Whatever I see reflects my thoughts. It is my thoughts that tell me where I am and what I am. The fact that I see a world in which there is suffering and loss and death shows me that I am seeing only the representation of my insane thoughts, and am not allowing my real thoughts to cast their beneficent light on what I see. Yet God’s way is sure. The images I have made cannot prevail against Him because it is not my will that they do so. My will is His, and I will place no other gods before Him. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 53, W-pI.53.5:2-7. See also ACIM Lesson 53 Insights.)
We are always getting instant feedback about what we think we are. When we see a world of suffering, loss and death, it is showing us that we are believing we are separate from God. We are denying that He is our Source and our very Being.
This denial does not change the Truth of what we are, but makes us unaware of It. In fact, this denial makes God our enemy because the acceptance of our Source would mean the end of the appearances that we value in the world. It would mean the end of the special individual identity we call our own.
When we believe in this identity, the loss of it is perceived as death. Yet we are reminded again and again that we remain as God created us. We remain in His Mind at one with It and share all His attributes. Our real Identity shares God’s Will and our only purpose is to let the Love of God extend through us. As we extend Love, we acknowledge that we have Love and are Love. This is how we share God’s way and experience the certainty of God’s changeless Love.
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