Fear is a stranger to love. Identify with fear, and you are a stranger to yourself. You are unknown to you. Your Self is alien to the part of you which thinks that it is real, but different from yourself. Who could be sane in such a circumstance? Who but a madman could believe he is what he is not, and judge against himself?
Love and fear cannot coexist. If you are love and real, then fear must be the stranger, the illusion. If fear is real, then you do not exist at all.
A stranger to himself can find no home wherever he may look, for he has made return impossible. His way is lost, except a miracle will search him out and show him that he is no stranger now. The miracle will come. For in his home his Self remains.
God's certainty suffices. Hear His Voice, quietly and sure, that you are not a stranger to your Father, nor is your Creator stranger to you. At home in Him, no stranger to Himself.
Christ's vision sees no strangers, joyously uniting with them. They see Him as a stranger, for they do not recognize themselves. Yet as they give Him welcome, they remember. And He leads them gently home again, where they belong.
Not one does Christ forget. Not one He fails to give you to remember, that your home may be complete and perfect as it was established. He has not forgotten you. But you will not remember Him until you look on all as He does. Who denies his brother is denying Him, and thus refusing to accept the gift of sight by which his Self is clearly recognized, his home remembered and salvation come.
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