A misted valley at dawn

A Course in Miracles · Lesson 190 · part of review

I choose the joy of God instead of pain

I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.

I choose the joy of God instead of pain.

Pain is my own idea. It is not a Thought of God, but one I thought apart from Him and from His Will. His Will is joy, and only joy for His beloved Son. And that I choose, instead of what I made.

I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.

From the 1975 public-domain first edition of A Course in Miracles.