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We Are Part of Heaven Now

…today we do not choose the way in which we go to [God]. ²But we do choose to let Him come. ³And with this choice we rest. ⁴And in our quiet hearts and open minds, His Love will blaze its pathway of itself. ⁵What has not been denied is surely there, if it be true and can be surely reached. ⁶God knows His Son, and knows the way to him. ⁷He does not need His Son to show Him how to find His way. ⁸Through every opened door His Love shines outward from its home within, and lightens up the world in innocence.

Father, we do not know the way to You. ²But we have called, and You have answered us. ³We will not interfere. ⁴Salvation’s ways are not our own, for they belong to You. ⁵And it is unto You we look for them. ⁶Our hands are open to receive Your gifts. ⁷We have no thoughts we think apart from You, and cherish no beliefs of what we are, or Who created us. ⁸Yours is the way that we would find and follow. ⁹And we ask but that Your Will, which is our own as well, be done in us and in the world, that it become a part of Heaven now. ¹⁰Amen. (A Course in Miracles, W-189.9–10. See also ACIM Lesson 189 Insights.)

The ego has myriad plans that it offers to bring us happiness. But they never last nor satisfy. Its plans deny the one thing that would make us whole and eternally content—our Father’s Love.

Today we open our minds and hearts to accept His gift that keeps us eternally one with Him. His Light shines in our hearts and joins with the Light that shines in every brother. In that joining, Love’s Light illuminates the world, showing us that we are part of Heaven now.

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Accepting the Light of Love in Our Mind

The past is over. It can touch me not.

Unless the past is over in my mind, the real world must escape my sight. ²For I am really looking nowhere; seeing but what is not there. ³How can I then perceive the world forgiveness offers? ⁴This the past was made to hide, for this the world that can be looked on only now. ⁵It has no past. ⁶For what can be forgiven but the past, and if it is forgiven it is gone.

Father, let me not look upon a past that is not there. ²For You have offered me Your Own replacement, in a present world the past has left untouched and free of sin. ³Here is the end of guilt. ⁴And here am I made ready for Your final step. ⁵Shall I demand that You wait longer for Your Son to find the loveliness You planned to be the end of all his dreams and all his pain? (A Course in Miracles, W-289. See also ACIM Lesson 289 Insights.)

Judgment casts a shadow of fear and guilt on the world perceived as divided and in constant conflict. It applies dreams of past hurt upon the present which hide the presence of Love in a shroud of fear and guilt.

Forgiveness offers joy beyond description, peace that cannot be disturbed and Love that unites us with every brother and our Father. Today we are determined to let the Holy Spirit correct our misperceptions to let God’s Love shine in our mind. With His help we will let the past go, confident that we are safe in our Father’s Love. We are grateful that this is so.

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Letting Love Guide Our Doing

What keeps the world in chains but your beliefs? ²And what can save the world except your Self? ³Belief is powerful indeed. ⁴The thoughts you hold are mighty, and illusions are as strong in their effects as is the truth.

Yet is salvation easily achieved, for anyone is free to change his mind, and all his thoughts change with it. ²Now the source of thought has shifted [from ego to Holy Spirit], for to change your mind means you have changed the source of all ideas you think or ever thought or yet will think. ³You free the past from what you thought before. ⁴You free the future from all ancient thoughts of seeking what you do not want to find.

The present now remains the only time. ²Here in the present is the world set free. ³For as you let the past be lifted and release the future from your ancient fears, you find escape and give it to the world.

The world is nothing in itself. ²Your mind must give it meaning. ³And what you behold upon it are your wishes, acted out so you can look on them and think them real.

There is no world apart from what you wish, and herein lies your ultimate release. ²Change but your mind on what you want to see, and all the world must change accordingly. ³Ideas leave not their source. (A Course in Miracles, W-132.1:1-4;2:1–3:3;4:1-3;5:1-3. See also ACIM Lesson 132 Insights.)

Belief can change our perception of what is real, but it cannot change what Reality is. The wish for specialness is the foundation of our belief in differences, change, gain and loss.

But only changeless, eternal Love is real. Without the possibility of change, Love is our Source of safety and peace. When we identify with our true Self, the home of the Holy Spirit, we are free to join in the joyous extension of the Love given us by our Creator. Today we choose Love to be our Guide in all our doing, and we will see Love reflected in our world.

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Receiving the Gifts We Give

³To give is to receive. ⁴Today we will attempt to offer peace to everyone, and see how quickly peace returns to us. ⁵Light is tranquility, and in that peace is vision given us, and we can see.

So we begin the practice periods with the instruction for today, and say:

²To give and to receive are one in truth.
³I will receive what I am giving now.

⁴Then close your eyes, and for five minutes think of what you would hold out to everyone, to have it yours. ⁵You might, for instance, say:

⁶To everyone I offer quietness.
⁷To everyone I offer peace of mind.
⁸To everyone I offer gentleness.

Say each one slowly and then pause a while, expecting to receive the gift you gave. ²And it will come to you in the amount in which you gave it. (A Course in Miracles, W-108.7:3–9:2. See also ACIM Lesson 108 Insights.)

The fact that giving and receiving are the same is incomprehensible to the ego. The wish for separation and differences demands that to receive is to gain and to give is to lose.

But in the oneness of our true Self, giving is joining with the Sonship and sharing the attributes of God’s Love. Offering peace of mind to a brother reinforces our awareness of peace in our mind. It is a recognition that we are one in the Mind of Love. As we embrace a brother with kindness, the Light of the Love within shines brighter.

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Finding Our Center of Peace

²Peace of mind is clearly an internal matter. ³It must begin with your own thoughts, and then extend outward. ⁴It is from your peace of mind that a peaceful perception of the world arises.

⁴It is your inner world to which the applications of today’s idea should be made.

²Search your mind for fear thoughts, anxiety-provoking situations, “offending” personalities or events, or anything else about which you are harboring unloving thoughts.

…whenever you feel your peace of mind is threatened in any way… the exercise should take this form:

⁴I could see peace in this situation instead of what I now see in it. (A Course in Miracles, W-34.1:2-4;2:4;3:2;5:1,3-4. See also ACIM Lesson 34 Insights.)

Peace of mind can seem to be an illusive state. Ego-based thoughts can clutter our minds with distracting chatter about things that are not ‘as they should be.’ The ego is on a constant quest to arrange an outside world to its liking. But it is never satisfied because it is seeking peace where it cannot be found.

We dedicate today to letting the vision of our true Self show us the peace of changeless Love that is the truth about everyone. When we recognize we are not at peace, we are learning to ask the Holy Spirit to bring us to our center of peace, where we can recognize that we are united with all of God’s Love.

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Returning to the Light of Truth

The ego’s fundamental wish is to replace God. ²In fact, the ego is the physical embodiment of that wish. ³For it is that wish that seems to surround the mind with a body, keeping it separate and alone, and unable to reach other minds except through the body that was made to imprison it.

…every grievance that you hold insists that the body is real. ⁷It overlooks entirely what your brother is. ⁸It reinforces your belief that he is a body, and condemns him for it.

…while the body stands at the center of your concept of yourself, you are attacking God’s plan for salvation, and holding your grievances against Him and His creation, that you may not hear the Voice of truth and welcome It as Friend.

The light of truth is in us, where it was placed by God. ²It is the body that is outside us, and is not our concern. ³To be without a body is to be in our natural state. ⁴To recognize the light of truth in us is to recognize ourselves as we are. ⁵To see our Self as separate from the body is to end the attack on God’s plan for salvation, and to accept it instead. (A Course in Miracles, W-72.2:1-3;5:6-8;7:4;9:1-5. See also ACIM Lesson 72 Insights.)

All our judgments are a defense against our unity with the Love of our Father. Judgment begins with the belief that bodies and what they do are real. Without the illusion that bodies are real, all that remains is God’s Love, for only His Love is real.

Our mistaken beliefs cannot change reality. We remain eternally one in His Love. Each time we recognize that we are judging something or someone, we have an opportunity to pause and ask for Truth to return to our awareness. With our open mind, the Holy Spirit will help us see the light of Truth beyond the ego’s false images. We accept the salvation God has planned for us.

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Letting Our True Self Lead

⁴It is impossible that anyone could seek [truth] truly, and would not succeed. ⁵Today belongs to truth. ⁶Give truth its due, and it will give you yours. ⁷You were not meant to suffer and to die. ⁸Your Father wills these dreams be gone. ⁹Let truth correct them all.

Begin by asking Him Who goes with you upon this undertaking that He be in your awareness as you go with Him. ²You are not made of flesh and blood and bone, but were created by the selfsame Thought which gave the gift of life to Him as well. ³He is your Brother, and so like to you your Father knows that You are both the same. ⁴It is your Self you ask to go with you, and how could He be absent where you are?

⁶Then let Him lead you gently to the truth, which will envelop you and give you peace so deep and tranquil that you will return to the familiar world reluctantly. (A Course in Miracles, W-107.6:4-9;8;9:6. See also ACIM Lesson 107 Insights.)

Our true Self is the part of us that knows Its Self as one with Its Creator, united with all in Love. It is the one Self we share with every brother. To perceive a brother as different from ourselves, is to believe illusions are real; it is a misperception caused by denial of the Love we are.

Today we ask to be aware of our true Self and let It show us the Love that our Father gave us as our true Identity. We want to see that Self as everyone’s Identity. With that recognition we will be certain of our safety. Anxiety will be replaced by peace, sadness will be replaced by joy, and fear will be replaced by Love.

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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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