All fear is past and only love is here.
All fear is past, because its source is gone, and all its thoughts gone with it. Love remains the only present state, whose Source is here forever and forever. Can the world seem bright and clear and safe and welcoming, with all my past mistakes oppressing it, and showing me distorted forms of fear? Yet in the present love is obvious, and its effects apparent. All the world shines in reflection of its holy light, and I perceive a world forgiven at last.
Father, let not Your holy world escape my sight today. Nor let my ears be deaf to all the hymns of gratitude the world is singing underneath the sounds of fear. There is a real world which the present holds safe from all past mistakes. And I would see only this world before my eyes today. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 293, W-pII.293. See also ACIM Lesson 293 Insights.)
Fear always comes from a perception of harm in the past applied to the present. This perception is projected onto the present, hiding it from our awareness. In this situation we are seeing memories from the past adapted to present appearances so that it seems new to us. But its foundation is always the same — the ego’s denial of Love.
The continuation of the ego’s dream of lovelessness depends upon continuing the perception of lack and loss from the past. Without the overlay of the past, the present moment would be revealed in the glorious Light of Love. Fear is impossible in this Light, for the reality of Love is accepted. Here we know we are perfectly safe in the changelessness of Love. In Love’s oneness, conflict is impossible and we rest in God’s peace.
Today we choose the Holy Spirit as our Guide. We seek His vision, moment by moment, to see past the dream of fear to the Love in which we live, united with every brother at Home in the Heart of God.
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