Daily Inspiration

Our Innate Desire to Be Loved and Loving

³Our emphasis is not on giving up the world, but on exchanging it for what is far more satisfying, filled with joy, and capable of offering you peace.

Is it a loss to find a world instead where losing is impossible; where love endures forever, hate cannot exist and vengeance has no meaning? ²Is it loss to find all things you really want, and know they have no ending and they will remain exactly as you want them throughout time?

⁴Value [little things] not, and they will disappear. ⁵Esteem them, and they will seem real to you.

Such is the choice. ²What loss can be for you in choosing not to value nothingness? ³This world holds nothing that you really want, but what you choose instead you want indeed! ⁴Let it be given you today. ⁵It waits but for your choosing it, to take the place of all the things you seek but do not want.

³Beyond this world there is a world I want. ⁴I choose to see that world instead of this, for here is nothing that I really want. (W-129.1:3;3:1-2;5:4–6:5;7:3-4)

Children beg for toys they think will make them happy. But as they mature, they lose interest in the toys that once seemed so important. They have lost the meaning the childish wish gave them.

The ego is like the little child, wishing for forms that it believes will make it happy. But these forms have no meaning on their own. They only serve to block our awareness of the universe of Love in which we live. They never satisfy our innate desire to be loved and loving. Today we ask for help to let Christ’s vision show us the real world of eternal Love that is our natural Home.

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