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

ACIM T-20.III Sin As An Adjustment

June 12, 2018

Through the lens of separation, we perceive our relationships adjusted from their true meaning. The belief in the idea of separation adjusts our relationships to appear “special” – meaning not holy. All our relationships are holy in reality. It is only in this “adjusted” world that they appear “special.” Are we not tired of relationships that seem to attack, produce guilt or appear dysfunctional in any way? We have made this misperception, this adjustment, through our alignment with our own egoic thought system. Believing this adjusted perception is real blocks our awareness of the true nature of our relationships. We have made our relationships appear to be something they are not, nor have they ever been in reality. This adjusted world and this adjusted relationship is merely a puff of madness in a moment of mistaken thinking in separation.

Does one ask judgment of what is totally bereft of judgment? And if you have, would you believe the answer, and adjust to it as if it were the truth? The world you look on is the answer that it gave you, and you have given it power to adjust the world to make its answer true. You asked this puff of madness for the meaning of your unholy relationship and adjusted it according to its insane answer. How happy did it make you? Did you meet your friend with joy to bless the One Child of God, and give them thanks for all the happiness that they held out to you? Did you recognize your friend as the eternal gift of God to you? Did you see the holiness that shone in both you and your friend, to bless the other? That is the purpose of your holy relationship. Ask not the means of its attainment of the one thing that still would have it be unholy. Give it no power to adjust the means and end.   T-20.III.8:1-11

Reach out to your friend and offer them freedom from this adjusted world. Offer them the freedom you so crave. We may not recognize it at once, for we are so aligned with the world we made up, we find the freedom of the real world frightening and even daunting. It seems so strange to us, yet somehow familiar. Allow yourself the time to adjust again. We can adjust again to the real world, the holy world – to real relationships, holy relationships. Spirit will guide us in the healing and transformation of our relationships into their natural state. Give it time. This is the holy purpose of time. The miracle of healing our relationships brings the real world without our adjustments to light. The light within us is shining on the real world within us. Remove the shutters on your inner light and let it illuminate the real world around you.

Your gift unto your friend has given me the certainty our union will be soon. Share, then, this faith with me, and know that it is justified. There is no fear in perfect love because it knows no sin, and it must look on others as on itself. Looking with charity within, what can it fear without? The innocent see safety, and the pure in heart see Source within Us, and look unto Us to lead them to Source. And where else would they go but where they will to be? You and your friend now will lead the other to Source as surely as Source created Us holy, and kept us so. In your friend is the light of Source’s eternal promise of your immortality. See them as sinless, and there can be no fear in you.   T-20.III.11:1-9

Set your friend free – and yourself, too. The prison of separation is merely a distortion and an adjustment to freedom. Freedom is our truth. Holiness is our truth. Completeness and wholeness is our truth. Offer your friend the gift of forgiveness and healing; release from the adjustment of sin and misperception. Wholeness is waiting to take its place. Love and peace are already welling up within us. Make your choice today and set the world free.

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