It is God’s strength in you that is the light in which you see, as it is His Mind with which you think. His strength denies your weakness. It is your weakness that sees through the body’s eyes, peering about in darkness to behold the likeness of itself;
Strength overlooks these things by seeing past appearances.
Truth is a savior and can only will for happiness and peace for everyone. It gives its strength to everyone who asks, in limitless supply. It sees that lack in anyone would be a lack in all. And so it gives its light that all may see and benefit as one. Its strength is shared, that it may bring to all the miracle in which they will unite in purpose and forgiveness and in love.
Weakness [ego], which looks in darkness, cannot see a purpose in forgiveness and in love. It sees all others different from itself, and nothing in the world that it would share.
The light of strength is constant, sure as love, forever glad to give itself away, because it cannot give but to itself. No one can ask in vain to share its sight, and none who enters its abode can leave without a miracle before his eyes, and strength and light abiding in his heart.
…the peace of God is where your Self, His Son, is waiting now to meet Itself again, and be as One. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 92, W-pI.92.3:1-3;4:1;5:3-6:2;8:1-2;9:3. See also ACIM Lesson 92 Insights.)
The news is filled with images of devastation and loss. When looked upon from the ego’s perspective, it reinforces our sense of weakness and vulnerability. Fear seems justified and loss seems real. All this is part of the ego’s defense system to keep itself in place in our minds. As long as we identify with the ego as what we are, fear will be our constant companion.
The Course is teaching us that no matter how real the images of separation we see seem to be, they are just the hallucinations of an insane thought system of being separate from Love, our Creator. To find release from the hell of these hallucinations, we must accept help from our true Self which does not believe the ego’s insanity.
As we are willing to question the reality of our perceptions, we open the door in our mind to the Light of Love that is always there. This Light is our strength, for it is the strength of God. The strength of this Light will dispel the ego’s dark thoughts of weakness.
As we practice joining with the strength of our true Self when we look upon the images in the dream, we will see beyond the appearance of loss to the certainty of Love ever present, everywhere. We cannot do it on our own, but we are not on our own. Our true Self is always with us, ready to bring Its strength and Light to all we look upon. We welcome our true Self today.
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