All Good

"And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them." -- The Bible; Genesis 1:31, 2:1

"Everyone will ultimately look upon his own creations and choose to preserve only what is good, just as God HimSelf looked upon what He had created and knew that it was good." -- A Course in Miracles; Chapter 2, Section VIII, 4:3

"All things work together for good. There are no exceptions, except in the ego's judgement." -- A Course in Miracles; Chapter 4, Section V, 1:1-2

"In the Saxon and twenty other tongues, Good is the term for God. The Scriptures declare all that He made to be good, like HimSelf... good in Principle and in idea. Therefore the spiritual universe is good, and reflects God as He IS. God, Good, Being ever-present, it follows in Divine logic that evil, the suppositional opposite of Good, is never present." -- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy; Page 286, Lines 16-20, & Page 72, Lines 21-23

Infinite, Omnipresent, Ever-Present Good. Our imagined human selves think that we have to somehow be able to conceive of such a thing before we can experience it. As if we are making it up or making it happen. Our limited ego selves emphatically refuse to believe that our litany of sorrows and failures have anything to do with good. Our stories of badness or goodness are firmly entrenched in our personal worldview of self and other. Most of the time, we have no interest in seriously questioning the nature of these stories. After all, we reason, everyone knows there is evil in the world. What about starving children? What about war and famine? What about serial murderers?

And so we continue our sorry way of duality, and the cycle of imagined birth and death seems to be all that is sure. There is not One God, One Power in this story. There is also the power to be other than good, other than God. Hmmmm... doesn't anyone else wonder where the power to be other than Good came from? If God created All, and It Is All Good (and finished, Whole, complete)... then what else even exists? Could it really be as simple as waking up to the fact that we live and move and have our being in this Good, and nothing else but Good? Are our life stories the equivalent of malicious and false gossip? We are telling lies. And we eagerly spread them like a virus, as if they were the truth, and as if our opinions and judgments have any real effects. We are determined to live by our lies or die trying. We truly are insane and delusional in this imagined separation from All That Is, from the Awareness of Our Oneness with All Good.

To live an effortless life seems personally insulting or demeaning to the ego judgment of self. The separated self thrives on stories of struggle and competition. And yet beneath every struggle, underneath every story no matter how hurtful, is the Eternal Love and Good that are Our Very Self. When the stories are dropped like the veil of forgetfulness that they are, the Radiance of Self is revealed. Don't take my word for it. Let go now.

Of course, it's not enough to say, "stop telling the story." You have to stop looking for a new story, too. You have to stop trying to be the one who decides, who speaks, who tells the story, who controls and manipulates. You have to be willing to let go of all you have made up, all you have judged as less than Whole and Good. None of it is real, and none of it has ever touched Who You Are. You imagine that some of your stories are necessary for survival in the world. Nothing could be further from the Truth.

Who You Are is Life and Love and Intelligence ItSelf. Who You Are always Knows, whatever and wherever you think you are, exactly what is needful and what will bring you peace and joy and perfect fulfillment. Your little story self doesn't really do anything, nor did it ever, except in your fiction. Stop the stories now, and fulfillment and joy are HERE. Stop the stories, and All Good is revealed, right here, right now, where It has always been.

"What is All-Encompassing can have no opposite." -- A Course in Miracles; Introduction, 1:8