The end of guilt

Guilt starts and ends with me. Lately I have discovered so much hidden guilt in me, that I think I have never allowed to surface. So I have read the most dominant parts in the Course that talk about guilt. Guilt is always the idea of separation and special relationships. I want to hide something from you, because I don’t take the responsibility for my actions. It always comes down to my responsibility. It’s the action of defending myself from you, because I think you expect something from me, or I am not good enough. I have actually already judged you and so I have to behave through this judgment now, in order not to let myself down. What a screwed up mind twist that is. I am always just hurting myself.
And now I invite you to make the last “sacrifice”: the “sacrifice” of fear

I gladly make the ‘sacrifice’ of fear.

“Here is the only ‘sacrifice’ You ask of Your beloved Son; You ask him to give up all suffering, all sense of loss and sadness, all anxiety and doubt, and freely let Your Love come streaming in to his awareness, healing him of pain, and giving him Your own eternal joy. Such is the ‘sacrifice’ You ask of me, and one I gladly make; the only ‘cost’ of restoration of Your memory to me, for the salvation of the world.”

And as we pay the debt we owe to truth – a debt which merely is the letting-go of self-deceptions and of images we worshipped falsely – truth returns to us in wholeness and in joy. We are deceived no longer. Love has now returned to our awareness. And we are at peace again, for fear has gone and only Love remains.
- A Course in Miracles, Lesson 323