May 10, 2011
The Course cautions us to beware of the temptation to perceive ourselves as unfairly treated. “What?” you may say! The attempt to seek a false innocence is a slippery slope in our perception of ourselves. And this false innocence draws a veil between our perception and awareness of our True Innocence. If we believe we can be unfairly treated, it follows that someone can treat us unfairly. And, if we are One, we treat ourselves unfairly. Why would we ever want to do that? As with all mistaken ideas, if we see ourselves unfairly treated, we will be, and so we treat each other so. What could be more unjust than this?
The innocence of the One is deep within us. God placed it there at our creation. We cannot change it, we cannot get rid of it, and we cannot destroy it. We can only ignore it or cover it up to hide it from our consciousness. It is there within us, hidden only by a thin veil of unawareness in our mind. That same veil obscures the innocence of another as we look to them and fail to see our own innocence shining forth from them. Here in this one is the key to our healing. Here in this relationship will justice replace all ideas of injustice.
Let us begin to let ourselves see that reality is just and that there is no injustice in the real world. For if there is only Love, how could there possibly be injustice? Any unfairness, attack, or defense we see is merely an indication that we have lost sight of Love where all that is real is Just and all else is a mistaken thought, unreal and powerless. We have become so attached to our false innocence and being unfairly treated that we have forgotten what Love feels like.
And so because we have seen any injustice at all, we have seen the world become dim and threatening, blocking all traces of the light They bring. Now, the Holy Spirit has brought injustice to the light within us, displacing any idea of unfairness with the light of justice and love. And so we now see Their Presence shining within us and each other. And in that light, all injustice fades away. All that is not real vanishes. And the awareness of who we really are washes over and through us, cleansing us of all our thoughts of injustice. Thus is the end of injustice ours.
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