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Accepting the Gift of Christ’s Vision

I can be free of suffering today.

Father, I thank You for today, and for the freedom I am certain it will bring. ²This day is holy, for today Your Son will be redeemed. ³His suffering is done. ⁴For he will hear Your Voice directing him to find Christ’s vision through forgiveness, and be free forever from all suffering. ⁵Thanks for today, my Father. ⁶I was born into this world but to achieve this day, and what it holds in joy and freedom for Your holy Son and for the world he made, which is released along with him today.

Be glad today! ²Be glad! ³There is no room for anything but joy and thanks today. ⁴Our Father has redeemed His Son this day. ⁵Not one of us but will be saved today. ⁶Not one who will remain in fear, and none the Father will not gather to Himself, awake in Heaven in the Heart of Love. (A Course in Miracles, W-340. See also ACIM Lesson 340 Insights.)

Christ’s Vision sees a forgiven world. It opens our mind to accept that the Love is the only Reality. No one is left out. The appearance of ‘others’ in the world is just a projection of the ego’s wish for specialness.

When the desire for differences is forgiven, we realize there have never been any ‘others’. We see only the unity that has held us in the Heart of Love eternally. We are free to join in Love’s unending extension of joy and peace. Our hearts are filled with gratitude.

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Joining with Love in Happiness and Peace

I am affected only by my thoughts.

It needs but this to let salvation come to all the world. ²For in this single thought is everyone released at last from fear. ³Now has he learned that no one frightens him, and nothing can endanger him. ⁴He has no enemies, and he is safe from all external things. ⁵His thoughts can frighten him, but since these thoughts belong to him alone, he has the power to change them and exchange each fear thought for a happy thought of love. ⁶He crucified himself. ⁷Yet God has planned that His beloved Son will be redeemed.

Your plan is sure, my Father,—only Yours. ²All other plans will fail. ³And I will have thoughts that will frighten me, until I learn that You have given me the only Thought that leads me to salvation. ⁴Mine alone will fail, and lead me nowhere. ⁵But the Thought You gave me promises to lead me home, because it holds Your promise to Your Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-338. See also ACIM Lesson 338 Insights.)

As God’s Son, we are a Thought in His Mind of Love. Only His Thought of Love is real.  It is our true Identity. We claim our Identity by forgiving the mistaken wish for specialness. We claim our true Identity each time we let the Holy Spirit help us forgive and see with the forgiving eyes of Christ.

Everything we perceive in the world is a reflection of what we believe we are. If we believe we are separate, we see differences and conflict in the world. If we believe in our Identity as Love, we see Love everywhere and join with It in happiness and peace.

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Opening to the Eternal Flow of Universal Love

A miracle is a correction. ²It does not create, nor really change at all. ³It merely looks on devastation, and reminds the mind that what it sees is false. ⁴It undoes error, but does not attempt to go beyond perception, nor exceed the function of forgiveness. ⁵Thus it stays within time’s limits. ⁶Yet it paves the way for the return of timelessness and love’s awakening, for fear must slip away under the gentle remedy it brings.

³A miracle inverts perception which was upside down before, and thus it ends the strange distortions that were manifest. ⁴Now is perception open to the truth. ⁵Now is forgiveness seen as justified.

Forgiveness is the home of miracles. ²The eyes of Christ deliver them to all they look upon in mercy and in love. ³Perception stands corrected in His sight, and what was meant to curse has come to bless. ⁴Each lily of forgiveness offers all the world the silent miracle of love. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.13.1;2:3–3:4)

Throughout the Course we are told in many ways that what the body’s eyes see is false. Forgiveness opens our mind to correction of these mistaken perceptions. The forgiving vision of Christ opens our mind to the perception of Love’s Presence.

Today we practice offering all our perceptions to the Holy Spirit and ask for His loving correction of our misperceptions. As we accept His help, we will have a peaceful, joyous day of joining in Creations eternal giving and receiving universal Love.

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Accepting Our Eternal Unity with Love

My sinlessness protects me from all harm.

My sinlessness ensures me perfect peace, eternal safety, everlasting love, freedom forever from all thought of loss; complete deliverance from suffering. ²And only happiness can be my state, for only happiness is given me. ³What must I do to know all this is mine? ⁴I must accept Atonement for myself, and nothing more. ⁵God has already done all things that need be done. ⁶And I must learn I need do nothing of myself, for I need but accept my Self, my sinlessness, created for me, now already mine, to feel God’s Love protecting me from harm, to understand my Father loves His Son; to know I am the Son my Father loves.

You Who created me in sinlessness are not mistaken about what I am. ²I was mistaken when I thought I sinned, but I accept Atonement for myself. ³Father, my dream is ended now. ⁴Amen. (A Course in Miracles, W-337. See also ACIM Lesson 337 Insights.)

All our fear and guilt, sadness and suffering, are the effect of denying our unbroken unity with the eternal Love of our Father. The truth in us is that we are His one Son. But we have bought into a story of a life apart from our Creator.

Now is the time to forgive this false narrative and accept our true Self. All our mistaken imaginings have had no effect on our eternal Reality. We are loved by our Father eternally, protected from harm, and at Home in the joy He shares with His Son. He has provided a path of return to Love with the Holy Spirit as our Guide.

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Freeing Ourselves from the Dream of Conflict

Forgiveness ends the dream of conflict here.

Conflict must be resolved. ²It cannot be evaded, set aside, denied, disguised, seen somewhere else, called by another name, or hidden by deceit of any kind, if it would be escaped. ³It must be seen exactly as it is, where it is thought to be, in the reality which has been given it, and with the purpose that the mind accorded it. ⁴For only then are its defenses lifted, and the truth can shine upon it as it disappears.

Father, forgiveness is the light You chose to shine away all conflict and all doubt, and light the way for our return to You. ²No light but this can end our evil dream. ³No light but this can save the world. ⁴For this alone will never fail in anything, being Your gift to Your beloved Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-333. See also ACIM Lesson 333 Insights.)

The ego is the idea of conflict. It is the wish for differences, so some can have more or be better than others. This wish manifests in the dream as competition, jealousy, war and a sense of loss. None of this can occur in the oneness of God’s Love.

God’s Love is unknown in the dream. Forgiveness clears away the interference that defends against Love’s oneness. Forgiveness is the bridge we walk across to welcome the Love of our Father.

We are so engrossed in the ego’s dream that we need help to let it go. Our Father has given us His Helper in our mind — the Holy Spirit. As we accept His help, we will learn to forgive our mistaken wishes and welcome the Love that eternally unites us with our Father in Heaven and every brother. We dedicate today to accepting His help.

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Joying with the Cause of Love

I am forever an Effect of God.

Father, I was created in Your Mind, a holy Thought that never left its home. ²I am forever Your Effect, and You forever and forever are my Cause. ³As You created me I have remained. ⁴Where You established me I still abide. ⁵And all Your attributes abide in me, because it is Your Will to have a Son so like his Cause that Cause and Its Effect are indistinguishable. ⁶Let me know that I am an Effect of God, and so I have the power to create like You. ⁷And as it is in Heaven, so on earth. ⁸Your plan I follow here, and at the end I know that You will gather Your effects into the tranquil Heaven of Your Love, where earth will vanish, and all separate thoughts unite in glory as the Son of God.

Let us today behold earth disappear, at first transformed, and then, forgiven, fade entirely into God’s holy Will. (A Course in Miracles, W-326. See also ACIM Lesson 326 Insights.)

As an effect of God, we share all His attributes — His Love, His peace and His joy. As His Son, this is What we are in truth. God did not make a world of differences. When we have forgiven, the wish for specialness and differences will disappear and make way for us to extend our Father’s Love and joy and peace.

As His effect, we have the power to extend of His Cause. Forgiveness clears away the imagined barriers that would limit the extension of Love’s Cause. In truth, we are Love and nothing else. Love is all we can give because nothing else exists.

Today we let the Holy Spirit help us forgive our mistaken wishes and join in the eternal Cause of Love.

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Accepting a Day of Gratitude

I gladly make the “sacrifice” of fear.

Here is the only “sacrifice” You ask of Your beloved Son; You ask him to give up all suffering, all sense of loss and sadness, all anxiety and doubt, and freely let Your Love come streaming in to his awareness, healing him of pain, and giving him Your Own eternal joy. ²Such is the “sacrifice” You ask of me, and one I gladly make; the only “cost” of restoration of Your memory to me, for the salvation of the world.

And as we pay the debt we owe to truth,—a debt that merely is the letting go of self-deceptions and of images we worshipped falsely—truth returns to us in wholeness and in joy. ²We are deceived no longer. ³Love has now returned to our awareness. ⁴And we are at peace again, for fear has gone and only love remains. (A Course in Miracles, W-323. See also ACIM Lesson 323 Insights.)

All the fear and guilt we experience in this world is the direct result of preferring specialness over the oneness of God’s Love. It is a choice to deny God’s gift of all of Himself. It is valuing illusions in place of Truth.

Today we are willing to welcome God’s Gift by accepting the Holy Spirit’s help. We ask the Holy Spirit to heal our mistaken thoughts. We turn over our perceptions of a world of differences to Him. We are open to receive His loving corrections which show us that we remain united in Love’s oneness with all of Creation. Joy will replace all sadness. Peace will replace all conflict. And we will experience a day of gratitude.

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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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