I will there be light.
The will you share with God has all the power of creation in it. The ego’s idle wishes are unshared, and therefore have no power at all. Its wishes are not idle in the sense that they can make a world of illusions in which your belief can be very strong. But they are idle indeed in terms of creation. They make nothing that is real.
Idle wishes and grievances are partners or co-makers in picturing the world you see. The wishes of the ego gave rise to it, and the ego’s need for grievances, which are necessary to maintain it, peoples it with figures that seem to attack you and call for “righteous” judgment. These figures become the middlemen the ego employs to traffic in grievances. They stand between your awareness and your brothers’ reality. Beholding them, you do not know your brothers or your Self.
Your picture of the world can only mirror what is within. The source of neither light nor darkness can be found without. Grievances darken your mind, and you look out on a darkened world. Forgiveness lifts the darkness, reasserts your will, and lets you look upon a world of light. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 73, W-pI.73.1:3-2:5;5:1-4. See also ACIM Lesson 73 Insights.)
Grievances maintain the prominence of the ego in our mind. We pay a steep price for holding grievances. They block our awareness of God’s one and only gift to us, His Son. We cannot be aware of our oneness in His Love while we hold grievances. Our insistence on identifying with a body and seeing others as separate from ourself leaves us feeling unloved, vulnerable, weak, guilty and fearful.
Forgiveness is the means to release our mind from grievances. Because we have invested our belief in the ego, we need help from beyond our beliefs to forgive our misperceptions, which are the basis for our grievances.
God gave us the Holy Spirit to teach us the truth that beyond bodies and the world, the Light of Love we are remains unaltered, perfectly serene and happily extending Love to all. This is what the Holy Spirit teaches. If we accept His lessons, the prominence of the ego in our mind diminishes. We learn that the ego’s images of separation are meaningless and we easily dismiss them.
Today we choose to pay attention to God’s Voice, for we would see the presence of Love and remember the Self God created one with Him.
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