“Your finger does not act independently of the whole. You might say that your finger does not, then, have free will. . . .The same is true of you! You cannot express yourself independently of the whole! (The Treatises of A Course of Love: ‘A Treatise on the New,’ 5.8 – 5.9) “
The concept of free will was long a challenge to me, until I read A Course in Miracles, and learned that God’s Will and my real will are one and the same! What a glorious realization this is.
In A Course of Love, we see that, as in ACIM, we choose for the whole rather than our little self; we choose for all of our brothers and sisters when we make a God-inspired choice. This helps to explain why “free will” doesn’t mean that we can miscreate and never reap the consequences.
We do have free will, but God has set the boundaries of our miscreations. We cannot go outside these boundaries. Pain becomes too great, and we learn, as Helen Schucman scribed in ACIM, that pain is not without limit. Sooner or later we realize that there must be a better way. This other way is what she and Bill Thetford sought to find, and Jesus gave them ACIM was the result.
Now we might say the same for Mari Perron and A Course of Love. “Another Course in Miracles” was presented to her. And she was willing to provide what many view as a sequel to A Course in Miracles.
Prayer:
Dear Father/Mother,
I look to You for a full explanation of what my free will really is and what it means. A very important concept, I realize that it is one that must be understood and understood fully.
Thank You for the explanation given us today in this passage from A Course of Love. Thank You for the peace of mind that this passage gives me.
Amen.
