Perception has a focus. It is this that gives consistency to what you see. Change but this focus, and what you behold will change accordingly. Your vision now will shift, to give support to the intent which has replaced the one you held before. Remove your focus on your brother’s sins, and you experience the peace that comes from faith in sinlessness. This faith receives its only sure support from what you see in others past their sins. 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.
We seek for innocence and nothing else. We seek for it with no concern but now.
For the past is gone; the future but imagined. These concerns are but defenses against present change of focus in perception. …We do not look to past beliefs, and what we will believe will not intrude upon us now.
…as our focus goes beyond mistakes, we will behold a wholly sinless world. When seeing this is all we want to see, when this is all we seek for in the name of true perception, are the eyes of Christ inevitably ours. And the Love He feels for us becomes our own as well. This will become the only thing we see reflected in the world and in ourselves. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 181, W-pI.181.2;3:5-6;5:2-3,6;8:3-6. See also ACIM Lesson 181 Insights.)
When we see a brother as a body, we are not trusting in our brother’s truth. We are believing in a false image and calling it “reality”. This belief in what our brother is reflects what we believe we are. Focusing on bodies limits our perceptions to fantasies of images that are capable of harm and being harmed. It comes from belief in sin — separation from the oneness of Love.
Healing comes as we shift our focus from fantasies of separation to the truth of the innocence of Love. Love is incapable of harm or being limited in any way. Love is our true Self, united with every brother. This Self is eternal and changeless. It knows no past. There is no need to imagine a future because changeless Love is now eternally.
Let us remind ourselves frequently today to let the Holy Spirit help us see past body images and personalities to the unity of Love that joins us with every brother now. As we accept this Reality, we will experience the peace and joy that are God’s Will for us.
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