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How to Choose the Joy of God

I feel the Love of God within me now.

The Love of God is what created me. The Love of God is everything I am. The Love of God proclaimed me as His Son. The Love of God within me sets me free.

I choose the joy of God instead of pain.

Pain is my own idea. It is not a Thought of God, but one I thought apart from Him and from His Will. His Will is joy, and only joy for His beloved Son. And that I choose, in­stead of what I made.

I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.
(A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 109,
W-pI.109.1:1-5;110. See also ACIM Lesson 109 Insights.)

If I am still as God created me and I am not a body, then God must not have created the body. This is the key to releasing ourselves from the experience of pain, loss and limitation. God created us as Love, eternally united with Himself. Only Love is real. What is not Love does not exist.

As long as we believe we are a body, we cannot know the Love of God. Occasionally we may have glimpses of Love so profound and brilliant in Its Light that It is indescribable. Yet this experience cannot be long maintained while we still hold the idea that we are a body. But we can free ourselves from this self-imposed limitation.

Forgiveness is the key to freedom from the body’s limitation. If we are willing to let the Holy Spirit’s dream of forgiveness heal our mistaken beliefs, we will become increasingly aware of the Love we are. We will feel the comfort of God’s Love. God’s joy will fill our mind as His Love shines away fear’s darkness. We choose the joy of God today by choosing Holy Spirit as our Guide through the day.

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