As peace extends from deep inside yourself to
embrace all the Sonship and give it rest, it will encounter many obstacles.
Some of them you will try to impose. Others will seem to arise from elsewhere;
from your brothers, and from various aspects of the world outside. Yet peace
will gently cover them, extending past completely unencumbered. The extension
of the Holy Spirit's purpose from your relationship to others, to bring them
gently in, is the way in which He will bring means and goal in line. The peace
He lay, deep within you and your brother, will quietly extend to every aspect
of your life, surrounding you and your brother with glowing happiness and the
calm awareness of complete protection. And you will carry its message of love
and safety and freedom to everyone who draws nigh unto your temple, where
healing waits for him. You will not wait to give him this, for you will call to
him and he will answer you, recognizing in your call the Call for God. And you
will draw him in and give him rest, as it was given you.
The Holy Spirit's purpose rests
in peace within you.
The Holy Spirit's messengers are
sent far beyond the body, calling the mind to join in holy communion and be at
peace.
Why should the body be anything
to you?
When anything seems to you to be
a source of fear, when any situation strikes you with terror and makes your
body tremble and the cold sweat of fear comes over it, remember it is always
for one reason; the ego has perceived
it as a symbol of fear, a sign of sin and death.
Confronted with such
seeming uncertainty of meaning, judge it not. Remember the holy presence of the
One given to you to be the Source of judgement. Give it to Him to judge for
you, and say:
What would you see without the
fear of death? What would you feel and think if death held no attraction for
you? Very simply, you would remember your Father. The Creator of life, the
Source of everything that lives, the Father of the universe and of the universe
of universes, and of everything that lies even beyond them would you remember.
And as this memory rises in your mind, peace must still surmount a final
obstacle, after which is salvation completed, and the Son of God entirely
restored to sanity. For here your world does end.
Give faith to your brother, for
faith and hope and mercy are yours to give.
Free your brother here, as I
freed you. Give him the self-same gift, nor look upon him with condemnation of
any kind. See him as guiltless as I look on you, and overlook the sins he
thinks he sees within himself.
Think carefully how you would
look upon the giver of this gift, for as you look on him so will the gift
itself appear to be. As he is seen as either the giver of guilt or salvation,
so will his offering be seen and so received. ACIM, T, 19, IV
Remember: Expect Miracles!
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