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Choosing is easy just because of this.
Complexity is nothing but a screen of smoke, which hides the very simple fact that no decision can be difficult.
What is the gain to you in learning this?
It is far more than merely letting you make choices easily and without pain.
Heaven itself is reached with empty hands and open minds, which come with nothing to find everything and claim it as their own.
We will attempt to reach this state today, with self-deception laid aside, and with an honest willingness to value but the truly valuable and the real.
The ego is afraid of the spirit's joy, because once you have experienced it you will withdraw all protection from the ego, and become totally without investment in fear.
Your investment is great now because fear is a witness to the separation, and your ego rejoices when you witness to it.
Leave it behind! Do not listen to it and do not preserve it.
Listen only to God, Who is as incapable of deception as is the spirit He created.
Release yourself and release others.
Do not present a false and unworthy picture of yourself to others, and do not accept such a picture of them yourself.
The forgiven are the means of the Atonement.
Being filled with spirit, they forgive in return.
Those who are released must join in releasing their brothers, for this is the plan of the Atonement.
Miracles are the way in which minds that serve the Holy Spirit unite with me for the salvation or release of all of God's creations.
Yet even the little spark in your mind is enough to lighten it.
Bring this light fearlessly with you, and bravely hold it up to the foundation of the ego's thought system.
Be willing to judge it with perfect honesty.
Open the dark cornerstone of terror on which it rests, and bring it out into the light.
There you will see that it rested on meaninglessness, and that everything of which you have been afraid was based on nothing.
God's Will does not oppose. It merely is.
It is not God you have imprisoned in your plan to lose your Self.
He does not know about a plan so alien to His Will.
There was a need He did not understand, to which He gave an Answer.
That is all. And you who have this Answer given you have need no more of anything but This.
Today we practice letting go all thought of values we have given to the world.
We leave it free of purposes we gave its aspects and its phases and its dreams.
We hold it purposeless within our minds, and loosen it from all we wish it were.
Thus do we lift the chains that bar the door to freedom from the world, and go beyond all little values and diminished goals.
Pause and be still a little while, and see how far you rise above the world, when you release your mind from chains and let it seek the level where it finds itself at home. It will be grateful to be free a while.
And gratitude can only be sincere if it be joined to love.
We offer thanks to God our Father that in us all things will find their freedom.
It will never be that some are loosed while others still are bound.
For who can bargain in the name of love?
Therefore give thanks, but in sincerity.
And let your gratitude make room for all who will escape with you; the sick, the weak, the needy and afraid, and those who mourn a seeming loss or feel apparent pain, who suffer cold or hunger, or who walk the way of hatred and the path of death.
All these go with you. Let us not compare ourselves with them, for thus we split them off from our awareness of the unity we share with them, as they must share with us.
