Trusting [the truth in] your brothers is essential to establishing and holding up your faith in your ability to transcend doubt and lack of sure conviction in yourself. ²When you attack [judge] a brother, you proclaim that he is limited by what you have perceived in him. ³You do not look beyond his errors. ⁴Rather, they are magnified, becoming blocks to your awareness of the Self that lies beyond your own mistakes, and past his seeming sins as well as yours.
…if a brother’s sins occur to us, our narrowed focus will restrict our sight, and turn our eyes upon our own mistakes, which we will magnify and call our “sins.” ³So, for a little while, without regard to past or future, should such blocks arise we will transcend them with instructions to our minds to change their focus, as we say:
⁴It is not this that I would look upon.
⁵I trust my brothers, who are one with me.…as our focus goes beyond mistakes, we will behold a wholly sinless world. ⁴When seeing this is all we want to see, when this is all we seek for in the name of true perception, are the eyes of Christ inevitably ours. ⁵And the Love He feels for us becomes our own as well. ⁶This will become the only thing we see reflected in the world and in ourselves. (A Course in Miracles, W-181.1;6:2-5;8:3-6. See also ACIM Lesson 181 Insights.)
We attack our brothers and ourselves when we believe we are a body. The truth is that we are all one in God’s Love. We are not to a body, but united in the one Mind of Love.
We have conditioned ourselves to believe that what is perceived through the body is real. The ego’s interpretation of these perceptions is based upon the past. This is the only frame of reference the ego has. But the past does not exist in truth, so the ego’s interpretations are based on meaningless “memories.”
This lesson is providing a way to train our mind to disregard the past and future to allow our mind to welcome the presence of God’s Love. The reality of Love is in the eternal present. Only in the present can we be aware of the truth that our brother is Love and nothing else. As we welcome this awareness, we remember the truth in ourselves.
Love does not judge. It sees only Itself. When we let the eyes of Christ show us the truth in our brother, we recognize he is one with us, united as God’s one Son in His Love. Today we focus on our desire to remember the Love we are and experience the joy of joining with the Love in our brothers.
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