"I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts…"
This is such a comforting thought for me. The more honest I have become with my self, the more I have become willing to See…. The more honest I am, the more willing I am to trust that although I might not see it at a particular moment, the world I see was made with attack in mind; victim and hero, good and bad, right and wrong ~ separation; it is all an attack on OneMind. It has been just this kind of honest observation which began to show me, that I couldn’t escape the naked truth that I am the ‘image-maker’ of the world I see.
I notice that my willingness to just look, suspending judgment, brings a feeling of peace… After all, I am not looking alone… This very willingness is the invitation to look with the Holy Spirit. And by looking with the Holy Spirit at my thoughts, which cause the apparent world I see, I am opened up to the possibility of their falsity. And just behind that awareness turns out to be the replacement I was really looking for: peace.
Ya know, peace asks so very little…. As we experiences the true shift necessary for peace, through the simple wholehearted willingness to be wrong, it is as though a chorus of halleluiah sing the truth of creation. It is irrelevant what it is that replaces the previous condition in form. It always is just enough for peace. Just like the lesson says, “Vision already holds a replacement for everything you think you see now. Loveliness can light your images, and so transform them that you will love them, even though they were made of hate. For you will not be making them alone”.
…Ah, this is what forgiveness is… and I am living it…and you are here with me, always, already…
The beginning of Chapter 16 of the text, titled "THE FORGIVENESS OF ILLUSIONS” keeps surfacing to my mind~ it talks about “True” empathy, a concept I was completely upside-down about when I first encountered this reversal of perception. I came to understand that all this ‘helpfulness’ I was so fond of, was a smokescreen for attack thoughts, all dressed up in hierarchies of specialness and justification…I asked for a re-interpretation of this perspective and the Holy Spirit showed me how much I was trying to learn. So too, that it was my joy in our oneness, dissolving hierarchies that had been blocking awareness. I am so grateful for this healed perspective… You and I are One, and we are not alone…
I am not alone, and I would not intrude the past upon my Guest.
I have invited Him, and He is here.
I need do nothing except not to interfere.
I am really beginning to see/experience the complete thought reversal necessary and inevitable, which, available for the asking~ is expanding with my participation… I am humbled; returned to the ground of my being by the magnitude of this simple lesson ~FORGIVE~
How lucky/blessed am I/ we are for the curriculum prepared by the Holy Spirit/Jesus through the inspired, holographic/symphonic, design of A Course in Miracles.
I did not know the meaning of forgiveness (or anything else, it turns out), when the Course came to me… and this not knowing has given me everything… since this blank screen is where the Holy Spirit shows me what is valuable, meaningful, loving and One, already ~ every day is a new awakening to the truth, beyond the symbols of this world…
All Glory to God.
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