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Seeing the Love in Our Brothers

Forget not that you came this far together, you and your brother. ²And it was surely not the ego that led you here. ³No obstacle to peace can be surmounted through its help. ⁴It does not open up its secrets, and bid you look on them and go beyond them. ⁵It would not have you see its weakness, and learn it has no power to keep you from the truth. ⁶The Guide Who brought you here remains with you, and when you raise your eyes you will be ready to look on terror with no fear at all. ⁷But first, lift up your eyes and look on your brother in innocence born of complete forgiveness of his illusions, and through the eyes of faith that sees them not.

No one can look upon the fear of God unterrified, unless he has accepted the Atonement and learned illusions are not real. ²No one can stand before this obstacle alone, for he could not have reached this far unless his brother walked beside him. ³And no one would dare to look on it without complete forgiveness of his brother in his heart.

⁴Before complete forgiveness you still stand unforgiving. ⁵You are afraid of God _because_ you fear your brother. ⁶Those you do not forgive you fear. ⁷And no one reaches love with fear beside him.

²Think who your brother is, before you would condemn him. ³And offer thanks to God that he is holy, and has been given the gift of holiness for you. ⁴Join him in gladness, and remove all trace of guilt from his disturbed and tortured mind. ⁵Help him to lift the heavy burden of sin you laid upon him and he accepted as his own, and toss it lightly and with happy laughter away from him. (T-19.IV-D.8:1-9:3;11:4-7;16:2-5)

The ego does not want us to see the truth in our brother. The brilliance of his Love would dispel all ego illusions and we would see the Love we are. We would recognize our unity in Love that forever binds us to the Love of our Father.

Today we practice seeing the Love in those whom we hold dear. We take that awareness of Love’s Presence and direct it to one we fear. The vision of the Love will show us that there is nothing to fear. What disturbed us was never real. We join with the Love he is with happy laughter as we are united with our Father. And we give thanks.

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