28 januari 2012

"In any situation in which you are uncertain, the first thing to consider very simply is, 'What do I want to come of this? What is it for?' The clarification of the goal belongs at the beginning, for it is this which will determine the outcome. The value of deciding in advance what you want to happen, is that you will perceive the situation as a means to make it happen.

"The situation is as the goal determines it. The goal gives meaning to the situation.
The Holy Spirit sees the situation as a whole. Everything involved in it will play its part in its accomplishment. No one will fail in anything.

"A situation is a joining of thoughts. If problems are perceived, the thoughts are judged to be in conflict. This is impossible for minds cannot attack. They are one. The error doesn't matter. Faithlessness brought to faith will never interfere. Only what you have not given, can be lacking in any situation.

"Every situation in which you find yourself is but a means to meet the purpose set for your relationship. See it as something else and you are faithless. Use not your faithlessness. Let it enter, look upon it calmly, but do not use it.

"The goal will call forth and accomplish every miracle needed for its fulfillment. Nothing too small or too enormous, too weak or too compelling, but will be gently turned to its use and purpose.

"The Power set in you is so far beyond your little conception of the Infinite that you have no idea how great the strength that goes with you. Yet for all its might, your little faithlessness can make it useless, if you would use your faithlessness instead.

"Learn the cause of faithlessness: You think you hold against your brother what he has done to you. But what you really blame him for, is what you did to him. It is not his past but yours you hold against him.

"Enter every situation with the faith you give your brother. Your faith will call the others to share your purpose, just as the same purpose called forth the faith in you. And you will see all the means you once employed to lead you to illusions, be transformed to means for truth.

"You call for faith because of Him who walks with you in every situation. You are no longer wholly insane, nor no longer alone. In the Holy Instant, faith has accepted every aspect of the situation and faithlessness has not forced any exclusion upon it. It is a situation of perfect peace, simply because you let it be what it is.

"This simple courtesy is all the Holy Spirit asks of you: Let truth be what it is. Do not intrude upon it, do not attack it, do not interrupt its coming. Do not rise against it, for against your opposition it will not come.

"Wherever faithlessness is laid aside unused, the power of the Holy Spirit is free to use instead. This power instantly transforms all situations into one sure and continuous means for establishing your purpose."

(Texts from 'A Course In Miracles', compiled by A.V.)

INHOUD