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Accepting God’s Gift of His Peace

There is a peace that Christ bestows on us.

Who uses but Christ’s vision finds a peace so deep and quiet, undisturbable and wholly changeless, that the world contains no counterpart. ²Comparisons are still before this peace. ³And all the world departs in silence as this peace envelops it, and gently carries it to truth, no more to be the home of fear. ⁴For love has come, and healed the world by giving it Christ’s peace.

Father, the peace of Christ is given us, because it is Your Will that we be saved. ²Help us today but to accept Your gift, and judge it not. ³For it has come to us to save us from our judgment on ourselves. (A Course in Miracles, W-305. See also ACIM Lesson 305 Insights.)

Our judgments of our perceptions in the world are judgments of ourselves. This is because our perceptions are founded on what we believe we are. When we want specialness, we identify with a body and believe separation and differences are real.

But God’s gift to us as His Son is that we remain one with Him and all His Love. Christ’s vision shows us the deep peace that surrounds us and protects us from all illusions of harm and loss. This vision is seen through forgiving eyes. As judgment is let go, peace envelopes us in Love’s kindly Light.

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Accepting the Eternal Gift of Love

All gifts I give my brothers are my own.

As every gift my brothers give is mine, so every gift I give belongs to me. ²Each one allows a past mistake to go, and leave no shadow on the holy mind my Father loves. ³His grace is given me in every gift a brother has received throughout all time, and past all time as well. ⁴My treasure house is full, and angels watch its open doors that not one gift is lost, and only more are added. ⁵Let me come to where my treasures are, and enter in where I am truly welcome and at home, among the gifts that God has given me.

Father, I would accept Your gifts today. ²I do not recognize them. ³Yet I trust that You Who gave them will provide the means by which I can behold them, see their worth, and cherish only them as what I want. (A Course in Miracles, W-316. See also ACIM Lesson 316 Insights.)

When we forgive someone, the ego tells us we are giving them a gift. But we are actually setting ourselves free from being the prison warden to hold the person of the guilt the ego believes they deserve. The ego’s judgments are always based on illusions, which are meaningless because they are not real.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us give the gift of forgiveness to all our brothers. We want to be free of judgment so we can accept the gift of Love that has been given us for eternity.

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Pause to Listen to the Voice of Truth

The happy dreams the Holy Spirit brings are different from the dreaming of the world, where one can merely dream he is awake. ²The dreams forgiveness lets the mind perceive do not induce another form of sleep, so that the dreamer dreams another dream. ³His happy dreams are heralds of the dawn of truth upon the mind. ⁴They lead from sleep to gentle waking, so that dreams are gone. ⁵And thus they cure for all eternity.

Atonement heals with certainty, and cures all sickness. ²For the mind which understands that sickness can be nothing but a dream is not deceived by forms the dream may take. ³Sickness where guilt is absent cannot come, for it is but another form of guilt. ⁴Atonement does not heal the sick, for that is not a cure. ⁵It takes away the guilt that makes the sickness possible. ⁶And that is cure indeed. ⁷For sickness now is gone, with nothing left to which it can return.

²We will be still and listen for the Voice of healing, which will cure all ills as one, restoring saneness to the Son of God. ³No voice but this can cure. ⁴Today we hear a single Voice which speaks to us of truth, where all illusions end, and peace returns to the eternal, quiet home of God. (A Course in Miracles, W-140.3–4;10:2-4. See also ACIM Lesson 140 Insights.)

The ego is a chatterbox. It is incessantly telling us to judge, feel guilty and fearful, prepare for impending danger and ultimately death. Paying attention to this chatter keeps us locked in to the dream of specialness.

But we can choose to listen to another Voice. It is a Voice that speaks of our certain health and perfect holiness in the Love of God. We pause today to tune out the chatterbox and quiet our mind to let this Voice speak to us of truth. Gratitude will fill our hearts as we remember we at home in God.

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The Healing Gifts of Appreciation and Compassion

All gifts my brothers give belong to me.

Each day a thousand treasures come to me with every passing moment. ²I am blessed with gifts throughout the day, in value far beyond all things of which I can conceive. ³A brother smiles upon another, and my heart is gladdened. ⁴Someone speaks a word of gratitude or mercy, and my mind receives this gift and takes it as its own. ⁵And everyone who finds the way to God becomes my savior, pointing out the way to me, and giving me his certainty that what he learned is surely mine as well.

I thank You, Father, for the many gifts that come to me today and every day from every Son of God. ²My brothers are unlimited in all their gifts to me. ³Now may I offer them my thankfulness, that gratitude to them may lead me on to my Creator and His memory. (A Course in Miracles,W-315. See also ACIM Lesson 315 Insights.)

The ego is the wish to be alone, to standout as different from all the rest. It is a denial of God’s Love, which is one and all inclusive, the same everywhere and always. The ego’s wish can only seem to be fulfilled in dreams filled with illusions of differences.

But we can rise above the battleground where differences clash. When we pause to step back from the chaos of the world, we can open our mind to let Love return to our awareness. In Its Light we will see the joyous gifts of compassion, appreciation and helpfulness we share with all without limit. This is our singular purpose in the dream.

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Remembering We Live in Love

Condemn and you are made a prisoner. ²Forgive and you are freed. ³Such is the law that rules perception. ⁴It is not a law that knowledge understands, for freedom is a part of knowledge. ⁵To condemn is thus impossible in truth. ⁶What seems to be its influence and its effects have not occurred at all. ⁷Yet must we deal with them a while as if they had. ⁸Illusion makes illusion. ⁹Except one. ¹⁰Forgiveness is illusion that is answer to the rest.

Forgiveness sweeps all other dreams away, and though it is itself a dream, it breeds no others. ²All illusions save this one must multiply a thousandfold. ³But this is where illusions end. ⁴Forgiveness is the end of dreams, because it is a dream of waking. ⁵It is not itself the truth. ⁶Yet does it point to where the truth must be, and gives direction with the certainty of God Himself. ⁷It is a dream in which the Son of God awakens to his Self and to his Father, knowing They are one.

Forgiveness is the only road that leads out of disaster, past all suffering, and finally away from death. ²How could there be another way, when this one is the plan of God Himself? (A Course in Miracles, W-198.2:1–4:2. See also ACIM Lesson 198 Insights.)

Forgiveness set us free from fear and guilt, from revenge and depression. The ego resists forgiveness because judgment and condemnation are essential to maintaining its rule of our mind. Unforgiveness maintains the divisions that make separation seem real.

When judgments are forgiven, God’s Love lightens our mind. It dispels the dark thoughts that have blinded us to the eternal presence of His Love. It restores our awareness of our unity with all of God’s Creation. We remember that we have one Life which we live in the Heaven of God’s Love.

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We Can Learn to See Love’s Presence Everywhere

…He wills the happiness His Son inherited of Him be undisturbed; eternal and forever gaining scope, eternally expanding in the joy of full creation, and eternally open and wholly limitless in Him.

⁴God does not perceive at all. ⁵Yet it is He Who gives the means by which perception is made true and beautiful enough to let the light of Heaven shine upon it.

These are the lessons God would have you learn.⁵They are the same in fundamental content. ⁶It is this:

⁷Forgive, and you will see this differently.

Certain it is that all distress does not appear to be but unforgiveness. ²Yet that is the content underneath the form. (A Course in Miracles, W-193.1:2;2:4-5;3:1,5-7;4:1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 193 Insights.)

Perception is a construct of the ego. It is how differences are distinguished and judged. The ego uses perception to make the dream of separation seem real. Competition, conflict and war are all based on perceptions.

But in the oneness of God’s Love, there are no differences to perceive. Only a mind asleep can dream of a world where specialness, change and loss can seem real.

Our Father has given us the means to awaken from our frightening dreams of suffering and loss. When we forgive the perception of differences produced by the wish for specialness, we let the Light of Love shine in our world. The Light in our mind let us see the reality of God’s Love, which is our true Home.

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Accepting the Truth of Our Holiness

My holiness shines bright and clear today.

Today I wake with joy, expecting but the happy things of God to come to me. ²I ask but them to come, and realize my invitation will be answered by the thoughts to which it has been sent by me. ³And I will ask for only joyous things the instant I accept my holiness. ⁴For what would be the use of pain to me, what purpose would my suffering fulfill, and how would grief and loss avail me if insanity departs from me today, and I accept my holiness instead?

Father, my holiness is Yours. ²Let me rejoice in it, and through forgiveness be restored to sanity. ³Your Son is still as You created him. ⁴My holiness is part of me, and also part of You. ⁵And what can alter Holiness Itself? (A Course in Miracles, W-285. See also ACIM Lesson 285 Insights.)

The Source of holiness creates only holiness. The Course repeatedly tells us that, as His Creation, we are God’s Son. His holiness is ours.

The body appears to be the opposite of holy. It seems to be capable of myriad forms of unholy behavior. While we identify with the body, the claim that we are holy seems to be arrogant.

But we are not a body. It is time to forgive this mistaken identification and accept the fact we are an extension of God’s Love. As we claim our inheritance as God’s Creation, we will accept the truth of our holiness.

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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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