If you cannot hear the Voice for God, it is because you do not choose to listen. ²That you do listen to the voice of your ego is demonstrated by your attitudes, your feelings and your behavior.
²When your mood tells you that you have chosen wrongly, and this is so whenever you are not joyous, then know this need not be. ³In every case you have thought wrongly about some brother God created, and are perceiving images your ego makes in a darkened glass. ⁴Think honestly what you have thought that God would not have thought, and what you have not thought that God would have you think.
The habit of engaging with God and His creations is easily made if you actively refuse to let your mind slip away.
²There is no limit to the power of a Son of God, but he can limit the expression of his power as much as he chooses. ³Your mind and mine can unite in shining your ego away, releasing the strength of God into everything you think and do.
⁴His Mind shone on you in your creation and brought your mind into being. ⁵His Mind still shines on you and must shine through you. ⁶Your ego cannot prevent Him from shining on you, but it can prevent you from letting Him shine through you. (A Course in Miracles, T-4.IV.1:1-2;2:2-4;7:1;8:2-3;9:4-6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
We are so engaged with the ego that we’ve married it. But the ego’s dowry is a shiny chest full of nothing, for it has nothing real to offer. It is time to dissolve the marriage on the basis of its empty offering.
It is time to be vigilant for God and His Love. His offering is everything that is real. In truth, we are eternally married to God, for what God created one cannot be divided. We dissolve our marriage to the ego by choosing Love as our Guide for our thoughts and actions, moment by moment. By this choice we acknowledge the marriage God created to be eternal and indivisible. With this practice we see the face of Christ — the face of Love — in every brother and ourselves. We choose God’s dowry, which brought us all that is Real — His eternal Love.
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