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Bringing Love and Joy to the World

Fear binds the world. Forgiveness sets it free.

The ego makes illusions. Truth undoes its evil dreams by shin­ing them away. Truth never makes attack. It merely is. And by its presence is the mind recalled from fantasies, awaking to the real. Forgiveness bids [truth’s] presence enter in, and take its rightful place within the mind. Without forgiveness is the mind in chains, believing in its own futility. Yet with forgiveness does the light shine through the dream of darkness, offering it hope, and giving it the means to realize the freedom that is its inheritance.

We would not bind the world again today. Fear holds it prisoner. And yet Your Love has given us the means to set [the world] free. Father, we would release it now. For as we offer freedom, it is given us. And we would not remain as prisoners, while You are holding freedom out to us. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 332, W-pII.332. See also ACIM Lesson 332 Insights.)

Identifying with the ego leads to feelings of inadequacy, unworthiness, vulnerability, loneliness and hopelessness. The ego offers nothing that is real. Even if we choose the ego’s offerings in the world, we still have a nagging awareness, perhaps hidden from ourselves, that we have chosen nothing that we really want.

Forgiveness is the antidote for these mistaken choices. Choices that lead nowhere do nothing. When we forgive ourselves for our mistaken choices, we open our minds for the Holy Spirit’s Light to reveal the eternal presence of Love, shining with joy. Forgiveness releases the world from the limitations the ego tries to impose. It frees our mind to overlook the empty images to the presence of the truth that only Love is real.

Today we choose the Light of the Holy Spirit as we look upon the world.

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