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Chapter 7: Lana Abide
Abide in God, where he would have us be. In ACIM, we train the mind to say Yes to Love and bring to Love that which appears to be unlike Love. I place whatever concerns me on the Altar of Truth. There it disappears into the Light of Love. What is unreal has no power over the Light of Truth. What remains is the Love of God.
So many times when fear enters the mind in one of its many forms, we are tempted to try to fix or solve or figure out what is happening within our mind. These actions are the work of the ego thought system. It wants us to stay engaged in the effects of our thinking rather than the cause. The ego will attempt to convince us we have failed in some way, and then add guilt and a feeling of being unworthy of the Love of God. None of this has any meaning or Truth. We have not failed at anything. The only failure that has occurred is a failure in memory, and that is something that can only be remedied by returning the mind to God, to Love, and to Truth. They all mean the same thing. How can one fix or figure out something that does not exist? As Jesus would counsel us, it is a tragic waste of time. That is all. Because all the time we spend trying to figure out and fix the pain we are experiencing could be time spent in peace. It helps me to keep just one idea in my back pocket for times like these, and that is, "When I forget, I remember to forgive. In that one thought and in my choice to forgive, memory is restored, and peace returns.
For me, the process is about abandoning at the level of my mind all thoughts relating to any perceived problem or its effects and bringing all of my focus and attention to the present moment. I still my mind and sit quietly in communion with God. To still the mind means no thinking. To sit quietly means not talking to myself. I rest in communion with God as the Holy Spirit heals my misperceptions and returns my mind to its natural state of peace. Forgiveness does not engage or fix something that does not exist, Forgiveness, on the other hand, is still, and quietly does nothing. It merely looks, and waits, and judges not.
We simply look beyond the "seems to be" and focus on "what is" right here and right now in the mind I share with God. When we stop feeding the ego nothingness with our focus and attention, we do not nourish it, and it naturally fades and disappears. I will forgive, and this will disappear. Nothingness has no power, except the power we give to it with our engagement with it. By engaging it or resisting it, we give it a false reality, a reality that does not exist. We make it seem real.
In the here and now, in this present moment in communion with my Father, I give my full and undivided attention to Truth, to Love, and to God. Now that is a powerful engagement. It is where illusions disappear in the presence of Truth. This is where I bring all of my focus and attention. Here and Now, with God, is what I nourish and where I abide in Peace and Love. It is indeed a joyous opportunity. Abide in God, where he would have us be.
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