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Forgiving Appearances of Differences Brings Peace

What seems to be the second place is first, for all things we perceive are upside down until we listen to the Voice for God. ²It seems that we will gain autonomy but by our striving to be separate, and that our independence from the rest of God’s creation is the way in which salvation is obtained. ³Yet all we find is sickness, suffering and loss and death. ⁴This is not what our Father wills for us, nor is there any second to His Will. ⁵To join with His is but to find our own. ⁶And since our will is His, it is to Him that we must go to recognize our will.

There is no will but Yours. ²And I am glad that nothing I imagine contradicts what You would have me be. ³It is Your Will that I be wholly safe, eternally at peace. ⁴And happily I share that Will which You, my Father, gave as part of me. (A Course in Miracles, W-328.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 328 Insights.)

We value independence in this world. The ego thinks being separate and unique is how we obtain that independence. Yet the cost of this independence is lack of peace, a sense of vulnerability, fear of loss and harm, and the ultimate separation — death. This is not God’s Will for us. It ignores the law of Love, which is to be eternally united, changeless and at one with all that is real.

We choose Love by choosing Christ’s vision. It sees no separation nor individuality. It forgives all appearances of differences. Christ’s vision sees only the equality of Love Itself, united with all that Is. In this vision, we remember our Father and every brother. We remember our one Self, eternally at peace, eternally one with our Creator.

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