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Trust In Our One Self Brings Joy

Your present trust in Him is the defense that promises a future undisturbed, without a trace of sorrow, and with joy that constantly increases, as this life becomes a holy instant, set in time, but heeding only immortality. Let no defenses but your present trust direct the future, and this life becomes a meaningful encounter with the truth that only your defenses would conceal.

Without defenses, you become a light which Heaven gratefully acknowledges to be its own. And it will lead you on in ways appointed for your happiness according to the ancient plan, begun when time was born. Your followers will join their light with yours, and it will be increased until the world is lighted up with joy. And gladly will our brothers lay aside their cumbersome defenses, which availed them nothing and could only terrify. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 135, W-pI.135.19-20. See also ACIM Lesson 135 Insights.)

Everyone in the world is seeking happiness. If we think happiness can be found in forms of the world, our search is unending, for we are searching where happiness cannot be found. Yet happiness beyond description is available to us in each now moment, not in the world but in our unity with our Creator.

Our Source is happiness and shares all happiness with us, Its creation. We claim our happiness by putting our present trust in our one Self, united with our Creator. Nothing else is worthy of our trust. Nothing else can offer us perfect happiness and peace that cannot be disturbed.

As we practice bringing all our thoughts to our one Self to be interpreted from the perspective of the Christ Mind, we are placing our trust where trust is justified. This is done in each now moment. We let go of trying to use the past as the basis for our interpretation. We let go of planning for an unknown future. We build our trust that the future will be the same as the present moment — safe in the changeless Love which fills us with limitless joy.

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Remembering We Are Safe and Loved

…think of yourself as completely at peace with everyone and everything, safe in a world that protects you and loves you, and that you love in return. Try to feel safety surrounding you, hovering over you and holding you up. Try to believe, however briefly, that nothing can harm you in any way.

Love holds no grievances. When I let all my grievances
go I will know I am perfectly safe.

Love holds no grievances. I would wake to my Self by
laying all my grievances aside and wakening in Him. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 68, W-pI.68.6:6-9;7:2-3. See also ACIM Lesson 68 Insights.)

Thinking of our self as perfectly at peace with everyone and everything seems like a fantasy. Yet the actual fantasy is believing that we are not at peace, that we are vulnerable and always in conflict. God created us like Himself, sharing His perfect peace with us. Believing we are a body, vulnerable to harm, is a grievance against God. It is refusing to accept what God has given us.

This is why letting go of grievances is the key that will bring us back to the awareness that we are perfectly safe always. We are loved always. We are love and loving always. As we let go of grievances, we welcome God’s gifts and remember Who we are.

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We Seek for Innocence Now

Perception has a focus. It is this that gives consistency to what you see. Change but this focus, and what you behold will change accordingly. Your vision now will shift, to give support to the intent which has replaced the one you held before. Remove your focus on your brother’s sins, and you experience the peace that comes from faith in sinlessness. This faith receives its only sure support from what you see in others past their sins. For their mistakes, if focused on, are witnesses to sins in you. And you will not transcend their sight and see the sinlessness that lies beyond.

We seek for innocence and nothing else. We seek for it with no concern but now.

For the past is gone; the future but imagined. These concerns are but defenses against present change of focus in perception.” (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 181, W-pI,181.2;3:5-6;5:2-3. See also ACIM Lesson 181 Insights.)

As we consistently ask to see as Holy Spirit sees, we see the Light of Truth in everyone… We see the Holy Spirit in everyone… We see that they are still perfect Love as God created them…

We practice this today in each now moment. If we notice our intent slipping away, we just renew our focus and dedication to see as Holy Spirit sees. We want to see the Truth. We want to feel God’s peace and joy as we see with Him. We want to feel and extend the Love for every brother as the Holy Spirit does.

As this practice gets stronger and stronger with our single intent, we feel so loved… This Love overflows continuously to every brother we encounter or even think of. Love carries us through the day and our happiness overflows into every aspect of our lives. All this comes with seeking to see only innocence now.

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Forgiveness Ends All Suffering

When the time comes to let it all go, will you be ready? To let go is to relinquish all attachment, all need to hold on to something. The end of suffering is the release of all that causes it. What are the causes? False beliefs about yourself and the world. What else could bring about a state of suffering in the mind created perfect by God? Suffering is illusion; the mind that thinks suffering real, has forgotten what it is and imagines itself to be something else entirely. That something else is a body, housing a mind with which it is identical. Could such an identity shift truly occur? Only in dreams where you seem to be as you are not. All authentic spiritual thought systems attempt to teach that you are not a body, separate from everything you see and your creative Source. You are Mind and Reality Itself. Only your ignorance of your eternal Reality, a kind of amnesia that is actively maintained, keeps the true experience of your Self from your awareness. (From the Christ Mind Book II, page 174)

A painful sense of profound loss is inevitable if we believe we are separate from our Source of Life and Love. A world of separation is a loveless and lonely world, experienced only because of accepting this false belief in separation. We made the choice to accept the belief. Likewise, we can make the choice to change our minds and reject the belief.

Forgiveness is the means to let go of all that is false. When we have let it all go, we will remember that we, along with all our brothers, are Love and nothing else. We will experience the infinite joy of our oneness in the Source of all Love. Forgiveness is the means to end all suffering. It is worth the moment by moment practice of letting Holy Spirit guide all our thoughts.

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Letting Truth Enter

A quiet mind, resting in the present, is ready and open to receive Truth. Truth cannot enter a mind that is busy, driven to distraction, filled with its own ideas and goals. In such a mind, there is no room for Truth nor would It be welcome, for the restless, constantly active mind is interested only in itself, its needs and wants. Virtually all spiritual practices aim to achieve just this quietness of mind that is the condition in which Truth can be experienced. Patience is a part of preparation, a quality of mind that must be developed, that awareness be able to rest quietly in the present. Patience rests on surrender and deepens it until they become one. (From the Christ Mind, Book II, p. 230)

Our practice for today is letting truth enter our minds. We do this by opening up to the eternal now of the Holy Spirit… In the eternal now the deep peace of Heaven is experienced… The joy of Love’s oneness returns…

In this quietness, the eternal beingness of our true Nature is witnessed and experienced… We innately know that It cannot be lost, because our true Nature is eternal… 

We give time today to let Truth in and receive inspiration in how to be truly helpful… We give Love a home in our minds and extend It freely to every brother, knowing we are one.

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Letting Your Mind Serve Spirit

The self you made can never be your Self, nor can your Self be split in two, and still be what It is and must forever be. A mind and body cannot both exist. Make no attempt to reconcile the two, for one denies the other can be real. If you are physical, your mind is gone from your self-concept, for it has no place in which it could be really part of you. If you are spirit, then the body must be meaningless to your reality.

Spirit makes use of mind as means to find its Self expression. And the mind which serves the spirit is at peace and filled with joy. Its power comes from spirit, and it is fulfilling happily its function here. Yet mind can also see itself divorced from spirit, and perceive itself within a body it confuses with itself. Without its function then it has no peace, and happiness is alien to its thoughts. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 96, W-pI.96.3:3-4:5. See also ACIM Lesson 96 Insights.)

Our purpose here is to serve Spirit. We serve Spirit by being willing to open our mind to Spirit’s healing peace and quiet inner joy… We serve Spirit by quietly listening and following… We let peace lead the way…

In quiet is every problem quietly resolved. Peace returns where there was conflict… Fears disappear in Spirit’s healing Light… All that is not real and doesn’t really matter quietly disappears as Spirit comes forward in our mind. We recognize our oneness, our safety and Love’s eternal Presence.

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Remembering Who We Really Are

[I am spirit] identifies you with your one Self.

You are the spirit lovingly endowed with all your Father’s Love and peace and joy. You are the spirit which completes Himself, and shares His function as Creator. He is with you always, as you are with Him.

You are the spirit in whose mind abides the miracle in which all time stands still; the miracle in which a minute spent in using these ideas becomes a time that has no limit and that has no end. Give, then, these minutes willingly, and count on Him Who promised to lay timelessness beside them. He will offer all His strength to every little effort that you make. Give Him the minutes which He needs today, to help you understand with Him you are the spirit that abides in Him, and that calls through His Voice to every living thing; offers His sight to everyone who asks; replaces error with the simple truth. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 97, W-pI.97.1:1;2:2-4;4:1-4. See also ACIM Lesson 97 Insights.)

The Course is training us to change our minds about what we think we are. The world we experience with the body seems very real. It seems that we really are different from everybody and everything. It seems that the only way we can communicate is through forms such as words, gestures and actions done with the body. But the Course is telling us that this experience is only a dream of self-imposed limitation. We are no more limited by the body than we are by time and space.

By reminding ourselves that we are Spirit, not limited by time or distance but one with all Spirit, all brothers and with God, we loosen our investment in the limited world of dreams. Each time we accept just a little that we are Spirit, we take a step toward remembering that we remain at one with our Creator. We share all His attributes. His strength is ours. His Love infuses us with gratitude and inspiration to share and extend His Love. Here we find joy and peace. Here we remember Who we really are.

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