The lessons to be learned are only two. Each has its outcome in a different world. And each world follows surely from its source. The certain outcome of the [ego’s] lesson that God’s Son is guilty is the world you see. It is a world of terror and despair. Nor is there hope of happiness in it. There is no plan for safety you can make that ever will succeed. There is no joy that you can seek for here and hope to find. Yet this is not the only outcome which your learning can produce. However much you may have overlearned your chosen task, the lesson that reflects the Love of God is stronger still. And you will learn God’s Son is innocent, and see another world.
The outcome of the lesson that God’s Son is guiltless is a world in which there is no fear, and everything is lit with hope and sparkles with a gentle friendliness. Nothing but calls to you in soft appeal to be your friend, and let it join with you. And never does a call remain unheard, misunderstood, nor left unanswered in the selfsame tongue in which the call was made. And you will understand it was this call that everyone and everything within the world has always made, but you had not perceived it as it was. And now you see you were mistaken. You had been deceived by forms the call [for Love] was hidden in. And so you did not hear it, and had lost a friend who always wanted to be part of you. The soft eternal calling of each part of God’s creation to the whole is heard throughout the world this second lesson brings. (A Course in Miracles, T-31.I.7-8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
We have spent our lives voting for the ego by giving it priority to lead us through “life” in the world. But its leadership has always been based upon a false premise that separation is real. Everything based on a false premise remains as false as the premise. So the ego always leads us to seek where we cannot find the one thing we feel is absent in our life — the changeless Love of God. It is time to let the ego go and free ourselves from its lies.
It is time to vote for the Holy Spirit in our mind as our Leader. All of Its guidance is based upon the changelessness of God’s Love. It always leads us toward that Love, for He is the link in our mind between our true Self and the part of our mind that is still calling for Love. This part of our mind needs to undo the mistaken lessons it has learned that make a loveless world.
Our part in awakening the world to Love’s presence is the practice of daily, moment by moment, giving the Holy Spirit priority in our mind. As we accept His lessons in Love, all minds are blessed, for their unity has been recognized. With the Holy Spirit guiding our thoughts, words and actions, our calls for Love are answered.
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