It is, perhaps, not easy to perceive that self-initiated plans are but defenses…
The mind engaged in planning for itself is occupied in setting up control of future happenings. It does not think that it will be provided for, unless it makes its own provisions. Time becomes a future emphasis, to be controlled by learning and experience obtained from past events and previous beliefs. It overlooks the present, for it rests on the idea the past has taught enough to let the mind direct its future course.
Without defenses, you become a light which Heaven gratefully acknowledges to be its own. And it will lead you on in ways appointed for your happiness according to the ancient plan, begun when time was born. Your followers will join their light with yours, and it will be increased until the world is lighted up with joy. And gladly will our brothers lay aside their cumbersome defenses, which availed them nothing and could only terrify. (A Course in Miracles, W-pI.135.14:1;15:1-4;20:1-4. See also ACIM Lesson 135 Insights.)
In the dream of time there is a need to plan. But if we plan with the ego as our guide, we will only perpetuate the past, extending the beliefs and memories of the past into the future. If instead we let the Holy Spirit, the Voice for Love, give us His plans, we will be gently and lovingly guided out of the past into Love’s present joy.
As we follow Love’s plans, we are freed from the past and brought to the gates of Heaven, where Love welcomes us Home. All that we need for this journey of return is provided without effort. We need only let ourselves be carried by making no plans on our own.
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