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We Remain as Love Created Us

“Only acceptance can be asked of you, for what you are is certain.

“I will accept Atonement for myself,
For I remain as God created me.

We have not lost the knowledge that God gave to us when He created us like Him. We can remember it for everyone, for in creation are all minds as one. And in our memory is the recall how dear our brothers are to us in truth, how much a part of us is every mind, how faithful they have really been to us, and how our Father’s Love contains them all.” (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 139, W-pI.139.8:1;11:3-6. See also ACIM Lesson 139 Insights.)

To accept the Atonement for ourselves means to accept correction of the mistaken belief that we have succeeded in separating from God’s Love. The “cost” of Atonement is giving up a false idea which could never be true. The return on this “payment” is the remembrance of the eternal, changeless, limitless Love of God as ours. Never was so much gained for so little.

What makes this not only possible but inevitable is that God’s Love is already given us. We’ve never been without God’s Love. We’ve only been unaware of this Gift because of a mistaken belief in a false idea that could never be true. The benefit of accepting the Atonement is priceless and the cost is willingness to give up nothing — a mistaken idea that is just an illusion.

The Course offers us help to recognize that the false idea of being separate offers us nothing we want. As we learn to recognize there is no value in the world, nothing we really want, we become willing to accept the Atonement for ourselves.

We dedicate this day to letting the Holy Spirit teach us to recognize the valueless illusions of the world for what they are. Thus we become willing to accept the limitless value of God’s gift of eternal Love. We accept that we remain as God created us.

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Our Only Problem Is Belief in Separation

The problem of separation, which is really the only problem, has already been solved. Yet the solution is not recognized because the problem is not recognized.

Everyone in this world seems to have his own special problems. Yet they are all the same, and must be recognized as one if the one solution that solves them all is to be accepted.

All this complexity is but a desperate attempt not to recognize the problem, and therefore not to let it be resolved. If you could recognize that your only problem is separation, no matter what form it takes, you could accept the answer because you would see its relevance. Perceiving the underlying constancy in all the problems that seem to confront you, you would understand that you have the means to solve them all. And you would use the means, because you recognize the problem. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 79, W-pI.79.1:4-2:2;6:1-4. See also ACIM Lesson 79 Insights.)

As we remember that we are safe eternally in the Mind of God, the problems of this world fade into the background. We are able to feel Love’s Presence and are drawn to extend Love to everyone in this world. We see innocence where we once saw guilt. We see past the shadows of separation to the Light of Love’s oneness. We feel calm and safe, no matter what problem appears to show up in the moment. We stick close to our connection with our inner Guide, Who helps us remember the truth of What we are and Where we are.

The problems may still appear to be there, but we see them differently. We know that the Holy Spirit will walk with us through every perceived problem. We place our trust in the Holy Spirit to be our problem solver, not the ego mind.

We are filled with a sense of gratitude, as we are willing to repeatedly let go of the only real problem, which is our belief in separation. As we increase our habit of always going to the Holy Spirit, we remember to laugh instead of taking this world of separation so seriously. We are lifted up to see the Love That is eternally true.

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Giving the World a Healing 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 [everything] in the world …must be changed as well. For [everything here] 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.)

Every day and every moment we choose the purpose we give the world. We are always free to change our purpose for the world. If we choose to align with the ego thought system of separation, the purpose we give the world is to make loss and death appear real. But if we choose to align with the Holy Spirit, the purpose we give the world is to forgive all our mistaken beliefs and false images.

Each time we let go of a false belief we open the door to the flow of Love, which has been closed by judgment and denial. The eternal, changeless Love of God is ever present. Our practice now is to use the world for the purpose of healing through forgiveness of the dream that could never be true. This is how we make way for the changeless flow eternal Love. This is how we give the world a healing purpose.

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God Sees That You Remain Perfect in Him Eternally

This is the Judgment that will set him free. This is the Judgment in which all things are freed with him. Time pauses as eternity comes near, and silence lies across the world that everyone may hear this Judgment of the Son of God:

Holy are you, eternal, free and whole, at peace forever in the Heart of God. Where is the world, and where is sorrow now? (A Course in Miracles, M-15.1:8-12)

Today let us celebrate the fact that we cannot change our true Identity as God created us. Today we open our minds to accept the truth about ourselves, along with every brother. Accepting this truth sets us free to be the Love we were created to be.

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Letting Go of Grievances and Accepting God’s Love

The ego’s fundamental wish is to replace God. In fact, the ego is the physical embodiment of that wish. For it is [the wish to replace God] 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.

…it is perhaps not so apparent why holding grievances is an attack on God’s plan for salvation.

[When you hold a grievance] you are not dealing here with what the person is. On the contrary, you are exclusively concerned with what he does in a body. You are doing more than failing to help in freeing him from the body’s limitations. You are actively trying to hold him to it by confusing [the body] with him, and judging them as one.

And every grievance that you hold insists that the body is real. It overlooks entirely what your brother is. It reinforces your belief that he is a body, and condemns him for it.

…while the body stands at the center of your concept of yourself, you are attacking God’s plan for salvation, and holding your grievances against Him and His creation, that you may not hear the Voice of truth and welcome It as Friend.

The light of truth is in us, where it was placed by God. It is the body that is outside us, and is not our concern. 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. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 72, W-pI.72.2:1-3;3:1;4:1-4;5:6-8;7:4;9:1-5. See also ACIM Lesson 72 Insights.)

This lesson explains why the affirmation, “I am not a body. I am free. I am still as God created me,” is the most frequently repeated affirmation in the Course. Insisting that we are a body is a defense against accepting our Self as God created us. When we see a brother as a body, and judge what the body does, we are turning our back on God. We are choosing separation over the joyous oneness of God’s Love.

But we have the means in our mind to choose once again. With the Holy Spirit’s help, we can learn to let go of the belief in separation and in bodies which symbolize separation. As we let ourselves be taught by the Holy Spirit in our minds, we learn to let go of our identification with the body and accept the Self that God created as Love, at one with Him.

Our practice today is to hold our minds open to the Holy Spirit’s interpretation of all that we perceive.

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Choosing the Forgiving Dream

You are the dreamer of the world of dreams. No other cause it has, nor ever will. Nothing more fearful than an idle dream has terrified God’s Son, and made him think that he has lost his innocence, denied his Father, and made war upon himself. …God willed he waken gently and with joy, and gave him means to waken without fear.

Accept the dream He gave instead of yours. It is not difficult to change a dream when once the dreamer has been recognized. Rest in the Holy Spirit, and allow His gentle dreams to take the place of those you dreamed in terror and in fear of death. He brings forgiving dreams… (A Course in Miracles, T-27.VII.13:1-3,5;14:1-4. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Love is kind, gentle and makes no demands. Love/God has given us a gentle means to lead us out of the guilt and fear we experience in the world of separation. It is the forgiving dream the Holy Spirit brings us.

We are free to choose this forgiving dream in any moment. As we choose the forgiving dream, guilt diminishes and fear fades away. With each choice for the forgiving dream, we experience increased happiness and the blessing of letting Love into our awareness. The shadows that seem to darken our perception of our brothers fade as the Light of Love shines through, revealing the loving truth that is the Self in our brother and our selves. Our days become more peaceful, our relationships more loving.

Today we choose the forgiving dream by bringing all our less than peaceful thoughts to the Holy Spirit for His kind and gentle correction.

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Opening Our Hearts to Happiness

My grievances show me what is not there, and hide from me what I would see. …To see, I must lay grievances aside.

…everything I see will but reflect the light that shines in me and in itself. (W-pI.85.1:2,6;3:7)

By holding grievances, I am therefore excluding my only hope of salvation from my awareness. I would no longer defeat my own best interests in this insane way. I would accept God’s plan for salvation, and be happy. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 86, W-pI.86:3:4-6. See also ACIM Lesson 86 Insights.)

Love does not condemn and therefore holds no grievances. Thus grievances hide the Light of Love from our awareness. Grievances are the glue or cement that holds together the barriers that keep the Light of Love out of our awareness. Love and grievances cannot coexist.

Because we were created by Love as Love, our happiness comes with being Love, which includes extending Love. If we want to experience the joy of being Love, we must lay down all grievances, all judgments about the world we perceive.

The Light of Love is already in us. The Holy Spirit is the bridge in our minds Which will lead us back to the awareness of the Light within. The Holy Spirit does this for us when we are willing to take every grievance to Him to be undone. We cannot undo it alone, for the belief we are alone is a grievance against the oneness of Love.

As we are willing to let the Holy Spirit show us our beliefs in being separate are just a mistake and not real, we open our minds and hearts to welcome the oneness of Love and be happy. This is what every day is for.

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