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Peace Comes with Accepting the Truth

Truth cannot deal with errors that you want.… Sane perception induces sane choosing. I cannot choose for you, but I can help you make your own right choice. “Many are called but few are chosen” should be, “All are called but few choose to listen.” Therefore, they do not choose right. The “chosen ones” are merely those who choose right sooner. Right minds can do this now, and they will find rest unto their souls. God knows you only in peace, and this is your reality. (A Course in Miracles, T-3.IV.7:2,10-16. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Being sane means knowing the difference between illusion and reality, and choosing reality. Thus the key to sanity is knowing what is real and what is not. The Course is offering us help to learn what is real and what is illusion. It can bring us to the brink of sanity, but we must make the choice for reality.

When we believe we are a body with a separate identity, we are investing our belief in illusion instead of truth. The effect of this investment is the perception of a world of separate images, which conflict with each other and with what we believe is our identity. It is a dream of conflict, attack and defend, fear and loss. Yet it is a dream and does not exist in reality.

As we practice applying the message of A Course in Miracles in our daily experience, we learn that our investment in maintaining a separate identity is bringing us nothing that we really want. It cannot bring us lasting happiness, peace and eternal Love. In fact, this investment leaves us with an empty feeling that causes us to search for something that will assuage the sense of lack of Love.

The Course is helping us see that the answer to this search cannot be found in the world. We learn that the world offers us nothing we really want. With the Holy Spirit’s help, we can learn where to find what we really want. We learn to set aside the false images of the dream through forgiveness. This makes way for us to accept the truth and know the peace of God.

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Remembering I Am as God Created Me

Father, Your Son is perfect. When I think that I am hurt in any way, it is because I have forgotten who I am, and that I am as You created me. Your Thoughts can only bring me happiness. If ever I am sad or hurt or ill, I have forgotten what You think, and put my little meaningless ideas in place of where Your Thoughts belong, and where they are. I can be hurt by nothing but my thoughts. The Thoughts I think with You can only bless. The Thoughts I think with You alone are true. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 281, W-pII.281.1. See also ACIM Lesson 281 Insights.)

We have only one real purpose here and that is to wake up from the dream of being separate from our Father Who is all Love. Because in truth we are the Love of our Father, dreaming that we are something else is the cause of all our pain and sorrow.

As we are willing to return to Love, all pain and sorrow fall away. We recognize that we have just been mistaken and have joined with thoughts that could never be true. Now we are willing to join with Thoughts that only bless. Now we are willing to let our belief in separation fall away so that what is true can return to our awareness.

Today we focus on “remembering I am as God created me.” We joyously remember this for ourselves and every brother today.

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I Will Accept My Part in God’s Plan for Salvation

In each five minutes that you spend with Him, He will accept your words and give them back to you all bright with faith and confidence so strong and steady they will light the world with hope and gladness. Do not lose one chance to be the glad receiver of His gifts, that you may give them to the world today.

Give Him the words, and He will do the rest. He will enable you to understand your special function. He will open up the way to happiness, and peace and trust will be His gifts; His answer to your words. He will respond with all His faith and joy and certainty that what you say is true. And you will have conviction then of Him Who knows the function that you have on earth as well as Heaven. He will be with you each practice period you share with Him, exchanging every instant of the time you offer Him for timelessness and peace. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 98, W-pI.98.8-9). See also ACIM Lesson 98 Insights.

The ego would tell us that to believe we have anything to do with salvation of the world is the utmost in grandiosity. But the Course tells us that denying our part in God’s plan is arrogant; it is saying we know better than God what we are capable of.

The Course also tells us that our part is very simple. We need only be willing to accept our part and He will do the rest. He will help us understand our function when we choose the Holy Spirit as our Teacher instead of the ego. As we remind ourselves of our willingness to accept our part in God’s plan for our salvation, He will teach us the way to happiness and we will be given His peace and trust.

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Christ’s Vision Shows Us All Things Forgiven

Christ’s vision looks through me today. His sight shows me all things forgiven and at peace, and offers this same vision to the world. 

This day my mind is quiet, to receive the Thoughts You offer me. And I accept what comes from You, instead of from myself. I do not know the way to You. But You are wholly certain. Father, guide Your Son along the quiet path that leads to You. Let my forgiveness be complete, and let the memory of You return to me. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 291, W-pII.291.1:1-2;2. See also ACIM Lesson 291 Insights.)

By definition, the past is not now; it’s over. Yet we can conjure images in our mind based on what we believe happened long ago. These images cast a veil over the present, making us unable to see the brilliance of the present Love that we are. This need not be.

We have been given a gift that will show us the Light of Love beyond the veil of judgment. It is Christ’s vision which shows us a forgiven world, a world of innocence and peace. We can have this vision right now, but we need to be willing to receive it.

As we are willing to welcome peace in our minds, the clarity of Christ vision will show us the real world in which only innocence is seen. We will see a world of safety, kindness, helpfulness and lasting happiness. Today we would welcome Christ vision.

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Holy Spirit, Help Me See as You See

The purpose of the world you see is to obscure your function of forgiveness, and provide you with a justification for forgetting it. It is the temptation to abandon God and His Son by taking on a physical appearance. It is this the body’s eyes look upon.

Only by fulfilling the function [of forgiveness — seeing past separate forms to the truth] given you by God will you be happy. That is because your function is to be happy by using the means by which happiness becomes inevitable. There is no other way. Therefore, every time you choose whether or not to fulfill your function, you are really choosing whether or not to be happy.

Let me not forget my function.
Let me not try to substitute mine for God’s.
Let me forgive and be happy.

(A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 64, W-pI.64.1:2-4;4;6:2-4. See also ACIM Lesson 64 Insights.)

Holy Spirit, I open my mind to Your healing vision… I want to see the world as You see it… I want to be truly helpful… I hand over all my belief in separate bodies to You… I am willing to see only the Light of eternal Love behind every separate body I see now.

Letting You show me the truth behind every form of separation I see brings me deep happiness and peace… I choose to be vigilant today to keep Your memory of the truth in the forefront of my mind… This is my practice today.

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Accepting Our Place in Love’s Oneness

Do not underestimate the importance of accurate perception for your life’s purpose. So long as perception proceeds from past associations, from memory and habit, so long will real understanding be absent from your life. Without authentic understanding, your mind will simply fluctuate within the narrow limits establish by the ego and accepted by you long ago. Perception must be purified, must be corrected, to free your mind from its narrow range of experience. This tiny space in which your life seems to take place is nothing but a dream of separation and limitation. To be separate from everything you see is to live in fear. To live in fear is to suffer. Is this what you want? You have lived in a state of fear and suffering long enough. Too long has Love and the healing It brings been absent from your life. This need not be. This need not be.” (from From the Christ Mind Book II, p. 185-186)

We have the means to escape from a life experience of uncertainty and fear, pain and guilt. It is the Holy Spirit, ever present in our mind, That can give us a vision that corrects our misperceptions, our false ideas.

Our experience of the world is the effect of what we believe is true. When we believe that we are a separate identity in a world of images, a fearful life experience is inevitable. But when we are willing to bring all our perceptions to the Holy Spirit for His gentle correction, we release ourselves to experience the gifts of love and peace and joy, given us by our Creator.

Today is another blessed day to practice letting go of past false ideas and accept our place in the oneness of Love.

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Remembering We Are One with All Love

Yet since you do believe in [time], why should you waste it going nowhere, when it can be used to reach a goal as high as learning can achieve? Think not the way to Heaven’s gate is difficult at all. Nothing you undertake with certain purpose and high resolve and happy confidence, holding your brother’s hand and keeping step to Heaven’s song, is difficult to do. But it is hard indeed to wander off, alone and miserable, down a road that leads to nothing and that has no purpose. (A Course in Miracles, T-26.V.2:3-6. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Thinking we have a separate mind disconnected from God has no purpose and only brings misery and problems. In truth, everyone in this world is one in the universal Mind of Love. This is our one true Identity. We are totally united eternally and there are no differences.

There is no competition in Oneness. There is no winner and loser. We cannot harm or be harmed, and there is no death. God’s real world of Love is eternal life. We cannot change it, even though we think we can by dreaming scenarios of competition, conflict and isolation.

The only happy answer is to join with what is true. We are still as God created us. We have all of Love because we are united together as Love. We have not left our Source. We cannot change how our Father created us. We are done with wasting time on childish fantasies.

The Holy Spirit is there in our minds, waiting to bring us back to the awareness of where we are eternally, if we are willing to listen. Are we willing to remember we are one with all Love throughout the day today?

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