Bring It to Truth

"Salvation is no compromise of any kind. To compromise is to accept but part of what you want; to take a little and give up the rest. Salvation gives up nothing. It is complete for everyone. Let the idea of compromise but enter, and the awareness of salvation's purpose is lost because it is not recognized. Compromise is the belief that true salvation is impossible. It would maintain you can attack a little, love a little, and know the difference. Does this make sense? This course is easy just because it makes no compromise. Yet it seems difficult to those who still believe that compromise is possible." -- A Course in Miracles; Chapter 23, Section III, 3:1-7,9, 4:1-2

I often have what I call morning dreams. I've found that one way to 'hear' the Voice of the Holy Spirit, my High Self, is when I'm led to fall back asleep after my morning reading and prayer time. When this happens, there is often a very symbolic dream, with the Voice speaking clearly and stating the issue.

So there are two lessons confronting me this morning... and I see them mirrored everywhere. One is becoming single-minded. This is what ACIM calls right-minded, or miracle-minded. No compromise. It shows up in daily life as focus, as not getting lost in the myriad of details and tasks that each day seems to bring, but maintaining focus and attention on what is truly important to me. This is simply another story line in the dream... but the reason this one matters is that by maintaining discipline and focus, by becoming single-minded, I am remembering that I am cause and not effect. So what I do is actually not important... but it is very vital that I remember that I am the dreamer, and not just another aspect of the dream. When what I say I want and what I find myself thinking about and doing are different things, I am being dishonest with myself and also playing the victim within the dream. "I am not the victim of the world I see." (ACIM; Workbook Lesson 31)

The second lesson is about not trying to remember the truth. When I try to remember truth, gather glimpses of truth, read bits of truth to try and inspire myself, and try and bring these glimpses to bear in my dream, I am kidding myself. This is what ACIM calls trying to bring truth to our illusions. This is the pseudo-spirituality of the world, and it simply maintains the status quo of the dream. What must happen daily, hourly, holy instant to holy instant, is to bring our illusions to Truth. This is done through our function of forgiveness... bring it to Truth, and we always remain at peace, knowing that nothing but God ever happened. Bring bits of so-called truth to our dream, and we are always striving, always seeking for knowledge, always trying to figure it out. The ego's dictum is 'seek but do not find.' ACIM clearly tells us that "Truth will correct all errors in my mind." Truth already IS true... we don't have to remember it to make it so. We don't have to do anything but willingly bring our illusory dream world back into its source, our own mind... and there ask the Holy Spirit, our High Self, to correct it. We can't ask that they be fixed 'out there.' There is nothing out there. It's all projection, the hall of mirrors that pretends to be life. It's all in our own mind. "Truth will correct all errors in my mind." (ACIM; Workbook Lesson 107)

So whatever it is that seems to happen... bring it to Truth. Ask that your perception be healed, that Truth correct your perception. Then rest in God. Whatever seems to trouble you... bring it Truth. Ask that your perception be healed, that Truth correct your mental distortions. Then rest in God. "The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the Everlasting Arms." (The Bible; Deuteronomy 33:27) "For in Him we live and move and have our Being." (The Bible; Acts 17:28)

We are immortal Spirit, created in the image and likeness of God. Like the sunlight emanates from the sun, we shine; we radiate from the Mind of God. And all the dreams in the dream we call life have never changed us, have never done anything at all. Dreams are still dreams, and have no real effects. Forgiveness reveals this, each time we bring our illusions to Truth.

"The Truth about you is so lofty that nothing unworthy of God is worthy of you. Choose, then, what you want in these terms, and accept nothing that you would not offer to God as wholly fitting for Him. You do not want anything else." -- A Course in Miracles; Chapter 9, Section VII, 8:4-6