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I Will Accept My Part in God’s Plan for Salvation

In each five minutes that you spend with Him, He will accept your words and give them back to you all bright with faith and confidence so strong and steady they will light the world with hope and gladness. Do not lose one chance to be the glad receiver of His gifts, that you may give them to the world today.

Give Him the words, and He will do the rest. He will enable you to understand your special function. He will open up the way to happiness, and peace and trust will be His gifts; His answer to your words. He will respond with all His faith and joy and certainty that what you say is true. And you will have conviction then of Him Who knows the function that you have on earth as well as Heaven. He will be with you each practice period you share with Him, exchanging every instant of the time you offer Him for timelessness and peace. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 98, W-pI.98.8-9). See also ACIM Lesson 98 Insights.

The ego would tell us that to believe we have anything to do with salvation of the world is the utmost in grandiosity. But the Course tells us that denying our part in God’s plan is arrogant; it is saying we know better than God what we are capable of.

The Course also tells us that our part is very simple. We need only be willing to accept our part and He will do the rest. He will help us understand our function when we choose the Holy Spirit as our Teacher instead of the ego. As we remind ourselves of our willingness to accept our part in God’s plan for our salvation, He will teach us the way to happiness and we will be given His peace and trust.

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Christ’s Vision Shows Us All Things Forgiven

Christ’s vision looks through me today. His sight shows me all things forgiven and at peace, and offers this same vision to the world. 

This day my mind is quiet, to receive the Thoughts You offer me. And I accept what comes from You, instead of from myself. I do not know the way to You. But You are wholly certain. Father, guide Your Son along the quiet path that leads to You. Let my forgiveness be complete, and let the memory of You return to me. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 291, W-pII.291.1:1-2;2. See also ACIM Lesson 291 Insights.)

By definition, the past is not now; it’s over. Yet we can conjure images in our mind based on what we believe happened long ago. These images cast a veil over the present, making us unable to see the brilliance of the present Love that we are. This need not be.

We have been given a gift that will show us the Light of Love beyond the veil of judgment. It is Christ’s vision which shows us a forgiven world, a world of innocence and peace. We can have this vision right now, but we need to be willing to receive it.

As we are willing to welcome peace in our minds, the clarity of Christ vision will show us the real world in which only innocence is seen. We will see a world of safety, kindness, helpfulness and lasting happiness. Today we would welcome Christ vision.

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Holy Spirit, Help Me See as You See

The purpose of the world you see is to obscure your function of forgiveness, and provide you with a justification for forgetting it. It is the temptation to abandon God and His Son by taking on a physical appearance. It is this the body’s eyes look upon.

Only by fulfilling the function [of forgiveness — seeing past separate forms to the truth] given you by God will you be happy. That is because your function is to be happy by using the means by which happiness becomes inevitable. There is no other way. Therefore, every time you choose whether or not to fulfill your function, you are really choosing whether or not to be happy.

Let me not forget my function.
Let me not try to substitute mine for God’s.
Let me forgive and be happy.

(A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 64, W-pI.64.1:2-4;4;6:2-4. See also ACIM Lesson 64 Insights.)

Holy Spirit, I open my mind to Your healing vision… I want to see the world as You see it… I want to be truly helpful… I hand over all my belief in separate bodies to You… I am willing to see only the Light of eternal Love behind every separate body I see now.

Letting You show me the truth behind every form of separation I see brings me deep happiness and peace… I choose to be vigilant today to keep Your memory of the truth in the forefront of my mind… This is my practice today.

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Accepting Our Place in Love’s Oneness

Do not underestimate the importance of accurate perception for your life’s purpose. So long as perception proceeds from past associations, from memory and habit, so long will real understanding be absent from your life. Without authentic understanding, your mind will simply fluctuate within the narrow limits establish by the ego and accepted by you long ago. Perception must be purified, must be corrected, to free your mind from its narrow range of experience. This tiny space in which your life seems to take place is nothing but a dream of separation and limitation. To be separate from everything you see is to live in fear. To live in fear is to suffer. Is this what you want? You have lived in a state of fear and suffering long enough. Too long has Love and the healing It brings been absent from your life. This need not be. This need not be.” (from From the Christ Mind Book II, p. 185-186)

We have the means to escape from a life experience of uncertainty and fear, pain and guilt. It is the Holy Spirit, ever present in our mind, That can give us a vision that corrects our misperceptions, our false ideas.

Our experience of the world is the effect of what we believe is true. When we believe that we are a separate identity in a world of images, a fearful life experience is inevitable. But when we are willing to bring all our perceptions to the Holy Spirit for His gentle correction, we release ourselves to experience the gifts of love and peace and joy, given us by our Creator.

Today is another blessed day to practice letting go of past false ideas and accept our place in the oneness of Love.

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Remembering We Are One with All Love

Yet since you do believe in [time], why should you waste it going nowhere, when it can be used to reach a goal as high as learning can achieve? Think not the way to Heaven’s gate is difficult at all. Nothing you undertake with certain purpose and high resolve and happy confidence, holding your brother’s hand and keeping step to Heaven’s song, is difficult to do. But it is hard indeed to wander off, alone and miserable, down a road that leads to nothing and that has no purpose. (A Course in Miracles, T-26.V.2:3-6. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Thinking we have a separate mind disconnected from God has no purpose and only brings misery and problems. In truth, everyone in this world is one in the universal Mind of Love. This is our one true Identity. We are totally united eternally and there are no differences.

There is no competition in Oneness. There is no winner and loser. We cannot harm or be harmed, and there is no death. God’s real world of Love is eternal life. We cannot change it, even though we think we can by dreaming scenarios of competition, conflict and isolation.

The only happy answer is to join with what is true. We are still as God created us. We have all of Love because we are united together as Love. We have not left our Source. We cannot change how our Father created us. We are done with wasting time on childish fantasies.

The Holy Spirit is there in our minds, waiting to bring us back to the awareness of where we are eternally, if we are willing to listen. Are we willing to remember we are one with all Love throughout the day today?

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Freedom from Guilt Is Ours to Accept

The special ones are all asleep, surrounded by a world of loveliness they do not see. Freedom and peace and joy stand there, beside the bier on which they sleep, and call them to come forth and waken from their dream of death. Yet they hear nothing. They are lost in dreams of specialness. They hate the call that would awaken them, and they curse God because He did not make their dream reality. [They] curse God and die, but not by Him Who made not death; but only in the dream. Open your eyes a little; see the savior [your brother] God gave to you that you might look on him, and give him back his birthright. It is yours. (A Course in Miracles, T-24.III.7. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

We awaken from the dream of separation by seeing the truth in every brother. By seeing the truth in every brother, we give him back his birthright and simultaneously accept our own birthright. Seeing the Christ in every brother is the means by which we wake up from the dream of separation. Freedom from guilt is ours; we accept it now.

The Holy Spirit sees only innocence. As we accept His vision, we see the innocence in ourselves and our brothers. We receive Holy Spirit’s vision as we willingly turn over all our perceptions to Him to receive His interpretation.

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Opening to a Change of Mind

God’s Teacher speaks to any two who join together for learning purposes. The relationship is holy because of that purpose, and God has promised to send His Spirit into any holy relationship. In the teaching-learning situation, each one learns that giving and receiving are the same. The demarcations they have drawn between their roles, their minds, their bodies, their needs, their interests, and all the differences they thought separated them from one another, fade and grow dim and disappear. Those who would learn the same course share one interest and one goal. And thus he who was the learner becomes a teacher of God himself, for he has made the one decision that gave his teacher to him. He has seen in another person the same interests as his own. (A Course in Miracles, M-2.5:3-9)

Because we are open to a change of mind, we will receive it. Our inner Teacher is always there, in our mind, waiting for our willingness to receive His teaching. As we are open, we receive the truth about ourselves and everyone in this world.

We all are still Love as Love created us. And this can never change. This is what we are learning and teaching simultaneously as we let the Holy Spirit work through us.

God’s gifts are always there, waiting for us to accept them as our own. Today we hold our minds open to Holy Spirit’s interpretation of all that we perceive. Thus do we receive a change of mind and turn every relationship into a holy relationship. We return to the Love we are and realize we have never left in truth.

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