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Finding Sanctuary in God’s Love

I love You, Father, and I love Your Son.

My gratitude permits my love to be accepted without fear. ²And thus am I restored to my reality at last. ³All that intruded on my holy sight forgiveness takes away. ⁴And I draw near the end of senseless journeys, mad careers and artificial values. ⁵I accept instead what God establishes as mine, sure that in that alone I will be saved; sure that I go through fear to meet my Love.

Father, I come to You today, because I would not follow any way but Yours. ²You are beside me. ³Certain is Your way. ⁴And I am grateful for Your holy gifts of certain sanctuary, and escape from everything that would obscure my love for God my Father and His holy Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-298. See also ACIM Lesson 298 Insights.)

Fear is a sure sign that we have judged against our Identity as Love. We have accepted differences and conflict as our reality in place of Love’s oneness in which there can be no differences. In Love peace is a steady state because conflict does not exist.

We are grateful that our Father has kept a safe place for us, and He has given us a Guide to lead us out of fear to His Sanctuary of peace. With our judgments forgiven, we remember our Love for our Father and His holy Son, leaving no one out. We rest in gratitude for God’s Gifts.

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Remembering the Love We Are

⁵Listen, and see if you remember an ancient song you knew so long ago and held more dear than any melody you taught yourself to cherish since.

Beyond the body, beyond the sun and stars, past everything you see and yet somehow familiar, is an arc of golden light that stretches as you look into a great and shining circle. …⁵Within it everything is joined in perfect continuity. ⁶Nor is it possible to imagine that anything could be outside, for there is nowhere that this light is not.

This is the vision of the Son of God, whom you know well. ²Here is the sight of him who knows his Father. ³Here is the memory of what you are; a part of this, with all of it within, and joined to all as surely as all is joined in you. ⁴Accept the vision that can show you this, and not the body. ⁵You know the ancient song, and know it well. ⁶Nothing will ever be as dear to you as is this ancient hymn of love the Son of God sings to his Father still. (A Course in Miracles, T-21.I.7:5–8:1,5-6;9. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

There is a vision within us all that shows us the Light of Love which unites us with each other and our Creator. It shows us all that is real. This cannot be seen with the body’s eyes, for the body is not real.

We need to forgive our mistaken identification with the ego, embodied in an image of a body. As we set judgment aside, our mind returns to peace. From this peaceful state of mind, the vision of our true Self sees the Love that unites us all with our Father, leaving no one outside of His Love. In oneness we sing a song of Love that embraces All That is.

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Remembering Our Present Home in Love

All fear is past and only love is here.

All fear is past, because its source is gone, and all its thoughts gone with it. ²Love remains the only present state, whose Source is here forever and forever. ³Can the world seem bright and clear and safe and welcoming, with all my past mistakes oppressing it, and showing me distorted forms of fear? ⁴Yet in the present love is obvious, and its effects apparent. ⁵All the world shines in reflection of its holy light, and I perceive a world forgiven at last.

Father, let not Your holy world escape my sight today. ²Nor let my ears be deaf to all the hymns of gratitude the world is singing underneath the sounds of fear. ³There is a real world which the present holds safe from all past mistakes. ⁴And I would see only this world before my eyes today. (A Course in Miracles,& W-293. See also ACIM Lesson 293 Insights.)

The idea of time is the ego’s ultimate defense against the healing that would free God’s Son from the wish for specialness. Only differences can seem to compete for special status. Belief in differences blocks awareness of our eternal oneness in the Love of our Father. By holding past conflicts in memory to be overlaid upon the present, we cannot know the holiness we share with all Creation.

As we forgive these ‘memories of the past,’ we release the barriers that hide the Light of present Love from our awareness. The glory of our Father’s Love enlightens our mind as we see a forgiven world. In gratitude, we accept the Holy Spirit’s help to dismiss illusions of a past and remember we are in Heaven now.

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Forgiving Our Perception of Differences

The glory of my Father is my own.

Let not the truth about ourselves today be hidden by a false humility. ²Let us instead be thankful for the gifts our Father gave us. ³Can we see in those with whom He shares His glory any trace of sin and guilt? ⁴And can it be that we are not among them, when He loves His Son forever and with perfect constancy, knowing he is as He created him?

We thank You, Father, for the light that shines forever in us. ²And we honor it, because You share it with us. ³We are one, united in this light and one with You, at peace with all creation and ourselves.” (A Course in Miracles, W-239. See also ACIM Lesson 239 Insights.)

The ego demands that we perceive ourselves as less than God. This is part of its demand that we believe differences and separation are real. To the ego, it is blasphemy to claim God’s glory is our own.

But to our Creator, this is a simple statement of the truth that keeps us forever united in His Love. No one is left out of His Love. Today we accept our birthright as God’s Son by forgiving our mistaken perception of difference and joining with our brothers in the Light of Love.

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Rejoicing in Our Father’s Love

I am the holy Son of God Himself.

Here is your declaration of release from bondage of the world. ²And here as well is all the world released. ³You do not see what you have done by giving to the world the role of jailer to the Son of God.

Yet what is it except a game you play in which Identity can be denied? ²You are as God created you. ³All else but this one thing is folly to believe. ⁴In this one thought is everyone set free. ⁵In this one truth are all illusions gone. ⁶In this one fact is sinlessness proclaimed to be forever part of everything, the central core of its existence and its guarantee of immortality.

But let today’s idea find a place among your thoughts and you have risen far above the world, and all the worldly thoughts that hold it prisoner. ²And from this place of safety and escape you will return and set it free. ³For he who can accept his true Identity is truly saved. ⁴And his salvation is the gift he gives to everyone, in gratitude to Him Who pointed out the way to happiness that changed his whole perspective of the world. (A Course in Miracles, W-191.1:1-3;4-5. See also ACIM Lesson 191 Insights.)

There is a place in our mind where we know we are perfectly safe and free to extend Love without limit. It is the part of our mind that accepts our Identity as God’s Son. This part sees everyone as part of Itself. No adversary exists.

We are unaware of this part of our mind because we have accepted a false identity that sets us apart from all of God’s Creation. The antidote to this mistaken belief is to remind ourselves that we remain as God created us. We are His Son. We forgive our mistaken wish for specialness and rejoice in our oneness in the Love of our Father.

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Forgiveness Brings Unity

…be you rather grateful that you can be the means to serve His end. ³This is the only service that leads to freedom. ⁴To serve this end the body must be perceived as sinless, because the goal is sinlessness.

This holy relationship, lovely in its innocence, mighty in strength, and blazing with a light far brighter than the sun that lights the sky you see, is chosen of your Father as a means for His Own plan.

Child of peace, the light has come to you. ²The light you bring you do not recognize, and yet you will remember. ³Who can deny himself the vision that he brings to others? ⁴And who would fail to recognize a gift he let be laid in Heaven through himself? ⁵The gentle service that you give the Holy Spirit is service to yourself. ⁶You who are now His means must love all that He loves. ⁷And what you bring is your remembrance of everything that is eternal. ⁸No trace of anything in time can long remain in a mind that serves the timeless. ⁹And no illusion can disturb the peace of a relationship that has become the means of peace. (A Course in Miracles, T-22.VI.3:2-4;4:1;6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

When we forgive, we open our mind to receive Love’s innocence. The appearance of harm has been recognized as a misperception, and let go. Relationships are holy when judgment has been laid aside.

Where there was disunity, we join with our brothers because we accept our oneness in Love. The gift our forgiveness gives to a brother is returned, magnified many times over. Today is an opportunity to give and receive Love’s blessing through forgiveness.

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Receiving Holy Spirit’s Vision

³Spirit is the Thought of God which He created like Himself. ⁴The unified spirit is God’s one Son, or Christ.

In this world, because the mind is split, the Sons of God appear to be separate. ²Nor do their minds seem to be joined. ³In this illusory state, the concept of an “individual mind” seems to be meaningful. ⁴It is therefore described in the course as if it has two parts; spirit and ego.

Spirit is the part that is still in contact with God through the Holy Spirit, Who abides in this part but sees the other part [ego] as well.

The mind can be right or wrong, depending on the voice to which it listens. ²Right-mindedness listens to the Holy Spirit, forgives the world, and through Christ’s vision sees the real world in its place. ³This is the final vision, the last perception, the condition in which God takes the final step Himself. ⁴Here time and illusions end together. (A Course in Miracles, C-1.1:3–3:1;5)

The truth in all of us unites us in spirit as God’s one Son. Under the Holy Spirit’s direction, our right mind sees past appearances in the world to the unity of Love. Differences are dismissed as meaningless illusions which cannot divide God’s Son into separate parts.

Let us commit this day to the practice of letting our mind be quiet and receptive to the Holy Spirit’s vision. As we choose to see as He sees, the world is lit by the Light of Love. Peace is restored to our mind.

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How to Read References for
Quotes from A Course in Miracles

Below are example references to specific sentences using the notation of the Second & Third Editions of A Course in Miracles published by the Foundation for Inner Peace:

T-26.IV.4:7 = Text, Chapt. 26, Section IV, paragraph 4, sentence 7.

W-169.5:2 = Workbook, Lesson 169, paragraph 5, sentence 2.

W-pII.1.1:1 = Workbook, Part II, Question 1, paragraph 1, sentence 1.

M-13.3:2 = Manual for Teachers, Question 13, paragraph 3, sentence 2.

C-6.4:6 = Clarification of Terms, Term 6, paragraph 4, sentence 6
The above numbering system of the Second & Third Editions published by The Foundation for A Course in Miracles

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