“I tell you this not to discourage you, but to encourage you not to give up. Your purpose now is the holiest possible and all of heaven is with you. All that is needed is your continuing willingness. All that can cause you to fail is giving up. I give you these examples that will make you say, “It will not be easy,” but I tell you neither will it be hard if you but remember this: your willingness is all that is needed.” (ACOL, C:10.8)
I need to feel this willingness today. And so do all of us. Sometimes when we fall back on God and “give up,” we find that the Arms hold us up. And this is another way of thinking about “giving up.”
Jesus, though, is not thinking of giving up to God. He is saying that we tend to give up—period. And this won’t do. We need to depend on God, and with this willingness to keep at it, we do depend on God to see us through.
We sometimes need good cognitive thinking to get us through, and Jesus is offering that today. Our attitude makes quite a difference, and when we have the attitude of being willing to keep going, God is able to step in and lead the way. Jesus points out the way; God takes us to where we need to go.
Pray for this willingness to keep plugging away. Jesus knows that we don’t perceive that the way is easy, but other passages in A Course of Love indicate that the way IS easy. Effortless.
Let us be willing to walk this effortless way today.
MIRACLES EACH DAY 
Amen, Amen, Amen! I say that when we loose the confidence in ourselves that is does not matter-it is the confidence in God that should always count! We do our part and he will do his ❤ Thank youuu for this post!!
Yes, accept and give thanks.
Love this.
Now here is a conundrum— it’s an effort for me to give up efforting! Efforting is my usual mode of operation. However, in the spirit of this post, I am WILLING to let efforting go.
I just moved 1200 miles from where I’d lived most of my life. Selling the house, packing up, farewells to precious people and places, the challenges were large. But, I did practice non efforting. I said some ‘no’s’ in order to give myself space for naps and down time. Above all, I trusted that things would work out– and they did! Thank you Celia for this message.
The hardest times of my life turned into the best times of my life when I gave up and let God take over.