The world you see does nothing. ²It has no effects at all. ³It merely represents your thoughts. ⁴And it will change entirely as you elect to change your mind, and choose the joy of God as what you really want. ⁵Your Self is radiant in this holy joy, unchanged, unchanging and unchangeable, forever and forever. ⁶And would you deny a little corner of your mind its own inheritance, and keep it as a hospital for pain; a sickly place where living things must come at last to die?
²Lay down all thoughts of danger and of fear. ³Let no attack enter with you. ⁴Lay down the cruel sword of judgment that you hold against your throat, and put aside the withering assaults with which you seek to hide your holiness.
Here will you understand there is no pain. ²Here does the joy of God belong to you. ³This is the day when it is given you to realize the lesson that contains all of salvation’s power. ⁴It is this: Pain is illusion; joy, reality. ⁵Pain is but sleep; joy is awakening. ⁶Pain is deception; joy alone is truth.
And so again we make the only choice that ever can be made; we choose between illusions and the truth, or pain and joy, or hell and Heaven. ²Let our gratitude unto our Teacher fill our hearts, as we are free to choose our joy instead of pain, our holiness in place of sin, the peace of God instead of conflict, and the light of Heaven for the darkness of the world. (A Course in Miracles, W-190.6;9:2–11:2. See also ACIM Lesson 190 Insights.)
Every day there seems to be myriad things that appear to be threats and justification for fear. Yet we are learning none of them are real. These appearances merely represent our wish for specialness, which can only occur in a dream of differences.
This is not our Fathers Will for us. He has shared all of the Love He is with us, His one Son. Our true Self is Love and nothing else. Love is universally uniform with no differences whatsoever. Within this oneness, there can be no differences, no attack on our identity, no loss, no cause for fear or guilt. This is our natural state and we are grateful that this is so.
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