The overlooking of the battleground is now your purpose.
Be lifted up, and from a higher place look down upon it. From there will your perspective be quite different. Here in the midst of it, it does seem real. Here you have chosen to be part of it. Here murder [separation from Love, the Source of Life] is your choice. Yet from above, the choice is miracles [extensions of Love] instead of murder. And the perspective coming from this choice shows you the battle is not real, and easily escaped. Bodies may battle, but the clash of forms is meaningless. And it is over when you realize it never was begun. How can a battle be perceived as nothingness when you engage in it?
Think what is given those who share their Father’s purpose, and who know that it is theirs. They want for nothing. Sorrow of any kind is inconceivable. Only the light they love is in awareness, and only love shines upon them forever. [Love] is their past, their present and their future; always the same, eternally complete and wholly shared. They know it is impossible their happiness could ever suffer change of any kind. Perhaps you think the battleground can offer something you can win. Can it be anything that offers you a perfect calmness, and a sense of love so deep and quiet that no touch of doubt can ever mar your certainty? And that will last forever? (A Course in Miracles, T-23.IV.4:7-5:10;8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
While we are engaged with the ego and accept its meager offering of the body as our identity, we are engaged in constant battle. This little, limited self is vulnerable and needs to be constantly defended. This sense of weakness comes from denying the invulnerability of the Life we live in Love. Our engagement with the dream makes us unaware of the strength of Love in us.
It does not seem that we have murderous thoughts, but a thought what denies Life is murder. It doesn’t seem that a minor irritation is murderous. Irritation comes from a belief that what is irritating us is separate, different and capable of hurting us. But what is not real cannot harm the Reality of the Life we live in God.
To release our engagement with the ego, we need to pause and relax. It can be helpful to visualize being lifted up so high above the world that boundaries and limitations are no longer visible. From this high vantage point, the battlegrounds in the world fade from view.
We can relax and open our minds to the Holy Spirit’s point of view. With His help we see with the eyes of Love. We feel Love’s blessing and strength comforting us and bringing us peace. We see that nothing is real except the Love that unifies us with every brother and our Creator. In this Love there can be no threats, no loss, no vulnerability; only the certainty of changeless Love.
Today we choose to rise above the battleground and accept the vision of Love.
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