Can you imagine how beautiful those you forgive will look to you? ²In no fantasy have you ever seen anything so lovely. ³Nothing you see here, sleeping or waking, comes near to such loveliness. ⁴And nothing will you value like unto this, nor hold so dear. ⁵Nothing that you remember that made your heart sing with joy has ever brought you even a little part of the happiness this sight will bring you. ⁶For you will see the Son of God. ⁷You will behold the beauty the Holy Spirit loves to look upon, and which He thanks the Father for. ⁸He was created to see this for you, until you learned to see [the forgiven world] for yourself. ⁹And all His teaching leads to seeing it and giving thanks with Him.
This loveliness is not a fantasy. ²It is the real world,…
The real world is attained simply by the complete forgiveness of the old, the world you see without forgiveness. ²The great Transformer of perception will undertake with you the careful searching of the mind that made this world, and uncover to you the seeming reasons for your making it. ³In the light of the real reason that He brings, as you follow Him, He will show you that there is no reason here at all. ⁴Each spot His reason touches grows alive with beauty, and what seemed ugly in the darkness of your lack of reason is suddenly released to loveliness. ⁵Not even what the Son of God made in insanity could be without a hidden spark of beauty that gentleness could release. (A Course in Miracles, T-17.II.1:1–2:2;5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
When we choose specialness instead of the oneness of God’s Love, it is like turning off a light switch. Our world goes dark because we become blind to the Light of Love. We fill the darkness with a dream of illusions that makes separation seem real. This dream is the consequence of denying Love’s presence. The exquisite beauty of Love’s radiant Light is lost to us. Though we turned off the light, the Source of the Light is not gone.
We cannot find the light switch in the darkness on our own. But the Holy Spirit in our mind is there to help us turn the Light of Love back on. We need only be willing to follow Love’s lead. With His help we learn to see the truth again and awaken to Love.
Today we choose to leave the darkness behind and accept His help to forgive our mistaken beliefs. We offer all our perceptions to the Holy Spirit for His kind and gentle correction. We make way for the star of Love to shine again in our holy mind.
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