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Offering the Gift of Peace

To give is to receive. Today we will attempt to offer peace to everyone, and see how quickly peace returns to us. Light is tranquility, and in that peace is vision given us, and we can see.

To everyone I offer quietness.
To everyone I offer peace of mind.
To everyone I offer gentleness.

(A Course in Miracles, W-pI.108.7:3-5;8:6-8)

Do we want God’s peace? Then we need to give God’s peace. But to give peace, we need to accept His gift. The belief in the dream of being separate and alone buffeted by images of conflict and loss, fear and guilt is the denial of God’s gift of peace. He has never stopped giving us this gift, but it is unknown to us because we have turned our back on it and focused on the ego’s world of separation. Gratefully we can change our focus.

Today we take time to go within and settle in to the quiet center of peace that is always there for us… It is our true Self… Here we find the peace that cannot be found in the world outside… Here we find the Light that shines through the images of conflict to the changeless Love that is everywhere… From this quiet place we draw from the limitless well of peace and extend it to all our brothers…

We offer it to our dearest friends… and we offer it to those unknown to us… We offer it to those who have passed by this world and those yet to come… And as we offer this gift, we experience its blessing and know this peace as ours… We offer the gift of peace today in gratitude and joy.

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Finding What We Really Want

Today we will again give thanks for our Identity in God. Our home is safe, protection guaranteed in all we do, power and strength available to us in all our undertakings. We can fail in nothing. Everything we touch takes on a shining light that blesses and that heals. At one with God and with the universe we go our way rejoicing, with the thought that God Himself goes everywhere with us. (A Course in Miracles, W-pI.124.1)

What do we really want? We may believe we want a partner who loves us, the right job, more money or any number of things in the world. But we’ve all had the experience of getting things or circumstances we thought we wanted, only to find they did not satisfy. Perhaps they did briefly, but they did not last. These things in the world are just empty images which are incapable of offering what we really want.

All we really want is the Love that is already given us. We do not recognize the Love we have and are because we are looking for it in forms where it cannot be found. The Love we seek is already in us. We need only look within to find It.

To find what we really want, the only thing that can truly satisfy, we need to follow the Guide That can lead us out of the quagmire of self-deception we have made up.

Holy Spirit, I take your Hand today. Lead me to see past the false images to the eternal Presence of Love. Show me the Love in my brothers so that I may see It in myself. Help me to recognize the meaninglessness of the false images so that I can let them go. Today I would follow in gratitude.

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We Remain at Home in Love

Do we want to experience a happy world, where Love is recognized as flowing uninterrupted through all things? Or do we want to experience a world of conflict and loss, guilt and fear, sadness and death? In every moment we choose between these two options.

When we choose to believe we are a separate identity governed by the ego thought system founded on guilt, we choose the second experience. When we choose to let the Holy Spirit guide all our doing, we choose the experience of the happy dream, we choose the experience of Love flowing through us. We experience Love’s blessing and extend It to all that is.

Today we choose to see what Love sees by setting aside our judgments and letting the Holy Spirit be our Guide in all things. With this practice we will be truly helpful in all our doing. We will know that we are safe and strong in Love. We will know that our brothers are also safe and fully supported by Love’s strength, no matter what appearances may be in the dream.

With this practice today we take a giant stride to remembering we remain at Home in Heaven, at Home in Love.

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Joining with Holy Spirit’s Vision

Life becomes very simple and filled with contentment and joy as we practice joining with Holy Spirit’s vision each day. The Holy Spirit helps us see past fear thoughts of the ego to what is eternally true about us. As we continue our practice, our lives become less turbulent and we move into a very peaceful, calm state of being.

There is great contentment and joy living in this state of being… We still see the ups and downs in our life experience, but we don’t get caught up in them… We flow through our experiences in a sea of calm…

Joined with Holy Spirit, we see the world as kind… We pass by fear thoughts to the awareness of Love’s Presence… We feel so grateful and fulfilled as we are able to join with others in remembering the truth of everyone’s true Identity… Our happiness and contentment expand day by day as we continue to join with Holy Spirit’s vision.

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Recognizing Love’s Gifts Today

Today I choose to pass by the distracting thoughts and images of the world to the center of peace within. This center of peace is the Self that remains at Home in the oneness of Love. From this place of peace, true vision sees only Love everywhere. There is no conflict here; only Love’s gifts are here.

As I am willing to accept these gifts as mine, I see them in everyone and everything. Forms cannot disguise the presence of Love’s gifts. Today I choose to walk in peace, that I may recognize Love’s gifts everywhere throughout the day.

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We Are One Light. There Is No Distance Between Us

We are God’s one Son. In reality there are no differences. Differences are only in the ego’s world of separation. We are learning to see past these false ideas and let them go.

As we learn to see past the false ideas of the ego thought system, we open to the truth of everyone’s innocence. We open to the truth that nothing has happened to change God’s one Son. Only in illusions could change be possible.

As we consistently practice listening to our inner Teacher, the Holy Spirit, we learn to see the Light of Love that resides in everyone… We learn to focus on this Light and receive Its blessing. We remember that as we see each brother, we are seeing ourselves… We want to reinforce the truth, rather than illusions… As we focus on the truth, we extend and receive Love… We join in remembering God’s oneness, Love’s oneness… Here we find peace, joy and happiness…

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God’s Gift of Heaven Is Ours Now

No one remains in hell, for no one can abandon his Creator, nor affect His perfect, timeless and unchanging Love. You will find Heaven. Everything you seek but this will fall away. Yet not because it has been taken from you. It will go because you do not want it. You will reach the goal you really want as certainly as God created you in sinlessness.

Why wait for Heaven? It is here today. Time is the great illusion [that Heaven] is past or in the future. Yet this cannot be, if [Heaven] is where God wills His Son to be. How could the Will of God be in the past, or yet to happen? What He wills is now, without a past and wholly futureless. (A Course in Miracles, T-pI.131.5:1-6:6)

The ego, the thought system of separation, is a fraud. It offers us a bill of goods that claims to give us pleasure, status, more than everything. If we believe in what it offers, we are buying an empty bill of goods. The package it comes in may be beautifully wrapped in enticing images, but when we open the package, we find there is nothing there. Having believed in it, we feel empty. This emptiness leads us on a search to find that which will bring us the Love we seem to be missing, the peace that is nowhere to be found in the world and lasting happiness that the ego’s bill of goods cannot offer.

Gratefully we are not the ego. And though we have bought the ego’s bill of goods, God’s eternal gift to us remains ours. We are only unaware of God’s gifts because the glittering images of the ego have distracted us. We have Help within our minds to shine a Light on the fraudulent ego images which shows us that in truth, there is nothing there.

When we are willing to open to that Light, we are shown the eternal, changeless gift that lies beyond the empty images and that we have never lost. We do not have to wait to receive God’s Love, peace and joy. They are already ours. We need only allow the Light within to show us the way to remembering we are in Heaven now.

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