It is not you who are so vulnerable and open to attack that just a word, a little whisper that you do not like, a circumstance that suits you not, or an event that you did not anticipate upsets your world, and hurls it into chaos. Truth is not frail. Illusions leave it perfectly unmoved and undisturbed. But specialness is not the truth in you. It [specialness] can be thrown off balance by anything. What rests on nothing never can be stable. However large and overblown it seems to be, it still must rock and turn and whirl about with every breeze.
[Specialness] will forevermore be unforgiving, for that is what it is; a secret vow that what God wants for you will never be, and that you will oppose His Will forever.
God asks for your forgiveness. He would have no separation, like an alien will, rise between what He wills for you and what you will. They are the same, for neither One wills specialness.
Forgive the great Creator of the universe, the Source of life, of love and holiness, the perfect Father of a perfect Son, for your illusions of your specialness. …Forgive the Holy One the specialness He could not give, and that you made instead.
The special ones are all asleep, surrounded by a world of loveliness they do not see. Freedom and peace and joy stand there, …call them to come forth and waken from their dream of death. Yet they hear nothing. They are lost in dreams of specialness. …Open your eyes a little; see the savior God gave to you that you might look on him, and give him back his birthright. It is yours. (A Course in Miracles, T-24.III.3;4:8;5:1-3;6:1,7;7:1-4,7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
If we deny the Love that is the truth in our brother, we have first denied it in ourselves. We have denied our birthright, for God wills that we have all of His Love. The ego denies that Love is the truth in all God’s Creation, given equally to all. Equality is the antithesis of the ego. That is why it must people the world with images of differences and inequality. It cannot see a brother as an equal, for the complete recognition of equality would dispel the ego entirely.
Because God’s Love is given equally to all, we must accept equality to accept God’s gift of Love. When we forgive God for not giving us the specialness we asked for, we open the veil to receive the Love He wills we have. His Will is our Will.
Our true Self wants only to be and give Love without limit, as God has given It to His Son. We want to awaken from the dream of lovelessness and return to the Heaven of God’s Love.
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