ACIM Lesson #263
“My holy vision sees all things as pure.”
“Father, Your Mind created all that is, Your Spirit entered into it, Your Love gave life to it. And would I look upon what You created as if it could be made sinful? I would not perceive such dark and fearful images. A madman's dream is hardly fit to be my choice, instead of all the loveliness with which You blessed creation; all its purity, its joy, and its eternal, quiet home in You.”
“And while we still remain outside the gate of Heaven, let us look on all we see through holy vision and the eyes of Christ. Let all appearances seem pure to us, that we may pass them by in innocence, and walk together to our Father's house as brothers and the holy Sons of God.”
[Marsha's thoughts]
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| Photo by Richard Quick |
In reflecting upon "my holy vision which sees all things as pure", many instances come to mind when I have seen with these eyes, and quite a few jumped out as existing only in material messes. I am refusing to dwell on the latter, dismissing their unreality with a smile, and seeing no need to revisit them further than a nod in passing. Just today I've been presented with a circumstance which seemed to have no good resolution, with someone being left out regardless of the good intentions involved. Shortly after I allowed about a hundred possibilities to run through thought, I caught onto the futility of these intellectual choices and settled into a quiet space of listening. Almost immediately an interesting possibility came to mind! A very exciting option for all involved! And who knows where this will lead these two dear people when the idea is presented to them? Not me personally, that's for sure. But I have complete trust that the situation will be viewed through the pure vision of our real Being, allowing all the seeming problems to disappear into their actual nothingness.
Mary Baker Eddy quote:
“The age has not wholly outlived the sense of ghostly beliefs. It still holds them more or less. Time has not yet reached eternity, immortality, complete reality. All the real is eternal. Perfection underlies reality. Without perfection, nothing is wholly real. All things will continue to disappear, until perfection appears and reality is reached. We must give up the spectral at all points. We must not continue to admit the somethingness of superstition, but we must yield up all belief in it and be wise. When we learn that error is not real, we shall be ready for progress, ‘forgetting those things which are behind.’”
Science & Health Page 353:13-24
