1 ACIM Text A 10

(lily) #1

OUTSIDEyourself, alone WITHOUTyou. And so He gives you
what is yours because your Father would have you share it with
Him. In everything be led by Him, and do not reconsider.Trust Him
to answer quickly, surely, and with love for everyone who will be
touched in any way by the decision. And everyone WILLbe. Would
you take unto yourself the sole responsibility for deciding what can
bring ONLYgood to everyone? Would you KNOWthis?
You taught yourselves the most unnatural habit of NOT
communicating with your Creator. Yet you remain in close
communication with Him, and with everything that is within Him,
as it is within yourself.UNLEARN isolation through His loving
guidance, and learn of all the happy communication that you have
thrown away but could not lose.
Whenever you are in doubt what you should do, think of His
Presence in you, and tell yourself this, and ONLYthis:


“He leadeth me, and knows the way, which I know not.
Yet He will never KEEP from me what He would have me LEARN.
And so I trust Him to communicate to me all that He knows FOR me.”
Then let Him teach you quietly how to perceive your
guiltlessness which is ALREADYthere.


THE WAY OF SALVATION
When you accept a brother’s guiltlessness, you will see the
Atonement in him. For by proclaiming it in him you make it
YOURS,and you WILLsee what you sought. You will not see the
symbol of your brother’s guiltlessness shining within him while you
still believe it is not there.HISguiltlessness is YOURAtonement.
Grant it to him, and you will see the truth of what you have
acknowledged.Yet truth is offered FIRSTto be received, even as God
gave it first to His Son.The first in time means nothing, but the First
in eternity is God the Father,Who is both First and One. Beyond the
First there is no other, for there is no order, no second or third, and
nothing BUTthe First.
You who belong to the First Cause, created by Him like unto
Himself and part of Him, are more than merely guiltless.The state of
guiltlessness is only the condition in which what is not there has


THE WAY OF SALVATION
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