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Accepting God’s Joy

Projection makes perception. The world you see is what you gave it, nothing more than that.… It is the witness to your state of mind, the outside picture of an inward condition. As a man thinketh, so does he perceive. Therefore, seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. Perception is a result and not a cause.

The world you see but shows you how much joy you have allowed yourself to see in you, and to accept as yours. And, if this is its meaning, then the power to give it joy must lie within you. (A Course in Miracles, T-21.in.1:1-2,5-8;2:7-8. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

The Course tells us that God’s Will for us is perfect happiness. If we accept God’s Will for us, the world we see must be a world of joy. If we are experiencing anything other than joy in the world, we must not be accepting God’s Will for us. Instead we must be identifying with the ego thought system that is the denial of God’s Will.

The ego is not what we are, though if we identify with it, we will believe we are the ego. We will project upon the world the guilt and fear, anger and doubt that are built into the ego thought system. But because we are not the ego, we have a choice. We can also choose against the ego by choosing to identify with our one Self, the Son of God.

We make this choice each time we let our minds be healed of mistaken beliefs that project a world of separation. This forgiveness makes way for more and more acceptance of the joy God wills for us. We learn that God’s Will is our will. We really do want God’s Will because we want to accept our Self as Love created us. We want to accept God’s joy.

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