A Course in Miracles,
Lesson 181 I trust my brothers and sisters,
Who are one with me.
Trusting your brothers and sisters is essential to establishing and holding up your faith in your ability to transcend doubt.
This faith receives its only sure support from what you see in others past their sins,
For their mistakes focused on are witnesses to sins in you.
In practicing today,
We first let all such little focuses give way to our great need to let our sinlessness become apparent.
We instruct our minds that it is this looking past sins we seek,
And only this for just a little while.
A major hazard to success has been involvement with your past and future goals.
You have been quite preoccupied with how extremely different the goals this course is advocating.
How could this matter?
The past is gone.
The future is only imagined.
We enter in the time of practicing with one intent,
To look upon the sinlessness within us.
We recognize that we have lost this goal,
If anger blocks our way in any form.
We have lost the goal if the sins of a brother or sister occur to us.
This narrowed focus will restrict our sight.
It will turn our eyes upon our own mistakes,
Which we will magnify and call our sins.
Now,
For a little while,
Without regard to the past or future,
Should such blocks arise,
We will transcend them with instructions to our minds to change their focus.
As we say to ourselves,
Repeat in your mind,
After me,
It is not their sins that I would look upon.
I trust my sisters and brothers who are one with me.
If blocks arise,
Repeat to yourself again,
I trust my sisters and brothers who are one with me.
It is not their sins that I would look upon.
We seek,
Just for an instant,
Relief from the misery that the focus upon sin will bring,
And if uncorrected,
Will remain.
As our focus goes beyond mistakes,
We will behold a holy,
Sinless world.
The eyes of Christ are inevitably ours,
And the love Christ feels for us becomes our own love as well.
Love will become the only thing we see,
Reflected in the world and in ourselves.
Our love for everyone we look upon attests to our remembrance of the Holy Higher Self,
Which knows no sin,
And never could conceive of anything without its sinlessness.
We seek to remember this as we turn our minds to practicing.
We don't look ahead to the future,
And we don't look back to the past.
We look into the present.
Our sinlessness truly is the will of God.
In this instant,
Our will is one with God.
I trust my brothers and sisters who are one with me.
It is not their sins that I would look upon.
Ponder on this.
I trust my brothers and sisters who are one with me.
It is not their sins that I would look upon.
I trust my brothers and sisters who are one with me.
It is not their sins that I would look upon.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
