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Choosing Christ’s Vision

You make what you defend against, and by your own defense against it is it real and inescapable. ⁷Lay down your arms, and only then do you perceive it false.

The choice you make today is certain. ²For you look for the last time upon this bit of carven stone you made, and call it god no longer. …⁶And you return to a new world, unburdened by its weight; beheld not in its sightless eyes, but in the vision that your choice restored to you.

Now do your eyes belong to Christ, and He looks through them. ²Now your voice belongs to God and echoes His. ³And now your heart remains at peace forever.

Father, we are like You. ²No cruelty abides in us, for there is none in You. ³Your peace is ours. ⁴And we bless the world with what we have received from You alone. ⁵We choose again, and make our choice for all our brothers, knowing they are one with us. ⁶We bring them Your salvation as we have received it now. ⁷And we give thanks for them who render us complete. ⁸In them we see Your glory, and in them we find our peace. ⁹Holy are we because Your Holiness has set us free. ¹⁰And we give thanks. ¹¹Amen. (A Course in Miracles, W-170.2:6-7;11:1-2,6–12:3;13. See also ACIM Lesson 170 Insights.)

Our one problem, the cause of all our misery and fear, is our choice to value specialness over the oneness of our Father’s Love. In every instant we are free to make a different choice. We can lay down our mistaken values, and choose to forgive ourselves for our mistaken choice. We set ourselves free to accept the vision of Christ.

Now we clearly see the Love that unites us with all the universe. Nothing is left out of our all encompassing Love. Our mind is at peace. Joy fills our heart as we experience the blessing of freely sharing God’s Love with all.

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Welcoming God’s Gift of Love

Steady our feet, our Father. ²Let our doubts be quiet and our holy minds be still, and speak to us. ³We have no words to give to You. ⁴We would but listen to Your Word, and make it ours. ⁵Lead our practicing as does a father lead a little child along a way he does not understand. ⁶Yet does he follow, sure that he is safe because his father leads the way for him.

So do we bring our practicing to You. ²And if we stumble, You will raise us up. ³If we forget the way, we count upon Your sure remembering. ⁴We wander off, but You will not forget to call us back. ⁵Quicken our footsteps now, that we may walk more certainly and quickly unto You. (A Course in Miracles, W-rV.in.2:1–3:5)

We have a Father Whose Will is to share all His joy, peace and Love with us, His Son. But our wish for specialness has made us deaf and blind to His eternal gifts.

Today we ask our Father for His help to hear His Word and let It lead us Home to the Love where we belong. We are grateful that if we falter, He will lift us up; where we feel weak, He will offer us His Strength. We are willing to relinquish our quest for illusions that never satisfy and accept the comfort of our Father’s gift of Love without limit.

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The Natural Flow of Love

Today I learn the law of love; that what I give my brother is my gift to me.

This is Your law, my Father, not my own. ²I have not understood what giving means, and thought to save what I desired for myself alone. ³And as I looked upon the treasure that I thought I had, I found an empty place where nothing ever was or is or will be. ⁴Who can share a dream? ⁵And what can an illusion offer me? ⁶Yet he whom I forgive will give me gifts beyond the worth of anything on earth. ⁷Let my forgiven brothers fill my store with Heaven’s treasures, which alone are real. ⁸Thus is the law of love fulfilled. ⁹And thus Your Son arises and returns to You.

How near we are to one another, as we go to God. ²How near is He to us. ³How close the ending of the dream of sin, and the redemption of the Son of God. (A Course in Miracles, W-344. See also ACIM Lesson 344 Insights.)

As long as we value keeping something for ourselves alone, we cannot know the Love of God that is our true Identity. The law of Love is that Love is shared equally with all. Love knows no limit.

When we forgive a brother for the image we have made of him, our mind is opened to receive the Love that unifies us with All That is. The Love we are naturally joins with the Love we recognize in our brother. We experience Love’s blessings in return.

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We Are at Home in God’s Love

I am sustained by the Love of God.

Here is the answer to every problem that will confront you, today and tomorrow and throughout time. ²In this world, you believe you are sustained by everything but God.

Only the Love of God will protect you in all circumstances. ²It will lift you out of every trial, and raise you high above all the perceived dangers of this world into a climate of perfect peace and safety. ³It will transport you into a state of mind that nothing can threaten, nothing can disturb, and where nothing can intrude upon the eternal calm of the Son of God.

Put not your faith in illusions. ²They will fail you. ³Put all your faith in the Love of God within you; eternal, changeless and forever unfailing. ⁴This is the answer to whatever confronts you today. ⁵Through the Love of God within you, you can resolve all seeming difficulties without effort and in sure confidence. ⁶Tell yourself this often today. ⁷It is a declaration of release from the belief in idols. ⁸It is your acknowledgment of the truth about yourself. (A Course in Miracles, W-50.1:1-2;3:1–4:8. See also ACIM Lesson 50 Insights.)

The Love of God is our Identity. Love’s changelessness protects us from all perceived dangers. It keeps our true Self in perfect peace. Only our wish for specialness prevents us from experiencing this state of mind.

Today we put our faith in God’s Love to provide all that we need. His Voice will guide us recognize the truth about ourselves. It will help us rise above our disturbing dreams to remember our eternal Home is in the safety of His Love.

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Gratitude for the Gift of God’s Love

There is no world! ³This is the central thought the course attempts to teach.

…healing is the gift of those who are prepared to learn there is no world, and can accept the lesson now. ²Their readiness will bring the lesson to them in some form which they can understand and recognize.

²You are as God created you. ³There is no place where you can suffer, and no time that can bring change to your eternal state. ⁴How can a world of time and place exist, if you remain as God created you?

What is the lesson for today except another way of saying that to know your Self is the salvation of the world? ²To free the world from every kind of pain is but to change your mind about yourself. ³There is no world apart from your ideas because ideas leave not their source, and you maintain the world within your mind in thought. (A Course in Miracles, W-132.6:2-3;7:1-2;9:2–10:3. See also ACIM Lesson 132 Insights.)

We bring healing to the world each time we accept the Holy Spirit’s lesson in forgiveness. When we let go of a judgment, we open our mind to accept Love’s blessing. Because all minds are joined, this blessing is shared with the world. Fear-based thoughts are replaced by the joyous recognition of our oneness with every brother in the unifying Love of our Creator. In gratitude, we heal.

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Turning a Disturbance into an Opportunity

I am not asked to make a sacrifice to find the mercy and the peace of God.

The end of suffering can not be loss. ²The gift of everything can be but gain. ³You only give. ⁴You never take away. ⁵And You created me to be like You, so sacrifice becomes impossible for me as well as You. ⁶I, too, must give. ⁷And so all things are given unto me forever and forever. ⁸As I was created I remain. ⁹Your Son can make no sacrifice, for he must be complete, having the function of completing You. ¹⁰I am complete because I am Your Son. ¹¹I cannot lose, for I can only give, and everything is mine eternally.

The mercy and the peace of God are free. ²Salvation has no cost. ³It is a gift that must be freely given and received. ⁴And it is this that we would learn today. (A Course in Miracles, W-343. See also ACIM Lesson 343 Insights.)

God created us to be like Him. Everything we, His Son, are He is. Like Him, to fulfill our function, we must receive His gift of Love and give His Love without limit. Giving God’s Love brings us great joy.

If we are not experiencing supreme joy, we have accepted a false identity that denies our unbroken connection with our Creator. Thus, everything that disturbs our peace and joy is a signal that our mind needs healing. It is an opportunity to let the Holy Spirit help us forgive our mistaken belief. His vision will help us see past our misperceptions to the eternal Love that is our true Identity.

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Happiness Comes with Being Loving

The ego does constant battle with the Holy Spirit on the fundamental question of what your function is. ²So does it do constant battle with the Holy Spirit about what your happiness is. ³It is not a two-way battle. ⁴The ego attacks and the Holy Spirit does not respond. ⁵He knows what your function is. ⁶He knows that it is your happiness.

…God has given you your function. ²We have seen that there are only two parts of your mind. ³One is ruled by the ego, and is made up of illusions. ⁴The other is the home of the Holy Spirit, where truth abides. ⁵There are no other guides but these to choose between, and no other outcomes possible as a result of your choice but the fear that the ego always engenders, and the love that the Holy Spirit always offers to replace it.

Thus, it must be that your function is established by God through His Voice, or is made by the ego which you have made to replace Him.

⁸Yet the ego is the only alternative to the Holy Spirit’s Voice.

You will listen to madness or hear the truth.

²My happiness and function are one, because God has given me both. (W-66.2;7:1–8:1;9:8–10:1;11:2)

Forgiveness is the key to happiness. The Holy Spirit is our Guide to true forgiveness. He will show us how to see past our perceptions of pain and loss. With His help us see that our misperceptions are based on mistaken images that are not real.

Our true Identity is Love. Joy comes with giving and receiving Love, which is being true to our Self. Love sees only Itself in everyone. In gratitude we accept the Holy Spirit’s help to choose the joy of extending Love to all today.

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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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