Faith and belief and vision are the means by which the goal of holiness is reached. Through them the Holy Spirit leads you to the real world, and away from all illusions where your faith was laid. This is His direction; the only one He ever sees. And when you wander, He reminds you there is but one [direction]. His faith and His belief and vision are all for you. And when you have accepted them completely instead of yours, you will have need of them no longer. For faith and vision and belief are meaningful only before the state of certainty is reached. In Heaven they are unknown. Yet Heaven is reached through them. (A Course in Miracles, T-21.III.4. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)
We see a world of bodies, of separation, because we believe in it and have given it our faith. The faith we have invested in this world makes it seem real. Yet the opposite of the oneness of Love could never be real.
The Holy Spirit’s function is to help us redirect our faith and belief from images of separation to the vision of holiness, wholeness. As we are willing to receive it, the Holy Spirit’s vision will show us our true relationship with our brother in the oneness of Love. It is this vision of our holy relationship that brings us peace. There is no conflict in the holy relationship that comes with the recognition of Love’s oneness.
As we withdraw our faith and belief in separation and direct it to seeing the oneness of Love’s creation, the dream world of separate images fades away. This is what forgiveness does. It releases our insistence on seeing our brother as a body so that we see past it to the one Love that joins us all.
Today we welcome the Holy Spirit’s vision and give it our faith and belief.
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