Those who would see the witnesses to truth instead of to illusion merely ask that they might see a purpose in the world that gives it sense and makes it meaningful. Without your special function has this world no meaning for you. Yet it can become a treasure house as rich and limitless as Heaven itself. No instant passes here in which your brother’s holiness cannot be seen, to add a limitless supply [of happiness] to every meager scrap and tiny crumb of happiness that you allot yourself.
Yet every instant can you be reborn, and given life again. [Your brother’s] holiness gives life to you, who cannot die because his sinlessness is known to God; and can no more be sacrificed by you than can the light in you be blotted out because he sees it not. You who would make a sacrifice of life, and make your eyes and ears bear witness to the death of God and of His holy Son, think not that you have power to make of Them what God willed not They be. In Heaven, God’s Son is not imprisoned in a body, nor is sacrificed in solitude to sin. And as he is in Heaven, so must he be eternally and everywhere. He is the same forever. (A Course in Miracles, T-26.I.5;6:1-6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
The Light we are as God’s Son cannot be extinguished. This same Light is in every brother, for we are all united in God’s Love. The Truth in each of us sees only the Truth in every brother. But judgments based upon past grievances blind us to the presence of Love. As long as we insist on judging, we reinforce the belief that separation is real. True happiness is impossible in a dream of separation because separation denies our unity with the Source of happiness.
We have the means to let go of this denial. We need to forgive our grievances. This is our special function. Everyone seems to have different grievances and judge the world differently. These different judgments lead to conflict, anger and fear.
As we let the Holy Spirit help us heal our fear-based thoughts, we become increasingly aware of the Light of Love in everyone. Eventually we all must come to the point of letting go of the core grievance beneath them all — the ego’s grievance against God for not giving special love. This forgiveness practice is our journey of awakening that leads to limitless happiness and peace that cannot be disturbed. It returns us Home to Heaven.
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