“God Himself has lost the Son He loves, with but corruption to complete Himself, His Will forever overcome by death, love slain by hate, and peace to be no more.”
- ACIM
You feel as an orphan here.
The Father grieves that his Son suffers
“Listen to the story of the prodigal son...: This son of a loving father left his home and thought he had squandered everything for nothing of any value, although he had not understood its worthlessness at the time. He was ashamed to return to his father, because he thought he had hurt him.”
The Pangs of Separation
This begins to give us some idea of how utterly lacking and empty we felt as a result of the separation. For God had been everything to us, our Mother, our Lover, our Brother, our Father.? In Heaven He had been “my Source of life, the life within, the air I breathe, the food by which I am sustained, the water which renews and cleanses me.”? Apparently cut off from Him, from our home, and from our creations, our heaven- ly children, we felt severed from our own being, from our own whole- ness. As the Course says, we quite naturally experienced “depression, a sense of worthlessness, and feelings of impermanence and unreality.’\* “And where, you wonder, does your strange uneasiness, your sense of being disconnected, and your haunting fear of lack of meaning in yourself arise?”
‘A sense of separation from God is the only lack you really need correct.”