You may complain that this course is not sufficiently specific for you to understand and use. ²Yet perhaps you have not done what it specifically advocates. ³This is not a course in the play of ideas, but in their practical application. ⁴Nothing could be more specific than to be told that if you ask you will receive. ⁵The Holy Spirit will answer every specific problem as long as you believe that problems are specific. ⁶His answer is both many and one, as long as you believe that the one is many. ⁷You may be afraid of His specificity, for fear of what you think it will demand of you. ⁸Yet only by asking will you learn that nothing of God demands anything of you. ⁹God gives; He does not take. ¹⁰When you refuse to ask, it is because you believe that asking is taking rather than sharing.
Little child of God, you do not understand your Father. ²You believe in a world that takes, because you believe that you can get by taking. ³And by that perception you have lost sight of the real [forgiven] world. …⁷Blessed are you who are willing to ask the truth of God without fear, for only thus can you learn that His answer is the release from fear. (A Course in Miracles, T-11.VIII.5;7:1-3,7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
As long as we value specialness, we will be afraid of God’s Will for us. With the quest for specialness comes the demand for sacrifice. We cannot have more than another without demanding sacrifice by soemone whom we would be different from. The ego’s forms of specialness are myriad. But we cannot want to be better than someone without asking the other to be less. This is the demand for sacrifice.
The ego projects its demand for sacrifice on God, for it perceives only itself. Of course we will believe that God demands sacrifice while we identify with the ego. This is why it is essential that we forgive our misperceptions, a wish for specialness, for only then will we welcome God’s gift of all of His Love.
Forgiveness brings willingness to receive His Answer. His Answer will unify us in His Thought of Love. It will show us the truth of Love in every brother and we will recognize it as a reflection of What we are. Christ, the Son of Love, sees Himself in everyone.
Today we choose to be watchful of how we are seeing our brothers. Do we see the Love in Him? Do we recognize His calls for Love and answer with Love? As we answer yes to these questions, our mind is healed. We remember the Love we are.
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