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Word Gems
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A Course In Miracles
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You cannot understand yourself alone. This is because [what you are] has no meaning apart from your rightful place in the Sonship [which] is God. This is your life, your eternity and your Self. It is of this that the Holy Spirit reminds you... [and also will] perform the function of reinterpreting what the ego makes ... [the ego does not understand this and] therefore it is the task of the Holy Spirit to reinterpret you on behalf of God... The Holy Spirit must work through [the polar] opposites [of this world] because [the human] mind [which it serves] in in opposition [to itself and to God]... The Holy Spirit will help you reinterpret everything that you perceive as fearful... Everything you think which is not of the Holy Spirit is lacking. How can you, who are so holy, suffer? All your past, except your beauty, is gone, and nothing is left but a blessing.
Editor’s note: The principle of “reinterpretation” offers much solace. What the ego sees through its fearful eyes is not true; no matter how much the past hurts us, none of it represents reality in any lasting and meaningful way. The Holy Spirit, which is the mind of God, leads us to view things from a higher perspective. When this happens, we understand that "the Holy Spirit, the reinterpreter of what the ego made, [employs] the world as a teaching device for bringing you home." On the Word Gems homepage, in the essay “What We Stay Alive For,” I speak of lovers’ sorrows over the missteps of youth which kept them apart: “the disastrous illusions, the mistaken identities, the besotting infatuations, the riches-to-rags bargaining, the ill-fitting covenants, the ruinous mirages of romance, the unrecognized savior, the cavalier burning of long-constructed bridges, the unreturned call to life.” But all of this will yet be reinterpreted as something efficacious toward long-term good: “the abandoned future is reclaimed and rescued, the sorrowful past is redeemed and reinterpreted, and the eternal present moment issues as the refreshing living waters of resplendent joy.” At the end of tears, as Jesus instructs, "All your past, except your beauty, is gone, and nothing is left but a blessing."
Think what is given those who share the Father’s purpose... They want for nothing. Sorrow of any kind is inconceivable... and only love shines upon them forever. It is their past, their present, and their future;
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