Living A Course in Miracles — Commitment to a Year of Gratitude

Claiming Our Inheritance of Love and Joy

Happiness is an attribute of love. ²It cannot be apart from it. ³Nor can it be experienced where love is not. ⁴Love has no limits, being everywhere. ⁵And therefore joy is everywhere as well. ⁶Yet can the mind deny that this is so, believing there are gaps in love where sin can enter, bringing pain instead of joy. ⁷This strange belief would limit happiness by redefining love as limited, and introducing opposition in what has no limit and no opposite.

Fear is associated then with love, and its results become the heritage of minds that think what they have made is real. ²These images, with no reality in truth, bear witness to the fear of God, forgetting being Love, He must be joy. ³This basic error we will try again to bring to truth today, and teach ourselves:

⁴God, being Love, is also happiness.
⁵To fear Him is to be afraid of joy.

…happiness belongs to you, because of what He is.

Allow this one correction to be placed within your mind each waking hour today. ²Then welcome all the happiness it brings as truth replaces fear, and joy becomes what you expect to take the place of pain. ³God, being Love, it will be given you. (A Course in Miracles, W-103.1:1–2:5,7;3:1–3. See also ACIM Lesson 103 Insights.)

As God’s Son, we were created to extend His Love and joy. Only in a dream that denies His Love could there appear to be pain and unhappiness. This dream could never be true because only Love is real. Only our belief in it makes the dream seem real.

When we remind ourselves that God is happiness, we are weakening our mistaken identification with the loveless dream. All the pain, suffering, lack and loss we perceive in the world is not God’s Will for us. Thus it is not real.

Today as we look upon images of pain and suffering, we remind ourselves, “This is not God’s Will for us. His Will is perfect happiness.” We open our mind to the Holy Spirit’s help to forgive our mistaken belief that separation is real. With forgiveness, we claim our inheritance of Love and joy.

© 2024, Pathways of Light. http://www.pathwaysoflight.org
You may freely share copies of this with your friends, provided this copyright notice and website address are included.

Tell a friend about this article.

Printable Page

Peace Comes with Letting Go of Grievances

The ego’s fundamental wish is to replace God. ²In fact, the ego is the physical embodiment of that wish. ³For it is that wish that seems to surround the mind with a body, keeping it separate and alone, and unable to reach other minds except through the body that was made to imprison it.

…every grievance that you hold insists that the body is real. ⁷It overlooks entirely what your brother is. ⁸It reinforces your belief that he is a body, and condemns him for it.

…while the body stands at the center of your concept of yourself, you are attacking God’s plan for salvation, and holding your grievances against Him and His creation, that you may not hear the Voice of truth and welcome It as Friend.

The light of truth is in us, where it was placed by God. ²It is the body that is outside us, and is not our concern. ³To be without a body is to be in our natural state. ⁴To recognize the light of truth in us is to recognize ourselves as we are. ⁵To see our Self as separate from the body is to end the attack on God’s plan for salvation, and to accept it instead. (A Course in Miracles, W-72.2:1-3;5:6-8;7:4;9:1-5. See also ACIM Lesson 72 Insights.)

Every judgment is a form of grievance. We would not judge if we believed that we are Love and nothing else. In Love there are no differences so there is nothing to judge.

Grievances keeps us focused on differences. It holds the ego’s denial of Love firmly in mind. The ego teaches that judgments are necessary for our survival. This only seems to be true if we identify with the ego. Judgments are essential to maintaining the ego.

We are being taught that grievances or judgments are not in our best interests. As we learn to overlook differences, we open the door to accept God’s gift of all of His Love.

Today we practice bringing our grievances to the Holy Spirit in our mind. His Light will shine away the false perceptions revealing our true Self as God’s Son, at Home in His Love.

© 2024, Pathways of Light. http://www.pathwaysoflight.org
You may freely share copies of this with your friends, provided this copyright notice and website address are included.

Tell a friend about this article.

Printable Page

Page 5 of 5 pages ‹ First < 3 4 5

<< Back to main page of Daily Inspiration.

Has this page been helpful to you?
Your contribution to support this site is greatly appreciated. To make a tax deductible contribution with a credit/debit card, click here.
Click here to donate from your PayPal account.
Or send a check to Pathways of Light, 12530 Lions Chase Court, Huntley, IL 60142.