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• The Vision That Brings Peace and Happiness
• The Vision That Transforms Our World
• Remembering the Strength of God in Us
• We All Are Loved and Blessed by God
• Accepting Limitless Joy and Peace
• Paying Attention to God’s Voice
• The Transformative Power of Christ’s Vision
• Accepting the Christ Within
• Accepting the Blessings of Christ’s Vision
• We All Were Created as Love by Love
• We Are Free to Bring Love to the World
• Releasing Our Barriers to the Flow of Love
• Opening to the Holy Spirit’s Lessons in Love
• A Practice That Leads to Happiness and Love
• Letting the Past Fall Away
• Remembering Our Safety in God’s Peace
• Seeing the Presence of Love Everywhere

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The Vision That Brings Peace and Happiness

My present happiness is all I see.

Unless I look upon what is not there, my present happiness is all I see. ²Eyes that begin to open see at last. ³And I would have Christ’s vision come to me this very day. ⁴What I perceive without God’s Own Correction for the sight I made is frightening and painful to behold. ⁵Yet I would not allow my mind to be deceived by the belief the dream I made is real an instant longer. ⁶This the day I seek my present happiness, and look on nothing else except the thing I seek.

With this resolve I come to You, and ask Your strength to hold me up today, while I but seek to do Your Will. ²You cannot fail to hear me, Father. ³What I ask have You already given me. ⁴And I am sure that I will see my happiness today. (A Course in Miracles, W-290. See also ACIM Lesson 290 Insights.)

Christ’s vision is God’s correction for the body’s myopic vision which can only see illusions. Images of differences and division are replaced by the remembrance of our unity in the oneness of Love.

We experience only peace and happiness as we accept the strength of our Father’s Love to see past the illusions of the dream. In gratitude we accept His gifts as we forgive our mistaken wish for specialness.

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The Vision That Transforms Our World

All things are given you. ²God’s trust in you is limitless. ³He knows His Son. ⁴He gives without exception, holding nothing back that can contribute to your happiness. ⁵And yet, unless your will is one with His, His gifts are not received. ⁶But what would make you think there is another will than His?

Here is the paradox that underlies the making of the world. ²This world is not the Will of God, and so it is not real.

Yet in his lonely, senseless wanderings, God’s gifts go with him, all unknown to him. ²He cannot lose them. ³But he will not look at what is given him. ⁴He wanders on, aware of the futility he sees about him everywhere, perceiving how his little lot but dwindles, as he goes ahead to nowhere. ⁵Still he wanders on in misery and poverty, alone though God is with him, and a treasure his so great that everything the world contains is valueless before its magnitude.

³One walks with you Who gently answers all your fears with this one merciful reply, “It is not so.” ⁴He points to all the gifts you have each time the thought of poverty oppresses you, and speaks of His Companionship when you perceive yourself as lonely and afraid.

²Become the living proof of what Christ’s touch can offer everyone. ³God has entrusted all His gifts to you. ⁴Be witness in your happiness to how transformed the mind becomes which chooses to accept His gifts, and feel the touch of Christ. (A Course in Miracles, W-166.1:1–2:2;5;11:3-4;15:2-4. See also ACIM Lesson 166 Insights.)

One thing is certain about everything the body’s eyes see — it is not so. Itself an illusion, the body can only ‘see’ illusions. It sees a veil cleverly constructed by the thought system of separation to hide the reality of the eternal Presence of our Father’s Love.

But One walks with us in our mind Who offers us vision beyond the body to see the reality of Love in which we live. He offers us Companionship which assures us that we are not alone and we are safe in the sure protection of our Father’s strength. Today we welcome His help to see our world transformed by Christ’s vision which shows us our eternal unity in God’s Love.

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Remembering the Strength of God in Us

³You always choose between your weakness and the strength of Christ in you. ⁴And what you choose is what you think is real. ⁵Simply by never using weakness to direct your actions, you have given it no power. ⁶And the light of Christ in you is given charge of everything you do. ⁷For you have brought your weakness unto Him, and He has given you His strength instead.

Trials are but lessons that you failed to learn presented once again, so where you made a faulty choice before you now can make a better one, and thus escape all pain that what you chose before has brought to you.

The images you make cannot prevail against what God Himself would have you be. ²Be never fearful of temptation, then, but see it as it is; another chance to choose again, and let Christ’s strength prevail in every circumstance and every place you raised an image of yourself before. ³For what appears to hide the face of Christ is powerless before His majesty, and disappears before His holy sight.

Learn, then, the happy habit of response to all temptation to perceive yourself as weak and miserable with these words:

²I am as God created me. ³His Son can suffer nothing. ⁴And I am His Son.

⁵Thus is Christ’s strength invited to prevail, replacing all your weakness with the strength that comes from God and that can never fail. (A Course in Miracles, T-31.VIII.2:3–3:1;4:1-3;5:1-5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

God does not condemn. He knows that He created His Son eternally one with Himself. That is why we always have the option to change our belief about what we are. Beliefs do not change Reality. The ego is the belief that it is possible to be separate from our Father. It is the denial that God’s Love and strength are ours, without limit. While we identify with the ego, we will feel vulnerable to harm from ‘outside’ forces.

As we learn to accept the fact that we are God’s Son, our sense of vulnerability will fade. Our confidence in Christ’s strength in us will grow. We will feel the strength of our Father’s Love and join in Love’s extension to the world.

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We All Are Loved and Blessed by God

The Word of God is given me to speak.

What is the Word of God? ²“My Son is pure and holy as Myself.” ³And thus did God become the Father of the Son He loves, for thus was he created. ⁴This the Word His Son did not create with Him, because in this His Son was born. ⁵Let us accept His Fatherhood, and all is given us. ⁶Deny we were created in His Love and we deny our Self, to be unsure of Who we are, of Who our Father is, and for what purpose we have come. ⁷And yet, we need but to acknowledge Him Who gave His Word to us in our creation, to remember Him and so recall our Self.

Father, Your Word is mine. ²And it is this that I would speak to all my brothers, who are given me to cherish as my own, as I am loved and blessed and saved by You. (A Course in Miracles, W-276. See also ACIM Lesson 276 Insights.)

In truth, we were created by God’s Love. When we identify with the ego, we deny the Self God created one with Himself. We deny all that is real. We can only perceive a dream devoid of Love and wholly without meaning. In this mistaken identity we are left to wander aimlessly, seeking for Love where it cannot be found.

We need only forgive our mistaken identification with the ego. Without our loyalty, the ego’s veil is lifted to reveal the brilliant Light that is our Self, united with our Father. In this Light we are certain that we are loved and blessed, along everyone. Not one is left outside our Father’s Love.

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Accepting Limitless Joy and Peace

Glory to God in the highest, and to you because He has so willed it. ²Ask and it shall be given you, because it has already been given. ³Ask for light and learn that you are light. ⁴If you want understanding and enlightenment you will learn it, because your decision to learn it is the decision to listen to the Teacher Who knows of light, and can therefore teach it to you. ⁵There is no limit on your learning because there is no limit on your mind. ⁶There is no limit on His teaching because He was created to teach. ⁷Understanding His function perfectly He fulfills it perfectly, because that is His joy and yours.

To fulfill the Will of God perfectly is the only joy and peace that can be fully known, because it is the only function that can be fully experienced. ²When this is accomplished, then, there is no other experience. ³Yet the wish for other experience will block its accomplishment, because God’s Will cannot be forced upon you, being an experience of total willingness. ⁴The Holy Spirit understands how to teach this, but you do not. ⁵That is why you need Him, and why God gave Him to you. ⁶Only His teaching will release your will to God’s, uniting it with His power and glory and establishing them as yours. ⁷You share them as God shares them, because this is the natural outcome of their being. (A Course in Miracles, T-8.III.1–2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Do we want joy and peace? We can have it without limit by accepting what has already been given us. It is God’s Will that we have all that He has, now and forever. Only our wish to experience separation prevents us from knowing the will we share with our Creator.

We have been given a Teacher in our mind Whose function is to teach us the truth about what we were created to be. We have taught ourselves to believe we are unique and different. Our inner Teacher’s function is to teach us to undo our mistaken beliefs and release our mind to accept God’s Will that we be one with Him in Love. As we learn His lessons, we will know limitless happiness and peace.

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Paying Attention to God’s Voice

God’s healing Voice protects all things today.

Let us today attend the Voice for God, which speaks an ancient lesson, no more true today than any other day. ²Yet has this day been chosen as the time when we will seek and hear and learn and understand. ³Join me in hearing. ⁴For the Voice for God tells us of things we cannot understand alone, nor learn apart. ⁵It is in this that all things are protected. ⁶And in this the healing of the Voice for God is found.

Your healing Voice protects all things today, and so I leave all things to You. ²I need be anxious over nothing. ³For Your Voice will tell me what to do and where to go; to whom to speak and what to say to him, what thoughts to think, what words to give the world. ⁴The safety that I bring is given me. ⁵Father, Your Voice protects all things through me. (A Course in Miracles, W-275. See also ACIM Lesson 275 Insights.)

We have a Comforter Who goes with us wherever we go. It does not matter what we think or who we think are. He remains with us. If we are in fear, He is there to assure us that we are safe. If we feel guilty, He tells us that we are forgiven. If we are sad, He reminds us that we are worthy of happiness beyond anything the world has to offer. If we are uncertain about what to do or where to go, He is present in our mind to guide us in the way of peace and Love.

We pause, today, to quiet our troubled mind to let peace come forward. In quiet, we give our attention to the Voice for God Which tells us of our Home, where we are united with all in our Father’s Love.

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The Transformative Power of Christ’s Vision

³Christ’s vision pictures Heaven, for it sees a world so like to Heaven that what God created perfect can be mirrored there. ⁴The darkened glass the world presents can show but twisted images in broken parts. ⁵The real world pictures Heaven’s innocence.

³It [Christ’s vision] is the bond by which the giver and receiver are united in extension here on earth, as they are one in Heaven. ⁴Christ beholds no sin in anyone. ⁵And in His sight the sinless are as one. ⁶Their holiness was given by His Father and Himself.

Christ’s vision is the bridge between the worlds. ²And in its power can you safely trust to carry you from this world into one made holy by forgiveness. ³Things which seem quite solid here are merely shadows there; transparent, faintly seen, at times forgot, and never able to obscure the light that shines beyond them. ⁴Holiness has been restored to vision, and the blind can see.

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. (A Course in Miracles, W-159.3:3-5;4:3–6:1. See also ACIM Lesson 159 Insights.)

We have the means within our minds to see a world that is a clear reflection of Heaven. This cannot be seen with the body’s eyes, which deny reality and can only see illusions. What we choose to see is determined by what we value. The wish for specialness denies Heaven.

Today we step back from our judgments of the world. We open our mind to receive Christ’s forgiving vision, which sees only innocence. It accepts the truth in everyone as Love and nothing else. With our emphasis on Christ’s vision, the images the body’s eyes present fade into the background. We welcome the happiness and peace of the real world in which we live.

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