³Learn now, without despair, there is no hope of answer in the world. ⁴But do not judge the lesson that is but begun with this. …⁸For from this lowest point will learning lead to heights of happiness, in which you see the purpose of the lesson shining clear, and perfectly within your learning grasp.
Who would be willing to be turned away from all the roadways of the world, unless he understood their real futility?”
The learning that the world can offer but one choice, no matter what its form may be, is the beginning of acceptance that there is a real alternative instead.
³This course attempts to teach no more than that the power of decision cannot lie in choosing different forms of what is still the same illusion and the same mistake.
Forgive yourself your madness, and forget all senseless journeys and all goal-less aims. ²They have no meaning. ³You can not escape from what you are. ⁴For God is merciful, and did not let His Son abandon Him. ⁵For what He is be thankful, for in that is your escape from madness and from death. ⁶Nowhere but where He is can you be found. ⁷There is no path that does not lead to Him. (A Course in Miracles, T-31.IV.4:3-4,8-5:1;6:1;8:3;11. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
Our only choice is between nothing, which is all the ego offers or everything, which God offers. Love is everything because only Love is real.
We only seem to live in a loveless world because we have chosen specialness and separation which cannot abide in the reality of Love’s oneness. We can choose differently. But we will not choose differently if we believe what the ego offers something we want. So the lessons we must learn to find our way back to Love must teach us that the ego offers nothing we truly want.
At best it offers empty images that glitter and shine to appeal to our mistaken desires for specialness. But God’s Will for His Son is perfect happiness. We need not settle for less. As we learn that the ego’s offerings really give us nothing, we become eager to learn the Holy Spirit’s lessons. Sadness, fear and guilt fade away to be replaced by happiness, peace and eternal Love as we learn the lessons God would have us learn.
Today we happily welcome the Holy Spirit’s reinterpretations of our perceptions, for we would return to sanity and Love.
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