Where is sacrifice, when memory of God has come to take the place of loss? What better way to close the little gap between illusions and reality than to allow the memory of God to flow across it, making it a bridge an instant will suffice to reach beyond? For God has closed [the little gap] with Himself. His memory has not gone by, and left a stranded Son forever on a shore where he can glimpse another shore which he can never reach. His Father wills that he be lifted up and gently carried over. He has built the bridge, and it is He Who will transport His Son across it. Have no fear that He will fail in what He wills. Nor that you be excluded from the Will that is for you. (A Course in Miracles, T-28.I.15:2-9. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)
God has not forgotten His Son. The only reason it feels like God is far away or even nonexistent is because we have convinced ourselves that we are not His Son. We have convince ourselves that the impossible is true. The whole “life” experience we have in the world is based on the specious belief that we have successfully separated from God.
Since God is everything, separation leaves us with nothing. So we have to make up stories of existence in a world of form with birth and death, conflict and fear, guilt and punishment. We feel abandoned by God yet it is we who have abandoned Him. Our world is inconceivable to the oneness of Love and seems to exist only in a little gap of time carved out of eternity.
Our fantasy of loss has not changed God. His Love remains intact, eternally extended to His Son. We can reclaim His Love by letting go of the past we have conjured up that hides His ever-present Love. We need but be still an instant and welcome Him. His Love will bridge the little gap that we have believed in but was never true. In that instant we remember our Creator and know with perfect certainty that we are loved.
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