Only appreciation is an appropriate response to your brother. Gratitude is due him for both his loving thoughts and his appeals for help, for both are capable of bringing love into your awareness if you perceive them truly. And all your sense of strain comes from your attempts not to do just this. How simple, then, is God’s plan for salvation. There is but one response to reality, for reality evokes no conflict at all. There is but one Teacher of reality, Who understands what it is. He does not change His Mind about reality because reality does not change. Although your interpretations of reality are meaningless in your divided state, His remain consistently true. He gives them to you because they are for you. Do not attempt to “help” a brother in your way, for you cannot help yourself. But hear his call for the Help of God, and you will recognize your own need for the Father. (A Course in Miracles, T-12.I.6. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)
Our only meaningful purpose in this world is to remember that we are Love as Love created us. In every moment we are given the opportunity to remember Who we are. As we are aware of loving thoughts, we remember the Love we are. Perception of anything else is an opportunity to recognize a call for Love. The recognition of a call for Love naturally evokes a response of answering with Love. When we answer a call for Love with Love, we remind ourselves that we are Love.
When we believe we are a separate individual, functioning on our own in the world, we will inevitably misinterpret calls for Love as attacks. Based on this interpretation, we respond with attack, sometimes disguised as defense.
To fulfill our function of remembering we are Love, we must resign as interpreter of everything we perceive in the world. Instead, we must rely on the vision of the Interpreter given us by our Creator. This Interpreter is not deceived by appearances of the world. It knows that only Love is real and reality does not change.
As we are willing to accept the vision of our inner Interpreter in place of our own interpretations, we move steadily toward remembering that we are Love as Love created us.
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