If I so choose, I can depart this world entirely. It is not death which makes this possible, but it is change of mind about the purpose of the world. If I believe it has a value as I see it now, so will it still remain for me. But if I see no value in the world as I behold it, nothing that I want to keep as mine or search for as a goal, it will depart from me. For I have not sought for illusions to replace the truth.
Father, my home awaits my glad return. Your Arms are open and I hear Your Voice. What need have I to linger in a place of vain desires and of shattered dreams, when Heaven can so easily be mine? (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 226, W-pII.226:1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 226 Insights.)
We think this world is real because we believe it offers us something that we value. The ego is the idea that specialness has value. If we have something we can call our own, we believe we are special. This could only seem to occur if we believe the illusion of separation is real. The world we experience is the projection of this belief.
The Course is teaching us that the world offers us nothing that we truly want. Nothing it offers lasts forever. The ephemeral nature of the world confirms its unreality. Only Love is real and It is eternally changeless. Love remains our true reality as God has given It to His Son forever.
Today we choose to listen to the Voice for God which teaches us to look past the false images of the world to the presence of eternal Love. Love’s light reveals the valuelessness of the dream. As we let go of the value we gave it (forgive), we awaken to our Home in Love, safe from any harm.
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