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

ACIM T-23.Introduction

March 19, 2019

War, which is attack, requires an enemy – or at least the belief that there is an enemy. Innocence and sinlessness are strength. Nothing else is strong. Our egoic thought system may think it is strong, but it uses the appearance of strength to cover the frailty and weakness of unreality. Likewise, no one is strong who has an enemy, and no one can attack unless they think they have enemies. Belief in enemies is therefore the belief in weakness, and what is weak is not real and thus not our true Will. Anything opposed to reality is seen as our “enemy” and must be feared.

This war against ourselves is very strange! We will believe that everything we use for separation can hurt us and become our enemy. We will fight against it and try to weaken it because of this; and we will think that we succeeded and attack again. It is certain we will fear what we attack as it is sure that we will love what we perceive as sinless. We walk in peace as we travel sinlessly along the way love shows us. For love walks with us there, protecting us from fear. We will see only the sinless, who cannot attack.

Walk you in glory, with your head held high, and fear no evil. The innocent are safe because they share their innocence. Nothing they see is harmful, for their awareness of the truth releases everything from the illusion of harmfulness. And what seemed harmful now stands shining in their innocence, released from sin and fear and happily returned to love. They share the strength of love because they looked on innocence. And every error disappeared because they saw it not. Who looks for glory finds it where it is. Where could it be but in the innocent?   T-23.in.3:1-8

Do not allow the little and the unreal to pull you away from strength to littleness and weakness. Think what a happy world we walk now, with truth beside us! Do not give up this world of freedom for anything less no matter how attractive it may appear. Would you, for all these meaningless distractions, lay Heaven aside? No! Our destiny and purpose are far beyond these meaningless distractions, in the place where littleness does not exist. Our true purpose is not with littleness of any kind.

Nothing around you but is part of you. Look on it lovingly, and see the light of Heaven in it. So will you come to understand all that is given you. In kind forgiveness will the world sparkle and shine, and everything you once thought sinful now will be reinterpreted as part of Heaven. How beautiful it is to walk, clean and redeemed and happy, through a world in bitter need of the redemption that your innocence bestows upon it! What can you value more than this? For here is your salvation and your freedom. And it must be complete if you would recognize it.   T-23.in.6:1-8

Release the littleness you have held so close. It can only result in an inner was with yourself – insanity. You are strong. You have the strength of the whole universe in the Oneness you are. We share this strength in our connectedness. We are joined with each other and all creation in Oneness. And there is nothing that can possibly take this reality away from us. Join into communion with each other and find the reality you thought you lost. In this Oneness you walk in Heaven on earth, bringing to all their wholeness and freedom, peace and love.

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