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"The little problems that you keep and hide become your secret sins because you did not choose to let them be removed for you. And so they gather dust and grow until they cover everything that you perceive and leave you fair to no one. Not one right do you believe you have. And bitterness, with vengeance justified and mercy lost, condemns you as unworthy of forgiveness. The unforgiven have no mercy to bestow upon another. That is why your sole responsibility must be to take forgiveness for yourself. The miracle that you receive you give. Each one becomes an illustration of the law on which salvation rests-that justice must be done to all if anyone is to be healed. No one can lose, and everyone must benefit."
    
A COURSE IN MIRACLES CH 25 THE REMEDY, X "The Justice of Heaven" paragraph 86

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L e s s o n  274

Today belongs to Love. Let me not fear. 
 
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    Father, today I would let all things be

    as You created them, and give Your Sons

    the honor due their holiness; the love

    of brother to his brother and his friend.

    Through this I am redeemed. Through this as well

    the truth will enter where illusions were,

    light will replace all darkness, and Your Son

    will know he is as You created him.

 

   A special blessing comes to us today

   from Him Who is our Father. Give this day

   to Him and there will be no fear today,

   because the day is given unto Love.

 

 

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What is the Christ?  

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   Christ is God's Son as He created him.
  
He is the Self we share, uniting us

   with one another, and with God as well.

   He is the Thought Which still abides within

   the Mind Which is His Source. He has not left

   His holy home, nor lost the innocence

   in which He was created. He abides

   unchanged forever in the Mind of God.

  

   He is the link that keeps you one with God,

   and guarantees that separation is

   no more than an illusion of despair,

   for hope forever will abide in Him.

   Your mind is part of His, and His of yours.

   He is the part in Which God's Answer lies;

   where all decisions are already made,

   and dreams are over. He remains untouched

   by anything the body's eyes perceive.

   For though in Him His Father placed the means

   for your salvation, yet does He remain

   the Self Who, like His Father, knows no sin.

 

   Home of the Holy Spirit, and at home

   in God alone, does Christ remain at peace,

   within the Heaven of your holy mind.

   This is the only part of you that has

   reality in truth. The rest is dreams.

   Yet will these dreams be given unto Christ,

   to fade before His glory, and reveal

   your holy Self, the Christ, to you at last.

 

   The Holy Spirit reaches from the Christ

   in you to all your dreams, and bids them come

   to Him to be translated into truth.

   He will exchange them for the final dream

   which God appointed as the end of dreams.

   For when forgiveness rests upon the world

   and peace has come to every Son of God,

   what could remain to keep things separate,

   for what remains to see except Christ's face?

 

   And how long can this holy face be seen,

   when it is but the symbol that the time

   for learning now is over, and the goal

   of the Atonement has been reached at last?

   So therefore let us seek to find Christ's face,

   and look on nothing else. As we behold

   His glory, will we know we have no need

   of learning or perception or of time,

   or anything except the holy Self,

   the Christ Whom God created as His Son.

 

   ~ Original Handscript of ACIM
 


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Lesson  274
 
 Today belongs to Love. Let me not fear.

Sarah's Commentary:         

Are we ready for a day that belongs to love or if not can we be content and satisfied to be on this learning journey where Jesus is teaching us how such a day can be achieved? The ego self has no idea. It thinks it knows how to have a happy day but it knows nothing. Are we ready to acknowledge that the ego does not know our best interests and is always wrong about who we are. Are we ready instead, to  invest more fully in another Teacher who has kept the awareness of who we really are? Truly stillness and peace are our inheritance. Yet our choice for the ego blocks this from our experience. But we can decide we have been wrong and perhaps there is another way of looking at everything.

The lesson yesterday acknowledged that for some of us, this day of undisturbed tranquility may not be feasible as yet. Why? because we may not yet be ready. There is more work to be done with our thoughts that come up to disturb us. That is not a reason for discouragement as the Jesus continually affirms. He tells us that this experience of peace and tranquility will be available to us when we are ready for it. The outcome of our journey on this path to enlightenment is guaranteed. It is certain. We just need to continue to do our part. We need not compare ourselves with anyone or use anyone as a measuring stick for our own progress. To do so is merely to affirm our own specialness. Where we are in our journey is what we are currently ready for. There is no reason for self recrimination or guilt which is the ego's response to our progress.

We achieve a day of quietness , stillness and peace by learning to dismiss our disturbances that come up throughout the day. What are these disturbances? They are nothing but our own thoughts of worry, distress, concern, anxiety. They are the meaning that we give to events and situations that come up in our day. And when these thoughts come up, what are we to do? Stop!    Be willing to look at the interpretations you are giving the person or event that is triggering your upset. What feelings come up? Take time to really feel what you are feeling. This is not a course in denial. What are you projecting onto others? Realize that whatever the projections are that there is some form of this judgment that you are accusing yourself of. Then accept responsibility for your reactions and judgments as having their origin in your own unhealed mind. Now we come to a place of acceptance and willingness to see that we have been wrong about our interpretations and ask for help in releasing them to the Holy Spirit. It is only my own mind that gives strength and power to these thoughts. We simply remind ourselves today over and over, with each disturbing situation that arises that "the stillness of the peace of God is mine."

If we still can't come to peace as a result of this work, we are encouraged nevertheless to "be content and even more than satisfied to learn how such a day can be achieved". (lesson 273).  So again, we are encouraged not to lose hope in our process of mindful forgiveness but to simply be content that when the readiness is there for the experience of a day of perfect stillness and of peace, then it will be available. We need not wait for it. it can be available now.  Be gentle but firm with yourself in this process and continue to have confidence that mighty companions walk with you. Remember that Jesus is constantly reminding us that we are never alone. He is always there with us. We just need to reach out and take his hand. And then we can't feel abandoned or alone. We are supported every step of the way and every bit of progress we make is strongly reinforced.

How are we redeemed according to this lesson? Our redemption comes from giving our brother, the honor due them because of who they are as innocent. (1.1)  By seeing their innocence we can know our own. We may worry about how we can ever see  innocence in brothers who seem to betray us, hurt us, attack us. How can we see them with the eyes of Christ which is to see their purity? Ultimately it is to remember that the judgments we are laying on our brothers for their sins, we lay on our own heads. Thus it is only ourselves that we can hurt and it is only our own self judgment that we see in others. Love sees only innocence regardless of the behaviors that show up. And when we see guilt, it is our own guilt projected out.  Yet, with each blessing we give our brother, instead of judgment, we take a step in the direction of truly seeing who he is and thus seeing our own sinlessness.

Why do we not know the truth about ourselves now? Because we have chained ourselves to our specialness. In other words we are hostage to the ego rather than host to God. We are hostage to our obsessive thoughts, to control, to holding grievances. Specialness seems like a good thing in our world. But the course takes a different perspective on it. In the course, specialness is always undertaken at the expense of someone else. It is not only to set ourselves apart but to set ourselves above someone else. It is winning at someone's expense. It is a thought system of one or the other. That is the thought system that seemed to buy our self identity by annihilating God. It is a thought system of taking at the expense of the other. By honoring our brothers we see our equality and with each joining with a brother we heal the separation. And with each healing opportunity we reclaim the Oneness of our Being as we were created.

So today our way to God is through extending love, blessings and yes, honor to our brothers. We give them the appreciation they deserve because of who they are in their creation. At the core of our identity and that of all of our brothers is our divine innocence. If you believed this about all of your brothers would you not give them honor and appreciation? It is  love of a brother for a brother in recognition of our sameness and the recognition of our common Father God. To love God is to love our brother. Thus, when we devote a day to God, we are devoting it to our brothers.  When we give a day committed to forgiveness which is a reflection of God's Love, then we can experience the  peace, joy, patience, gentleness, contentment which is our inheritance.  Our self absorption with our problems keeps us from extending love to our brothers. Today we set a goal to make space for that honor and blessing to extend through us. Set your intention to give this day to God. And whenever fear thoughts come up, allow them to be released reminding yourself that Love is your goal today and thus "Let me not fear"

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Twenty Five
The Remedy

X. The Justice of Heaven

78 What can it be but arrogance to think your little errors cannot be undone by Heaven's justice? And what could this mean except that they are sins and not mistakes, forever uncorrectable, and to be met with vengeance not with justice? Are you willing to be released from all effects of sin? You cannot answer this until you see all that the answer must entail. For if you answer "yes," it means you will forego all values of this world in favor of the peace of Heaven. Not one sin would you retain. And not one doubt that this is possible will you hold dear that sin be kept in place. You mean that truth has greater value now than all illusions. And you recognize that truth must be revealed to you because you know not what it is.

79 To give reluctantly is not to gain the gift because you are reluctant to accept it. It is saved for you until reluctance to receive it disappears, and you are willing it be given you. God's justice warrants gratitude, not fear. Nothing you give is lost to you or anyone, but cherished and preserved in Heaven, where all of the treasures given to God's Son are kept for him and offered anyone who but holds out his hand in willingness they be received. Nor is the treasure less as it is given out. Each gift but adds to the supply. For God is fair. He does not fight against His Son's reluctance to perceive salvation as a gift from Him. Yet would His justice not be satisfied until it is received by everyone.

80 Be certain any answer to a problem the Holy Spirit solves will always be one in which no one loses. And this must be true because He asks no sacrifice of anyone. An answer which demands the slightest loss to anyone has not resolved the problem but has added to it and made it greater, harder to resolve, and more unfair. It is impossible the Holy Spirit could see unfairness as a resolution. To Him, what is unfair must be corrected because it is unfair. And every error is a perception in which one at least is seen unfairly. Thus is justice not accorded to the Son of God. When anyone is seen as losing, he has been condemned. And punishment becomes his due instead of justice.

81 The sight of innocence makes punishment impossible and justice sure. The Holy Spirit's perception leaves no ground for an attack. Only a loss could justify attack, and loss of any kind He cannot see. The world solves problems in another way. It sees a resolution as a state in which it is decided who shall win and who shall lose-how much the one shall take and how much can the loser still defend.

82 Yet does the problem still remain unsolved, for only justice can set up a state in which there is no loser, no one left unfairly treated and deprived, and thus with grounds for vengeance. Problem solving cannot be vengeance, which at best can bring another problem added to the first, in which the murder is not obvious. The Holy Spirit's problem solving is the way in which the problem ends. It has been solved because it has been met with justice. Until it has, it will recur because it has not yet been solved. The principle that justice means no one can lose is crucial to this course. For miracles depend on justice. Not as it is seen through this world's eyes, but as God knows it, and as knowledge is reflected in the sight the Holy Spirit gives.

83 No one deserves to lose. And what would be unjust to him cannot occur. Healing must be for everyone because he does not merit an attack of any kind. What order can there be in miracles, unless someone deserves to suffer more and others less? And is this justice to the wholly innocent? A miracle is justice. It is not a special gift to some to be withheld from others as less worthy, more condemned, and thus apart from healing. Who is there who can be separate from salvation if its purpose is the end of specialness? Where is salvation's justice if some errors are unforgivable and warrant vengeance in place of healing and return of peace?

84 Salvation cannot seek to help God's Son be more unfair than he has sought to be. If miracles, the Holy Spirit's gift, were given specially to an elect and special group and kept apart from others as less deserving, then is He ally to specialness. What He cannot perceive He bears no witness to. And everyone is equally entitled to His gift of healing and deliverance and peace. To give a problem to the Holy Spirit to solve for you means that you want it solved. To keep it for yourself to solve without His help is to decide it should remain unsettled, unresolved, and lasting in its power of injustice and attack. No one can be unjust to you, unless you have decided first to be unjust. And then must problems rise to block your way and peace be scattered by the winds of hate.

85 Unless you think that all your brothers have an equal right to miracles with you, you will not claim your right to them because you were unjust to one with equal rights. Seek to deny, and you will feel denied. Seek to deprive, and you have been deprived. A miracle can never be received because another could receive it not. Only forgiveness offers miracles. And pardon must be just to everyone.

86 The little problems that you keep and hide become your secret sins because you did not choose to let them be removed for you. And so they gather dust and grow until they cover everything that you perceive and leave you fair to no one. Not one right do you believe you have. And bitterness, with vengeance justified and mercy lost, condemns you as unworthy of forgiveness. The unforgiven have no mercy to bestow upon another. That is why your sole responsibility must be to take forgiveness for yourself. The miracle that you receive you give. Each one becomes an illustration of the law on which salvation rests-that justice must be done to all if anyone is to be healed. No one can lose, and everyone must benefit.

87 Each miracle is an example of what justice can accomplish when it is offered to everyone alike. It is received and given equally. It is awareness that giving and receiving are the same. Because it does not make the same unlike, it sees no differences where none exist. And thus it is the same for everyone because it sees no differences in them. Its offering is universal, and it teaches but one message:

88 What is God's belongs to everyone and is his due.

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