³Love is one. ⁴It has no separate parts and no degrees; no kinds nor levels, no divergencies and no distinctions. ⁵It is like itself, unchanged throughout. ⁶It never alters with a person or a circumstance. ⁷It is the Heart of God, and also of His Son.
Love’s meaning is obscure to anyone who thinks that love can change. ²He does not see that changing love must be impossible. ³And thus he thinks that he can love at times, and hate at other times. ⁴He also thinks that love can be bestowed on one, and yet remain itself although it is withheld from others. ⁵To believe these things of love is not to understand it. ⁶If it could make such distinctions, it would have to judge between the righteous and the sinner, and perceive the Son of God in separate parts.
Love cannot judge. ²As it is one itself, it looks on all as one. ³Its meaning lies in oneness. ⁴And it must elude the mind that thinks of it as partial or in part. ⁵There is no love but God’s, and all of love is His. ⁶There is no other principle that rules where love is not. ⁷Love is a law without an opposite. ⁸Its wholeness is the power holding everything as one, the link between the Father and the Son which holds Them both forever as the same.
Call to your Father, certain that His Voice will answer. ²He Himself has promised this. ³And He Himself will place a spark of truth within your mind wherever you give up a false belief, a dark illusion of your own reality and what love means. ⁴He will shine through your idle thoughts today, and help you understand the truth of love. ⁵In loving gentleness He will abide with you, as you allow His Voice to teach love’s meaning to your clean and open mind. ⁶And He will bless the lesson with His Love. (W-127A Course in Miracles, .1:3–3:8. See also ACIM Lesson 127 Insights.)
The world we see is constantly changing, from the cells in our bodies to the weather and world politics. All this confirms that what we are perceiving cannot be real, for only the changelessness of Love is real.
This fact is the foundation for our release from the world of fear and guilt and return to the certainty of our Home in God’s Love. We can count on His Love because It never changes. In response to His Son’s dream of separation, God gave us the Holy Spirit to lead us Home. We can call upon His help in every moment of every day.
Today we remind ourselves often to ask the Holy Spirit how He would see what we are perceiving in the dream. As we accept His vision, our misperceptions are healed. Where we saw cause for judgment and defense, we will welcome our brother to join with us in the unity of Love. Where there was conflict, there is peace. Where there was depression, there is joy. Where there was fear, we remember Love.
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