Idle wishes and grievances are partners or co-makers in picturing the world you see. The wishes of the ego gave rise to [the world], and the ego’s need for grievances, which are necessary to maintain [the world], peoples it with figures that seem to attack you and call for “righteous” judgment.
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.
Above all else, you want the freedom to remember Who you really are. Today it is the ego that stands powerless before your will. Your will is free, and nothing can prevail against it.
…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, W-pI.73.2:1-2;5:1-4;7:5-7;1-:1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 73 Insights.)
Symptoms of grievances include disappointment, frustration, irritation, discouragement, sadness, depression, guilt and fear. Some of these symptoms seem to be more tolerable than others. Yet they are all equally dark because they deny the Presence of the Light of Love. None of these symptoms can be present in Love because Love’s attributes are peace and joy.
To let in the Light of Love, we must forgive our grievances. By the grace of God, we have been given the Holy Spirit in our minds, Which is the means to free us from our grievances. The daily, moment by moment practice of bringing all of the thoughts with the symptoms of grievances to the Holy Spirit with willingness to accept His help to see them truly through the eyes of Love is how we free our will. As we free our will we realize that our only true will is the Will we share with God. His Will for us is perfect happiness and therefore it is our Will as well. With this practice today, we open to our Will that we be the Light that we were created to be.
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