God’s Will for me is perfect happiness.
* We may have this by accepting the Atonement which sees the entire Sonship’s innocence AND freedom before/Within God.
1. Today we will continue with the theme of happiness. ²This is a key idea in understanding what salvation means. ³You still believe it asks for suffering as penance for your “sins.” ⁴This is not so. ⁵Yet you must think it so while you believe that sin is real, and that God’s Son can sin.
* It is often having our fill of suffering that brings us to the Atonement according to Jesus.
* Chelan Harkin is a young mystical poet who is redefining suffering as a way to get to the sacred. Embracing our pain and getting to the core of it to reveal the essence of God that lies beneath it all. I agree with her wholeheartedly and I do not believe that this idea counteracts what Jesus is teaching us in A Course in Miracles.
* This is a recent post of hers:
11 April 2024
As I meditate I essentially come back to two primary inner dynamics—a desire to feel and stay and fully enter whatever emotions are in me and taste a broader unknown through those doors or be swayed by a fearful, enabling part of my mind that says something like, “no, you couldn’t possibly go into that emotional density, darkness, intensity, horror! Let me present you with some persuasive addictions so you’ll be drawn to leave yourself again.”
Healing is trusting it’s safe to stay and that there is great value in staying. As we do this we find that surrendering familiar limitations to greater unknowns is always life-enriching, expansive and beautiful and we become less of an impulsive pawn to the voice that tells us to flee.
Nothing inside of you, when connected with and held in presence is dangerous, evil, unforgivable. Every darkness rights itself in presence. Every dungeon entered by the intrepidly loving light of consciousness exonerates another long vilified inmate within you whose other name is God.
* Forgiveness of the belief in separation is how we undo our attachment to separation from God and ALL that is Good.
2. If sin is real, then punishment is just and cannot be escaped.
²Salvation thus cannot be purchased but through suffering.
³If sin is real, then happiness must be illusion, for they cannot both be true.
* Remember that happiness is KNOWING your freedom and innocence in God.
⁴The sinful warrant only death and pain, and it is this they ask for.
⁵For they know it waits for them, and it will seek them out and find them somewhere, sometime, in some form that evens the account they owe to God.
⁶They would escape Him in their fear.
⁷And yet He will pursue, and they can not escape.
* He does not ‘actually’ pursue us because He (God) never left us. In this reference, pursue means that God remains steady in His Knowledge of Who We ARE.
3. If sin is real, salvation must be pain.
²Pain is the cost of sin, and suffering can never be escaped, if sin is real.
³Salvation must be feared, for it will kill, but slowly, taking everything away before it grants the welcome boon of death to victims who are little more than bones before salvation is appeased.
⁴Its wrath is boundless, merciless, but wholly just.
* This is the mental maze that the guilt-manifested god of ego has taken us on for eons. Imagine the work of untangling the consequential misfires of the ego. Please be gentle with yourselves and each other. 
4. Who would seek out such savage punishment?
²Who would not flee salvation, and attempt in every way he can to drown the Voice which offers it to him?
³Why would he try to listen and accept Its offering?
⁴If sin is real, its offering is death, and meted out in cruel form to match the vicious wishes in which sin is born.
⁵If sin is real, salvation has become your bitter enemy, the curse of God upon you who have crucified His Son.
5. You need the practice periods today.
²The exercises teach sin is not real, and all that you believe must come from sin will never happen, for it has no cause.
* No judgment, no punishment, no resolution, and NO COMPANY or real communication.
* Hate has no ears or eyes. It struggles alone. Even though it get get bodies and even voices to join it.
³Accept Atonement with an open mind, which cherishes no lingering belief that you have made a devil of God’s Son.
⁴There is no sin.
⁵We practice with this thought as often as we can today, because it is the basis for today’s idea.
6. God’s Will for you is perfect happiness because there is no sin, and suffering is causeless.
* Let the Holy Spirit help you with letting go of the thoughts or emotions that come up as you walk through life.
* It is possible to know the truth and still me affected by thoughts or emotions, physical pain and even death in the world of ego WITHOUT becoming attached to it.
²Joy is just, and pain is but the sign you have misunderstood yourself.
* Remember, be gentle, don’t judge, my loves.
³Fear not the Will of God.
⁴But turn to it in confidence that it will set you free from all the consequences sin has wrought in feverish imagination. ⁵Say:
⁶God’s Will for me is perfect happiness.
⁷There is no sin; it has no consequence.
⁸So should you start your practice periods, and then attempt again to find the joy these thoughts will introduce into your mind.
7. Give these five minutes gladly, to remove the heavy load you lay upon yourself with the insane belief that sin is real.
²Today escape from madness.
³You are set on freedom’s road, and now today’s idea brings wings to speed you on, and hope to go still faster to the waiting goal of peace.
⁴There is no sin.
⁵Remember this today, and tell yourself as often as you can:
⁶God’s Will for me is perfect happiness.
⁷This is the truth, because there is no sin.
* Thank you, Heavenly Father for the peace, joy, and comfort you extend your Son at all times and in all places. In the Name of Father and Son, even Love, amen.
(ACIM, W-101.1:1–7:7)
Till next time, God bless, debi.
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