ACIM Chapter 13. V. The Two Emotions, P 7, 8

ACIM Chapter 13. V. The Two Emotions, P 7, 8

V. The Two Emotions, P 7

7 Little child, would you offer this to your Father? For if you offer it to yourself, you are offering it to Him. And He will not return it, for it is unworthy of you because it is unworthy of Him. Yet He would release you from it and set you free. His sane Answer tells you what you have offered yourself is not true, but His offering to you has never changed. You who know not what you do can learn what insanity is, and look beyond it. It is given you to learn how to deny insanity, and come forth from your private world in peace. You will see all that you denied in your brothers because you denied it in yourself. For you will love them, and by drawing nigh unto them you will draw them to yourself, perceiving them as witnesses to the reality you share with God. I am with them as I am with you, and we will draw them from their private worlds, for as we are united so would we unite with them. The Father welcomes all of us in gladness, and gladness is what we should offer Him. For every Son of God is given you to whom God gave Himself. And it is God Whom you must offer them, to recognize His gift to you.

God loves us all.

He wants us to be happy. He knows we are perfect because He created us perfect as we are an extension of Him. God does not hold grievances because God is not a person, and so has no ego. That is our hallucination, not God’s. We have nothing to fear from God. He offers us only love. When we offer ourselves insanity, we offer it to Him, but He does not accept it because it is unworthy of Him and thus unworthy of us.

These are true statements, but we don’t actually know this. If we did, we would be having a different experience. We would be awake and have a happy dream, and then we would wake up from the dream and know our Divinity and the Love that we are and the Love that God is. Jesus says the way we know Him is to come out of our little private worlds and meet our brothers in love instead of judgment. Offer our brothers God, and we will know God.

We practice this in our everyday lives.

We do this as we treat others as if they were dear to us, closer to us than our breath, a part of us. Instead, we tend to stay in our separate world where we think all else revolves around us. Last night, I received very poor service at the restaurant where I ate supper. Instead of blessing the overwrought waitress, I resented her. That is me in my own little world, separate from her, with separate interests and goals.

I could easily have forgiven the whole situation and spent my time knowing that each and every one of the wait staff and the other patrons were part of the Sonship along with me. I could have reveled in that sweet knowing and been a blessing to everyone. Well, perhaps I will remember the next time. And the next time comes very quickly as thoughts of “others” come into my mind, as I interact with dozens of people today.

Here is another truth: I love them.

Even if caught up in the story of being separate from them, I love them. I may have forgotten that I love them, but that changes nothing. As I allow myself to remember my love for my brothers, I draw close to them, and I draw them out of their private worlds. As Jesus says: I am with them as I am with you, and we will draw them from their private worlds, for as we are united so would we unite with them.

Yes, Jesus, my brother, I am ready to spend this day with you, saving the world, bringing us all home. What I give to myself, I give to God. What I give to my brothers, I give to myself, and I give to God.

V. The Two Emotions P8

8 Vision depends on light. You cannot see in darkness. Yet in darkness, in the private world of sleep, you see in dreams although your eyes are closed. And it is here that what you see you made. But let the darkness go and all you made you will no longer see, for sight of it depends upon denying vision. Yet from denying vision it does not follow you cannot see. But this is what denial does, for by it you accept insanity, believing you can make a private world and rule your own perception. Yet for this, light must be excluded. Dreams disappear when light has come and you can see.

We have given ourselves a body with eyes that show us our projections. These eyes also show us light, but it is not real light, it is like the rest of what we see, an illusion. Light is not seen with the body’s eyes, nothing real is seen with the body’s eyes. This is such a hard thing for the ego mind to understand because everything it knows is seen with those eyes, and yet eyes do not see, they only report what the mind hallucinates.

Real seeing is done in real light.

It is done not with a body but within the mind that it is. This is the reason that when people awaken in the dream, they can see what the eyes show them, but they also see what is real. They are still here and still using a body, so they are aware of the illusion, of what we make up. But now they also see the light and love that makes up everything, and this is not done with the eyes but in their awareness. So I am told. ~smile~ This is what Jesus is talking about here, true perception.

If there is a real world, and there is real light and as Jesus says, we can actually see it, then why don’t we? We have closed our minds to the light and denied it is there. Instead, we are mesmerized by the stories we made up and have forgotten they are not real. We have made a place in the mind with a stage on which we can act out our fantasies. We have gotten so involved in our fantasies and have denied reality for so long that we have lost our minds.

All the world’s a stage and that is all it is.

We gave ourselves form and walked upon the darkened stage, making a private world just for ourselves. And then we gave our forms eyes and said, “Let there be light, and let our eyes reveal our stories.” Now, eons later, we are still watching the play that was over before it began. We watch, and in our watching, we deny the vision that would allow us to see what is really happening.

But Jesus tells us this: Yet from denying vision it does not follow you cannot see. We can see, but to see, we must let go of the darkness, let go of our dream of a separate little world we rule with our insane laws. We cannot know light while we long for darkness. A Course in Miracles, the practice of A Course in Miracles, brings us to the brink of sanity.

We are beginning to understand what is going on and begin to glimpse the truth we have been hiding from ourselves. Now, we need only desire reality more than illusions, and we will leave the insanity behind. Once we understand and decide for God, there is nothing we need to do. We stand at the brink, and when our desire is whole, we fall into God.

Here is an uplifting song reminding us it is never too late to make a change. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRb2rx86aAo