Beyond all idols is the Thought God holds of you. Completely unaffected by the turmoil and the terror of the world, the dreams of birth and death that here are dreamed, the myriad of forms that fear can take; quite undisturbed, the Thought God holds of you remains exactly as it always was. Surrounded by a stillness so complete no sound of battle comes remotely near, it rests in certainty and perfect peace. Here is your one reality kept safe, completely unaware of all the world that worships idols, and that knows not God. In perfect sureness of its changelessness and of its rest in its eternal home, the Thought God holds of you has never left the Mind of its Creator Whom [the Thought] knows, [just] as its Creator knows that it is there.
Where could the Thought God holds of you exist but where you are? Is your reality a thing apart from you, and in a world which your reality knows nothing of? Outside you there is no eternal sky, no changeless star and no reality. The mind of Heaven’s Son in Heaven is, for there the Mind of Father and of Son joined in creation which can have no end. You have not two realities, but one. Nor can you be aware of more than one. An idol or the Thought God holds of you is your reality. Forget not, then, that idols must keep hidden what you are, not from the Mind of God, but from your own [mind]. The star shines still; the sky has never changed. But you, the holy Son of God Himself, are unaware of your reality. (A Course in Miracles, T-30.III.10-11. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
The truth of what we are is Love because only Love is real. Love is our Home, our natural state. Because Love is one and undivisable, all Love is ours. Lack of Love is impossible except in dreams that deny our unity with our Source.
The ego was spawned by the wish to claim a little part of Love for ourselves alone. This is impossible because Love does not change; It cannot be divided. While we dream of being separate and alone, we feel lack of Love because the dream hides Love’s Presence.
But Love remains there, ready to be claimed the moment we are willing to give up the wish for specialness. All the forms in the world portray the wish for specialness manifested as differences. They are barriers to the awareness of Love’s Presence. We let go of these barriers by letting the Holy Spirit show us that these barriers have no substance. They have no effect on the changeless presence of Love.
As we are willing to accept the Holy Spirit’s loving lessons, we learn to see past the forms of the world and join with the Love that is everywhere, in everything. It is this practice that is what time is for. It is how we waken from the dream to the awareness that we are at Home in Love eternally.
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