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Accepting Our True Identity

We have a mission here. We did not come to reinforce the madness that we once believed in. Let us not forget the goal that we accepted. It is more than just our happiness alone we came to gain. What we accept as what we are proclaims what everyone must be, along with us. Fail not your brothers, or you fail yourself. Look lovingly on them, that they may know that they are part of you, and you of them.

This does Atonement teach, and demonstrates the Oneness of God’s Son is unassailed by his belief he knows not what he is. Today accept Atonement, not to change reality, but merely to accept the truth about yourself, and go your way rejoicing in the endless Love of God. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 139, W-pI.139.9:1-10:2. See also ACIM Lesson 139 Insights.)

To look lovingly is to see truly, for only Love is real. To see our brothers truly is to see only Love. Likewise, to know ourselves truly we must accept that we are only Love. It is this we accept when we accept Atonement for ourselves.

Think about what our daily experience would be like if all we see are expressions of Love. We would be filled with joy, for we would experience the glad, eternal exchange of Love. We would be at peace, for conflict would be unknown. Guilt would be inconceivable and fear would not enter our minds. We would know no lack, for we would live in God’s limitless flow of Love. All this comes as we accept Atonement for ourselves.

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Welcoming Holy Spirit’s Peace of Mind

Peace of mind is clearly an internal matter. It must begin with your own thoughts, and then extend outward. It is from your peace of mind that a peaceful perception of the world arises.

I could see peace in this situation instead of what I now see in it.

I can replace my feelings of depression, anxiety or worry [or my thoughts about this situation, personality or event] with peace. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 34, W-pI.34.1:2-4;5:4;6:4. See also ACIM Lesson 34 Insights.)

The thought system of separation brings with it images of separation — earthquakes, wars, political turmoil, competition, guilt and fear. It is the wish for separation, the wish to have specialness, that brings these images. Though it may not seem like it, we are wholly in control of everything we experience in the world. The perception that what happens in the world is independent of our thoughts is a self-deception.

To be free of this world and experience the peace of God, we need to let go of the wish for separation. As we let go of the wish to be separate, the images of the world become less important. The practice of choosing to see peace in every situation opens the door to the awareness that the oneness of Love is our true Home. The blessings of peace begin to be recognized as more valuable than the temporary morsels specialness offers. We move from the bondage of individuality to the freedom of living in the Wholeness of Love.

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In Gratitude, We Serve Holy Spirit

…the Holy Spirit waits in gentle patience, as certain of the outcome as He is sure of His Creator’s Love. He knows this mad decision was made by one as dear to His Creator as love is to itself.

Be not disturbed at all to think how He can change the role of means and end so easily in what God loves, and would have free forever. But be you rather grateful that you can be the means to serve His end. This is the only service that leads to freedom. To serve this end the body must be perceived as sinless, because the goal is sinlessness. The lack of contradiction makes the soft transition from means to end as easy as is the shift from hate to gratitude before forgiving eyes. (A Course in Miracles, T-22.VI.2:4-3:5. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Holy Spirit, today I would be an instrument of Your peace… Today I accept Your forgiving vision to see the innocence in all my brothers… Today I would be your instrument, extending healing to the world… Today I would serve only Your Will… I would be still and listen… Today I would serve Your pathway of Light, which leads to freedom.

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Say Yes to Love

Do we want to know God? We just need to say yes to Love.

Do we want a sense of safety and certainty that all our needs are met? Just say yes to Love.

Do we want to know and experience peace that cannot be disturbed? Say yes to Love.

Do we want joy beyond words and appreciation for our brothers that overflows from our hearts? Say yes to Love.

Do we want to know our innocence and see innocence everywhere? Say yes to Love.

Do we want to be free of stress and fear? Say yes to Love.

All that we really want comes when we say yes to Love.

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You Are What Love Is

No course whose purpose is to teach you to remember what you really are could fail to emphasize that there can never be a difference in what you really are and what love is. Love’s meaning is your own, and shared by God Himself. For what you are is what He is. There is no love but His, and what He is, is everything there is. There is no limit placed upon Himself, and so are you unlimited as well. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 127, W-pI.127.4. See also ACIM Lesson 127 Insights.)

If we are not experiencing the unity and peace and joy of Love, then we are quite literally “beside” our Self. We are believing we are a substitute identity that is excluded from Love. To return to awareness of What we are, we must let go of identifying with a false substitute.

Our safety, our joy and our only true fulfillment comes with accepting and extending only Love. There is nothing else. When we let Love motivate all our doing, we serve as Love’s extension. We bless in each moment and experience Love’s blessing.

Today we open to experiencing the Love we are by letting Love inspire our thoughts and actions.

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I Would Guide Myself No More

I did not understand what made me free, nor what my freedom is, nor where to look to find it. Father, I have searched in vain until I heard Your Voice directing me. Now I would guide myself no more. For I have neither made nor understood the way to find my freedom. But I trust in You. You Who endowed me with my freedom as Your holy Son will not be lost to me. Your Voice directs me, and the way to You is opening and clear to me at last. Father, my freedom is in You alone. Father, it is my will that I return. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 321, W-pII.321.1. See also ACIM Lesson 321 Insights.)

The ego is the guide to limitation. It is the choice to be limited and separate and attempt to claim a portion of Love to call its own. Yet Love is one and cannot be limited. Limitation is the opposite of freedom. If we ask the ego to guide us to freedom, we will never find it. When we think we are a separate identity and try to find our way out of a world of separation, we will only spin our wheels, going nowhere. The ego is trying to be nowhere instead of everywhere.

By the grace of God, we have a Guide Who knows no limitation, only the oneness of Love. We are free to be this limitless Love in every instant, but we must accept the Guidance of the Voice that knows the truth of What we are. It is not deceived by false images. Its sole purpose is to guide us to the freedom that is eternally ours, now and forever. By making the decision to accept the guidance of God’s Voice and guide ourselves no more, we make the decision for freedom. We accept Heaven as our Home.

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Allow His Voice to Teach Love’s Meaning

…be glad to give some time to God today, and understand there is no better use for time than this.

…Open your mind and rest. The world that seems to hold you prisoner can be escaped by anyone who does not hold it dear. Withdraw all value you have placed upon its meager offerings and senseless gifts, and let the gift of God replace them all.

Call to your Father, certain that His Voice will answer. He Himself has promised this. And He Himself will place a spark of truth within your mind wherever you give up a false belief, a dark illusion of your own reality and what love means. He will shine through your idle thoughts today, and help you understand the truth of love. In loving gentleness He will abide with you, as you allow His Voice to teach love’s meaning to your clean and open mind. And He will bless the lesson with His Love. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 127, W-pI.127.7:2;8:2-9:6. See also ACIM Lesson 127 Insights.)

When we allow the Holy Spirit to help us forgive, we are letting Him teach us Love’s true meaning. Unforgiveness is a barrier to Love. As we learn to let go of perceptions of separation, perceptions of a gap between ourselves and our brothers, we clear away barriers to the awareness of Love’s presence.

Though Love is all around us and in us, our mistaken perceptions make us unaware of It. The practice of taking all disturbances to our peace of mind to the Holy Spirit with willingness to let Him show us the truth behind the misperceptions is how to allow His Voice to teach us Love’s meaning. This is our practice today.

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