Let me remember love is happiness, and nothing else
brings joy. And so I choose to entertain no substitutes
for love.Love is my heritage, and with it joy. These are the
gifts my Father gave to me. I would accept all that is
mine in truth.Today I will accept God’s peace and joy, in glad
exchange for all the substitutes that I have made
for happiness and peace.Let my own feeble voice be still, and let me hear the
mighty Voice for Truth Itself assure me that I am
God’s perfect Son. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 117,W-pI.117,118)
The ego is the idea that it is possible to make an alternative reality in place of the Reality of God’s Love. But the most it can do is make up empty images that have no meaning nor value of their own. Then it makes up stories to give these images some kind of value and meaning that we think we want. It is a grand deception that leaves us feeling dissatisfied and needing to keep searching to find meaning. But under the ego’s guidance we always search in illusions where meaning and value cannot be found.
The Holy Spirit in our minds will guide us to seek where value and meaning can be found — in the truth of God’s changeless Love. We accept His gifts of happiness and peace by letting go of giving meaning to the illusions of the ego world. This is forgiveness.
Today we choose to accept God’s gifts of Love, peace and joy by letting the Holy Spirit help us recognize the emptiness of the ego’s substitutes.
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