Be humble before Him, and yet great in Him. ²And value no plan of the ego before the plan of God. ³For you leave empty your place in His plan, which you must fill if you would join with me, by your decision to join in any plan but His. ⁴I call you to fulfill your holy part in the plan that He has given to the world for its release from littleness. ⁵God would have His host abide in perfect freedom. ⁶Every allegiance to a plan of salvation apart from Him diminishes the value of His Will for you in your own mind. ⁷And yet it is your mind that is the host to Him.
²This you will recognize in the holy instant, in which you willingly and gladly give over every plan but His. ³For there lies peace, perfectly clear because you have been willing to meet its conditions. ⁴You can claim the holy instant any time and anywhere you want it.
I stand within the holy instant, as clear as you would have me. ²And the extent to which you learn to accept me is the measure of the time in which the holy instant will be yours. ³I call to you to make the holy instant yours at once, for the release from littleness in the mind of the host of God depends on willingness, and not on time. (A Course in Miracles, T-15.IV.3;4:2-4;5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
Every ego plan is based on the same foundation—denial of our unity in God’s Love. By our allegiance to the ego and the specialness it seems to offer, we deny the one and only gift God has given His holy Son—changeless, eternal Love. It is a high price to pay for the little “gifts” of specialness the ego offers.
Beneath the appeal of the ego’s gifts lies the wish for death, for denial of eternal Love is denial of the only Life we live in truth. Every moment of every day we choose between Life and death, Love and specialness.
To choose Life, we need to relinquish the plans we make with the ego. They give us nothing. In their place, we need to welcome the plans offered us by the Holy Spirit. They give us everything, for they return us to the awareness of the gift of Love that is ours now and forever.
Today we practice relinquishing our plans and welcoming the Holy Spirit’s plan for our awakening to Love.
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