Your picture of the world can only mirror what is within. The source of neither light nor darkness can be found without. Grievances darken your mind, and you look out on a darkened world. Forgiveness lifts the darkness, reasserts your will, and lets you look upon a world of light.
…determining to keep your will clearly in mind, tell yourself with gentle firmness and quiet certainty:
I will there be light. Let me behold the light that reflects God’s Will and mine.
(A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 73, W-pI.73.5:1-4;10:1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 73 Insights.)
The ego seems to have a will of its own. Yet all the ego really has is idle wishes, which produce no real effect. If we want the ego’s idle wishes to be real, if we believe in them, we experience the ego’s idle wishes as having effects. They seem to bring us pain and guilt, sadness and fear, interlaced with brief periods that seem to be to our liking.
The capriciousness of the ego’s idle wishes leaves us with a profound sense of instability and vulnerability. Nothing can be counted on to stay as it is. We must constantly be preparing to protect ourselves and provide for our perceived needs. This is not the will we share with God.
The will we share with God shares His changelessness and certainty. His will never changes. He wills that we have all that He is — changeless Love, peace that cannot be disturbed and joy beyond description. This is the Will He shares with us. Thus it is our will to be eternally Love and loving, safe in perfect peace and resting in quiet joy.
It is holding on to grievances that keeps us from experiencing the will we share with God. As we accept the Holy Spirit’s help to learn that all our grievances have no foundation in truth, we free ourselves from the darkness of the ego thought system. We join in the Light of Love, free to be the Love we were created to be.
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