>Let me remember love is happiness, and nothing else brings joy. And so I choose to entertain no substitutes for love.
Love is my heritage, and with it joy. These are the gifts my Father gave to me. I would accept all that is mine in truth.
Today I will accept God’s peace and joy, in glad exchange for all the substitutes that I have made for happiness and peace.
Let my own feeble voice be still, and let me hear the mighty Voice for Truth Itself assure me that I am God’s perfect Son. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 117, W-pI.117.1:2-3,2:1-4;118.1:2,2:2. See also ACIM Lessons 117 and 118 Insights.)
Believing we have made our own identity and successfully separated from God leads to the conviction that we are not God’s perfect Son; we are not worthy of His gifts of Love and joy and peace. Yet our belief does not make it true. The Course assures us that God’s Will for us is perfect happiness. He still knows us as His perfect Son. And He has not changed His Mind about us.
A Course in Miracles is teaching us to recognize that what we believe about ourselves is false and can never be true. We have thoroughly taught ourselves to believe that a lie is true. Thus we need to be taught to recognize the lie as a lie so that we can let it go and welcome the truth that God’s peace and happiness are ours now and we are His one perfect Son. We let ourselves be taught by bringing every judgment, every disturbing thought to the Holy Spirit to receive the miracle of changed perception.
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