“Only acceptance can be asked of you, for what you are is certain.
“I will accept Atonement for myself,
For I remain as God created me.We have not lost the knowledge that God gave to us when He created us like Him. We can remember it for everyone, for in creation are all minds as one. And in our memory is the recall how dear our brothers are to us in truth, how much a part of us is every mind, how faithful they have really been to us, and how our Father’s Love contains them all.” (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 139, W-pI.139.8:1;11:3-6. See also ACIM Lesson 139 Insights.)
To accept the Atonement for ourselves means to accept correction of the mistaken belief that we have succeeded in separating from God’s Love. The “cost” of Atonement is giving up a false idea which could never be true. The return on this “payment” is the remembrance of the eternal, changeless, limitless Love of God as ours. Never was so much gained for so little.
What makes this not only possible but inevitable is that God’s Love is already given us. We’ve never been without God’s Love. We’ve only been unaware of this Gift because of a mistaken belief in a false idea that could never be true. The benefit of accepting the Atonement is priceless and the cost is willingness to give up nothing — a mistaken idea that is just an illusion.
The Course offers us help to recognize that the false idea of being separate offers us nothing we want. As we learn to recognize there is no value in the world, nothing we really want, we become willing to accept the Atonement for ourselves.
We dedicate this day to letting the Holy Spirit teach us to recognize the valueless illusions of the world for what they are. Thus we become willing to accept the limitless value of God’s gift of eternal Love. We accept that we remain as God created us.
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