. Even when someone behaves badly…especially then…we are invited to step outside the illusion of separation.

Does that mean we let people walk all over us? No. It means we act, speak, and even protest from love, not from fear. From clarity, not from “common sense.”

Because let’s face it: if common sense were so reliable, the world wouldn’t look like a confused sitcom with too many writers and no ending in sight.

Next time someone advises you to “just be reasonable,” take a breath.

Because true reason, the kind that doesn’t wear a suit and carry a briefcase, whispers gently rather than shouts. It doesn’t argue. It reminds.

It reminds you that you are not here to win the game…you’re here to remember it was never real.

And in that remembering, even injustice fades like a bad dream at sunrise.

With love and light,

G.