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.
We will succeed today if you remember that you want salvation for yourself. You want to accept God’s plan because you share in it. You have no will that can really oppose it, and you do not want to do so. Salvation is for you. 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.
Then let your [true] will assert itself, joined with the power of God and united with your Self. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 73, W-pI.73.5:1-5;7;10:1-4. See also ACIM Lesson 73 Insights.)
The purpose of the ego thought system is to make it look like we are separate and different from the outer world we see through the body’s eyes. We are learning that the truth is just the opposite. We are learning that, “Idle wishes and grievances are partners or co-makers in picturing the world [we] see.” The ego mind is always looking to find guilt in the outer world to try to alleviate its own sense of guilt.
We are learning we do not need to continue this way of thinking. We can pass it by and open to the Will we share with God. As we open to the Light of God’s Will, we are able to see the world from a different point of view. As we unite with the power of God within us, we are freed of the punishing and imprisoning thoughts of the ego thought system. We free ourselves as we join with our true eternal Will — the Will we share with God.
Our practice for today is to repeatedly step back from our everyday ego thinking and choose to join with the Will of God. We accept God’s plan of seeing innocence in everyone, instead of the guilt the ego always chooses to see.
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