Love & Miracles in 2023
The call to love
The beginning of the text in A Course in Miracles contains three short sentences.
The course tells us that these three sentences provide a simple summary of its content. Yet, what are these sentences actually telling us?
From the onset, the course is distinguishing between what is real, and what is unreal. From the course’s perspective God is love. What is real is of God. As such, what stems or emerges from love is of God, and therefore is real.
Thus, if God is love, that which lacks love or is unloving is unreal. All that is not of love does not exist.
When our thoughts, our words, and our actions are love-centered, we are in essence aligned with God. The love that we extend (to others and to ourselves) is grounded in reality. Love, and that which comes from love, cannot be threatened.
Thoughts, words, and actions that are not love-centered, or are unloving, are nothing at all. Our unloving thoughts, words, and actions, in ultimate reality, do not exist. This does not mean that we do not experience lack of love in the earthly sense, or that we must not atone for our own unloving thoughts, words, or actions. But it does suggest that, beyond the scope of the senses and this physical plane, they do not constitute what is real, because they do not have love.
Love is all there is. Knowing that, and aligning how we approach our experiences and how we respond to what we experience, can help us to cultivate a loving disposition. We can become less reactive to external circumstances and situations in our lives and more proactive as we take responsibility for how we think and how we choose to engage with others and with the world.
As we near the final hours of 2022, let us take some time to consider how, in our everyday words and actions, we can begin to love one another as God loves us. Let us consider how we can atone for our unloving thoughts, words, and actions. Let us consider how we can surrender ourselves to love and open ourselves up to the miracles that are ever present all around us. Let us consider how in 2023 we can more fully reflect love to one another and to ourselves in all we say and in all we do.
It really is that simple and yet we need a whole book, workbook and classes, etc. to train us to understand those three sentences right at the beginning! Our egos make it so hard on us and difficult to understand something so simple! We spend our whole life searching for what is real and then when we discover that it is our ego that has been tricking us the whole time we spend the rest of our lives trying to unlearn what we were taught and relearn the truth of our Soul...