The Holy Spirit holds this plan of God [for salvation] exactly as it was received of Him within the Mind of God and in your own. It is apart from time in that its Source is timeless. Yet it operates in time, because of your belief that time is real. Unshaken does the Holy Spirit look on what you see; on sin and pain and death, on grief and separation and on loss. Yet does He know one thing must still be true; God is still Love, and this is not His Will.
This is the Thought that brings illusions to the truth, and sees them as appearances behind which is the changeless and the sure. This is the Thought that saves and that forgives, because it lays no faith in what is not created by the only Source it knows. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 99, W-pI.99.5:1-6:2. See also ACIM Lesson 99 Insights.)
Changeless Love created us like Itself. Love is eternal along with all Its Creation. Because only Love is real, we must also be only Love.
Appearances in the world make it seem that there is Love’s opposite — fear, guilt, attack and loss. God’s plan for salvation brings us the Holy Spirit. He remembers for us the reality and changelessness of Love. He sees the appearances we see in the illusion of separation but does not believe in them.
Thus He can offer us a helping hand to lift us out of the dark shadows of separation and bring us to the Light of Love. He reminds us that what frightens us and seems to be cause for guilt is not God’s Will and therefore is not real. In our belief in separation we have taught ourselves to deny the Love we are, yet the Love remains.
As we practice offering all our thoughts to the Holy Spirit, He will shine away the shadows so we can look past them to the eternal Light of Love that is everywhere. He teaches us to overlook appearances and remember Love.
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