Day 93: Light and joy and peace abide in me.

Light and joy and peace abide in me.

This is so, because this is what we are made of.  Light and Joy and Peace, of course, are synonymous with Love.

Today's lesson goes on to tell us that our "sinlessness is guaranteed by God."  This would appear to contradict so much of what we see in the world, not to mention what we have read in our history books.  Yet A Course in Miracles reassures us:

Why would you not be overjoyed to be assured that all the evil that you think you did was never done, that all your sins are nothing, that you are as pure and holy as you were created, and that light and joy and peace abide in you?  Your image of yourself cannot withstand the Will of God.  You think that this is death, but it is life.  You think you are destroyed, but you are saved.

Any so-called sin, the Course says, simply does not exist.  We can think we are sinners, and thus we will appear to sin.  But the Laws of God and Science are clear: Energy cannot be created nor destroyed – it simply changes form.  Any perceived sin and its subsequent “destruction,” then, is just a shift of energy.

We live in a world where stories of rape, murder, assault and otherwise horrific crimes dominate our news media.  We walk about on an earth where bloodshed stains the soil, where massacres and genocides pollute our histories, where war is the foundation of our nations.  We live in a global society where we continue to allow torture, poverty, hunger and slavery to exist.  We inhabit a planet where at any given moment nuclear bombs could detonate and wipe out our entire population.

Given the state of things, destruction seems inevitable, and sin ever-present.  Yet none of it is real.  The physical world, we must remember, is an illusion.  It is a dreamed-up construct by which we have the opportunity to experience our own Divinity.  Since we have free will, we can also choose to experience that which we are not, and we have done far too much of that on this planet.

Let us commit, then, to no longer viewing ourselves as sinners.  Let us recognize the Light and the Joy and the Peace abiding within all of us, and let us begin to live and experience those divine qualities out loud.  Let us remove the pollution of our planet and replace those idle illusions with the images that reflect our True nature - the Love and Light of God.

And so it is.  Thank you, and Amen.

Until tomorrow,
Journeyman