You can encounter only part of yourself because you are part of God, Who is everything. ²His power and glory are everywhere, and you cannot be excluded from them. ³The ego teaches that your strength is in you alone. ⁴The Holy Spirit teaches that all strength is in God and therefore in you. ⁵God wills no one suffer. ⁶He does not will anyone to suffer for a wrong decision, including you. ⁷That is why He has given you the means for undoing it. ⁸Through His power and glory all your wrong decisions are undone completely, releasing you and your brother from every imprisoning thought any part of the Sonship holds. ⁹Wrong decisions have no power, because they are not true. ¹⁰The imprisonment they seem to produce is no more true than they are.
Power and glory belong to God alone. ²So do you. ³God gives whatever belongs to Him because He gives of Himself, and everything belongs to Him. ⁴Giving of yourself is the function He gave you. ⁵Fulfilling it perfectly will let you remember what you have of Him, and by this you will remember also what you are in Him. ⁶You cannot be powerless to do this, because this is your power. ⁷Glory is God’s gift to you, because that is what He is. ⁸See this glory everywhere to remember what you are. (A Course in Miracles, T-8.III.7:1–8:8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
God created His Son by giving all of Himself. As His Son, our function is to give all of ourself as God gave to us. This is Love’s only function. Because only Love is real, this is the only function that exists.
When we align with the ego’s choice for separation, we have made a wrong decision. It has no effect on the truth of What we are. But it does result in a nightmare where we experience ourselves as powerless and at the mercy of outside forces that can bring us harm. This is not so.
Though we may feel lost in the dream, God’s glory remains in us. He gave His dreaming Son the Holy Spirit to teach us the truth that we are still Love as He created us. The Holy Spirit brings us Christ’s vision which shows us the Love that is in us and surrounds us. With this vision, we are certain of our safety in our unity with our brothers.
Today we welcome the Holy Spirit’s lessons in Christ’s vision, for we would reclaim God’s gift of His power and glory.
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