Goals that are meaningless are not attained.
Yet searching is inevitable here. For this you came, and you will surely do the thing you came for. But the world can not dictate the goal for which you search, unless you give it power to do so.
Be glad that search you must. Be glad as well to learn you search for Heaven, and must find the goal you really want. No one can fail to want this goal and reach it in the end. God’s Son can not seek vainly, though he try to force delay, deceive himself and think that it is hell he seeks. When he is wrong, he finds correction. When he wanders off, he is led back to his appointed task.
No one remains in hell, for no one can abandon his Creator, nor affect His perfect, timeless and unchanging Love. You will find Heaven. Everything you seek but this will fall away. Yet not because it has been taken from you. It will go because you do not want it. You will reach the goal you really want as certainly as God created you in sinlessness. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 131, W-pI.131.2:1;3:1-3;4-5. See also ACIM Lesson 131 Insights.)
Everyone in the world is searching to fill a perceived emptiness. This emptiness is not clearly defined in our thinking because there is nothing in the world that will fill it. We feel this emptiness because the world was made to hide from what we truly want to find. It was made to deny Love, which is our Source and our Creator. While we follow the ego’s direction, our search will always be futile because what we truly want cannot be found in a world that denies it.
The urge to search comes from the recognition that we are in an alien world we do not truly want. We want to be the Love we were created to be. We want the peace that comes with the oneness of Love. We want the joy that comes with joining with the eternal extension of Love.
Though the world is the denial of Love, we have the Holy Spirit in our mind to guide us back to the full remembrance of the Love we are. As we learn to turn away from the ego and turn to the Holy Spirit for guidance, we learn that there is nothing in the world we really want. As the value we give the world recedes in our mind, Love draws us to Itself. It is inevitable that we remember we are Love because it is the remembrance of changeless Truth. The dream world no longer interests us and we awaken to Love.
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