You are at home in God, dreaming of exile but perfectly capable of awakening to reality. ²Is it your decision to do so [wake up to reality]? ³You recognize from your own experience that what you see in dreams you think is real while you are asleep. ⁴Yet the instant you waken you realize that everything that seemed to happen in the dream did not happen at all. ⁵You do not think this strange, even though all the laws of what you awaken to were violated while you slept. ⁶Is it not possible that you merely shifted from one dream to another, without really waking?
⁷When you remember [wake up], you will know that what you remember is eternal, and therefore is now.
You will remember everything the instant you desire it wholly, for if to desire wholly is to create, you will have willed away the separation, returning your mind simultaneously to your Creator and your creations. ²Knowing Them [your Creator and creations] you will have no wish to sleep, but only the desire to waken and be glad. ³Dreams will be impossible because you will want only truth, and being at last your will, it will be yours. (A Course in Miracles, T-10.I.2;3:7–4:3. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
Dreaming we are in a world of separation is not a happy dream. Even experiences that seem good in the dream carries with it an underlying sense of uncertainty. As the common saying goes, “We are waiting for the other shoe to drop.” Our experience in the world has taught us that nothing here lasts forever. It is helpful to apply this lesson when things seem to be bad — they won’t last forever. But we also apply the same idea when things seem to be good.
This is not what God wills for us. His Will is eternal and singular. He wills all of His Love to His Creation, eternally. God has not changed His Will. He makes no additions to His Will to change it or limit it in any way. He gives all of His Love with all of Its attributes of perfect peace and limitless joy. What God Wills is already given and lasts forever.
We need only accept His Will to have our inheritance. When we are willing to awaken from the dream that denies His Will, we will know that we have everything need. We lack nothing, for what God wills is everything.
The first step to awakening is willingness to consider that we are dreaming. Next we need to call upon the Holy Spirit to help us awaken. That is His function. Our function is to ask for His help and accept it. This is our focus for today.
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