Mary:
In our reading this morning we were guided to A Course in Miracles, Text, Chapter 31, Section VIII: Choose Once Again. This paragraph is my practice for today:
You are as God created you, and so is every living thing you look upon, regardless of the images you see. What you behold as sickness and as pain, as weakness and as suffering and loss, is but temptation to perceive yourself defenseless and in hell. Yield not to this, and you will see all pain, in every form, wherever it occurs, but disappear as mists before the sun. A miracle has come to heal God’s Son, and close the door upon his dreams of weakness, opening the way to his salvation and release. Choose once again what you would have him be, remembering that every choice you make establishes your own identity as you will see it and believe it is. (T-31.VIII.6)
If I really want to wake up from this dream of separation, I will be vigilant to see the Holy Spirit’s vision of my brother instead of the separate body I once saw there. Everyone is still as God created them. Nothing has happened to change God’s one Son. This is the message I am to receive and extend today and every day. And in this practice we all are blessed. Christ’s strength is invited to prevail.
Robert:
If any circumstance stimulates any level of fear in me, be it a hint of doubt or stark terror, it is a sure indication that I am believing I am a body, separate and alone. Fear is impossible to God’s one Son, Who is one with the only Strength there is. So any doubt, apprehension or fear becomes a blessing when I recognize it as a reminder to redirect my attention to the Source of strength within me. It becomes a gift that I can use to remind me to choose once again to remember that, “I am as God created me. His Son can suffer nothing. And I am His Son.” (T-31.VIII.5:2-4)
Believing in a world of separation is the denial of What I am. I am grateful that God’s loving Voice continuously reminds me that I remain the Love I was created to be and safe in that Love. Like a loving father gently comforts his frightened child, holding him in the safety of his arms, so our Creator calls to us with His Love and surrounds us in the safety of His Arms, saying, “You are safe, dear one. You have never left Me and I will never leave you, for we are one. Let go of the frightening image that crept into your mind. It could never be true. Turn to the Light that we share and remember Who you are.”
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