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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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Walking Past Our Barriers to Peace

There is no obstacle that you can place before our union, for in your holy relationship I am there already. We will surmount all obstacles together, for we stand within the gates and not outside. How easily the gates are opened from within, to let peace through to bless the tired world! Can it be difficult for us to walk past barriers together, when you have joined the limitless? The end of guilt is in your hands to give. Would you stop now to look for guilt in your brother? (A Course in Miracles, T-19.IV.B.5:3-8. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Let us remember today to join with our mighty Companion, the Holy Spirit… As we step back and join with the Light within, we let ourselves be led past old patterns of thought that were blocks to awareness of our inner peace…

Joined with Holy Spirit, we see past ego thought patterns to the Light and Love within every brother… We see them as there truly are, instead of how the ego mind would see them… We feel the peace that comes with this holy vision…

We feel lifted up and fully immersed in Holy Spirit’s way of seeing… Together with Holy Spirit, we walk past our barriers to peace with ease, gentleness and Love… We easily extend the peace we feel to every brother as we see them in the Light of truth…

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Accepting a New Perception of the World

Peace is the bridge that everyone will cross, to leave this world behind. But peace begins within the world perceived as different, and leading from this fresh perception to the gate of Heaven and the way beyond. Peace is the answer to conflicting goals, to senseless journeys, frantic, vain pursuits, and meaningless endeavors. Now the way is easy, sloping gently toward the bridge where freedom lies within the peace of God. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 200, W-pI.200.8. See also ACIM Lesson 200 Insights.)

The only way to release ourselves from the hell of this world is through changing our perception of the world. We cannot escape the dream of fear and guilt by doing anything with or to the body. A dream image (the body) can only seem to function within the dream. Thus doing anything with the body is just a continuation of the dream, sometimes seeming to be in a different form.

Everything we perceive in the world is a projection of what we believe. We change our perception of the world by changing our belief. Beliefs are how we bring the past to the present. Forgiveness is the means by which we change our beliefs. Through forgiveness, we let go of the past. Our beliefs change and we perceive the world differently.

To forgive the past we believe in, we need help from One Who does not believe in the dream — the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the bridge between the oneness of our Creator and our mistaken beliefs in separation. He can see what we believe, but does not believe in them. Thus the Holy Spirit can guide us to recognize the dream as unreal — just a projection that is coming from our own mind.

When we are willing to open our minds and hearts to the Holy Spirit’s vision, we perceive the world differently. We see that what is not an extension of Love is just a call for Love, nothing more. A call for Love is harmless and offers us an opportunity to bless by answering the call with Love. When we answer with Love, we bless and experience Love’s blessing. As we learn to recognize every call for Love and answer with Love, we receive the peace of God and we cross the bridge to Heaven.

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Forgiveness Offers You Freedom

Who can be born again in Christ but him who has forgiven everyone he sees or thinks of or imagines?

Therefore, hold no one prisoner. Release instead of bind, for thus are you made free. The way is simple. Every time you feel a stab of anger, realize you hold a sword above your head. And it will fall or be averted as you choose to be condemned or free. Thus does each one who seems to tempt you to be angry represent your savior from the prison house of death. And so you owe him thanks instead of pain.

Forgive him now his sins, and you will see that you are one with him. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 192, W-pI.192.8:1;9:1-7;10:9). See also ACIM Lesson 192 Insights.

Today we practice offering forgiveness to everyone we meet or even think of. Today we watch our judgments and hand them over to the Holy Spirit for our thoughts to be transformed. Today we let the Holy Spirit free us from the bondage of our belief in separation from God and our brother.

Forgiveness returns us to the awareness of God’s oneness. And for this we give thanks.

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