When you have learned to accept what you are, you will make no more gifts to offer to yourself, for you will know you are complete, in need of nothing, and unable to accept anything for yourself [alone]. But you will gladly give, having received. The host of God need not seek to find anything.
If you are wholly willing to leave salvation to the plan of God and unwilling to attempt to grasp for peace yourself, salvation will be given you. Yet think not you can substitute your plan for His. Rather, join with me in His, that we may release all those who would be bound, proclaiming together that the Son of God is host to Him. Thus will we let no one forget what you would remember. And thus will you remember it.
Call forth in everyone only the remembrance of God, and of the Heaven that is in him. For where you would have your brother be, there will you think you are. Hear not his appeal to hell and littleness, but only his call for Heaven and greatness. (A Course in Miracles, T-15.III.10:7-12:3. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)
If we seek for peace or happiness in any circumstance in the world, we are seeking where it cannot be found. We are substituting our plan for God’s. We find peace and happiness only in accepting God’s Love as ours, because only God’s Love is real.
While we seem to be in the world of form, we accept God’s Love by letting the Holy Spirit show us the Love and the calls for Love beyond all appearances. As we accept His vision, we see the truth in our brothers instead of the projections of the ego that would condemn him to guilt. As we see the truth in our brothers, we affirm the truth in ourselves.
What seems to be a gift we give our brothers by extending Love to them is a gift we give ourselves. Our brothers are not separate from us, so every gift of Love is a gift to all. Because only Love is real, the only gift we can give is Love. This is God’s plan for our salvation.
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