With this lesson, "Let not my world obscure the sight of Christ," we can use it by substituting words, like "Let not this situation, this event, this feeling, this self-concept, this belief, this opinion or this thought obscure the sight of Christ." This covers a lot of ground with what is going on in our minds. We ask today, "Holy Spirit, please help me not to let my thoughts about this situation keep me from the love that I am. I am willing to be wrong about the way I see this person or event. I am willing to be wrong about everything that I believe or think about. Basically, I am willing to be wrong about anything that is unlike love that comes up in my awareness and obscures the sight of Christ, including everything in this illusory world of attack and separation."

Undoing everything that obscures Christ's vision must become our goal, if we want to know who we are. With the ego as the voice we listen to, we are basically only concerned with ourselves. We are the center of our world, using others to get our needs met. When we recognize that "The ego rewards fidelity to it with pain, for faith in it is pain," (T.13.IX.2.3)(ACIM OE T.13.III.12) our allegiance to it will diminish. That is why Jesus goes to great lengths to demonstrate how belief in the value of attack brings that attack back at us. In other words we are always hurting ourselves when we judge and attack others. When we want someone else to receive their just desserts, we are actually asking this for ourselves. Everything is our own mind reflected back at us. "And what I look on is my state of mind reflected outward." (W.304.1.4)
 
What we see with our eyes and hear with our ears makes the illusion seem real and solid. That is precisely what the senses were made to do. That is how the ego set it up, so that we would never choose against it. It all starts with our thoughts. If we hold a belief in lack, then we will experience lack in our lives. The evidence for it will be seen in not having enough. Our allegiance to our beliefs prolongs our suffering. Can a Son of God who has everything be lacking? The ego is committed to demonstrating this world as one of pain and misery. Yes, small pleasures are thrown in here and there but, ultimately, it is a world of suffering. All pleasures end.

When our thoughts and perceptions are healed, everything about our world will change. Difficult situations and difficult people just fall away. The things that did seem problematic to us before no longer matter because we see everything differently. Now we see that the seeming attacks directed our way are just a call for love. That call is simply a brother who asks that we see who he really is, beyond the seemingly attacking behaviors. To see in this way is to see with the eyes of Christ. It is to see with vision instead of judgment.

In the introduction to Chapter 21, we are reminded that, "Projection makes perception. The world you see is what you gave it, nothing more than that. But though it is no more than that, it is not less. Therefore, to you it is important. It is the witness to your state of mind, the outside picture of an inward condition. As a man thinketh, so does he perceive. Therefore, seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world." (T.21.In.1.1-7(ACIM OE T.21.In.1)
The world reflects what is in our minds. "Perception is a mirror not a fact." (W.304.1.3) When we see through the eyes of Christ, we give only blessing to everyone and everything in the world. This is true perception. It is to see everything through the eyes of love and to overlook everything that is not the truth. To see the world through the eyes of Christ is to see everything as a reflection of truth. It means that we must bring all of our judgments and misperceptions to the Holy Spirit for His reinterpretation. Then we will no longer see the world as a projection of our judgmental thoughts, of our fears, of our attacks, of our false empathy and our needs, but instead as a reflection of the love that is in us.
 
This lesson reminds us that forgiveness is the means. As we bring our mistaken perceptions to the Holy Spirit, we are being led from sin to holiness. It is a step by step process, but it has already been accomplished because the Atonement Principle assures us that, indeed, we cannot and have not changed ourselves. In essence, blessing goes out from our holy nature when the blocks to the awareness of love's presence are dissipated by the Holy Spirit Who already knows that they don't exist and have no substance. "And I will look upon the certain signs that all my sins have been forgiven me." (1.6) Thus as our misperception of the world is healed, it will be reflected back to us as a forgiven world, where there is only love or a call for love. "By their fruits ye shall know them, and they shall know themselves." (T.9.V.9.6)(T.9.IV.30) In other words, when we make space for the blessing to shine through us, we receive it in that same instant. Thus we come to know our own holiness, which is such a gift! Guilt is replaced with innocence, and we feel the holy presence in us, which is our true nature.
 
Sin is described in the Course as a lack of love. It is the home of illusions. It is insanity and a game that has no substance. Jesus makes it clear that there truly is no sin. All we need to do is change our minds. We have forgotten who we are. As we bring our dark secrets, our shame and our guilt to the Holy Spirit and willingly release the thoughts of this world that obscure the sight of Christ, our awareness of the truth of who we are, as the holy child of God, returns. Now that truth is reflected in everything that we see.

This takes us to the end of the journey, which is the experience of the Second Coming, and the total undoing of the dream. "Forgiveness lights the Second Coming's way, because it shines on everything as one. And thus is oneness recognized at last." (W.PII.Q9 WHAT IS THE SECOND COMING?2.3) The means to this awakening is through forgiveness. "Let me forgive, and thus receive salvation for the world." (W.304.2.2) When I hold onto a grievance against a brother, I am really saying, "I don't want to go home. I'd rather stay angry with my brother." "Every attack is a step away from this, [peace] and every healing thought brings it closer." (T.11.II.1.2)(ACIM OE T.10.III.16)

Thus do we extend peace to our brother by bringing all of our grievances for reinterpretation, so that we might see our brothers with the eyes of Christ. When we see the sameness of our brothers, it is a reflection of the Oneness that we are. Differences affirm our separation. Forgiveness leads us from the darkness to the light, from sin to holiness. We can become a spotless mirror in the world where only love is reflected through our Being. Here the return of Christ is the return to the one mind that is all there is. The return of Jesus is not an event within time and space, but a realization, outside of this dream, that we all share the same Self.
   
Today, let nothing in your world obscure the sight of Christ by being willing to bring to the feet of truth all doubt thoughts, all worries, all plans, all concerns, and all thoughts that keep you prisoner to the world. Don't deny the thoughts or feelings or try to distract from them or do anything to mitigate them. Be with them, being willing to look at the beliefs that are there and the story around them, which is never the truth.

Today we look past all illusion and affirm the truth of who we are, as perfect, whole, and complete as created by God. Today I look at my mind and see distress about a situation where I feel wrongly accused. I affirm that I will not let his situation obscure the sight of Christ. I am willing to rest the story, release the feelings I am experiencing about this person so I can receive salvation for the world. "It needs your eyes and ears and hands and feet. It needs your voice. And most of all it needs your willingness." (W.PII.Q9 WHAT IS THE SECOND COMING?5.2-4)

My wrong perception is obscuring the Christ in me. What I see is only my perception, which is a mirror of my own thoughts and never a fact. The ego argues this point vehemently, but if we stubbornly side with it, we keep ourselves in our self-made hell. We have a way out, and the way out is to look at our thoughts and feelings honestly, take responsibility for them, and be willing to turn them over to the Holy Spirit. Hanging onto them keeps us from experiencing the miracle and keeps us from the peace that we say we want.