“The Road Not Taken“ by Sonia Lera Preston
Many of us have a hard time seeing ourselves as Love. A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson #229 tells us: “Love, which created me, is what I am.” We may think there are events in our lives which are so unlovely that we could not possibly be the reflection of Love. Many great sages have instructed us on how to save ourselves from the horror of past events. Thich Nhat Hanh and Mahatma Gandhi showed us how to rise above our feelings of guilt. No matter how this advice is worded, it comes down to one basic concept: extend Love to others; to everything and everyone. This is our atonement, to see the Oneness of all that Is and realize that nothing can ever occur which will separate us from divine Love. By giving love to the world, we give it to ourselves. And then we feel major changes within. We can forgive ourselves, even as we are forgiven, because we were never condemned.
"Love inspires, illumines, designates, and leads the way. Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action. Love is priestess at the altar of Truth. Wait patiently for divine Love to move upon the waters of mortal mind, and form the perfect concept.
Patience must 'have her perfect work.'"
Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 454:18-24
“I seek my own Identity, and find It in these words: ‘Love, which created me, is what I am.’ Now need I seek no more. Love has prevailed. So still It waited for my coming home, that I will turn away no longer from the holy face of Christ. And what I look upon attests the truth of the Identity I sought to lose,
but which my Father has kept safe for me.”
A Course in Miracles W-229.1:1-5
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