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Accepting Our Future as Love

I place the future in the Hands of God.

Accept today’s idea, and you have passed all anxiety, all pits of hell, all blackness of depression, thoughts of sin, and devastation brought about by guilt. ²Accept today’s idea, and you have released the world from all imprisonment by loosening the heavy chains that locked the door to freedom on it. ³You are saved, and your salvation thus becomes the gift you give the world, because you have received.

In no one instant is depression felt, or pain experienced or loss perceived. ²In no one instant sorrow can be set upon a throne, and worshipped faithfully. ³In no one instant can one even die. ⁴And so each instant given unto God in passing, with the next one given Him already, is a time of your release from sadness, pain and even death itself.

Release the future. ²For the past is gone, and what is present, freed from its bequest of grief and misery, of pain and loss, becomes the instant in which time escapes the bondage of illusions where it runs its pitiless, inevitable course. ³Then is each instant which was slave to time transformed into a holy instant, when the light that was kept hidden in God’s Son is freed to bless the world. ⁴Now is he free, and all his glory shines upon a world made free with him, to share his holiness. (A Course in Miracles, W-194.2–3;5. See also ACIM Lesson 194 Insights.)

In the ego’s dream world, it seems that planning for the future is necessary for survival. Yet the ego’s ultimate goal is our death. If death of the body were real, it would be the ego’s confirmation that it has vanquished God. Yet this could never be true in reality, because only eternal Love is real.

God has given us a Guide Whose goal is to lead us to awaken to our real life in the changeless Love of God. The future is now. When we place our future in God’s Hands, we are accepting the peace and happiness that is ours now. We do not have to plan for this future. We need only accept Love’s oneness as our Identity now.

Today we practice turning over all our plans to the Holy Spirit. We welcome His loving inspiration that leads us Home to Love.

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