Welcome to Active Meditation,
A Course in Miracles,
Lesson 101.
God's will for me is perfect happiness.
You still believe salvation asks for suffering as penance for your sins.
This is not so.
Yet you must think it so while you believe that sin is real and that God's child can sin.
If sin is real,
Then punishment is just and cannot be escaped.
Salvation thus cannot be purchased but through suffering.
If sin is real,
Then happiness must be an illusion,
For sin and happiness cannot both be true.
If sin is real,
Salvation must be pain.
Pain is the cost of sin,
And suffering can never be escaped if sin is real.
Pray to yourself,
Repeat in your mind,
There is no sin.
There is no sin.
There is no sin.
If sin is real,
Salvation must be fear,
For it will kill but slowly,
Taking everything away before it grants the welcome boon of death.
If sin is real,
Its offering is death,
And meted out in cruel form to match the vicious wishes in which sin is born.
If sin is real,
Salvation has become your bitter enemy,
The curse of God upon you who have crucified God's child.
God's will for you is perfect happiness because there is no sin,
And suffering is causeless.
Joy is just,
And pain is but the sign you have misunderstood yourself.
Fear not the will of God,
But turn to it in confidence that the will of God will set you free from all the consequences sin has wrought in feverish imagination.
Pray in your mind,
God's will for me is perfect happiness.
There is no sin.
It has no consequence.
So should you start your practice experience,
And then attempt again to find the joy these thoughts will introduce into your mind.
Look after me.
There is no sin.
Find her on this.
God's will for me is perfect happiness.
There is no sin.
It has no consequence.
God's will for me is perfect happiness.
This is the truth,
Because there is no sin.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
