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Bringing Peace and Good Will to the World

The sign of Christmas is a star, a light in darkness. See [the Light] not outside of yourself, but shining in the Heaven within, and accept it as the sign the time of Christ has come. …And you need but invite Him in Who is there already, by recognizing that His Host is One. And no thought alien to His Oneness can abide with Him there. Love must be total to give Him welcome, for the Presence of holiness creates the holiness that surrounds it.

This Christmas, give the Holy Spirit everything that would hurt you. Let yourself be healed completely, that you may join with Him in healing, and let us celebrate our release together, by releasing everyone with us. Leave nothing behind, for release is total, and when you have accepted [release] with me, you will give it with me. (A Course in Miracles, T-15.XI.2:1-2,7-8;3:1-3. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

The time of Christ is the time of peace and good will, for these are attributes of Love. It is impossible to bring peace and good will to the world if we harbor fear and guilt within.

We let the time of Christ be now by bringing all our guilt and fear to the Holy Spirit within and accepting His healing Love. As we accept Christ’s loving vision, we see innocence where we saw guilt, we see peace where we saw fear and conflict. We give release as we accept release. We bring peace and good will to the world.

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Remembering We Walk with God

You cannot walk the world apart from God, because you could not be without Him. He is what your life is. Where you are He is. There is one life. That life you share with Him. Nothing can be apart from Him and live.”

“This is the way salvation works. As you step back, the light in you steps forward and encompasses the world. …In lightness and in laughter is sin gone, because its quaint absurdity is seen. It is a foolish thought, a silly dream, not frightening, ridiculous perhaps, but who would waste an instant in approach to God Himself for such a senseless whim?

“Who walks with me?” This question should be asked a thousand times a day, till certainty has ended doubting and established peace. Today let doubting cease. God speaks for you in answering your question with these words:

I walk with God in perfect holiness. I light the world,
I light my mind and all the minds which God created
one with me. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 156, W-pI.156.2:4-9;6:1-2,4-5;8:1-6. See also ACIM Lesson 156 Insights.)

It doesn’t seem that we walk with God in perfect holiness. But the Course is teaching us that the way we see ourselves is a false image that denies the Self God created. We are being guided to a new vision that sees as God sees. The Course calls it Christ’s vision or the vision of the Holy Spirit. This is the vision of our true Self which knows our real Life is in God and shares His holiness. As we learn to accept this vision, the idea of guilt and punishment becomes absurd. We recognize our brothers as one with us. We walk together in the Love of God.

As we set aside the false image and let Love be our Guide in all things, we walk in peace and perfect happiness. We remember we walk with God.

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We Can Remember God’s Love Is Ours

Salvation is my only function here.
God still is Love, and this is not His Will.

Your Father loves you. All the world of pain is not His Will. Forgive yourself the thought He wanted this for you. Then let the Thought with which He has replaced all your mistakes enter the darkened places of your mind that thought the thoughts that never were His Will.

Forgive all thoughts which would oppose the truth of your completion, unity and peace. You cannot lose the gifts your Father gave. You do not want to be another self. You have no function that is not of God. Forgive yourself the one you think you made. Forgiveness and salvation are the same. Forgive what you have made and you are saved. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 99, W-pI.99.6:7-8;7:3-6;10. See also ACIM Lesson 99 Insights.)

We can rest assured that God loves us wholly, without reservation nor limit. Thoughts of isolation, unworthiness, pain, conflict and loss could never be true because God still loves us. What we see in the world is inconceivable to God and therefore cannot be true.

Yet He knows that we are deeply engrossed in this dream of being apart from Him. He has given us the means to free ourselves from this mistaken dream and remember His Love. He has given us the Holy Spirit to bridge the seeming gap between what we believe is real and the truth of God’s Love.

We need only remember to let the Holy Spirit help us see past the false appearances and let them go. That is His function. He is here to show us the kindly truth that the world of separation we made only seemed to happen in a dream. As we learn this we forgive and remember we remain united with our Creator in perfect Love.

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The Path to Quietness and Peace

Step back in faith and let truth lead the way. You know not where you go. But One Who knows goes with you. Let Him lead you with the rest.

Your feet are safely set upon the road that leads the world to God. Look not to ways that seem to lead you elsewhere. Dreams are not a worthy guide for you who are God’s Son. Forget not He has placed His Hand in yours, and given you your brothers in His trust that you are worthy of His trust in you. He cannot be deceived. His trust has made your pathway certain and your goal secure. You will not fail your brothers nor your Self. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 155, W-pI.155.10:3-6;13. See also ACIM Lesson 155 Insights.)

God knows that we remain innocent, whole, and wholly loving, as He created us. He has trust in what we are because He knows that we remain one with Him. He has not changed His mind about His Creation.

We can trust that God has not forgotten us. We seem to have forgotten What we are, but He has placed in our minds a Reminder Whose function is to remind us of the Truth. We need only be willing to step back and accept the reminders that lead us on the path Home. As we do this, we remember our brothers are one with us. We join with them and bring them along in happy celebration of the Truth. The path that seemed stormy and dangerous becomes quiet and peaceful as we step back and let Him lead the way.

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Learning to Welcome Our One Self

The world obeys the laws that sickness serves, but healing operates apart from them. It is impossible that anyone be healed alone. In sickness must he be apart and separate. But healing is his own decision to be one again, and to accept his Self with all Its parts intact and unassailed. In sickness does his Self appear to be dismembered, and without the unity that gives It life. But healing is accomplished as he sees the body has no power to attack the universal Oneness of God’s Son.

Healing, forgiveness, and the glad exchange of all the world of sorrow for a world where sadness cannot enter, are the means by which the Holy Spirit urges you to follow Him. His gentle lessons teach how easily salvation can be yours; how little practice you need undertake to let His laws replace the ones you made to hold yourself a prisoner to death. His life becomes your own, as you extend the little help He asks in freeing you from everything that ever caused you pain. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 137, W-pI.137.3,9. See also ACIM Lesson 137 Insights.)

The images of the world seem to be strong evidence that we are separate individuals, limited to bodies and vulnerable to all kinds of outside influences. When the Course tells us that this world is unreal and we are not bodies, it seems hard to believe. A magician uses slight of hand to make an illusion seem real. We are doing the same thing to ourselves when we believe the world is real.

Fortunately we have the Holy Spirit in our minds, ready to show us the truth that lies beyond the slight of hand that has us convinced we are not the Self that Love created. We each must reach a turning point that brings us to the willingness to ask for help to see past the sad, painful, fearful and vulnerable world that we seem to be in. When we are willing, the Holy Spirit will give us His gentle lessons that teach us we remain whole, at one with our brothers in our one Self.

Today we will remind ourselves often that we are not a body. We are one Self in the one Mind of Love. We are willing to receive the vision that shows us this is true. We are willing to learn another way of seeing that welcomes the truth.

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Dedicating the Day to Forgiveness

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.

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;3:4-5. See also ACIM Lesson 291 Insights.)

It is helpful to remember that any experience of fear, guilt, shame or pain is a symptom of unforgiveness. It is reflecting back to us our belief that we are separate from the Self God created one with Him. It always represents a need for forgiveness.

If we want to experience the real world of happiness and peace, the practice of forgiveness is essential. We must be willing to let our perceptions be corrected by the Holy Spirit in our minds. Vigilance to recognize our mistaken perceptions and willingness to receive Holy Spirit’s correction will bring us to the real world, the forgiven world.

We dedicate today to this practice.

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We Have Help to See the World of Forgiveness

Fear has made everything you think you see. All separation, all distinctions, and the multitude of differences you believe make up the world. They are not there. Love’s enemy has made them up. Yet love can have no enemy, and so they have no cause, no being and no consequence. They can be valued, but remain unreal. They can be sought, but they can not be found.

It is impossible to see two worlds. Let me accept the
strength God offers me and see no value in this world,
that I may find my freedom and deliverance.

God will be there. For you have called upon the great unfailing power which will take this giant step with you in gratitude. Nor will you fail to see His thanks expressed in tangible perception and in truth. You will not doubt what you will look upon, for though it is perception, it is not the kind of seeing that your eyes alone have ever seen before. And you will know God’s strength upheld you as you made this choice. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 130, W-pI.130.4:1-7;8:5-9:5. See also ACIM Lesson 130 Insights.)

The world we perceive is the effect of believing we have separated from God’s Love. It is a veil that blinds us to the reality of our oneness with our Creator. Because God’s strength is hidden from us, we feel vulnerable and alone.

Yet God’s strength remains in us. We can call up on His strength to support us in our willingness to reclaim our reality in the oneness of Love. His strength will help us let go of our mistaken values which have hidden the truth from our awareness. It is His strength in us that will part the veil and bring us to Heaven’s release from the hell of separation. With His help, we will see the real world of forgiveness which sees the radiant innocence in our brothers and ourselves. And we will be comforted by the certainty that we stand at the door of our Home where we are eternally welcome.

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