I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.
Loss is not loss when properly perceived. Pain is impossible. There is no grief with any cause at all. And suffering of any kind is nothing but a dream. This is the truth, at first to be but said and then repeated many times; and next to be accepted as but partly true, with many reservations. Then to be considered seriously more and more, and finally accepted as the truth. I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt. And I would go beyond these words today, and past all reservations, and arrive at full acceptance of the truth in them.
Father, what You have given cannot hurt, so grief and pain must be impossible. Let me not fail to trust in You today, accepting but the joyous as Your gifts; accepting but the joyous as the truth. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 284, W-pII.284. See also ACIM Lesson 284 Insights.)
The ego does not trust God at all. In fact, it is suspicious that God is prepared to attack it at any moment. Because of this, the ego is constantly defending against the fact that God created His Son one with Him.
Acceptance of this fact would dispel the ego into the nothingness from which it came. The ego is not real, never was nor ever can be. The best it can do is dream of a world that makes the ego, the belief in separation, seem real. This dream is maintained only by our belief in it. This is the key to our release from the dream and return to our safety in the eternal presence of Love.
Beliefs can be changed. When beliefs are changed, their consequences are changed. Our safety in the Heaven of Love is a fact that does not change because only Love is real. We need only accept this one fact. But our belief in the dream denies Reality. The effect of beliefs that deny Reality is the dream of the world in which it seems possible to be hurt.
We start the journey out of this world of hurt built on false beliefs by first acknowledging that there must be a better way. As we practice letting the Holy Spirit show us the constancy of Love beyond the projections of our mistaken beliefs, our beliefs begin to change. More and more we question these beliefs that make a world in which we feel vulnerable, alone and lacking Love.
With practice, the presence of Love is increasingly acknowledged and accepted. Our experience in the world is more peaceful and happy. The certainty of the Love in which we have our being strengthens. When we no longer reserve one belief that denies Love, we awaken to our Self, the Son of God at Home in Heaven.
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