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Remembering Love’s Gentleness

God’s memory is in our holy minds, which know their oneness and their unity with their Creator. Let our function be only to let this memory return, only to let God’s Will be done on earth, only to be restored to sanity, and to be but as God created us. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.11.4:4-5. See also ACIM Lesson Insights.)

Let us be gentle and kind to ourselves today… Let us be patient with our process of returning to the Love we are… Let us remember Love’s eternal presence… Let us step back and see through the eyes of Love today… All this comes to us as we are willing to join with Love in everything we say and do… All this comes as we remember Love’s gentleness.

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Letting Christ’s Vision Show Us Innocence

Where could your peace arise but from forgiveness? The Christ in you looks only on the truth, and sees no condemnation that could need forgiveness. He is at peace because He sees no sin. Identify with Him, and what has He that you have not? He is your eyes, your ears, your hands, your feet. How gentle are the sights He sees, the sounds He hears. How beautiful His hand that holds His brother’s, and how lovingly He walks beside him, showing him what can be seen and heard, and where he will see nothing and there is no sound to hear. (A Course in Miracles, T-24.V.3. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

If we want to be at peace, we need to see the world through our inner vision, the vision of Christ. This vision is available to us through forgiveness, because Christ, our true Self, looks only on innocence. The body and all its senses can never show us justification for forgiveness, because it can only show images of separation.

We need to redirect our attention to the inner vision that overlooks the world of separate forms. This inner vision shows the unity of Love that joins us all as one in Love. In this unity, harm is impossible. There can be no judgment, no condemnation. The unity of Love will always show us Love reflected back to us.

Today our practice is to bring our perceptions in the world to the inner vision of Christ with willingness to see the Love that is eternally present. With that vision, forgiveness is automatic, for there is no condemnation. As our willingness to accept this vision grows, we experience deepening peace. And we give thanks.

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Seeing Past Guilt to Innocence

It is as certain you will fear what you attack as it is sure that you will love what you perceive as sinless. He walks in peace who travels sinlessly along the way love shows him. For love walks with him there, protecting him from fear. And he will see only the sinless, who can not attack.

Walk you in glory, with your head held high, and fear no evil. The innocent are safe because they share their innocence. Nothing they see is harmful, for their awareness of the truth releases everything from the illusion of harmfulness. And what seemed harmful now stands shining in their innocence, released from sin and fear and happily returned to love. They share the strength of love because they looked on innocence. (A Course in Miracles, T-23.in.2:4-3:5. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Do I want to see myself as weak and vulnerable, in constant danger? Or do I want to be certain of my safety, living in peace and knowing that I am eternally loved? I say “yes” to the first question when I choose to align with the ego. I say “yes” to the second question when I choose the Holy Spirit, my true Self, as my Guide.

When I identify with a body as what I am and believe what the body’s eyes show me, I am choosing the ego. But in every moment I can change my allegiance. It seems difficult to change because of the well established habit of choosing the ego. But habits can be broken and new habits established. It only takes willingness and persistent practice.

We need to choose the Holy Spirit’s rehab program. Holy Spirit’s rehab program gives us all His strength, all His Love. We need only check ourselves in to His program with our willingness. We can’t do it alone. One day at a time, as we dedicate our willingness to stick with the Holy Spirit’s program, we get the reinforcement we need to kick the addiction to the ego’s thought system.

The Holy Spirit is always present with His strength and Love, ready to support us when we are tempted to revert to our old thinking with the ego. We just need to practice accepting His help by letting Him guide us moment by moment. This is our choice today.

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Our Freedom and Joy Are in God Alone

The ego thinks freedom is independence from God. The ego thinks it means being in control and not under the influence of anyone else’s wishes or demands. The ego thinks it means being separate and distinct. Like Garfield, the cartoon character, the ego says, “I need my space.”

The ego treasures this independence and maintains it by doing everything it can to make separation appear real. Yet to have this independence, limitation must be accepted. If we identify with the ego, we are no longer free to extend Love without limit. We are no longer free to experience the joy of unity with All That Is. We are no longer free to know the certainty of timelessness and eternal Love. Can this limitation really be freedom?

When we accept our unity with God, when we accept our Self as God created It, we are free to experience all Love everywhere, eternally. We are free of all limitation. We can only experience this freedom when we accept our total dependence on God, Who defines What we are by creating us exactly as Himself.

The recognition of our dependence on God is the acceptance of our freedom to Love without limit, to experience His limitless joy, and to know His peace without interruption. This is our freedom. All our strength comes from God’s Love. There is no other strength. To know our dependence on God and accept it is to accept all power, all Love, all joy, all peace as our own. This is freedom. I thank you Father for your gifts to me. (A Course in Miracles, Excerpt from ACIM Workbook Daily Lesson 321 Insights.)

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Receiving Holy Spirit’s Plan

A healed mind does not plan. It carries out the plans that it receives through listening to wisdom that is not its own. It waits until it has been taught what should be done, and then proceeds to do it. It does not depend upon itself for anything except its adequacy to fulfill the plans assigned to it. It is secure in certainty that obstacles can not impede its progress to accomplishment of any goal that serves the greater plan established for the good of everyone. (A Course in Miracles, W-pI.135.11. See also ACIM Lesson 135 Insights.)

A key to following Holy Spirit’s plan and not our own, is to stop… relax… and listen…

We can tell how much our defenses are up by monitoring the amount of tension we are holding in our body. Tension is a sure sign that we are holding on to the defensiveness of the ego. The Course tells us that the ego becomes strong in strife. The ego mind maintains a sense of uneasiness by bringing up a constant stream of things that we need to protect and defend against.

We can rise above these ego thoughts by consistently inviting in the Holy Spirit’s inspiration… We pause… take a deep breath… and relax… We are receptive and open to receiving Holy Spirit’s peace… We follow in the way we are guided in full trust that Holy Spirit is right there in our mind, guiding us in a way that is helpful for everyone. Our gratitude is great that we have all the Help we need, without effort. And we give thanks.

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Above All Else I Want to See Through the Eyes of Love

Above all else I want to see differently. The world I see holds my fearful self-image in place, and guarantees its continuance. While I see the world as I see it now, truth cannot enter my awareness. I would let the door behind this world be opened for me, that I may look past it to the world that reflects the Love of God. (A Course in Miracles, W-pI.56.3. See also ACIM Lesson 56 Insights.)

Today we focus on our willingness to see the real world that reflects the Love of God… We focus on opening to Love’s oneness instead of seeing through the eye’s of separation, the body’s eyes… We focus on remembering that we are the eternal Spirit of Love…

We are willing to use our inner vision to see past differences to the changeless beingness of Love that is eternally real everywhere. We are willing to remember that only Love is real. We are willing to receive the blessings of peace, joy and happiness that come with this remembering.

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Nothing Real Can Be Threatened

I thank You, Father, knowing You will come to close each little gap that lies between the broken pieces of Your holy Son. Your Holiness, complete and perfect, lies in every one of them. And they are joined because what is in one is in them all. How holy is the smallest grain of sand, when it is recognized as being part of the completed picture of God’s Son! The forms the broken pieces seem to take mean nothing. For the whole is in each one. And every aspect of the Son of God is just the same as every other part. (A Course in Miracles, T-28.IV.9. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Today we practice seeing past differences to the one Light and Love of God That is in everyone. Today we step back and let Inspired Vision show us the truth behind every illusion of separation. We open to the unity of the Christ Mind. Here we find peace and safety. Here we find the eternal truth that only Love is real. And for this remembering, we give thanks.

I thank you Father for closing the little gap in my mind that brought me illusions of separation. “Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.” (T-Int.2:2-4. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

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