I will not be afraid of Love today. If I could realize but this today, salvation would be reached for all the world. This [is] the decision not to be insane, and to accept myself as God Himself, my Father and my Source, created me. This [is] the determination not to be asleep in dreams of death, while truth remains forever living in the joy of Love. And this [is] the choice to recognize the Self Whom God created as the Son He loves, and Who remains my one Identity.
Father, Your Name [Identity] is Love and so is mine. Such is the truth. And can the truth be changed by merely giving it another name? The name of fear is simply a mistake. Let me not be afraid of truth today. (, A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 282,W-pII.282. See also ACIM Lesson 282 Insights.)
Love is our Creator and creates only like Itself. Because Love is one, there are no differences within It. There is nothing to distinguish one part of Love from another, for Love has no parts. This means that as Love’s Creation, We are that same Love. We, God’s Son, are one. There is no difference nor distance between us.
The world we see presents a very different picture. It is an insane picture because it is not real. Believing an illusion is real is the definition of insanity. This is why choosing not to be afraid of Love is the choice not to be insane. Because we have invested belief in the illusion of a world of separation, we believe that to turn away from the world would cost us our individual identity.
This is why we fear Love. For most of us saying “I love” is more difficult than saying “I hate.” This is because truly loving would mean we give up our private identity, which seems like a total loss of everything we value. This is true because we have been valuing illusions, which are nothing. But if we accept the Love we are, we give up nothing and gain everything. We accept the universe of Love as our Home. We accept our true Identity as God’s one Son.
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