It is God’s strength in you that is the light in which you see, as it is His Mind with which you think. His strength denies your weakness. It is your weakness that sees through the body’s eyes, peering about in darkness to behold the likeness of itself; the small, the weak, the sickly and the dying, those in need, the helpless and afraid, the sad, the poor, the starving and the joyless. These are seen through eyes that cannot see and cannot bless.
Strength overlooks these things by seeing past appearances. It keeps its steady gaze upon the light that lies beyond them. It unites with light, of which it is a part. It sees itself. It brings the light in which your Self appears. (A Course in Miracles W-pI.92.3,4:1-5)
Today we will practice accepting God’s strength in us. God’s strength comes with our willingness to receive it. We receive God’s strength when our mind is quiet and open to receive inspiration. Willingness to receive God’s peace is willingness to accept the Self that God created.
Belief that we are a body is a barrier that hides the Light of God from our awareness. This belief is the denial of the Light that is ever present. This is why the most repeated lesson in the Workbook is, “I am not a body. I am free. I am still as God created me.” Acceptance of this idea is the release from separation. In order to see beyond appearances we need to withdraw our identification with the body and redirect it to the Self that God created.
To help with this, we can affirm in our minds as we look on anyone that they are not the body our eyes show us. They are one Self with which we unite in the Light that is the strength of God. We can do this only by accepting the help of the Holy Spirit in our minds, Who does not share our mistaken belief in the body. Today we practice letting Holy Spirit guide our vision to see past appearances to the Light.
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