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6 God’s Will is all there is. We can but go from nothingness to everything; from hell to Heaven. Is this a journey? No, not in truth, for truth goes nowhere. But illusions shift from place to place; from time to time. The final step is also but a shift. As a perception it is part unreal. And yet this part will vanish. What remains is peace eternal and the Will of God.
The Course tries to make it clear to us that there is nothing for us to do and nowhere to go. There is only God. There is only God’s Will. There is only Heaven. I have spent years of study and practice. I have sought out teachers who could help me on my way. I have read lots of books and written two. Did all of this get me closer to God? Only in the sense that it helped me want to be closer to God. It could not get me to God because I am already there. The only thing that needs to change is the mind.
Shift is such a perfect word for what happens. I experience a shift in my thinking, a shift in my beliefs, a shift in my experience, a shift in my willingness. I think of it or express it as moving forward, but there is no forward to move to. I just shift in my understanding. And how do I do that? I just decide to. I accept what is being told to me. I believe.
Jesus says that I am innocent and so is everyone else. He’s pretty clear about that. He says it often and in many ways. No one is guilty of anything because nothing actually happens. We dream things. We dream stories with drama and impossible situations, like there being more than one of us and there being hate and fear, attack and defense. Just dreams. So the Holy Spirit answers our dreams by giving us another dream. This dream is forgiveness which undoes the other dreams. Ha ha ha. How perfect is that?
I forgive the idea that I could ever be guilty. Obviously that is not possible. God created me like Himself so I could only be guilty if He were. If I cannot be guilty, neither can you. There. We are forgiven. There is no reason to feel guilty and no reason to condemn. As guilt falls away there is nothing but Love. There is Heaven. There is God. How delightful! We didn’t have to do anything to get this, just stop believing the impossible.
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