Helen Schucmann's Gifts (The Dream of Fear)

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"If you were certain---

wholy sure and with consistent grasp

of what the world can give---

fear would be laid aside

as easily as joy and peace

unite on love's behalf. But first

there must be certainty

that there can be no love

where fear exists, and that the world

will never give a gift

that is not made of fear, concealed perhaps,

but surely present somewhere in the gift.

Accept it not, and

you will understand

a gift far greater has been given you.

Let not the world deceive you.

It was made to be deception. Yet

its snares can be so easily escaped

a little child can walk through safely,

and without a care that would arrest its progress.

Dreams are dreams,

and every one is equally untrue.

This is the only lesson to be learned. Yet

will fear linger until every one is recognized

as nothingness,

and seen exactly as it is

and nothing more.

There is no person, thing, or circumstance

that you can value as your own

without the "gift" of fear

arising in your heart. For you

have seen them all as they are not,

and love for them has fled

as if from you. And you

will think that God has ceased 

to care for you 

who have betrayed the Son He loves,

and chosen fear and guilt in place of Him."

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