God is only Love, therefore, that is what I am.
1. W-169 “By Grace I live. By Grace I am released.” I
God is only Love, and therefore, so am I.
2. W-170 “There is no cruelty in God, and none in me.” II
God is only Love, and therefore, so am I.
I Father, I live in You! How happy I am to be free!
Grace is not a response to suffering. It is its dissolution. It does not come to soften punishment or to lighten the burden, but to reveal that there was never any offense, no debt, no sin to redeem. Jesus does not offer comfort; He offers awakening. And Grace is the means by which that awakening occurs. Without effort, without merit, without history.
To accept that one lives by Grace is to relinquish control—but also guilt. It is to admit that the Love of God has no explanation and no conditions, and that anything opposing this—anything that tries to justify fear—is false.
II There is no cruelty in God, and none in you either. This does not mean pain was not experienced, but that the framework in which it was held was a misperception.
Here, cruelty is not opposed to love: it dissolves in its presence. There is no battle between light and darkness. There is only light, and darkness is what disappears when it is no longer protected. As long as the belief in a separate will is maintained—and with it the need to defend, to attack, to bargain—cruelty will continue to be perceived. But when the mind accepts Grace, that perception has no more function.
This lesson is not an invitation to feel better about yourself. It is a radical correction of the principle of identity. To live by Grace means you are not what you did, nor what you thought, nor what the world said about you. You are what God created. And that cannot be harmed.
Love is the only thing I care about.
I want nothing else.