ACIM ADVENT: December 19

ACIM ADVENT: December 19

T-30.IV.2. The wearying, dissatisfying gods you made are blown-up children's toys. 2 A child is frightened when a wooden head springs up as a closed box is opened suddenly, or when a soft and silent woolly bear begins to squeak as he takes hold of it. 3 The rules he made for boxes and for bears have failed him, and have broken his "control" of what surrounds him. 4 And he is afraid, because he thought the rules protected him. 5 Now must he learn the boxes and the bears did not deceive him, broke no rules, nor mean his world is made chaotic and unsafe. 6 He was mistaken. 7 He misunderstood what made him safe, and thought that it had left.

T-30.IV.3. The gap that is not there is filled with toys in countless forms. 2 And each one seems to break the rules you set for it. 3 It never was the thing you thought. 4 It must appear to break your rules for safety, since the rules were wrong. 5 But you are not endangered. 6 You can laugh at popping heads and squeaking toys, as does the child who learns they are no threat to him. 7 Yet while he likes to play with them, he still perceives them as obeying rules he made for his enjoyment. 8 So there still are rules that they can seem to break and frighten him. 9 Yet is he at the mercy of his toys? 10 And can they represent a threat to him?

T-30.IV.4. Reality observes the laws of God, and not the rules you set. 2 It is His laws that guarantee your safety. 3 All illusions that you believe about yourself obey no laws. 4 They seem to dance a little while, according to the rules you set for them. 5 But then they fall and cannot rise again. 6 They are but toys, my child, so do not grieve for them. 7 Their dancing never brought you joy. 8 But neither were they things to frighten you, nor make you safe if they obeyed your rules. 9 They must be neither cherished nor attacked, but merely looked upon as children's toys without a single meaning of their own. 10 See one in them and you will see them all. 11 See none in them and they will touch you not.