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Giving Love Is Receiving Love

Do not refuse to do what the Holy Spirit asks of you. To refuse to give will block your receiving. Give all you have and then give more, and your cup will always be running over. Those who are blessed with the gifts of God will give all that they have received. By giving away what you have been given, it becomes yours to keep. Your store will be continually increasing; the more you give, the more you will have. You have an inexhaustible supply of gifts to give; your storehouse is always full.

“Those who have accepted their part in God’s Great Plan recognize the importance of giving to all. Your Father only gives. ‘Be you perfect even as your Father in Heaven in perfect.’ Give all to all, and forgive the world and everyone and everything in it. Give and forgive; let this be the rule that guides your life. Thus will you be doing God’s Will and bringing Heaven’s blessing to a tired and suffering world. (From the Christ Mind Book II, p. 172)

Because separation is really nothing and Love is everything, in truth we can only give Love. The more we are willing to receive the truth that we are only Love, the more extending Love becomes easy and natural… It becomes natural to see every brother as the Love they are… It becomes natural to see past illusions of separate bodies to the truth of Love’s oneness…

We see that everyone is in truth just as God created them… We see that nothing could ever really happen to change God’s one Son… We see that God’s Will is our will… We see that God’s happiness is our happiness… We see that God’s peace is our peace…

We forgive the world for all that we ever thought it was… We teach only Love because we know that we are and have only Love… We teach by demonstration…

We see all anger and attack as simply fear thoughts. We see all judgment and hurtful behavior as simply calls for Love. We freely extend Love because we know that there is an endless supply and the more we give Love, the more we receive. We know our storehouse is full and we naturally and joyfully extend all the Love we have. Because we recognize Love’s oneness, we know that giving Love is receiving Love.

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Releasing Grievances

The ego’s plan for salvation centers around holding grievances. It maintains that, if someone else spoke or acted differently, if some external circumstance or event were changed, you would be saved. Thus, the source of salvation is constantly perceived as outside yourself. Each grievance you hold is a declaration, and an assertion in which you believe, that says, “If this were different, I would be saved.” The change of mind necessary for salvation is thus demanded of everyone and everything except yourself.

Be alert to all temptation to hold grievances today, and respond to them with this form of today’s idea:

Holding grievances is the opposite of God’s plan for salvation. And only His plan will work.
(A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 71, W-pI.71.2:1-5;10:3-4. See also ACIM Lesson 71 Insights.)

Projection is a key mechanism for making separation seem real. It is a means for making the cause of our lack of peace appear to be outside of us. When we hold a grievance, we separate ourselves from the solution to perceived problems. Yet the solution is always available to us.

As we are willing to take our grievances to the Holy Spirit with willingness to let Him show us how to release them, we make way for the solution of our perceived problems. We make way for the healing of the false ideas that hide the fact that the Source of joy and peace is already in us and always with us.

As we do this, we take charge of our minds and become the master of our domain. We return to our natural state of joy in the Mind of Love. Today we will be vigilant to recognize grievances and bring them to the Holy Spirit in our mind for transformation.

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Releasing the Dark Shadow of Specialness

The real world is attained simply by the complete forgiveness of the old, the world you see without forgiveness. The Great Transformer of perception will undertake with you the careful searching of the mind that made this world, and uncover to you the seeming reasons for your making it. In the light of the real reason that He brings, as you follow Him, He will show you that there is no reason here at all. Each spot His reason touches grows alive with beauty, and what seemed ugly in the darkness of your lack of reason is suddenly released to loveliness. Not even what the Son of God made in insanity could be without a hidden spark of beauty that gentleness could release.

All this beauty will rise to bless your sight as you look upon the world with forgiving eyes. For forgiveness literally transforms vision, and lets you see the real world reaching quietly and gently across chaos, removing all illusions that had twisted your perception and fixed it on the past. (A Course in Miracles, T-17.II.5:1-6:2. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Unforgiveness casts a dark shadow over the reality of Love, making It invisible to us. The dream world we see is the effect of the wish for special Love, which is the denial of God’s Love. The wish for specialness has produced the perception of a world of images of bodies and things, of differences and loss and lack. Thus what needs to be forgiven is the wish for specialness.

As we are willing to accept the help of the Great Transformer in our minds, the dark shadow of specialness is lifted, revealing the eternal, changeless Light of Love that we have kept hidden, but never lost. Forgiveness is the key to happiness because forgiveness clears the way for the acceptance of God’s Love. And joy is an attribute of Love.

Let us today practice bringing all our perceptions to the Great Transformer of perception so that the way can be cleared to experience the beauty and joy of our Home in God.

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Let Me Remember That Only Love Is Real

Love created me like itself. I am in the likeness of my Creator. I cannot suffer, I cannot experience loss and I cannot die. I am not a body. I would recognize my reality today. I will worship no idols, nor raise my own self-concept to replace my Self. I am in the likeness of my Creator. Love created me like itself.

You might find these specific forms helpful in applying the idea:

Let me not see an illusion of myself in this.
As I look on this, let me remember my Creator.
My Creator did not create this as I see it. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 84, W-pI.84.1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 84 Insights.)

Let me follow Love’s lead today.… Let me remember that I am only Love, one with my Creator.… Let me feel the peace that my Creator extends through me.… Let me join with the peace in every brother and celebrate the truth that we are eternally pure Love and nothing else.… Let me practice joining in Love’s oneness with every brother I see or even think of in this dream of separation.… Let me remember that only Love is real.… And for this I give thanks.

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Claiming God’s Power and Strength as Ours

[Trust] is the foundation on which [God’s teachers’] ability to fulfill their function rests. Perception is the result of learning. In fact, perception is learning, because cause and effect are never separated. The teachers of God have trust in the world, because they have learned it is not governed by the laws the world made up. It is governed by a Power That is in them but not of them. It is this Power That keeps all things safe. It is through this Power that the teachers of God look on a forgiven world. (A Course in Miracles, M-4.I.1)

When we believe in the ego thought system of separation, fear and guilt, we are placing our trust in a false idea. Trusting in something which has no foundation in truth brings with it doubt and uncertainty. We know that we are hiding from the truth that the ego thought system has no foundation. Yet the changelessness and strength of God remain with us and in us. We are still as God created us.

As we let go of following the ego’s direction and become more willing to follow Holy Spirit’s lead, our trust grows. We become increasingly confident that we are safe in God and all our needs are met. We feel God’s strength and power in us more and more as we peel away the ego’s belief that we have separated from God. God’s power and strength are ours. We claim it now.

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The Journey of a Teacher of God

The extent of the teacher of God’s faithfulness is the measure of his advancement in the curriculum. Does he still select some aspects of his life to bring to his learning, while keeping others apart? If so, his advancement is limited, and his trust not yet firmly established. Faithfulness is the teacher of God’s trust in the Word of God to set all things right; not some, but all. Generally, his faithfulness begins by resting on just some problems, remaining carefully limited for a time. To give up all problems to one Answer is to reverse the thinking of the world entirely. And that alone is faithfulness. Nothing but that really deserves the name. Yet each degree, however small, is worth achieving. Readiness, as the text notes, is not mastery. (A Course in Miracles, M-4.IX.1)

Accepting the fact that we remain one with God as we were created takes time in the dream of separation. We have long believed in the ego’s lie that tells us we are separate and alone and must defend the little territory we have carved off for ourselves alone. But we reach the realization that we cannot find happiness by following the ego’s direction. There must be a better way.

Hesitantly at first, we begin to bring some of our perceived problems to the Holy Spirit with willingness to receive His gentle correction. Being unsure that the Holy Spirit can really solve all our problems, we are not yet willing to bring everything to Him. Yet each time we do and experience the blessing of Holy Spirit’s solution, our trust and willingness grows.

God does not condemn us for our lapses, but welcomes us every time we are willing to listen to His Voice. Continued practice brings more experiences of success and our willingness grows. This is the journey of a teacher of God finding his way to the Home he never really left.

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Accepting and Extending God’s Love

I am entrusted with the gifts of God. All things are given you. God’s trust in you is limitless. He knows His Son. He gives without exception, holding nothing back that can contribute to your happiness.

Christ’s hand has touched your shoulder, and you feel that you are not alone.

One walks with you Who gently answers all your fears with this one merciful reply, “It is not so.” He points to all the gifts you have each time the thought of poverty oppresses you, and speaks of His Companionship when you perceive yourself as lonely and afraid.

Become the living proof of what Christ’s touch can offer everyone. God has entrusted all His gifts to you. Be witness in your happiness to how transformed the mind becomes which chooses to accept His gifts, and feel the touch of Christ. Such is your mission now. For God entrusts the giving of His gifts to all who have received them. He has shared His joy with you. And now you go to share it with the world. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 166, W-pI.166.1:1-4;9:2;11;3-4;15:2-7. See also ACIM Lesson 166 Insights.)

We are loved beyond our capacity to imagine in the dream because the dream is the denial of God’s Love. Though we have denied His Love, God has never withdrawn It. We need only accept God’s gift to feel His Love inspire us to share it with all.

Love’s Nature is to extend Itself. We know that we have God’s gift of Love by sharing It with all our brothers. Only our guilt and unforgiveness stands in the way of our experiencing the eternal receiving and giving of Love. This is why the daily, moment by moment practice of offering all our thoughts in the world to the Holy Spirit to receive His interpretation is how we recognize God’s eternal gift. It is how we remember we are not alone. It is how we remember we lack nothing. With this practice we naturally answer calls for Love, from others or ourselves, by extending Love and blessing.

Today we would practice forgiving that we may accept God’s Love.

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