Like any good teacher, the Holy Spirit knows more than you do now, but He teaches only to make you equal with Him. ²You had already taught yourself wrongly, having believed what was not true. ³You did not believe in your own perfection. ⁴Would God teach you that you had made a split mind, when He knows your mind only as whole? ⁵What God does know is that His communication channels are not open to Him, so that He cannot impart His joy and know that His children are wholly joyous. ⁶Giving His joy is an ongoing process, not in time but in eternity. ⁷God’s extending outward, though not His completeness, is blocked when the Sonship does not communicate with Him as one. ⁸So He thought, “My children sleep and must be awakened.”
How can you wake children in a more kindly way than by a gentle Voice that will not frighten them, but will merely remind them that the night is over and the light has come? ²You do not inform them that the nightmares that frightened them so badly are not real, because children believe in magic. ³You merely reassure them that they are safe now. ⁴Then you train them to recognize the difference between sleeping and waking, so they will understand they need not be afraid of dreams. ⁵And so when bad dreams come, they will themselves call on the light to dispel them.
⁴The Holy Spirit makes no distinction among dreams. ⁵He merely shines them away. ⁶His light is always the Call to awaken, whatever you have been dreaming. ⁷Nothing lasting lies in dreams, and the Holy Spirit, shining with the light from God Himself, speaks only for what lasts forever. (A Course in Miracles, T-6.V.1:1–2:5;4:4-7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
The Holy Spirit does not judge our dreams, no matter how fearful, angry, guilty or sad they may be. He simply lovingly and gently calls to us to awaken. He brings His Light to shine upon the dreams which deny the eternal presence of Love’s Light. This is God’s call to awaken, for God’s Will is to share His joy and peace with His one Son.
If we are willing to listen, the Holy Spirit will teach us that what we are experiencing in the dream is not real. And He will lighten our path to awaken to the reality that we dwell eternally in the Home God created for us. Here we abide in peace and joy as we join with His eternal extension of Love.
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