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Choosing to Accept Love’s Blessings

³You always choose between your weakness and the strength of Christ in you. ⁴And what you choose is what you think is real. ⁵Simply by never using weakness to direct your actions, you have given it no power. ⁶And the light of Christ in you is given charge of everything you do. ⁷For you have brought your weakness unto Him, and He has given you His strength instead.

Trials are but lessons that you failed to learn presented once again, so where you made a faulty choice before you now can make a better one, and thus escape all pain that what you chose before has brought to you. ²In every difficulty, all distress, and each perplexity Christ calls to you and gently says, “My brother, choose again.” ³He would not leave one source of pain unhealed, nor any image left to veil the truth. ⁴He would remove all misery from you whom God created altar unto joy. ⁵He would not leave you comfortless, alone in dreams of hell, but would release your mind from everything that hides His face from you. ⁶His Holiness is yours because He is the only power that is real in you. ⁷His strength is yours because He is the Self that God created as His only Son.

The images you make cannot prevail against what God Himself would have you be. ²Be never fearful of temptation, then, but see it as it is; another chance to choose again, and let Christ’s strength prevail in every circumstance and every place you raised an image of yourself before. ³For what appears to hide the face of Christ is powerless before His majesty, and disappears before His holy sight. (A Course in Miracles, T-31.VIII.2:3–4:3. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The only meaningful purpose for our life on earth is to learn to choose Christ as our true Identity. That is the choice to accept the strength and Love of our Father as our own. We were created to share His joy.

Only in the ego’s dream of separation does it seem that we are weak and subject to all kinds of distress, loss and difficulty. The guilt and fear we feel are our calls for the Love that seems to be lacking. Properly perceived, they are reminders to choose again to accept the strength of Christ in us.

When we experience temptation, the ego’s response is to judge us and point out our failures. But the Holy Spirit sees it as an opportunity for us to forgive and let healing purify our minds of mistaken beliefs. We are grateful that every seeming challenge is an opportunity to choose to accept Love’s blessing.

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