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Accepting Freedom from Fear and Guilt

The Holy Spirit holds salvation in your mind, and offers it the way to peace. Salvation is a thought you share with God…

We will attempt today to find this thought, whose presence in your mind is guaranteed by Him Who speaks to you from your one Self.

Salvation comes from my one Self. Its Thoughts are mine to use.

Each time today you tell your frantic mind salvation comes from your one Self, you lay another treasure in your growing store. And all of it is given everyone who asks for it, and will accept the gift. Think, then, how much is given unto you to give this day, that it be given you! (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 96, W-pI.96.7:2-3;8:1;9:2-3;12:1-3. See also ACIM Lesson 96 Insights.)

Salvation, freedom from fear and guilt, is always within us. Seeking for salvation — seeking for happiness and peace — in things, places and situations outside of us will never bring us what we seek. What we seek is always with us.

When we tell ourselves, “Salvation comes from my one Self,” we are reminding ourselves that in truth we are already free of fear and guilt. We are already and have always been innocent. We are Love and nothing else. As we remind ourselves of this fact, we are extending the gift of God’s Love to all, for we all share the one Self Love created.

Today we would give the gift of remembering the loving Thoughts of our one Self which we share with all in the Heart of God.

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Healing the Cause of Sickness

[The body] can be seen as not your home, but merely as an aid to help you reach the Home where God abides.

With this as purpose is the body healed. It is not used to witness to the dream of separation and disease. Nor is it idly blamed for what it did not do. It serves to help the healing of God’s Son, and for this purpose it cannot be sick. It will not join a purpose not your own, and you have chosen that it not be sick. All miracles are based upon this choice, and given you the instant it is made.

But never you alone. This world is but the dream that you can be alone, and think without affecting those apart from you. To be alone must mean you are apart, and if you are, you cannot but be sick.

Your home is built upon your brother’s health, upon his happiness, his sinlessness, and everything his Father promised him.… It is an ark of safety, resting on God’s promise that His Son is safe forever in Himself. (A Course in Miracles, T-28.VII.3:6-4:6;5:1-3;7:1,5. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

The key to all healing is learning and accepting that separation is impossible and that we remain united with our Source. There can be no sickness in God, our Source. And if we remain at one with our Source, there can be no sickness in us, God’s Son.

The appearance of sickness is simply a symptom that we are believing in the impossible. We are believing that we have succeeded in separating from our Source. To pray for the healing of the symptoms is to attempt to fix the effect instead of the cause.

To ask for help to release the mistaken belief in being separate is to ask for help to heal the cause of all sickness. This is another way of saying to accept help to forgive is to allow healing in our minds and to accept our oneness with our brothers. Thus are our brothers healed along with us.

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Living as a Teacher of God

“[Teachers of God] give form to the lessons the Holy Spirit teaches. For those as yet unable to turn to Him for help, they represent Him, offering His help in a form that can be recognized. There is nothing they cannot do; their trust and willingness, given to the Holy Spirit, makes all miracles possible. They offer miracles to all they look upon, one for every problem that appears. In their company, all tears are replaced with happy laughter, all sadness with gratitude and joy.” (From the Christ Mind II, p. 142)

Holy Spirit, we know you are always with us. We trust in Your help to see as You would see, to do as you would have us do, to speak what you would have us speak and go where you would have us go.

We give you our willingness with confidence that you will strengthen it with Yours. Today we will be mindful of our state of peace. When we feel a disturbance, we will hand it to you for clarification and healing. Thus would we teach by the demonstration of letting You lead the way.

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God’s Way Is Sure

Whatever I see reflects my thoughts. It is my thoughts that tell me where I am and what I am. The fact that I see a world in which there is suffering and loss and death shows me that I am seeing only the representation of my insane thoughts, and am not allowing my real thoughts to cast their beneficent light on what I see. Yet God’s way is sure. The images I have made cannot prevail against Him because it is not my will that they do so. My will is His, and I will place no other gods before Him. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 53, W-pI.53.5:2-7. See also ACIM Lesson 53 Insights.)

We are always getting instant feedback about what we think we are. When we see a world of suffering, loss and death, it is showing us that we are believing we are separate from God. We are denying that He is our Source and our very Being.

This denial does not change the Truth of what we are, but makes us unaware of It. In fact, this denial makes God our enemy because the acceptance of our Source would mean the end of the appearances that we value in the world. It would mean the end of the special individual identity we call our own.

When we believe in this identity, the loss of it is perceived as death. Yet we are reminded again and again that we remain as God created us. We remain in His Mind at one with It and share all His attributes. Our real Identity shares God’s Will and our only purpose is to let the Love of God extend through us. As we extend Love, we acknowledge that we have Love and are Love. This is how we share God’s way and experience the certainty of God’s changeless Love.

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Letting Love Guide Our Way

“The teachers of God rest content in the readiness to receive the gifts God has given them. Their trust allows the Holy Spirit to guide them in all they do and say. Their thoughts are given over to Love; what is not Love is given over to correction. The teachers of God know that everything that happens, whether within or without, is either Love or a call for Love. Their function is therefore very simple. They give Love to all and everyone and everything without exception. To what is Love they join, to the call for Love they respond with Love. Always do they answer the call for Love, and always do they let their answer be guided. A smile, a kind word, a helping hand, the form changes to fit the need but always is the content the same. A call for Love is recognized, and Love is given in the form most helpful.  (From the Christ Mind Book II, p. 141)

Holy Spirit, guide my thoughts, my words, my hands, my feet today. Help me be a messenger of God’s Love. Show me calls for Love so that I may answer with Love. Help me to see the Truth as you see It. I would recognize my brother as He is and learn What I am as well. With Your help, I will remember I remain as Love created me, along with all my brothers.

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Shifting from False Identity to Our True Identity as Love

The ego’s fundamental wish is to replace God. In fact, the ego is the physical embodiment of that wish. For it is that wish that seems to surround the mind with a body, keeping it separate and alone, and unable to reach other minds except through the body that was made to imprison it. The limit on communication cannot be the best means to expand communication. Yet the ego would have you believe that it is.

We will try today to stop these senseless attacks on salvation. We will try to welcome it instead. Your upside-down perception has been ruinous to your peace of mind. You have seen yourself in a body and the truth outside you, locked away from your awareness by the body’s limitations. Now we are going to try to see this differently.

The light of truth is in us, where it was placed by God. It is the body that is outside us, and is not our concern. To be without a body is to be in our natural state. To recognize the light of truth in us is to recognize ourselves as we are. To see our Self as separate from the body is to end the attack on God’s plan for salvation, and to accept it instead. And wherever His plan is accepted, it is accomplished already. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 72, W-pI.72.2,8,9. See also ACIM Lesson 72 Insights.)

One of the fundamental messages in A Course in Miracles is that we are not a body. The body is wholly unlike God in every way; thus it is impossible that the body could be created by God. This idea frees us from all guilt, fear pain, suffering and sense of loss. Only if we think we are a body do we experience any of these symptoms.

We can free ourselves in any moment by dis-identifying with the body as what we are and accepting the Self that God created as His Son. This Self we are is wholly loving, eternally at peace and overflowing with joy. This is our natural state.

Because we have identified with the body so completely, it takes time to peal away the layers of attachment to this false identity. We do this through forgiveness, but we do not do it alone. Thinking we are alone is the cause of the problem. We must let the Holy Spirit help us see past the loneliness and isolation to our unity with the Love that is eternally present. This is God’s plan for our salvation.

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Joining with Peace

Peace is the bridge that everyone will cross, to leave this world behind. But peace begins within the world perceived as different, and leading from this fresh perception to the gate of Heaven and the way beyond. Peace is the answer to conflicting goals, to senseless journeys, frantic, vain pursuits, and meaningless endeavors. Now the way is easy, sloping gently toward the bridge where freedom lies within the peace of God. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 200. See also ACIM Lesson 200 Insights., W-pI.200.8)

Today we practice tuning in to the Source of peace in everyone… Today we practice seeing passed ego’s thoughts to the eternal Love and peace of God that is everyone’s reality… Today we practice stepping back and opening to the Truth within our minds…

We are led in gentleness and sure protection. Fear disappears while we remember we are safe in the Home of God, along with every brother. We are all equal in God’s Love. Peace is the means by which we all return to the Home which we never left in Truth.

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