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Being a Messenger of Healing

…we watch our thoughts, appealing silently to Him Who sees the elements of truth in them. ⁴Let Him evaluate each thought that comes to mind, remove the elements of dreams, and give them back again as clean ideas that do not contradict the Will of God.

Give Him your thoughts, and He will give them back as miracles which joyously proclaim the wholeness and the happiness God wills His Son, as proof of His eternal Love. ²And as each thought is thus transformed, it takes on healing power from the Mind which saw the truth in it, and failed to be deceived by what was falsely added. ³All the threads of fantasy are gone. ⁴And what remains is unified into a perfect Thought that offers its perfection everywhere.

²Your ministry begins as all your thoughts are purified. ³So are you taught to teach the Son of God the holy lesson of his sanctity. ⁴No one can fail to listen, when you hear the Voice for God give honor to God’s Son. ⁵And everyone will share the thoughts with you which He has retranslated in your mind. (A Course in Miracles, W-151.13:3–14:4;15:2-5. See also ACIM Lesson 151 Insights.)

While we learn that any thought based on the wish for specialness is a fear thought, we need the Holy Spirit’s help. We need to be willing to offer our thoughts to Him to remove the elements of fear.

Today we practice offering our thoughts to the Holy Spirit for His purification. He will return our purified thoughts as joyous proof of our Father’s eternal Love for us, His Son. As we accept this healing, we become messengers of healing to the world.

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Accepting the Reality of God’s Love

All things are valuable or valueless, worthy or not of being sought at all, entirely desirable or not worth the slightest effort to obtain. ²Choosing is easy just because of this. ³Complexity is nothing but a screen of smoke, which hides the very simple fact that no decision can be difficult. ⁴What is the gain to you in learning this? ⁵It is far more than merely letting you make choices easily and without pain.

Heaven itself is reached with empty hands and open minds, which come with nothing to find everything and claim it as their own. ²We will attempt to reach this state today, with self-deception laid aside, and with an honest willingness to value but the truly valuable and the real. ³…begin with this:

⁴I will not value what is valueless, and only what has value do I seek, for only that do I desire to find.

And then receive what waits for everyone who reaches, unencumbered, to the gate of Heaven, which swings open as he comes. (A Course in Miracles, W-133.12:1–14:1. See also ACIM Lesson 133 Insights.)

What we value determines what we perceive. If we value having a unique identity in a world of differences, we will perceive a complex world of conflicting images which compete for values that need constant defense. Loss seems possible in this world, to the point of loss of life.

Yet Heaven is our true Home where only Love is real. There is no conflict in the unity of Love. As we learn to set aside our judgments, our minds become open to Christ’s vision. His vision reveals the Reality of Love’s innocence, and the comfort of Love’s all encompassing peace.

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Opening Our Mind to Our True Identity

⁴Deep in your mind the holy Christ in you is waiting your acknowledgment as you. ⁵And you are lost and do not know yourself while He is unacknowledged and unknown.

⁴Today we make a great advance to truth by letting idols go, and opening our hands and hearts and minds to God today.

We will remember Him throughout the day with thankful hearts and loving thoughts for all who meet with us today. ²For it is thus that we remember Him. ³And we will say, that we may be reminded of His Son, our holy Self, the Christ in each of us:

⁴I am as God created me.

⁵Let us declare this truth as often as we can. ⁶This is the Word of God that sets you free. ⁷This is the key that opens up the gate of Heaven, and that lets you enter in the peace of God and His eternity. (A Course in Miracles, W-110.9:4-5;10:4–11:7. See also ACIM Lesson 110 Insights.)

The peace of God is already ours. If we want to experience His peace, we must open our hearts and minds to accept the gifts He gave when He created us, His Son. Our minds have been closed to God’s gifts by our allegiance to the ego’s demand to have a unique identity.

The practice of affirming, “I am as God created me,” opens our mind to accept the truth of our Identity as an extension of God’s Love. It lets the vision of Christ in our mind see past the ego’s false images to the Reality of Love in everyone.

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Being a Channel of God’s Love

²You have need to use the symbols of the world a while. ³But be you not deceived by them as well. ⁴They do not stand for anything at all, and in your practicing it is this thought that will release you from them. ⁵They become but means by which you can communicate in ways the world can understand, but which you recognize is not the unity where true communication can be found.

Thus what you need are intervals each day in which the learning of the world becomes a transitory phase; a prison house from which you go into the sunlight and forget the darkness. ²Here you understand the Word, the Name which God has given you; the one Identity which all things share; the one acknowledgment of what is true. ³And then step back to darkness, not because you think it real, but only to proclaim its unreality in terms which still have meaning in the world that darkness rules. (A Course in Miracles, W-184.9:2–10:3. See also ACIM Lesson 184 Insights.)

To let our mind be healed, we need to practice stepping back from the busyness of the world to rise above it into the quiet peace of God. In peace we can receive God’s Word Which tells us that our true Identity is one with Him.

In quietness we feel His blessing flow through us as we become His messenger of Love to the world. Frequent brief pauses throughout the day help us maintain our clear channel of Love in the dream where Love has been unwelcome.

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How to Welcome Christ’s Vision

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. ²The real world shows a world seen differently, through quiet eyes and with a mind at peace. ³Nothing but rest is there. ⁴There are no cries of pain and sorrow heard, for nothing there remains outside forgiveness. ⁵And the sights are gentle. ⁶Only happy sights and sounds can reach the mind that has forgiven itself.

The real world is the symbol that the dream of sin and guilt is over, and God’s Son no longer sleeps. ²His waking eyes perceive the sure reflection of his Father’s Love; the certain promise that he is redeemed. ³The real world signifies the end of time, for its perception makes time purposeless.

…as we look upon a world forgiven, it is He [God] Who calls to us and comes to take us home, reminding us of our Identity which our forgiveness has restored to us. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.8.2;4;5:4.)

The ego is always angry. It is upset with God because He could not give it more than everything. The world we experience with the ego is a manifestation of its temper tantrum. It does not like the Home God created for His Son so it’s trying to run away from Home. But there is no other place that is real. So the ego has had to make a dream world to satisfy its wish for specialness.

We can leave this dream behind by forgiving—letting go of—the insane wish to have more than everything. Because we have identified with the ego, we need the help of the Holy Spirit to wake up from the dream. Our part of waking up is to offer all our perceptions to Him to be exchanged for Christ’s vision. With this happy exchange the shadows of the ego’s denial are dispelled and we see past its meaningless images to the eternal presence of Love.

Today we happily welcome Christ’s vision.

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Opening Our Mind to Receive God’s Love

The Thought of peace was given to God’s Son the instant that his mind had thought of war. ²There was no need for such a Thought before, for peace was given without opposite, and merely was. ³But when the mind is split there is a need of healing. ⁴So the Thought that has the power to heal the split became a part of every fragment of the mind that still was one, but failed to recognize its oneness. ⁵Now it did not know itself, and thought its own Identity was lost.

Salvation is undoing in the sense that it does nothing, failing to support the world of dreams and malice. ²Thus it lets illusions go. ³By not supporting them, it merely lets them quietly go down to dust. ⁴And what they hid is now revealed; an altar to the holy Name of God whereon His Word is written, with the gifts of your forgiveness laid before it, and the memory of God not far behind. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.2.2–3)

There is no form in the universe of Love. Forms in the dream of specialness stand as a barrier to Love, held in place by our belief that forms are real. Only our beliefs stand in the way of our certainty that we remain one with the Love that created us like Itself.

Forgiveness opens our mind to receive the Light of Love. This Light dispels the shadows of our beliefs in differences and isolation. In gratitude we accept the Holy Spirit’s help to forgive our mistaken beliefs and accept our Father’s gift of all of His Love.

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Remembering Our True Identity Is Love

Love, which created me, is what I am.

I seek my own Identity, and find It in these words: “Love, which created me, is what I am.” ²Now need I seek no more. ³Love has prevailed. ⁴So still It waited for my coming home, that I will turn away no longer from the holy face of Christ. ⁵And what I look upon attests the truth of the Identity I sought to lose, but which my Father has kept safe for me.

Father, my thanks to You for what I am; for keeping my Identity untouched and sinless, in the midst of all the thoughts of sin my foolish mind made up. ²And thanks to You for saving me from them. ³Amen. (A Course in Miracles, W-229. See also ACIM Lesson 229 Insights.)

Everyone’s true Identity is Love. If we perceive anything that disturbs our peace, we are misperceiving. We are believing illusions are real. Fear and Love are opposites and cannot coexist. But belief can make illusions seem real.

Today we claim our true Identity by acknowledging that we are Love, created by Love. We accept the Holy Spirit’s help to heal our misperceptions so that we can recognize the Christ that is our true Self, united with everyone as God’s one Son.

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How to Read References for
Quotes from A Course in Miracles

Below are example references to specific sentences using the notation of the Second & Third Editions of A Course in Miracles published by the Foundation for Inner Peace:

T-26.IV.4:7 = Text, Chapt. 26, Section IV, paragraph 4, sentence 7.

W-169.5:2 = Workbook, Lesson 169, paragraph 5, sentence 2.

W-pII.1.1:1 = Workbook, Part II, Question 1, paragraph 1, sentence 1.

M-13.3:2 = Manual for Teachers, Question 13, paragraph 3, sentence 2.

C-6.4:6 = Clarification of Terms, Term 6, paragraph 4, sentence 6
The above numbering system of the Second & Third Editions published by The Foundation for A Course in Miracles

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