Behind the search for every idol lies the yearning for completion. Wholeness has no form because it is unlimited. To seek a special person or a thing to add to you to make yourself complete, can only mean that you believe some form is missing. And by finding this, you will achieve completion in a form you like.
It never is the idol that you want. But what you think it offers you, you want indeed and have the right to ask for. Nor could it be possible it be denied. Your will to be complete is but God’s Will, and this is given you by being His [Will]. God knows not form. He cannot answer you in terms that have no meaning. And your will could not be satisfied with empty forms, made but to fill a gap that is not there. It is not this you want. Creation gives no separate person and no separate thing the power to complete the Son of God. What idol can be called upon to give the Son of God what he already has? (A Course in Miracles, T-30.III.3:1-4;4:1-10. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)
When we believe that certain circumstances, situations, relationships, status or possessions will make us happy, we are asking for idols (forms) to complete us. But forms are just empty substitutes for what we really seek — to remember that the Love of God is ours. We were created whole and complete. The forms of the world will never satisfy or give us what we really want. If fact, seeking completion through forms in the world inevitably leads to frustration, irritation, anger and depression, because forms cannot make us complete.
To remember that we are complete, we need to let go of, forgive, believing that any form in the world offers us anything of value. The attempt to find meaning where it cannot be found simply blinds us to the fact that we already have everything we need. We already have all of God’s Love.
The path to remembering the Love we are is to bring every thought to the Holy Spirit in our minds and ask His help to see past the appearance to the truth of the eternal Love that is ever present. As we are willing to be shown, we will learn of the eternal flow of Love through us and to us. Thus will we learn that we are complete, wholly within the Love of God.
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