Welcome to Active Meditation,
A Course in Miracles.
Lesson 189.
I Feel the Love of God Within Me Now.
This light is a reflection of the thought we practice now.
I feel the love of God within me now.
To feel the love of God within you is to see the world anew,
Shining in innocence,
Alive with hope,
Blessed with perfect charity and love.
Who could feel fear in such a world as this?
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.
The love of God offers you its flowers and its snow in thankfulness for your benevolence.
This is the world the love of God reveals.
It is so different,
World you see,
Through darkened eyes of malice and fear,
That one world opposes the other.
Only one world can be perceived at all.
The other world is wholly meaningless.
A world in which forgiveness shines on everything.
A world in which peace offers its gentle light to everyone.
This world is inconceivable to those who see a world of hatred rising from attack,
Poised to avenge,
To murder,
To destroy.
The world of hatred is equally unseen and equally inconceivable to those who feel God s love in them.
Their world reflects the quietness and the peace that shines in them.
Their world reflects the gentleness and the innocence they see surrounding them.
Their world reflects the joy with which they look out from the endless wells of joy within.
What they have felt within them they look out upon and see its sure reflection everywhere.
What would you see?
The choice is given you.
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.
If you feel the love of God within you,
You will look out on a world of mercy.
A world of love.
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.
It is as sure as love itself to which it carries us.
For the simplicity of God s love avoids the snares,
Avoids the foolish convulsions of the world s apparent reasoning.
But that serves to hide the love of God.
Let s practice.
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.
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.
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.
Today 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.
Father,
We do not know the way to you,
But we have called and you have answered us.
We will not interfere.
Salvation s ways are not our own,
For they belong to you.
It is unto you we look for salvation.
Our hands are open to receive your gifts.
We have no thoughts we think apart from you.
We cherish no beliefs of what we are or who created us.
Father,
Yours is the way that we would find and follow.
We ask that your will,
Which is our own as well,
Be done in us and in the world,
And that this world becomes a part of heaven.
Now,
I feel the love of God within me.
Now,
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
