It is surely good advice to tell you not to judge what you do not understand. No one with a personal investment is a reliable witness, for truth to him has become what he wants it to be. If you are unwilling to perceive an appeal for help as what it is, it is because you are unwilling to give help and to receive it. To fail to recognize a call for help is to refuse help. Would you maintain that you do not need [help]? Yet this is what you are maintaining when you refuse to recognize a brother’s appeal, for only by answering his appeal can you be helped. Deny him your help and you will not recognize God’s Answer to you. The Holy Spirit does not need your help in interpreting motivation, but you do need His.
Only appreciation is an appropriate response to your brother. Gratitude is due him for both his loving thoughts and his appeals for help, for both are capable of bringing love into your awareness if you perceive them truly. And all your sense of strain comes from your attempts not to do just this. How simple, then, is God’s plan for salvation. There is but one response to reality, for reality evokes no conflict at all. There is but one Teacher of reality, Who understands what it is. He does not change His Mind about reality because reality does not change. Although your interpretations of reality are meaningless in your divided state, His remain consistently true. He gives [His interpretations] to you because they are for you. Do not attempt to “help” a brother in your way, for you cannot help yourself. But hear his call for the Help of God, and you will recognize your own need for the Father. (A Course in Miracles, T-12.I.5-6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
Under the Holy Spirit’s direction, our experience in the world is a classroom for lessons in awakening to Love. The ego’s purpose for the world is to teach us to deny Love. As long as we subscribe to the ego’s purpose, we will be on a constant search to find Love, peace and happiness. But we will never find them because the ego’s plan is always to direct us to search where they cannot be found.
If we want to be happy and know we are loved, we need to choose the Teacher within Who knows where to find it. His lessons are in front of us in every moment. But it is only by choosing the Holy Spirit as our Guide that we will recognize His lessons that teach us only Love is real. His lessons release us from the pain of feeling lack of Love and return us to awareness that we already are the Love we seek. He is ever ready to show us the opportunities for our own healing in our brothers’ calls for Love. He teaches us that we are at Home now in the Arms of Love.
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