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

ACIM T.25.II The Savior from the Dark

September 17, 2019 1:00 pm ⋅

September 17, 2019

We return to Section II this week. I am touched by the great love that is communicated in this passage. Our Creator’s magnificent creation is given us to show we are also our Creator’s magnificent creation. Our brother, our sister, the One we are with right now is our savior. Their purpose in this world is to show us our magnificence as our purpose is to show another their magnificence. It’s not so much to “show”, but to recognize. We are here to recognize the holiness in each other. We are here to recognize each other’s wholeness, completeness, limitlessness and purity. We are here to recognize who we really are by recognizing who another is. Our essence is light, love, peace and joy. The recognition is not physical or anything that can be seen with the body’s eyes. It is of the mind. It is beyond the appearance of the body.

The shift in our mind is reflected in our relationships. This is where we begin. We can choose to see those we are in relationship with differently. Once we decide to be willing to see holiness in another rather than their “sins”, we allow our mind to shift from the little separated mind we identified as “me” to the One Mind we all are. We allow the Grace of our Creator to flow within and through us as It joins us all in Oneness. As we allow this transformation to manifest within and around us, we open to the fullness of the magnificence of our true Self in Oneness. All that seemed to limit us and keep us captive suddenly releases us into the freedom of Oneness. We may – for a time – waffle in and out of this awareness, but we are learning to accept something heavenly about ourselves we had been denying all our lives.

Where do we begin? Forgiveness. Just a little willingness to forgive ourselves and each other. Forgiveness means we recognize another’s true nature – their holiness. Accepting that our true Self can’t be harmed in reality. This world is an opportunity to let go of the attack and suffering we decided was our plight and see differently, beginning to see the holiness and divine purpose in everything we see.

Forgive your friend, and you cannot separate yourself from them nor from their Creator. You need no forgiveness, for the wholly pure have never sinned. Give, then, what Source has given you, that you may see this One Child as one, and thank their Creator as the Creator thanks you. Nor believe that all the Creator’s praise is given not to you. For what you give is your Creator’s, and giving it, you learn to understand your Creator’s gift to you. And give the Holy Spirit what It offers unto the Creator and the One Child alike. Nothing has power over you except the Creator’s Will and yours, which but extends the Creator’s Will. It was for this you were created, and your friend with you and at one with you.   T-25.II.10:1-8

Open your eyes and ears, not your body’s, but your Spirit’s. Hear the ancient song that reminds you of who you are and always have been. Your holiness resonates here. There is no more doubt. We recognize who we really are as we recognize who our friend really is. The Great Rays of Light that radiate from all that is holy shine away any remaining darkness. Let the darkness go. And when we find ourselves in darkness again, turn to your friend again and allow the Great Rays to shine on the magnificence of who you and you friend really are. Heaven will be revealed in all the world as we allow it to be transformed in the awareness of who we really are.

Posted in: ACIM Ch. 25 – The Justice of God

ACIM T.25.II The Savior from the Dark

September 10, 2019 1:00 pm ⋅

September 10, 2019

There is another one who is in our life at any time who we are meant to connect with. There are probably many ones in our life filling this purpose. This one may be with us for some time or this one may be someone passing by on the street, in the mall or anywhere we may choose to be. These ones are our savior. These ones are the ones in whom we find holiness. Our egoic thought system sees these ones as separate. They may appear challenging or they may appear friendly and helpful. However, we tend to not look beyond the surface as we interact with them.  Our frame of reference is usually determined and viewed through the frame of egoic perception. If we only look at this surface perception we miss the one that lies just beyond our view. There is something deeper. There is something different. There is something there for us to see and share. This one is holy beyond that surface appearance we think we see. Without looking deeper and beyond appearances, we see merely a frame, a shell, that is a distortion of the reality of this one. There is another frame of reference that we are given in which to see this One as they really are.

Accept the One’s frame instead of yours, and you will see the masterpiece. Look at its loveliness, and understand the Mind that thought it, not in flesh and bones, but in a frame as lovely as itself. Its holiness lights up the sinlessness the frame of darkness hides, and casts a veil of light across the picture’s face which but reflects the light that shines from it to its Creator. Think not this face was ever darkened because you saw it in a frame of death. The One kept it safe that you might look on it, and see the holiness that the One has given it.   T-25.II.7:1-5

What we are seeing may be dark. It may seem to be nothing but darkness. But, within the darkness we see the savior from the dark, and understand our friend as their Creator’s Mind showing them to us. They will step from darkness as we look on them, and we will no longer see the dark. The darkness never touched them. And likewise the dark never toughed us. Their holiness mirrors ours. Their gentleness becomes our strength, and both of us look within, and see the holiness that is there. This one is the frame in which our holiness is set, for what our Creator gave them must have been given us. What matters is not what this one sees in us, but what we see in them. In this seeing is our vision shared. We look on the Christ in us instead of seeing darkness.

Salvation is the seeing of holiness within another and then recognizing it is also our own holiness. As we allow this shift in vision to change our mind, we see the holiness we share. Each and every one of us share this holiness in Oneness. We are holiness. We are light. Our light continues to shine whether we recognize it or not. It is our own holiness that shines forth from what appears to be darkness. It is the light we are and the light we share with each other. We have been seeking this light outside each other all this time when it was right there within us. We have not harmed ourselves by denying this light. We simply blocked our awareness of who we really are. Anytime we wish we can let that light shine again.

You and this one are the same, as the One is One and not divided in Their Will. And you must have one purpose, since the One gave the same to both of you. The One’s Will is brought together as you join in will, that you be made complete by offering completion to this one. See not in them the sinfulness they see, but give them honor that you may esteem yourself and them. To you and this one is given the power of salvation, that escape from darkness into light be yours to share; that you may see as one what never has been separate, nor apart from all the One’s Love as given equally.   T-25.II.11:1-5

Look for the light in another. Look for holiness in another. Look beyond their appearance to the holiness and light beyond first glance. What we then see is not only another’s holiness but ours as well in our holy Oneness.

Posted in: ACIM Ch. 25 – The Justice of God

ACIM T.25.II The Savior from the Dark

September 3, 2019 1:00 pm ⋅

September 3, 2019

Very often, we try so hard in this life to make sense of who we are and the life we seem to be living. The challenges still come. We still feel fear at times. Yes, there are good moments and good times. We find happiness and then it can seem to slip away again. We ask ourselves, “Why am I here?” Perhaps we should ask ourselves a different question, “Who am I, really?” Our identity is beyond this world of form. Our identity is beyond this body we appear to inhabit. We are created by a loving, infinite and eternal Creator in that One’s image. Therefore, we must be loving, infinite and eternal. Perhaps we are seeing incorrectly.

This chapter has been teaching about the appearances we think are real. The Course teaches us the things we think we see are perceptions and thus not real. Yet, it all appears very real to us. We look for hope in what we see in this world. But, are we seeing truth or non-truths? I can say that we have seen hope. There is hopefulness in our minds even when we don’t fully understand what that hopefulness is and where it comes from. We look at each other and see first the outer trappings; the appearance of the body and the actions we take in this world. We are asked to see each other differently. The appearance we see is like a frame. If we only look at the frame and its appearance – whether beautiful or ugly – that’s all we seem to see. The frame is not what’s real. The magnificent creation is the work of art. Its beauty surpasses anything we can do to make the “frame” attractive. We are relying on our egoic thought system to show us what is real even when it is incapable of showing us reality. Can it make sense to hold the fixed belief that there is reason to uphold pursuit of what has always failed, on grounds that it will suddenly succeed and bring us the peace it has never brought before?

Its past has failed. Be glad that it is gone within your mind, to darken what is there. Take not the form for content, for the form is but a means for content. And the frame is but a means to hold the picture up, so that it can be seen. A frame that hides the picture has no purpose. It cannot be a frame if it is what you see. Without the picture is the frame without its meaning. Its purpose is to set the picture off, and not itself.   T-25.II.4:1-8

What do we benefit from hanging an empty frame on a wall and stand, deep in reverence, as if a masterpiece were there to see? When we see another as a body, this is what we do. The masterpiece that our Creator has set in this frame is all there is to see. The body frames it for a while, without obscuring it in any way. Yet what our Creator has created needs no frame. What the Creator has created is supported and framed within the Creator. This masterpiece is offered us to see. Would you rather see the frame instead of this and not see the picture at all? It is our choice.

It does not matter what we have been seeing in the past or what we see now. We always have the opportunity to choose again. Choose to see the light of holiness within each other. We are all truly the light of the world. Whether or not we see that light is our choice. Make that choice again now.

Posted in: ACIM Ch. 25 – The Justice of God

ACIM-T.25.I The Link toTruth

August 27, 2019 1:00 pm ⋅

August 27, 2019

Are you willing to see your own holiness? We must change our minds to begin to look at ourselves and others differently. Our perception is the means by which we see ourselves and each other and this world as long as we believe we are separate. Our perception is guided by what we believe we are at any given moment. When we believe ourselves to be a body, we see separation and a temporary world which ends ultimately in death. What is holy about this? We have denied our holy Creation in the image the One through holiness. Believing we are a body we deny our own holiness. How can we begin to recognize the Christ in us, or in another, when we deny our holiness?

Perception is a choice of what we want ourselves to be; the world we want to live in, and the state in which we think our mind will be content and satisfied. Perception chooses where we think our safety lies. It is our decision. It reveals who we believe we are to ourselves as we would have us be. It is always faithful to our perceived purpose, from which it never separates, nor gives the slightest witness to anything the perceived purpose in our mind does not support. Perception is a part of what it is our purpose to behold, for means and end are never separate. Thus we learn what seems to have a life apart has none.

You are the means for the One; not separate, nor with a life apart from the One’s. The One’s life is manifest in you who are It’s Creation. Each aspect of the Created is framed in holiness and perfect purity, in love celestial and so complete it wishes only that it may release all that it looks upon unto itself. Its radiance shines through each body that it looks upon, and brushes all its darkness into light merely by looking past it to the light. The veil is lifted through its gentleness, and nothing hides the face of Christ from its beholders. You and your friend stand before the Christ in you  now, to let the Christ in you draw aside the veil that seems to keep you separate and apart.   T-25.I.4:1-10

We have a purpose even in this world of perception and separation. Because we perceive ourselves as separate, Heaven is presented to us as the link to truth. We need to find the connection that lifts us out of our belief we are a body and moves us to seeing ourselves as holy – as one with our Creator. The Holy Spirit has been given to us to guide our perception in correction, guiding us gently back to the awareness of who we really are. The recognition of our wholeness, completeness and holiness is a change in perception that can be so great and unbelievable that Spirit guides us in doable steps. This is the gift we are offered. It is our choice to accept this gift as we are willing, but it is our return home. The Holy Spirit serves Christ’s purpose in our mind, so that the aim of specialness can be corrected where the misperception lies. It is the Holy Spirit’s function to teach us how this oneness is experienced, what we must do that it can be experienced, and where we should go to do it.

All this takes note of time and place as if they were discrete, for while you think that part of you is separate, the concept of a Oneness joined as One is meaningless. It is apparent that a mind so split could never be the Teacher of a Oneness which unites all things within Itself. And so What is within this mind, and does unite all things together, must be its Teacher. Yet must It use the language that this mind can understand, in the condition in which it thinks it is. And It must use all learning to transfer illusions to the truth, taking all false ideas of what you are, and leading you beyond them to the truth that is beyond them. All this can very simply be reduced to this:

What is the same can not be different, and what is one can not have separate parts.  T-25.I.7:1-7

The link to truth – Heaven on earth – is our link to the awareness of our Oneness – who we really are. We are guided in looking beyond the appearance of all things to the truth beyond. What lies there is our home. It is the home we never left, but blocked from our awareness by the belief we are a body, our belief that we were ever separate from reality. Choose to rejoin the awareness of Oneness, for this is the salvation we offer each other and ourselves. It is time to come together.

Posted in: ACIM Ch. 25 – The Justice of God

ACIM T.25.introduction & I The Link to Truth

August 20, 2019 1:00 pm ⋅

August 20, 2019

This chapter brings us right back to the idea of the Christ in you. Whether we think of this as the Christ Spirit or Higher Consciousness or Higher Power, This brings us back to the fact that we are not a body. The Christ in us is eternal and thus cannot be in something temporal that dies. Real life is everlasting – eternal. This is to what the Course tells us:

The Christ in you inhabits not a body. Yet the Christ is in you. And thus, it must be that you are not within a body. What is within you cannot be outside. And it is certain that you cannot be apart from what is at the very center of your life. What gives you life cannot be housed in death. No more can you. Christ is within a frame of Holiness whose only purpose is that the Christ may be made manifest to those who know the Christ not, that the Christ may call to them to come to the Christ and see the Christ where they thought their bodies were. Then will their bodies melt away, that they may frame Holiness in them.   T-25.in.1:1-9

The Christ in us is the Holiness in us. It is the Holiness we are, always have been and always will be. Our Holiness is eternal and unchangeable. It can never be undone. We may block our awareness of it for a time, but it will always be shining below and above the surface. Our Holiness is the essence of who we are.

Section I begins teaching about the link to truth. In previous chapters, the Course has taught that the one we travel with at this very moment is our savior. They are where we look to see the truth about them and also about ourselves. Do we use the temporal to see each other framed there? That would be like faming ourselves in death. Perhaps a death mask. There is no life there. On the other hand, we can choose to frame another in holiness and see the infinite there in that holiness. Choosing to look through the frame of holiness gives us a clearer picture. When we allow Spirit to guide our vision and our perception. In this manner, we see our holiness shining brightly and reflecting our own holiness to us. The perfection of our true nature as we are created is there waiting to be seen. It is indestructible and eternal. It is who we really are.

You are the means for the One; not separate, nor with a life apart from the One’s. The One’s life is manifest in you who are It’s Creation. Each aspect of the Created is framed in holiness and perfect purity, in love celestial and so complete it wishes only that it may release all that it looks upon unto itself. Its radiance shines through each body that it looks upon, and brushes all its darkness into light merely by looking past it to the light. The veil is lifted through its gentleness, and nothing hides the face of Christ from its beholders. You and your friend stand before the Christ in you  now, to let the Christ in you draw aside the veil that seems to keep you separate and apart.   T-25.I.4:1-10

The one we journey with – our brother, our sister, our friend – are each our link to truth. When we allow ourselves to look on them in holiness, we see them differently. They may appear a bit strange at first, but we are beginning to see them for who and what they really are. They are the ones who will reflect our holiness back to us when we look upon them through holiness. This is the correction we need. This is the correction we want. We can join together and continue our journey joined together as One. We are on our way to the awareness of our Oneness with each other and all Creation. This is what we have been seeking all this time but didn’t look within ourselves where it has been all along. Take the hand of the One you are with and allow yourself to be led into the awareness of who you really are. Here is the peace and love you have been seeking all along.

Posted in: ACIM Ch. 25 – The Justice of God, Uncategorized

ACIM T.24.VII The Meeting Place

August 13, 2019 1:00 pm ⋅

August 13, 2019

There are many tests the Course suggests for things we encounter in life. They all give us the opportunity to see something differently. They all give us the opportunity to allow Spirit to reinterpret our perception to see things more clearly. And it will never be more than we can handle at the moment. It may stretch our unwillingness to accept change, but never more than we can handle. The ones we encounter on this journey we call life are our own creations They may appear to be out of our control, but we control our perception of them. Our perception is our creation. The test at this point is, “What is this for?” Be perfectly honest with yourself in answering this question. They are in our lives to teach us something. The root lesson is to forgive them and see their holiness, and recognize our own holiness reflected back to us in them. To recognize we are truly One in Oneness.

A co-creator with the Creator must have a Creation. Yet must this Creation have been created like its Creator. A perfect being, all-encompassing and all-encompassed, nothing to add and nothing taken from; not born of size nor place nor time, nor held to limits or uncertainties of any kind. Here do the means and end unite as one, nor does this one have any end at all. All this is true, and yet it has no meaning to anyone who still retains one unlearned lesson in their memory, one thought with purpose still uncertain, or one wish with a divided aim.   T-24.VII.7:1-5

The lessons of the Course are learnable and teachable. In fact, they are not difficult if we are willing to see clearly. It is essential we keep in mind that all perception is upside down until its purpose has been understood. Perception does not seem to be a means. And it is this that makes it hard to grasp the whole extent to which perception must depend on what we see it for. Perception seems to teach us what we see. Yet perception witnesses to what we teach. It is the outward picture of a wish; an image that we want to be true, whether or not it is true. Perception can be used to see separation or see Oneness. Perception is means rather than end. Only when we understand this can we begin to see differently and see reality beyond the appearance of the world we think we see.

A dualistic world is made of the way we perceive through separation. We appear to be separate from each other as we walk this world. We seem to exist here without a meeting place and no encounter. We never join in this world. We dance around each other. We blame and accuse, even attack, but maintain that one is inherently inferior to the other. The purpose we have given our creation is to compare ourselves to and see ourselves “better” than. What if we choose a different purpose?

Yet can perception serve another goal. It is not bound to specialness but by your choice. And it is given you to make a different choice, and use perception for a different purpose. And what you see will serve that purpose well, and prove its own reality to you.   T-24.VII.11:10-13

Have you grown tired of the world you seem to see? Are you ready to make another choice? The reality of Heaven is already within you for it has never left you.  In fact, you have never left Heaven. You are as complete, whole and holy as when you were created. We simply denied the reality of who we are by choosing separation instead of Oneness. We can change our mind now as easily as we changed it before. There is no penalty or price to pay. It is a simple matter of letting go of the separation we believed in and rejoining the Oneness we are. This is the journey we are on back t the awareness of who we really are. When will you make that choice?

Posted in: ACIM Ch. 24 – The Goal of Specialness

ACIM T.24.VII The Meeting Place

August 6, 2019 1:00 pm ⋅

August 6, 2019

We have been looking at our misplaced desire for “specialness” in this chapter. We have learned that the desire for “specialness” is an egoic desire to see ourselves better than others, especially those we are walking with right now. We become judgmental. We attack or defend to preserve our “specialness.” We believe we are vulnerable. We believe we are failing and so believe we are in danger of being “less than” or inadequate. Have I said enough “bad” things yet? Have I succeeded in dissing myself and others? These ae the kind of thoughts we think when we align our minds with our egoic thought system – our separated mind. We could even call this our “specialness” mind. All these ideas could not be further from the truth of who and what we are. We are the holy creations of Source, forever holy and changeless. And, therefore, holy and changeless ourselves. How do we really see ourselves? Look at the one you are walking with at this moment. What do you see? Do you see their holiness and changelessness? What you see in them is what you believe about yourself, whether right or mistaken.

The memory of Source shines not alone. What is within the one you walk with still contains all of creation, everything created and creating, born and unborn as yet, still in the future or apparently gone by. What is in them is changeless, and your changelessness is recognized in its acknowledgment. The holiness in you belongs to them. And by your seeing it in them, returns to you. All of the tribute you have given specialness belongs to them, and thus returns to you. All of the love and care, the strong protection, the thought by day and night, the deep concern, the powerful conviction this is you, belong to them. Nothing you gave to specialness but is their due. And nothing due them is not due to you.   T-24.VII.2:1-9

We cannot know who we really are when we have placed our value in “specialness.” Our belief in “specialness” blocks our awareness of our true holiness, our wholeness and our limitlessness. So, the one we walk with right now is in our life to show us our holiness. Not that “they” correct our vision, but we allow ourselves to see our holiness in them reflected back to us. We allow our eyes to be opened to see reality and eternity. Our eternal holiness and wholeness are there where Source created it in us. It had never gone away. It has never been corrupted or banished. We blocked it from our awareness by our own belief in specialness and separation. Do not seek to make your specialness the truth, for if it were you would indeed be lost. Rather, be thankful you can see the holiness of the one you walk with now because it is the truth. And what is true in them must be as true in you because we are all one..

Source keeps what Source created safe. You cannot touch it with the false ideas you made, because it was created not by you. Let not your foolish fancies frighten you. What is immortal cannot be attacked; what is but temporal has no effect. Only the purpose that you see in it has meaning, and if that is true, its safety rests secure. If not, it has no purpose, and is means for nothing. Whatever is perceived as means for truth shares in its holiness, and rests in light as safely as itself. Nor will that light go out when it is gone. Its holy purpose gave it immortality, setting another light in Heaven, where your creations recognize a gift from you, a sign that you have not forgotten them.   T-24.VII.5:1-9

Are you unsure of the reality of what you see? The test of everything we see on earth is simply this; “What is it for?” The answer makes it what it is for you. Look at this answer. Does it ring true? Ask Spirit for guidance if you are unsure. Everything you need is already within you. In Heaven, means and end are one. This is the state of true creation, not found in time, but in eternity. This is not describable to anyone aligned with separation and specialness. This cannot be learned. We must go past learning to the Given and again make a holy home for our creations to make it understood.

Release your attachment to “specialness.” Open your eyes and see the one you walk with now in the light of their holiness and see your holiness reflected there to you. This is all the proof you need of who you really are. This is where you return to the awareness of who you really are – whole, holy, complete and limitless. Step into the awareness of love, peace and freedom which you never ever left behind.

Posted in: ACIM Ch. 24 – The Goal of Specialness

ACIM T.24.VI Salvation from Fear

July 30, 2019 1:00 pm ⋅

July 30, 2019

In this moment there is another we encounter for a little while or for some time. How do we choose to see this one? Do we see them as their mistakes and shortcomings, or do we see their holiness? Whichever we choose we will see and believe is true. Yet, we must ask ourselves whether or not we are seeing the Christ in them or denying the Christ in them. It is a matter of whether or not we are willing to see with holy Vision or deny holy Vision. Spirit is waiting patiently within us to guide our vision to see clearly. When we ask, Spirit will gladly and gently guide our vision looking beyond the appearance of another in this world to their holiness beyond that which we think we see. By glimpsing the truth in another, we then glimpse the truth in ourselves. Our holiness is revealed in us as another’s holiness is revealed in them to us.

Another’s holiness is sacrament and benediction unto you. Their errors cannot withhold God’s blessing from themselves, nor you who see them truly. Their mistakes can cause delay, which it is given you to take from them, that both may end a journey that has never begun, and needs no end. What never was is not a part of you. Yet you will think it is, until you realize that it is not a part of them who stands beside you. They are the mirror of yourself, wherein you see the judgment you have laid on both of you. The Christ in you beholds their holiness. Your specialness looks on their body and beholds them not.         T-24.VI.8:1-8

See another as what they are, that your deliverance may not be long. A senseless wandering, without a purpose and without accomplishment of any kind, is all the other choice can offer you. Futility of function not fulfilled will haunt you while another lies asleep, till what has been assigned to you is done and they are risen from the past. They who condemned themselves, and you as well, are given you to save from condemnation, along with you. And both shall see God’s glory in God’s Child, whom you mistook as flesh, and bound to laws that have no power over them at all.   T-24.VI.9:1-5

The Course asks us to merely pursue another goal with far less vigilance; with little effort and with little time. The power of God maintains this holy goal and promises success. Of the two goals, it is this holy one you find more difficult. We seem to understand “sacrifice” of self, yet we do not consider the cost too heavy for the little we get. However, a tiny willingness, a nod to God, a greeting to the Christ in you, you find the burden of the unholy goal wearisome and tedious, too heavy to be borne. No sacrifice is asked in the dedication to the truth as God established it, no strain is called forth, and all the power of Heaven and the might of truth itself is given to provide the means, and guarantee the holy goal’s accomplishment.

Which goal will you pursue? Will you continue to believe in your own “specialness” and judge another as less? Choose again! Choose to see another’s holiness as revealed to you by Spirit within you. Let Spirit reveal the truth about another through your holy Vision and hear the song of truth from another’s holy Voice through your holy Ears. When you allow this communication, you sweep you both into the awareness of Heaven on earth and the awareness of the holiness you both are. Celebrate the peace and joy of this awakening, for it is who you both really are in Oneness.

Posted in: ACIM Ch. 24 – The Goal of Specialness

ACIM T.24.VI Salvation from Fear

July 23, 2019 1:00 pm ⋅

July 23, 2019

We are essential. We are essential to Heaven. We are essential to the awareness of love and peace. We are essential to wholeness and completion. We are essential as is the one we journey with at any given moment. We are both essential together. Reality is not complete without both of us. We are essential for the One – Source – to be complete. Be assured, we are there in Oneness. Reality is complete for we are an integral part of reality. Yet, we are unaware of reality when we deny our part in it. When we deny our Oneness and thus our reality, the world appears as chaos. It appears hateful, lacking love and lacking peace. The test is whether or not we recognize each other as One with us or separate from us. In reality we are joined, forever inseparable. There is limitless blessing in that realization.

Before your friend’s holiness the world is still, and peace descends on it in gentleness and blessing so complete that not one trace of conflict still remains to haunt you in the darkness of the night. Your friend is your savior from the dreams of fear. Your friend is the healing of your sense of sacrifice and fear that what you have will scatter with the wind and turn to dust. In them is your assurance Source is here, and with you now. While they are what they are, you can be sure that Source is knowable and will be known to you. For the One could never leave Its Own creation. And the sign that this is so lies in your friend, offered you that all your doubts about yourself may disappear before their holiness. See in them the One’s creation. For in them their Creator waits for your acknowledgment that your Creator created you as part of Oneness.   T-24.VI.1:1-9

Our Creator – Source – has given us all that is and ever was or ever will be, no exceptions. Nothing is withheld from us for we are all One with Source. The whole universe is ours in Oneness and love. All Creation is laid before us lovingly, and is ours forever. Every Thought within the One’s Mind is also in our own mind. The One shares perfect Love for us and looks upon us as lovingly as we were conceived of before the world began, and as we are still. No condition in this world can change the reality of who we are and how the One loves us. And our friend is as our Creator created them. This is what saves us from a world that is not real.

Look on your friend, and behold in them the whole reversal of the laws that seem to rule this world. See in their freedom yours, for such it is. Let not their specialness obscure the truth in them, for not one law of death you bind them to will you escape. And not one sin you see in them but keeps you both in hell. Yet will their perfect sinlessness release you both, for holiness is quite impartial, with one judgment made for all it looks upon. And that is made, not of itself, but through the Voice that speaks for Oneness in everything that lives and shares Oneness’ Being.    T-24.VI.5:1-6

The ones we encounter on this journey – back to the awareness of who we really are – are our saviors. They are showing us the way, pointing our misperceptions simply to allow us to recognize and correct them. Let the light and love in them speak to you. Look beyond the appearance of their shortcomings to the reality beyond that communicates love and peace. We are One with them. They are our teachers. And, we are their teachers. The Course teaches us to teach only love. Do so, but learn only love, too. Love is all there is. Peace comes from sharing love, for giving and receiving love are the same. Rest in the infinite Source of Love that can only increase. Be that infinite unconditional love for all the world, for that is what we are.

Posted in: ACIM Ch. 24 – The Goal of Specialness, Uncategorized

ACIM T.24.V The Christ in You

July 16, 2019 1:00 pm ⋅

July 16, 2019

We are holy. We are whole. There is nothing wrong with us. And we have a tendency to  believe there is something wrong about ourselves. We are created in the holiness of the One Source many call God. And we are created One with that holy Source. There is no separation. There is no division. The Course tells us we have adopted a belief that we are separate from Source and so are less than who and what we really are. This belief does not make us less than we really are. It only blocks our awareness of who we really are. We are pure and perfect love, we are peace.

The Christ in you is very still. The Christ in you knows where you are going, and leads you there in gentleness and blessing all the way. This Love for the One replaces all the fear you thought you saw within yourself. This Holiness shows you the same Christ in the friend whose hand you hold, and whom you lead to the Christ in them. And what you see is like yourself. For what but Christ is there to see and hear and love and follow home? The Christ in you looked upon you first, but recognized that you were not complete. And so the Christ in you sought for your completion in each living thing that the Christ in you beholds and loves. And seeks it still, that each might offer you the Love of Oneness.         T-24.V.6:1-9

The Christ in you is your higher holy Self. It is the true essence of ourselves we have denied through our belief in specialness. How could any one of us be “special” if we are all One? Specialness implies that one is more or less than another and thus hides Oneness from our awareness. Though Oneness and holiness can be denied and hidden, it is impossible to destroy it. The Christ in us holds it in reverence and quietness until we allow it to rise in our awareness again. Our true essence will never be forced upon us, but waits in gentleness and quiet for us to allow it to return to our awareness.

Yet is the Christ in you quiet, for It knows that love is in you now, and safely held in you by that same hand that holds your friend’s in your own. The Christ’s hand holds all of Us in Itself. The Christ gives them vision for their sightless eyes, and sings to them of Heaven, that their ears may hear no more the sound of battle and of death. The Christ reaches through them, holding out Its hand, that everyone may bless all living things, and see their holiness. And the Christ rejoices that these sights are yours, to look upon with Oneness and share Oneness’ joy. The Christ’s perfect lack of specialness is offered you, that you may save all living things from death, receiving from each one the gift of life that your forgiveness offers to your Self. The sight of the Christ is all there is to see. The song of the Christ is all there is to hear. The hand of the Christ is all there is to hold. There is no journey but to walk with the Christ in you.   T-24.V.7:1-1

Do not be content with specialness. Do not seek wholeness and Oneness in a war with Love. And do not attempt to find wholeness alone, for the ones we encounter in this journey are truly one with us and have been brought to us to join together in rediscovering our Oneness. Do not doubt the holy purpose of each one brought into our presence showing us the path to the awareness of our real Self, One with all creation. Open your mind and heart to the holiness offered.

The Christ in you has no doubt, and from this certainty quiet comes. The Christ in you will exchange certainty for all your doubts, if you agree that the Christ in you is One with you, and that this Oneness is endless, timeless, and within your grasp because your hands are One. Onen3ss is within you, yet Oneness walks beside you and before, leading the way that Oneness must go to find Oneness complete. This quietness becomes your certainty. And where is doubt when certainty has come?   T-24.V.9:3-7

Welcome the Christ in you. Recognize it is Oneness and that this is what you really are. Welcome your holiness, completeness and limitlessness. Our journey is to return to the awareness of who we really are and to rest there in its gentle quietness. Accept this for yourself and those you journey with. And find Heaven on earth as we leave specialness behind.

Posted in: Uncategorized