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The Choice to See Heaven’s Open Gate

Salvation is the recognition that the truth is true, and nothing else is true. …Truth cannot have an opposite.

As God created you, you must remain unchangeable, with transitory states by definition false. And that includes all shifts in feeling, alterations in conditions of the body and the mind; in all awareness and in all response. This is the all-inclusiveness which sets the truth apart from falsehood, and the false kept separate from the truth, as what it is.

God made [the world] not. Of this you can be sure. What can He know of the ephemeral, the sinful and the guilty, the afraid, the suffering and lonely, and the mind that lives within a body that must die? …only madness makes a world like this.

Let us today be truly humble, and accept what we have made as what it is. The power of decision is our own. Decide but to accept your rightful place as co-creator of the universe, and all you think you made will disappear. What rises to awareness then will be all that there ever was, eternally as it is now. And it will take the place of self-deceptions made but to usurp the altar to the Father and the Son.

The power of decision is my own. This day I will accept myself as what my Father’s Will created me to be. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 152, W-pI.152.3:1,5;5;6:2-4;8;11:3-4. See also ACIM Lesson 152 Insights.)

The universe God created is the universe of Love. It encompasses all that is real. Within His universe, there are no differences, no forms, nothing but Love’s oneness.

The ego made a counter universe, which completely denies God’s universe. But what denies the only reality must be itself unreal. When we choose the ego as our identity, we are only aware of the ego’s counter universe. It is the only “reality” we are aware of. Our ego identification makes us subject to all its rules and its laws. It seems to be a closed system with no escape.

We have a choice. We can choose to accept the help God gave us to lead us out of the false universe. The Holy Spirit helps us recognize the falsity of the ego’s world and choose Love as our reality. Forgiveness is the mechanism through which we make this choice. We forgive ourselves for choosing against God and in that forgiveness see that the gate of Heaven is open wide to welcome us Home.

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