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Remembering the Love We Are

The memory of God comes to the quiet mind. It cannot come where there is conflict, for a mind at war against itself remembers not eternal gentleness. The means of war are not the means of peace, and what the warlike would remember is not love. War is impossible unless belief in victory is cherished. Conflict within you must imply that you believe the ego has the power to be victorious. Why else would you identify with it? Surely you realize the ego is at war with God.

The war against yourself was undertaken to teach the Son of God that he is not himself, and not his Father’s Son. For this, the memory of his Father must be forgotten. It is forgotten in the body’s life, and if you think you are a body, you will believe you have forgotten it. Yet truth can never be forgotten by itself, and you have not forgotten what you are. Only a strange illusion of yourself, a wish to triumph over what you are, remembers not. (A Course in Miracles, T-23.I.1:1-7;5:1-5. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

It is literally mind-altering to realize that the world we see through the body’s eyes was made as a barrier to prevent us from remembering our eternal unity with our Source, with Love. The ego thought system is the denial of the truth. Thus all the constructs of the ego are made to hide the truth from our awareness.

Yet the ego cannot change the truth. It can only hide the truth from us if we choose to identify with the ego as what we are. The Course says in many places we are not the ego. This recognition is essential to enable our release from the limitations imposed by the ego.

As we dis-identify with the ego it becomes easier to see that no one is the ego which appears to be acting out in a body. As we recognize this, forgiveness comes naturally. We look past the body of our brother or ourselves and Christ’s vision shows us the Light of innocence that is really there.

Today we will remind ourselves frequently: We are not a body, we are not the ego. We are Love as Love created us.

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Remembering Our Father

God offers thanks to the holy host who would receive Him, and lets Him enter and abide where He would be. And by your welcome does He welcome you into Himself, for what is contained in you who welcome Him is returned to Him. And we but celebrate His Wholeness as we welcome Him into ourselves. Those who receive the Father are one with Him, being host to Him Who created them. And by allowing Him to enter, the remembrance of the Father enters with Him, and with Him they remember the only relationship they ever had, and ever want to have. (A Course in Miracles, T-15.XI.9. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

In truth there is no division between ourselves and our Father. We are Love and Love is one, with no division or separation of any kind. Today our practice is to step back frequently and remember the truth about our oneness with our Father. As we remember this about ourselves, we easily see that this same truth applies to everyone. Remembering this brings us a feeling of peace, safety and joy.

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Letting Go of Barriers to Love

Open your mind, and clear it of all thoughts that would deceive, and let this thought alone engage it fully, and remove the rest:

My mind holds only what I think with God.


…this thought will be enough to set the day along the lines which God appointed, and to place His Mind in charge of all the thoughts you will receive that day.

…each [thought] will bring the message of His Love to you, returning messages of yours to Him. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 140, W-pI.140.5:2-4;6:2. See also ACIM Lesson 140 Insights.)

The Course tells us that God is Love and nothing else. Therefore God’s Thoughts must be Love and nothing else. God’s Thoughts are the extension of Love. Thus, as His Thought, we must be Love as well. As the Course points out in many places, thoughts do not leave their source. Thus, as God’s Thought of Love, we still remain one with God’s Love. Our only real thoughts must also be thoughts of Love.

In the world it seems that our thoughts are anything but Love. But the thoughts we are aware of are only illusions made from the belief that we have succeeded in separating from God. It is impossible to separate from God, so thoughts based on the belief in being separate must be false. But our belief makes our real thoughts of Love invisible to us. It is our thoughts of separation that we must let go of, or forgive, so we can become aware of the Thoughts of Love we share with God.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us recognize our false thoughts and let them go so that we may remember the joy and peace that comes with being the Love we are.

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Let Me Remember Who I Am

How could I recognize my own best interests when I do not know who I am? What I think are my best interests would merely bind me closer to the world of illusions. I am willing to follow the Guide God has given me to find out what my own best interests are, recognizing that I cannot perceive them by myself.

To me, the purpose of everything is to prove that my illusions about myself are real. It is for this purpose that I attempt to use everyone and everything. It is for this that I believe the world is for. Therefore I do not recognize its real purpose. The purpose I have given the world has led to a frightening picture of it. Let me open my mind to the world’s real purpose by withdrawing the one I have given it, and learning the truth about it. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 55, W-pI.55.1:2-4;2:2-7. See also ACIM Lesson 55 Insights.)

Our practice for today is to follow the Guide given us by God… Our inner Guide will lead us to a different perception of the world and ourselves… As we are receptive, we will feel the peace and safety inherent in our true Identity as one with all of God’s Love… As we are willing to receive, our true Nature naturally shines forth without any effort on our part… We receive the peace of God and extend the peace of God to everyone in this world.

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We Are Eternal Spirit

The ego’s fundamental wish is to replace God. In fact, the ego is the physical embodiment of that wish. For it is that wish that seems to surround the mind with a body, keeping it separate and alone, and unable to reach other minds except through the body that was made to imprison it.

To be without a body is to be in our natural state. To recognize the light of truth in us is to recognize ourselves as we are. To see our Self as separate from the body is to end the attack on God’s plan for salvation, and to accept it instead. And wherever His plan is accepted, it is accomplished already. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 72, W-pI.72.2:1-3;9:3-6. See also ACIM Lesson 72 Insights.)

Today our practice is to remember we are eternal Spirit… Today our practice is to remember that we are not a body… We are free… We are still the eternal Spirit God created as His Son… We are Love’s Extension… We are one with the ever-present Beingness of God’s Love…

As we let ourselves remember this, we are able to feel the happiness, peace and joy that is inherent in our beingness as one with God’s Love. We enjoy today, and let our hearts be lifted as we open our minds and hearts to the Light of Truth in us.

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Exchanging the Ego’s “will” for God’s Will

I need but look upon all things that seem to hurt me, and with perfect certainty assure myself, “God wills that I be saved from this,” and merely watch them disappear. I need but keep in mind my Father’s Will for me is only happiness, to find that only happiness has come to me. And I need but remember that God’s Love surrounds His Son and keeps his sinlessness forever perfect, to be sure that I am saved and safe forever in His Arms. I am the Son He loves. And I am saved because God in His mercy wills it so. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 235, W-pII.235.1. See also ACIM Lesson 235 Insights.)

It is helpful to remember that God’s Will for us is only happiness. The ego is in total opposition to God and consequently afraid of His Will. The ego knows that accepting God’s Will as ours would be the end of the ego. When we identify with the ego, we share the ego’s fear of God’s Will. We believe that to accept God’s Will as ours would mean that we must sacrifice everything that is valuable to us.

Yet what we believe is valuable in the ego thought system is only illusions. Illusions have no real value. To accept God gift of happiness, we do need to give up the value we have placed on empty illusions. But what we get in return is all of God’s Love, all of God’s peace, all of God’s joy. This is no sacrifice, but a blessing beyond words to describe.

Today we will remind ourselves through the day that God’s Will for us is happiness.

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Learning to See Through Illusions

Forgiveness is the only thing that stands for truth in the illusions of the world. It sees their nothingness, and looks straight through the thousand forms in which they may appear. It looks on lies, but it is not deceived.

Forgiveness should be practiced through the day, for there will still be many times when you forget its meaning and attack yourself. When this occurs, allow your mind to see through this illusion as you tell yourself:

Let me perceive forgiveness as it is. Would I accuse myself of doing this? I will not lay this chain upon myself.

In everything you do remember this:

No one is crucified alone, and yet no one can enter Heaven by himself. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 134, W-pI.134.7:1-3;17:1-7. See also ACIM Lesson 134 Insights.)

We cannot learn to forgive on our own. Believing we are on our own is the core of what needs to be forgiven or let go. In truth, we are one with all that is, one with all Love. But in the world we cannot see this, for the body’s eyes cannot see oneness.

This is why we need to practice being willing to see as Holy Spirit, our true Self, sees. This means we need to shift our attention from the appearances our body’s eyes show us to the inner vision of our true Self. This vision sees with Love and thus sees through form to the Light of Love.

Today is a day to practice our willingness to see with the eyes of Love and thus forgive the world.

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