Trusting [in the truth of] your brothers is essential to establishing and holding up your faith in your ability to transcend doubt and lack of sure conviction in yourself. When you attack a brother, you proclaim that he is limited by what you have perceived in him. You do not look beyond his errors. Rather, they are magnified, becoming blocks to your awareness of the Self that lies beyond your own mistakes, and past his seeming sins as well as yours.
Perception has a focus [ego or Holy Spirit]. It is this that gives consistency to what you see. Change but this focus, and what you behold will change accordingly.… Remove your focus on your brother’s sins, and you experience the peace that comes from faith in sinlessness.… For their mistakes, if focused on, are witnesses to sins in you. And you will not transcend their sight and see the sinlessness that lies beyond. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 181, W-pI.181.1;2:1-3,5,7-8. See also ACIM Lesson 181 Insights.)
We cannot see guilt in others without believing we are guilty. Likewise, as we let the Holy Spirit show us the changeless Love in our brothers, beyond appearances, we recognize the changeless Love in ourselves.
The practice of bringing all our perceptions to the Holy Spirit with willingness to be shown the changeless Love beyond appearances is how we forgive the world and ourselves. Each time we remember to do this, we take a step closer to seeing the real world of perfect innocence and changeless Love.
Today is dedicated to this practice.
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