Grace is acceptance of the Love of God within a world of seeming hate and fear. By grace alone the hate and fear are gone, for grace presents a state so opposite to everything the world contains, that those whose minds are lighted by the gift of grace can not believe the world of fear is real.
…an open mind can hear the Call to waken. It is not shut tight against God’s Voice. It has become aware that there are things it does not know, and thus is ready to accept a state completely different from experience with which it is familiarly at home. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 169, W-pI.169.2:1-2;3:4-6. See also ACIM Lesson 169 Insights.)
Our experience as a body in a world of form is not our natural state. It is the projection of an aspect of our mind that want separation to be real. This aspect projects images of separation and believes it is real, though it is based entirely on belief in an idea that could never be true. As long as we are attached to this false idea and want it to be true, we are trapped in a dream that keeps the Love of God out of our awareness.
By God’s grace we have the Means to let go of belief in what could never be true. The Holy Spirit is ever present in our minds, ready to show us the truth that lies beyond the false images. But we need to be willing to ask for His help and accept His loving correction. This is how we forgive. This is how we let go of the dream. This is how we remove the barriers to Love and return to our natural state in Love’s Oneness.
Today we would remember that we do not know what anything means and we are willing to receive Christ’s vision of truth.
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