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Would I See Separation or Oneness?

Forget not that the choice of sin [separation] or truth [oneness], helplessness or power, is the choice of whether to attack or heal. For healing comes of power, and attack [comes] of helplessness. Whom you attack [see as separate] you cannot want to heal. And whom you would have healed must be the one you chose to be protected from attack. And what is this decision but the choice whether to see him through the body’s eyes, or let him be revealed to you through [Christ’s] vision? How this decision leads to its effects is not your problem. But what you want to see must be your choice. This is a course in cause and not effect.

The power of the Son of God’s desire remains the proof that he is wrong who sees himself as helpless. Desire what you want [separation or oneness], and you will look on it and think it real. [Every thought] has the power to release or kill. And none can leave the thinker’s mind, or leave him unaffected. (A Course in Miracles, T-21.VII.7:1-8;13:5-8)

Separation requires belief in order for it to seem to be real. Fear is the inevitable effect of belief in separation. Reality is Oneness and does not require belief. But It does require acceptance for us to experience the attributes of Oneness — Love, peace and happiness. Belief in separation is the denial of Reality, of Truth.

We always experience the effects of what we want. If we want separation to be real, we experience its effects of fear, helplessness and guilt. When we choose instead to accept that we remain one with Love as Love created us, we experience Love and all Its effects. In every moment we choose between belief in error and acceptance of Truth.

Left to our unconscious habits, we automatically choose error, belief in separation. But we can kick the habit with Holy Spirit’s help. Our job is to be vigilant to bring all of our perceptions, born of belief in separation, to the Holy Spirit with willingness to let go of the meaning we have given them. Thus we open minds to accept Holy Spirit’s replacements, which will always show us the truth of Love behind the false perceptions. This is our dedication today.

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Enlightenment Comes with Choosing Peace

Why wait for Heaven? Those who seek the light are merely covering their eyes. The light is in them now. Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all. Light is not of the world, yet you who bear the light in you are alien here as well. The light came with you from your native Home, and stayed with you because it is your own. It is the only thing you bring with you from Him Who is your Source. It shines in you because it lights your home, and leads you back to where it came from and you are at home.

The peace of God is shining in you now, and from your heart extends around the world. It pauses to caress each living thing, and leaves a blessing with it that remains forever and forever. What [the peace of God] gives must be eternal. It removes all thoughts of the ephemeral and valueless. [Peace] brings renewal to all tired hearts, and lights all vision as it passes by. All of its gifts are given everyone, and everyone unites in giving thanks to you who give, and you who have received. (A Course in Miracles, W-pI.188.1,3)

Now is the time to accept the enlightenment that is waiting in our mind for our welcome. Now is the time to accept God’s peace and innate happiness. Each hour of the day we can practice accepting what is ours. Peace and enlightenment are shining in our minds right now. As truly want it, we will realize that it is there… that it is already ours… As we accept it, we feel the contentment and sense of well being and happiness that comes with it. We are filled with gratitude for the gifts from God that are inherently ours. Today our practice is to accept enlightenment by choosing peace.

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Opening Our Minds to Accept the Truth

You are one Self, united and secure in light and joy and peace. You are God’s Son, one Self, with one Creator and one goal; to bring awareness of this oneness to all minds, that true creation may extend the allness and the unity of God. You are one Self, complete and healed and whole, with power to lift the veil of darkness from the world, and let the light in you come through to teach the world the truth about yourself.

You are one Self, in perfect harmony with all there is, and all that there will be. You are one Self, the holy Son of God, united with your brothers in that Self; united with your Father in His Will. Feel this one Self in you, and let It shine away all your illusions and your doubts. This is your Self, the Son of God Himself, sinless as Its Creator, with His strength within you and His Love forever yours. You are one Self, and it is given you to feel this Self within you, and to cast all your illusions out of the one Mind that is this Self, the holy truth in you. (A Course in Miracles, W-pI.95.12-13)

We will remind ourselves frequently today that we are one Self, united with our Creator. This includes everyone we meet or think of today. It includes everyone.

As we let this thought sink into our awareness, it opens our minds to accept the truth that we are in perfect harmony with all there is. This thought leads us to peace of mind that is beyond this world. It leads us to the remembrance of the one Mind that is our Self, the holy truth we all share.

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Release from Bondage

You have been called, together with your brother, to the most holy function this world contains. It is the only one that has no limits, and reaches out to every broken fragment of the Sonship with healing and uniting comfort. This is offered you, in your holy relationship. Accept it here, and you will give as you have accepted. The peace of God is given you with the glowing purpose in which you join with your brother. The holy light that brought you and him together must extend, as you accepted it. (A Course in Miracles, T-18.I.13)

As we join with the Holy Spirit in returning to wholeness and oneness instead of reinforcing separation, we comfort and are comforted. We heal and are healed. We reinforce our holy relationship with every brother. We join with the Holy Spirit in seeing everyone as the one Spirit of Love they really are. This is our one true purpose, one that brings us God’s peace and joy.

Today we practice returning to wholeness — holiness. We are willing to accept Holy Spirit’s help to see that every brother is still as God created them. Nothing has happened to change God’s one Son. Here we are released from bondage. Here is our freedom from the ego’s belief in separation.

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We Give the World a New Purpose

Those who would see the witnesses to truth instead of to illusion merely ask that they might see a purpose in the world that gives it sense and makes it meaningful. Without your special function has this world no meaning for you. Yet it can become a treasure house as rich and limitless as Heaven itself. No instant passes here in which your brother’s holiness cannot be seen, to add a limitless supply to every meager scrap and tiny crumb of happiness that you allot yourself. (A Course in Miracles, T-26.I.5)

Our purpose today, and every day, is to see every brother as the Holy Spirit sees them. With the Holy Spirit, we are able to see past the illusion of separation to the reality of oneness with God that is the truth about every brother.

We can tell if we are seeing with Holy Spirit by the level of innocence we see. When we are seeing innocence we see the Love in our brother That is eternally present. We are filled with appreciation and gratitude. He is our dearest Friend. We feel our brother’s blessing as he reflects our own holiness back to us. All this comes when we give the world a new purpose, directed by the Holy Spirit.

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We Are One in Our Creator

Father, our Name [Identity] is Yours. In It we are united with all living things, and You Who are their one Creator. What we made and call by many different names is but a shadow we have tried to cast across Your Own reality. And we are glad and thankful we were wrong. All our mistakes we give to You, that we may be absolved from all effects our errors seemed to have. And we accept the truth You give, in place of every one of [our errors]. Your Name is our salvation and escape from what we made. Your Name unites us in the oneness which is our inheritance and peace. Amen. (A Course in Miracles, W-pI.184.15)

Today we practice remembering our oneness with our Creator… Today we practice letting our barriers to oneness be removed by our inner Teacher… We ask His help to see all things as He sees them… We accept the peace and Love and joy that comes with accepting our one true Reality…

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Going Through Our Day with Ease Instead of Angst

As we go through our day many disruptions seem to pop up — little distractions, little upsets, little judgments that disturb our peace.

Today we would practice being mindful to observe these distractions and take them to our true Self to receive a better way — the way of ease, simplicity and Love. We let go of thinking we know on our own.

We open our minds to the mind healing that the Holy Spirit brings… We pause and listen… We let the way of ease flow through… We let the Light of the Holy Spirit shine through as we go through all our little projects for the day.

We are so grateful for all the help we receive as we allow in the ease and peace and Love of the Holy Spirit.

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