This course has explicitly stated that its goal for you is happiness and peace. Yet you are afraid of it. You have been told again and again that [the course] will set you free, yet you sometimes react as if it is trying to imprison you. You often dismiss it more readily than you dismiss the ego’s thought system. To some extent, then, you must believe that by not learning the course you are protecting yourself. And you do not realize that it is only your guiltlessness that can protect you.
In the extreme, you are afraid of redemption and you believe it will kill you. Make no mistake about the depth of this fear. For you believe that, in the presence of truth, you might turn on yourself and destroy yourself.
Little child, this is not so. Your “guilty secret” is nothing, and if you will but bring it to the light, the light will dispel it. And then no dark cloud will remain between you and the remembrance of your Father, for you will remember His guiltless Son, who did not die because he is immortal. And you will see that you were redeemed with him, and have never been separated from him. In this understanding lies your remembering, for it is the recognition of love without fear. There will be great joy in Heaven on your homecoming, and the joy will be yours. For the redeemed son of man is the guiltless Son of God, and to recognize him is your redemption. (A Course in Miracles, T-13.II.7;8:4-9:7. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)
It is always a happy day in God’s neighborhood because His Will is to be happy. If we are not experiencing happiness, we must believe in the ego thought system of separation from happiness and Love. We believe we have left God’s neighborhood. We have accepted a false identity as our reality. This false identity seems to be capable of harm and must therefore be guilty.
The ego is on constant alert for signs of guilt in others. Its judgments condemn the world as an attempt to hide the guilt it associates with our identity as a body. Thus it maintains the illusion that guilt is justified while seeming to maintain its own innocence. Yet the source of perceived guilt cannot claim innocence.
It is time to choose to learn from our inner Teacher Who will show us the truth of What we are. The Holy Spirit will teach us that we are still Love as Love created us. Love’s innocence is ours. As we let go of believing the ego thought system, we see the truth of Love’s innocence in our brother’s. And the innocence we see in our brothers we learn is true about us. This is the Course’s lesson of redemption. This is how we remember the Self God created one with Him.
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