VII. The Two Evaluations, P 2
2 Consider, then, that in this joint will you are all united, and in this only. There may be disagreement on anything else, but not on this. This, then, is where peace abides. And you abide in peace when you so decide. Yet you cannot abide in peace unless you accept the Atonement, because the Atonement is the way to peace. The reason is very simple, and so obvious that it is often overlooked. The ego is afraid of the obvious, since obviousness is the essential characteristic of reality. Yet you cannot overlook it unless you are not looking.
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I want to be happy and you want to be happy. On this we can agree. We may feel unworthy of happiness at times, but we still want it. In our agreement, peace abides and we can abide there, too. All it takes is a decision to do so. In that decision, we choose to accept the Atonement. We choose to allow the ego to be undone for us, because there is no other way to be at peace, and no other way to be happy.
This section is going to help us look at what should be obvious, but what we have overlooked since we make the world we see and all that is part of it. We are going to look at the two evaluations, the Holy Spirit’s evaluation of us, and the ego’s evaluation. What we want to remember is that we are always agreeing with one or the other.
There is no third choice, no neutral ground. And which we agree with is a matter of decision. Our decision changes nothing in reality, because what God created cannot be changed. But our choice is important because choosing to agree with the ego prolongs our suffering. We have closed our eyes to the truth long enough. We have suffered long enough.
Let us look with eyes wide open at the two evaluations that Jesus is presenting to us. Today, I make a commitment to see what is obvious. As I read this section, I open my mind to what Jesus is telling us. I commit to staying aware during the day so that I will see how this applies in my life, how I have been accepting the ego’s evaluation. I commit to opening my heart so that I can fully receive the Holy Spirit’s evaluation instead.
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