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6 The emphasis of this course always remains the same;-it is at this moment that complete salvation is offered you, and it is at this moment that you can accept it. This is still your one responsibility. Atonement might be equated with total escape from the past and total lack of interest in the future. Heaven is here. There is nowhere else. Heaven is now. There is no other time. No teaching that does not lead to this is of concern to God’s teachers. All beliefs will point to this if properly interpreted. In this sense, it can be said that their truth lies in their usefulness. All beliefs that lead to progress should be honored. This is the sole criterion this course requires. No more than this is necessary.
It has been in this study of the Manual for Teachers that I have finally understood that awakening is not an escape from my life. I had begun to understand this, but now I really get it. There is nowhere to go and no time to be. There is only now. I awaken now. I awaken here. Heaven is now. Heaven is here. I lack nothing. There is nothing for me to do, nowhere for me to go. All this work I do is for the purpose of reaching a decision to be what I am. With that decision all is done. However, it must be a decision with no exceptions. It must be wholly desired.
I have come to terms with the fact that from this limited experience I have decided on there is only so much that I will understand. I have made a world of very narrow focus in which I allow myself only a bit of awareness. It seems that I will be limited in this way as long as I continue to choose separation, and so I must trust what I cannot at this moment see and understand. But all is awaiting a new decision on my part. Truth goes nowhere and does not change because I have decided not to acknowledge it. I will know what I am willing to know and eventually I will know all.
Concepts like reincarnation are helpful to the extent that I use them to bring me closer to my true desire. And all concepts can be reinterpreted to accommodate this choice if that is my desire. It seems that is the function of the Holy Spirit in my mind. The Holy Spirit has been showing me this lately as it applies to different religions and different spiritual paths. There were ideas that I had thought were wrong and something to be avoided, that He has reinterpreted for me and the truth at their core has been exposed.
It makes me laugh to think how confused I was that in my search for truth I was going deeper into separation as I judged and rejected. That is what happens when I try to use the ego thinking mind. Judging and separating is all the ego knows so that is all it gives me. Holy Spirit, I set my thoughts aside and wait patiently for your words.
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