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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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We Give Up All Self Deceptions

The power of decision is our own. And we accept of Him that which we are, and humbly recognize the Son of God. To recognize God’s Son implies as well that all self-concepts have been laid aside, and recognized as false. Their arrogance has been perceived. And in humility the radiance of God’s Son, his gentleness, his perfect sinlessness, his Father’s Love, his right to Heaven and release from hell, are joyously accepted as our own.

The power of decision is my own. This day I will accept myself as what my Father’s Will created me to be.

Then will we wait in silence, giving up all self-deceptions, as we humbly ask our Self that He reveal Himself to us. And He Who never left will come again to our awareness, grateful to restore His home to God, as it was meant to be. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 152, W-pI.152.11;12:3-6. See also ACIM Lesson 152 Insights.)

As we are willing to give up our self-deceptions and invite the Holy Spirit to return us to the awareness of the truth, we receive the peace of God. God’s peace dissolves all our fearful thoughts, our projections of guilt and belief in limitation and lack.

Today we practice giving up our self-deceptions and let the Holy Spirit lead us to the truth that only God’s perfect Love is in us and in everyone.

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Accepting the Holy Spirit’s Purpose for the Body

There is nothing outside you. That is what you must ultimately learn, for it is the realization that the Kingdom of Heaven is restored to you. For God created only this, and He did not depart from it nor leave it separate from Himself. The Kingdom of Heaven is the dwelling place of the Son of God, who left not his Father and dwells not apart from Him. Heaven is not a place nor a condition. It is merely an awareness of perfect Oneness, and the knowledge that there is nothing else; nothing outside this Oneness, and nothing else within.

What could God give but knowledge of Himself? What else is there to give? The belief that you could give and get something else, something outside yourself, has cost you the awareness of Heaven and of your Identity. (A Course in Miracles, T-18.VI.1;2:1-3. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

When we identify with the body as what we are, we lose awareness of the truth of what Love created us to be. Love is one and cannot be limited or separated in any way and still remain Itself. The body was made by the ego to give the appearance that we are separate identities, and thus different from each other and from the oneness of Love.

But the Holy Spirit can use the body for a different purpose — to teach us that the world of forms is a fantasy which could never be true. The Holy Spirit is ever present in our mind to remind us that we remain Love as Love created us, one with all that is real.

Because we remain Love, we can never be guilty of causing any true harm, because Love cannot harm. Belief that we can harm and be guilty for the harm we have done is an idea the Holy Spirit will teach us is false. We learn this by bringing all our thoughts of fear and guilt to the Holy Spirit with an open mind willing to be shown the Holy Spirit’s vision of truth. This is the practice of forgiveness. It is how we remember that we remain in Heaven, where we were created to be.

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We Welcome the Love That Is Our Inheritance

Everyone here has entered darkness, yet no one has entered it alone. Nor need he stay more than an instant. For he has come with Heaven’s Help within him, ready to lead him out of darkness into light at any time. The time he chooses can be any time, for help is there, awaiting but his choice. And when he chooses to avail himself of what is given him, then will he see each situation that he thought before was means to justify his anger turned to an event which justifies his love. He will hear plainly that the calls to war he heard before are really calls to peace. He will perceive that where he gave attack is but another altar where he can, with equal ease and far more happiness, bestow forgiveness. And he will reinterpret all temptation as just another chance to bring him joy.

Let all your brother’s errors be to you nothing except a chance for you to see the workings of the Helper given you to see the world He made instead of yours.… This world has much to offer to your peace, and many chances to extend your own forgiveness. Such its purpose is, to those who want to see peace and forgiveness descend on them, and offer them the light. (A Course in Miracles, T-25.III.6;7:2,8-9. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Every moment of every day is an opportunity to forgive the world and let the Light of Love shine through. The ego made the world to maintain the denial of Love. The Holy Spirit sees the world as a teaching aid to help us recognize we do not really want the images of the world, and so we let them go. Thus the Holy Spirit teaches us to forgive the world, to let go of the denial of Love and welcome the Love that is our inheritance.

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Accepting Holy Spirit’s Vision

Realize that your forgiveness entitles you to vision. Understand that the Holy Spirit never fails to give the gift of sight to the forgiving. Believe He will not fail you now. You have forgiven the world. He will be with you as you watch and wait. He will show you what true vision sees. It is His Will, and you have joined with Him. Wait patiently for Him. He will be there. The light has come. You have forgiven the world.

Tell Him you know you cannot fail because you trust in Him. And tell yourself you wait in certainty to look upon the world He promised you. From this time forth you will see differently.

We dedicate this day to the serenity in which God would have you be. Keep it in your awareness of yourself and see it everywhere today, as we celebrate the beginning of your vision and the sight of the real world, which has come to replace the unforgiven world you thought was real. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 75, W-pI.75.7;8:1-3;11. See also ACIM Lesson 75 Insights.)

We will step back today and let Holy Spirit’s vision enter our minds. We let the Light of Truth heal our thoughts. We forgive the world for all we ever thought it was. We let Holy Spirit’s peace cover everything we see. We let peace fill our hearts and minds. The Light has come. Our true Self already sees a forgiven world.

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