Being True to what is True

"Everyone stumbles over the truth from time to time, but most people pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." -- Winston Churchill

"What can correct illusions but Truth? And what are errors but illusions that remain unrecognized for what they are? Where Truth has entered errors disappear. They merely vanish, leaving not a trace by which to be remembered. They are gone because, without belief, they have no life." -- A Course in Miracles; Workbook Lesson 107, 1:1-5

How often in this world have you stumbled onto the truth about something or someone, and yet continued on as if it weren't true, in complete denial? How often have we ignored what we know to be true in order to fit in, or to please someone else? How dearly we have paid for our unwillingness to face the truth in the dream. Yet the real Truth is the real issue. Our sacrifice of self in the dream is nothing. The seeming sacrifice of Our True Self is why we all seem to suffer.

Our serial dreams and stories, our serial relationships, and all that seems to occur... these are simply the smokescreen, the projection to cover our real denial. We have denied Who We Are and Where We Are. We have all had moments of remembering God. And yet we pick ourselves up and promptly forget about it, and act like nothing happened. We remain true to our stories and our addictions. We have not been true to what is True. Our attention and our time return to what is false, again and again. And so we suffer. We suffer until we WILL to remember. We suffer until we return our time and attention to what is True. We suffer until we cease to value the false.

We will continue to walk in dreams and their stories for a while. But when our love and attention remain on what is True, the stories have a different meaning. And our projections are returned to Oneness, to Truth. Now the Awakening of the Son of God is what all dreams are for. We go where Self leads us, and listen to the Voice of Truth within us. We value our Awareness of God, of Good, of Oneness... and the stories of the dream are simply many ways to forgive and return to this Awareness.

There's nothing difficult or complex about it. Being true to what is True is the only simple, natural thing in all this seemingly complex dream.

"Complexity is not of God. How could it be, when all He knows is One? He knows of One Creation, One Reality, One Truth, and but One Son. Nothing conflicts with Oneness. How, then, could there be complexity in Him? What is there to decide? For it is conflict that makes choice possible. The Truth is simple; it is One, without an opposite. The Truth makes no decisions because there is nothing to decide between. What is Everything leaves room for nothing else." -- A Course in Miracles; Chapter 26, Section III, 1:1-8, 10, 12