Daily Inspiration

Letting Go of Our Barriers to Love’s Presence

The Thought of God surrounds your little kingdom, waiting at the barrier you built to come inside and shine upon the barren ground. ²See how life springs up everywhere! ³The desert becomes a garden, green and deep and quiet, offering rest to those who lost their way and wander in the dust. ⁴Give them a place of refuge, prepared by love for them where once a desert was. ⁵And everyone you welcome will bring love with him from Heaven for you. ⁶They enter one by one into this holy place, but they will not depart as they had come, alone. ⁷The love they brought with them will stay with them, as it will stay with you. ⁸And under its beneficence your little garden will expand, and reach out to everyone who thirsts for living water, but has grown too weary to go on alone.

Go out and find them, for they bring your Self with them. ²And lead them gently to your quiet garden, and receive their blessing there. ³So will it grow and stretch across the desert, leaving no lonely little kingdoms locked away from love, and leaving you inside. ⁴And you will recognize yourself, and see your little garden gently transformed into the Kingdom of Heaven, with all the Love of its Creator shining upon it.

The holy instant is your invitation to love to enter into your bleak and joyless kingdom, and to transform it into a garden of peace and welcome. (A Course in Miracles, T-18.VIII.9:1–11:1. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Only Love is real. This is the central message of A Course in Miracles. A perception of anything that is different from Love’s oneness is a sure sign that we are dreaming a dream that could never be true. It is a projection of the wish for specialness that is in opposition to Love.

Beyond the projections, Love remains unaltered, ever present, waiting only to be accepted into the mind created by the one Mind of Love. In every moment we are welcome Home. We need only forgive our judgments to let projections fall away, and reveal the Love that is our Self, united with all in the Love of our Father.

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