My body is a wholly neutral thing.
I am a Son of God. ²And can I be another thing as well? ³Did God create the mortal and corruptible? ⁴What use has God’s beloved Son for what must die? ⁵And yet a neutral thing does not see death, for thoughts of fear are not invested there, nor is a mockery of love bestowed upon it. ⁶Its neutrality protects it while it has a use. ⁷And afterwards, without a purpose, it is laid aside. ⁸It is not sick nor old nor hurt. ⁹It is but functionless, unneeded and cast off. ¹⁰Let me not see it more than this today; of service for a while and fit to serve, to keep its usefulness while it can serve, and then to be replaced for greater good.
My body, Father, cannot be Your Son. ²And what is not created cannot be sinful nor sinless; neither good nor bad. ³Let me, then, use this dream to help Your plan that we awaken from all dreams we made. (A Course in Miracles, W-294. See also ACIM Lesson 294 Insights.)
The body is an image in the ego’s dream of specialness. In its dream the body is our identity. It must be protected against myriad external threats. Yet it is only a dream image. All dream images disappear when we waken.
God has a different plan for the body. Instead of using it to maintain the illusion of separation, it is used only as a helpful tool to awaken from the dream. We are told to ask, “What is it for?” In God’s plan, it is always used to lead us to awaken. This is its only meaningful purpose, for it leads us to remembering that we are Love and nothing else, like our Creator.
The Love we are sees only Love in everyone, for It recognizes everyone as brother, with Love as our Father. As we learn to see the Love that is our brother, we recognize the Love we are.
Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us see with the eyes of Love. We want to recognize our brothers for What they are in truth — extensions of God’s Love. With this recognition, we awaken from the dream of fear to the Heaven of God’s Love.
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