Fear is the stranger to the ways of love. Identify with fear, and you will be a stranger to yourself. Thus you are unknown to you. You remain an alien to the part of you which thinks that it is real but different from yourself. Who but a madman could believe he is what he is not, and judge against himself?
There is a stranger in your midst, who comes from an idea so foreign to the truth he speaks a different language, looks upon a world truth does not know, and understands what truth regards as senseless. Yet, how easy it would be for you to say, "This is my home. Here I belong, and will not leave because a madman says I must." No one would let himself be dispossessed so needlessly, unless he thought there were another home more suited to his tastes.
Who is the stranger? Is it fear or you that is unsuited to the home which God provided for his children? Is fear His Own, created in His likeness? Is it fear that love completes, and is completed by? There is no home can shelter love and fear. They cannot coexist. If you are real, then fear must be an illusion. If fear is real, then we do not exist.
Who fears has denied himself and said, "I am a stranger here. Therefore, I leave my home to someone more like me than myself, giving him all I thought belonged to me." A stranger to himself can find no home wherever he may look, because he has made returning impossible. His way is lost except for a miracle. The miracle will come.
Who is the stranger? Hear God's voice assure you, quietly and sure, that you are not a stranger to God, nor is your Creator a stranger made to you. "Whom God has joined remain forever one, at home in Him, no stranger to Himself." Christ's vision sees no strangers, but behold His Own and joyously unites with them. Home may be complete and perfect as it was established.
God has not forgotten us. We will not remember Him until we look on all as He does. Remembering now,"who denies his brother is denying God, and refusing to accept the gift of sight by which his Self is clearly recognized, his home remembered and salvation come." Visit; www.jean-lucdabreau.com
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