September 11, 2012
Atonement is an awareness that all minds are one with the One Mind, the Mind of God. This is our natural state of mind. Our journey in this world of perceived separation is a journey in perception back to the awareness of who we really are, an inseparable element of the Whole. Our Creator has provided us with all the assistance we need to make this journey easier if we are willing to let ourselves be guided in correcting the errors in perception we have made along our way. Our judgment and decision making has been clouded by our perception mistakes and those mistakes have led to more mistakes in our perception. The mistakes are merely perceptive ones and therefore have no substance. But they do keep us from being aware of our divinity and the Truth about who we really are.
We have been given a guide to lead us back to the awareness of who we really are. We have also been given the choice as to whether or not we listen to and accept the guidance of this guide. The guide appears in many forms. It is the narrator, seen as Jesus by Helen, the scribe of the Course. It is the Holy Spirit, the Voice for God, the Comforter, the eyes of Spirit or Vision. It is also seen in each other as the Christ within or the Sonship. At any point in our journey all these forms of this guide are with us, presenting us with choices, waiting for us to ask for direction in anything we think or do.
Miracles bring about and right us on our journey to Atonement and the awareness of who we really are. Miracles are directed by our guide. The opportunities are presented to us and when we are willing we act on them. We may make mistakes in even this along the way. But our guide is with us to filter out the mistakes we make, as we try. In this way these miracles bring the highest benefit to any one or more of us. We may or may not see the effect in the world of any particular miracle we perform, but we will be changed by it. We do the miracle to ourselves and our guide. Its effect in others is divinely guided by Spirit. We need not fear that we may make an error if we release it to our guide.
Though we have forgotten our True Identity for this short while, we have never left it. We have only lost our awareness of it. We are relearning to connect with Spirit. The Course tells us to remember the following:
Spirit is in a state of grace forever.
Our reality is only Spirit.
Therefore we are in a state of grace forever.
Remembering this in all we do will make obvious the right choice, making it inevitable. In recognizing this Truth we release each other and thus ourselves from all the limitations we have placed on each other in our self perceived world. Let the transformation come about in your mind and Heave ad earth will no longer appear separate. We will perceive and see Heaven on earth as we allow it to be so.
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