Daily Inspiration

We Live in Love with All That Is Real

There is a borderland of thought that stands between this world and Heaven. ²It is not a place, and when you reach it is apart from time. ³Here is the meeting place where thoughts are brought together; where conflicting values meet and all illusions are laid down beside the truth, where they are judged to be untrue. ⁴This borderland is just beyond the gate of Heaven. ⁵Here is every thought made pure and wholly simple. ⁶Here is sin denied, and everything that is received instead.

This is the journey’s end. ²We have referred to it as the real world. …⁵[Knowledge and perception] are brought together, and only one continues past the gate where Oneness is. ⁶Salvation is a borderland where place and time and choice have meaning still, and yet it can be seen that they are temporary, out of place, and every choice has been already made.

Salvation stops just short of Heaven, for only perception needs salvation. ²Heaven was never lost, and so cannot be saved. ³Yet who can make a choice between the wish for Heaven and the wish for hell unless he recognizes they are not the same? ⁴This difference is the learning goal this course has set. (A Course in Miracles, T-26.III.2:1–3:2,5-6;5:1-4. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The ego believes that ‘heaven’ is having the right status, abundant money, friends that make us happy, physical health… the list of preferred forms is endless. The Course is guiding us to learn that all of these forms are temporary, and therefore not real.

The Heaven that is our true Home is eternal, changeless Love. We rest with certainty in the peace of unlimited extension of our Father’s Love. Forgiveness releases us from valuing the meaningless to remember that we live in Love with all that is Real.

Has this page been helpful to you?
Your contribution in support of this site is greatly appreciated. To make a tax deductible contribution go to http://www.pathwaysoflight.org/polshop/donate.