To love my Father is to love His Son.
Let me not think that I can find the way to God, if I have hatred in my heart. ²Let me not try to hurt God’s Son, and think that I can know his Father or my Self. ³Let me not fail to recognize myself, and still believe that my awareness can contain my Father, or my mind conceive of all the love my Father has for me, and all the love which I return to Him.
I will accept the way You choose for me to come to You, my Father. ²For in that will I succeed, because it is Your Will. ³And I would recognize that what You will is what I will as well, and only that. ⁴And so I choose to love Your Son. ⁵Amen. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 1, W-246. See also ACIM Lesson 246 Insights.)
What we believe about ourself and our brother is what we believe about God. If we believe our brother is separate from us, we believe we are separate from God. Our belief in being separate is projected through all our perceptions. We cannot fathom the Love God gives us when we believe we are separate from Him.
God does not limit His Love for His Son, nor see His Son as many. He shares all of His Love with His one Son. The truth in everyone is that we are all collectively His one Son. While we believe we are separate, we believe in limits. It does not seem possible that a brother could receive all of God’s Love and leave any Love left for us.
Thus the underlying story in the world is that there is not enough for everyone and we must complete for the little scraps satisfy what we believe we need. In the thought system of separation, everyone is a pauper with insufficient love to fill our need. We are all hungry for Love in the ego thought system. All this comes from the choice to be separate and pursue specialness.
No matter what we believe, God still gives all of His Love to all. God knows no limits and imposes no limits on His Son. Our self-imposed limits are released through our forgiveness. As we learn to look past the limitations of bodies, our awareness of the one Self we share with everyone becomes more clear. We share one Self with everyone. Instead of seeing ourselves as competing with our brothers for a limited amount of Love, we see our brothers as the Love they are. We happily join with the Love in our brothers, remembering the limitless Love we share. In this remembering, we remember our true Self and remember God.
Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us see our brothers truly, for we would awaken to God’s Love.
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