I feel the Love of God within me now.
* Be aware that the Love of God DOES NOT LOOK LIKE the love of humanity. It does not claim ownership and it does acknowledge God and His Son.
1. There is a light in you the world can not perceive.
²And with its eyes you will not see this light, for you are blinded by the world.
* “The world” in the language of Jesus equals those who do not accept God and His Son.
* The “blindness” is caused by the attitudes and expectations that you have because you have walked about believing in the idea of separation.
* This is going to take some time to undo all of the results of that thinking. BUT THIS DOES NOT MEAN that we cannot step into Heaven’s Awareness RIGHT NOW because the True and Complete Forgiveness that releases us from our attachment to separation is AVAILABLE WHENEVER WE ARE WILLING TO ACCEPT IT.
³Yet you have eyes to see it.
⁴It is there for you to look upon.
⁵It was not placed in you to be kept hidden from your sight.
⁶This light is a reflection of the thought we practice now.
⁷To feel the Love of God within you is to see the world anew,
shining in innocence, alive with hope, and blessed with perfect charity and love.
* My testimony that this is true is the ONLY THING I have to give the world.
* Do you see where I get the feeling that “charity” in the language of Jesus is EQUALITY?
* It embodies a mercy for ANY ERRORS that we may step into such as me being overly protective of my “moment of joy in the story” with my daughter’s news and getting angry because a dark cloud was placed over it causing me to swear.
* I am talking about me having mercy on myself. I can’t give it to someone else on MY behalf. He has to have that in himself and the only way to do it is from Heaven where God and Son reside in communion.
* This has stood between me and others throughout my life and I did not understand that. I AM RUDE in their eyes because I claim the right to be wrong sometimes and am able to see it and own it like I expect them to, as well, WITHOUT losing their place in God’s Love or MINE.
* If this is NOT UNDERSTOOD then ANY TIME something is “out of place” it is seen as a “sin” that deserves punishment or abandonment or bonds us as egos because we are all hopeless and lost anyway. This of course leads to abuses and manipulations as we hold onto these errors as if they were truly a part of us and they ARE NOT!
* A mistake is a mistake, is a mistake, is a mistake. And that is all that it is. IT ISN’T EVEN REAL. Because all mistakes, just like ALL FEAR is based on the belief in separation and separation IS AN IMPOSSIBILITY.
* It embodies letting go of figuring out if someone is “safe” or not and trusting the Guidance of the Holy Spirit in this and nothing else.
2. Who could feel fear in such a world as this?
²It welcomes you, rejoices that you came, and sings your praises as it keeps you safe from every form of danger and of pain.
³It offers you a warm and gentle home in which to stay a while.
⁴It blesses you throughout the day, and watches through the night as silent guardian of your holy sleep.
⁵It sees salvation in you, and protects the light in you, in which it sees its own.
⁶It offers you its flowers and its snow, in thankfulness for your benevolence.
3. This is the world the Love of God reveals.
²It is so different from the world you see through darkened eyes of malice and of fear, that one belies the other.
³Only one can be perceived at all.
⁴The other one is wholly meaningless.
⁵A world in which forgiveness shines on everything, and peace offers its gentle light to everyone, is inconceivable to those who see a world of hatred rising from attack, poised to avenge, to murder and destroy.
4. Yet is the world of hatred equally unseen and inconceivable to those who feel God’s Love in them.
* This is true only to an extent. In fact, it is more of a lie than a truth because the Holy Spirit will show you what is going on.
* Their truth is in what is recorded here but they are able to see the way humanity is harming itself and we need to stay here and be taught by the Holy Spirit how to lift ourselves into the truth.
²Their world reflects the quietness and peace that shines in them; the gentleness and innocence they see surrounding them; the joy with which they look out from the endless wells of joy within.
³What they have felt in them they look upon, and see its sure reflection everywhere.
* This is NOT so! I KNOW better. Because I know that God IS and that is to be accepted as an act of faith not one of experience. Unless you trust the experience that happens within that knows these things are so WITHOUT HAVING TO SEE IT IN THE OUTER WORLD.
5. What would you see?
²The choice is given you.
³But learn and do not let your mind forget this law of seeing: You will look upon that which you feel within.
⁴If hatred finds a place within your heart, you will perceive a fearful world, held cruelly in death’s sharp-pointed, bony fingers.
⁵If you feel the Love of God within you, you will look out on a world of mercy and of love.
* You will desire to tolerate nothing less than this from those you hold close.
* It is greater than I can say. These people did not understand how to translate what they were sharing because they had no comprehension of what it was Jesus was speaking about.
6. Today we pass illusions, as we seek to reach to what is true in us, and feel its all-embracing tenderness, its Love which knows us perfect as itself, its sight which is the gift its Love bestows on us.
²We learn the way today.
³It is as sure as Love itself, to which it carries us.
⁴For its simplicity avoids the snares the foolish convolutions of the world’s apparent reasoning but serve to hide.
7. Simply do this: Be still, and lay aside all thoughts of what you are and what God is; all concepts you have learned about the world; all images you hold about yourself.
²Empty your mind of everything it thinks is either true or false, or good or bad, of every thought it judges worthy, and all the ideas of which it is ashamed.
³Hold onto nothing.
⁴Do not bring with you one thought the past has taught, nor one belief you ever learned before from anything.
⁵Forget this world, forget this course, and come with wholly empty hands unto your God.
* That is a mighty big doorway for someone to step in and tell the world how to live. It does not give credit to the Creator or to Jesus for giving us this Course. It does not identify the layers of false information and habits we have established over ourselves.
8. Is it not He Who knows the way to you?
²You need not know the way to Him.
³Your part is simply to allow all obstacles that you have interposed between the Son and God the Father to be quietly removed forever.
* And THIS involves belief in SIN and SEPARATION.
⁴God will do His part in joyful and immediate response.
⁵Ask and receive.
⁶But do not make demands, nor point the road to God by which He should appear to you.
⁷The way to reach Him is merely to let Him be.
⁸For in that way is your reality proclaimed as well.
9. And so today we do not choose the way in which we go to Him.
²But we do choose to let Him come.
³And with this choice we rest.
⁴And in our quiet hearts and open minds, His Love will blaze its pathway of itself.
⁵What has not been denied is surely there, if it be true and can be surely reached.
⁶God knows His Son, and knows the way to him.
⁷He does not need His Son to show Him how to find His way.
⁸Through every opened door His Love shines outward from its home within, and lightens up the world in innocence.
10. Father, we do not know the way to You.
²But we have called, and You have answered us.
³We will not interfere.
⁴Salvation’s ways are not our own, for they belong to You.
⁵And it is unto You we look for them.
⁶Our hands are open to receive Your gifts.
⁷We have no thoughts we think apart from You, and cherish no beliefs of what we are, or Who created us.
⁸Yours is the way that we would find and follow.
⁹And we ask but that Your Will, which is our own as well, be done in us and in the world, that it become a part of Heaven now.
¹⁰Amen.
* I KNOW of what I speak and I will walk one Holy Instant at a time and let the world of the ego=god deception fall away.
(ACIM, W-189.1:1–10:10)
Till next time, God bless, debi.
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