A Course In Miracles – San Jose Karl J Vidt, ACIM Student/Teacher

ACIM T-18.I The Substitute Reality

August 1, 2017

Truth is within us.  Truth has never left us.  The solution to all that appears wrong is within us.  All that is real and true is and has always been within us for it is inherent in our creation.  Anything less is a result of our mistaken idea that we are somehow separate from truth and reality.  The idea that we are separate from each other, God, Spirit and all of creation is a mistaken idea that our egoic thought system made to give us an identity based in our past rather than the reality of who we really are in the present moment.  When we project our past on the present, we block our awareness of the present and thus think we are our past.  The past is done, it is over.  We need not remain attached to it and allow it to block our awareness of our divine nature.

The world sometimes seems insane.  It seems to control us rather than we control it.  When we project our perceptions of the past on the world, we see our projections rather than reality.  Our free will gives us the option to see projection or reality.  What we see depends solely on what we align our thought system with.  We have become so accustomed to aligning our thought system with the idea of separation and identifying with our past that we don’t see that anything else is possible.  Something better is possible.  It simply takes a willingness to believe that something else is possible to begin to awaken to that something better.  And, that something better is within us rather than outside us where we have been searching for so long.

Let them all go, dancing in the wind, dipping and turning till they disappear from sight, far, far outside of you.  And turn you to the stately calm within, where in holy stillness dwells the living One you never left, and Who never left you.  The Holy Spirit takes you gently by the hand, and retraces with you your mad journey outside yourself, leading you gently back to the truth and safety within.  Spirit brings all your insane projections and the wild substitutions that you have placed outside you to the truth.  Thus Spirit reverses the course of insanity and restores you to reason.   T-18.I.8:1-5

Our relationships are where we restore the awareness of wholeness, truth and reality to our minds.  The process of this restoration is healing.  We need not do the healing alone, but allow the Spirit within us to guide us in this healing.  This healing is not so much an act of changing the one we are in relationship with, but seeing them as they truly are, a Holy Child of God.  This one need not change at all, but we allow our perception of them to be changed by Spirit to truth, seeing them as the divine being they are created.  The world we see will change as Spirit teaches us to let go of our attachment to projecting our past on the present.  The result is truly miraculous as Heaven is restored to all the One Holy Child as we join with each other in Oneness.  The universe within us stands with us, together with our brothers and sisters.  And Heaven looks with love on what is joined in it, along with its Creator.

You have been called, together with your sisters and brothers, to the most holy function this world contains.  It is the only one that has no limits, and reaches out to every broken fragment of the Oneship with healing and uniting comfort.  This is offered you, in your holy relationship.  Accept it here, and you will give as you have accepted.  The peace of God is given you with the glowing purpose in which you join with each other.  The holy light that brought you and them together must extend, as you accepted it.   T-18. I.13:1-6

Make the choice today to no longer align with a substitute reality based in your past. Release your past and allow Spirit to guide you in the holy purpose of your relationships to their healing.  Allow your mind to be in the present and align with Spirit’s guidance.  Allow your relationships to align with their divine function.  Allow yourself to align with Oneness and rediscover the awareness of all you really are.  Peace is rediscovered in this shift and Heaven rises in your awareness, having always been within you.  Look within and discover all you have been seeking has always been within you.

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