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Freeing Ourselves to Extend Our Father’s Love

²You cannot wake yourself. ³Yet you can let yourself be wakened. ⁴You can overlook your brother’s dreams. ⁵So perfectly can you forgive him his illusions he becomes your savior from your dreams. ⁶And as you see him shining in the space of light where God abides within the darkness, you will see that God Himself is where his body is. ⁷Before this light the body disappears, as heavy shadows must give way to light. ⁸The darkness cannot choose that it remain. ⁹The coming of the light means it is gone. ¹⁰In glory will you see your brother then, and understand what really fills the gap so long perceived as keeping you apart. ¹¹There, in its place, God’s witness has set forth the gentle way of kindness to God’s Son. ¹²Whom you forgive is given power to forgive you your illusions. ¹³By your gift of freedom is it given unto you.

Make way for love, which you did not create, but which you can extend. ²On earth this means forgive your brother, that the darkness may be lifted from your mind. (A Course in Miracles, T-29.III.3:2–4:2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The mind asleep in dreams of separation sees conflicting images made by the wish for specialness. Perceptions seem to confirm that differences are real, and harm and loss are real. The presence of Love is hidden beneath clouds of fear and guilt.

Forgiveness restores Love’s presence to our awareness. In Its Light, the Love that is our brother’s reality shines into our mind, awakening us to our true Identity as Love and nothing else. We free ourselves to join with our brothers in the eternal extension of our Father’s Love.

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