Here is the only “sacrifice” You ask of Your beloved Son; You ask him to give up all suffering, all sense of loss and sadness, all anxiety and doubt, and freely let Your Love come streaming in to his awareness, healing him of pain, and giving him Your Own eternal joy. Such is the “sacrifice” You ask of me, and one I gladly make; the only “cost” of restoration of Your memory to me, for the salvation of the world.
And as we pay the debt we owe to truth,—a debt that merely is the letting go of self-deceptions and of images we worshipped falsely—truth returns to us in wholeness and in joy. We are deceived no longer. Love has now returned to our awareness. And we are at peace again, for fear has gone and only love remains. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 1323, W-pII.323.1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 323 Insights.)
Why would we not freely give up pain and suffering to receive Love and joy? Only because we have deceived ourselves to believe that illusions are real and valuable. Having convinced ourselves that what is false is true, we need help from outside this mistaken belief system to learn to recognize truth as true and false as false.
As we let the Holy Spirit shine His Light of Love on our perceptions, the false images we have overlaid on truth dissolve and the oneness of Loves eternal Light shines through. We need not battle against false ideas. We need only let the Holy Spirit show us their falsity. Once recognized as false, they are freely laid down to be seen no more. Into the place left vacant, Love rushes in, bringing God’s peace with it. And we remember God, our Creator and our Source — our very Life.
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