Each choice you make brings everything to you or nothing. Therefore, if you learn the tests by which you can distinguish everything from nothing, you will make the better choice.
First, if you choose a thing that will not last forever, what you chose is valueless. A temporary value is without all value. Time can never take away a value that is real. What fades and dies was never there, and makes no offering to him who chooses it. He is deceived by nothing in a form he thinks he likes.
Heaven itself is reached with empty hands and open minds, which come with nothing to find everything and claim it as their own. We will attempt to reach this state today, with self-deception laid aside, and with an honest willingness to value but the truly valuable and the real. Our two extended practice periods of fifteen minutes each begin with this:
I will not value what is valueless, and only what has value do I seek, for only that do I desire to find. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 133, W-pI.133.5:3-6:5;13. See also ACIM Lesson 133 Insights.)
While we believe that the world we experience through the body is real, our mind is split between conflicting goals. The goal of the part of our mind that believes there is value in separation, the ego, seeks to deceive by making images that seem to confirm separation is real.
The other part of our mind, our true Self, has one goal only — to be and extend Love. This part of our mind remembers our unbreakable connection with our Creator. It knows It needs nothing, for it already has and is eternal Love. Only Love is real. We are in need of nothing else.
To claim the Truth of What we are, we need to stop valuing the valueless constructs of the ego thought system. We need to stop valuing the valueless. When we no longer deceive ourselves into valuing what has no value, it is easy to choose the only thing that has value — to accept God’s gift of all of Himself, His Love, His peace and His joy.
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