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Freedom Through Seeing Our Brother’s Innocence

Do you not want to know your own Identity? Would you not happily exchange your doubts for certainty? Would you not willingly be free of misery, and learn again of joy? Your holy relationship [seeing your brother as innocent] offers all this to you.

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.2:1-4;3. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

We have the opportunity to see the world anew through Holy Spirit’s vision. It is not through the body’s eyes, but rather Divine Inspiration that we ask for now… We ask to see past images of separation, past bodies, to the infinite Source of Light and Love, which is there eternally.

What we ask for in our heart of hearts, we receive. As we want to see our brother’s innocence, it is given us. We will see the Love he is, incapable of harm or malice… We will see his eternal presence of Love… We will see that he is inherently one with our Father and our Self… We will feel the peace and certainty of Heaven… We will see that nothing could ever really happen to change Love’s pure extension of Itself…

We see past dreams today and find our true Identity… We know we share that Identity with every brother… All this comes as we practice seeing our brother’s innocence… Our dreams of fear are dissolved.

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Remembering Our Source, Our Life

Here is the only “sacrifice” You ask of Your beloved Son; You ask him to give up all suffering, all sense of loss and sadness, all anxiety and doubt, and freely let Your Love come streaming in to his awareness, healing him of pain, and giving him Your Own eternal joy. Such is the “sacrifice” You ask of me, and one I gladly make; the only “cost” of restoration of Your memory to me, for the salvation of the world.

And as we pay the debt we owe to truth,—a debt that merely is the letting go of self-deceptions and of images we worshipped falsely—truth returns to us in wholeness and in joy. We are deceived no longer. Love has now returned to our awareness. And we are at peace again, for fear has gone and only love remains. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 1323, W-pII.323.1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 323 Insights.)

Why would we not freely give up pain and suffering to receive Love and joy? Only because we have deceived ourselves to believe that illusions are real and valuable. Having convinced ourselves that what is false is true, we need help from outside this mistaken belief system to learn to recognize truth as true and false as false.

As we let the Holy Spirit shine His Light of Love on our perceptions, the false images we have overlaid on truth dissolve and the oneness of Loves eternal Light shines through. We need not battle against false ideas. We need only let the Holy Spirit show us their falsity. Once recognized as false, they are freely laid down to be seen no more. Into the place left vacant, Love rushes in, bringing God’s peace with it. And we remember God, our Creator and our Source — our very Life.

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Today We Open to Peace and Extend Peace

The light of the world brings peace to every mind through my forgiveness. My forgiveness is the means by which the light of the world finds expression through me. My forgiveness is the means by which I become aware of the light of the world in me. My forgiveness is the means by which the world is healed, together with myself. Let me, then, forgive the world, that it may be healed along with me.

Suggestions for specific forms for applying this idea are:

Let peace extend from my mind to yours, [name].
I share the light of the world with you, [name].
Through my forgiveness I can see this as it is. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 82, W-pI.82. See also ACIM Lesson 82 Insights.)

As we see the Christ in every brother, we are forgiving, or letting go of, our illusions of separation. We are in the process of forgiving the world for what we ever thought it was. We are in the process of letting go of what was never true. This leaves a clean and empty space to return to our true Identity as one with all of God’s Love. This is forgiveness. This is how we become aware of the Light of the world in ourselves and every brother.

With forgiveness, our mind is filled with peace… Illusions fall away and disappear as we receive the Light and share the Light with everyone… In truth we share one Identity — the Identity of eternal Love… We let the truth return to our minds today, because it is what we truly want above all else.

As we willing receive the Light the darkness automatically disappears. Thoughts of conflict and fear disappear. Thoughts of guilt and lack disappear. This is our only function here. This is what it means when we are told, “The Light of the world brings peace to every mind through my forgiveness.” And we are truly grateful that this is so.

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True Perception Through Forgiveness

Certain it is that all distress does not appear to be but unforgiveness. Yet that is the content underneath the form.

How can you tell when you are seeing wrong, or someone else is failing to perceive the lesson he should learn? Does pain seem real in the perception? If it does, be sure the lesson is not learned. And there remains an unforgiveness hiding in the mind that sees the pain through eyes the mind directs.

God would not have you suffer thus. He would help you forgive yourself.

There is a way to look on everything that lets it be to you another step to Him, and to salvation of the world. To all that speaks of terror, answer thus:

I will forgive, and this will disappear.

To every apprehension, every care and every form of suffering, repeat these selfsame words. And then you hold the key that opens Heaven’s gate, and brings the Love of God the Father down to earth at last, to raise it up to Heaven. (W-pI.193.4:1-2;7:1-8:2;13:1-5)

The Holy Spirit brings us God’s training program to set us free from fear and guilt, from pain and suffering. The lesson exercises of this program are given to us all day, every day, in every moment. Every perception that seems to bring pain or disturb my peace brings us the lesson that will set us free.

The first step is to remind ourselves, “I will forgive and this will disappear.” With this, we need to bring willingness to receive Holy Spirit’s replacement perception which will show us what we have perceived is not real and that what is real is Love.

If we are willing to receive Holy Spirit’s vision, the appearances of attack and defense will fade away as we learn the lesson of true forgiveness. With our willingness, today promises to be a day of release and recognition of our true Self as our Identity. We will learn that only Love is real.

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Attaining God’s Peace Through Forgiveness

God’s peace can never come where anger is, for anger must deny that peace exists. Who sees anger as justified in any way or any circumstance proclaims that peace is meaningless, and must believe that it cannot exist. In this condition, peace cannot be found. Therefore, forgiveness is the necessary condition for finding the peace of God. More than this, given forgiveness there must be peace. For what except attack will lead to war? And what but peace is opposite to war? Here the initial contrast stands out clear and apparent. Yet when peace is found, the war is meaningless. And it is conflict now that is perceived as nonexistent and unreal.

Forgive the world, and you will understand that everything that God created cannot have an end, and nothing He did not create is real. In this one sentence is our course explained.

God’s peace is the condition for His Will. Attain His peace, and you remember Him. (A Course in Miracles, M-20.3:3-12;5:7-8;6:12-13)

It is helpful to remember the many forms in which anger can appear: Depression, worry, guilt, shame, even insisting that the body is real and seeing a brother’s identity as a body. These are all forms that reflect belief in being separate, which comes from being angry at God for not giving us special love. He would not give us more than everything.

Thus any time we feel concern, worry, sadness, irritation, frustration or upset of any kind, the only meaningful response is to forgive it. To forgive it, we must ask for help from beyond the thought system that made the disturbing circumstance. We need to turn over the perception that triggered the response to the Holy Spirit with willingness to receive His help to see the truth beyond the perception.

As we accept His Light that reveals the truth, the perception of conflict fades away and we see in its place the eternal Light of Love That was always present, only hidden by a false idea. This practice of forgiveness is the key to finding the peace of God.

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Uniting with the Power of God Within Us

Your picture of the world can only mirror what is within. The source of neither light nor darkness can be found without. Grievances darken your mind, and you look out on a darkened world. Forgiveness lifts the darkness, reasserts your will, and lets you look upon a world of light. We have repeatedly emphasized that the barrier of grievances is easily passed, and cannot stand between you and your salvation.

We will succeed today if you remember that you want salvation for yourself. You want to accept God’s plan because you share in it. You have no will that can really oppose it, and you do not want to do so. Salvation is for you. Above all else, you want the freedom to remember Who you really are. Today it is the ego that stands powerless before your will. Your will is free, and nothing can prevail against it.

…tell yourself with gentle firmness and quiet certainty:

I will there be light. Let me behold the light that reflects God’s Will and mine.

Then let your [true] will assert itself, joined with the power of God and united with your Self. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 73, W-pI.73.5:1-5;7;10:1-4. See also ACIM Lesson 73 Insights.)

The purpose of the ego thought system is to make it look like we are separate and different from the outer world we see through the body’s eyes. We are learning that the truth is just the opposite. We are learning that, “Idle wishes and grievances are partners or co-makers in picturing the world [we] see.” The ego mind is always looking to find guilt in the outer world to try to alleviate its own sense of guilt.

We are learning we do not need to continue this way of thinking. We can pass it by and open to the Will we share with God. As we open to the Light of God’s Will, we are able to see the world from a different point of view. As we unite with the power of God within us, we are freed of the punishing and imprisoning thoughts of the ego thought system. We free ourselves as we join with our true eternal Will — the Will we share with God.

Our practice for today is to repeatedly step back from our everyday ego thinking and choose to join with the Will of God. We accept God’s plan of seeing innocence in everyone, instead of the guilt the ego always chooses to see.

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Only Love Matters

My gratitude permits my love to be accepted without fear. And thus am I restored to my reality at last. All that intruded on my holy sight forgiveness takes away. And I draw near the end of senseless journeys, mad careers and artificial values. I accept instead what God establishes as mine, sure that in that alone I will be saved; sure that I go through fear to meet my Love.

Father, I come to You today, because I would not follow any way but Yours. You are beside me. Certain is Your way. And I am grateful for Your holy gifts of certain sanctuary, and escape from everything that would obscure my love for God my Father and His holy Son. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 298, W-pII.298.1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 298 Insights.)

With all the busyness of the world, it seems easy to get lost in the complexity and forget that only Love matters. I am willing to take a breath, step back and remember that behind all images of separation is the constant beingness of Love that we all are. Every brother is one with God’s Love including ourselves.

As I step back and remember the truth, all tension fades away. It is easier to let myself be carried while accepting Love’s Presence. Love truly is the Answer for every concern, apprehension or form of suffering. Today we let Love lead the way. When we remember, we see that only Love is there.

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