ACIM 5. IV. Teaching and Healing, P 1. What fear has hidden still is part of you. Joining the Atonement is the way out of fear.
ACIM Chapter 5. IV. Teaching and Healing, P 1
IV. Teaching and Healing, P 1
1 What fear has hidden still is part of you. Joining the Atonement is the way out of fear. The Holy Spirit will help you reinterpret everything that you perceive as fearful, and teach you that only what is loving is true. Truth is beyond your ability to destroy, but entirely within your ability to accept. It belongs to you because, as an extension of God, you created it with Him. It is yours because it is part of you, just as you are part of God because He created you. Nothing that is good can be lost because it comes from the Holy Spirit, the Voice for creation. Nothing that is not good was ever created, and therefore cannot be protected. The Atonement is the guarantee of the safety of the Kingdom, and the union of the Sonship is its protection. The ego cannot prevail against the Kingdom because the Sonship is united. In the presence of those who hear the Holy Spirit’s Call to be as one, the ego fades away and is undone.
All Suffering Will End
We are afraid because we feel separate and alone, but we are not. We are part of God and part of each other. This is as we were created and nothing can undo what God has done. Our Being is perfectly protected, because it is One. All suffering will end because suffering is not of God and so is not real, but we will continue to believe in our suffering and thus experience suffering until we change our mind.
We change our mind through accepting that we are not separate, but part of a Whole. The thing that seems to hang us up is that a whole means no one is left out. We tend to want to pick and choose the aspects of the Sonship we like and accept. It is a very costly tendency. The price is the memory of God and the memory of our true existence as the Son of God.
In the Presence
I say I want to wake up, and right here in this paragraph, Jesus tells us that in the presence of those who hear the Holy Spirit’s Call to be as one, the ego fades away and is undone. So, the question I must ask myself is, am I willing to be in the presence of the Holy Spirit’s call? Or am I going to hide out in my dream of separateness, desperately seeking some brother I can pretend is more of a sinner than me? “There, God, look at him. He’s the guilty one, not me.”
This is what I am doing each time I think someone is unworthy. “I cannot see the Christ in this one.” This is what I am doing each time I project my own stuff onto someone else and hope they will be seen as guilty instead of me. Every thought that seems to prove separation is real takes me deeper into the illusion. Crazy behavior for someone who claims to want happiness, and who claims that awakening is her only purpose.
I Will Not Flinch
Holy Spirit, I stand in the presence of your call to be as one. I do not flinch. I ask for the Atonement. Please heal my mind of every thought that is not in agreement. I look forward to the experience of today. I wait in trust to see how it will unfold as I renew and strengthen my commitment to the Atonement.
The following is from my friend who is awakened. She posted on Facebook today and I want to share this post with you. I think it is the most important message she has ever posted. Here is what she said.
Cate Grieves post from August 2018
God knows the calling of your heart. If you truly want to go beyond all suffering, calling out for help, (with or without words)… is what matters. Calling out to God. God hears your call.
Debating the meaning of the courses words, leads nowhere.
I have had many students ask me, over the past few years, why my mind awakened in what seems to be, “quite quickly. “ (2 years) They seem to want to know if there is a golden key … I always answer – that I had no interest in “knowing” the teachings intellectually. I couldn’t care less about knowing accurately course quotes, or being seen as a course “teacher” or understanding or debating what something meant in the course. I had no time for that. I was suffering way too much for intellectual conversations.
Every part of me wanted freedom from suffering. My mind had suffered so deeply from depression and anxiety for many years and the body had seemed to suffer pains and aches along with that – that when I found ACIM, it was the only book that promised it could release me from all of the suffering and bring my mind to experience a peace that would not change.
I had no idea what the courses teachings, all meant.
I didn’t understand most of what I read. I just did my lessons and read for hours and hours. I gave everything to the Holy Spirit. I joined with Jesus when fear ramped up. I made the course, my life. I focused on its metaphysics and lessons all the while working at a full time job as an Accountant. I did everything I could to connect with Holy Spirit and Jesus. It wasn’t easy at the start but my commitment and dedication was strong because I became aware that nothing in the world could bring me the peace of mind that I desired above all else. I stopped for nothing.
I wanted the Peace of God with all my heart. I was 100% in. It never occurred to me that I would end up being a teacher. During that intense period of forgiveness, I was like a laser beam in my focus. I mind watched all day. Mostly I was unsuccessful at the start. I failed more times than not. I got upset, I got angry, I got fearful. But each time I did, I joined with the Right Mind for correction and I followed my guidance no matter what.
Jesus was my teacher. I trusted him completely. I wanted the Peace of God above all else. He used my relationship with my Dad, my daughter and my boss, to undo the ego. Jesus and Holy Spirit were the inner guides that helped shift my perception of my brothers, the world and my experience of God.
And then one day, in January 2015, the world changed.
I saw everything as God. I saw the divinity and holiness in everything. It was beyond words so I couldn’t describe what I was experiencing. The small separate self was seen as false and all this knowledge was “known”. The course became a holistic teaching as One.
The experience was so beautiful and glorious it cannot be described, and has matured and flowered into a deeper heart opening.
The interesting thing, is that a very personal relationship with Jesus, was the catalyst to awakening. And a deep desire for truth. And many hours in silence.
So I encourage you to not delay by trying to debate theology but go steadfastly and earnestly within. That is where God is. Do the lessons with the intent that it helps your mind shift into peace. Be quiet. Don’t defend or argue about anything. Surrender everything to Him. Call out for God. He will answer.
Blessings of holy love.
To read more of Cate Grieve’s very helpful postings on Facebook, CLICK HERE.