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Bringing Justice to the World

Justice is the divine correction for injustice. Injustice [separation] is the basis for all the judgments of the world. Justice corrects the interpretations to which injustice gives rise, and cancels them out.

Justice, like its opposite, is an interpretation. It is, however, the one interpretation that leads to truth [oneness].

Pray for God’s justice, and do not confuse His mercy with your own insanity. Perception can make whatever picture the mind desires to see. Remember this. In this lies either Heaven or hell, as you elect. God’s justice points to Heaven just because it is entirely impartial. It accepts all evidence that is brought before it, omitting nothing and assessing nothing as separate and apart from all the rest. From this one standpoint does it judge, and this alone. Here all attack and condemnation becomes meaningless and indefensible. Perception rests, the mind is still, and light returns again. Vision is now restored. What had been lost has now been found. The peace of God descends on all the world, and we can see. And we can see! (A Course in Miracles, M-19.1:1-3;2:1-2;5)

It is helpful to remember that what is divine is of God and is therefore in the oneness of Love. Oneness is entirely impartial because all it sees is one and the same. Justice therefore sees only the reality of Love’s oneness.

Happiness and peace of mind come with letting go of all judgment, which comes from believing there are differences, which could only seem to be true if we believe separation is real. Injustice is the inevitable result of choosing the ego’s belief in separation as our guide. This belief hides the reality of our brothers and our Self from our awareness.

When we choose the Holy Spirit as our Guide, He will teach us to recognize the forms of the world we see have no value. To perceive a brother as a body is to be unjust to him. It is seeing him as limited to form instead of seeing the limitless Love that is the truth in him. The Holy Spirit will show us the truth in our brother when we are willing to set disregard the ego’s images and welcome the vision that reveals the eternal presence of Love. This vision is just, for it has judged against the belief in separation and welcomed the truth.

Today we dedicate to choosing the Holy Spirit as our Guide that we may bring His justice to the world, for we would see the truth.

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Learning True Forgiveness

There is a very simple way to find the door to true forgiveness, and perceive it open wide in welcome. When you feel that you are tempted to accuse someone of sin in any form, do not allow your mind to dwell on what you think he did, for that is self-deception. Ask instead, “Would I accuse myself of doing this?”

Thus will you see alternatives for choice in terms that render choosing meaningful, and keep your mind as free of guilt and pain as God Himself intended it to be, and as it is in truth. It is but lies that would condemn. In truth is innocence the only thing there is. Forgiveness stands between illusions and the truth; be­tween the world you see and that which lies beyond; between the hell of guilt and Heaven’s gate.

Across this bridge [of true forgiveness], as powerful as love which laid its blessing on it, are all dreams of evil and of hatred and attack brought silently to truth. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 134, W-pI.134.9:1-11:1. See also ACIM Lesson 134 Insights.)

When we are tempted to judge another, we need to answer the question, “Would I accuse myself of doing this?” with complete honesty. This means we must ask the Holy Spirit for help with this answer, for the ego offers only self deception. “The ego is nothing more than a part of your belief about yourself.” (T-4.VI.1:6) Its answers are always based on a false belief.

If we ask the Holy Spirit’s help with this answer, He will show us how our projection on another is a reflection of our belief about what we are. The Holy Spirit is not deceived by the form of the error perceived in a brother. The ego deceives with form that has no real content. The Holy Spirit looks beyond the form to show us our mistaken beliefs and the truth beyond them.

As He shows us our mistaken belief, His vision reveals the truth of our changelessness in God’s Love. He knows that we are Love and nothing else, united with our Creator. By joining with the Holy Spirit to see beyond the form, we learn that nothing has happened to harm or change God’s Son, our true Self. Now forgiveness comes easy, for we recognize there is truly nothing to forgive.

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Investing in the Reality of Love

The mind which means that all it wants is peace must join with other minds, for that is how peace is obtained. And when the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is given, in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand. Whatever form the lesson takes is planned for him in such a way that he can not mistake it, if his asking is sincere. But if he asks without sincerity, there is no form in which the lesson will meet with acceptance and be truly learned.

We want the peace of God. This is no idle wish. These words do not request another dream be given us. They do not ask for compromise, nor try to make another bargain in the hope that there may yet be one that can succeed where all the rest have failed. To mean these words acknowl­edges illusions are in vain, requesting the eternal in the place of shifting dreams which seem to change in what they offer, but are one in nothingness. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 185, W-pI.185.6;7:2-6. See also ACIM Lesson 185 Insights.)

Any time we are not at peace, we are receiving a signal that we have chosen against the peace of God. If we let that irritation, resentment, guilt or judgment of any kind continue, we are choosing illusions in place of the peace of God. We are choosing against our true Self by continuing to follow the ego’s dictates.

But we can choose differently. When we recognize something is disturbing our peace, we can choose the Holy Spirit’s perception in place of the ego’s. The Holy Spirit will show us, in a way that we can grasp and accept, how to see that no harm really happened. There is no true justification for lack of peace. It is only the effect of choosing the ego’s beliefs instead of the truth offered by the Holy Spirit: Only Love is real.

We are so invested in our identification with the ego that the things we see and experience in the world seem real. Without this investment, illusions are recognized as meaningless and without effect. Each time we take a disturbance to the Holy Spirit for His loving correction, we withdraw investment in the ego and take another step toward fully experiencing God’s peace. This is our practice for today.

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