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Love Sees No One as a Body

You who were created by love like itself can hold no grievances and know your Self. To hold a grievance is to forget who you are. To hold a grievance is to see yourself as a body.… It seems to split you off from your Source and make you unlike Him.

It is as sure that those who hold grievances will suffer guilt, as it is certain that those who forgive will find peace. It is as sure that those who hold grievances will forget who they are, as it is certain that those who forgive will remember. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 68, W-pI.68.1:1-3,6;3:2-3. See also ACIM Lesson 68 Insights.)

While the Course does not define Love, it tells us many of Love’s attributes. Love is kind and patient. Love does not condemn; It sees only innocence. Love is changeless and is eternally joyous. And only love Creates and only like Itself.

Our one Self was created by Love as Love. Our true Self has all the attributes of Love. We don’t seem to experience these attributes when we hold grievances because grievances deny Love, which is our true Identity.

This is why the key to remembering What we are is to forgive, let go of grievances, which is the same as letting go of illusions of separation. This is why forgiveness is the key to happiness. If we want to experience Love’s attributes, we need to stop denying the Love we are — we need to let go of all grievances. This is our one function in the world.

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Accepting Holy Spirit’s Perception

Forgiveness is the only function meaningful in time. It is the means the Holy Spirit uses to translate specialness from sin into salvation. Forgiveness is for all. But when it rests on all it is complete, and every function of this world completed with it. (A Course in Miracles, T-25.VI.5:3-6. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

As we open to the Holy Spirit, we receive a changed perception. We have an open mind where the Holy Spirit can enter. On this clean and open slate, the Holy Spirit brings a new way of looking at every situation we encounter in this world.

Today we are vigilant to watch our mind for thoughts that do not bring us peace and quiet inner joy. We ask Holy Spirit to help us see the situation differently. When we open to the Light, the Light enters because it is welcomed. We give thanks that the Holy Spirit is always there for us to show us a better way. Accepting Holy Spirit’s perception is forgiveness.

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Accepting a Kind and Gentle Way

Truth will correct all errors in my mind. I am mistaken when I think I can be hurt in any way. I am God’s Son, whose Self rests safely in the Mind of God.

I rest in God. I rest in God today, and let Him work in me and through me, while I rest in Him in quiet and in perfect certainty. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 119, W-pI.119.1;120.1. See also ACIM Lesson 119 Insights.)

In the world it seems that most of our days are spent providing for our safety in some way. It seems that no one else will take care of our needs unless we do. We are told that we remain safe in God, though it doesn’t seem like it in the world.

The Course also tells us that God gave us His Helper Who will direct us where to go, what to do, what to say and to whom. To receive that Help, we must give up trying to do anything on our own. When we choose to open our minds in quietness to the Holy Spirit’s inspiration, we are gently led on a peaceful path.

With this Help, we learn to recognize what we don’t really need and what will be truly helpful. With the lead of this Inner Guide, we are inspired in all our doing. Struggle in the world softens. We may still be doing the same activities, but they are done with gentleness and kindness, without judgment or guilt. This comes as we remember we rest in God.

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Relax in the Quietness of God’s Garden

Father, I come to You today to seek the peace that You alone can give. I come in silence. In the quiet of my heart, the deep recesses of my mind, I wait and listen for Your Voice. My Father, speak to me today. I come to hear Your Voice in silence and in certainty and love, sure You will hear my call and answer me. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 221, W-pII.221.1. See also ACIM Lesson 221 Insights.)

God’s Voice will always remind us of What we are — God’s extension of perfect Love, innocent, whole, in deep peace and quiet joy. As we go through our day with the many seeming distractions and images that disturb our peace, we can always step back and quiet our minds.

As we still our minds, it’s like taking a mini vacation from the chaos of the world to rest in our quiet Home in God. Our Home in God is like a spa, where we can relax in quietness and the certainty of our safety. We can let God’s peace flow through us, relieving the stress of the world of separation and helping us to relax in the quietness of God’s garden.

From this quiet respite, we can return to the world, refreshed and rejuvenated, bringing peace with us. In peace we are open to the inspiration of our true Self to guide us smoothly and easily through the day. The more frequently we pause for these mini vacations, the easier it becomes to remember our natural state of peace and remain undisturbed by the appearances of the world we see. Today is a day to practice.

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Giving the World a New Purpose

This world will bind your feet and tie your hands and kill your body only if you think that it was made to crucify God’s Son. For even though it was a dream of death, you need not let it stand for this to you. Let this be changed, and nothing in the world but must be changed as well. For nothing here but is defined as what you see it for.

How lovely is the world whose purpose is forgiveness of God’s Son! How free from fear, how filled with blessing and with happiness! And what a joyous thing it is to dwell a little while in such a happy place! Nor can it be forgot, in such a world, it is a little while till timelessness comes quietly to take the place of time. (A Course in Miracles, T-29.VI.5-6. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

The world we see is an outward picture of what we believe we are. If we identify with the ego thought system, we believe we are a separate entity, separate from our Source and separate from all things. Believing we are separate from our Source, we think we are separate from God’s strength and from Life Itself. Thus the world we see shows us images of lack, loss and death. This is the purpose the ego has given it.

But if we choose to align with the Holy Spirit, our true Self, we can give the world another purpose. When we align with the Holy Spirit, the purpose of the world becomes forgiveness of all our mistaken beliefs. Every experience becomes an opportunity to free ourselves from belief in lack, loss and death. Forgiveness has the power to restore awareness of Heaven to our minds. It has the power to return us to the experience of God’s peace and joy.

Today we can take another step closer to remembering that we remain God’s Son as we were created. We are still limitless Love and nothing else.

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Remembering What We Really Want

Pause and be still a little while, and see how far you rise above the world, when you release your mind from chains and let it seek the level where it finds itself at home. It will be grateful to be free a while. It knows where it belongs. But free its wings, and it will fly in sureness and in joy to join its holy purpose. Let it rest in its Creator, there to be restored to sanity, to freedom and to love.

Protect your mind throughout the day as well. And when you think you see some value in an aspect or an image of the world, refuse to lay this chain upon your mind, but tell yourself with quiet certainty:

This will not tempt me to delay myself.
The world I see holds nothing that I want. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 128, W-pI.128.6,8. See also ACIM Lesson 128 Insights.)

By stepping back and frequently connecting with the Holy Spirit, we allow ourselves to be led to a different way of seeing the world today… We open to and receive the Love of God That is present everywhere, behind the dream world of separation… We practice receiving and extending the truth today… We choose not to delay the happiness and peace we will receive from our true Self… When we find ourselves becoming anxious or fearful, we remember there is nothing to fear and that all is well in truth. We remember that the world of separation holds nothing that we want.

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The Power of God Supports Us

Remember that you always choose between truth and illusion; between the real Atonement that would heal and the ego’s “atonement” that would destroy. The power of God and all His Love, without limit, will support you as you seek only your place in the plan of Atonement arising from His Love. Be an ally of God and not the ego in seeking how Atonement can come to you. His help suffices, for His Messenger understands how to restore the Kingdom to you, and to place all your investment in salvation in your relationship with Him. (A Course in Miracles, T-16.VII.10. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

The Holy Spirit, God’s Messenger, is all the help we need to let go of the illusion of hell and return to our Home in Heaven. When we try to resolve perceived problems on our own, we are denying the only help that will really set us free.

We are never alone. We always have the gift of God’s Messenger available to us to lead us to freedom from the illusion of separation, isolation and weakness. The Holy Spirit brings us all of God’s strength. There is no substitute. The practice of daily opening to the Holy Spirit’s lead and following His inspiration is our path to freedom. It is our path to perfect peace, quiet joy and limitless Love.

Holy Spirit, guide our thoughts today. Direct our feet and hands and inspire our words, that we may act from the Love we are and offer that Love to all our brothers, free of illusions of the past. Amen.

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