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Accepting the Power of Our Wanting

This is the only thing that you need do for vision, happiness, release from pain and the complete escape from sin, all to be given you. Say only this, but mean it with no reservations, for here the power of salvation lies:

I am responsible for what I see. I choose the feelings I experience, and I decide upon the goal I would achieve. And everything that seems to happen to me I ask for, and receive as I have asked.

Deceive yourself no longer that you are helpless in the face of what is done to you. Acknowledge but that you have been mistaken, and all effects of your mistakes will disappear.

…the power of your wanting must first be recognized. You must accept its strength, and not its weakness. You must perceive that what is strong enough to make a world can let it go, and can accept correction if it is willing to see that it was wrong.

All that the ego is, is an idea that it is possible that things could happen to the Son of God without his will;…

All that is asked of you is to make room for truth.… All you are asked to do is let it in; only to stop your interference with what will happen of itself; simply to recognize again the presence of [God’s Love] you thought you gave away. (A Course in Miracles, T-21.II.2;4:8-10;6:4;7:6,8. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

To be free of the world of fear and guilt we need only accept without reservation that we are responsible for everything we experience in the world. We only need to acknowledge that we were mistaken when we chose to believe we could be separate from Love. The ego resists this idea with its full arsenal of deceit, because our acceptance of this truth would be the ego’s complete undoing.

The ego tries to convince us that we are powerless to change our choice and what we experience. But here we are reminded that the power to make a world of fear and guilt seem real is our own. As we accept that our choice was mistaken, we remember that we share God’s Will for perfect happiness and peace. With this remembrance the world we made will disappear. We will know that we are at Home in Love.

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