The Holy Spirit’s function is to take the broken picture of the Son of God and put the pieces into place again. ²This holy picture, healed entirely, does He hold out to every separate piece that thinks it is a picture in itself. ³To each He offers his Identity, which the whole picture represents, instead of just a little, broken bit that he insisted was himself.
I thank You, Father, knowing You will come to close each little gap that lies between the broken pieces of Your holy Son. ²Your Holiness, complete and perfect, lies in every one of them. ³And they are joined because what is in one is in them all. ⁴How holy is the smallest grain of sand, when it is recognized as being part of the completed picture of God’s Son! ⁵The forms the broken pieces seem to take mean nothing. ⁶For the whole is in each one. ⁷And every aspect of the Son of God is just the same as every other part.
⁸Your willingness to let illusions go is all the Healer of God’s Son requires. ⁹He will place the miracle of healing where the seeds of sickness were. ¹⁰And there will be no loss, but only gain. (A Course in Miracles, T-28.IV.8:1-3;9;10:8-10. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
Dreams have no effect on Reality. While we are engaged in dreams, we do not know what Reality is. But our belief in the dream makes it seem real. As long as we insist in believing its reality, we defend it at all costs, even to a dream of death.
To awaken from the dream, we must be willing not to defend it. The Course gently and consistently leads us to realize the dream is giving us nothing of value. It does not give us lasting peace. We may experience periods of happiness, but they do not last. Fear and guilt break through the pleasing images to show the dark underside of the quest for specialness. Beneath the superficial images lies the despair that comes with denial of Love.
As we learn that we do not want the dream, we become willing to let it go. This willingness is all the Holy Spirit needs to lead us to the joy and peace of our true Nature. Now we are willing to awaken from the dream, to set aside its childish games. As we accept the Holy Spirit’s help, our awareness of the Love we are is restored to our Holy Mind. In joy we unite with the Love in our brothers and together we return to our Home in the Love of God.
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