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Bringing Our Brother’s Home with Us

While you are here, you must continue to help the brothers who need you as much as you can. All that you give to them, you will also receive. Heaven is for all; you do not enter Its gates alone. Everyone goes with you; that is what Heaven is: A state of Unity absolute in which all are included. To recognize your brother as yourself is the condition that leads back to the Kingdom. When this realization becomes well established in your mind, you will know your Father again and Love will take you Home. (From the Christ Mind Book II, p.121)

We are coming to realize that everyone is in God and of God. We are practicing daily to use our inner vision to see past form to the Christ Mind in every brother. This is how we help ourselves and our brothers. The Holy Spirit will take us to truth as we are willing to want the truth and consistently be willing to be open to receiving the truth.

In truth the Light of God is all there is to see. The happiness of God is all there is to feel. The Love of God is all there is to know. We practice this today.

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How to Be Free from Fear

Father, there is a vision which beholds all things as sinless, so that fear has gone, and where it was is love invited in. And love will come wherever it is asked. This vision is Your gift. The eyes of Christ look on a world forgiven. In His sight are all its sins forgiven, for He sees no sin in anything He looks upon. Now let His true perception come to me, that I may waken from the dream of sin and look within upon my sinlessness, which You have kept completely undefiled upon the altar to Your holy Son, the Self with which I would identify. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 313, W-pII.313.1. See also ACIM Lesson 313 Insights.)

In every moment we choose between seeing with the vision of Christ, which shows us the reality of Love or seeing with the eyes of the ego, which show us cause for fear. While we identify with the body as our identity, we automatically see cause for fear.

To be free of fear, we must be vigilant to turn over all our thoughts and perceptions to the Holy Spirit and receive His vision in exchange. He will show us the Love beyond the fear, the unity beyond the dream filled with images of separation. This vigilance and willingness to receive a new vision will lead us to the perfect happiness that is God’s Will for us.

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We Have All the Help We Need

Steady our feet, our Father. Let our doubts be quiet and our holy minds be still, and speak to us. We have no words to give to You. We would but listen to Your Word, and make it ours. Lead our practicing as does a father lead a little child along a way he does not understand. Yet does he follow, sure that he is safe because his father leads the way for him.

So do we bring our practicing to You. And if we stumble, You will raise us up. If we forget the way, we count upon Your sure remembering. We wander off, but You will not forget to call us back. Quicken our footsteps now, that we may walk more certainly and quickly unto You. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 171, W-pI.V.In.2:1-3:5. See also ACIM Lesson 171 Insights.)

We can always count on God’s Help through His Voice in our minds. It’s always there, ready to show us the way out of the self-made hell of the dream of separation. We access this Help by stepping back from the perceptions of the moment.

It can be as simple as taking a breath and relaxing as we let it go. With practice, we can learn to consistently connect with the peace of God within. God’s Voice speaks to us in peace. We receive His inspiration through thoughts in our minds, feelings and images that help us recognize the truth beyond illusions.

Today we practice stepping back and welcoming God’s Help to return to peace.

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All That I See Is in My Mind

Your mind is not in your body, your body is in your mind as is everything you see and experience. The body you see is the projected imagery of your mind, nothing more. [The world] does not exist independent of your mind; it cannot, for it is your invention. Today we will try to have the experience of the non-separateness of all things. We will try to take an important step that will begin to show us the Unity that is our Mind and Being. (From the Christ Mind Book II, pp. 277-278)

As we look through the body’s eyes, it seems impossible that the world we see “out there” is actually in our mind. Yet the ego, the thought system of separation, is in our mind. The body is an image made by the ego as a substitute for our Identity in the Mind of God. Being a substitute, it is not real. As an unreal image, the body is incapable of seeing reality.

The body cannot show us unity, being itself an image of separation. We must turn to another kind of seeing in order to recognize our Unity in the Mind of Love. This vision is offered us by the Holy Spirit from outside the thought system of separation. This inner vision sees past all form to the Spirit of Love that is ever present. Forms are recognized as meaningless and without substance because only Love is real.

As we learn to accept that what we see is in our mind, we can take responsibility for our seeing. The practice of taking all our perceptions to the Holy Spirit to look at with His vision is the path that leads us Home to Unity and Love.

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Receiving and Extending God’s Peace

No one can fail to find [peace] who but seeks out its conditions. God’s peace can never come where anger is, for anger must deny that peace exists. Who sees anger as justified in any way or any circumstance proclaims that peace is meaningless, and must believe that it cannot exist. In this condition, peace cannot be found. Therefore, forgiveness is the necessary condition for finding the peace of God. More than this, given forgiveness there must be peace.

Stop for a moment now and think of this: Is conflict what you want, or is God’s peace the better choice? Which gives you more? A tranquil mind is not a little gift. (A Course in Miracles, M-20.3:2-6;4:6-8)

Today we practice forgiving that which was never real. As Course students, we learn that only Love is real. Today we open to the Holy Spirit’s guidance to show us how to look past illusions and see the eternal Love that is ever present.

The Holy Spirit knows how to free us from the thoughts of conflict and judgment that show up in the ego’s thought system of seeing differences and separation. The Holy Spirit lifts us up and helps us rise above the battlefield where conflict reigns. As we rise above to see the Love, peace fills our awareness… We are willing to receive God’s peace and extend it everywhere…

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Today We Accept Holy Spirit’s Help

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Sit silently and wait upon your Father. He has willed to come to you when you have recognized it is your will He do so.

I am so close to you we cannot fail. Father, we give these holy times to You, in gratitude to Him Who taught us how to leave the world of sorrow in exchange for its replacement, given us by You.

And now we wait in silence, unafraid and certain of Your coming. We have sought to find our way by following the Guide You sent to us.

We have found the way He chose for us, and made the choice to follow it as He would have us go. His Hand has held us up. His Thoughts have lit the darkness of our minds. His Love has called to us unceasingly since time began. A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 1, (A Course in Miracles Workbook Part II Introduction, W-pII.In.5:5-6;6:1-2;7:1-2;8:2-5. See also ACIM Lesson 221 Insights.)

Today we practice giving time to God… Today we practice stepping back and letting Him lead the way… Today we practice quiet listening… We let Inspiration come to us, knowing that the Holy Spirit knows the perfect way to return us to the truth… We are so grateful for this Help… and we give thanks for all the peace and blessings we receive.

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What Are We Teaching and Learning?

To teach is to demonstrate. There are only two thought systems, and you demonstrate that you believe one or the other is true all the time. From your demonstration others learn, and so do you.… You cannot give to someone else, but only to yourself, and this you learn through teaching. Teaching is but a call to witnesses to attest to what you believe.… Any situation must be to you a chance to teach others what you are, and what they are to you.

It is the teaching [demonstration] underlying what you say that teaches you. Teaching but reinforces what you believe about yourself. Its fundamental purpose is to diminish self-doubt. This does not mean that the self you are trying to protect is real. But it does mean that the self you think is real is what you teach. (A Course in Miracles, M-in.2:1-3,6-6,10;3:6-10)

Our practice for today is to pay attention to what we are teaching and learning through demonstration. Are we teaching fear by demonstration, or are we teaching that only Love is real? Today we step back and remember our practice by observing what we are teaching through demonstration. Our practice is to observe what we are believing in each moment as we go through our day. Are we believing in separation from Love, or are we believing that we are united in Love’s oneness?

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