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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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Accepting Holy Spirit’s Loving Correction

If you point out the errors of your brother’s ego you must be seeing through yours, because the Holy Spirit does not perceive his errors. This must be true, since there is no communication between the ego and the Holy Spirit. The ego makes no sense, and the Holy Spirit does not attempt to understand anything that arises from it. Since He does not understand it, He does not judge it, knowing that nothing the ego makes means anything.

When you react at all to errors, you are not listening to the Holy Spirit. He has merely disregarded them, and if you attend to them you are not hearing Him. If you do not hear Him, you are listening to your ego and making as little sense as the brother whose errors you perceive. This cannot be correction. Yet it is more than merely a lack of correction for him. It is the giving up of correction in yourself.

When a brother behaves insanely, you can heal him only by perceiving the sanity [Son of God] in him.

To perceive errors in anyone, and to react to them as if they were real, is to make them real to you.

Your brother’s errors are not of him, any more than yours are of you. Accept his errors as real, and you have attacked yourself. If you would find your way and keep it, see only truth [the Son of God] beside you for you walk together. The Holy Spirit in you forgives all things in you and in your brother. His errors are forgiven with yours. (A Course in Miracles, T-9.III.3:1-5:1;6:7;7:1-5. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

If the Holy Spirit doesn’t understand the ego, it must certainly be a waste of time for us to try to understand it. Insanity makes no sense, and the ego is insane, being the denial of all that is Real. While we identify with the ego, we will see the ego thought system acted out everywhere.

The lesson we need to learn is to offer all our perceptions to the Holy Spirit for His correction. On our own we cannot correct ourselves. But He will help us overlook the insanity and show us the Son of God that is in everyone, including ourselves. This is the gift of forgiveness the Holy Spirit holds out to us. As we learn to overlook the ego, we remember that we are Love as Love created us. We return to the peace and joy of God.

Today we welcome the Holy Spirit’s correction of our perceptions, for we want to remember Love.

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Returning to the Heart of Love

What waits in perfect certainty beyond salvation is not our concern. For you have barely started to allow your first, uncertain steps to be directed up the ladder separation led you down. The miracle alone is your concern at present. Here is where we must begin. And having started, will the way be made serene and simple in the rising up to waking and the ending of the dream. When you accept a miracle, you do not add your dream of fear to one that is already being dreamed. Without support, the dream will fade away without effects. For it is your support that strengthens it.

God builds the bridge, but only in the space left clean and vacant by the miracle. The seeds of sickness and the shame of guilt He cannot bridge, for He can not destroy the alien will that He created not. Let its effects be gone and clutch them not with eager hands, to keep them for yourself. The miracle will brush them all aside, and thus make room for Him Who wills to come and bridge His Son’s returning to Himself.

Be not afraid, my child, but let your world be gently lit by miracles. And where the little gap was seen to stand between you and your brother, join him there. And so sickness will now be seen without a cause. The dream of healing in forgiveness lies, and gently shows you that you never sinned. The miracle would leave no proof of guilt to bring you witness to what never was. (A Course in Miracles, T-28.III.1;6;8:1-5. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

True forgiveness is like opening the shutters and doors to a room that is enclosed off from the light. The light easily dissipates the darkness, for there is no resistance. Darkness has no substance to resist the light. Only the walls, shutters and doors of separation we have made in our minds seem to contain the darkness. Forgiveness removes the barriers to the Light of Love. 

The thought system of separation that built the barriers to Love cannot provide the means to remove the barriers. But the Mind of Love is not limited by the mistaken belief in separation. It is to the Voice of Love that we must turn for help to see through the appearances that seem to make separation real. As we practice letting Love shine Its Light on all our perceptions, the barriers we have made fade into the nothingness from which they came. And we are welcomed back into the Heart of Love we never truly left.

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