Your brother’s holiness is sacrament and benediction unto you. His errors cannot withhold God’s blessing from himself, nor you who see him truly. His mistakes can cause delay, which it is given you to take from him, that both [you and he] may end a journey that has never begun, and needs no end. What never was is not a part of you. Yet you will think it is, until you realize that it [also] is not a part of him who stands beside you. He is the mirror of yourself, wherein you see the judgment you have laid on both of you. The Christ in you beholds his holiness. Your specialness looks on his body and beholds him not.
See [the Christ in] him as what he is, that your deliverance may not be long. A senseless wandering, without a purpose and without accomplishment of any kind, is all the other choice can offer you. Futility of function not fulfilled will haunt you while your brother lies asleep, till what has been assigned to you is done and he is risen from the past. He who condemned himself, and you as well, is given you to save from condemnation, along with you. And both shall see God’s glory in His Son [our true Self], whom you mistook as flesh, and bound to laws that have no power over him at all.
Would you not gladly realize these laws are not for you? Then see him not as prisoner to them. It cannot be what governs part of God holds not for all the rest. …Think, then, how great the Love of God for you must be, that He has given you a part of Him to save from pain and give you happiness. And never doubt but that your specialness will disappear before the Will of God, Who loves each part of Him with equal love and care. The Christ in you can see your brother truly. Would you decide against the holiness He sees? (A Course in Miracles, T-24.VI.8-10. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
When we identify with a body as our self we will see our brother as a body, imprisoning both to the limitations of the ego belief in separation. This is why the most emphasized lesson in the workbook is the idea, “I am not a body, I am free. For I am still as God created me.” This is the key to learning to look past the body to the true Self, the Christ, in our brother and ourself. This practice, under the direction of the Holy Spirit, will lead us to the recognition of our oneness with our brother in the safe embrace of God’s Love.
Let us join in practicing accepting Holy Spirit’s help to see with the eyes of Love. This is how we heal and extend the healing offered us by the Holy Spirit.
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