4-56. By Love, through Love, with Love and because of Love, you were Created. Being both your origin, destination, path and guide, Love truly is all that you will ever need for guidance, motivation and support.
To the ego, and with its interests centered wholly in the world of form, love is conditional, temporary, inconsistent and an item to be cherished and guarded, for it is fragile and can be lost through misdeeds, mistakes, assumptions and presumptions. None of these qualities that are ascribed to love as the ego attempts to understand it are at all reflective of the Love of God, nor are they accurate representations of the Nature of Love or its applicability to all things, at all times, and without regard for their internal conceptions of their value or worth to themselves, perceptions which are often distorted to an outlandish extent and absolutely inverted in the most extreme cases. Because the ego was an aborted conceptualization of an error without justification, it cannot see anything as it is, and so it grasps in the darkness of its own imaginings for a rationale that might justify its presentations as being valid and appropriate for you, as its keeper and sustainer. However the ego is incorrect in all that it perceives and so it cannot be relied upon to give you anything at all that is of value. Love, in its Universal applicability, does not deny any Child of God its Light and its overarching Truth of Salvation from all error. The ego does not do this - how could it? To the ego, there is but what is self-similar - the “I” that is the foundational principle of organization that the ego guards so jealously and fiercely, and then there is all that is not “I” - all of the other incarnate Children of God, all of the myriad non-living things of this world, the structure of the universe itself, and all that this panoply of materiality may or may not correctly imply for the continuation and sustainment of the ego. But the ego, being a most unimportant and ineffective error indeed, cannot genuinely provide to your awaiting mind any information that is directly relevant for your progression upon your Path back to God and away from fear in any form, for the ego sees nothing as it is, and so it is not to be relied upon at all. Giving up the ministrations and prevarications of the ego is not necessarily an easy or straightforward task, at least from the perspective that is the garnishment that the ego extracts from your awareness when you invest yourself within its ideations of abstraction, for the ego is habituated within consciousness at an age that few remember, and so undoing all that it has influenced requires a deep state of introspection, so that all resultant traumas can be seen again though the Sight of Love, forgiven for whatever import it was believed at the time that they reflected upon their perceiver - namely, you - and then set aside as no longer needed, for there is no value in attempting to carry towards God all of the pain that you have endured, as if it is the role of God to heal it, magically and without your willingness to release all of your attempted attachment to suffering, first and foremost. All that you release back to Love is taken, instantaneously and completely. But it is not simply a burden that you are relieved of within the moment of its release - all of its effects, its implications and the vestigial dregs of its latent weight, still dragging your awareness down towards resentment and anger - all that was this pain that you willingly release is undone throughout all of time and space, never to be an affliction that you are hobbled by ever again. That is one of the many aspects of the Miracle of Love - it is not simply applicable in the present, but within and throughout all of time, undoing all that was error and surplanting the presentations of ego, announcements of impending doom and revelries of all that once transpired that was so affective and dissociative of your own heart, erasing all that was and replacing it with the infinite Peace that accompanies a complete acceptance of the neutrality of this world, along with the natural and unavoidable conclusion that because all that transpires is for you to interpret as you feel is best, you can always re-interpret what happened through a new lens, one that sees forgiveness as the ultimate release, not for your attacker or abuser, but for and because of you and your willingness to set aside all that was previously an encumbrance that you believed impossible to heal from and be at peace with. Such is Love - ever present, always applicable and quite literally the final and most universal answer to all that you have entreated God to explain to you. Love is not simply your origin, although even that is hard to understand for the mind that continues to be obsessed with the notion that entry into this world must be through agony, and that suffering is a necessary component of an existence within this world. Certainly physical pain may unavoidable. But its alert signals from your body to your mind, signaling that physical injury or infirmity is present, need not be paralyzingly obtrusive or endlessly restrictive. Through acceptance does pain lose its edge, becoming a state of physical existence that is present, but not deterministic of your continuing outlook and perspective. You were not Created to be at the mercy of anything at all. You were not Loved so that you might wither and die, now a desecrated corpse and forgotten mind, condemned to endless darkness and a complete lack of consciousness in any form. You were not Loved because you were imperfect, hopelessly flawed, derided by God or unwelcome within Heaven, destined to wander the face of a world that you do not understand. Certainly the ego thinks you are as this. But the ego is blatantly incorrect in all that it attempts to hold out as truth, and so it should simply be ignored and disregarded, for it sees nothing as it is, and so it has no genuine value for you at all. Love forms the alpha and omega of your journey, both the origin and destination of your Path, simply because there is nothing else that need be Remembered save for the Perfection of the Love of God, for from that, all that is Real emerges and is welcomed Home again. All Guidance, all Faith and all Hope arise from Love - they are not dependent upon anything at all that is conditional, for the Love of God is not predicated upon the fulfillment of some set of undertakings or the avoidance of any particular events or actions. Universally unconditional, the Love of God is freely Given to all of the Children of God, endlessly and complete, not for what they do but for what they Are, in Truth - Perfect, just as they were Created. That they undertake paths in life that are fully out of alignment with the Love of God is common. That they are willing to set aside all that is of the ego, so that they can Remember that they are Loved, Eternally and Perfectly, is quite unusual at this point in the evolution of All That Is back to Itself. That any of that is actually important is, simply, not the case at all. It does not matter how long you require to Remember. It does not matter that you have committed errors, no matter how grevious or to what extent they were an affront to your own dignity and the sanctity of others. All of these actions were reflections of your own misperceptions, and they are all Forgivable by God. That in no way justifies their continuation - you can be and do better, and you should. No excuses exist to justify violence or abuse of your responsibilities to others. However condemnation and eviction from Love is not of God. That is the ego, presiding again over a kangaroo court of your own making, and you can release yourself from such a miscarriage of justice at any time. To be just is to be right - with your own heart and right with God. To be right with God is to be at peace, undertaking actions and utterances that comport with the Love that is the final destination for all of the Children of God, just as soon as their willingness to apply forgiveness to themselves becomes so universally applicable that they are no longer desirous of condemning any other Child of God in any manner at all, accepting them as they are and Seeing them as the Light that they have always been, for all that is Love is shot through with Grace beyond all imagining. No matter how little is expressed at any particular moment, it is never diminished, in Truth. It is simply hidden, because its possessor does not yet believe that they are deserving of such potent Certainty. Be the Love that they are not yet willing to be for themselves, and Love will be all that will remain after all that is of illusion has fallen away from your Awakened and enlightened vision.