Chapter 29 – 3. God’s Witnesses
Condemn your savior not because he thinks he is a body. For beyond his
dreams is his reality. But he must learn he is a savior first, before he can
remember what he is. And he must save who would be saved. On saving
you depends his happiness. For who is savior but the one who gives
salvation? Thus he learns it must be his to give. Unless he gives he will not
know he has, for giving is the proof of having. Only those who think that
God is lessened by their strength could fail to understand this must be so.
For who could give unless he has, and who could lose by giving what must
be increased thereby?
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Think you the Father lost Himself when He created you? Was He made
weak because He shared His Love? Was He made incomplete by your
perfection? Or are you the proof that He is perfect and complete? Deny Him
not His witness in the dream His Son prefers to his reality. He must be
savior from the dream he made, that he be free of it. He must see someone
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else as not a body, one with him without the wall the world has built to keep
apart all living things who know not that they live.
Within the dream of bodies and of death is yet one theme of truth; no more,
perhaps, than just a tiny spark, a space of light created in the dark, where
God still shines. You cannot wake yourself. Yet you can let yourself be
wakened. You can overlook your brother’s dreams. So perfectly can you
forgive him his illusions he becomes your savior from your dreams. And as
you see him shining in the space of light where God abides within the
darkness, you will see that God Himself is where his body is. Before this
light the body disappears, as heavy shadows must give way to light. The
darkness cannot choose that it remain. The coming of the light means it is
gone. In glory will you see your brother then, and understand what really
fills the gap so long perceived as keeping you apart. There, in its place,
God’s witness has set forth the gentle way of kindness to God’s Son. Whom
you forgive is given power to forgive you your illusions. By your gift of
freedom is it given unto you.
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Make way for love, which you did not create, but which you can extend. On
earth this means forgive your brother, that the darkness may be lifted from
your mind. When light has come to him through your forgiveness, he will
not forget his savior, leaving him unsaved. For it was in your face he saw
the light that he would keep beside him, as he walks through darkness to the
everlasting light.
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How holy are you, that the Son of God can be your savior in the midst of
dreams of desolation and disaster. See how eagerly he comes, and steps
aside from heavy shadows that have hidden him, and shines on you in
gratitude and love. He is himself, but not himself alone. And as his Father
lost not part of him in your creation, so the light in him is brighter still
because you gave your light to him, to save him from the dark. And now the
light in you must be as bright as shines in him. This is the spark that shines
within the dream; that you can help him waken, and be sure his waking eyes
will rest on you. And in his glad salvation you are saved.
Condemn your savior not because he thinks he is a body. For beyond his
dreams is his reality. But he must learn he is a savior first, before he can
remember what he is. And he must save who would be saved. On saving
you depends his happiness. For who is savior but the one who gives
salvation? Thus he learns it must be his to give. Unless he gives he will not
know he has, for giving is the proof of having. Only those who think that
God is lessened by their strength could fail to understand this must be so.
For who could give unless he has, and who could lose by giving what must
be increased thereby?
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Think you the Father lost Himself when He created you? Was He made
weak because He shared His Love? Was He made incomplete by your
perfection? Or are you the proof that He is perfect and complete? Deny Him
not His witness in the dream His Son prefers to his reality. He must be
savior from the dream he made, that he be free of it. He must see someone
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else as not a body, one with him without the wall the world has built to keep
apart all living things who know not that they live.
Within the dream of bodies and of death is yet one theme of truth; no more,
perhaps, than just a tiny spark, a space of light created in the dark, where
God still shines. You cannot wake yourself. Yet you can let yourself be
wakened. You can overlook your brother’s dreams. So perfectly can you
forgive him his illusions he becomes your savior from your dreams. And as
you see him shining in the space of light where God abides within the
darkness, you will see that God Himself is where his body is. Before this
light the body disappears, as heavy shadows must give way to light. The
darkness cannot choose that it remain. The coming of the light means it is
gone. In glory will you see your brother then, and understand what really
fills the gap so long perceived as keeping you apart. There, in its place,
God’s witness has set forth the gentle way of kindness to God’s Son. Whom
you forgive is given power to forgive you your illusions. By your gift of
freedom is it given unto you.
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Make way for love, which you did not create, but which you can extend. On
earth this means forgive your brother, that the darkness may be lifted from
your mind. When light has come to him through your forgiveness, he will
not forget his savior, leaving him unsaved. For it was in your face he saw
the light that he would keep beside him, as he walks through darkness to the
everlasting light.
Â
How holy are you, that the Son of God can be your savior in the midst of
dreams of desolation and disaster. See how eagerly he comes, and steps
aside from heavy shadows that have hidden him, and shines on you in
gratitude and love. He is himself, but not himself alone. And as his Father
lost not part of him in your creation, so the light in him is brighter still
because you gave your light to him, to save him from the dark. And now the
light in you must be as bright as shines in him. This is the spark that shines
within the dream; that you can help him waken, and be sure his waking eyes
will rest on you. And in his glad salvation you are saved.