Heaven is the decision I must make.
* Wow. I finally did that this year and the world has shifted completely.
1. In this world Heaven is a choice, because here we believe there are alternatives to choose between.
* In REALITY it is where we have always been and always will be.
²We think that all things have an opposite, and what we want we choose.
* This is NOT how we think from our place in the Atonement that NO ONE else can fill because we know that God IS and that NOTHING CAN EVER OPPOSE HIM OR EVER HAS.
* The understanding grows within us that God is living through us and we are there to celebrate the blessings He brings us that we did not even know we wanted. Tip: Just tell Him how you want to feel and let Jesus coordinate things to come into your experience to meet these desires and more.
³If Heaven exists there must be hell as well, for contradiction is the way we make what we perceive, and what we think is real.
2. Creation knows no opposite. ²But here is opposition part of being “real.” ³It is this strange perception of the truth that makes the choice of Heaven seem to be the same as the relinquishment of hell. ⁴It is not really thus. ⁵Yet what is true in God’s creation cannot enter here until it is reflected in some form the world can understand. ⁶Truth cannot come where it could only be perceived with fear. ⁷For this would be the error truth can be brought to illusions. ⁸Opposition makes the truth unwelcome, and it cannot come.
* Heaven is the actual Presence and Communion with the Father. This is something that I affirmatively accepted this year and have proceeded to live moment by moment in Heaven with the intention that this be brought to Earth.
* What I discovered was something that could have frightened me IF I did not know the truth that God IS and that is that we are ALONE. It is the reality of existence as God “WAS” before He Chose to beget His Son.
3. Choice is the obvious escape from what appears as opposites. ²Decision lets one of conflicting goals become the aim of effort and expenditure of time. ³Without decision, time is but a waste and effort dissipated. ⁴It is spent for nothing in return, and time goes by without results. ⁵There is no sense of gain, for nothing is accomplished; nothing learned.
* PLEASE do not waste your time by not asking yourself if you desire Heaven to be REAL. That is pretty much all you need to do. It begins that journey and the Holy Spirit and Jesus will help you from where you are right now.
4. You need to be reminded that you think a thousand choices are confronting you, when there is really only one to make.
* ONE CHOICE.
²And even this but seems to be a choice.
* Make the CHOICE to see the TRUTH.
³Do not confuse yourself with all the doubts that myriad decisions would induce.
⁴You make but one.
⁵And when that one is made, you will perceive it was no choice at all.
⁶For truth is true, and nothing else is true.
⁷There is no opposite to choose instead.
⁸There is no contradiction to the truth.
5. Choosing depends on learning.
²And the truth cannot be learned, but only recognized.
* So, you are NOT learning something. You are accepting what just is what it is.
³In recognition its acceptance lies, and as it is accepted it is known.
⁴But knowledge is beyond the goals we seek to teach within the framework of this course.
* The Course is to teach you to let go of your interpretation of the ego=god mentality and give your attention to the Voice of God within you that Jesus identifies as the Holy Spirit.
* I cannot tell you what it is to find the Course BEFORE you find the Holy Spirit because it was the Holy Spirit that took me to the Course when I told Jesus that I was willing to do whatever it took to bring about the Rapture. I was told that my daughter was going to die and it was the only thing that I could think of to help her since I was told there would not be a damn thing I could do to stop it from happening by the Spirit a year before she died.
* I was a Mormon and I had done everything I could to abide by the rule book and put things right, but it was not enough and I found through the Spirit that they were spinning circles around an old campfire instead of letting the Holy Spirit lead us to the Heaven on Earth that we ARE capable of finding.
* I CAN tell you that I know what KNOWING feels like even though when it seems like people are listening to me I get nervous because I am just me, but I have put my ego aside and accepted the truth that I am a part of Christ right now and that God is Who Jesus says that He is. I know that my daughter lives and that there is nothing I would not do or any time I would not take for her to know how proud of her I am just because she is. I no longer accept the concept of sin in any way. Mistakes, sure, but that is what the Holy Spirit is for.
⁵Ours are teaching goals, to be attained through learning how to reach them, what they are, and what they offer you. ⁶Decisions are the outcome of your learning, for they rest on what you have accepted as the truth of what you are, and what your needs must be.
6. In this insanely complicated world, Heaven appears to take the form of choice, rather than merely being what it is. ²Of all the choices you have tried to make this is the simplest, most definitive and prototype of all the rest, the one which settles all decisions. ³If you could decide the rest, this one remains unsolved. ⁴But when you solve this one, the others are resolved with it, for all decisions but conceal this one by taking different forms. ⁵Here is the final and the only choice in which is truth accepted or denied.
* This is real, folks!!! I am not kidding!
7. So we begin today considering the choice that time was made to help us make.
²Such is its holy purpose, now transformed from the intent you gave it; that it be a means for demonstrating hell is real, hope changes to despair, and life itself must in the end be overcome by death.
* When we truly believe in God we understand that He could only have ONE SON Who is All That IS because He gave ALL that He IS to His Son and There is NOTHING outside of the Father and the Son.
* There just could not be.
* If you stop and look at it for a moment you will see that it is the only thing that could make any sense.
³In death alone are opposites resolved, for ending opposition is to die.
⁴And thus salvation must be seen as death, for life is seen as conflict.
⁵To resolve the conflict is to end your life as well.
* The life you will end is the one that is separate from God and All That IS. And you Will begin to see Heaven and Eternity. I PROMISE IT IS THERE/HERE/NOW.
8. These mad beliefs can gain unconscious hold of great intensity, and grip the mind with terror and anxiety so strong that it will not relinquish its ideas about its own protection. ²It must be saved from salvation, threatened to be safe, and magically armored against truth. ³And these decisions are made unaware, to keep them safely undisturbed; apart from question and from reason and from doubt.
9. Heaven is chosen consciously.
* You accept it now and ~ you do not have to pay someone to help you get there. God asks so little. Just a willingness that it Be True!
* Do not give someone else the power to do what only you have the power to do. THAT did not even make any sense, did it? And yet this is what I was brainwashed into doing for over fifty years of my life.
* We all have. Do NOT waste time pointing fingers and blaming others or yourself. Make the decision to choose to believe that Heaven is a possibility and let the Holy Spirit guide you.
²The choice cannot be made until alternatives are accurately seen and understood. ³All that is veiled in shadows must be raised to understanding, to be judged again, this time with Heaven’s help.
⁴And all mistakes in judgment that the mind had made before are open to correction, as the truth dismisses them as causeless. ⁵Now are they without effects. ⁶They cannot be concealed, because their nothingness is recognized.
10. The conscious choice of Heaven is as sure as is the ending of the fear of hell, when it is raised from its protective shield of unawareness, and is brought to light.
²Who can decide between the clearly seen and the unrecognized?
³Yet who can fail to make a choice between alternatives when only one is seen as valuable; the other as a wholly worthless thing, a but imagined source of guilt and pain?
⁴Who hesitates to make a choice like this?
⁵And shall we hesitate to choose today?
11. We make the choice for Heaven as we wake, and spend five minutes making sure that we have made the one decision that is sane.
²We recognize we make a conscious choice between what has existence and what has nothing but an appearance of the truth.
³Its pseudo-being, brought to what is real, is flimsy and transparent in the light. ⁴It holds no terror now, for what was made enormous, vengeful, pitiless with hate, demands obscurity for fear to be invested there.
⁵Now it is recognized as but a foolish, trivial mistake.
12. Before we close our eyes in sleep tonight, we reaffirm the choice that we have made each hour in between. ²And now we give the last five minutes of our waking day to the decision with which we awoke. ³As every hour passed, we have declared our choice again, in a brief quiet time devoted to maintaining sanity. ⁴And finally, we close the day with this, acknowledging we chose but what we want:
⁵Heaven is the decision I must make.
⁶I make it now, and will not change my mind, because it is the only thing I want.
(ACIM, W-138.1:1–12:6)
Till next time, God bless, debi.
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