There is no love but God’s.
There is no love but God's.
Perhaps you think that different kinds of love are
possible. Perhaps you think there is a kind of love for this, a kind for
that; a way of loving one, another way of loving still another. Love is
one. It has no separate parts and no degrees; no kinds nor levels, no
divergencies and no distinctions. It is like itself, unchanged
throughout. It never alters with a person or a circumstance. It is the
Heart of God, and also of His Son.
Love's meaning is obscure to anyone who thinks that love
can change. He does not see that changing love must be impossible. And
thus he thinks that he can love at times and hate at other times. He
also thinks that love can be bestowed on one and yet remain itself
although it is withheld from others. To believe these things of love is
not to understand it. If it could make such distinctions it would have
to judge between the righteous and the sinner and perceive the Son of
God in separate parts.
Love cannot judge. As it is one itself, it looks on all as
one. Its meaning lies in oneness. And it must elude the mind that thinks
of it as partial or in part. There is no love but God's, and all of love
is His. There is no other principle which rules where love is not. Love
is a law without an opposite. Its wholeness is the power holding
everything as one, the link between the Father and the Son which holds
them both forever as the same.
No course whose purpose is to teach you what you really are
could fail to emphasize there is no difference in what you are and what
love is. Love's meaning is your own, and shared by God Himself. For what
you are is what He is. There is no love but His, and what He is, is
everything there is. There is no limit placed upon Himself, and so are
you unlimited as well.
No laws the world obeys can help you grasp love's meaning.
What the world believes was made to hide love's meaning and to keep it
dark and secret. There is not one principle the world upholds but
violates the truth of what love is, and what you are as well. Seek not
within the world to find your Self. Love is not found in darkness and in
death. Yet it is perfectly apparent to eyes that see and ears that hear
its Voice.
Today we practice making free our minds of all the laws you
think you must obey, of all the limits under which you live, and all the
changes which you think are part of human destiny. Today we take the
largest single step this course requests in your advance toward its
established goal. If you achieve the faintest glimmering of what love
means today, you have advanced in distance without measure and in time
beyond the count of years to your release.
Let us together, then, be glad to give some time to God
today and understand there is no better use for time than this. For 15
minutes twice today escape from every law in which you now believe. Open
your mind and rest. The world that seems to hold you prisoner can be
escaped by anyone who does not hold it dear. Withdraw all value you have
placed upon its meager offerings and senseless gifts, and let the gift
of God replace them all.
Call to your Father, certain that His Voice will answer. He
Himself has promised this. And He Himself will place a spark of truth
within your mind wherever you give up a false belief, a dark illusion of
your own reality and what love means. He will shine through your idle
thoughts today and help you understand the truth of love. In loving
gentleness, He will abide with you as you allow His Voice to teach
love's meaning to your clean and open mind. And He will bless the lesson
with His Love.
Today the legion of the future years of waiting for
salvation disappears before the timelessness of what you learn. Let us
give thanks today that we are spared a future like the past. Today we
leave the past behind us, never more to be remembered. And we raise our
eyes upon a different present, where a future shines unlike the past in
every attribute.
The world in infancy is newly born. And we will watch it
grow in strength and health to shed its blessing upon all who come to
learn to cast aside the world they thought was made in hate to be love's
enemy. Now are they all made free along with us. Now are they all our
brothers in God's Love.
We will remember them throughout the day because we cannot
leave a part of us outside our love if we would know our Self. At least
three times an hour think of one who makes the journey with you and who
came to learn what you must learn. And as he comes to mind, give him
this message from your Self:
*I bless you, brother, with the Love of God
Which I would share with you. For I would learn
The joyous lesson that there is no love
But God's and yours and mine and everyone's*.