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We Remain Safe in Love

…try to reach down into your mind to a place of real safety. You will recognize that you have reached it if you feel a sense of deep peace, however briefly. Let go all the trivial things that churn and bubble on the surface of your mind, and reach down and below them to the Kingdom of Heaven. There is a place in you where there is perfect peace. There is a place in you where nothing is impossible. There is a place in you where the strength of God abides.

Remember that peace is your right, because you are giving your trust to the strength of God. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 47, W-pI.47.7:1-5;8:3. See also ACIM Lesson 47 Insights.)

Because God is in our mind, peace is in our mind. All that stands between the experience of God’s peace and our awareness of it is false images, projected by the ego false mind of separation. These images are held in place by our belief and nothing more.

The moment we stop believing separation could be real, the full experience of God’s peace will flood our minds and hearts. This is why forgiveness, letting go of belief in separation, is the key to happiness, the key to perfect peace.

Today we continue the practice of bringing all our thoughts and beliefs to the Holy Spirit with willingness to let Him wash them clean of the false and show us the reality that no matter what appearances may be, we remain perfectly safe in God’s changeless Love.

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Accepting Our Home in Changeless Love

It takes great learning both to realize and to accept the fact that the world has nothing to give. What can the sacrifice of nothing mean? It cannot mean that you have less because of it. There is no sacrifice in the world’s terms that does not involve the body. Think a while about what the world calls sacrifice. Power, fame, money, physical pleasure; who is the “hero” to whom all these things belong? Could they mean anything except to a body? Yet a body cannot evaluate. By seeking after such things the mind associates itself with the body, obscuring its Identity and losing sight of what it really is. (A Course in Miracles, M-13.2)

The most repeated affirmation in A Course in Miracles is “I am not a body. I am free. I am still as God created me.” Wholehearted acceptance of this statement brings the complete release from the belief in sacrifice. Being still as God created us means that we already have been given all that is real. We already have all of God’s gifts. Because God is eternal, His gifts are eternal. In truth, we can never lose.

The belief that we are a body puts a limit on what we believe we have. This belief carries with it a sense of loss of all that God gave us. Out of this sense of loss, we are compelled to seek to fill the emptiness. But having already identified with the belief in being a body, our seeking is always directed to look where we cannot find what we seek. Remembering that we remain as God created us frees us from the vain belief that we are limited and lacking. It releases us to the experience of the infinite, eternal flow of God’s Love, always being given and received.

This is the complete opposite of what the world teaches. The Course offers us the means to reverse our thinking so that we may once again remember we are as God created us. Loss is impossible. Our joy is complete as we accept our place in the Home created for us by Love Itself.

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Recognizing Truth

When a mind has only light, it knows only light. Its own radiance shines all around it, and extends out into the darkness of other minds, transforming them into majesty. The Majesty of God is there, for you to recognize and appreciate and know. Recognizing the Majesty of God as your brother is to accept your own inheritance. God gives only equally. If you recognize His gift in anyone, you have acknowledged what He has given you. Nothing is so easy to recognize as truth. (A Course in Miracles, T-7.XI.5:1-7. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

In truth every brother is still as God created them. In truth the separate stories mean nothing and are nowhere. Today we practice seeing past separation, which is not true, to the oneness of Love’s Presence, which is true. We practice letting the truth return to our minds by stepping back and listening to the Holy Spirit’s inspiration all through the day.

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Atonement Is Undoing of the Past

To forgive is merely to remember only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you. All the rest must be forgotten. Forgiveness is a selective remembering, based not on your selection.

If all but loving thoughts have been forgotten, what remains is eternal. And the transformed past is made like the present. No longer does the past conflict with now. This continuity extends the present by increasing its reality and its value in your perception of it. In these loving thoughts is the spark of beauty hidden in the ugliness of the unholy relationship where hatred is remembered; yet there to come alive as the relationship is given to Him Who gives it life and beauty. That is why Atonement centers on the past, which is the source of separation, and where it must be undone. For separation must be corrected where it was made. (A Course in Miracles, T-17.III.1:1-3;5:3-9. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

At the beginning of the Course we are told that only Love is real. Thus in reality only the continuous flow of Love, happiness and peace can be experienced. Yet most of what we experience in the world seems to be anything but Love. Peace seems to be present only in fleeting moments. Happiness does not seem to last. And what we think is love seems to be fragile and easily disturbed.

We don’t experience the changelessness of Love because we cover it over with our projections of grievances from the past. We carry our grievances with us as if they were a treasured prize, yet they weight us down like a bag of lead that seems to keep us anchored in the past.

We return to the presence of Love by letting go of the lead weights of grievances that we thought were so important. Grievances are the ego’s principal tool for maintaining guilt. When we project grievances on another and see guilt in the other, we tighten our grip on our own guilt. It is this guilt that weights us down in a seeming world of separation. As we learn to let go of the past, the gentleness and beauty of present Love come forward in our awareness.

Because of the value we give to our grievances, we do not recognize their destructiveness to our peace of mind. There seems to be no way to forgive the perceived harm that justifies our grievance. This is why we must bring every grievance, every thought of guilt or fear, to the Holy Spirit with willingness to receive His healing Light. The Holy Spirit knows how to undo the past and free us to experience the loving, eternal Present. This is how we make way for the Atonement that is the undoing of the past.

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Experiencing Single-Minded Love

In the world of scarcity, Love has no meaning and peace is impossible. For gain and loss are both accepted, and so no one is aware that perfect Love is in him. In the holy instant you recognize the idea of Love in you, and unite this idea with the Mind that thought It, and could not relinquish It. By holding It within Itself, there is no loss. The holy instant thus becomes a lesson in how to hold all of your brothers in your mind, experiencing not loss but completion. From this it follows you can only give. And this is Love, for this alone is natural under the laws of God. In the holy instant the laws of God prevail, and only they have meaning. The laws of this world cease to hold any meaning at all. When the Son of God accepts the laws of God as what he gladly wills, it is impossible that he be bound, or limited in any way. In that instant he is as free as God would have him be. For the instant he refuses to be bound, he is not bound. (A Course in Miracles, T-15.VI.5. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Today our practice is to remember the fact that, in Truth, we are the idea of Love in the Mind of Love. In addition, we practice remembering that everyone in this world is also the idea of Love in the one Mind of Love. We accept the fact that the idea of Love is in our mind and in everyone’s mind. As we accept this fact we naturally join with the Love in all our brothers because Love is One.

We become single-minded. This single-mindedness is experienced in the holy instant. Because inherent in Love is extending Love, we join with the extension of Love to all Love. Because there is only oneness, as we give Love we receive Love without limit. This is the law of God, the law of Love. We are no longer bound by the idea of separation and are free to be the Love we were created to be.

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Desire to See Innocence

Vision is freely given to those who ask to see.

Your brother’s sinlessness is given you in shining light, to look on with the Holy Spirit’s vision and to rejoice in along with Him. For peace will come to all who ask for it with real desire and sincerity of purpose, shared with the Holy Spirit and at one with Him on what salvation is. Be willing, then, to see your brother sinless, that Christ may rise before your vision and give you joy. And place no value on your brother’s body, which holds him to illusions of what he is. It is his desire to see his sinlessness, as it is yours. And bless the Son of God in your relationship, nor see in him what you have made of him. (A Course in Miracles, T-20.VIII.2:10-3:6. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Today we focus on our desire to see only innocence. Today we desire to join with the Holy Spirit on what salvation is. We free our brothers and ourselves as we are willing to see past the ego’s wish to project guilt on people we see as separate from us. We ask for the Light of truth and see what we truly want in our heart of hearts.

This is our path to freedom from the ego’s imprisoning thought patterns. We free our brothers and ourselves as we share the Holy Spirit’s purpose to see past the appearance of separate bodies to see only Love. In truth there is nothing else to see.

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Living in the Grace of God

The Grace of God is given freely to all, but you must be ready to receive It. Our Father’s Grace brings the Kingdom and the Glory to your experience in the dream. The world becomes a gentler place, a kinder place, shining with a different Light when you live in a state of Grace. When Grace envelops you, you will feel the Love of God and know you are safe. All of your cares will seem like nothing then. God’s Grace rests always on those who live in service to the Great Plan of Atonement. When your only concern is to fulfill the part assigned to you, Grace will follow you everywhere and nothing will be lacking. (From The Christ Mind Book II pp 43-44)

Living in God’s Grace is living in a state of mind… We have to be willing to join with God’s state of Mind in order to receive God’s state of Mind… If we continue to hold barriers that close off God’s state of Mind, we are shutting ourselves off from the peace, safety and Love that comes with It. It is all up to us and our level of willingness to make living in a state of Grace our highest priority.

As we willingly step back and provide a space to receive God’s Grace, we naturally extend It to everyone equally… Within God’s Grace, we naturally know that giving is receiving and receiving is giving… Just as God shares all Love with us, we share all the Love we have and are with everyone… This is our natural function as we live in a state of Grace… Awareness of our oneness with God and every brother becomes apparent…

Being willing to live in God’s Grace is synonymous with being of service to the Great Plan of Atonement… It is accepting our inheritance and our oneness with God… This knowledge of our oneness with God is shared equally with every brother… We experience peace and happiness with this knowing that we are all one with God in truth.

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