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Christ’s Vision Brings the Joy of Extending Love

Love is extension. ²To withhold the smallest gift is not to know love’s purpose. ³Love offers everything forever. ⁴Hold back but one belief, one offering, and love is gone, because you asked a substitute to take its place. ⁵And now must war, the substitute for peace, come with the one alternative that you can choose for love. ⁶Your choosing it has given it all the reality it seems to have.

Beliefs will never openly attack each other because conflicting outcomes are impossible. ²But an unrecognized belief is a decision to war in secret, where the results of conflict are kept unknown and never brought to reason, to be considered sensible or not. ³And many senseless outcomes have been reached, and meaningless decisions have been made and kept hidden, to become beliefs now given power to direct all subsequent decisions. ⁴Mistake you not the power of these hidden warriors to disrupt your peace. ⁵For it is at their mercy while you decide to leave it there. ⁶The secret enemies of peace, your least decision to choose attack instead of love, unrecognized and swift to challenge you to combat and to violence far more inclusive than you think, are there by your election. ⁷Do not deny their presence nor their terrible results. ⁸All that can be denied is their reality, but not their outcome. (A Course in Miracles, T-24.I.1–2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The process of forgiveness begins with recognizing there is a need to forgive. The symptoms of the need are our signposts — any disturbance of our peace of mind. We can use these signposts as reminders to be mindful of our thoughts. Then ask of the Holy Spirit, “What is this for?” Then pause and wait to receive His insight.

He will help us recognize the unreality of our belief and show us the reality of Love beyond the appearance that is disturbing our peace of mind. As we accept Christ’s vision, fear, anger and guilt are replaced by the joy of extending Love.

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