The overlooking of the battleground is now your purpose.
Be lifted up, and from a higher place look down upon it. From there will your perspective be quite different. Here in the midst of it, it does seem real. Here you have chosen to be part of it. Here murder [separation] is your choice. Yet from above, the choice is miracles instead of murder. And the perspective coming from this choice shows you the battle is not real, and easily escaped. Bodies may battle, but the clash of forms is meaningless. And it is over when you realize it never was begun.”
Think what is given those who share their Father’s purpose, and who know that it is theirs. They want for nothing. Sorrow of any kind is inconceivable. Only the Light they Love is in awareness, and only love shines upon them forever. It is their past, their present and their future; always the same, eternally complete and wholly shared. They know it is impossible their happiness could ever suffer change of any kind. Perhaps you think the battleground can offer something you can win. Can it be anything that offers you a perfect calmness, and a sense of love so deep and quiet that no touch of doubt can ever mar your certainty? And that will last forever? (A Course in Miracles, T-23.IV.4:7-5:9;8. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)
The world appears to be in constant conflict because it is a projection of the idea of opposition to oneness. What is divided must conflict. As long as we identify with the belief in separation, forms of conflict and war will be our experience. Yet our experience is based on belief in what could never be real.
This is good news. What is not real cannot really limit us nor harm us. Release from this fearful world requires only that we withdraw our belief in what is not true. Forgiveness is the means to free us from belief in limitation and separation, which makes us blind to reality.
That is why we need the Holy Spirit, our “seeing eye dog,” to lead us out of the darkness. We need only be willing to follow the Guide Whose purpose is to lead us to the Light of Love. Each time we bring our perceptions to the Holy Spirit to receive His correction, we take a step forward in our willingness to return to the Home of peace and happiness and Love. In gratitude we continue our journey.
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