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Listening to Our Father’s Voice

Be not afraid today to circumvent the voices of the world. ²Walk lightly past their meaningless persuasion. ³Hear them not. ⁴Be still today and listen to the truth. ⁵Go past all things which do not speak of Him Who holds your happiness within His Hand, held out to you in welcome and in love. ⁶Hear only Him today, and do not wait to reach Him longer. ⁷Hear one Voice today.

Today the promise of God’s Word is kept. ²Hear and be silent. ³He would speak to you. ⁴He comes with miracles a thousand times as happy and as wonderful as those you ever dreamed or wished for in your dreams. ⁵His miracles are true. ⁶They will not fade when dreaming ends. ⁷They end the dream instead; and last forever, for they come from God to His dear Son, whose other name is you. (A Course in Miracles, W-106.3:1–4:7. See also ACIM Lesson 106 Insights.)

Peace cannot be found by listening to the voices of the world, which speak for the denial of the Source of peace. But there is a Voice in everyone that speaks the Word of God. It speaks of peace and happiness beyond compare in this world.

This Voice can be heard by pausing to be still and listen to the truth. It speaks of God’s promise that we are held forever safe in His Love. As we accept Its message, we become God’s messengers by offering peace and Love to the world.

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Remembering Our Unity in Christ

The Christ in you inhabits not a body. ²Yet He is in you. ³And thus it must be that you are not within a body. ⁴What is within you cannot be outside. ⁵And it is certain that you cannot be apart from what is at the very center of your life. ⁶What gives you life cannot be housed in death. ⁷No more can you. ⁸Christ is within a frame of Holiness whose only purpose is that He may be made manifest to those who know Him not, that He may call to them to come to Him and see Him where they thought their bodies were. ⁹Then will their bodies melt away, that they may frame His Holiness in them.

No one who carries Christ in him can fail to recognize Him everywhere. ²Except in bodies. ³And as long as he believes he is in a body, where he thinks he is [Christ] cannot be. ⁴And so he carries Him unknowingly, and does not make Him manifest.”

“The body needs no healing. ²But the mind that thinks it is a body is sick indeed! ³And it is here [in the mind] that Christ sets forth the remedy. ⁴His purpose folds the body in His light, and fills it with the Holiness that shines from Him. ⁵And nothing that the body says or does but makes [Christ] manifest. ⁶To those who know Him not it carries [Christ] in gentleness and love, to heal their minds. ⁷Such is the mission that your brother has for you. ⁸And such it must be that your mission is for him. (T-25.in.1:1–2:4;3)

Christ is our true Self which remains eternally one with our Creator. He is What gives us life. Bodies are the ego’s protective shield that hides Christ’s presence from our awareness. While we believe we are a body, we are identifying with the ego as our identity. The Christ within is unknown.

Our only meaningful purpose in the world of bodies is to let go of our misidentification with the body. Our mission is to let the Light of Christ show us the Christ beyond the body of everyone. The Christ within will embrace each one with gentleness and love. And we will remember our unity in the one Self that is God’s Son.

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Accepting God’s Gift of Love

What do you want? ²Light or darkness, knowledge or ignorance are yours, but not both. ³Opposites must be brought together, not kept apart. ⁴For their separation is only in your mind, and they are reconciled by union, as you are. ⁵In union, everything that is not real must disappear, for truth is union. ⁶As darkness disappears in light, so ignorance fades away when knowledge dawns.

The Holy Spirit asks of you but this; bring to Him every secret you have locked away from Him. ²Open every door to Him, and bid Him enter the darkness and lighten it away. ³At your request He enters gladly. ⁴He brings the light to darkness if you make the darkness open to Him.

⁷The single vision which the Holy Spirit offers you will bring this oneness to your mind with clarity and brightness so intense you could not wish, for all the world, not to accept what God would have you have. (A Course in Miracles, T-14.VII.1:1-6;6:1-4;7:7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

A child is afraid of the dark because of what he imagines is hiding there that he cannot see. The images in the dream of separation are hidden in the dark where the Light of Love is denied. We cannot see what we believe is not there.

The Holy Spirit is in our mind offering us the Light that will dispel the imagined images that make us fearful and defensive. We do not need to defend against the darkness. He needs only our willingness to open the door to welcome the Love that reveals the real world, where there is nothing but the peace and joy of Love. Today we bring our dark perceptions of differences to Him with willingness to accept His Gift of Love.

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Accepting Love’s Eternal Flow

²God does not forgive because He has never condemned. ³The blameless cannot blame, and those who have accepted their innocence see nothing to forgive. ⁴Yet forgiveness is the means by which I will recognize my innocence. ⁵It is the reflection of God’s Love on earth. ⁶It will bring me near enough to Heaven that the Love of God can reach down to me and raise me up to Him.

²It is not my own strength through which I forgive. ³It is through the strength of God in me, which I am remembering as I forgive. ⁴As I begin to see, I recognize His reflection on earth. ⁵I forgive all things because I feel the stirring of His strength in me. ⁶And I begin to remember the Love I chose to forget, but which has not forgotten me.

²How safe the world will look to me when I can see it! ³It will not look anything like what I imagine I see now. ⁴Everyone and everything I see will lean toward me to bless me. ⁵I will recognize in everyone my dearest Friend. ⁶What could there be to fear in a world that I have forgiven, and that has forgiven me? (A Course in Miracles, W-60.1:2-6;2:2-6;3:2-6. See also ACIM Lesson 60 Insights.)

Forgiveness expresses the willingness to accept God’s Love while in the dream of separation. It opens the door to let the Light of Love stream into our consciousness. In its Light we recognize our brothers as part of our one Self, united in the strength of our Creator.

In this Light we are certain of our safety. We are grateful for Love’s unlimited blessing. No longer do we judge. Instead we embrace our brothers in recognition of the love we give and receive in Love’s eternal flow.

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Accepting the One Identity We Share with All

God’s Name can not be heard without response, nor said without an echo in the mind that calls you to remember. ²Say His Name, and you invite the angels to surround the ground on which you stand, and sing to you as they spread out their wings to keep you safe, and shelter you from every worldly thought that would intrude upon your holiness.

Repeat God’s Name, and all the world responds by laying down illusions. ²Every dream the world holds dear has suddenly gone by, and where it seemed to stand you find a star; a miracle of grace.

Repeat God’s Name, and you acknowledge Him as sole Creator of reality. ²And you acknowledge also that His Son is part of Him, creating in His Name. ³Sit silently, and let His Name become the all-encompassing idea that holds your mind completely. ⁴Let all thoughts be still except this one. ⁵And to all other thoughts respond with this, and see God’s Name replace the thousand little names you gave your thoughts, not realizing that there is one Name for all there is, and all that there will be. (A Course in Miracles, W-183.2:1–3:2;8. See also ACIM Lesson 183 Insights.)

In the dream of separation, we use names to identify the myriad images of differences the ego contrives. By naming them, we assign them meaning. Yet differences are illusions, which have no real meaning of their own.

By repeating God’s Name, we are accepting the meaning of the One Identity Which has reality — the oneness of Love. It is the only Identity we share with our Father and all of His one Son. This is the true Self we share with every brother. As we repeat God’s Name, all the names that seemed to make separation real fade away. And we acknowledge the one Identity we share with all.

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Letting Love’s Light Transform Our Mind

⁴Let us raise our hearts from dust to life, as we remember this is promised us, and that this course was sent to open up the path of light to us, and teach us, step by step, how to return to the eternal Self we thought we lost.

I take the journey with you. ²For I share your doubts and fears a little while, that you may come to me who recognize the road by which all fears and doubts are overcome. ³We walk together. ⁴I must understand uncertainty and pain, although I know they have no meaning. ⁵Yet a savior must remain with those he teaches, seeing what they see, but still retaining in his mind the way that led him out, and now will lead you out with him. ⁶God’s Son is crucified until you walk along the road with me.

My resurrection comes again each time I lead a brother safely to the place at which the journey ends and is forgot. ²I am renewed each time a brother learns there is a way from misery and pain. ³I am reborn each time a brother’s mind turns to the light in him and looks for me. ⁴I have forgotten no one. ⁵Help me now to lead you back to where the journey was begun, to make another choice with me. (A Course in Miracles,W-rV.in.5:4–7:5)

We have a mighty Companion who walks with as we make our way along the path of Light that leads to the full remembrance of our true Identity as Love. He is our elder Brother who understands our confusion caused by choosing specialness over the oneness of Love. He is a Teacher in our minds, helping us to recognize illusions and let them go.

Today we express our gratitude for His help. We share the blessings we experience as we open to the Light in our mind. The Light transforms our mind as we embrace our brothers who we recognize as our one Self, united with our Creator.

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The Gift We Give Ourselves and the World

⁶You 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. (A Course in Miracles, W-170.2:6-7;11:1-2,6–12:3. See also ACIM Lesson 170 Insights.)

The body is an illusion, and its eyes can only see illusions. We are being taught to not give credence to what it is seen with the its eyes because they see nothing real. As we learn to forgive what we see in the world, we let go of our defenses against the eternal presence of our Father’s Love.

Christ sees through forgiving eyes. His vision shows us the universe of Love and that Love is our one Identity, shared with every brother and our Father. We rest in the certainty of Love’s changelessness. This is the gift our forgiveness gives ourselves and the world.

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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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