September 4, 2018
Since we entered this world we have been looking for something, for meaning and for peace and love. Have we found it yet? Where are we looking? Perhaps we are making it much more difficult than we need. Perhaps we are looking in all the wrong places when what we are looking for is right in front of us and we refuse to see it. The Course has repeated how little is asked of us to learn the lessons of this course. It is the same small willingness we need to have our whole relationship transformed to joy; the little gift we offer to Spirit for which we are given everything; the very little on which salvation rests; the tiny change of mind by which our mind is transformed. This transformation is so simple that it cannot fail to be completely understood. We can reject or deny it, but it is not ambiguous. If we choose against these lessons now, it will not be because the message is obscure, but rather that this little cost seemed, in our judgment, to be too much to pay for peace.
This is the only thing that you need do for vision, happiness, release from pain and the complete escape from sin, all to be given you. Say only this, but mean it with no reservations, for here the power of salvation lies:
- I am responsible for what I see.
- I choose the feelings I experience, and I decide upon the goal I would achieve.
- And everything that seems to happen to me I ask for, and receive as I have asked.
Deceive yourself no longer that you are helpless in the face of what is done to you. Acknowledge but that you have been mistaken, and all effects of your mistakes will disappear. T-21.II.2:1-7
The transformation of our mind, and thus our world, is really very simple. Yet, we are the ones who make it difficult and sometimes seemingly impossible. We have become so attached to the world we think we see and our own mistaken perception of it that we resist letting go of it. We believe in our perception of this world so strongly that it blocks all other ideas that conflict with it. It is our fear of the unknown that keeps us clinging to that which is familiar to us, even if it makes us miserable. In reality, it is impossible that we are driven by events outside of us. Yet, we think we are. It is also impossible, in reality, that happenings that come to us are not our choice. Yet, we think it so. Our power of decision is the determiner of every situation in which we seem to find ourselves by chance or accident. There are no accidents, for we are responsible for our view of the world. We are responsible for our sight – how we see the world.
If we suffer, we decided separation was our goal. Be happy, and we give the power of decision to the One Who must decide for Oneness for us. This is the little gift we can offer to the Spirit within us, and even this Spirit gives to us to give ourselves. For by this gift we are given the power to release each other, that they may give salvation to us.
Begrudge not then this little offering. Withhold it, and you keep the world as now you see it. Give it away, and everything you see goes with it. Never was so much given for so little. In the holy instant is this exchange effected and maintained. Here is the world you do not want brought to the one you do. And here the one you do is given you because you want it. Yet for this, the power of your wanting must first be recognized. You must accept its strength, and not its weakness. You must perceive that what is strong enough to make a world can let it go, and can accept correction if it is willing to see that it was wrong. T-21.II.4:1-10
We all have the power to see. We can see an illusion of the world – a distorted and convoluted perception. Or, we can choose to see with Holy Vision, as Spirit guides us. With this guided vision, the world is transformed before us. It is transformed to a world of peace, love and joy. In this real world we are complete, whole, limitless and free. It is a world we rest in. Which world do you want? We are already in the real world – the transformed world – yet it looks like something else. It is our responsibility how we see the world. It’s our choice. Accept the gift of Vision the Holy offers you. This is your home, and this is your salvation.
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