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Why Wait for Love?

Call to your Father, certain that His Voice will answer. He Himself has promised this. And He Himself will place a spark of truth within your mind wherever you give up a false belief, a dark illusion of your own reality and what love means. He will shine through your idle thoughts today, and help you understand the truth of love. In loving gentleness He will abide with you, as you allow His Voice to teach love’s meaning to your clean and open mind. And He will bless the lesson with His Love. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 127, W-pI.127.9. See also ACIM Lesson 127 Insights.)

Our Father/Creator/Source has promised to help us out of the quagmire of fear and guilt the ego has made. His helping Hand is reaching out to us. We need only take it and accept His Help. All our Father wants is that we receive His gift of all of His Love. Today, right now, we can take His Hand and let ourselves be lifted into the Heaven of His Love.

Why wait? All that we will lose is the pain and suffering that comes with believing the false idea that we are alone and without Love. God’s Love surrounds and supports us eternally, giving us all of His strength, joy and peace. We can accept It now. We need only be willing to bring every thought of guilt and fear to Him and ask for His Help. God has guaranteed His Voice will answer our call for Love with all His Love. There is literally nothing to lose and everything to gain. We need wait no longer.

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Choosing the Guide to Love

We have seen that there are only two parts of your mind. One is ruled by the ego, and is made up of illusions. The other is the home of the Holy Spirit, where truth abides. There are no other guides but these to choose between, and no other outcomes possible as a result of your choice but the fear that the ego always engenders, and the love that the Holy Spirit always offers to replace it. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 66, W-pI.66.7:2-5. See also ACIM Lesson 66 Insights.)

In every moment we are choosing between the guide to fear and the Guide to Love. The guide to fear uses judgment and guilt to keep fear in place. But when we choose the Guide to Love, which never condemns, only innocence is seen. We recognize that only Love is ever truly present. Anything that seems to contradict the oneness of Love is a false image that could never be true. Whenever we feel alone, unhappy, depressed, guilty or fearful, we have chosen the guide that leads us only into illusions.

Thankfully we have another Guide we can choose, Who leads us steadily toward the truth that we remain Love as Love created us. Whenever we feel less than perfectly happy and at peace, we have chosen the wrong guide. But we can choose differently and let the Holy Spirit replace our mistaken ideas and misperceptions with the truth. As we do this, we learn to look past the appearances of the world and use our inner vision to see the Light of Love everywhere. This is our practice for today.

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Accepting Heaven Instead of Strife

Heaven itself is reached with empty hands and open minds, which come with nothing to find everything and claim it as their own. We will attempt to reach this state today, with self-deception laid aside, and with an honest willingness to value but the truly valuable and the real.

Should you begin to let yourself collect some needless burdens, or believe you see some difficult decisions facing you, be quick to answer with this simple thought:
I will not value what is valueless, for what is valuable belongs to me. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 133, W-pI.133.13:1-2;14:2-3. See also ACIM Lesson 133 Insights.)

All day, every day, we are accepting the peace of Heaven, or accepting the ego’s strife and struggle. With the ego in charge, life is a struggle with one problem after the next to contend with.

As we grow tired of this and learn a better way, we open our minds to the help of the Holy Spirit, Who reminds us of the power of Love to heal all things. As we consistently practice the habit of stepping back from the ego’s frame of mind and opening to the Holy Spirit’s world of peace and extending Love, we leave the world of stress and strife behind. We accept the Holy Spirit’s plan of awakening to Love, instead of the ego’s plan of loneliness, depression and fear.

This is why the Course tells us, “Heaven itself is reached with empty hands and open minds, which come with nothing to find everything and claim it as their own..”

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The Gifts of Forgiveness

Open your eyes today and look upon a happy world of safety and of peace. Forgiveness is the means by which it comes to take the place of hell. In quietness it rises up to greet your open eyes, and fill your heart with deep tranquility as ancient truths, forever newly born, arise in your awareness. What you will remember then can never be described. Yet your forgiveness offers it to you.

Today it will be given you to feel the peace forgiveness offers, and the joy the lifting of the veil holds out to you. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 122, W-pI.122.8;11:2. See also ACIM Lesson 122 Insights.)

To forgive the world we need to shift our attention from what the body’s eyes show us to the vision of the Holy Spirit. This is a shift from external “seeing” to inner vision in our minds. It is a shift from being ego directed to being guided by the Holy Spirit. As we take each of our perceptions in the world to the Holy Spirit with willingness to receive His vision, we learn to let go of belief in false images and accept the unity of Love that joins us with all that is real. This is true forgiveness.

As we open to true forgiveness, the Light of Love, which is ever present, shines through the fading shadows of the ego’s false images. This Light brings with It peace and happiness that are beyond words to describe. Our experience of the world shifts from pervading fear and guilt to a happy world of safety and of peace.

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We Have All the Help We Need

How simply and how easily does time slip by for the teacher of God who has accepted His protection! All that he did before in the name of safety no longer interests him. For he is safe, and knows it to be so. He has a Guide Who will not fail. He need make no distinctions among the problems he perceives, for He to Whom he turns with all of them recognizes no order of difficulty in resolving them. He is as safe in the present as he was before illusions were accepted into his mind, and as he will be when he has let them go. There is no difference in his state at different times and different places, because they are all one to God. This is his safety. And he has no need for more than this.” (A Course in Miracles, M-16.7)

The ego is incapable of providing meaningful help. The best it can do is provide an illusion that seems to be more acceptable as a substitute for an appearance we don’t like — a seeming problem. This is about as helpful as moving the deck chairs on the sinking Titanic.

But we have a Guide in our minds Who is not deceived by the ego’s illusions. This Guide knows we are eternally safe in the changeless Presence of Love. This Guide will always lead us past false images to the recognition of what is true and real. The Help we need leads us gently and lovingly to release the mistaken ideas of separation that bring us pain, guilt, fear and uncertainty.

As we are willing to follow this Guide, the uncertainty of the dream fades and the certainty of our perfect safety, limitless joy and unending Love becomes our reality. We have all the Help we need to find the way to our Home in Love.

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Accepting Holy Spirit’s Help

Perception is not an attribute of God. His is the realm of knowledge. Yet He has created the Holy Spirit as the Mediator between perception and knowledge. Without this link with God, perception would have replaced knowledge forever in your mind. With this link with God, perception will become so changed and purified that it will lead to knowledge. That is [perception’s] function as the Holy Spirit sees it. Therefore, that is its function in truth.

In God you cannot see. Perception has no function in God, and does not exist. Yet in salvation, which is the undoing of what never was, perception has a mighty purpose. Made by the Son of God for an unholy purpose, [perception] must become the means for the restoration of his holiness to his awareness. Perception has no meaning. Yet does the Holy Spirit give it a meaning very close to God’s. Healed perception becomes the means by which the Son of God forgives his brother, and thus forgives himself. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 43, W-pI.43.1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 43 Insights.)

It is the Holy Spirit That purifies our perception so it leads to knowledge. As we join with the Holy Spirit, He will show us the true meaning behind every circumstance. As we join with Holy Spirit, our perceptions are healed. With Holy Spirit we are able to see past ego’s false ideas to see the Love behind all images of separation.

The Holy Spirit teaches forgiveness and sees all loveless behavior as calls for Love. With Holy Spirit’s help we let go of the ego’s false ideas and remember that only Love is real. We find peace and happiness at last and extend it to the world.

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Opening to the Holy Spirit’s Direction

God’s plan for salvation works simply because, by following His direction, you seek for salvation where it is. But if you are to succeed, as God promises you will, you must be willing to seek there only.

Ask Him very specifically:

What would You have me do?
Where would You have me go?
What would You have me say, and to whom?

Give Him full charge… and let Him tell you what needs to be done by you in His plan for your salvation. He will answer in proportion to your willingness to hear His Voice. Refuse not to hear. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 71, W-pI.71.5:1-2;9:2-8. See also ACIM Lesson 71 Insights.)

Because this world is the denial of our oneness with God, it seems that we are alone and must fend for ourselves to survive and find happiness. The Course is teaching us that there is no happiness or safety to be found in this dream of separation.

The ego thought system of separation is incapable of leading us to true safety and happiness. At best it can offer illusionary substitutes that give us moments of seeming happiness or safety. But these temporary substitutes cannot last because they are not real. The ego will always direct us to seek where we cannot find the happiness and peace we yearn for in our hearts.

Yet God has given us the answer to this call of our hearts. The Holy Spirit is always available to us. We need only ask for His help with willingness to receive His answer. God has promised that the answer will come very specifically in the form we need in the moment that will lead us back to our Home.

God’s Will for us is perfect happiness. When we ask the Holy Spirit for help with willingness, we are led lovingly and gently to true happiness and deep peace. We are accepting God’s Will as our will. We are accepting the joy and peace that is our inheritance, given us by our Creator.

Today we practice opening our minds and hearts to the Holy Spirit’s kind and gentle direction.

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