A New Way to See

My Only Goal

I share with you some of the thoughts that came to mind after reviewing ACIM Lesson 256.

“How long, O Son of God, will you maintain the game of sin?”
All my pretenses cannot change everlasting Love.

Lesson 256: “God is the only goal I have today.”
God is my goal; forgiveness is the means by which my mind returns to Him at last.

My only purpose is to lay forgiveness on all my dream images; to let go of my false definitions and to accept Christ’s complete perception of all I think I see.
———- I am as God created me. There is no body—- I am free.
I am Love and nothing else.
I have no goal except to hear Your Voice,
and to follow the way your sacred Word has pointed out to me.
Let me be still and listen to the Truth.

Spirit: The dream of pain and destruction is not necessary at all. This dream keeps the ego “alive”, but it is only an idea that separation could be real. Separation is maintained in fantasies from a mind that deceives itself.
(me: Self deception is not the goal I would keep.)

The dream of destruction is not necessary because you remain as God created you. Since you remain as Love created you, you are guiltless, sinless. You have never changed what Love created….... everlasting Love is changeless. What you have dreamed as happening never occurred at all. You are safe. You are innocent. You are Love. You are Home.

You will experience the happy dream, as you follow the HS within, and forgive the images you thought you made. Forgive the thoughts you thought were real.
You can choose to ignore the Truth, but Truth is not altered by your choice.

(me) What I think is real is not real. What I think is true is not true. I need not fear….. for all my wrong thinking can be (and has been) corrected. There is no lapse when truth returns to my awareness.
I need only lay aside my defense against the Truth. Endless Love comes in endless ways. There is no love “outside.” Only Love is real.

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Trying to Find Happiness

Dear Reader,  I was going through last year’s journal, and came across this entry. This is another lesson that I would repeat and have Love’s memory return to an unclouded mind.

God’s Love is everywhere, how can I be afraid with His Love everywhere?
What can cause me to think or believe that I am not included in His Love?
Why would I choose to think that I could be excluded from the Love that is
always present, always eternal, forever with It’s creation?

God is but Love, and therefore so am I.
I am as Love created me. Thoughts leave not their Source.

If I follow the ego system, I will be in fear. I will think that God cannot be trusted and must be feared. I will not be open to the love that surrounds me, while I dream.
The ego tells me that I would be happy if I had another body close to me. Or maybe I should go back and finish the lesson that I started with that person. It always tells me that happiness lies in the future, never the present moment. Or happiness is some other place, not where I am in the moment.

I have mistaken happiness for many different forms in the dream. I have been led by the ego in it’s insane quests, desires, illusions, and plans. I need to learn (once and for all) that happiness is never in any form. Happiness is within me, for it is recognizing that I am whole, complete, and totally innocent. It is seeing with Holy Eyes, that I remain as Love created me. It is knowing that what Love creates cannot be changed. Happiness is accepting that truth is true, I did not create my self or my body. I cannot “be” something other then what Love created. That is impossible. What I have told myself over eons, does not change what Love created.

If I feel unhappy, it is because I am trying to “live” a lie.

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