Some Important Questions

Do I desire a world I rule instead of one that rules me?
Do I desire a world where I am powerful instead of helpless?
Do I desire a world in which I have no enemies and cannot sin?
And do I want to see what I denied because it is the truth?
ACIM-T-21:VII:5:11-14

For many of us answering the first three questions is easy. We would likely answer yes.  We want to rule instead of be  ruled,  be powerful instead of helpless, and live in a place where there is no enemy or where we cannot sin...right?  Yet we may choke a little bit before we sputter out an answer to the last question.

Do you want to see what you denied for so long because it is the truth? 

Now the truth is like the sunlight those poor slaves in Plato's Cave experienced. After years of adjusting our eyes to dim light and calling it reality...facing this intense thing called truth can be something we fear. We figure it will be painful...but more than that it marks a permanent transcendence.

When we decide to look at the world with God's eyes instead of through these little orbs on our heads things change forever.  We are accepting true vision.   Once we accept the vision  sunlight provides and open our eyes fully to it...there is no retreating back into the caves.  There is no going back.  It is a complete and permanent step forward. The world we thought we knew will crumble into pieces and we will see something we never knew existed before.

Are you ready to give up everything you thought you knew and believed to be real  for this something you spent your life time denying , at some level, ever existed? That is a big leap of faith, isn't it?

Are you ready to put down your own weapons of defense, your judgments, your separating borders, your belief in sin, your ideas about who is an enemy and who isn't and accept that these things are not necessary or even real? That the sunlit world is one of peace where you will be completely safe and happy?

If you struggle with that last question as most of us do...look about the world that you presently see with the body's eyes...see the suffering in it, the violence, the fear.  See that any form of happiness it manages to provide is temporary and conditional. Then ask?

Is this what I would see?  Do I want this? (ACIM-T-21: VII:8:4-5)

 

Something to ponder! Don't deny true eternal happiness in order to settle for shadows on the wall.

 

No one decides against his happiness, but he may do so if he does not see he does it.  And if he sees his happiness as ever changing, now this, now that, and now an elusive shadow attached to nothing, he does decide against it. ( ACIM-T-21: VII: 12:5-6)

 

All is well!