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The Gift of Christ’s Vision

Christ’s vision is a miracle. It comes from far beyond itself, for it reflects eternal love and the rebirth of love which never dies, but has been kept obscure. Christ’s vision pictures Heaven, for it sees a world so like to Heaven that what God created perfect can be mirrored there. The darkened glass the world presents can show but twisted images in broken parts. The real world pictures Heaven’s innocence.

Christ’s vision is the bridge between the worlds. And in its power can you safely trust to carry you from this world into one made holy by forgiveness.

This is the Holy Spirit’s single gift; the treasure house to which you can appeal with perfect certainty for all the things that can contribute to your happiness.

Behold the store of miracles set out for you to give. Are you not worth the gift, when God appointed it be given you? Judge not God’s Son, but follow in the way He has established. Christ has dreamed the dream of a forgiven world. It is His gift, whereby a sweet transition can be made from death to life; from hopelessness to hope. Let us an instant dream with Him. His dream awakens us to truth. His vision gives the means for a return to our unlost and everlasting sanctity in God. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 159. W-pI.159.3;5:1-2;6:1;10, See also ACIM Lesson 159 Insights.)

Christ’s vision carries us from seeing a world of separation and guilt to a world made holy through forgiveness. Like forgiveness, Christ’s vision is an illusion, but one that leads to Reality and lets illusion go. While we believe in a world of separation, we need this bridge.

We access Christ’s vision by being willing to bring all our perceptions to the vision of Christ within our minds. This vision sees past illusions and shows us the innocence and Love that is ever present, beyond appearances.

As we offer this vision to our brothers, we teach him of his innocence and love. And as he learns of his innocence and love, the gift is automatically returned to us. We recognize our wholeness as we recognize our brother is one with us. The gift given to our brother is given to ourselves. Today we welcome Christ’s vision that we may learn of our wholeness and our oneness with our brothers.

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Letting Our Minds Be Healed

Now in the hands made gentle by His touch, the Holy Spirit lays a picture of a different you. It is a picture of a body still, for what you really are cannot be seen nor pictured. Yet this one has not been used for purpose of attack, and therefore never suffered pain at all. It witnesses to the eternal truth that you cannot be hurt, and points beyond itself to both your innocence and his. Show this unto your brother, who will see that every scar is healed, and every tear is wiped away in laughter and in love. And he will look on his forgiveness there, and with healed eyes will look beyond it to the innocence that he beholds in you. Here is the proof that he has never sinned; that nothing which his madness bid him do was ever done, or ever had effects of any kind. That no reproach he laid upon his heart was ever justified, and no attack can ever touch him with the poisoned and relentless sting of fear.

Attest his innocence and not his guilt. Your healing is his comfort and his health because it proves illusions are not true. It is not will for life but wish for death that is the motivation for this world. Its only purpose is to prove guilt real. No worldly thought or act or feeling has a motivation other than this one. (A Course in Miracles, T-27.I.5:1-6:5. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Each time we accept the Holy Spirit’s interpretation of what we perceive, we learn that in truth we have not been harmed and we remain safe in God’s Love. This lesson may manifest in our experience as a judgment let go, guilt released, a recognition that in truth the circumstance that seemed to disturb us had no substance.

As we accept this mind healing, we become less prone to losing our peace. We become happier and more loving. We worry less and notice signs of appreciation and Love all around us. This healing transforms us into a demonstration of healing that teaches our brother that he, too, has within him the kindness and the love, the happiness and peace that he sees in us.

Thus our healing is given to our brothers. More and more we recognize the truth in our brother, which is the One Self we share. As we let our minds be healed, we save the world.

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Remembering Our True Self

There is no world because it is a thought apart from God, and made to separate the Father and the Son, and break away a part of God Himself and thus destroy His Wholeness. Can a world which comes from this idea be real? Can it be anywhere? Deny illusions, but accept the truth. Deny you are a shadow briefly laid upon a dying world. Release your mind, and you will look upon a world released.

Today our purpose is to free the world from all the idle thoughts we ever held about it, and about all living things we see upon it. They can not be there. No more can we. For we are in the home our Father set for us, along with them. And we who are as He created us would loose the world this day from every one of our illusions, that we may be free.

You need not realize that healing comes to many brothers far across the world, as well as to the ones you see nearby, as you send out these thoughts to bless the world. But you will sense your own release, although you may not fully understand as yet that you could never be released alone. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 132, W-pI.132.13-14;16. See also ACIM Lesson 132 Insights.)

The “idle thoughts” that make the world come from the belief that separation is real. To release the world we need to let go of the belief in separation. This seems like a threatening idea because we have identified with the body, an image of separation. It seems that to let go of belief in separation would mean the end of our existence.

When we are willing to receive Holy Spirit’s vision in place of our image making in the world, we recognize our true Self — Love’s extension. Instead of losing our identity, which we made up, we gain our true Identity. We lose what was never real and gain our true Reality. We remember we remain at Home in God. We remember we are Love and nothing else as God is.

The fear and guilt that comes with identifying with a separate body is replaced by the joy and innocence given us in our creation. The payoff for letting go of belief in separation is the gift of Heaven. It is surely worth giving up nothing to know that we have everything.

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Let Love Heal All False Perceptions

Why wait for Heaven? Those who seek the light are merely covering their eyes. The light is in them now. Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all. Light is not of the world, yet you who bear the light in you are alien here as well. The light came with you from your native home, and stayed with you because it is your own. It is the only thing you bring with you from Him Who is your Source. It shines in you because it lights your home, and leads you back to where it came from and you are at home.

The peace of God is shining in you now, and from your heart extends around the world. It pauses to caress each living thing, and leaves a blessing with it that remains forever and forever. What it gives must be eternal. It removes all thoughts of the ephemeral and valueless. It brings renewal to all tired hearts, and lights all vision as it passes by. All of its gifts are given everyone, and everyone unites in giving thanks to you who give, and you who have received. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 188, W-pI.188.1,3. See also ACIM Lesson 188 Insights.)

We rest in God today… We follow in the way of peace… In peace we see past images of separation and become aware of Love’s Oneness… We let God’s Love fill our minds and hearts with happiness and peace…

In this state of mind we become aware of how to be truly helpful in each now present moment… We see that our real purpose is to accept God’s Love and extend it to the world… We see the difference between the real and the unreal… and let Love heal all false perceptions… We give thanks that only Love is real…

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The Gift Forgiveness Offers

Extension of forgiveness is the Holy Spirit’s function. Leave this to Him. Let your concern be only that you give to Him that which can be extended. Save no dark secrets that He cannot use, but offer Him the tiny gifts He can extend forever. He will take every one and make of it a potent force for peace. He will withhold no blessing from it, nor limit it in any way. He will join to [our willingness to forgive] all the power that God has given Him, to make each little gift of love a source of healing for everyone. Each little gift you offer to your brother lights up the world. Be not concerned with darkness; look away from it and toward your brother. And let the darkness be dispelled by Him Who knows the light, and lays it gently in each quiet smile of faith and confidence with which you bless your brother. (A Course in Miracles, T-22.VI.9:2-11. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

We need to offer the Holy Spirit our willingness to let our perceptions be corrected. We must not insist that our interpretation of what we perceive in the world is correct. As we let go of needing to be right, we open the door to receive God’s gift of happiness.

Again and again the Course points out to us that the body and the world we see with the body are illusions. This is the essential foundation that justifies forgiveness. If the body and what the body’s eyes see were real, there would be no basis for forgiveness. Harm and loss would be real. Guilt and retribution would be justified. Conflict, attack and defend would be a way of life. This is the ego’s world.

But as we are willing to be taught to recognize illusion, we open to the possibility that there is another way to see. The vision the Holy Spirit offers us in our minds shows us that beyond the conflict, guilt and fear is the changeless Love of God’s Universe — our Home. Here is where we remain in truth. As we are willing to forgive and accept Holy Spirit’s vision, the world of fear and guilt fades and the reality of our safety in God’s Love becomes certain. This is the gift our forgiveness offers.

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Forgiveness Frees Love to Be Itself

Hear… a certain Voice, which tells you of a function given you by your Creator Who remembers you, and urges that you now remember Him.

His gentle Voice is calling from the known to the unknowing. He would comfort you, although He knows no sorrow. He would make a restitution, though He is complete; a gift to you, although He knows that you have everything already. He has Thoughts which answer every need His Son perceives, although He sees them not. For Love must give, and what is given in His Name takes on the form most useful in a world of form.

These are the forms which never can deceive, because they come from Formlessness Itself. Forgiveness is an earthly form of love, which as it is in Heaven has no form. Yet what is needed here is given here as it is needed. In this form you can fulfill your function even here, although what love will mean to you when formlessness has been restored to you is greater still. Salvation of the world depends on you who can forgive. Such is your function here. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 186, W-pI.186.12:6-14:5. See also ACIM Lesson 186 Insights.)

We were created as God’s extension of Love. As Love’s extension, our only function is to extend Love.

In the dream of separation, the forms of the world stand as barriers to Love’s extension. Forgiveness removes these barriers to let Love extend Itself. Each time we let ourselves be taught that forms have no meaning nor substance, we learn to see past form. The Love we are is free to be Itself.

Holy Spirit, help us to recognize forms for what they are that we may see past them to the reality of Love everywhere. We would accept Your help so that we may accept our function in God’s plan of salvation.

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Welcoming the Gift of Love

My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world. Since the thoughts of which I am aware do not mean anything, the world that pictures them can have no meaning. What is producing this world is insane, and so is what it produces. Reality is not insane, and I have real thoughts as well as insane ones. I can therefore see a real world, if I look to my real thoughts as my guide for seeing.

My thoughts are images that I have made. Whatever I see reflects my thoughts. It is my thoughts that tell me where I am and what I am. The fact that I see a world in which there is suffering and loss and death shows me that I am seeing only the representation of my insane thoughts, and am not allowing my real thoughts to cast their beneficent light on what I see. Yet God’s way is sure. The images I have made cannot prevail against Him because it is not my will that they do so. My will is His, and I will place no other gods before Him. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 53, W-pI.53.1,5. See also ACIM Lesson 53 Insights.)

If we want to know and experience the peace of God, we need to stop trying to make a world of our own. Our real Thoughts are the Thoughts we share with Him. His Will is our will. The truth in us wants only to see Love and extend Love. There is nothing else.

If we think we see something else, it is because we are denying and opposing our true Will. We are turning our back on our Self. This can only bring a sense of loss, despair, fear and guilt. Just as this was a decision we made, we can reverse the decision and accept the Will we share with God. This is what forgiveness does.

We are willing now to accept the help that is already given us to change our mind and welcome the gift of Love and all Creation.

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