In every difficulty, all distress, and each perplexity Christ calls to
you and gently says, "My brother, choose again." He would not leave one
source of pain unhealed, nor any image left to veil the truth. He would
remove all misery from you whom God created altar unto joy. He would
not leave you comfortless, alone in dreams of hell, but would release
your mind from everything that hides His face from you.
His
Holiness is yours because He is the only power that is real in you. His
strength is yours because He is the Self that God created as His only
Son.
Learn, then, the happy habit of response to all temptations:
I am as God created me. His Son can suffer nothing. And I am His Son.
Thus
is Christ's strength invited to prevail, replacing all your weakness
with the strength that comes from God and that can never fail. And thus
are miracles as natural as fear and agony appeared to be before the
choice for holiness was made. For in that choice are false distinctions
gone, illusory alternatives laid by, and nothing left to interfere with
truth.
You are as God created you, and so is every living thing
you look upon, regardless of the images you see. What you behold as
sickness and as pain, as weakness and as suffering and loss, is but
temptation to perceive yourself defenseless and in hell.
Yield
not to this, and you will see all pain, in every form, wherever it
occurs, but disappear as mists before the sun. A miracle has come to
heal God's Son, and close the door upon his dreams of weakness, opening
the way to his salvation and release.
Choose once again what you
would have him be, remembering that every choice you make establishes
your own identity as you will see it and believe it is.
-Jesus Christ, A Course in Miracles
One Real Choice...and You are Free!
Thursday, July 3, 2008, 03:08 PM [General]

