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Healing Artificial Values

You are as God created you. Today honor your Self. Let graven images you made to be the Son of God instead of what he is be worshipped not today. Deep in your mind the holy Christ in you is waiting your acknowledgment as you. And you are lost and do not know yourself while He is unacknowledged and unknown.

Seek Him today, and find Him. He will be your Savior from all idols you have made. For when you find Him, you will understand how worthless are your idols, and how false the images which you believed were you. Today we make a great advance to truth by letting idols go, and opening our hands and hearts and minds to God today. (A Course in Miracles W-pI.110.9-10)

Because only Love is real, our value lies in the Love we are. The images of the world are substitutes for Love and interfere with our awareness of our real value. To accept the thought that we are as God created us is to accept our real value. To do this we must let go of the artificial values that make us think the images of the world are real. The Holy Spirit is ever present in our minds, offering us the lessons we need to help us undo our attachment to valueless images so that we can return to the awareness of our infinite value in the Mind of God. There is no substitute.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us see the real value — the Love — beyond what we experience in the world of form. As we join with Him, all our doing is motivated by Love and the joy of joining. Our brothers are recognized as one with us in the Self that is the Son of God. Everyone is our Friend, so we are at peace — free of conflict. We walk in gratitude in the way of Love.

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Accepting the Serenity of God’s Changeless Love

As God created you, you must remain unchangeable, with transitory states by definition false. And that includes all shifts in feeling, alterations in conditions of the body and the mind; in all awareness and in all response.

The power of decision is our own. And we accept of Him that which we are, and humbly recognize the Son of God. To recognize God’s Son implies as well that all self-concepts have been laid aside, and recognized as false. Their arrogance has been perceived. And in humility the radiance of God’s Son, his gentleness, his perfect sinlessness, his Father’s Love, his right to Heaven and release from hell, are joyously accepted as our own. (A Course in Miracles W-pI.152.5:1-2;10)

Today our practice is to be willing to let the veil be lifted. The truth is we all remain as God created us. As we practice accepting every brother as he truly is, we are shown the radiant light of Love that is really there. As we practice this consistently, we feel God’s peace in the serenity of His changeless Love. We rest content in the changeless certainty of our one Self, which we share with everyone and that is ever present.

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You Are the Means for God

It cannot be that it is hard to do the task that Christ appointed you to do, since it is He Who does it. And in the doing of it will you learn the body merely seems to be the means to do it. For the Mind is His. And so it must be yours. His Holiness directs the body through the mind at one with Him.

You are the means for God; not separate, nor with a life apart from His. His life is manifest in you who are His Son. Each aspect of Himself is framed in holiness and perfect purity, in love celestial and so complete it wishes only that it may release all that it looks upon unto itself. Its radiance shines through each body that it looks upon, and brushes all its darkness into light merely by looking past it to the light. The veil is lifted through its gentleness, and nothing hides the face of Christ from its beholders. You and your brother stand before Him now, to let Him draw aside the veil that seems to keep you separate and apart. (A Course in Miracles T-25.I.1:1-5;4)

Today we will practice letting ourselves be carried by the Christ Mind. Today we will step back and follow, letting the Light in our mind lead the way. We welcome the Christ Mind, remembering that This is our true Identity. We want to see the Christ Mind in every brother and, because we are open to the truth, It is there to see. This is our true purpose. We let our true Self work through us today. Thus do we become the means for Love’s extension to our brothers and we learn that we are one.

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Letting Go of Belief in Specialness Brings Freedom

To learn this course requires willingness to question every value that you hold. Not one [value] can be kept hidden and obscure but it will jeopardize your learning. No belief is neutral. Every [belief] has the power to dictate each decision you make. For a decision is a conclusion based on everything that you believe. [A decision] is the outcome of belief, and follows it as surely as does suffering follow guilt and freedom sinlessness. There is no substitute for peace. What God creates has no alternative.” (A Course in Miracles T-24.Intro.2:1-8)

Conflict comes with belief in specialness. Differences always conflict. Valuing differences (specialness) invites conflict. There are no differences in Love, because Love is one. Love always joins with Love and sees nothing else.

The nature of Love is to give or extend Itself. To know the Love we are, we must extend It without reservation and without limit. Specialness judges who or what is more worthy of Love than another. This judgment makes Love unknown to us. This is why we must question every value because valuing one thing over another blocks our awareness of the unity of Love.

To free ourselves from this “loss” of Love, we must let Holy Spirit decide all things on our behalf. He is not deceived by illusions of form. He sees past the form to the truth of Love’s oneness. He will teach us to see as He sees and Love as He Loves as we are willing to give up the values we place on the forms of the world and let Him show us the truth that lies behind all belief in specialness. Peace returns as we let go of our belief in specialness. Letting go of this false belief is how we are we freed from the insanity of the ego thought system.

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Letting Holy Spirit Decide All Things

Decide that God is right and you are wrong about yourself. He created you out of Himself, but still within Him. He knows what you are. Remember that there is no second to Him. There cannot, therefore, be anyone without His Holiness, nor anyone unworthy of His perfect Love. Fail not in your function of loving in a loveless place made out of darkness and deceit, for thus are darkness and deceit undone.

…Your function here is only to decide against deciding what you want, in recognition that you do not know. How, then, can you decide what you should do? Leave all decisions to the One Who speaks for God, and for your function as He knows it. So will He teach you to remove the awful burden you have laid upon yourself by loving not the Son of God, and trying to teach him guilt instead of love. (A Course in Miracles T-14.IV.4:5-10;5:2-5)

Judgment is a barrier that blinds us to the Love we are. Having denied What we are, all our decisions are based on the mistaken belief that we have succeeded in separating from Love. Decisions based on error only perpetuate the error. If we want to return to the awareness of the Love we are, we must decide to let the Holy Spirit decide all things on our behalf. Relinquishment of the role of judge to the Holy Spirit relieves us of a heavy burden.

From our limited perspective we cannot know what will bring Love’s blessing to everyone, but the Holy Spirit does. The practice of letting Holy Spirit decide all things on our behalf frees us from guilt and teaches us to recognize the Love that is ever present. It frees us from the darkness of judgment and returns us to the joy of Heaven. There can be no greater practice than this, for there is nothing outside of Heaven. Today we practice welcoming the gift of Heaven by letting the Holy Spirit decide all things on our behalf.

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Forgiving Our Brothers, the Ants

Dream softly of your sinless brother, who unites with you in holy innocence. And from this dream the Lord of Heaven will Himself awaken His beloved Son. Dream of your brother’s kindnesses instead of dwelling in your dreams on his mistakes. Select his thoughtfulness to dream about instead of counting up the hurts he gave. Forgive him his illusions, and give thanks to him for all the helpfulness he gave. And do not brush aside his many gifts because he is not perfect in your dreams. He represents his Father, Whom you see as offering both life and death to you.

Brother, He gives but life. Yet what you see as gifts your brother offers represent the gifts you dream your Father gives to you. Let all your brother’s gifts be seen in light of charity and kindness offered you. And let no pain disturb your dream of deep appreciation for his gifts to you. (A Course in Miracles T-27.VII.15-16)

There are ants in the house we just moved into. Little, tiny ants, smaller than gnats, called ghost ants. Holy Spirit, what is the message for us here?

Ghosts are symbols of the past, not yet forgotten. Held in our memory, they scurry around, disturbing our peace because they represent holding onto unforgiven thoughts. They seem so little and insignificant, yet they disturb our peace. The message here is that no judgment, no unforgiven thought, is so insignificant that it does not need release. There is no order of magnitude of thoughts of separation. Either we identify with the unity of Love or we believe that separation is real. These two states are mutually exclusive.

Today our practice is to be mindful of all thoughts that disturb our peace, even the slightest and bring them to the Holy Spirit for help to see the real Light of Love that shines beyond the false image of separation. Every disturbance is worthy of this practice. It is the road to freedom and return to the joy of Heaven. We give thanks to our brothers, the ants, who call on us to see past the images of world to the oneness of Love.

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Accept and Extend the Blessings of Peace

The light of strength is constant, sure as love, forever glad to give itself away, because it cannot give but to itself. No one can ask in vain to share its sight, and none who enters its abode can leave without a miracle before his eyes, and strength and light abiding in his heart.

The strength in you will offer you the light, and guide your seeing so you do not dwell on idle shadows that the body’s eyes provide for self-deception. Strength and light unite in you, and where they meet, your Self stands ready to embrace you as Its Own. Such is the meeting place we try today to find and rest in, for the peace of God is where your Self, His Son, is waiting now to meet Itself again, and be as One. (A Course in Miracles W-pI.92.8-9)

Choosing to accept the peace of God provides the pathway to find the Light of strength. Opening to peace clears the way to our true Self. The strength of our true Self awakens us to remember our oneness with our Creator.

Today let us practice letting ourselves be brought to our Self and rest There a while. We are given all that is needed to find our freedom. It just takes that first step of being willing to open to God’s gift of peace. As we accept God’s peace, we naturally extend it to all. Today we accept the blessings of peace and share it will all equally.

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