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Seeing the Loveliness of Love

How lovely is the world whose purpose is forgiveness of God’s Son! How free from fear, how filled with blessing and with happiness! (A Course in Miracles, T-29.VI.6:1-2. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

All our unhappiness is the effect of judgment. Judgment separates us from what we judge. But our natural state is at one with all that is real. We are all one in Love. Whenever we judge, and thus separate, we are attacking our Self. This can only be perceived as harm, so it brings guilt with it.

Guilt and happiness cannot coexist. That is why the focus on forgiveness is the antidote for guilt and fear, clearing the way to experience God’s gift of perfect happiness. When we forgive a brother, we open the door to joining with the Love he is and heal ourselves. We free ourselves to see the loveliness of Love that surrounds us eternally.

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God’s Plan Brings Us Happiness

The ego’s plan for salvation centers around holding grievances.

Holding grievances is the opposite of God’s plan
for salvation. And only His plan will work.

Ask Him very specifically:

What would You have me do?
Where would You have me go?
What would You have me say, and to whom?

Give Him full charge of the rest of the practice period, and let Him tell you what needs to be done by you in His plan for your salvation. He will answer in proportion to your willingness to hear His Voice. Refuse not to hear. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 71, W-pI.71.2:1;10:3-4;9:2-8. See also ACIM Lesson 71 Insights.)

Since God’s Will for us is perfect happiness, His plan for our salvation must bring happiness. Learning that the ego’s plan is the opposite of God’s plan, the ego’s plan must lead to sadness and depression. Holding the ego’s focus on grievances guarantees at the very least, a level of sadness and ultimately a deep level of depression, no matter how well we try to hide it. The depression comes from the fact that the ego’s plan for our salvation is intended not to work, in keeping with its doctrine, “Seek and do not find.”

As we ask God’s guidance for what to do, where to go, what to say and to whom, we are lovingly and gently led to let go of our grievances. God’s guidance will always lead us to see past the false images of the world to the Love in our brothers and to extend God’s Love to all. This is how we find happiness. This is how we remember that we remain Love as Love created us.

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God’s Peace Is Ours to Have and Give

If God’s Will for you is complete peace and joy, unless you experience only this you must be refusing to acknowledge His Will. His Will does not vacillate, being changeless forever. When you are not at peace it can only be because you do not believe you are in Him. Yet He is All in all. His peace is complete, and you must be included in it. (A Course in Miracles, T-8.IV.1:1-5. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

It is helpful to remember that if we are not in peace, it simply means we have forgotten that we remain as God created us. We share all of God’s attributes, being the extension of What He is.

When we recognize we are not in peace, we can use the recognition as a reminder to return our attention to the truth within us, the Voice for God. When we are willing to receive Love’s Correction, we will learn to look past the appearances that seem to disturb our peace because we recognize that they are just false ideas, illusions.

The Holy Spirit is our ever-present Guide to peace. As we let ourselves be taught by God’s Voice, we return to the awareness that we are indeed God’s Son, along with all our brothers. We accept God’s peace as ours and give it to all as we let go of the false ideas that have blinded us to the peace we are.

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Our Special Role to Heal the World

I have a special place to fill; a role for me alone. Salvation waits until I take this part as what I choose to do. Until I make this choice, I am the slave of time and human destiny. But when I willingly and gladly go the way my Father’s plan appointed me to go, then will I recognize salvation is already here, already given all my brothers and already mine as well.

Father, Your way is what I choose today. Where it would lead me do I choose to go; what it would have me do I choose to do. Your way is certain, and the end secure. The memory of You awaits me there. And all my sorrows end in Your embrace, which You have promised to Your Son, who thought mistakenly that he had wandered from the sure protection of Your loving Arms. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 317, W-pII.317. See also ACIM Lesson 317 Insights.)

In the world everyone seems to be different. We each have our personal set of judgments and perceived guilt through which we look upon the world. We project our guilt through our judgments, which maintains the sense of separation and isolation we all feel in the world.

Thus our individual role that each of us alone must fulfill is to forgive or let go of our personal collection of guilt, grievances and judgments. It is these that hide the fact that we remain perfectly innocent, perfectly whole and perfectly safe eternally within the Love of God.

In every moment we have the opportunity to fulfill our role in God’s plan by letting the Holy Spirit help us see the truth of Love beyond the appearances in the world. Thus do we learn to forgive our grievances, let go of our judgments, and remember that we share God’s innocence with all our brothers. This is our practice for today.

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Feeling God’s Love Flow Through Us

In fearlessness and love I spend today.

This day, my Father, would I spend with You, as You have chosen all my days should be. And what I will experience is not of time at all. The joy that comes to me is not of days nor hours, for it comes from Heaven to Your Son. This day will be Your sweet reminder to remember You, Your gracious calling to Your holy Son, the sign Your grace has come to me, and that it is Your Will I be set free today.

We spend this day together, you and I. And all the world joins with us in our song of thankfulness and joy to Him Who gave salvation to us, and Who set us free. We are restored to peace and holiness. There is no room in us for fear today, for we have welcomed love into our hearts. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 310, W.pII.310. See also ACIM Lesson 310 Insights.)

We are always in the presence of Love because God is ever present. Because God is the only Reality, we cannot be outside His Presence. In His Love, we are fearless because fear and Love cannot co-exist.

Fear seems to exist only when we believe we have become something other than what God created. But because God is the Source of all Reality, what we think we have become cannot be real. As we remind ourselves again and again that we are one in God’s Love and His strength is ours, the belief in a false world fades. The acceptance of God’s strength as ours grows stronger. We feel His Love flow through us, joining us with the truth in all our brothers.

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Our Path to Happiness

Truth is the opposite of illusions because it offers joy. What else but joy could be the opposite of misery? To leave one kind of misery and seek another is hardly an escape. To change illusions is to make no change.…

Illusions carry only guilt and suffering, sickness and death, to their believers. The form in which they are accepted is irrelevant. No form of misery in reason’s eyes can be confused with joy. Joy is eternal. You can be sure indeed that any seeming happiness that does not last is really fear. Joy does not turn to sorrow, for the eternal cannot change. But sorrow can be turned to joy, for time gives way to the eternal. (A Course in Miracles, T-22.II.2:1-4;3:1-7. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

It is helpful to remember that if we are not supremely happy, we must be believing in a false idea that we are separate from our Creator, the Source of all joy. God’s Will for us is perfect happiness. If we are not experiencing perfect happiness, it is a signal that we need to bring our perception to the Holy Spirit, our true Self, to receive Love’s gentle correction. The Light of Love will shine away the interference that hides the eternal presence of Love. But we must be willing to receive correction.

When we believe that a certain experience, appearance or relationship in the world will make us happy, we are attempting to give value to empty illusions. Though we may hang on to them, there is always an underlying fear that they will not last. Illusions cannot last because they are illusions. But the changeless Love of God is eternal and can always be relied upon as our Source of strength. Today we practice holding our minds open to the Light of Love to correct our misperceptions. It is our path to happiness.

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We Are Unlimited in Love

You are the spirit in whose mind abides the miracle in which all time stands still; the miracle in which a minute spent in using these ideas becomes a time that has no limit and that has no end. Give, then, these minutes willingly, and count on Him Who promised to lay timelessness beside them. He will offer all His strength to every little effort that you make. Give Him the minutes which He needs today, to help you understand with Him you are the spirit that abides in Him, and that calls through His Voice to every living thing; offers His sight to everyone who asks; replaces error with the simple truth. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 97, W-pI.97.4. See also ACIM Lesson 97 Insights.)

The strength of God is always with us and in us. When we identify with being a weak and vulnerable body, we are unaware of the Source of our real strength. This is why we need to remind ourselves again and again it is the Spirit we are, our one Self, that shares God’s strength and Love and joy. The Spirit we are shares the limitlessness of Love Itself.

As we remember we are Spirit, we recognize the Spirit in everyone and everything, beyond the appearance of form. Our Spirit is in eternal joy and peace, being one with God. Our Spirit knows we share God’s Will and places no limits on the eternal extension of Love. As we affirm that we are Spirit, we give ourselves a gift that is beyond time and beyond all limits.

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