Perhaps
you think that different kinds of love are possible. Perhaps you think there is
a kind of love for this, a kind for that; a way of loving one, another way of
loving still another. Love is one. It has no separate parts and no degrees; no
kinds nor levels, no divergence's and no distinctions. It is like itself,
unchanged throughout. It never alters with a person or a circumstance. It is
the Heart of God, and also of His Son.
Love's
meaning is obscure to anyone who thinks that love can change. He does not see
that changing love must be impossible. And thus he thinks that he can love at
times, and hate at other times. He also thinks that love can be bestowed on
one, and yet remain itself although it is withheld from others. To believe
these things of love is not to understand it. If it could make such
distinctions, it would have to judge between the righteous and the sinner, and
perceive the Son of God in separate parts.
Love
cannot judge. As it is one itself, it looks on all as one. Its meaning lies in
oneness. And it must elude the mind that thinks of it as partial or in part.
There is no love but God's, and all of love is His. There is no other principle
that rules where love is not. Love is a law without an opposite. Its wholeness
is the power holding everything as one, the link between the Father and the Son
which holds Them both forever as the same.
No
course whose purpose is to teach you to remember what you really are could fail
to emphasize that there can never be a difference in what you really are and
what love is. Love's meaning is your own, and shared by God Himself. For what
you are is what He is. There is no love but His, and what He is, is everything
there is. There is no limit placed upon Himself, and so are you unlimited as
well.
No law
the world obeys can help you grasp love's meaning. What the world believes was
made to hide love's meaning, and to keep it dark and secret. There is not one
principle the world upholds but violates the truth of what love is, and what
you are as well.
Seek
not within the world to find your Self. Love is not found in darkness and in
death. Yet it is perfectly apparent to the eyes that see and ears that hear
love's Voice. Today we practice making free your mind of all the laws you think
you must obey; of all the limits under which you live, and all the changes that
you think are part of human destiny. Today we take the largest single step this
course requests in your advance towards its established goal.
If you
achieve the faintest glimmering of what love means today, you have advanced in
distance without measure and in time beyond the count of years to your release.
Let us together, then, be glad to give some time to God today, and understand
there is no better use for time than this.
For
fifteen minutes twice today escape from every law in which you now believe.
Open your mind and rest. The world that seems to hold you prisoner can be
escaped by anyone who does not hold it dear. Withdraw all value you have placed
upon its meager offerings and senseless gifts, and let the gift of God replace
them all.
Call to
your Father, certain that His Voice will answer. He Himself has promised this.
And He Himself will place a spark of truth within your mind wherever you give
up a false belief, a dark illusion of your own reality and what love means. He
will shine through your idle thoughts today, and help you understand the truth
of love. In loving gentleness He will abide with you, as you allow His Voice to
teach love's meaning to your clean and open mind. And He will bless the lesson
with His Love.
Today
the legion of the future years of waiting for salvation disappears before the
timelessness of what you learn. Let us give thanks today that we are spared a
future like the past. Today we leave the past behind us, nevermore to be
remembered. And we raise our eyes upon a different present, where a future
dawns unlike the past in every attribute.
The
world in infancy is newly born. And we will watch it grow in health and
strength, to shed its blessing upon all who come to learn to cast aside the
world they thought was made in hate to be love's enemy. Now are they all made
free, along with us. Now are they all our brothers in God's Love.
We will
remember them throughout the day, because we cannot leave a part of us outside
our love if we would know our Self. At least three times an hour think of one
who makes the journey with you, and who came to learn what you must learn. And
as he comes to mind, give him this message from your Self:
I bless
you, brother, with the Love of God, which I would
share with you. For I would learn the joyous lesson that
there is no love but God's and yours and mine and everyone's.
An excerpt from ACIM Lesson 127share with you. For I would learn the joyous lesson that
there is no love but God's and yours and mine and everyone's.
