I gladly make the “sacrifice” of fear.
Here is the only “sacrifice” You ask of Your beloved Son; You ask him to give up all suffering, all sense of loss and sadness, all anxiety and doubt, and freely let Your Love come streaming in to his awareness, healing him of pain, and giving him Your Own eternal joy. ²Such is the “sacrifice” You ask of me, and one I gladly make; the only “cost” of restoration of Your memory to me, for the salvation of the world.
And as we pay the debt we owe to truth,—a debt that merely is the letting go of self-deceptions and of images we worshipped falsely—truth returns to us in wholeness and in joy. ²We are deceived no longer. ³Love has now returned to our awareness. ⁴And we are at peace again, for fear has gone and only love remains. (A Course in Miracles, W-323. See also ACIM Lesson 323 Insights.)
We have become so identified with a body and a personality that it does seem that we are being asked to sacrifice our identity. Yet this identity we believe in is not real. It is a made up fiction, a story we tell ourselves is meaningful. Yet illusions have no meaning. When we believe in them, we sacrifice awareness of Reality.
Our fictional identity stands as a veil that makes us unaware of the joy and peace of our true Self. We are willing to let this identity go. and we bring blessing to the world. Fear is gone and we experience the happy union with our Father, which has never ended.
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