God speaks to us. …He is not distant. …He remains entirely accessible. He loves His Son. There is no certainty but this, yet this suffices. He will love His Son forever. When his [Son’s] mind remains asleep, He loves him still. And when his mind awakes, He loves him with a never-changing Love.
If you but knew the meaning of His Love, hope and despair would be impossible. For hope would be forever satisfied; despair of any kind unthinkable. His grace [is] His answer to all despair, for in it lies remembrance of His Love. Would He not gladly give the means by which His Will is recognized? His grace is yours by your acknowledgment. And memory of Him awakens in the mind that asks the means of Him whereby its sleep is done.
Today we ask of God the gift He has most carefully preserved within our hearts, waiting to be acknowledged. This [is] the gift by which God leans to us and lifts us up, taking salvation’s final step Himself. All steps but this we learn, instructed by His Voice. But finally He comes Himself, and takes us in His Arms and sweeps away the cobwebs of our sleep. His gift of grace is more than just an answer. It restores all memories the sleeping mind forgot; all certainty of what Love’s meaning is. (, A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 168,W-pI.168.1-3. See also ACIM Lesson 168 Insights.)
The means to recognize God’s Will for us is His Voice, our inner Teacher, the Holy Spirit. To remember the gift of God’s Love, we need to be willing to accept the Holy Spirit’s lessons. He will teach us to recognize that the images and beliefs of the ego thought system are mistaken. They are the cause of our despair and sense of hopelessness. As we learn to recognize the Love that remains in us beneath the shadows of the ego, the shadows fade.
By His grace, His Love has been carefully preserved eternally in our hearts. No matter how deeply we have wandered into the darkness of belief in separation and lack of Love, His Love remains in our hearts. We claim His Love by acknowledging that it is there. This acknowledgement comes as we forgive or let go of our mistaken beliefs in being separate from God. Through forgiveness we let go of the barriers to Love and welcome with gratitude God’s warm embrace. God’s embrace waits only on our willingness to accept It wholeheartedly.
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