Beyond this world there is a world I want.
* Here it is. You are meant to be abundant in all the ways that could be.
1. This is the thought that follows from the one we practiced yesterday.
²You cannot stop with the idea the world is worthless, for unless you see that there is something else to hope for, you will only be depressed.
³Our emphasis is not on giving up the world, but on exchanging it for what is far more satisfying, filled with joy, and capable of offering you peace.
⁴Think you this world can offer that to you?
* Jesus is actually speaking about the Heaven that was “shrouded” in the Bible by claiming it to be found only after death. In reality, this is true because you must allow the world that believes in separation from God to be released (a pseudo-death, because death itself is impossible) from your belief system.
2. It might be worth a little time to think once more about the value of this world. ²Perhaps you will concede there is no loss in letting go all thought of value here.
³The world you see is merciless indeed, unstable, cruel, unconcerned with you, quick to avenge and pitiless with hate.
⁴It gives but to rescind (*take back), and takes away all things that you have cherished for a while.
⁵No lasting love is found, for none is here.
⁶This is the world of time, where all things end.
* In the place where I walk, time has no meaning except to get me to appointments.
3. Is it a loss to find a world instead where losing is impossible; where love endures forever, hate cannot exist and vengeance has no meaning?
* I have this within, and I feel that it is beginning to show up in the world of form here and there.
²Is it loss to find all things you really want, and know they have no ending and they will remain exactly as you want them throughout time?
* It is a feeling of security and abundance, protection and acceptance as a part of the Love that created me.
³Yet even they will be exchanged at last for what we cannot speak of, for you go from there to where words fail entirely, into a silence where the language is unspoken and yet surely understood.
* This is one of those statements that makes Heaven seem like it is beyond our imagination and reach. Probably because these messages are being processed through minds that have yet to realize God IS here and now.
* Note how silence does not equal no discernment or acknowledgment/cognition; “unspoken AND YET SURELY UNDERSTOOD.”
4. Communication, unambiguous (*not open to more than one interpretation) and plain as day, remains unlimited for all eternity.
* I suspect this means communication between the Father and the Son, and ALL parts of the Sonship of Christ.
²And God Himself speaks to His Son, as His Son speaks to Him.
³Their language has no words, for what They say cannot be symbolized.
⁴Their knowledge is direct and wholly shared and wholly one.
* This may be what I am experiencing as I resonate with the idea of allowing GOD to LIVE MY LIFE and let me be the observer. Meaning that there is complete communication that I do not even need (at this level) to be aware of, except for that which I would name worship, thanks, and complete trust.
⁵How far away from this are you who stay bound to this world.
* When we think we are in a world of lack and fear (note that leads to envy and depression) we close off what comes NATURALLY when we acknowledge God.
⁶And yet how near are you, when you exchange it for the world you want.
* Yes, and this we do through the Atonement.
5. Now is the last step certain; now you stand an instant’s space away from timelessness.
²Here can you but look forward, never back to see again the world you do not want. ³Here is the world that comes to take its place, as you unbind your mind from little things the world sets forth to keep you prisoner.
⁴Value them not, and they will disappear.
⁵Esteem them, and they will seem real to you.
6. Such is the choice.
²What loss can be for you in choosing not to value nothingness?
³This world holds nothing that you really want, but what you choose instead you want indeed!
⁴Let it be given you today.
⁵It waits but for your choosing it, to take the place of all the things you seek but do not want.
7. Practice your willingness to make this change ten minutes in the morning and at night, and once more in between.
²Begin with this:
³Beyond this world there is a world I want.
⁴I choose to see that world instead of this, for here is nothing that I really want.
⁵Then close your eyes upon the world you see, and in the silent darkness watch the lights that are not of this world light one by one, until where one begins another ends loses all meaning as they blend in one.
* Wow, I can see this happening in my mind’s third (spiritual) eye.
8. Today the lights of Heaven bend to you, to shine upon your eyelids as you rest beyond the world of darkness.
²Here is light your eyes can not behold.
³And yet your mind can see it plainly, and can understand.
⁴A day of grace is given you today, and we give thanks.
⁵This day we realize that what you feared to lose was only loss.
* Loss is what we were afraid of, in other words.
9. Now do we understand there is no loss.
²For we have seen its opposite at last, and we are grateful that the choice is made. ³Remember your decision hourly, and take a moment to confirm your choice by laying by (*setting aside) whatever thoughts you have, and dwelling briefly only upon this:
⁴The world I see holds nothing that I want.
⁵Beyond this world there is a world I want.
* From within the mindset of the Atonement, where God the Father and His Son (all of creation) are made real and you release belief in separation from Them through forgiveness. (fore give ness, giving ~or being in ~ recognition to the truth of Father and His Son)
(ACIM, W-129.1:1–9:5)
* I have much love and appreciation for each of you, regardless of the costumes you think you wear or the wrongs you might believe you have done.
Till next time, God Bless, debi.
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