Everyone here has entered darkness, yet no one has entered it alone. Nor need he stay more than an instant. For he has come with Heaven’s Help [God’s Voice] within him, ready to lead him out of darkness into light at any time. The time he chooses can be any time, for help is there, awaiting but his choice. And when he chooses to avail himself of what [the Help] is given him, then will he see each situation that he thought before was means to justify his anger turned to an event which justifies his love. He will hear plainly that the calls to war he heard before are really calls to peace [Love]. He will perceive that where he gave attack is but another altar where he can, with equal ease and far more happiness, bestow forgiveness. And he will reinterpret all temptation [to perceive separation] as just another chance to bring him joy.
How can a misperception be a sin? Let all your brother’s errors be to you nothing except a chance for you to see the workings of the Helper given you to see the world He made instead of yours. …This world has much to offer to your peace, and many chances to extend your own forgiveness. Such its purpose is, to those who want to see peace and forgiveness descend on them, and offer them the light. (A Course in Miracles, T-25.III.6;7:1-2,8-9. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
In every instant the Holy Spirit is ready to help us perceive the presence of Love instead of the world of guilt and fear. But do we want His Help? That is a decision we make constantly throughout our day and in our dreams. The ego is attracted to guilt because guilt justifies judgment, “confirming” the reality of separation.
The temptation to see guilt in another or in ourself comes from our allegiance to the ego. This temptation produces only misperception. This misperception is corrected when we accept the Holy Spirit’s help to see with the vision of Love. The choice to accept His Love is the choice to see a forgiven world that is peaceful and loving.
Today we remind ourselves often, “I want the peace of God. I want to remember Love and see It in my brother and myself. I am willing to accept the Holy Spirit’s gift of Christ’s vision.”
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