Mary: Today I let the veil be lifted. Today I focus on my willingness to let the truth return to my mind. I allow in the Light That brings clarity and dissolves all the false ideas that I have made real. As I let in the Light, I naturally extend the light.
Love is simple and uncomplicated. It has no worries. It has no fears. It is not concerned about the future or the past. Love is. God is. There is nothing else. I soak in this awareness of the truth until I feel the peace it brings. I rest here. I take all thoughts that come up and give them over to this healing gift of peace. All concerns fall away as I give time for this. I put the future in God’s hands. In this present moment I would remember the truth. I would rest in the truth. All is well. The whole Sonship is safe.
Robert: The goal of A Course in Miracles is to awaken us to the recognition that we remain in Heaven, we remain in Love. We are told that to awaken we must be willing to question every value that we hold. We experience being in separate bodies in a world of separate forms because we have chosen to trust or value the belief in separation. All decisions are based on this belief until we are willing to question and let go of it. Because it is illusion, the world of separate forms is highly unstable. In our attempts to make some semblance of stability, we try to hang on to the past and make the future like the past. Even if the past seemed to hold pain, we will often continue to recreate circumstances that seem to bring up the old pain again and again. Yet this need not be.
As we begin to let go of old beliefs and values, the world seems even more chaotic and unstable. But this is only because we have not yet learned to recognize where real stability lies, where we will find our perfect safety. Safety lies in the changelessness of Love. To experience this certainty and peace we must relinquish our values of meaningless forms of separation. We must be willing to let go of substitutes for peace, substitutes for happiness, substitutes for Love. These substitutes prevent us from recognizing that love and peace and joy are our inheritance, given us in our creation by Love Itself.
This process of letting go and making way for truth is described in the Manual for Teachers in the section on the development of trust. We are learning to withdraw our trust in false images and replace it with trust in the changelessness of Love. Because of our investment in the belief in separation and the world we have made based on that belief, this shift in trust seems to take great effort. It will take great effort until we realize that all we really need to do is accept what is already ours and that nothing else has any value whatsoever. But reaching this point requires a complete reversal of everything we have thought and believed in this world.
At times in this process it can seem as though we are in a void, a period of emptiness. We have begun to see the valuelessness of what we once treasured. There can seem to be a sense of loss. And we are still learning to recognize the limitless gift of happiness and peace that is already ours. This is a time for patience. This is a time to rely more diligently on holding our minds open to the Holy Spirit’s vision. He will show us the way through the void and into the Light of eternal Love, our true Self.
Today I place my trust in the Voice for God in me, Who leads me unwaveringly and inevitably Home to perfect peace and lasting happiness. Amen.
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