Under the ego’s dark foundation is the memory of God, and it is of this that you are really afraid. For this memory would instantly restore you to your proper place, and it is this place that you have sought to leave. Your fear of attack is nothing compared to your fear of love. You would be willing to look even upon your savage wish to kill God’s Son, if you did not believe that it saves you from love. For this wish caused the separation, and you have protected it because you do not want the separation healed. You realize that, by removing the dark cloud that obscures it, your love for your Father would impel you to answer His Call and leap into Heaven. You believe that attack is salvation because it would prevent you from this. For still deeper than the ego’s foundation, and much stronger than it will ever be, is your intense and burning love of God, and His for you. This is what you really want to hide.
Do not hide suffering from [the Holy Spirit’s] sight, but bring it gladly to Him. Lay before His eternal sanity all your hurt, and let Him heal you. Do not leave any spot of pain hidden from His light, and search your mind carefully for any thoughts you may fear to uncover. For He will heal every little thought you have kept to hurt you and cleanse it of its littleness, restoring it to the magnitude of God. (A Course in Miracles, T-13.III.2;7:3-6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
Specialness is impossible in the oneness of God’s Love where differences are impossible. In order to have the specialness we treasure, we must deny God’s Love. The only way to deny the reality of Love is to make a fantasy of a world where Love cannot enter. Our bodies and all the images of the world are made to hide the presence of changeless Love.
Our belief that this fantasy of separation is real cannot allow God’s Love to be accepted because the Light of Love would awaken us from the fantasy. Our special, unique identity would disappear into the nothingness from which it came. We believe this would be our annihilation. Yet in truth, it would reveal our true Identity as Love in the Heart of Love.
The emotional, political and military battles in the world all come from the need to defend the fantasy of specialness. The fear of loss of specialness is so intense that we would give up our “life” in its defense. We see this fear played out in individual relationships, in political conflicts within a nation and in conflict between countries. They all have the same root cause — the defense of specialness. All are resolved with one, simple idea: Only Love is real. Nothing else exists in truth.
Today we ask the Holy Spirit to heal our fear-based thoughts to make way for the Love of God to fill our minds and remind us that we are His Son, complete and healed and whole. Our true Life is eternal in Him. Life in the fantasy was never really life at all.
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