Today we are considering the will you share with God. This is not the same as the ego’s idle wishes, out of which darkness and nothingness arise. The will you share with God has all the power of creation in it. The ego’s idle wishes are unshared, and therefore have no power at all. Its wishes are not idle in the sense that they can make a world of illusions in which your belief can be very strong. But they are idle indeed in terms of creation. [Idle wishes] make nothing that is real.
Idle wishes and grievances are partners or co-makers in picturing the world you see. The wishes of the ego gave rise to it, 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. These figures become the middlemen the ego employs to traffic in grievances. [Grievances] stand between your awareness and your brothers’ reality. Beholding them, you do not know your brothers or your Self.
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. (, A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 73, W-pI.73.1-2;5:1-4. See also ACIM Lesson 73 Insights.)
The ego is the wish to have its own domain separate from Creation. But because Creation is one and encompasses all of Reality, the ego’s private domain cannot be real. All that the wish for a private domain can produce is illusions that picture the wish to be separate.
The source of this wish is the grievance against God, Whose Will is the unity of Love. Love could not grant the ego’s wish for a private domain because that would be the denial of God’s Love. That makes the ego’s domain loveless.
The wishes of the ego people its domain with loveless images held in place by grievances. The judgments spawned by grievances declare that images of separation are real, capable of having an effect. But these “effects” seem real only because we believe they are real. Grievances are the foundation of every belief in the ego’s world of separation. Withdraw the belief and the images disappear.
If we are willing to question the reality of what we perceive and ask the Holy Spirit for His true perception, we will see the Light of our true Self revealed. Each time we release a false belief, we welcome the Light of Love. We welcome our true Will, which is the Will we share with God. Here we find the Love, peace and happiness that cannot be found in the ego’s private domain.
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