Daily Inspiration

Lessons Learned from the Present

All fear is past and only love is here.

All fear is past, because its source is gone, and all its thoughts gone with it. ²Love remains the only present state, whose Source is here forever and forever. ³Can the world seem bright and clear and safe and welcoming, with all my past mistakes oppressing it, and showing me distorted forms of fear? ⁴Yet in the present love is obvious, and its effects apparent. ⁵All the world shines in reflection of its holy light, and I perceive a world forgiven at last.

Father, let not Your holy world escape my sight today. ²Nor let my ears be deaf to all the hymns of gratitude the world is singing underneath the sounds of fear. ³There is a real world which the present holds safe from all past mistakes. ⁴And I would see only this world before my eyes today. (A Course in Miracles, W-293. See also ACIM Lesson 293 Insights.)

While we believe we are a body, we have lessons to learn. The ego teaches that these lessons must be learned from the past. Thus it uses the body to keep our attention on past mistakes. This focus on the past brings fear with it because it keeps images of hurt and loss in our awareness.

The Holy Spirit offers us lessons from the present. These lessons teach only of Love. They teach us that Love’s changelessness keeps us safe. Love’s oneness brings us peace. Love’s eternal extension brings us joy.

These are the lessons we must learn to awaken to the real world where the past is dismissed because it is not here. It has no real effect on the present moment. Only Love is real.

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