God’s Name [Identity] is holy, but no holier than yours. To call upon His Name is but to call upon your own [identity]. A father gives his son his name, and thus identifies the son with him. His brothers share his name, and thus are they united in a bond to which they turn for their identity. Your Father’s Name reminds you who you are, even within a world that does not know; even though you have not remembered it.
God’s Name can not be heard without response, nor said without an echo in the mind that calls you to remember. Say His Name, and you invite the angels to surround the ground on which you stand, and sing to you as they spread out their wings to keep you safe, and shelter you from every worldly thought [of separation] that would intrude upon your holiness.
Repeat the Name of God, and call upon your Self, Whose Name is His. Repeat His Name, and all the tiny, nameless things on earth slip into right perspective. Those who call upon the Name of God can not mistake the nameless for the Name, nor sin for grace, nor bodies for the holy Son of God. And should you join a brother as you sit with him in silence, and repeat God’s Name along with him within your quiet mind, you have established there an altar which reaches to God Himself and to His Son. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 183, W-pI.183.1-2;5. See also ACIM Lesson 183 Insights.)
While we identify with a body, we are identifying with a false identity that is a construct of the ego belief in separation. It is an illusion that could never be true and has no meaning, no real identity. While we identify with the body, we are unaware of the Identity we share with God. It is as though we tried to divorce God and change our name to take on a separate identity.
This can only seem to be accomplished in fantasies. As we shift our allegiance from a bodily identity to the Self God created one with Him, we remember we are not a body. We are Spirit. We are Love, united with every brother in the Love of God.
Our perception of the world shifts as we recognize the body is not what we are. The unity of Love shines through. The appearance of differences fades and the Light of Love shines through every brother as it lights our mind.
Today we call upon the Love that is God’s Identity to enlightened our mind and fill our hearts so that we may see the reality of Love in every brother.
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