Can you imagine how beautiful those you forgive will look to you? ²In no fantasy have you ever seen anything so lovely. ³Nothing you see here, sleeping or waking, comes near to such loveliness. ⁴And nothing will you value like unto this, nor hold so dear. ⁵Nothing that you remember that made your heart sing with joy has ever brought you even a little part of the happiness this sight will bring you. ⁶For you will see the Son of God. ⁷You will behold the beauty the Holy Spirit loves to look upon, and which He thanks the Father for. ⁸He was created to see this for you, until you learned to see it for yourself. ⁹And all His teaching leads to seeing it and giving thanks with Him.
This loveliness is not a fantasy. ²It is the real world…”
The real world is attained simply by the complete forgiveness of the old, the world you see without forgiveness. ²The great Transformer of perception will undertake with you the careful searching of the mind that made this world, and uncover to you the seeming reasons for your making it. ³In the light of the real reason that He brings, as you follow Him, He will show you that there is no reason here at all. ⁴Each spot His reason touches grows alive with beauty, and what seemed ugly in the darkness of your lack of reason is suddenly released to loveliness. ⁵Not even what the Son of God made in insanity could be without a hidden spark of beauty that gentleness could release. (A Course in Miracles, T-17.II.1;2:1-2;5:1-5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
We need the Holy Spirit, the great Transformer of perception, to help us clear our minds of the thoughts that make the dream of a world of separation. We have gotten so engrossed in the ego thought system that we cannot see past its darkness to the Light of Love in which we live.
If we are willing to accept the Holy Spirit’s help, He will teach us to recognize the illusions of this world for what they are. He will show us that these illusions are based on nothing and are not real. With His help, we will lay the illusions down as we recognize their falsity. As we forgive and let them go, we will learn to see the glory that is the truth in every brother and ourselves as God’s Son.
Beyond every perception in the world is a lesson in Love God would have us learn. Today we reinforce our determination to let the Holy Spirit help us transform our perceptions. We want to perceive the real world that forgiveness reveals to us. As we recognize it, our hearts are filled with joy and peace. We remember that we live in Love.
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