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Accepting Help to See Love’s Oneness

²To forgive is to overlook. ³Look, then, beyond error and do not let your perception rest upon it, for you will believe what your perception holds. ⁴Accept as true only what your brother is, if you would know yourself. ⁵Perceive what he is not and you cannot know what you are, because you see him falsely. ⁶Remember always that your Identity is shared, and that Its sharing is Its reality.

²You do not understand how to overlook errors, or you would not make them. ³It would merely be further error to believe either that you do not make them, or that you can correct them without a Guide to correction. ⁴And if you do not follow this Guide, your errors will not be corrected. ⁵The plan is not yours because of your limited ideas about what you are. ⁶This sense of limitation is where all errors arise. ⁷The way to undo them, therefore, is not of you but for you.

The Atonement is a lesson in sharing, which is given you because you have forgotten how to do it. ²The Holy Spirit merely reminds you of the natural use of your abilities. ³By reinterpreting the ability to attack into the ability to share, He translates what you have made into what God created. (A Course in Miracles, T-9.IV.1:2-6;2:2–3:3. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The fact that we believe we are a body demonstrates that we do not know our true Identity. We do not know the way out of our misperceptions on our own. The thought system that we have embraced denies our reality. Therefore we cannot find our way to truth from a thought system that denies it.

To remember our true Identity, we need a Guide to lead us out of the thought system that denies truth. Every hour of every day we have an opportunity to accept the help of our Inner Teacher. The practice of pausing to welcome peace into our mind opens the door to receive the vision that overlooks error. This vision recognizes the Love we share with all.

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Accepting the Warm Embrace of God’s Love

You can stretch out your hand and reach to Heaven. ²You whose hand is joined with your brother’s have begun to reach beyond the body, but not outside yourself, to reach your shared Identity together. ³Could this be outside you? ⁴Where God is not? ⁵Is He a body, and did He create you as He is not, and where He cannot be? ⁶You are surrounded only by Him. ⁷What limits can there be on you whom He encompasses?

Everyone has experienced what he would call a sense of being transported beyond himself.… ³It is a sense of actual escape from limitations. ⁴If you will consider what this “transportation” really entails, you will realize that it is a sudden unawareness of the body, and a joining of yourself and something else in which your mind enlarges to encompass it.… ⁷What really happens is that you have given up the illusion of a limited awareness, and lost your fear of union. ⁸The love that instantly replaces it extends to what has freed you, and unites with it. ⁹And while this lasts you are not uncertain of your Identity, and would not limit It. ¹⁰You have escaped from fear to peace, asking no questions of reality, but merely accepting it. ¹¹You have accepted this instead of the body, and have let yourself be one with something beyond it, simply by not letting your mind be limited by it. (A Course in Miracles, T-18.VI.10;11:1,3-4,7-11. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Our true Self abides in the Love of God. Being all encompassing, this Love keeps us safe. It keeps us united with our Father. No matter what dreams may come into our mind, this unity is unaffected. While we identify with the body, we cannot know the grandeur of our Identity as God’s Son. This is why the Course emphasizes the idea that we are not a body, we are still as God created us.

Today we pause and let Christ’s vision show us the reality of Love beyond the body. His vision looks past all conflict and differences to the Light of Love we all share. In this Light, dreams of differences and individuality diminish and the warm embrace of God’s Love grows stronger.

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The Bridge That Leads to God’s Love

I am sustained by the Love of God.

Here is the answer to every problem that will confront you, today and tomorrow and throughout time. ²In this world, you believe you are sustained by everything but God.

Only the Love of God will protect you in all circumstances. ²It will lift you out of every trial, and raise you high above all the perceived dangers of this world into a climate of perfect peace and safety. ³It will transport you into a state of mind that nothing can threaten, nothing can disturb, and where nothing can intrude upon the eternal calm of the Son of God.

Put not your faith in illusions. ²They will fail you. ³Put all your faith in the Love of God within you; eternal, changeless and forever unfailing. ⁴This is the answer to whatever confronts you today. ⁵Through the Love of God within you, you can resolve all seeming difficulties without effort and in sure confidence. ⁶Tell yourself this often today. ⁷It is a declaration of release from the belief in idols. ⁸It is your acknowledgment of the truth about yourself. (A Course in Miracles, W-50.1:1-2;3-4;. See also ACIM Lesson 50 Insights.)

Accepting all of God’s Love is the answer to all our perceived problems. While we identify with a body, it is difficult to give up seeking solutions in the world for our perceived problems. We have thoroughly taught ourselves that this world is real. We need help to unlearn our mistaken lessons.

The daily practice of pausing to quiet our mind and welcome God’s peace is key to opening our mind to God’s Teacher. The sole purpose of His Teacher is to help us recognize that we remain united with God in all His Love. The Holy Spirit recognizes our perceptions, but He does not believe them. He is the bridge between our mistaken beliefs and the truth of God’s Love, which is our true Identity.

Today, whenever we feel uncertain or vulnerable, we practice reminding ourselves that we are sustained by God’s Love. He is our strength, our happiness and our peace. We give thanks that this is so.

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The Safety of God’s Love

Son of God, be not content with nothing! ²What is not real cannot be seen and has no value. ³God could not offer His Son what has no value, nor could His Son receive it. ⁴You were redeemed the instant you thought you had deserted Him. ⁵Everything you made has never been, and is invisible because the Holy Spirit does not see it. ⁶Yet what He does see is yours to behold, and through His vision your perception is healed. ⁷You have made invisible the only truth that this world holds. ⁸Valuing nothing, you have sought nothing. ⁹By making nothing real to you, you have seen it. ¹⁰But it is not there. ¹¹And Christ is invisible to you because of what you have made visible to yourself.

⁸The unreal world is a thing of despair, for it can never be. ⁹And you who share God’s Being with Him could never be content without reality. ¹⁰What God did not give you has no power over you, and the attraction of love for love remains irresistible. ¹¹For it is the function of love to unite all things unto itself, and to hold all things together by extending its wholeness.

⁶Redeemed perception is easily translated into knowledge, for only perception is capable of error and perception has never been. ⁷Being corrected it gives place to knowledge, which is forever the only reality. ⁸The Atonement is but the way back to what was never lost. ⁹Your Father could not cease to love His Son. (A Course in Miracles, T-12.VIII.6;7:8-11;8:6-9. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

When we perceive conflict and turmoil, it is helpful to remember that God’s Love for His Son is eternal and changeless. We live in His Love. Pause and allow yourself to absorb this thought. Love never changes. It surrounds us and is what we are.

This Reality makes us invulnerable to change or loss or harm. This changelessness maintains our innocence. Because Love is always the same everywhere, everyone in this world shares the strength and innocence of God’s Love. We are united in this truth.

Today, for every disturbing perception, remember that we are God’s Love, whole and complete. We are safe.

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We Experience the Blessings We Give

³To give is to receive. ⁴Today we will attempt to offer peace to everyone, and see how quickly peace returns to us. ⁵Light is tranquility, and in that peace is vision given us, and we can see.

So we begin the practice periods with the instruction for today, and say:

²To give and to receive are one in truth.
³I will receive what I am giving now.

⁴Then close your eyes, and for five minutes think of what you would hold out to everyone, to have it yours. ⁵You might, for instance, say:

⁶To everyone I offer quietness.
⁷To everyone I offer peace of mind.
⁸To everyone I offer gentleness.

Say each one slowly and then pause a while, expecting to receive the gift you gave. ²And it will come to you in the amount in which you gave it. (A Course in Miracles, W-108.7:3–9:2. See also ACIM Lesson 108 Insights.)

In every moment, we have the option to be a healing presence in the world. We heal as we let the Holy Spirit teach us to heal. In any relationship that may disturb us, we can pause, let our mind settle into the quietness within, and offer that quietness to the other in our relationship.

This practice helps heal our mind, whether we are applying it to a relationship close to us or a figure in the dream we may never have met. The oneness of Love unites us with all of Reality. When we extend Love, we acknowledge our oneness. In order to extend Love, we must accept It for ourselves. We experience the blessing as we give the blessing.

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We Are Eternally Safe in Our Father’s Love

Each hour, spend a little time today, and in the days to come, in practicing the lesson in forgiveness in the form established for the day. ²And try to give it application to the happenings the hour brought, so that the next one is free of the one before. ³The chains of time are easily unloosened in this way. ⁴Let no one hour cast its shadow on the one that follows, and when that one goes, let everything that happened in its course go with it. ⁵Thus will you remain unbound, in peace eternal in the world of time.

This is the lesson God would have you learn: There is a way to look on everything that lets it be to you another step to Him, and to salvation of the world. ²To all that speaks of terror, answer thus:

³I will forgive, and this will disappear.

⁴To every apprehension, every care and every form of suffering, repeat these selfsame words. ⁵And then you hold the key that opens Heaven’s gate, and brings the Love of God the Father down to earth at last, to raise it up to Heaven. ⁶God will take this final step Himself. ⁷Do not deny the little steps He asks you take to Him. (A Course in Miracles, W-193.12:1–13:7. See also ACIM Lesson 193 Insights.)

Here we have the practice that will heal anything that disturbs our peace of mind. It requires vigilance throughout the day, because we have become accustomed to the ego thought system. We have convinced ourselves that we are a body, weak and vulnerable. This conviction is necessary to maintain the idea of specialness that we treasure.

Today we can accept a different view of our world. This view sees with forgiving eyes. It sees the certainty of Love in which we live. It forgives all the images that seem to attack us. It will help us disconnect from our mistaken identification with the body. The world we have seen will disappear when we identify with the Self that God created as His Son. Love is our Identity. Fear cannot exist in the oneness of Love. We remain eternally safe in our Father’s Love.

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Letting Love’s Oneness Set Us Free

God’s healing Voice protects all things today.

Let us today attend the Voice for God, which speaks an ancient lesson, no more true today than any other day. ²Yet has this day been chosen as the time when we will seek and hear and learn and understand. ³Join me in hearing. ⁴For the Voice for God tells us of things we cannot understand alone, nor learn apart. ⁵It is in this that all things are protected. ⁶And in this the healing of the Voice for God is found.

Your healing Voice protects all things today, and so I leave all things to You. ²I need be anxious over nothing. ³For Your Voice will tell me what to do and where to go; to whom to speak and what to say to him, what thoughts to think, what words to give the world. ⁴The safety that I bring is given me. ⁵Father, Your Voice protects all things through me. (A Course in Miracles, W-275. See also ACIM Lesson 275 Insights.)

We have the help we need to lead a life of blessing. His Voice will guide us in all our doing, all our words and thoughts. Are we willing to listen? The choice to listen is the choice to be free of fear and guilt. We choose to listen when we are willing to quiet our minds and welcome His lessons that teach us we are one with all that is real in the Love of God.

Today we are willing to bring all our perceptions to His Voice for help to sort the truth from the errors. Under His Guidance, the errors are dispelled and the truth sets us free to be the Love we were created to be.

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