I am at home [in Love]. Fear is the stranger here.
Fear is a stranger to the ways of love. Identify with fear, and you will be a stranger to yourself. And thus you are unknown to you. What is your Self remains an alien to the part of you which thinks that it is real, but different from yourself. Who could be sane in such a circumstance? Who but a madman could believe he is what he is not, and judge against himself?
What reason is there for not saying [Love is my home]? What could the reason be except that you had asked this stranger [ego] in to take your place, and let you be a stranger to yourself? No one would let himself be dispossessed so needlessly, unless he thought there were another home [separation] more suited to his tastes [specialness].
Today we offer thanks that Christ has come to search the world for what belongs to Him. His vision sees no strangers, but beholds His Own and joyously unites with them. They see [Christ] as a stranger, for they do not recognize themselves. Yet as they give Him welcome, they remember. And He leads them gently home again [to God’s Love], where they belong.
He has not forgotten you. But you will not remember Him until you look on all as He does. Who denies his brother is denying [Christ], and thus refusing to accept the gift of sight by which his Self is clearly recognized, his home [in Love] remembered and salvation come. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 160, W-pI.160.1;3;9;10:3-5. See also ACIM Lesson 160 Insights.)
We will feel lonely and incomplete as long as we see our brothers as separate and different from ourselves. Bodies with separate identities are images made by the ego to make separation appear real. When we believe separation is real, we welcome the ego into our mind and see it as ourself.
But Christ is in our mind to help us see ourselves as the one Self Love created eternally at home in Love. With Christ’s vision we see our brothers, not as separate individuals, but as part of the one Self at home in God. Today we welcome Christ’s vision by frequently asking for his perception of our brothers to replace the limited perceptions the ego offers. In this vision we join with our brothers in our home in Love.
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