A Course in Miracles,
Lesson 189 I feel the love of God within me now.
The love of God welcomes you.
God's love rejoices that you came.
The love of God sings your praises.
God's love keeps you safe from every form of danger and pain.
The love of God offers you a warm and gentle home in which to stay a while.
The love of God blesses you throughout the day.
God's love watches through the night as the silent guardian of your holy sleep.
The love of God sees salvation in you.
God's love protects the light in you,
In which it sees its own light.
Learn,
And do not let your mind forget this law of seeing.
You will look on that which you feel within.
If hatred finds a place within your heart,
You will perceive a fearful world,
A world
Held cruelly in death's sharp-pointed,
Bony fingers.
Today we pass illusions as we seek to reach what is true in us,
To feel the all-embracing
Tenderness of truth,
To feel God's love,
Which knows us perfect as itself,
To feel
Its sight,
Which is the gift God's love bestows on us.
We learn the way today.
Simply do this.
Be still.
Lay aside all thoughts of what you are.
Lay aside all thoughts of what God is.
Set aside all concepts you have learned about the world.
Lay aside all images you hold about yourself.
Empty your mind of everything it thinks is either true or false.
Empty your mind of everything you think is good or bad.
Empty your mind of every thought it judges worthy.
Empty your mind of all the ideas of which it is ashamed.
Hold onto nothing.
Don't bring with you one thought the past has taught.
Do not bring with you one belief you have ever learned before from anything.
Forget this world.
Forget this course.
Come with holy,
Empty hands unto your God.
Is it not God who knows the way to you?
You need not know the way to Him.
Your part is simply to allow all obstacles that you have interposed between you and God
To be quietly removed forever.
God will do His part in joyful and immediate response.
Ask and receive.
But do not make demands.
Do not point the road to God by which He should appear to you.
The way to reach God is merely to let Him be.
In that way is your reality proclaimed as well.
We do not choose the way in which we go to God,
But we do choose to let God come to us.
And with this choice,
We rest.
We rest in our quiet hearts and open minds.
In our quiet hearts and open minds,
God's love will blaze its pathway of itself.
What has not been denied is surely there if it be true and can be surely reached.
God knows His child and knows the way to you.
He does not need you to show Him how to find His way.
Through every open door,
God's love shines outward from its home within and lightens
Up the world in innocence.
I feel the love of God within me now.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
