Please remember, dear readers, that the concepts in
Devorah’s mind and many of the words she uses come from The Course in Miracles.
“What if life is not as we think it is,” Devorah said to the
soldiers. “What if life is not just a struggle to avoid death and destruction,
pain and suffering? What if we’ve had it upside down, inside out and backwards
all this time? What if life was meant to be an adventure, an upward spiral of
expansion, inclusion, love and joy? What if instead of living as we do fearing,
trembling, avoiding, we lived as if we were supported – which we are, and could
not fail – which we can’t? What if peace is more than the absence of war? What
if the benign spirit of the Covenant is real and the truth about us and the
fearsome, punishing spirit of the Scrolls is a mistake? What if there was no
sin…?” The soldiers were still, but a few among them smiled and nodded.
Devorah smiled and nodded in return. “The Wisdom Within that
guides me and is also available to guide you, tells me that it is essential we
not confuse error with sin. For error can be corrected, and the wrong made
right. But sin, were it possible, would be irreversible. Remember my brothers,
sin is possible only in the ego nightmare, but awake with spirit we know sin is
impossible. To sin would be to violate reality and succeed. Sin is the
proclamation that attack is real and guilt is justified.
“We children of the one God can be mistaken; we can deceive
ourselves; we can turn the power of our minds against ourSelves. But we cannot
sin. The Wisdom Within proclaims there is nothing we can do that would really
change our waking reality in any way, nor make us really guilty.”
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