Day 78
6 You may believe this course requires sacrifice of all you really hold dear. In one sense this is true, for you hold dear the things that crucify God’s Son, and it is the course’s aim to set him free. But do not be mistaken about what sacrifice means. It always means the giving up of what you want. And what, O teacher of God, is it that you want? You have been called by God, and you have answered. Would you now sacrifice that Call? Few have heard it as yet, and they can but turn to you. There is no other hope in all the world that they can trust. There is no other voice in all the world that echoes God’s. If you would sacrifice the truth, they stay in hell. And if they stay, you will remain with them.
What is it that I would “sacrifice” to answer the Call to service? What is it that I want and will have to give up? Special relationships, of course. The “right” to righteous indignation. I would have to give up being a victim, seeing guilt in others and myself, and feeling sorry for myself, and of course there goes all that delicious drama. I will have to give up all those hours of rehashing past stories of my life. I would have to give up the hope that I will finally think of the one story that will bring me perfect happiness. I would have to give up sickness, pain, and death. The belief that letting these go is sacrifice is a sickness in my mind. Holy Spirit, please heal me.
I have heard God call me to teach, as have each of you who are reading this. Our teaching is essential to the plan of salvation. We are the voice of hope in the desert. Would we sacrifice that trust for another go at the illusion? We began this experiment in separation so long ago that the memory is lost to us. We have nothing else to gain from staying. Surely, we tire of it now, and that is why we answered God’s Call. I will not turn my back on that Call now. I will not stay in hell, nor leave any part of my one self in hell.
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