A New Creation

"Therefore if anyone be in Christ, he is a new creation; old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new!" -- The Bible; 2 Corinthians 5:17

"Let me remember that there is no sin.  Sin is the only thought that makes the goal of God seem unattainable.  What else could blind us to the obvious, and make the strange and distorted seem more clear?" -- A Course in Miracles; Workbook 259, 1:1-2

It's very early morning, after a rainy night.  The earth smells fresh and clean, and breathes with peace, the way I feel after an early morning shower.  Everything feels new, although most would argue that it is the same world I went to bed looking at last night.  That is not my experience.  

Every minute of every day we are awakening to a new creation.  And only the thoughts of limitation and adjustment that we insist on bringing with us obscure each holy instant of release and freedom.  A Course in Miracles calls these limiting thoughts and conditioned beliefs 'sin'.  And then reminds us that it's all made up.  There is no sin.  There is only mind that imagines itself separate from its Source, and therefore separate from everything that is.

What does it mean to be 'in' Christ?  ACIM puts it this way: "Christ is God's Son as He created Him.  He is the Self we share, uniting us with one another, and with God as well.  He is the Thought which still abides within the Mind that is His Source.  He has not left His holy home, nor lost the innocence in which He was created.  He abides unchanged forever in the Mind of God." -- ACIM; Workbook Part II, 6.

This is our Reality, our true Self.  To be a new creation in Christ is simply to remember Who We are as God created us.  And how does this make all things new?  "The Holy Spirit reaches from the Christ in you to all your dreams [false perceptions], and bids them come to Him, to be translated into Truth."  This is the process of forgiveness which ACIM calls the Atonement.  "For when forgiveness rests upon the world and peace has come to every Son of God, what could there be to keep things [seeming] separate, for what remains to see except Christ's face?" -- ACIM; Workbook Part II, 6.

So every minute of every day we are awakening to Who We Are.  This awakening feels like rebirth, again and again, and we literally are become a new creation.

"Home of the Holy Spirit, and at home in God alone, does Christ remain at peace within the Heaven of your holy mind.  This is the only part of you that has Reality in Truth.  The rest is dreams.  Yet will these dreams be given unto Christ, to fade before His glory and reveal your holy Self, the Christ, to you at last." -- ACIM; Workbook Part II, 6.