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Today We Accept Love as Love Is

The body cannot know. And while you limit your awareness to its tiny senses, you will not see the grandeur that surrounds you. God cannot come into a body, nor can you join Him there. Limits on love will always seem to shut Him out, and keep you apart from Him. The body is a tiny fence around a little part of a glorious and complete idea.

It is only the awareness of the body that makes love seem limited. For the body is a limit on love. The belief in limited love was its origin, and it was made to limit the unlimited. Think not that this is merely allegorical, for it was made to limit you. Can you who see yourself within a body know yourself as an idea? (A Course in Miracles, T-18.VIII.2:1-5;1:1-5)

Our Self is the one Thought in the Mind of Love. This Thought is united with Love, encompassing all Love. There is nothing outside this universal Love, for there is nothing outside God. This is our reality. We are the one idea of Love in the one Mind of Love. This one idea is changeless and eternal. This one idea of Love is What we all are.

Returning to our Identity as Love is our one goal, whether we realize it or not. Today our practice is to let Love be. We hand over our belief in anything other than the oneness of Love to the Holy Spirit to be undone. We do this by frequently stepping back from our doing and going to the center of peace within, the quiet center of our being. There we are returned to the truth and accept Love as Love is.

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Joy Comes with Following Holy Spirit’s Lead

Our dedication today is to follow Holy Spirit’s lead. He will always lead us to a happy outcome because He will always lead us to Love. In Love we remember God and we remember that God created the Self we are. In the unity of that one Self, we know that we are perfectly safe and have everything we need. We welcome our brothers who are one with us in this Self. As the Holy Spirit leads us in Love to Love, we accept the blessing of being and extending Love. There is no greater joy than this.

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Seeing the Reality of Love

Let Him be Judge… of everything that seems to happen to you in this world. His lessons will enable you to bridge the gap between illusions and the truth.

He will remove all faith that you have placed in pain, disaster, suffering and loss. He gives you vision which can look beyond these grim appearances, and can behold the gentle face of Christ in all of them. You will no longer doubt that only good can come to you who are beloved of God, for He will judge all happenings, and teach the single lesson that they all contain. (A Course in Miracles, W-pI.151.9:6-7;10:1-3)

We seem to be in the world, perceiving through the body’s senses. The key to waking up is not to try to interpret what the body’s senses show us. They are false witnesses and cannot be correctly interpreted from within the thought system that made the body.

As we practice keeping our mind open to the Holy Spirit’s interpretation in all things, we will be shown the truth beyond appearances. We will see the Love and innocence in all our brothers; we will see the face of Christ. The Holy Spirit’s vision will disregard what is not true and bring our thoughts to the truth that only Love is real.

With His guidance, all our doing in the world will be inspired by Love, not fear. We will learn of our innocence and see it, too, in our brothers. With this practice, each day becomes a joyous experience of reflecting Love in the world. Each seeming obstacle or disturbance becomes another opportunity to let ourselves be taught to look past the appearance to the reality of Love.

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Seeing Our Brother’s Changeless Reality

The Christ in him is perfect.…

This will you look upon when you decide there is not one appearance you would hold in place of what your brother really is. Let no temptation to prefer a dream allow uncertainty to enter here. Be not made guilty and afraid when you are tempted by a dream of what he is. But do not give it power to replace the changeless in him in your sight of him. There is no false appearance but will fade, if you request a miracle instead. There is no pain from which he is not free, if you would have him be but what he is. Why should you fear to see the Christ in him? You but behold yourself in what you see. As he is healed are you made free of guilt, for his appearance is your own to you. (A Course in Miracles, T-30.VIII.5:5;6:1-9)

Today is dedicated to accepting Holy Spirit’s peace and quietness… As we are willing to follow Holy Spirit’s lead, we are led past images of constant change to the changeless reality that is the truth of every brother… We are led to the truth of simple, uncomplicated Love… We see our brothers as one with us in the Self that Love created… Here is where we find our true eternal happiness. And we give thanks.

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Making Way for a Happy Day

A holy relationship starts from a different premise. Each one has looked within and seen no lack. Accepting his completion, he would extend it by joining with another, whole as himself. He sees no difference between these selves, for differences are only of the body. Therefore, he looks on nothing he would take. He denies not his own reality because it is the truth. Just under Heaven does he stand, but close enough not to return to earth. For this relationship has Heaven’s Holiness. How far from home can a relationship so like to Heaven be?

Think what a holy relationship can teach! Here is belief in differences undone. Here is the faith in differences shifted to sameness. And here is sight of differences transformed to vision. (A Course in Miracles, T-22.Intro.3:1-4:4)

When we accept that we are the Self that God created, we know we are complete. God gave all of Himself to His Son, the Self we are, so we share God’s completeness. The choice to believe that we are separate individuals is the denial of our completeness. This brings an inevitable sense of lack and a need to search for completion.

Being the denial of completion, the ego will always direct us to look for completion where it cannot be found. It offers specialness as a substitute for God’s completion. Yet specialness can never bring lasting satisfaction of our need to be complete.

When we let the Holy Spirit guide our search for completion, He will help us let go of the mistaken belief in separation that hides the truth that we are eternally complete. Letting go of mistaken beliefs is forgiveness. As we practice bringing all disturbances, which stem from an underlying belief in being separate, to the Holy Spirit to receive His vision, He will help us shift from perception of differences to the vision of the sameness we share with all our brothers and with God.

Today our practice is to be mindful of any disturbance to our peace and bring it to the Holy Spirit with willingness to receive His loving correction. Thus will we make way for a happy day.

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Keeping the Door Open for the Holy Spirit

To ask the Holy Spirit to decide for you is simply to accept your true inheritance. Does this mean that you cannot say anything without consulting Him? No, indeed! That would hardly be practical, and it is the practical with which this course is most concerned. If you have made it a habit to ask for help when and where you can, you can be confident that wisdom will be given you when you need it. Prepare for this each morning, remember God when you can throughout the day, ask the Holy Spirit’s help when it is feasible to do so, and thank Him for His guidance at night. And your confidence will be well founded indeed.

Never forget that the Holy Spirit does not depend on your words. He understands the requests of your heart, and answers them. (A Course in Miracles, M-29.5:5-10;6:1-2)

Our purpose for today is to further reinforce the habit of opening our minds to receive Holy Spirit’s peace and Love. As we reinforce this habit through the day, we can be confident the Holy Spirit will be there shining a Light on all we see. We will see through the Holy Spirit’s eyes and see the reflection of God’s Love everywhere. We will remember that only Love is there and rejoice with the Holy Spirit that the time of awakening to the real world is here and now.

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Remembering We Are Eternal Spirit

Miracles are seen in light.
The body’s eyes do not perceive the light.
But I am not a body. What am I?

The question with which this statement ends is needed for our exercises today. What you think you are is a belief to be undone. But what you really are must be revealed to you. The belief you are a body calls for correction, being a mistake. The truth of what you are calls on the strength in you to bring to your awareness what the mistake conceals. (A Course in Miracles, W-pI.91.6:2-10)

Today our practice focuses on remembering that we are eternal Spirit. We are not a body. As Spirit, we remember the strength of God in us. We remember the Light of God in every brother is their true Identity. We let this strength carry us through our day. We open our minds to receiving the peace of our eternal Spirit and extend it to the world.

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