⁶Defenses are plans to defeat what cannot be attacked. ⁷What is unalterable cannot change. ⁸And what is wholly sinless cannot sin.
Such is the simple truth. ²It does not make appeal to might nor triumph. ³It does not command obedience, nor seek to prove how pitiful and futile your attempts to plan defenses that would alter it. ⁴Truth merely wants to give you happiness, for such its purpose is. ⁵…what God wills for you must be received.
It is this fact that demonstrates that time is an illusion. ²For time lets you think what God has given you is not the truth right now, as it must be. ³The Thoughts of God are quite apart from time. ⁴For time is but another meaningless defense you made against the truth. ⁵Yet what He wills is here, and you remain as He created you.
Truth has a power far beyond defense, for no illusions can remain where truth has been allowed to enter. ²And it comes to any mind that would lay down its arms, and cease to play with folly. ³[Truth] is found at any time; today, if you will choose to practice giving welcome to the truth.
This is our aim today. ⁵…We [begin] with a healing prayer, to help us rise above defensiveness, and let truth be as it has always been:
⁶Sickness is a defense against the truth. ⁷I will accept the truth of what I am, and let my mind be wholly healed today. (A Course in Miracles, W-136.11:6–14:3;15:1,5-7. See also ACIM Lesson 136 Insights.)
The truth is that we were created as Love and nothing else. Love is formless, with no separate parts. It is one and the same eternally without limits.
In our quest for specialness, we have denied the truth of What we are. This only can seem to be accomplished in a dream. While we are engaged in the dream, our denial makes us oblivious to the Truth. We experience a ‘life’ of frailty, sickness and death. This dream has no effect on our Reality.
We awaken from the dream when we are willing to welcome the truth in our mind. When Truth is welcome, Its Light shines away the shadows of the dream. We remember the Self God created one with Himself. We remember we are Love and nothing else. We share the joy and peace of our Home in Heaven with every brother.
Today we affirm our willingness to receive the truth and awaken to Love.
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