Spirit makes use of mind as means to find its Self expression. ²And the mind which serves the spirit is at peace and filled with joy. ³Its power comes from spirit, and it is fulfilling happily its function here. ⁴Yet mind can also see itself divorced from spirit, and perceive itself within a body it confuses with itself. ⁵Without its function then it has no peace, and happiness is alien to its thoughts.
Yet mind apart from spirit cannot think. ²It has denied its Source of strength, and sees itself as helpless, limited and weak. ³Dissociated from its function now, it thinks it is alone and separate, attacked by armies massed against itself and hiding in the body’s frail support. ⁴Now must it reconcile unlike with like, for this is what it thinks that it is for.
Your Self retains Its Thoughts [of God’s Love], and they remain within your mind and in the Mind of God. ²The Holy Spirit holds salvation in your mind, and offers it the way to peace. ³Salvation is a thought you share with God, because His Voice accepted it for you and answered in your name that it was done.
²Salvation comes from my one Self. ³Its Thoughts are mine to use.
⁴Then seek Its Thoughts, and claim them as your own. ⁵These are your own real thoughts you have denied… (A Course in Miracles, W-96.4:1–5:4;7:1-3;9:2-5. See also ACIM Lesson 96 Insights.)
In the dream, the thoughts we are aware of are not real. They lack the extension of Love, which is all of Reality. The body is the ego’s means to offer its own mindless thoughts. Because the ego has denied Love, its thoughts cannot be real, yet our belief in them makes them real to us. It is this belief from which we must be saved.
God has given us the Holy Spirit in our mind to be a bridge between our unreal mindless thoughts and our real Thoughts, which extend only Love. When we accept His help, we find peace because we remember we are Love and nothing else. We learn to overlook the ego’s images and accept only Love’s presence in our mind. As we accept Love, we naturally give It, because that is Love’s function.
Today we choose to accept the Help we have been given and learn that we are Love.
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