⁷If you can see your brother merits pardon, you have learned forgiveness is your right as much as his.
Look on your brother with the willingness to see him as he is. ²And do not keep a part of him outside your willingness that he be healed. ³To heal is to make whole. ⁴And what is whole can have no missing parts that have been kept outside. ⁵Forgiveness rests on recognizing this, and being glad there cannot be some forms of sickness which the miracle must lack the power to heal.
God’s Son is perfect, or he cannot be God’s Son. ²Nor will you know him, if you think he does not merit the escape from guilt in all its consequences and its forms. ³There is no way to think of him but this, if you would know the truth about yourself.
⁴I thank You, Father, for Your perfect Son, and in his glory will I see my own.
⁵Here is the joyful statement that there are no forms of evil that can overcome the Will of God; the glad acknowledgment that guilt has not succeeded by your wish to make illusions real. ⁶And what is this except a simple statement of the truth?
Look on your brother with this hope in you, and you will understand he could not make an error that could change the truth in him. (A Course in Miracles, T-30.VI.4:7;8:1–10:1. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
God makes no exceptions. He extends all that He is to the Son He created like Himself. The ego demands that God withhold a little from some to give more to another, thus making specialness. The world we experience is the effect of the ego’s demand for exceptions. In the ego’s world nothing can be the same. Uniqueness and differences are esteemed and competed for.
None of this can be accomplished in God’s oneness. Thus this world is nothing more than a dream that seems to make the impossible true. To see a brother as different from us is an attack on his integrity in the oneness of God. Likewise it is an attack on our own oneness in God.
Though we may not perceive it as an attack, seeing our brother as a different identity brings guilt with it. Unconsciously we know that we are denying our brother his birthright as the Son of God. Likewise we are denying our own birthright.
We forgive this guilt as we learned that beyond all the forms in the world lies the eternal, changeless oneness of God’s Love in which we live. None of the appearances of differences change what God created one with Him. This recognition is the justification for forgiveness. We have not succeeded in excluding God from the world in truth. We have only hidden God behind empty idols of separation.
Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us see the glory of God’s Love in our brothers and thereby recognize It in ourselves.
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