Illusions will not last. ²Their death is sure and this alone is certain in their world. ³It is the ego’s world because of this. ⁴What is the ego? ⁵But a dream of what you really are. ⁶A thought you are apart from your Creator and a wish to be what He created not.
What is the ego? ²Nothingness, but in a form that seems like something.
The ego’s opposite in every way,—in origin, effect and consequence—we call a miracle.
What is a miracle? ²A dream as well. ³But look at all the aspects of this dream and you will never question any more. ⁴Look at the kindly world you see extend before you as you walk in gentleness. ⁵Look at the helpers all along the way you travel, happy in the certainty of Heaven and the surety of peace. ⁶And look an instant, too, on what you left behind at last and finally passed by.
This was the ego—all the cruel hate, the need for vengeance and the cries of pain, the fear of dying and the urge to kill, the brotherless illusion and the self that seemed alone in all the universe. ²This terrible mistake about yourself the miracle corrects as gently as a loving mother sings her child to rest.
The miracle forgives; the ego damns. (A Course in Miracles, C-2.1:1-6;2:1-2;5:1;7:1–8:2;10:1)
When we act and perceive according to the ego’s dictates, we are participating in a dream that does nothing. It has no effect on what we are as God’s Son. But it does keep us engaged in the dream which makes us unaware of the Love we are. The dream denies Love so it is filled with fear, conflict and condemnation.
We make what we treasure appear real. Because the ego is only a dream, we can dismiss it by recognizing it is not real. Illusions recognized as unreal disappear, for they are no longer valued. We need to learn that nothingness has no value. It is an investment that yields nothing in return.
We can learn to recognize illusions for what they are and forgive them — let them go. This is the Holy Spirit’s sole purpose for the dream. Forgiveness clears away the barriers to the awareness of Love’s presence.
Today we welcome the Holy Spirit’s kind and loving lessons in forgiveness. We hold the Holy Spirit’s Hand as we journey to the Heaven of God’s Love.
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