How can illusions satisfy God’s Son?
Father, the truth belongs to me. ²My home is set in Heaven by Your Will and mine. ³Can dreams content me? ⁴Can illusions bring me happiness? ⁵What but Your memory can satisfy Your Son? ⁶I will accept no less than You have given me. ⁷I am surrounded by Your Love, forever still, forever gentle and forever safe. ⁸God’s Son must be as You created him.
Today we pass illusions by. ²And if we hear temptation call to us to stay and linger in a dream, we turn aside and ask ourselves if we, the Sons of God, could be content with dreams, when Heaven can be chosen just as easily as hell, and love will happily replace all fear. (A Course in Miracles, W-272. See also ACIM Lesson 272 Insights.)
Forgiveness is the means to choose Love in this world. The world was made in opposition to God’s Love. We cannot maintain a separate identity and know Love because Love cannot be divided. Forgiveness lets go of our barriers to Love’s presence.
We are so engrossed in the dream of specialness that we cannot find a way to awaken on our own. God is aware of our need to awaken. So He gave us a Helper, the Holy Spirit, to guide us on the path that leads to awakening to Love. The Holy Spirit recognizes our mistaken interpretations, but does not accept them as true. He is in our mind ready to offer His interpretation, which will help us recognize the Love behind the images.
We could call the Holy Spirit our inner Guide to Love. The Holy Spirit knows that only Love has meaning. He recognizes our false images as simply calls for Love. These images are calls for Love because they are barriers to Love’s presence. We are wholly immersed in Love without limit. We find happiness and peace when we forgive the barriers to Love.
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