No-one can suffer loss unless it be his own decision. No-one suffers
pain except his choice elects this state for him. No-one can grieve nor
fear nor think him sick unless these are the outcomes that he wants. And
no-one dies without his own consent. Nothing occurs but represents your
wish, and nothing is omitted that you choose. Here is your world,
complete in all details. Here is its whole reality for you. And it is
only here salvation is.
You may believe that this position is extreme, and too inclusive to be
true. Yet can truth have exceptions? If you have the gift of everything
can loss be real? Can pain be part of peace, or grief of joy? Can fear
and sickness enter in a mind where love and perfect holiness abide?
Truth must be all-inclusive if it be the truth at all. Accept no
opposite and no exceptions, for to do so is to contradict the truth
entirely.
Salvation is the recognition that the truth is true and nothing else is
true. This you have heard before, but may not yet accept both parts of
it. Without the first the second has no meaning, but without the second
is the first no longer true. Truth cannot have an opposite. This can not
be too often said and thought about. For if what is not true is true as
well as what is true, then part of truth is false, and truth has lost
its meaning. Nothing but the truth is true, and what is false is false.
This is the simplest of distinctions, yet the most obscure. But not
because it is a difficult distinction to perceive. It is concealed
behind a vast array of choices which do not appear to be entirely your
own. And thus the truth appears to have some aspects that belie
consistency, but do not seem to be but contradictions introduced by you.
As God created you, you must remain unchangeable with transitory states
by definition false. And that includes all shifts in feeling,
alterations in conditions of the body and the mind, in all awareness and
in all response. This is the all-inclusiveness which sets the truth
apart from falsehood, and the false kept separate from the truth as what
it is.
Is it not strange that you believe to think you made the world
you see is arrogance? God made it not. Of this you can be sure. What can
He know of the ephemeral, the sinful and the guilty, the afraid, the
suffering and lonely, and the mind that lives within a body that must
die? You but accuse Him of insanity, to think He made a world where such
things seem to have reality. He is not mad. Yet only madness makes a
world like this.
To think that God made chaos, contradicts His Will, invented opposites
to truth, and suffers death to triumph over life, all this is arrogance.
Humility would see at once these things are not of Him. And can you see
what God created not? To think you can is merely to believe you can
perceive what God willed not to be. And what could be more arrogant than
this?
Let us today be truly humble, and accept what we have made as what it
is. The power of decision is our own. Decide but to accept your rightful
place as co-creator of the universe, and all you think you made will
disappear. What rises to awareness then will be all that there ever was,
eternally as it is now. And it will take the place of self-deceptions
made but to usurp the altar to the Father and the Son.
Today we practice true humility, abandoning the false pretense by which
the ego seeks to prove it arrogant. Only the ego can be arrogant. But
truth is humble in acknowledging its mightiness, its changelessness and
its eternal wholeness, all-encompassing, God’s perfect gift to His
beloved Son.
We lay aside the arrogance which says that we are sinners, guilty and
afraid, ashamed of what we are. And lift our hearts in true humility
instead to Him Who has created us immaculate, like to Himself in power
and in love. The power of decision is our own. And we accept of Him that
which we are, and humbly recognize the Son of God.
To recognize God’s Son implies as well that all self-concepts have been
laid aside and recognized as false. Their arrogance has been perceived.
And in humility the radiance of God’s Son, his gentleness, his perfect
sinlessness, his Father’s Love, his right to Heaven and release from
hell are joyously accepted as our own. Now do we join in glad
acknowledgment that lies are false and only truth is true.
We think of truth alone as we arise, and spend five minutes practicing
its ways, encouraging our frightened minds with this:
“The power of decision is my own.
This day I will accept myself as
what My Father’s Will created me to be.”
Then will we wait in silence, giving up all self-deceptions as we humbly
ask our Self that He reveal Himself to us. And He Who never left will
come again to our awareness, grateful to restore His home to God as it
was meant to be.
In patience wait for Him throughout the day, and hourly invite Him with
the words with which the day began, concluding it with this same
invitation to your Self. God’s Voice will answer, for He speaks for you
and for your Father. He will substitute the peace of God for all your
frantic thoughts, the truth of God for self-deceptions, and God’s Son
for your illusions of yourself.