I. Guiltlessness and Invulnerability, P 6
6 When you have accepted the Atonement for yourself, you will realize there is no guilt in God’s Son. And only as you look upon him as guiltless can you understand his oneness. For the idea of guilt brings a belief in condemnation of one by another, projecting separation in place of unity. You can condemn only yourself, and by so doing you cannot know that you are God’s Son. You have denied the condition of his being, which is his perfect blamelessness. Out of love he was created, and in love he abides. Goodness and mercy have always followed him, for he has always extended the Love of his Father.
Journal
Out of love I was created and out of love I abide. This is true regardless of the dream state that seems to be my life. But my experience is not one of love, at least not all the time yet. It can be, though, as I allow the idea of guilt to be removed from my mind, I begin to live the happy dream in anticipation of the end of the dream.
What I know now is the difference between love and fear, and I know that I can decide against fear when I choose to. Here is something I wrote in my Daily Lesson journal this morning.
“This morning as I let my mind settle into the choices I would make, I realized that what I want is that the day continues just as it is now. I feel happy and peaceful, and deeply in love with God. What else could I want for my day? I am overwhelmed with gratitude. What happened to that sense of loss I experienced last night at the thought of leaving the weekend behind? I made a different decision as I used a different advisor. I let go of what I thought the world needs to be and let the Holy Spirit show me what it can be.”
For awhile this morning that deep peace and love of God pervaded my very being. Then I was looking at a picture on Facebook and I had an instant of judgment. It wasn’t even a fully formed thought, just a feeling of judgment, and the peace vaporized, just like that. I felt a moment of panic as I realized what had happened to my peace. I traded it for judgment. I cannot judge a brother and be at peace, nor retain the state of perfect love.
Once I thought about it, I knew what had happened and what to do about it. I had, without conscious awareness, chosen to ask the ego to help me decide what that picture meant. From there I decide what can be done about it. In this case, I had quickly decided who was to blame, and was relieved that it was not my problem and I could ignore it. Separation, and then more separation.
Then I made a different choice, a different decision, using the Holy Spirit as my advisor. I canceled my original question by remembering that I forgot to decide with Spirit. I asked Him to interpret the picture for me and I stepped back in my mind and waited for His correction, knowing I wanted a new way to see this. I felt the conflict melt away and the peace return.
It seemed such a little thing, this quick judgment of a picture on Facebook. How important could it be? But there is no hierarchy of illusions. All wrong minded thinking, whether it seems big or little to me, cause lack of peace and lack of peace is as complete as is peace. This process of using the rules for decision is taking time and patience, but this is what time is for, this is what the world is for. I am literally undoing the ego in my mind.
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