you are doing what you do NOTwill. This arouses a sense of
coercion, which usually produces rage. The rage then invades
the mind, and projection in the wrong sense is likely to follow.
Depression or anxiety is virtually certain.Remember that whenever there is fear, it is because you have
NOT MADE UP YOUR MIND.Your will is split, and your behavior
inevitably becomes erratic. Correcting at the behavioral level can
shift the error from the first to the second type of strain described
above, but will NOTobliterate the fear. It is possible to reach a state
in which you bring your will under my guidance without much
conscious effort, but this implies habit patterns which you have not
developed dependably as yet. God cannot ask MOREthan you will.
The strength to DOcomes from your own undivided WILLto do.
There is NOstrain in doing God’s Will as soon as you recognize that
it is also your OW N.
The lesson here is quite simple, but particularly apt to be
overlooked. I will therefore repeat it, urging you to listen. Only your
MINDcan produce fear. It does so whenever it is conflicted in what
it wills, thus producing inevitable strain because willing and doing
become discordant.This cannot be corrected by better DOING,but
it CANbe corrected by higher WILLING.
THE CORRECTION FOR LACK OF LOVE
The first corrective step is KNOW FIRSTthat this is an expression of
fear.Then say to yourself that you must somehow have willed not to
love or the fear which arises from behavior-will conflict could not
have arisen, then the whole process is nothing more than a series of
pragmatic steps in the larger process of accepting the Atonement as
THEremedy.These steps can be summarized as follows:
- Know first that this is fear.
- Fear arises from lack of love.
- The ONLYremedy for lack of love is perfect love.
- Perfect love is the Atonement.
We have emphasized that the miracle, or the EXPRESSION of
Atonement is always a sign of real respect FROM the worthy TO the
worthy.This worth is re-established by the Atonement. It is obvious,
THE CORRECTION FOR LACK OF LOVE