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. We have repeatedly emphasized that the barrier of grievances is easily passed, and cannot stand between you and your salvation.
Above all else, you want the freedom to remember Who you really are. Today it is the ego that stands powerless before your will. Your will is free, and nothing can prevail against it.
…tell yourself with gentle firmness and quiet certainty:
I will there be light. Let me behold the light that reflects God’s Will and mine. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 73, W-pI.73.5:1-5;7:5-7;10:1-3. See also ACIM Lesson 73 Insights.)
We share God’s Will to be and extend the Light of Love. The ego is a wish to make a world of separation and convince the Son of God to believe it is our reality. To do this it must offer a substitute image to replace the Son God created. This substitute manifests as a body, distinct and separate from other bodies. This could only seem to be real in a world shut off from the Light of Love.
To keep this world hidden the ego builds a wall of grievances which reinforce the belief that its image of our self is separate from everyone and everything. This little self is weak, vulnerable and isolated, lonely and afraid. It is not the Will of God that such a world be real, nor is it our true will.
We take down the wall the ego made to hide from the Light of Love through forgiveness. Each time we forgive a grievance, a perceived loss or fear of future harm, we let more of the Light of Love enter our mind.
We do this with the help of the Holy Spirit. We need only be willing to accept His help to see past the ego’s made-up images to the Light of Love that is ever present in our minds. As we welcome this Light, we look upon a world of Light where innocence is seen in all things. This real world reflects the Light of Heaven.
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