Welcome to active meditation.
A Course in Miracles Lesson 73 I will there be light.
Today we are considering the will you share with God.
This is not the same as the ego's vital wishes,
Out of which darkness and nothingness arise.
The will you share with God has all the power of creation in it.
The ego's vital wishes are unshared,
And therefore have no power at all.
Its wishes are not idle in the sense that they can make a world of illusions,
In which your belief can be very strong.
But they are idle indeed.
In terms of creation,
They make nothing that is real.
Idle wishes and grievances are partners,
Or co-makers in picturing the world you see.
The wishes of the ego gave rise to the world you see,
And the ego's need for grievances,
Which are necessary to maintain it,
Peoples this world,
With figures that seem to attack you,
And call for righteous judgment.
These figures become the middlemen the ego employs to traffic in grievances.
They stand between your awareness,
And your brother's and sister's reality.
Beholding grievances,
You do not know your brothers,
Your sisters,
Or yourself.
Your will is lost to you in this strange bartering,
In which guilt is traded back and forth,
And grievances increase with each exchange.
Would such a world have been created by the will the child of God shares with God?
Did God create disaster for God's child?
Creation is the will of both together.
Would God create a world that also kills God?
Today we will try once more to reach the world that is in accordance with your will.
The light is in it because it does not oppose the will of God.
It is not heaven,
But the light of heaven shines on it.
Darkness has vanished.
The ego's idle wishes have been withdrawn.
Yet,
The light that shines upon this world reflects your will,
And so it must be in you that we will look for it.
Your picture of the world can only mirror what is within.
The source of neither light nor darkness can be found without.
Grievances darken your mind,
And you look out on the darkened world.
Forgiveness lifts the darkness,
Reasserts your will,
And lets you look upon a world of light.
We have repeatedly emphasized that the barrier of grievances is easily passed and cannot stand between you and your salvation.
The reason is very simple.
Do you really want to be in hell?
Do you really want to weep and suffer and die?
Forget the ego's arguments which seek to prove all this is really heaven.
You know it is not so.
You cannot want this for yourself.
There is a point beyond which illusions cannot go.
Suffering is not happiness,
And it is happiness you really want.
Such is your will and truth.
And so,
Salvation is your will as well.
You want to succeed in what we are trying to do today.
We undertake it with your blessing and your glad accord.
We will succeed today if you remember that you want salvation for yourself.
You want to accept God's plan because you share in it.
You have no will that can really oppose it,
And you do not want to do so.
Salvation is for you.
Above all else,
You want the freedom to remember who you really are.
Today,
It is the ego that stands powerless before your will.
Your will is free,
And nothing can prevail against it.
Therefore,
We undertake the exercises for today in happy confidence,
Certain that we will find what it is your will defines.
And remember what it is your will to remember,
What it is your will defines.
No idle wishes can detain us nor deceive us with an illusion of strength.
Today,
Let your will be done and end forever the insane belief that it is hell in place of heaven that you choose.
We will begin our longer practice periods with the recognition that God's plan for salvation and only God's plan is wholly in accord with your will.
It is not the purpose of an alien power thrust upon you unwillingly.
It is the one purpose here on which you and God are in perfect accord.
You will succeed today,
The time appointed for release of the child of God from hell and from all idle wishes.
The child's will is now restored to awareness.
The child is willing this very day to look upon the light inside and be saved.
After reminding yourself of this and determining to keep your will clearly in mind,
Tell yourself with gentle firmness and quiet certainty,
I will,
There be light.
Let me behold the light that reflects God's will and mine.
Then let your will assert itself joined with the power of God and united with yourself.
Let the rest of the practice period under their guidance join with them as they lead the way.
Let's practice.
Repeat after me.
My will is restored to awareness.
I am willing right now to look upon the light inside.
I am willing to be saved.
Think about this.
I am willing right now to look upon the light inside.
Say in your mind,
I will,
There be light.
Let me behold the light that reflects God's will and mine.
Take some time now to relax in the light.
Will there be light?
Let me behold the light that reflects God's will and mine.
Let me behold the light that reflects God's will and mine.
In the shorter practice periods,
Again make a declaration of what you really want.
My will,
There be light.
Darkness is not my will.
This should be repeated several times an hour.
It is most important,
However,
To apply today's idea in this form immediately you are tempted to hold a grievance of any kind.
This will help you let your grievances go instead of cherishing them and hiding them in the darkness.
My will,
There be light.
Darkness is not my will.
My will,
There be light.
Darkness is not my will.
Darkness is not my will.
It is my will that there be light in me.
I will,
There be light.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
