No one remains in hell, for no one can abandon his Creator, nor affect His perfect, timeless and unchanging Love. ²You will find Heaven. ³Everything you seek but this will fall away. ⁴Yet not because it has been taken from you. ⁵It will go because you do not want it. ⁶You will reach the goal you really want as certainly as God created you in sinlessness.
⁵For several minutes watch your mind and see, although your eyes are closed, the senseless world you think is real. ⁶Review the thoughts as well which are compatible with such a world, and which you think are true. ⁷Then let them go, and sink below them to the holy place where they can enter not. ⁸There is a door beneath them in your mind, which you could not completely lock to hide what lies beyond.
Put out your hand, and see how easily the door swings open with your one intent to go beyond it. ²Angels light the way, so that all darkness vanishes, and you are standing in a light so bright and clear that you can understand all things you see.
You cannot fail today. ²There walks with you the Spirit Heaven sent you, that you might approach this door some day, and through His aid slip effortlessly past it, to the light. ³Today that day has come. (A Course in Miracles, W-131.5:1-6;11:5-8;13:1-2;14:1-3. See also ACIM Lesson 131 Insights.)
Today can be the day that we stand at the open door to Heaven. We can pass through that door, provided we bring no baggage from the past. Heaven is now. It has no past. To prepare ourselves to go through the door to Heaven, we must be willing to let go of our treasured past. All the things of the world we see are representations of our past remembrance. They are not real, but we drag them with us when we value any form in the world.
Even if we are not yet ready to wholly release the past, we can experience the touch of Heaven. Today’s exercise guides us to a peaceful place in our mind where we can, perhaps just for a moment, lay aside the things of the world. The Holy Spirit is there to support us and give us His strength to reinforce our willingness to accept What God has given us. His Love is ours now and forever. We come with open hands, free of the past to receive the Love that is ours now.
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