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Welcoming Lessons in Love

Humility will never ask that you remain content with littleness. But it does require that you be not content with less than greatness that comes not of you. Your difficulty with the holy instant arises from your fixed conviction that you are not worthy of it. And what is this but the determination to be as you would make yourself? God did not create His dwelling place unworthy of Him. And if you believe He cannot enter where He wills to be, you must be interfering with His Will. You do not need the strength of willingness to come from you, but only from His Will.

The holy instant does not come from your little willingness alone. It is always the result of your small willingness combined with the unlimited power of God’s Will. You have been wrong in thinking that it is needful to prepare yourself for Him.

In preparing for the holy instant, do not attempt to make yourself holy to be ready to receive it. That is but to confuse your role with God’s. Atonement cannot come to those who think that they must first atone, but only to those who offer it nothing more than simple willingness to make way for it. Purification is of God alone, and therefore for you. Rather than seek to prepare yourself for Him, try to think thus:

I who am host to God am worthy of Him.
He Who established His dwelling place in me created it as He would have it be.
It is not needful that I make it ready for Him, but only that I do not interfere with His plan to restore to me my own awareness of my readiness, which is eternal.
I need add nothing to His plan.
But to receive it, I must be willing not to substitute my own in place of it.
(A Course in Miracles, T-18.IV.3:1-4:3;5:4-13. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We do not have to work to achieve holiness. We only need to accept the holiness that God gave us when He created His Son one with Him. Our true Self is God’s Son. The world we see is a dream of being different from what God created. It is an attempt to usurp the Will of God and make our own world. This dream makes our holiness invisible to us. Yet it remains our only Reality.

We reclaim our Reality by being willing to receive the Holy Spirit’s lessons in Truth. Our willingness to be taught is all that is needed. The Holy Spirit’s lessons in Truth are empowered by the limitless strength of God’s Love. Let us be willing today, to welcome the Holy Spirit’s lessons in Love.

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Love Is the Only Real Value

You have the right to all the universe; to perfect peace, complete deliverance from all effects of sin, and to the life eternal, joyous and complete in every way, as God appointed for His holy Son. This is the only justice Heaven knows, and all the Holy Spirit brings to earth. Your special function shows you nothing else but perfect justice can prevail for you. And you are safe from vengeance in all forms. The world deceives, but it cannot replace God’s justice with a version of its own. For only love is just, and can perceive what justice must accord the Son of God. Let love decide, and never fear that you, in your unfairness, will deprive yourself of what God’s justice has allotted you.

Unless you think that all your brothers have an equal right to miracles with you, you will not claim your right to them because you were unjust to one with equal rights. Seek to deny and you will feel denied. Seek to deprive, and you have been deprived. A miracle can never be received because another could receive it not. Only forgiveness offers miracles. And pardon must be just to everyone. (A Course in Miracles, T-25.VIII.14;IX.8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Love is just because Love does not condemn. Love sees all that is real as equal to Itself because only Love is real. This is the foundation of miracles. Miracles restore the mind to its natural state as Love.

Because Love sees only Itself, knowing nothing else exists, it sees only innocence, no cause for judgment. Love’s perfect oneness excludes nothing except the unreal. What is unreal does not exist.

While we are engaged in the ego thought system of separation, we cannot be just because we cannot see equality. The ego is the belief that inequality is true, making justice impossible in the ego’s view. On our own we cannot be just because the belief that we are on our own denies the equality of Love. But we have the Holy Spirit in our mind Who teaches only perfect justice. He teaches that only Love is real. Justice comes as we lay aside the values of the ego and welcome Love, the only real value.

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Accepting the Gift of Life in God

Living is joy, but death can only weep. You see in death escape from what you made. But this you do not see; that you made death, and it is but illusion of an end. Death cannot be escape, because it is not life in which the problem lies. Life has no opposite, for it is God. Life and death seem to be opposites because you have decided death ends life. Forgive the world, and you will understand that everything that God created cannot have an end, and nothing He did not create is real. In this one sentence is our course explained. In this one sentence is our practicing given its one direction. And in this one sentence is the Holy Spirit’s whole curriculum specified exactly as it is.

What is the peace of God? No more than this; the simple understanding that His Will is wholly without opposite. There is no thought that contradicts His Will, yet can be true. The contrast between His Will and yours but seemed to be reality. In truth there was no conflict, for His Will is yours. Now is the mighty Will of God Himself His gift to you. He does not seek to keep it for Himself. Why would you seek to keep your tiny frail imaginings apart from Him? The Will of God is One and all there is. This is your heritage. The universe beyond the sun and stars and all the thoughts of which you can conceive, belongs to you. God’s peace is the condition for His Will. Attain His peace, and you remember Him. (A Course in Miracles, M-20.5-6)

“Forgive the world” means to let go of the wish to have an identity separate from God. It is this wish that has made the illusion of a world of separate bodies and separate things. Only in illusions of separation can there be appearances of conflict. Within the oneness of God’s Love, all is changeless Love. There can be no differences that conflict. Without conflict, we are filled with peace. There is no other state.

It could be said that God’s peace is His last Will and Testament. It is His first and only Will. He has willed all of Himself to be given His Creation, His Son. This is our true Self. By forgiving the world, we clear away the veil that has hidden our true Self from our awareness. We awaken to the peace of God, our natural state. We accept our Inheritance, willed to us by our Father. We have let go of trying to disinherit ourselves from the gift of Life we share with God.

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Remembering We Are at Home in Heaven

God does not suffer conflict. Nor is His creation split in two. How could it be His Son could be in hell, when God Himself established him in Heaven? Could he lose what the Eternal Will has given him to be his home forever? Let us not try longer to impose an alien will upon God’s single purpose. He is here because He wills to be, and what He wills is present now, beyond the reach of time.

[God’s Son] thinks he made a hell opposing Heaven, and believes that he abides in what does not exist, while Heaven is the place he cannot find.

Leave foolish thoughts like these behind today, and turn your mind to true ideas instead. No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth, and it is truth we seek to reach today. …we will ask to see the rising of the real world to replace the foolish images that we hold dear, with true ideas arising in the place of thoughts that have no meaning, no effect, and neither source nor substance in the truth.

Remember often that today should be a time of special gladness, and refrain from dismal thoughts and meaningless laments. …remind yourself with this:

Today I seek and find all that I want.
My single purpose offers it to me.
No one can fail who seeks to find the truth.
(A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 131, W-pI.131.8;9:4-10:3;15:1,4-7. See also ACIM Lesson 131 Insights.)

Our single purpose is God’s single purpose — to be and extend Love eternally. To seek the Truth is to seek and accept the Will of God. There is no sacrifice in this. God’s Will for His Son is perfect happiness and Love without end. To give up a loveless world where true happiness is impossible for the glad exchange of Heaven is not sacrifice. We give up nothing to gain everything, all that is Real.

Today as we look upon the world and think about all the things we need to do today, let us remind ourselves that beyond the appearances of the world is the eternal Love that is our purpose to receive and give. Heaven is here and now. We ask the Holy Spirit to help us see and fulfill our true purpose. This practice leads us to remembering that Heaven is our Home eternally.

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Stripping Away the Dream’s False Images

Sickness would prove that lies must be the truth. But healing demonstrates that truth is true. The separation sickness would impose has never really happened. To be healed is merely to accept what always was the simple truth, and always will remain exactly as it has forever been. Yet eyes accustomed to illusions must be shown that what they look upon is false. So healing, never needed by the truth, must demonstrate that sickness is not real.

Healing might thus be called a counter-dream, which cancels out the dream of sickness in the name of truth, but not in truth itself. Just as forgiveness overlooks all sins that never were accomplished, healing but removes illusions that have not occurred. Just as the real world will arise to take the place of what has never been at all, healing but offers restitution for imagined states and false ideas which dreams embroider into pictures of the truth. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 137, W-pI.137.4-5. See also ACIM Lesson 137 Insights.)

The world we experience as a body is a dream. It is the outward picture from the part of our mind that has chosen to believe separation is real. We need the images of the dream to convince ourselves that we live in a world of separation. But conviction does not make real when it is based on the denial of Reality. It covers over Reality with false images, making us unaware of the truth that we are one with all Love.

Healing could be likened to scraping off old wall paper that has covered a window to the real world. With the wall paper stripped away, the Light of the real world enlightens our mind and we see the brilliance of the Love of God in all things. With the illusions gone, we are free to step through the open window to our eternal reality in Love.

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Remembering Our Life in God

Creation is the means for God’s extension, and what is His must be His Son’s as well.

The lovely light of your relationship is like the Love of God. It cannot yet assume the holy function God gave His Son, for your forgiveness of your brother is not complete as yet, and so it cannot be extended to all creation. Each form of murder and attack [separation from Love] that still attracts you and that you do not recognize for what it is, limits the healing and the miracles you have the power to extend to all. Yet does the Holy Spirit understand how to increase your little gifts and make them mighty. Also He understands how your relationship is raised above the battleground, in it no more. This is your part; to realize that murder [separation] in any form is not your will. The overlooking of the battleground is now your purpose.

Be lifted up, and from a higher place look down upon it. From there will your perspective be quite different. Here in the midst of [the battleground], it does seem real. Here you have chosen to be part of it. Here murder is your choice. Yet from above, the choice is miracles instead of murder. And the perspective coming from this choice shows you the battle is not real, and easily escaped. Bodies may battle, but the clash of forms is meaningless. And it is over when you realize it never was begun. How can a battle be perceived as nothingness when you engage in it? How can the truth of miracles be recognized if murder is your choice?”

When the temptation to attack rises to make your mind darkened and murderous, remember you can see the battle from above. (A Course in Miracles, T-23.IV.3:5;4:1-6:1. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

God’s Love is Life. Separation from Love is therefore murder because it is separation from Life. Any thought of separation in any form — discontent, disappointment, sadness, fear, anger — is just a form of murder because it is the denial of Life.

To return to the Life we live in God, we have to forgive or let go of every thought of separation. We can rise above the battleground. And with the Holy Spirit’s help, we can recognize the thoughts of separation as meaningless and having no effect. When we recognize there has been no effect, we naturally forgive the misperception. No harm ever happened in truth. Life in the oneness of Love becomes increasingly appealing because the forms of separation in the world become less attractive.

Today we call upon the Holy Spirit to help us rise above the battleground and see with His vision, for we would remember our Life in God.

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How to Return to Love

You share no evil dreams if you forgive the dreamer, and perceive that he is not the dream he made. And so he cannot be a part of yours, from which you both are free. Forgiveness separates the dreamer from the evil dream, and thus releases him. Remember if you share an evil dream, you will believe you are the dream you share. And fearing [the dream], you will not want to know your own Identity, because you think that It is fearful. And you will deny your Self, and walk upon an alien ground which your Creator did not make, and where you seem to be a something you are not. You will make war upon your Self, which seems to be your enemy; and will attack your brother, as a part of what you hate. There is no compromise. You are your Self or an illusion. What can be between illusion and the truth? A middle ground, where you can be a thing that is not you, must be a dream and cannot be the truth.

You have conceived a little gap between illusions and the truth to be the place where all your safety lies, and where your Self is safely hidden by what you have made.

There is no gap that separates the truth from dreams and from illusions. Truth has left no room for them in any place or time. For [truth] fills every place and every time, and makes them wholly indivisible.

Look at the little gap, and you behold the innocence and emptiness of sin that you will see within yourself, when you have lost the fear of recognizing love. (A Course in Miracles, T-28.V.3;4:1;6:4-6;7:6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Evil dreams are dreams of being separate from Love. The absence of Love is fear and fear is projected as hate. Because only the unity of Love is real, dreams of fear and lack of Love could never be true.

When we identify with a self in a dream of fear, we are afraid of our true Identity as Love. To accept the Love we are, we must let go of a self-image that lacks Love. To the fearful self-image, accepting Love is perceived as death, for it is impossible to hold the thought of lovelessness and accept the truth that we are Love. We can only choose between these two alternatives.

When we look upon a brother with the vision of Christ, we overlook his dream of being a separate self lacking Love. We know he is not the limited self-image he has made. We see the Truth that he is only Love, eternally joined with the Love we are. The illusionary gap of separation disappears. No longer supported by belief, the dream of fear and hate is gone. We return to Love.

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