Lesson 22: What I see is a form of vengeance.
“When you believe something, you have made it true for you. When you believe what God does not know, your thought seems to contradict His, and this makes it appear as if you are attacking Him.” T-7.VI.7:7-8
We unconsciously try to escape our feelings of guilt and fear by projecting them onto the world and everyone and everything in the world.
This seems outrageous because we limit ourselves to specific people, places and things, and it seems ludicrous that “little ole me” is attacking the entire planet and population. But when we slowly and deeply contemplate the above quote, it is possible for the truth to dawn on us, little by little. We are, after all, only on Lesson 22.
So even if we do not feel overtly angry, if we are willing to trust Jesus and his teaching, we will allow the possibility that he is right in showing us what we take for “reality” is actually a “savage fantasy”.
