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Letting Dreams of Fear Fade Away

God is the Alternate to dreams of fear. Who shares in [dreams of fear] can never share in Him. But who withdraws his mind from sharing [dreams] is sharing Him. There is no other choice. Except you share it, nothing can exist. And you exist because God shared His Will with you, that His creation might create.

It is the sharing of the evil dreams of hate and malice, bitterness and death, of sin and suffering and pain and loss, that makes them real. Unshared, they are perceived as meaningless. The fear is gone from [dreams] because you did not give them your support. Where fear has gone there love must come, because there are but these alternatives. Where one appears, the other disappears. And which you share becomes the only one you have. You have the one that you accept, because it is the only one you wish to have.

You share no evil dreams if you forgive the dreamer, and perceive that he is not the dream he made. And so he cannot be a part of [your dream], from which you both are free. Forgiveness separates the dreamer from the evil dream, and thus releases him.… There is no compromise. You are your Self or an illusion. What can be between illusion and the truth? A middle ground, where you can be a thing that is not you, must be a dream and cannot be the truth. (A Course in Miracles, T-28. V.1:6-3:3;3:8-11. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Conflict appears to be everywhere in the dream of being separate and alone. That is why it is a dream of fear. It excludes the oneness of Love, which cannot conflict with Itself. In the dream, conflict is everywhere: in relationships, politics, cultures, countries and even within our thoughts.

As we learn to forgive the dreamer of these dreams, our brothers or ourselves, we learn to disconnect the dreamer from the dreams we made. This is like releasing the tether that keeps a balloon from floating free. The truth in us is free to be everywhere, always. But when we perceive ourselves as in the dream we made, we are bound to the world of separation and we cannot see beyond it.

As always, we have a Helper Who will bring us the vision we need to see beyond the dream and recognize that the truth in the dreamer is God’s Creation — Love and nothing else. Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us see as He sees — to look past the dreams of conflict, and peace will fill our hearts as dreams of fear fade away.

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