The body is a fence the Son of God imagines he has built, to separate parts of his Self from other parts. It is within this fence he thinks he lives, to die as it decays and crumbles. For within this fence he thinks that he is safe from love. Identifying with his safety, he regards himself as what his safety is. How else could he be certain he remains within the body, keeping love outside?
But we can change the purpose that the body will obey by changing what we think that it is for.
The body is the means by which God’s Son returns to sanity. Though it was made to fence him into hell without escape, yet has the goal of Heaven been exchanged for the pursuit of hell. The Son of God extends his hand to reach his brother, and to help him walk along the road with him. Now is the body holy.
Love is your safety. Fear does not exist. Identify with love, and you are safe. Identify with love, and you are home. Identify with love, and find your Self. (A Course in Miracles Workbook What Is the Body?, W-pII.5.1;3:5-4:4;5:4-8. See also ACIM Lesson Insights: What Is the body?.)
The body is so real to us that it doesn’t seem we are imagining it. It doesn’t seem that it is a defense against Love. In fact it seems that throughout the body’s life we are searching for Love. But because the ego defends against Love, all our searching under its direction comes up empty. At best we obtain substitutes for Love that do not fully satisfy and are not eternal. The fact that the ego’s substitutes for Love never last is a sure sign that they are not real. As long as we think the body is our identity, the ego’s goal of hiding from Love is satisfied.
Still we search for Love because we hear the Voice of our true Self calling us to return to Love. Love is our Home. Nothing but the changelessness of our eternal Home will ever satisfy. As we let the Holy Spirit’s purpose replace the ego’s purpose for the body, it becomes an instrument used to bring Love into the world where Love’s oneness is denied. When we identify with our true Self instead of the ego, the body becomes holy. It is used to extend Love instead of deny It.
Today is a perfect day to choose the Love of our true Self as our Identity and become messengers of Love in the world. This is the journey that leads us Home to Love.
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