The holy instant is this instant and every instant. The one you want it to be it is. The one you would not have it be is lost to you. You must decide when it is. Delay it not. For beyond the past and future, where you will not find it, [the holy instant] stands in shimmering readiness for your acceptance. Yet you cannot bring it into glad awareness while you do not want it, for it holds the whole release from littleness.
Your practice must therefore rest upon your willingness to let all littleness go. The instant in which magnitude dawns upon you is but as far away as your desire for it. As long as you desire it not and cherish littleness instead, by so much is it far from you. By so much as you want [magnitude] will you bring it nearer. Think not that you can find salvation in your own way and have it. Give over every plan you have made for your salvation in exchange for God’s. His will content you, and nothing else can bring you peace. For peace is of God, and no one beside Him. (A Course in Miracles, T-15.IV.1:3-9;2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
When we think we will be happy if we have a relationship with a significant other, a certain status, a better relationship with a family member, a healthy body, we are making our own plans for salvation. Whatever we believe will make us happy, we think is our salvation. Yet seeking for happiness in forms of the world comes from our choice for littleness. When we identify with the body, which limits us, we seek for things that seem to make our body’s circumstance happy. But happiness cannot be found in the forms of the world because they all are part of the belief in littleness.
God’s Will for us is perfect happiness. His plan for our salvation is to help us release our dedication to littleness and accept His gift of His magnitude. Our true Self includes the magnitude of God Himself, nothing less. And nothing more exists at all, for the Love of God is all that is real.
To facilitate His plan for our salvation, He gave us His Voice to teach us to see beyond our littleness in the present instant, where time has been forgotten and ever-present Love is known.
Today we choose to accept the magnitude of the Love we are and see that It includes every brother. We need nothing else, for we are complete as God created His Son.
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