God’s Name is holy, but no holier than yours. ²To call upon His Name is but to call upon your own. ³A father gives his son his name, and thus identifies the son with him. ⁴His brothers share his name, and thus are they united in a bond to which they turn for their identity. ⁵Your Father’s Name reminds you who you are, even within a world that does not know; even though you have not remembered it.
God’s Name can not be heard without response, nor said without an echo in the mind that calls you to remember. ²Say His Name, and you invite the angels to surround the ground on which you stand, and sing to you as they spread out their wings to keep you safe, and shelter you from every worldly thought that would intrude upon your holiness.
Repeat God’s Name [acknowledge His Identity], and you acknowledge Him as sole Creator of reality. ²And you acknowledge also that His Son is part of Him, creating in His Name. ³Sit silently, and let His Name become the all-encompassing idea that holds your mind completely. ⁴Let all thoughts be still except this one. ⁵And to all other thoughts respond with this, and see God’s Name replace the thousand little names you gave your thoughts, not realizing that there is one Name for all there is, and all that there will be. (A Course in Miracles, W-183.1–2;8. See also ACIM Lesson 183 Insights.)
In the world we use names to label everything. It is what we do to distinguish the differences between all the forms in the world. But there is one label, one Name, that supersedes them all. Labels in the world distinguish between illusions. The Name of God identifies the one Reality that dismisses all illusions as meaningless. What is meaningless does not warrant a name in truth. To call upon God’s Identity is to acknowledge the truth of our Creator and our Creation. We are calling upon our own identity when we call upon God’s Name.
The Course tells us that God is only Love, and so is our true Self. To acknowledge God as the Source of our identity, we withdraw our mistaken identification with the ego’s illusions. We are not a body. We are Love and nothing else in the oneness of God. This is our Home, our Reality. We acknowledge the Source of our safety, our happiness and peace.
Today we are willing to set aside our mistaken identification with forms in the world. We welcome our unity in the Love of God. We share His joy in the eternal extension of Love.
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