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The vision of Christ brings joy and peace to my heart. It shows me a world of harmlessness. It shows
me the eternal Love that is everywhere, in everything and is What I am. With Christ's vision I do not
mistake the body for the Son that God created. With His vision, form becomes useful only as a
means to communicate that all is forgiven and only Love is real. It is a gift I give myself and all the

Lesson 160 “I am at home. Fear is the stranger here.”

I am being asked in this lesson to let go of what I have identified with. I have identified with being a
separate identity with a separate body and a separate mind. This is the stranger I have identified
with. And yet I have identified with it so completely that my true Identity as part of God has been
lost to me. God became the stranger. My one Self became a stranger.

This identity as a separate self seemed so real that it seemed very difficult to find God. But the good
news is I am learning to let go of this false identity. I am willing to open to my one Self and let my
mind be healed of all its false ideas.

One very effective way in my return is to remember to see the Christ in all my brothers, to see the
Light of God in them, to see the truth about them. As I continue to practice seeing the truth in my
brother, my mind continues to be healed and I gradually cease to identify with myself as a separate
identity, a separate person, separate from God and my brother. I gradually learn that this whole
world of separate identities is a false world. It is not the real world. The false world of separation has
only brought belief in limitation and pain. None of it was ever true.

We are all still safe in God. We are all still as God created us. We are all still one in God. We never
left God. We only dreamed that God was a stranger to us. We only dreamed that separate bodies
were real. Now is the time to wake up from that dream. Now is the time to let go of that separate
identity. Now is the time to wake up to our true Identity as one in Love. In truth all are at Home in
God. Fear is the stranger in God's real world.

In this world, everyone feels homeless to some degree. Everyone feels that something is missing.
There is always some unsettled feeling, sometimes overt, sometimes hidden beneath a facade of
orderliness and seeming stability. It all stems from having denied our Self. The world is the effect of
believing there is something more valuable, more desirable than the Home of Love created for us by
God. The world is the desire for specialness, for having a unique identity we can call our own.

Yet God, being one, can only give all of Himself to His creation. He cannot divide Himself and give
more of Himself to one and less to another. What is one can know no differences.

To identify with a special, unique identity, I must deny God and my Self as It was created. Thus I
make myself a stranger to my Father and my Self. I cannot know the comfort and safety of my Father
when I deny it. My Father is still there for me, but I am unaware.

Gently, methodically and consistently the Course is helping me to recognize that this image I have
made and believe I am is not me. I can believe in a false image and experience it as if it were real,
but I cannot make it real. Reality comes from reality, not from made up images. This is my salvation.
Return to truth is guaranteed, for it is ever present. I need only cease to deny it and I will know the
truth. And it sets me free.

Lessons by Marlyn Marval Feb 23th thru April 9th 2015