[Your brother] is your savior from your specialness. He is in need of your acceptance of himself as part of you, as you for his. You [both] are alike to God as God is to Himself. He is not special, for He would not keep one part of what He is unto Himself…. And it is this you fear, for if He is not special, then He willed His Son to be like Him, and your brother is like you. Not special, but possessed of everything, including you. Give him [your brother] but what he has, remembering God gave Himself to you and your brother in equal Love, that both might share the universe with Him Who chose that Love could never be divided, and kept separate from what It is and must forever be.
The key you threw away God gave your brother, whose holy hands would offer it to you when you were ready to accept His plan for your salvation in the place of yours. How could this readiness be reached save through the sight of all your misery, and the awareness that your plan has failed, and will forever fail to bring you peace and joy of any kind? Through this despair you travel now, yet it is but illusion of despair. The death of specialness is not your death, but your awaking into life eternal. You but emerge from an illusion of what you are to the acceptance of yourself as God created you. (A Course in Miracles, T-24.II.10;14). See also ACIM Text Made Simple.
Do we experience peace that cannot be disturbed, indescribable joy and changeless Love without limit? If not, we have accepted a substitute plan for salvation that sets us apart as special and alone. This substitute plan offers empty gifts of specialness, which are illusions with no meaning or substance. This plan never satisfies and leads us on a constant search for peace and happiness where it cannot be found.
The images we treasure in this substitute plan must be defended because they cannot stand alone. This substitute plan brings fear with it, for certainty is impossible. Our experience in the world of vulnerability, lack, unworthiness, guilt and fear shows us that we are subscribing to a plan for our salvation that does not work. Its gifts are treacherous, for they deny the gifts of our Creator, which offer us Heaven as our Home.
We have the key standing with us in our brother. We need only let the Holy Spirit show us the truth of our brother, free from our projections of specialness, at one with us in God’s Love. We are learning that the substitute plan for happiness we have sought does not work. It is time to choose the plan already set in place by letting the Holy Spirit show us the Love that is our brother and ourself.
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