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Recognizing the Love Our Brother Is

You have so little faith in yourself because you are unwilling to accept the fact that perfect love is in you. And so you seek without for what you cannot find without. I offer you my perfect faith in you, in place of all your doubts. But forget not that my faith must be as perfect in all your brothers as it is in you, or it would be a limited gift to you. In the holy instant we share our faith in God’s Son because we recognize, together, that he is wholly worthy of it, and in our appreciation of his worth we cannot doubt his holiness. And so we love him.

In the holy instant you recognize the idea of love in you, and unite this idea with the Mind that thought it, and could not relinquish it. By holding [the idea of Love] within [your mind], there is no loss. The holy instant thus becomes a lesson in how to hold all of your brothers in your mind, experiencing not loss but completion. From this it follows you can only give. And this is love, for this alone is natural under the laws of God.

For in the holy instant you will recognize the only need [to extend Love] the Sons of God share equally, and by this recognition you will join with me in offering [the Love that] is needed. (A Course in Miracles, T-15.VI.2;5:3-7;6:10. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Every brother is worthy of our total commitment to Love What he is. The true Self we share with every brother is Love. If we perceive a brother as a body, we are denying the truth of What he is and therefore are not loving him for What he Is. We see a brother as a body because we believe we are a body. To the ego, it is important that we see our brother’s as bodies because it reinforces the false belief that we are bodies. God did not create His Son as a body, which is a limitation.

God created His Son by extending the idea of Love, which remains united in the Mind of God. Our only need is to accept God’s gift of the total idea of Love without limit. We fulfill this need by accepting and joining with the Love that is the truth in every brother. When we do this we accept our one Self, including every brother as God’s one Son.

The holy instant, in which we put aside our belief in separation, we experience the Love he is, along with our Self. We make way for the holy instant when we shift our perception of a brother as an image to the recognition of the Love he is.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit’s help to see past the images of the world to the unity of Love everywhere.

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