I seek a future different from the past.
From new perception of the world there comes a future very different from the past. ²The future now is recognized as but extension of the present. ³Past mistakes can cast no shadows on it, so that fear has lost its idols and its images, and being formless, it has no effects. ⁴Death will not claim the future now, for life is now its goal, and all the needed means are happily provided. ⁵Who can grieve or suffer when the present has been freed, extending its security and peace into a quiet future filled with joy?
Father, we were mistaken in the past, and choose to use the present to be free. ²Now do we leave the future in Your Hands, leaving behind our past mistakes, and sure that You will keep Your present promises, and guide the future in their holy light. (A Course in Miracles, W-314. See also ACIM Lesson 314 Insights.)
All our sadness, fear and guilt come from guilty thoughts about the past. We believe that what happened in the past determines our future. We expect there to be future consequences from past mistakes. This belief traps us in a cycle of guilt and fear.
But the past is gone. Only our wish to keep the past in our mind gives them influence over our present state. The ego dwells on the past and projects a future that repeats the past. Now we need to remember that the past is gone. We have no need to bring the past to the present. In the present is God’s promise that we dwell in the oneness of Love forever. Love does not change. It is all that is real.
As we learn to forgive our wish to bring the past to the present we welcome the changeless Love that is ours now and forever. In this remembrance, we find peace and happiness.
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