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A COURSE IN MIRACLES
CH 23 "THE WAR AGAINST YOURSELF"
V. "THE FEAR OF LIFE"

The fear of God is fear of life and not of death. Yet He remains the only place of safety. In Him is no attack, and no illusion in any form stalks Heaven. Heaven is wholly true. No difference enters, and what is all the same cannot conflict. You are not asked to fight against your wish to murder. But you are asked to realize the form it takes conceals the same intent. And it is this you fear and not the form. What is not love is murder. What is not loving must be an attack. Every illusion is an assault on truth, and every one does violence to the idea of love because it seems to be of equal truth.

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   Sin is insanity. It is the means
   by which the mind is driven mad, and seeks
   to let illusions take the place of truth.
   And being mad, it sees illusions where
   the truth should be, and where it really is.
   Sin gave the body eyes, for what is there
   the sinless would behold? What need have they
   of sights or sounds or touch? What would they hear
   or reach to touch? What would they sense at all?
   To sense is not to know. And truth can be
   but filled with knowledge, and with nothing else.
 
   The body is the instrument the mind
   made in its striving to deceive itself.
   Its purpose is to strive. Yet can the goal
   of striving change. And now the body serves
   a different aim for striving. What it seeks
   for now is chosen by the aim the mind
   has taken as replacement for the goal
   of self-deception. Truth can be its aim
   as well as lies. The senses then will seek
   instead the witnesses to what is true.
 
   Sin is the home of all illusions, which
   but stand for things imagined, issuing
   from thoughts which are untrue. They are the "proof"
   that what has no reality is real.
   Sin "proves" God's Son is evil; timelessness
   must have an end; Eternal Life must die.
   And God Himself has lost the Son He loves,
   with but corruption to complete Himself,
   His Will forever overcome by death,
   love slain by hate, and peace to be no more.
 
   A madman's dreams are frightening, and sin
   appears indeed to terrify. And yet
   what sin perceives is but a childish game.
   The Son of God may play be has become
   a body, prey to evil and to guilt,
   with but a little life that ends in death.
   But all the while his Father shines on him,
   and loves him with an Everlasting Love
   which his pretenses cannot change at all.
 
   How long, oh Son of God, would you maintain
   the game of sin? Shall we not put away
   these sharp-edged children's toys? How soon will you
   be ready to come home? Perhaps today?
   There is no sin. Creation is unchanged.
   Would you still hold return to Heaven back?
   How long, oh holy Son of God, how long?
 
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This day I choose to spend in perfect peace.
      
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   It does not seem to me that I can choose   
   to have but peace today. And yet my God 
   assures me that His Son is like Himself.
   Let me this day have faith in Him Who says
   I am God's Son. And let the peace I choose
   be mine today bear witness to the truth
   of what He says. God's Son can have no cares,
   and must remain forever in the peace
   of Heaven. In his Name I give today
   to finding what my Father wills for me,
   accepting it as mine, and giving it
   to all my Father's Sons, along with me.
 
    And so, my Father, would I pass this day
    with You. Your Son has not forgotten You.
    The peace You gave him still is in his mind,
    and it is there I choose to spend today.

  
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This day I choose to spend in perfect peace. 

Sarah's Commentary:


This is a day we commit to spend in perfect peace. How do we choose peace in the midst of what appears to be a disruption, which puts our minds into turmoil? Precisely in times like these, I remind myself that everything that seems to happen to me I have chosen at some level. It is what I want. I am reminded I rule my mind and whatever seems to be happening is what I have asked for. I am not a victim of the world I see, and it can all be seen as helpful to our learning, when given to the Holy Spirit for His interpretation. If someone seems to be attacking me today, it can be a perfect opportunity for me to look at my own anger and recognize how it is interfering with the peace God assures me is mine because I am like Him.

We read in Chapter 21, "Responsibility for Sight," we are responsible for what we see, the feelings we experience, the goal we would achieve, "And everything that seems to happen to me I ask for, and receive as I have asked." (T.21.II.2.5)(ACIM OE T.21.III.15) In other words, our minds are the cause and the world and everything we experience is just the effect, not the other way around. Salvation is available to us through our decision to choose how we will look at the events that show up in our lives. It is a question of whether we will turn to the ego for its interpretation or look to the Holy Spirit for His help in how to see every situation in our lives. Everything that happens truly is a choice at some level. It is either the script for our lives determined by the mind before we showed up here, or as a result of our current response to people and events in this dream. We are reminded there are no accidents and nothing happens by chance.

We had a lovely encounter yesterday while walking down the street in Vancouver and meeting up with a friend from Indiana. We had no idea that he was visiting here. We turned a corner and there he was. It was so beautifully orchestrated by Holy Spirit. We were meant to meet and enjoy an amazing encounter with this lovely being.

When we make a decision to use every situation as simply another opportunity to release grievances and choose healing, we open up more and more to the peace within us. When we fully accept that we want peace, we will use everything in the world that comes our way as an opportunity for healing our misperceptions. We turn over the way we typically think about what is happening 'out there' and we ask for help to see it differently. It is when we are motivated to get in touch with the peace that is within us we will ask for help to see everyone through the eyes of Christ.

Just because I believe what I am seeing in the world is true doesn't make it real. What is true and real is we are all innocent no matter what we may believe to the contrary. What is true and what we can depend on is the Holy Spirit has given us a doorway out of every situation. Everything we experience in the world is an opportunity to change our perception through forgiveness and to experience the miracle. What is true and real is the peace that does not come from external situations, but is already in my mind, and if I am not experiencing it, I am choosing against it.

I recently watched a movie called "The Words." The movie illustrated the idea that there are consequences for all of our decisions. The character in the movie acted out of integrity, stealing a manuscript written by someone else and pretending it was his own. It became a best seller. When he was confronted by the real author, the guilt and remorse he felt were overwhelming. He wanted to fix the problem and correct this situation, but it was impossible because the implications for the publishers were too dire. He had to live with what he had done. Rather than recognizing his innocence, which is something innate in us, he chose to live with the guilt and as a result he became a bitter and angry man. He crucified himself, when redemption was available to him as it is for all of us. The ego approves of us crucifying ourselves for what we have done. It considers this holy. It tells us we must atone for our 'sins' and this takes time. Yet peace is available to us now. There is no need for atonement. To accept atonement for ourselves, as described in the Course, is to accept our innocence now. Innocence is simply waiting for our acceptance. We block it when we believe our guilt is too big to accept the peace within us now.

I am God's Son, with all the attributes of God. Peace is an attribute of God and my Identity rests in Him. It is only my own thoughts and beliefs about my reality, as separate from God, that are blocking peace from my awareness. As I let go of my grievances, my expectations, my plans, my guilt, my fears, and my belief that something should be different than it is, I can go to that place in my mind where peace has never left, because it is already in my mind. It is not something I have to go looking for. I only have to be willing to bring to light everything that stands in the way of that quiet place within.

When things seem to be going wrong, the ego quickly looks for the guilty and wants to blame others. Yes, it does seem as though someone has done something wrong because there are many mistakes made by our brothers daily. It is not about what someone else is doing, but our interpretation of their behaviors disrupts our peace. We are tempted to listen to the ego's judgmental interpretation of the situation rather than see it as a call for love. We seem to be the victim of the situation. As we read in Chapter 21 "The Function of Reason", "Deceive yourself no longer that you are helpless in the face of what is done to you." (T.21.II.2.6) (ACIM OE T.21. III.16) "Listen to what the ego says, and see what it directs you see and it is sure that you will see yourself as tiny, vulnerable and afraid. You will experience depression, a sense of worthlessness, and feelings of impermanence and unreality. You will believe that you are helpless prey to forces far beyond your own control and far more powerful than you. And you will think the world you made directs your destiny."
(T.21.V.2.3-6)(ACIM OE T.21.VI.50)


What makes forgiveness seem hard for us? First and foremost it is our unwillingness to take responsibility for our anger, our upsets, our frustrations, and our lack of peace. We are eager to justify those feelings. We make up stories to support what we are feeling and often try to find allies who will support our positions. Secondly it is our belief we can handle our feelings of distress by solving the problem "out there," by fixing things we don't like. We try to fix problems in the world where they will never be fixed, and left to our own devices, we will always lack certainty about what to do. Finally, it is our fear that if we don't do it ourselves, it may be handled in a way that we don't like, where we won't have the control. And the ego is all about control. That is its whole purpose. Yet the miracle that comes from turning all of these thoughts and fears over to the Holy Spirit blesses everyone. Despite the fact that I have experienced this time and time again, I still find myself listening to the ego that does not know anything. Every time I come to this juncture, I wonder, can I really just trust God once again to lead the way?

There is such sweet release in turning to Him and just letting go. It is just a matter of our decision to do so. and that decision is within my power, and only mine, to make. I can simply look at my lack of peace in any situation and ask for help so this becomes a habitual response. I just need to take this step in faith---the faith I can just accept what is already mine, and "I could see peace instead of this." (W.34)

We have misplaced our faith in the illusion, making it real in our minds. We have made ourselves small and helpless victims of the world, forgetting the power we have. Truly, nothing in the world can stand in the way of our faith. The power of our faith is everything. Jesus asks us, "Why is it strange to you that faith can move mountains?"(T.21.III.3)(ACIM OE T.21.IV.31) Our misdirected faith has done something even more awesome than being able to move mountains. It has actually bound the omnipotent Son of God in chains. That is what we have done to limit the unlimited power of the Son of God. We have placed self-imposed chains on our own omnipotence, and now we can make another choice.
 
Yesterday, we were once again reminded of the 9/11 crisis and many other situations in the world where wars ensue, storms and earthquakes take towns and cities down like little match stick boxes, and famine strikes. It reminds us of the vulnerability of our human condition, which indeed would be vulnerable if our reality were a body, and if the powerful forces of nature and violence were the truth of our situation. Our fears come from the belief that we really are these vulnerable creatures inhabiting a hostile world of other vulnerable creatures trying to survive against great odds and finally giving it all over to death. That is why Jesus recognizes our perspective, "It does not seem to me that I can chose to have peace today." (W.255.1.1) He knows we always see the world and relationships impinging on us. Events in this world, as well as those in our lives, clearly do seem to make peace difficult for us.
 
Yet Jesus says nothing can take away the peace our Father has already given us in our creation, not earthquakes, not storms, not attacks or assaults of any kind. Our reality is not a body, and the world is nothing more than an illusion, which will not last. Our thoughts of lack, our feelings of unworthiness, our guilt and fear, the appearance of the world attacking us, even our bodies themselves--all of them are illusions, mirages, symbols representing nothing. And sin is our belief in this separated state. It is our belief, we are alone in this world struggling for our survival and for bits of happiness before death claims us.

We say we want peace, but we want to be right about the way we see ourselves and the world. We say we want peace, but we are actually justifying our reasons for holding onto grievances. We stubbornly persist in listening to our own counsel. While these thoughts offered in the Course are new and, yes, even threatening to the way we see things now, the choice we make in practicing them is our way out of this illusion and our way back to our reality as the eternal, holy Self. It is a step by step process and it is ultimately practical. We are not being hurled into Heaven.

In the Lessons of the Holy Spirit, Jesus teaches, "To have peace, teach peace to learn it." (T.6.V.B)(ACIM OE T.6.V.b) Today is a day to learn peace by sharing it with others through forgiveness. If we choose not to release our brothers from our projections, we are not releasing ourselves to experience the peace within us. It is all up to us!
 
Love and blessings, Sarah
  
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Chapter Twenty-Three 

V. The Fear of Life  

47 The fear of God is fear of life and not of death. Yet He remains the only place of safety. In Him is no attack, and no illusion in any form stalks Heaven. Heaven is wholly true. No difference enters, and what is all the same cannot conflict. You are not asked to fight against your wish to murder. But you are asked to realize the form it takes conceals the same intent. And it is this you fear and not the form. What is not love is murder. What is not loving must be an attack. Every illusion is an assault on truth, and every one does violence to the idea of love because it seems to be of equal truth.
 
48 What can be equal to the truth yet different? Murder and love are incompatible. Yet if they both are true, then must they be the same and indistinguishable from one another. So will they be to those who see God's Son a body. For it is not the body that is like the Son's Creator. And what is lifeless cannot be the Son of Life. How can a body be extended to hold the universe? Can it create and be what it creates? And can it offer its creations all that it is and never suffer loss?
 
49 God does not share His function with a body. He gave the function to create unto His Son because it is His own. It is not sinful to believe the function of the Son is murder, but it is insanity. What is the same can have no different function. Creation is the means for God's extension, and what is His must be His Son's as well. Either the Father and the Son are murderers or neither is. Life makes not death, creating like itself.
 
50 The lovely light of your relationship is like the love of God. It cannot yet assume the holy function God gave His Son, for your forgiveness of one another is not complete as yet, and so it cannot be extended to all creation. Each form of murder and attack that still attracts you and that you do not recognize for what it is limits the healing and the miracles you have the power to extend to all. Yet does the Holy Spirit understand how to increase your little gifts and make them mighty. Also He understands how your relationship is raised above the battleground, in it no more. This is your part-to realize that murder in any form is not your will. The overlooking of the battleground is now your purpose.
 
51 Be lifted up and from a higher place look down upon it. From there will your perspective be quite different. Here in the midst of it, it does seem real. Here you have chosen to be part of it. Here murder is your choice. Yet from above, the choice is miracles instead of murder. And the perspective coming from this choice shows you the battle is not real and easily escaped. Bodies may battle, but the clash of forms is meaningless. And it is over when you realize it never was begun. How can a battle be perceived as nothingness when you engage in it? How can the truth of miracles be recognized if murder is your choice?
 
52 When the temptation to attack rises to make your mind darkened and murderous, remember you can see the battle from above. Even in forms you do not recognize, the signs you know. There is a stab of pain, a twinge of guilt, and above all, a loss of peace. This you know well. When it occurs, leave not your place on high but quickly choose a miracle instead of murder. And God Himself and all the lights of Heaven will gently lean to you and hold you up. For you have chosen to remain where He would have you, and no illusion can attack the peace of God together with His Son.
 
53 See no one from the battleground, for there you look on him from nowhere. You have no reference-point from where to look, where meaning can be given what you see. For only bodies could attack and murder, and if this is your purpose, then you must be one with them. Only a purpose unifies, and those who share a purpose have a mind as one. The body has no purpose and must be solitary. From below, it cannot be surmounted. From above, the limits it exerts on those in battle still are gone and not perceived. The body stands between the Father and the Heaven He created for His Son because it has no purpose.
 
54 Think what is given those who share their Father's purpose and who know that it is theirs! They want for nothing. Sorrow of any kind is inconceivable. Only the light they love is in awareness, and only love shines upon them forever. It is their past, their present, and their future always the same, eternally complete, and wholly shared. They know it is impossible their happiness could ever suffer change of any kind. Perhaps you think the battleground can offer something that you can win. Can it be anything that offers you a perfect calmness and a sense of love so deep and quiet that no touch of doubt can ever mar your certainty? And that will last forever?
 
55 Those with the strength of God in their awareness could never think of battle. What could they gain but loss of their perfection? For everything fought for on the battleground is of the body-something it seems to offer or to own. No one who knows that he has everything could seek for limitation, nor could he value the body's offerings. The senselessness of conquest is quite apparent from the quiet sphere above the battleground. What can conflict with everything? And what is there that offers less, yet could be wanted more? Who with the love of God upholding him could find the choice of miracles or murder hard to make?

 

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