Heaven is the decision I must make.
Heaven is chosen consciously. The choice cannot be made until alternatives are accurately seen and understood. All that is veiled in shadows must be raised to understanding, to be judged again, this time with Heaven’s help. And all mistakes in judgment that the mind had made before are open to correction, as the truth dismisses them as causeless. Now are they without effects. They cannot be concealed, because their nothingness is recognized.
The conscious choice of Heaven is as sure as is the ending of the fear of hell, when it is raised from its protective shield of unawareness, and is brought to light. Who can decide between the clearly seen and the unrecognized? Yet who can fail to make a choice between alternatives when only one is seen as valuable; the other as a wholly worthless thing, a but imagined source of guilt and pain? Who hesitates to make a choice like this?
We recognize we make a conscious choice between what has existence and what has nothing but an appearance of the truth. Its pseudo-being, brought to what is real, is flimsy and transparent in the light. It holds no terror now, for what was made enormous, vengeful, pitiless with hate, demands obscurity for fear to be invested there. Now it is recognized as but a foolish, trivial mistake. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 138, W-pI.138.9;10:1-4;11:2-5. See also ACIM Lesson 138 Insights.)
The decision to believe separation is real is hidden in part of our mind that we made unconscious. The world seems real to us only because we are unaware of our decision to believe illusions are real. Thus we don’t question all the things we experience in the world — conflict, uncertainty, vulnerability, guilt and fear. There seems to be no resolution to any of the problems we experience. Sometimes we manage to find a substitute illusion that seems more acceptable or even desirable. But the underlying cause remains unresolved because we have made it unconscious.
The first step in making the decision for Heaven is to bring the decision for separation and opposition into our conscious awareness. We cannot make another choice when we do not recognize the choice we already made and hid in our unconscious mind. As we let the Holy Spirit teach us His healing lessons by raising our unconscious choices to conscious awareness, we free ourselves to choose Heaven in place of the hell of separation. A “life” of conflict is replaced by deep peace that cannot be disturbed.
Today we choose the Holy Spirit’s lessons by letting Him judge all our perceptions on our behalf. He will help us recognize what is false and nothing, with no value. Heaven becomes the obvious choice because it is everything we want. We become willing to accept the Truth of What we are.
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