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Listening to the Call to Awaken

Father, today I am Your Son again.

Today we will anticipate the time when dreams of sin and guilt are gone, and we have reached the holy peace we never left. ²Merely a tiny instant has elapsed between eternity and timelessness. ³So brief the interval there was no lapse in continuity, nor break in thoughts which are forever unified as one. ⁴Nothing has ever happened to disturb the peace of God the Father and the Son. ⁵This we accept as wholly true today.

We thank You, Father, that we cannot lose the memory of You and of Your Love. ²We recognize our safety, and give thanks for all the gifts You have bestowed on us, for all the loving help we have received, for Your eternal patience, and the Word which You have given us that we are saved. (A Course in Miracles, W-234. See also ACIM Lesson 234 Insights.)

What we experience in nighttime dreams seems very real in the midst of the dream. It helps soften our experience of this world to realize that it is no more real than our sleeping dreams. Today we are given a thought that introduces what we will experience when we awaken from this dream.

In reality we already have all of God’s peace, His joy and His Love. He has given us His Voice to call to us in our dream. It gently calls us to awaken. It assures us that as we awaken, we will find safety. Conflict will fade away. Loss will be experienced no more. Kindness and the eternal giving and receiving of Love will be ours as it always has been. We are grateful for this reminder.

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Letting Our Love Light Our Way

The world is false perception. ²It is born of error, and it has not left its source. ³It will remain no longer than the thought that gave it birth is cherished. ⁴When the thought of separation has been changed to one of true forgiveness, will the world be seen in quite another light; and one which leads to truth, where all the world must disappear and all its errors vanish. ⁵Now its source has gone, and its effects are gone as well.

The world was made as an attack on God. ²It symbolizes fear. ³And what is fear except love’s absence? ⁴Thus the world was meant to be a place where God could enter not, and where His Son could be apart from Him.

As sight was made to lead away from truth, it can be redirected. ²Sounds become the call for God, and all perception can be given a new purpose by the One Whom God appointed Savior to the world. ³Follow His light, and see the world as He beholds it. ⁴Hear His Voice alone in all that speaks to you. ⁵And let Him give you peace and certainty…. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.3.1:1–2:4;4:1-5)

There is a Light in us the world cannot extinguish. It is the Light of our true Self — the Light of Love. As we are willing to take all our perceptions to this inner Light, It will shine upon our world. It shows us the Love that surrounds us. It reflects the Light we are.

To see the world with this true perception, we must forgive our judgments that hide the Light with thoughts of separation and fear. Fear is simply the effect of denying Reality. What it sees cannot be real. As we are willing to pause and step back from our perceptions and let peace return to our mind, we make way for the Light of Love to show us our true Home in the oneness of God’s Love.

Today we practice welcoming peace and letting Love show us the way Home.

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Learning to Always Give Love

It is surely good advice to tell you not to judge what you do not understand. ²No one with a personal investment is a reliable witness, for truth to him has become what he wants it to be. ³If you are unwilling to perceive an appeal for help as what it is, it is because you are unwilling to give help and to receive it. ⁴To fail to recognize a call for help is to refuse help. ⁵Would you maintain that you do not need it? ⁶Yet this is what you are maintaining when you refuse to recognize a brother’s appeal, for only by answering his appeal can you be helped. ⁷Deny him your help and you will not recognize God’s Answer to you. ⁸The Holy Spirit does not need your help in interpreting motivation, but you do need His.

Only appreciation is an appropriate response to your brother. ²Gratitude is due him for both his loving thoughts and his appeals for help, for both are capable of bringing love into your awareness if you perceive them truly. ³And all your sense of strain comes from your attempts not to do just this. ⁴How simple, then, is God’s plan for salvation. ⁵There is but one response to reality, for reality evokes no conflict at all. ⁶There is but one Teacher of reality, Who understands what it is. ⁷He does not change His Mind about reality because reality does not change. ⁸Although your interpretations of reality are meaningless in your divided state, His remain consistently true. ⁹He gives them to you because they are for you. ¹⁰Do not attempt to “help” a brother in your way, for you cannot help yourself. ¹¹But hear his call for the Help of God, and you will recognize your own need for the Father. (A Course in Miracles, T-12.I.5:1–6:11. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Our every attempt to judge another or a situation is a call for help. Our judgment is always based on a perception of differences, which are not real. If we are mindful to recognize our judgmental thoughts, we have an opportunity to answer the call for Love. We may perceive it as someone’s else’s call for help, it is also our own. It is an opportunity to let the Holy Spirit show us the truth beyond our perception. We will learn that only Love is there, and that we are only Love as well.

We dedicate today to being mindful to answer calls for help with Love. As we accept the Holy Spirit’s help to answer truly, we learn that we are Love and nothing else. As we bless, we are blessed.

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Letting the Holy Spirit Decide Everything

⁴Peace abides in every mind that quietly accepts the plan God set for its Atonement, relinquishing its own. ⁵You know not of salvation, for you do not understand it. ⁶Make no decisions about what it is or where it lies, but ask the Holy Spirit everything, and leave all decisions to His gentle counsel.

The One Who knows the plan of God that God would have you follow can teach you what it is. ²Only His wisdom is capable of guiding you to follow it. ³Every decision you undertake alone but signifies that you would define what salvation is, and what you would be saved from. ⁴The Holy Spirit knows that all salvation is escape from guilt.

Let Him, therefore, be the only Guide that you would follow to salvation. ²He knows the way, and leads you gladly on it. …⁷Forget Him not and He will make every decision for you, for your salvation and the peace of God in you. (A Course in Miracles, T-14.III.12:4–13:4;14:1-2,7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We have a very simple task that flies in the face of everything the ego asks of us. Our simple task is to ask the Holy Spirit everything. Let Him decide everything on our behalf. He knows what will lead us to awaken from the ego’s dream of conflict and guilt to the full awareness that we are one with our Creator and the Love that unites us with every brother.

This practice will lead us to perfect peace. We will practice frequently today to ask Holy Spirit to decide for us what to say and what to do. We are grateful for His loving presence in our mind.

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Being Determined to Accept Our True Identity

³You want salvation. ⁴You want to be happy. ⁵You want peace. ⁶You do not have them now, because your mind is totally undisciplined, and you cannot distinguish between joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, love and fear. ⁷You are now learning how to tell them apart. ⁸And great indeed will be your reward.

Your decision to see is all that vision requires. ²What you want is yours. …⁶God has one Son, and he is the resurrection and the life. ⁷His will is done because all power is given him in Heaven and on earth. ⁸In your determination to see is vision given you.

…as you repeat [“I am determined to see”], you are stating that you are determined to change your present state for a better one, and one you really want.

³The extra repetitions should be applied to any situation, person or event that upsets you. ⁴You can see them differently, and you will. ⁵What you desire you will see. ⁶Such is the real law of cause and effect as it operates in the world. (A Course in Miracles, W-20.2:3-8;3:1-2,5-8;4:3;5:3-6. See also ACIM Lesson 20 Insights.)

As God’s one Son, we were created to be in perfect peace and joy eternally. We don’t experience this only because we have accepted a false identity that denies our unity with our Creator. But we can choose to let go of this false identity by forgiving the wish to have a unique, special identity. To declare our determination to see is to be willing to change our mind about what we believe is our identity. We are willing to exchange a false identity for our true Identity as God’s Son.

We are grateful that we have help, given us by our Creator, to let go of our mistaken beliefs and claim our inheritance as God’s one Son. Peace and joy our ours now. We are determined to accept our Reality.

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Accepting Our Identity as Love

²Everything you see is the result of your thoughts. ³There is no exception to this fact. ⁴Thoughts are not big or little; powerful or weak. ⁵They are merely true or false. ⁶Those that are true create their own likeness. ⁷Those that are false make theirs.

There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of “idle thoughts.” ²What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can hardly be called idle. ³Every thought you have contributes to truth or to illusion; either it extends the truth or it multiplies illusions. ⁴You can indeed multiply nothing, but you will not extend it by doing so.

Besides your recognizing that thoughts are never idle, salvation requires that you also recognize that every thought you have brings either peace or war; either love or fear. ²A neutral result is impossible because a neutral thought is impossible. ³There is such a temptation to dismiss fear thoughts as unimportant, trivial and not worth bothering about that it is essential you recognize them all as equally destructive, but equally unreal. ⁴We will practice this idea in many forms before you really understand it. (A Course in Miracles, W-16.1:2–3:4. See also ACIM Lesson 16 Insights.)

As long as we believe there is value in having something we alone can possess, we will experience a life of conflict, fear, guilt and loss. This is what we believe when we identify with the ego. We perceive a world we value, whether it is an hallucination or reality.

By definition, hallucinations are not real and have no effect on reality. Fortunately, we can change our values. If we are willing to reconsider what we value, we have a Guide in our mind who can help us recognize the value of God’s gift of all His Love, eternally. He will help us recognize the nothingness of our dream of specialness and show us the radiant light of Love that is our true Self. We will joyously accept our Identity as Love.

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The Desire to Remember Eternity

This instant is the only time there is.

“I have conceived of time in such a way that I defeat my aim. ²If I elect to reach past time to timelessness, I must change my perception of what time is for. ³Time’s purpose cannot be to keep the past and future one. ⁴The only interval in which I can be saved from time is now. ⁵For in this instant has forgiveness come to set me free. ⁶The birth of Christ is now, without a past or future. ⁷He has come to give His present blessing to the world, restoring it to timelessness and love. ⁸And love is ever-present, here and now.”

Thanks for this instant, Father. ²It is now I am redeemed. ³This instant is the time You have appointed for Your Son’s release, and for salvation of the world in him. (A Course in Miracles, W-308. See also ACIM Lesson 308 Insights.)

The ego believes that past learning is essential to its survival. This seems to be true in the ego’s dream of the world. Without “memories” of the past, the ego would seem to cease to seem to exist. When the past is forgiven and let go, only the present remains. Without the past clouding our mind, we know that we are Love, eternally united in the present with our Creator. This is why forgiveness is the key to our salvation. Forgiveness frees us from dreams of fear and anger, retribution and loss.

Today we welcome the Holy Spirit’s help to forgive the past and all its dark thoughts. We want to remember the Love we have always been and will remain through all eternity.

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