Now it is given you to heal and teach, to make what will be now. ²As yet it is not now. ³The Son of God believes that he is lost in guilt, alone in a dark world where pain is pressing everywhere upon him from without. ⁴When he has looked within and seen the radiance there, he will remember how much his Father loves him. ⁵And it will seem incredible that he ever thought his Father loved him not, and looked upon him as condemned. ⁶The moment that you realize guilt is insane, wholly unjustified and wholly without reason, you will not fear to look upon the Atonement and accept it wholly.
You who have been unmerciful to yourself do not remember your Father’s Love. ²And looking without mercy upon your brothers, you do not remember how much you love Him. ³Yet it is forever true. ⁴In shining peace within you is the perfect purity in which you were created. ⁵Fear not to look upon the lovely truth in you. ⁶Look through the cloud of guilt that dims your vision, and look past darkness to the holy place where you will see the light. ⁷The altar to your Father is as pure as He Who raised it to Himself. ⁸Nothing can keep from you what Christ would have you see. ⁹His Will is like His Father’s, and He offers mercy to every child of God, as He would have you do.”
¹⁰Behold the Son of God, and look upon his purity and be still. ¹¹In quiet look upon his holiness, and offer thanks unto his Father that no guilt has ever touched him. (A Course in Miracles, T-13.X.8:1–9:9;11:10-11. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
In our dream of separation we see only what we want to see. Because of our wish for specialness, we see only separate images whose differences confirm the “reality” of separation. But this seeing is only in the dream. It does not change our true Reality at all. The dream is only a projection of what we want to be true.
The dream overlooks the present, so we do not see Love as real. Now is the time to focus our attention on What is eternal. The Love we are does not change because its Source is changeless.
Today we choose to recognize Love’s presence everywhere—in our brothers and ourselves. As we welcome Love, the clouds of guilt and fear fade. The Light is revealed.
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