Fear binds the world. Forgiveness sets it free.
The ego makes illusions. ²Truth undoes its evil dreams by shining them away. ³Truth never makes attack. ⁴It merely is. ⁵And by its presence is the mind recalled from fantasies, awaking to the real. ⁶Forgiveness bids this presence enter in, and take its rightful place within the mind. ⁷Without forgiveness is the mind in chains, believing in its own futility. ⁸Yet with forgiveness does the light shine through the dream of darkness, offering it hope, and giving it the means to realize the freedom that is its inheritance.
We would not bind the world again today. ²Fear holds it prisoner. ³And yet Your Love has given us the means to set it free. ⁴Father, we would release it now. ⁵For as we offer freedom, it is given us. ⁶And we would not remain as prisoners, while You are holding freedom out to us. (A Course in Miracles, W-332. See also ACIM Lesson 332 Insights.)
There is advise sometimes offered for relationships. The suggestion is “Choose your battles.” This implies some battles are important and worth fighting for. But in Truth, nothing in the world is real. Nothing in the world is worth fighting for.
We need to learn that all forms are meaningless. Rather than fight to keep our illusions, we need to simply lay them down. We have help for this. When we are willing, the Holy Spirit will help us recognize that forms are meaningless and do not matter.
When we learn to see past forms with His help, we see that there is nothing that needs to be fought for. We let go of the meaning we have given to forms and experience the truth of limitless Love. It is ours, now and forever.
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