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Growing Strong in the Way of Love

Steady our feet, our Father. Let our doubts be quiet and our holy minds be still, and speak to us. We have no words to give to You. We would but listen to Your Word, and make it ours. Lead our practicing as does a father lead a little child along a way he does not understand. Yet does he follow, sure that he is safe because his father leads the way for him.

So do we bring our practicing to You. And if we stumble, You will raise us up. If we forget the way, we count upon Your sure remembering. We wander off, but You will not forget to call us back. Quicken our footsteps now, that we may walk more certainly and quickly unto You. And we accept the Word You offer us to unify our practicing, as we review the thoughts that You have given us. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Review V, W-pI.V.2-3. See also ACIM Lesson Review V-L171 Insights.)

When a child is learning to walk, at first he stumbles, his steps waver and he doesn’t always walk in a straight line. Yet a loving parent stays with the child, providing support and guidance as it is helpful. With practice the child learns to walk steadily on his own.

Likewise, our Father is always there for us. He does not judge us when our steps falter or we wander off to explore something that got our attention off the path to Him. He stays with us, always offering His support with Love, compassion and gentleness far beyond our experience in the world. We can count on His eternal Presence when we have doubts and fears. His Help is always offered, never withdrawn. It waits only on our acceptance.

Today we would accept His Help that we may grow strong with His strength within us to walk in the way of Love and extend It to all our brothers.

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Welcoming Peace in Our Minds

When you are still an instant, when the world recedes from you, when valueless ideas cease to have value in your restless mind, then will you hear His [Christ’s] Voice. So poignantly He calls to you that you will not resist Him longer. In that instant He will take you to His home, and you will stay with Him in perfect stillness, silent and at peace, beyond all words, untouched by fear and doubt, sublimely certain that you are at home.

Rest with Him frequently today. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 182, W-pI.182.8:1-9:1. See also ACIM Lesson 182 Insights.)

It is time to stop the frustrating searching for peace of mind where it cannot be found. It is time to stop paying attention to the ego’s directions, which always lead away from peace, for the ego is afraid of peace.

It is time to train our minds to frequently pause to welcome the peace that already lies within us. As we let ourselves experience peace from within, we open the channels of communication to hear Christ’s Voice speak to us of the Love we and all our brothers are. Christ’s Voice will always bring us messages of Love and show us the Truth in our brothers. The practice of pausing and welcoming peace into our minds will redirect our attention to the path that leads us Home where we belong.

We need only practice being still an instant and welcoming peace to be led to the safety and stillness of our Home.

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Joining with Our Brother to Accept Our One True Identity

We have a mission here. We did not come to reinforce the madness that we once believed in. Let us not forget the goal that we accepted [when we accepted Atonement for ourselves]. It is more than just our happiness alone we came to gain. What we accept as what we are proclaims what everyone must be, along with us. Fail not your brothers, or you fail yourself. Look lovingly on them, that they may know that they are part of you, and you of them. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 139, W-pI.139.9. See also ACIM Lesson 139 Insights.)

Together we are the beingness of God’s Love… We share the one Mind of God… This is the truth. Our purpose here now is to join with our brothers to reinforce the truth together.

Today we practice opening to the Holy Spirit’s inspiration to show us how we can be truly helpful in fulfilling our special function… Today we step back and listen… We open to the Light within our minds and accept the healing of our perceptions… We willingly let go of belief in separation and let the Holy Spirit enlighten our minds… This is all we want. This is all we need in our practicing today.

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Awakening to the Call of Love

No one can fail to do what God appointed him to do. When you forget, remember that you walk with Him and with His Word upon your heart. Who could despair when Hope like this is his? Illusions of despair may seem to come, but learn how not to be deceived by them. Behind each [illusion] there is reality and there is God. Why would you wait for this and trade it for illusions, when His Love is but an instant farther on the road where all illusions end? The end is sure and guaranteed by God.

Now we are sure we do not walk alone. For God is here, and with Him all our brothers. Now we know that we will never lose the way again. (A Course in Miracles, C.ep.1:4-10;4:3-5)

In our hearts, in our true Identity, we know that we remain united with the Love that is our Source. This can never change. This Heart is eternally calling to us with the song of Love… reminding us of What and Where we truly are.

If we align with the thought system of separation, the song of Love is muted and replaced with the sounds of destruction and images of fear, guilt, attack and loss. Yet the song of Love continues to call to us.

Sooner or later in the dream of time, we will all hear the song again. It will touch us and inspire us to choose another path. We will turn away from the search for specialness and choose to recognize that we are one with the Love in all our brothers. The images of the world will lose their seeming value. The joy of Love will draw us to It and we will return to our Home in gratitude.

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Accepting Holy Spirit’s Loving Thoughts

To forgive is merely to remember only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you. All the rest must be forgotten. Forgiveness is a selective remembering, based not on your selection.

If all but loving thoughts has been forgotten, what remains is eternal. And the transformed past is made like the present. No longer does the past conflict with now. This continuity extends the present by increasing its reality and its value in your perception of it. In these loving thoughts is the spark of beauty hidden in the ugliness of the unholy relationship where hatred is remembered; yet [the loving thoughts are] there to come alive as the relationship is given to Him Who gives it life and beauty. That is why Atonement centers on the past, which is the source of separation, and where it must be undone. For separation must be corrected where it was made. (A Course in Miracles, T-17.III.1:1-3;5:3-9. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

We already have the key that will let us experience the loveliness and joy of our unity with each other and our Creator. The only reason we do not use this key is because we think something in the world we experience with the body is more valuable, more desirable, than the limitless Love, deep peace and unspeakable joy of our one Self. It is this misplaced value that seems to give reality to the world we experience. Consistently the Course offers us pointers to show us that our values are misplaced and help us recognize that we really want to remember Love.

Along with these reminders, we have the Holy Spirit in our minds ready to offer His vision and interpretation in place of our mistaken beliefs and help us let them go. We need only be willing to accept this help. As we accept Holy Spirit’s loving thoughts which show us a loving world in the eternal present, we open to experience the loveliness and joy of our true Nature.

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Stepping Toward the Real World

The real world holds a counterpart for each unhappy thought reflected in your world; a sure correction for the sights of fear and sounds of battle which your world contains. The real world shows a world seen differently, through quiet eyes and with a mind at peace. Nothing but rest is there. There are no cries of pain and sorrow heard, for nothing there remains outside forgiveness. And the sights are gentle. Only happy sights and sounds can reach the mind that has forgiven itself.

What need has such a mind for thoughts of death, attack and murder? What can it perceive surrounding it but safety, love and joy? What is there it would choose to be condemned, and what is there that it would judge against? The world it sees arises from a mind at peace within itself. No danger lurks in anything it sees, for it is kind, and only kindness does it look upon. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 291, W-pII.8.2-3. See also ACIM Lesson 291 Insights.)

Do we want to perceive a world of safety and peace, of Love and joy? We need only use the means already given us to have this experience. The means is forgiveness. Not only do we have the means, but we have a Helper Who sees us truly and knows exactly what would help us forgive and let go of our erroneous thoughts. We are not alone, but we do need to be willing to accept the Help given us.

Our prayer for today: Holy Spirit, help me see all things as You see them. Help me overlook the false images of the ego and recognize them as the illusions they are. Help me rise above and see the Love that is everywhere, always. With Your help today, I will take another step closer to the experience of the real world, the forgiven world.

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Accepting Happiness

The world’s salvation awaits your forgiveness, because through it does the Son of God escape from all illusions, and thus from all temptation. The Son of God is you.

Only by fulfilling the function given you by God will you be happy. That is because your function is to be happy by using the means by which happiness becomes inevitable. There is no other way. Therefore, every time you choose whether or not to fulfill your function [of forgiveness], you are really choosing whether or not to be happy.

Today, then, let us practice with these thoughts:

Let me not forget my function.
Let me not try to substitute mine for God’s.
Let me forgive and be happy. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 64, W-pI.64.3:3-4:4;6:1-4. See also ACIM Lesson 64 Insights.)

In every moment we choose between judgment or forgiveness. It is the choice between depression or happiness, guilt or innocence, fear or Love, chaos or peace.

As we practice bringing all our decisions to the Holy Spirit in our mind with willingness to follow His guidance, we are choosing to be free. We are choosing to be happy. We are choosing the salvation of the Son of God, our one Self.

Today we have the opportunity to practice fulfilling the function given us by God through which we accept His joy, His peace, His Love as our own.

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