In this world Heaven is a choice, because here we believe there are alternatives to choose between. …contradiction is the way we make what we perceive, and what we think is real.
…what is true in God’s creation cannot enter [in the world] until it is reflected in some form the world can understand. Truth cannot come where it could only be perceived with fear. For this would be the error truth can be brought to illusions. Opposition makes the truth unwelcome, and it cannot come.
Heaven is chosen consciously. The choice cannot be made until alternatives are accurately seen and understood. All that is veiled in shadows must be raised to understanding, to be judged again, this time with Heaven’s help. And all mistakes in judgment that the mind had made before are open to correction, as the truth dismisses them as causeless. Now are they without effects. They cannot be concealed, because their nothingness is recognized.
The conscious choice of Heaven is as sure as is the ending of the fear of hell, when it is raised from its protective shield of unawareness, and is brought to light. Who can decide between the clearly seen and the unrecognized? Yet who can fail to make a choice between alternatives when only one is seen as valuable; the other as a wholly worthless thing, a but imagined source of guilt and pain? Who hesitates to make a choice like this? (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 138, W-pI.138.1:1,3;2:5-8;9:1-10:4. See also ACIM Lesson 138 Insights.)
The ego is the choice for hell — a loveless state in which the Source of Life is denied. With hell as its home, the ego is terrified of Heaven. Hell cannot seem to exist in the presence of Love. The acceptance of Love would reveal that the ego’s home is an illusion with no substance. It does not really exist at all.
While we accept the ego as our identity and accept the home it has made for us, we must hide this choice from our awareness. Heaven is perceived as a threat to our existence, but it only undoes the false identity made by the ego.
We choose Heaven as our Home by forgiving ourselves for denying our Identity as the Self God created one with Him. We choose our true Identity when we choose Love as our Guide in all our thoughts and our actions. Forgiveness opens the door to accept our true Identity at Home in Heaven.
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