Whenever you are not wholly joyous, it is because you have reacted with a lack of love to one of God’s creations.
Decision cannot be difficult. This is obvious, if you realize that you must already have decided not to be wholly joyous if that is how you feel. Therefore, the first step in the undoing is to recognize that you actively decided wrongly, but can as actively decide otherwise. Be very firm with yourself in this, and keep yourself fully aware that the undoing process, which does not come from you, is nevertheless within you because God placed it there. Your part is merely to return your thinking to the point at which the error was made, and give it over to the Atonement in peace. Say this to yourself as sincerely as you can, remembering that the Holy Spirit will respond fully to your slightest invitation:
I must have decided wrongly, because I am not at peace. I made the decision myself, but I can also decide otherwise. I want to decide otherwise, because I want to be at peace. I do not feel guilty, because the Holy Spirit will undo all the consequences of my wrong decision if I will let Him. I choose to let Him, by allowing Him to decide for God for me. (A Course in Miracles, T-5.VII.5:1;6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
In every moment we receive feedback that tells us when we have decided wrongly. If we are not wholly joyous, we have decided wrongly; we made a mistake. But we can always make another choice that corrects the mistake.
We make the wrong choice when we choose the ego as our guide. This is the choice to deny Love which always leads us to react to anything in this world with a lack of Love. Without Love, true joy is impossible because joy is an attribute of Love. The ego offers substitutes that seem to make us happy. But this happiness never lasts because it is based on an illusory form in the world.
We make the right choice when we let the Holy Spirit be our Guide. Having chosen wrongly, we need help from outside of our chosen world of lack of Love. We need to let the Holy Spirit judge all things on our behalf. His judgment is simple: He distinguishes between what is real or what is unreal.
He does not believe in the unreal though He recognizes we are reacting to unreal images in the world. He teaches us that this reaction is a call for Love. He helps us respond to this call with Love.
When we respond with Love, peace returns to our troubled mind. Our loving response brings joy with it for we learn that we are Love. We experience the joy of sharing the Love that unites us with all that is real. We remember our true Self, the Son of God, forever united with our Creator.
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