Life is God

"We all must learn that Life is God. The law of mortal belief, at war with the facts of immortal Life, even with the spiritual law which says to the grave, Where is thy victory? But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory." -- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy; Page 494, Lines 9, 20-27

"What is temptation but a wish to make the wrong decision on what you would learn, and have an outcome that you do not want? Let us be still an instant, and forget all things we ever learned, all thoughts we had, and every preconception that we hold of what things mean and what their purpose is. Let us remember not our own ideas of what the world is for. We do not know. Let every image held be loosened from our minds and swept away." -- A Course in Miracles; Chapter 31, Section I, 11:1, 12:1-4

Life is God. God is Infinite, eternal, omnipresent. There can be no place, no time, no circumstance where Life is not. The lie that presents itself to us as life, filled with war, poverty, famine, violence, disaster, and inevitable death, cannot be life. And so it cannot be real. As it is expressed in Mary Baker Eddy's scientific statement of Being: "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is Infinite Mind and Its Infinite Manifestation, for God is All-in-All." (Science and Health; Page 468, Lines 9-11) And A Course in Miracles tells us:
"Nothing Real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the Peace of God." (ACIM; Introduction, 2:2-4)

Why are we so enamored of a dream of suffering and death? We cling to our little comforts and pleasures, and stick our heads in the sand. We pretend that suffering and death are not a part of our dream... it's just other people who bad things happen to. Aren't' we lucky? We congratulate ourselves on our good fortune (comparatively speaking), all the while knowing it is temporary. Look at the lives of all the rich and famous of the past. They share two things in common... they all suffered and they all are dead.

This illusion we call life can have nothing at all to do with reality. As we read in The Bible, "All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made. In Him was Life, and the Life was the Light of men." (John 1:3-4) God, Good, Life, Light, Truth, Love, Peace, Joy, Abundance, Wholeness... these are synonyms for the Divine Being in scriptures everywhere. Are these not the very opposite of the world we live in? What's wrong with this picture? Why do we go on day after day, accepting the status quo of the dream as if it were life?

We have dreamed a dream of being separate from our Source. How else could such a dream unfold except with suffering and futile searching? We can never find wholeness and life and love in the dream. When we seem to succeed for a time, they are only shadows that pass. In this world everything shifts and changes, seems to live and seems to die, seems to love and seems to hate. And yet it is given us to Remember the Truth... that Who We Really Are can never shift and change, never live only to die, never love only to leave... for we are One with God, the only Source and Substance of All that Is.

God is Life. There is no Life, Love, or Substance but God, Good. We are the images of God, born to radiate this Life. And yet we insist that we live and die as if we're nothing, as if we are simply an effect of an insane world. ACIM asks us, "What have you done that this should be your world? What have you done that this is what you see? Deny your own Identity, and this is what remains. You look on chaos and proclaim it is yourself. The world you see does nothing. It has no effects at all. It merely represents your thoughts. And it will change entirely as you elect to change your mind, and choose the Joy of God as what you really want. Your Self is radiant in this Holy Joy, unchanged, unchanging, and unchangeable, forever and forever." -- A Course in Miracles; Workbook 191, 2:1-4, and 190, 6:1-5

"Why wait for Heaven? Those who seek the Light are merely covering their eyes. The Light is in them now. Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all. Light is not of the world, yet you who bear the Light in you are alien here as well. It is the only thing you bring with you from Him Who is your Source. It shines in you because it lights your Home, and leads you back to where it came from and you are at Home. This Light cannot be lost. Why wait to find it in the future, or believe it has been lost already, or was never there? The Peace of God is shining in you now." -- A Course in Miracles; Workbook 188, 1:1-8, 2:1-2