The Last Step (T.7)

Sometimes, when life feels like a long uphill road, it’s comforting to imagine that something greater walks with us…not as a figure in the sky, but as a quiet Presence that knows us better than we know ourselves.

A Course in Miracles calls that Presence God, but if the word ‘God’ is still a difficult word for you, you can call it Love, Light, or simply Home.

Whatever the name, it’s the same Source that breathed life into us and never stopped loving us.

The Course says, “You communicate fully with God, as He does with you.”

That might sound unreachable, but it isn’t.

It doesn’t mean that the small self, the one juggling daily worries, suddenly starts hearing heavenly voices.

It means that deep within, beneath all the noise, there’s a place in us that never stopped communicating with Love.

It’s the quiet awareness that sometimes rises when we forgive, when we let go, or when we look at someone and suddenly see innocence instead of guilt.

That’s what forgiveness really is….not a holy act, but a return to sanity.

It’s saying: I don’t need to carry this pain anymore. I prefer peace.

Each time we do that, the static clears a little, and the original connection, the one that was never truly broken, shines through.

And here’s the miracle: once that light begins to flow, it doesn’t stop with us.

Love naturally extends itself.

We start creating like God, not by making things, but by giving what we are: kindness, joy, patience, laughter, gentleness.

We become a quiet creator of peace.

This is how the Kingdom grows…not somewhere far away, but right here, in every act of love that expects nothing in return.

The Course also says that God takes the last step toward us.

It doesn’t mean we must wait for Him to show up; it means that Love never stopped reaching out.

Even while we dream of separation, God’s hand is already holding ours.

When at last we stop struggling to “find” Him, we realize He was never lost.

So perhaps the invitation of this chapter is simply this:

We are not a body trying to reach Heaven …we are Heaven remembering itself.

And every time we choose love instead of fear, we take a step that was never really needed… because in truth, we were already there.

With love and light,

G.