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How simple, then, is God's plan for salvation. There is but one response to reality, for reality evokes no conflict at all.
There is but one Teacher of reality, Who understands what it is. He does not change His Mind about reality because reality does not change.
Although your interpretations of reality are meaningless in your divided state, His remain consistently true.
He gives them to you because they are for you. Do not attempt to "help" a brother in your way, for you cannot help yourself.
But hear his call for the Help of God, and you will recognize your own need for the Father.
This step, the smallest ever taken, is still the greatest accomplishment of all in God's plan of Atonement.
All else is learned, but this is given, complete and wholly perfect.
No one but Him Who planned salvation could complete it thus.
The real world, in its loveliness, you learn to reach.
Fantasies are all undone, and no one and nothing remain still bound by them, and by your own forgiveness you are free to see.
Yet what you see is only what you made, with the blessing of your forgiveness on it.
And with this final blessing of God's Son upon himself, the real perception, born of the new perspective he has learned, has served its purpose.
In the temple, holiness waits quietly for the return of them that love it.
The Presence knows they will return to purity and to grace.
The graciousness of God will take them gently in, and cover all their sense of pain and loss with the immortal assurance of their Father's Love.
There, fear of death will be replaced with joy of life.
For God is Life, and they abide in Life. Life is as holy as the Holiness by Which it was created.
The Presence of holiness lives in everything that lives, for holiness created life, and leaves not what it created holy as itself.
God does not guide, because He can share only perfect knowledge.
Guidance is evaluative, because it implies there is a right way and also a wrong way, one to be chosen and the other to be avoided.
By choosing one you give up the other. The choice for the Holy Spirit is the choice for God.
God is not in you in a literal sense; you are part of Him.
When you chose to leave Him He gave you a Voice to speak for Him because He could no longer share His knowledge with you without hindrance.
Direct communication was broken because you had made another voice.
Therefore it is the only choice there is.
Believe in the resurrection because it has been accomplished, and it has been accomplished in you.
This is as true now as it will ever be, for the resurrection is the Will of God, which knows no time and no exceptions.
But make no exceptions yourself, or you will not perceive what has been accomplished for you.
For we ascend unto the Father together, as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, for such is the nature of God's Son as his Father created him.
In the mind in time and space there is an idea ..No-one knows me! Poor me! ...
I am not appreciated. I am misunderstood ....
No you are not those insane ideas, as God knows you perfectly and that is what all knowledge is.
The question can only be " Do you want to know yourself as God knows you?
Knowing yourself is the constant reminder of who you are in the love of God as given in A Course in Miracles
This is a course in how to know yourself.
You have taught what you are, but have not let what you are teach you.
You have been very careful to avoid the obvious, and not to see the real cause and effect relationship that is perfectly apparent.
Yet within you is everything you taught. What can it be that has not learned it?
What does it mean to give and to receive?
Ask and expect an answer. Your request is one whose answer has been waiting long to be received by you.
It will begin the ministry for which you came, and which will free the world from thinking giving is a way to lose.
And so the world becomes ready to understand and to receive.
Be still and listen to the truth today. For each five minutes spent in listening, a thousand minds are opened to the truth and they will hear the holy Word you hear.
And when the hour is past, you will again release a thousand more who pause to ask that truth be given them, along with you.
Today the holy Word of God is kept through your receiving it to give away, so you can teach the world what giving means by listening and learning it of Him.
Do not forget today to reinforce your choice to hear and to receive the Word by this reminder, given to yourself as often as is possible today:
