09.29.24 "Don't Sing the Ego's Dirge of Death"

Let's celebrate a happy Sunday and another new week of healing. I'm feeling an abundance of rolling up my sleeves and getting to work energy today. I'm going to change the word "year" to "week" in the next quotation because I think it can apply just as well. "So will the [week] begin in joy and freedom. There is much to do, and we have been long delayed." (OrEd.Tx.15.112)

We have all the power and energy of the universe at our command. What task in front of us could we not accomplish with that power just waiting to be directed? "... hear this: all power is given you in earth and Heaven. There is nothing that you cannot do." (OrEd.WkBk.191.11) Please notice that this quotation says that we have all power both in Heaven and here on earth. Many ACIM student believe this "all power" reality might exist in Heaven, but here on earth we need to accept the apparent limitations. Not so. "All power" means all power, and since that power is here and now all healing must be here and now as well.

The world sings a continuous dirge that tells us of our limitations. Don't join your voice in that sad choir! A "dirge" is a mournful piece of music played at a funeral. I hesitate to call it a "song" because to me "song" implies something joyful, happy people sing songs. Those who are singing the ego's music of death are not joyful, "... the black-draped 'sinners,' the ego's mournful chorus, plodding so heavily away from life, dragging their chains and marching in the slow procession which honors their grim master, lord of death" (OrEd.Tx.19.78)

If we want to know our power to heal all things then we should not lend our voice and energy to this sorrowful music. We need not believe the world's pitiful dirge however loudly it may be playing. "God is everywhere, and His Son is in Him with everything. Can he sing the dirge of sorrow when this is true?" (OrEd.Tx.13.63) The answer to this question is "No. He cannot."

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