ACIM Workbook Lesson 127 ~ May 6
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" Lesson 127
"There is no love but God's."
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 divergencies
and no distinctions. It is like itself,
unchanged throughout. It never alters with
a person or a cir***stance. 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
which 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 [what
you really are could fail to emphasize
there is no difference in what] you 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 laws 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 [its] Voice.
Today we practice making free [our] minds
of all the laws [we] think [we] must obey;
of all the limits under which [we] live,
and all the changes which [we] think are part
of human destiny. Today we take
the largest single step this course requests
in [our] 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 [which] seems
to hold you prisoner can be escaped
by anyone who does not hold it dear.
Withdraw all value you have placed upon
its meagre 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 ****ne 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 ****nes
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." "
~ Urtext of ACIM
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