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OrEd-T-22.7-Freedom and Holy Spirit.258. We will see our value through each other's eyes. Each one is released, as he beholds his savior, instead of the attacker that he thought was there. All the world is released through this releasing as we fulfill our part in bringing peace. For we have asked, "What is our function here?", and have been answered. We will not seek to change our function nor substitute another goal. Only this one was given to us. We accept this one, and serve it willingly. For how the Holy Spirit uses the gifts we give each other, where and when and to whom He offers them, is up to Him. He will bestow them where they are received and welcomed. He will use every one of them for peace. Nor will one little smile or willingness to overlook the tiniest mistake be lost to anyone. *59. For us to look with charity on what our Father loves, is a universal blessing. Extension of forgiveness is the Holy Spirit's function. We leave this to Him. Our only concern is that we give to Him that which can be extended. We will save no dark secrets that He cannot use, but offer to Him the tiny gifts that He can extend forever. He will bless them, not limiting them in any way. He will take each one, and make it into a potent force for peace. The Holy Spirit will join the gift with all the power that God has given Him, to make each little gift of love a source of healing for everyone. Each little gift we offer to the other lights up the world. We bless each other, and in each smile of confidence and faith, He gently lays our light. We will not be concerned with darkness. We look away from it, and toward each other. We let the darkness be dispelled by Him Who knows the light. 60. It is not humility that would deny the power of our will, but arrogance. We do not see what this denial and belief has done. We see ourselves as frail, vulnerable, easily destroyed, and at the mercy of attackers more powerful than we are. And this is the anchor that seems to keep the fear of God in place, solid, unmovable, and so it will seem to be while this belief remains. We will look straight at how this error came about, for the welfare of the world depends on our learning. Do we think the Will of God is powerless? 61. Who can attack the Son of God and not attack his Father? How can God's Son be weak and frail and easily destroyed unless his Father is also? I do not see that every sin and every condemnation which I perceive and justify, is an attack upon my Father. I think the Father and the Son are separate. I think the Father and the Son are separate, because of fear. I do not see that this is my attempt. It seems safer to attack another, or myself, than to attack the great Creator of the universe, whose power I know. And that is why the attack has not happened, nor could it be real. 62. Attack is unjustified in any form, because it has no meaning. If I recognized my oneness with God, I would know that His power is mine. But I will not remember this while I believe any kind of attack has any meaning. Attack could be justified if each one of us were separate from the other, and all were separate from our Creator. For only then would it be possible to attack a part of the creation without the whole, the Son without the Father, and to attack another without attacking myself, or hurt myself without the other feeling pain. And I want this belief. What is the value of this belief except the desire to attack in safety? Yet, attack is neither safe nor dangerous, it is impossible, because the universe is one. To choose attack, it is essential to see attack as separate from its maker. Then it seems as if love could attack and become fearful. 63. Only the different can attack. So I conclude because I can attack I must be different. Yet the Holy Spirit explain this differently. Because I am not different, I cannot attack. Either position is a logical conclusion--if only the different can attack. Either could be maintained, but never both. The only question to be answered to decide which must be true is whether I am different. From the position of what I understand, I seem to be different, and therefore can attack. Of the alternatives, this seems more natural and more in line with my experience. Therefore, it is necessary that I have other experiences more in line with truth, to teach me what is natural and true. 64. This is the function of my holy relationship. For what one thinks the other will experience with him. What can this mean except our minds are one? We will not look with fear upon this happy fact and think that it lays a heavy burden on us. For when we have accepted it with gladness, we will realize that our relationship is a reflection of the union of the Creator and His Son. From loving minds there is no separation. And every thought in one brings gladness to the other because they are the same. Joy is unlimited because each shining thought of love extends its being and creates more of itself. There is no difference anywhere in it for every thought is like itself. 65. The light that joins us shines throughout the universe, and because it joins us, it makes us one with our Creator. And in Him is all creation joined. I cannot fear alone, for our relationship also teaches the power of love is there, which makes all fear impossible. I will not attempt to keep a little of the ego with this gift. For the gift was given to me to be used and not obscured. The Holy Spirit denies the ego, and teaches me I cannot separate. Truth decides for me whether I am different or the same, and teaches me which is true.