The Acceptance of Your Brother

How can you become increasingly aware of the Holy Spirit in you except by His effects? You cannot see Him with your eyes nor hear Him with your ears. How, then, can you perceive Him at all? If you inspire joy and others react to you with joy, even though you are not experiencing joy yourself there must be something in you that is capable of producing it. 5If it is in you and can produce joy, and if you see that it does produce joy in others, you must be dissociating it in yourself.

T-9.VI.2. It seems to you that the Holy Spirit does not produce joy consistently in you only because you do not consistently arouse joy in others. 2 Their reactions to you are your evaluations of His consistency. 3 When you are inconsistent you will not always give rise to joy, and so you will not always recognize His consistency. 4 What you offer to your brother you offer to Him, because He cannot go beyond your offering in His giving. 5 This is not because He limits His giving, but simply because you have limited your receiving. 6 The decision to receive is the decision to accept.

T-9.VI.3. If your brothers are part of you, will you accept them? 2 Only they can teach you what you are, for your learning is the result of what you taught them. 3 What you call upon in them you call upon in yourself. 4 And as you call upon it in them it becomes real to you. 5 God has but one Son, knowing them all as One. 6 Only God Himself is more than they but they are not less than He is. 7 Would you know what this means? 8 If what you do to my brother you do to me, and if you do everything for yourself because we are part of you, everything we do belongs to you as well. 9 Everyone God created is part of you and shares His glory with you. 10 His glory belongs to Him, but it is equally yours. 11 You cannot, then, be less glorious than He is.

T-9.VI.4. God is more than you only because He created you, but not even this would He keep from you. 2 Therefore you can create as He did, and your dissociation will not alter this. 3 Neither God's light nor yours is dimmed because you do not see. 4 Because the Sonship must create as one, you remember creation whenever you recognize part of creation. 5 Each part you remember adds to your wholeness because each part is whole. 6 Wholeness is indivisible, but you cannot learn of your wholeness until you see it everywhere. 7 You can know yourself only as God knows His Son, for knowledge is shared with God. 8 When you awake in Him you will know your magnitude by accepting His limitlessness as yours. 9 But meanwhile you will judge it as you judge your brother's, and will accept it as you accept his.

T-9.VI.5. You are not yet awake, but you can learn how to awaken. 2 Very simply, the Holy Spirit teaches you to awaken others. 3 As you see them waken you will learn what waking means, and because you have chosen to wake them, their gratitude and their appreciation of what you have given them will teach you its value. 4 They will become the witnesses to your reality, as you were created witnesses to God's. 5 Yet when the Sonship comes together and accepts its Oneness it will be known by its creations, who witness to its reality as the Son does to the Father.

T-9.VI.6. Miracles have no place in eternity, because they are reparative. 2 Yet while you still need healing, your miracles are the only witnesses to your reality that you can recognize. 3 You cannot perform a miracle for yourself, because miracles are a way of giving acceptance and receiving it. 4 In time the giving comes first, though they are simultaneous in eternity, where they cannot be separated. 5 When you have learned they are the same, the need for time is over.

T-9.VI.7. Eternity is one time, its only dimension being "always." 2 This cannot mean anything to you until you remember God's open Arms, and finally know His open Mind. 3 Like Him, you are "always"; in His Mind and with a mind like His. 4 In your open mind are your creations, in perfect communication born of perfect understanding. 5 Could you but accept one of them you would not want anything the world has to offer. 6 Everything else would be totally meaningless. 7 God's meaning is incomplete without you, and you are incomplete without your creations. 8 Accept your brother in this world and accept nothing else, for in him you will find your creations because he created them with you. 9 You will never know that you are co-creator with God until you learn that your brother is co-creator with you.

Freedom is the only gift you can offer to God's Sons, being an acknowledgment of what they are and what He is. Freedom is creation, because it is love. Whom you seek to imprison you do not love. Therefore, when you seek to imprison anyone, including yourself, you do not love him and you cannot identify with him. When you imprison yourself you are losing sight of your true identification with me and with the Father

You are not two selves in conflict. What is beyond God? If you who hold Him and whom He holds are the universe, all else must be outside, where nothing is. You have taught this, and from far off in the universe, yet not beyond yourself, the witnesses to your teaching have gathered to help you learn.

Their gratitude has joined with yours and God's to strengthen your faith in what you taught. For what you taught is true. Alone, you stand outside your teaching and apart from it. But with them you must learn that you but taught yourself, and learned from the conviction you shared with them.

Accept your sense of failure as nothing more than a mistake in who you are. For you are beyond failure, and nothing that you will can be denied.

You are forever in a Self Love relationship so holy that it calls to everyone to escape from loneliness, and join you in your love. And where you are must everyone seek, and find you there.

I will identify with what I think is refuge and security. I will behold myself where I perceive my strength, and think I live within the citadel where I am safe and cannot be attacked. Let me today seek not security in danger, nor attempt to find my peace in murderous attack. I live in God. In Him I find my refuge and my strength. In Him is my Identity. In Him is everlasting peace. And only there will I remember Who I really am.

It is impossible that anything should come to me unbidden by myself.

Even in this world, it is I who rule my destiny. What happens is what I desire. What does not occur is what I do not want to happen. This must I accept.

Let us today attend the Voice for God, which speaks an ancient lesson, no more true today than any other day. Yet has this day been chosen as the time when we will seek and hear and learn and understand. Join me in hearing. For the Voice for God tells us of things we cannot understand alone, nor learn apart. It is in this that all things are protected.And in this the healing of the Voice for God is found.

Your healing Voice protects all things today, and so I leave all things to You. I need be anxious over nothing. For Your Voice will tell me what to do and where to go; to whom to speak and what to say to him, what thoughts to think, what words to give the world. The safety that I bring is given me. Father, Your Voice protects all things through me.