2-46. Swim against the current of the River of Love and you will struggle. Reverse course and flow where you chose to go and you will arrive Home.
The current of the River of Love flows in but one direction, now and forever. That direction is back to Truth, Love, Peace and complete Harmony with the Mind of God. You may or may not be allowing yourself to be carried on these gentle currents. As it has always been, your choice to attempt to swim against the River of Love - to forge a course upstream, away from your final destination in the Ocean of Love that is the Heart of God - is absolutely within your own ambit to elect for yourself as you see fit. But your choice to try to rail against the Perfection that is the Ocean that can forever be your only final destination serves you not at all, Child of God. What is it to attempt to chart your own course, relying on the lies of your ego instead of the Certainty of God? It is but a foolish fallacy, a dream of separation now made apparently real by your errors of perception. You do not need to choose this course any longer, Child of God. You can reverse course and move with the currents of the River of Love at any time you should so choose, but it will forever be only you who can make this choice. It will not be made for you, for to attempt to subvert the Free Will of any Child of God is a hopeless endeavour that will never succeed. Thoughts of anger, loss, pain, regret and above all else, crippling fear in its many varied forms will cause you to attempt to move against the currents of the River of Love, placing you in opposition not only to the Will of God but against your own choice, an election and determination that was made so very long ago that to attempt to discern when it occurred is meaningless. Your ancient mistake, your error of attempting to believe that it might be possible to be separated from God still plagues you, causing you to appear again and again in physical form, seemingly bereft of the Love of God and cast out of the Kingdom of Heaven for reasons that remain forever illusionary. You have lessons to learn and an evolution to complete. This process will not end until you have surrendered all that you have attempted to hold against either yourself or against God, for whatever perilously incorrect reasons you have elected to uphold as being at all justified in any manner whatsoever. There is no reason for you to hurt, Child of God. There is no meaningful justification for attempting to find error in the Perfection of Creation. This appears to be a logical process when this world is regarded from the perspective of the ego. This is because the ego forever looks out upon what is physical and assumes, although the ego’s assumptions are misguided in the most tragic manner possible, that what the eyes of your body perceive must be the sum total of all that is actually real. It is not. There is much more than what can be said to be real with the sensory mechanisms of your body. This physical universe is inexpressibly minuscule when it is regarded from the vantage point of all that Is, eternally and completely. But the ego knows nothing of the grandeur and infinite enormity of all of Creation. The ego is a lie, a pattern of rote responses to external stimulus that has no basis in Reality. As such, the ego can offer you nothing at all that you actually desire. You are already Complete. Nothing was forgotten, misplaced, overlooked or left out when you were Created in the image and likeness of your eternally beneficent Creator. There is nothing that you need to do or obtain to Experience your own Completion. It is already available to you. But your ego will constantly deny even the remotest possibility of this simple Truth, desiring only to have you become ever more enslaved to the ego’s madness, so that the ego can continue to ride roughshod over your mind, denying you the Peace and the Joy that is your Right to enjoy in each and every moment of your life. Your attempts to navigate a path through the River of Love that stands in opposition to the Will of God will never meet with success. This is not the Way. The correct Way to proceed is to relax and to allow yourself to be Guided, accepting that you do not need to know everything that there is to know, for God already Knows all that is and all that will ever be. This Guidance is forever provided for you, for God awaits your return to the Ocean of Love with great Joy and infinite patience. Turn away from your hopelessly powerless attempts to struggle against the currents of the River of Love, for you will bring only exhaustion and an abysmal desolation of the soul to yourself when you try to swim against the inexorably powerful currents that wish only to direct you towards your final destination. You have already chosen to Return to God. This choice was made by you and accepted by God. You cannot change the Will of God. You can change your own will, first discovering and then discarding all of the other possibilities that you need to work through to finally relent and accept that your Path back to God is already assured. You cannot fail to find your Way. You will not discover loss or pain when you Return to your Home in the Ocean of Love that forms the Heart of God. You will instead find Peace and Joy in such infinite measure that all that appeared to attract your eye and anything that you thought you desired that was not in absolute alignment with the Will of God will fall behind you, options now explored and extinguished for they did not just offer that which you did not want - in Truth, they offered nothing at all. Do not fear God, Child of God. This is the greatest misappropriation of Truth that the ego could ever cast upon you mind, defiling the Serenity that will accompany your Return to your Home within the Heart of God with a darkness that has always been illusionary. Release all doubt that you could in any way be unworthy of the Love of God or at all undeserving of Peace and Joy everlasting. They have already been Given to you and they are your right to accept and enjoy forever. Only your choice to believe that you own Free Will should be employed in the service of the ego’s mad desires has served to block the Light of Love from your heart. Release all that the ego asks of you, for it is a blind master and it has never offered anything that you actually want, in Truth. Accept the River of Love as your Guide, knowing that your arrival in the Ocean of Love will not subsume your soul, it will merely wash away all of the illusionary bonds of the ego’s lies, freeing you to Return to Love and to Truth, accepting Peace as your right and Experiencing the Joy that will accompany a complete release from the darkness of the ego. You are Safe with God, Child of God. Never doubt this Truth. Only your choice to attempt to fear God has blinded you from the Truth that because you are eternally and infinitely Loved, your salvation is absolutely guaranteed.