Miracles News
October - December, 2005
Unnecessary Thoughts
After reading the Introduction to part II of ACIM Workbook, I had these thoughts come to me. “We have found the way He chose for us, and made the choice to follow it as He would Have us go. His Hand has held us up. His thoughts have lit the darkness of our minds. His Love has called to us unceasingly since time began.” (W-pII.Intro.8:2-5)
—His Love heals all unnecessary thoughts.—I have many unnecessary thoughts. Their only “purpose” is to keep the ego “alive.” Unnecessary thoughts are meaningless; they bring delusion and deceit. Yet part of my mind declares that it is this I want. Why choose to let this part rule my world when it only brings me conflict, confusion and pain? Why choose pain when I can have peace and joy? Only the belief that “I” deserve punishment and nothing else, brings the illusion of punishment.
His Love heals all unnecessary thoughts. The thoughts of fear are unnecessary to the real Self. Unnecessary thoughts are fear thoughts. They come only from the belief in ego and from following ego. I can learn that such thoughts are really nothing.
In Reality there is no conflict, I have only one goal. There is no confusion, I have one desire; there is no pain for all is Love. If I choose the opposite of Love, I delude myself and I am mistaken. My mistakes will be undone as I give them up and turn them over to Holy Spirit.
I Choose peace first. There I hear the Voice for Love. “The peace of God is my one goal; the aim of all my living here, the end I seek, my purpose and my function and my life, while I abide where I am not at home.” (W-pII.205.1:3)
Rev. Mary Manke is a Pathways of Light minister who lives in Markesan, Wisconsin.
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