ACIM Daily Lesson My holy vision sees all things as pure. 1. Father, Your Mind created all that is, Your Spirit entered into it, Your Love gave life to it.
My holy vision sees all things as pure.
Lesson 263
My holy vision sees all things as pure.
1. Father, Your Mind created all that is, Your Spirit entered into it, Your Love gave life to it. ²And would I look upon what You created as if it could be made sinful? ³I would not perceive such dark and fearful images. ⁴A madman’s dream is hardly fit to be my choice, instead of all the loveliness with which You blessed creation; all its purity, its joy, and its eternal, quiet home in You.
2. And while we still remain outside the gate of Heaven, let us look on all we see through holy vision and the eyes of Christ. ²Let all appearances seem pure to us, that we may pass them by in innocence, and walk together to our Father’s house as brothers and the holy Sons of God.
We have made a fundamental error.
We seem to be outside the gate of Heaven so that being our experience, we must find our way back. It helps so much to know what it is we are looking for, so I am grateful to Jesus for showing us both the error and the solution. The error is the belief in bodies and all forms of separation and their effects; the belief in fear and guilt, the belief that anger, hatred, and judgment are inevitable and justified. This is not just the error of what we have seemingly done, but the error is greater than this. It is the fundamental error of believing we have the power to decide what we are. We do not, and thank you, God, that we don’t.
The answer has been placed in our minds.
We know what isn’t true, and we know that the Holy Spirit has been placed in our minds to undo what we have believed. We know how to call on the Holy Spirit, and he will purify all thoughts that can be purified. And He will remove those that are completely without truth. We know that we cannot enter the presence of God if we attack His Son, so we know that we must give all grievances to the Holy Spirit to be undone. This is all just a matter of practice now.
What, then, are we moving toward? Jesus tells us the answer to this in the beginning paragraph. He tells us that the Mind of God created all that is, His Spirit entered into it, and His Love gave life to it. This is us he is talking about. This is how we were created, and we cannot change that. We can dream of changing it, but we did not and cannot accomplish this change. We are moving steadily toward Heaven, steadily toward merging with God.
But here now, even in this dream, we can accomplish much.
We can choose to have our minds healed so that we see only the perfection of God’s creation. We can do this by seeing through the eyes of Christ. Seeing that way will show us the beauty and majesty of all God created. Instead of what we have made, we will see the loveliness with which God blessed creation; all its purity, its joy, and its eternal, quiet home in Him.
With Christ’s vision, we will “let all appearances seem pure to us, that we may pass them by in innocence, and walk together to our Father’s house as brothers and the holy Sons of God.” Does all this seem unlikely, maybe even impossible? Perhaps so in light of what we have imagined in its place, but remember that it is only imagination and that reality becomes apparent to us the moment we clear away what we chose to see in its place. We understand what must be relinquished, we have the means to do so, and we have the help of All Who have gone before us. How could we fail? We can’t fail.
There is a way to see the world differently.
For a while now, I have been practicing this. When I would perceive hostility from someone, ask to see it differently. Then suddenly, I would see the fear under which that person was burdened. I would know that I could bring healing to that one. I would simply know the truth for him while he was too confused to know it for himself.
At the same time, I learned that defending myself was not worth the effort. I learned that I wanted the healing for him and that as he was healed, so was I. And so, I learned that there is no separation and that we must be one if the healing of one is the healing of the other. Life is sweet and peaceful as long as I remember this. I forget sometimes, but I return to it because I cannot tolerate lack of peace for long. But also, because I understand that I cannot want for another what I don’t want for myself. We are too intertwined, too connected for that.
This lesson does truly make my heart sing!
The description of how God created us and especially the last phrase. “… walk together to our Father’s house as brothers and the holy Sons of God.” That is us! We are brothers, and we are the holy Sons of God. Right now, as we share this lesson, we are walking together to our Father’s house. And all during the day, as we notice our judgments and desire vision instead, we do it together, with each other and for each other.
It can be so easy to judge and barely notice we are doing it. This morning as I posted on Facebook, I read a comment by someone who always says something that feels sarcastic and unhelpful. I felt judgmental toward him. That is the kind of thing that I want to notice and let go of because these seemingly insignificant judgments are equal in their harmfulness as are the ones that feel big to me. And the truth is he is my brother, perfectly created by my Father, with His Spirit and His Love. That is what I want to see and only that.
The ego insists that the proof otherwise is right there nearly every day, plain as day for everyone to see.
But the ego is talking about an illusion as interpreted by another illusion. Why would I listen to that? “I open my heart to You, Holy Spirit. Please heal me of this incredible burden of judgment. Please wake me up to the beautiful truth.”
Now I see things differently for the most part. I also realize that I have one purpose: to allow my mind to be healed so that I can see with Christ Vision rather than through the ego mind. I don’t try to see with Christ’s Vision, I simply allow the healing and Christ Vision becomes apparent to me. It is a subtle difference, maybe, but it is a difference that allows peace of mind even in this world.
When I “try” to see correctly, I am doing it through the ego and will fail because the ego doesn’t possess vision. When I just notice that I am using the ego mind and allow that to be corrected for me, and I keep doing this, I begin to notice a difference in how I see. I begin to see innocence everywhere I look, not because I am trying to see innocence, but because I have allowed enough healing that I am beginning to see what is there rather than the veil of separation I used to see.
This lesson talks to me about reality.
It reminds me that what I presently choose to look at is not real. It also reminds me that I can, with my brother, return to reality, return to God. I notice that it does not say that I have to make reality. And I don’t have to make myself see reality. I only need to desire the truth as created by God rather than the illusion I made. I do this in many simple ways during the course of my day.
For one thing, I have been practicing being an innocent witness to everything I see. Yesterday I nearly ran out of gas in an area with no gas stations. I did not think I would make it to the gas station and began immediately to worry about what to do and run worst-case scenarios through my mind. Then I remembered that I want to be the witness and to see everything in my life as innocent.
It was time to stop judging the situation.
Since, by this time, I not only saw the situation as guilty of ruining my day but had made myself guilty for being so careless. I began to see the community guilty for being so small they had no gas station and my boss guilty for sending me out into the wilds to do my job. And the ego had just gotten started, I am sure eventually everyone right up the ladder to God would be guilty before it was over.
Instead, I just changed my mind. As I witnessed the gas needle creep down further into the red as I drove, I realized that there is no guilt attached to this situation. I didn’t reason it out; I simply accepted it was what it was. Ultimately, I made it to the gas station, which I would have done regardless of my attitude. But with my change of mind, it was a lovely drive because I didn’t have all the dark clouds of guilt obscuring my vision.
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