God has condemned me not. No more do I.
My Father knows my holiness. Shall I deny His knowledge, and believe in what His knowledge makes impossible? Shall I accept as true what He proclaims as false? Or shall I take His Word for what I am, since He is my Creator, and the One Who knows the true condition of His Son?
Father, I was mistaken in myself, because I failed to realize the Source from which I came. I have not left that Source to enter in a body and to die. My holiness remains a part of me, as I am part of You. And my mistakes about myself are dreams. I let them go today. And I stand ready to receive Your Word alone for what I really am. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 228, W-pII.228. See also ACIM Lesson 228 Insights.)
Most of us view the world through a lens of guilt and shame. We believe we are guilty of denying God and deserve to be punished for this sin. It manifests in our dream as harm to the body in the forms of sickness and bodily harm. We are ashamed of what we have done and believe we are unworthy of Love and appreciation. This is the condition of our experience identified with the ego.
We have condemned ourselves to this. But God has not. He knows His Son, our true Self, remains one with Him in the innocence and changelessness of Love. He has not changed His Mind about His creation. We remain eternally united with our Source. He judges us worthy of His Love, forever innocent, forever whole. This is His Word about His Son. We remain forever at Home in the Heaven of God’s Love, invulnerable to any change.
Today let us remind ourselves frequently that we remain as God created us, forever loved and forever loving. And when we look upon a brother, we affirm that he is forever loved and loving. As we accept this thought, we free ourselves from the dream of separation.
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