I will there be light.
³The will you share with God has all the power of creation in it. ⁴The ego’s idle wishes are unshared, and therefore have no power at all. ⁵Its wishes are not idle in the sense that they can make a world of illusions in which your belief can be very strong. ⁶But they are idle indeed in terms of creation. ⁷They make nothing that is real.
Idle wishes and grievances are partners or co-makers in picturing the world you see. ²The wishes of the ego gave rise to it, and the ego’s need for grievances, which are necessary to maintain it, peoples it with figures that seem to attack you and call for “righteous” judgment. ³These figures become the middlemen the ego employs to traffic in grievances. ⁴They stand between your awareness and your brothers’ reality. ⁵Beholding them, you do not know your brothers or your Self.
Your picture of the world can only mirror what is within. ²The source of neither light nor darkness can be found without. ³Grievances darken your mind, and you look out on a darkened world. ⁴Forgiveness lifts the darkness, reasserts your will, and lets you look upon a world of light. (A Course in Miracles, W-73.1:3–2:5;5:1-4. See also ACIM Lesson 73 Insights.)
As long as we believe the forms we see in the world are real, we are believing in the ego’s fantasy of a world of specialness. We use the images to justify our grievances and our special status. Because the images are illusions, they are seen as unreliable, requiring constant defense. But all these fantasies cast a dark shadow on the reality of the world of Love in which we truly live.
If we want to be happy and at peace, we need to forgive our belief in the ‘reality’ of the images of ego’s fantasies. Through forgiveness, the Light of Love is welcomed in our mind. We remember that our true will is shared with our Father, Whose Will is that only Love is real. We joyfully accept the life we live in His Love.
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