Whenever you consent to suffer pain, to be deprived, unfairly treated or in need of anything, you but accuse your brother of attack upon God’s Son. …The picture of yourself you offer him you show yourself, and give it all your faith. The Holy Spirit offers you, to give to him, a picture of yourself in which there is no pain and no reproach at all. And what was martyred to his guilt becomes the perfect witness to his innocence.
The bleak and bitter picture you have sent your brother you have looked upon in grief. And everything that it has shown to him have you believed, because it witnessed to the guilt in him which you perceived and loved.
Now in the hands made gentle by His touch, the Holy Spirit lays a picture of a different you. It is a picture of a body still, for what you really are cannot be seen nor pictured. Yet this one has not been used for purpose of attack, and therefore never suffered pain at all. It witnesses to the eternal truth that you cannot be hurt, and points beyond itself to both your innocence and his. Show this unto your brother, who will see that every scar is healed, and every tear is wiped away in laughter and in love. And he will look on his forgiveness there, and with healed eyes will look beyond it to the innocence that he beholds in you. Here is the proof that he has never sinned; that nothing which his madness bid him do was ever done, or ever had effects of any kind. That no reproach he laid upon his heart was ever justified, and no attack can ever touch him with the poisoned and relentless sting of fear. (A Course in Miracles, T-27.I.3:1,4-6;4:10-5:8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
The world we experience as a body is all a projection of the ego thought system. We see it because we have accepted the ego as our guide and the substitute identity it has offered in place of the Self God created one with Him. These projections are not real. They simply reflect what we believe about ourself. The ego uses this reflection to reinforce guilt. It seems to project the guilt outside of us but secretly keeps it for ourself.
But the Holy Spirit offers another way to use projection in the world. It offers His vision of the innocence that is the truth in every brother. As we accept this vision, our brother becomes a reflection of our own innocence. What we had judged under the ego’s direction, we see as innocent and united with us through Love’s vision.
This brings healing to our troubled mind. It shows us the Love we are reflected in our brother and we recognize our unity. This is true forgiveness. This is the healing vision that transforms us, releasing the Love we are to be shared without limit, as God shares His Love with us.
Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us see the Reality of Love in the world, for we would forgive and let our minds be healed.
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