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Forgiveness Joins Your Mind with the Reality in You

In truth is innocence the only thing there is. Forgiveness stands between illusions and the truth; between the world you see and that which lies beyond; between the hell of guilt and Heaven’s gate.

Across this bridge, as powerful as love which laid its blessing on it, are all dreams of evil and of hatred and attack brought silently to truth. They are not kept to swell and bluster, and to terrify the foolish dreamer who believes in them. He has been gently wakened from his dream by understanding what he thought he saw was never there.

Forgiveness must be practiced, for the world cannot perceive its meaning, nor provide a guide to teach you its beneficence. There is no thought in all the world that leads to any understanding of the laws [forgiveness] follows, nor the Thought that it reflects. It is as alien to the world as is your own reality. And yet [forgiveness] joins your mind with the reality in you. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 134, W-pI.134.10:3-11:3;13. See also ACIM Lesson 134 Insights.)

The ego is incapable of forgiving. Forgiveness comes from understanding that is beyond the domain of the ego. The Truth in our minds sees beyond the ego to the loving innocence that is the reality of our Home. With the help of the Holy Spirit in our minds, forgiveness bridges the seeming gap between the ego’s thought system of sin, guilt and fear and the reality of Love’s innocence in Heaven.

We are accustomed to thinking with the ego thought system. And so we must be taught how to think with the Truth in us. As we practice remembering that of ourselves we do not know what anything means and offer our perceptions to the Holy Spirit with willingness to receive His vision, we awaken from the dream of separation. Forgiveness is the means to return to Heaven, our true Home. Today we practice letting the Holy Spirit show us what everything means.

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A Lesson in Love

To give is to receive. Today we will attempt to offer peace to everyone, and see how quickly peace returns to us. Light is tranquility, and in that peace is vision given us, and we can see.

To give and to receive are one in truth.
I will receive what I am giving now.…

To everyone I offer quietness.
To everyone I offer peace of mind.
To everyone I offer gentleness.
(A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 108, W-pI.108.7:3-5;8:2-3,6-8. See also ACIM Lesson 108 Insights.)

We cannot judge and offer peace at the same time. Judgment is the denial of peace, for judgment divides and therefore is an attack on the oneness of God’s Creation.

The gift of peace is already in us in the part of our minds that knows our oneness with all that is real. To offer the gift of peace, we must lay aside any thought of judgment, for it interferes with our awareness that we already have peace. The practice of offering peace to our brother helps us to open our minds to the recognition of our unity with our brothers.

In the beginning of our practice, we may not be able to offer peace without reservations. So our gift of peace is limited and it is returned to us with the same limitation. But as we continue to practice offering peace to a brother, we experience a lessening of our reservations. More and more we are willing to offer peace fully. This means our willingness to let go of judgments is increasing as we learn Holy Spirit’s lessons in Love.

Our practice today of offering peace to every brother is a practice of receiving peace as well.

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Seeing as Holy Spirit Sees

By [letting miracles replace all grievances] I unite my will with the Holy Spirit’s, and perceive them as one. By this idea do I accept my release from hell. By this idea do I express my willingness to have all my illusions be replaced with truth, according to God’s plan for my salvation. I would make no exceptions and no substitutes. I want all of Heaven and only Heaven, as God wills me to have.” (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 89, W-pI.89.3. See also ACIM Lesson 89 Insights.)

The Holy Spirit makes only one judgment: He sees only innocence. Grievances block this vision. Grievances block the awareness of God’s peace and joy. Grievances block the Love that is given us and that we would give as God’s Son.

Insisting that we are a separate identity, housed in a body in a world of separation is a grievance against the oneness of Love. Yet this is a made up image, which can be undone. We undo the images of grievances by bringing each to the Holy Spirit with willingness to let Him replace them with miracles. He will give us His vision of innocence. As we accept it, we see the Love that is always present. We see our brothers one with us in the Heaven that is our true Home. We free ourselves from identifying with a false self image and accept the one Self God created as our Identity.

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We Accept God’s Gift of Peace

There is a peace that Christ bestows on us. Who uses but Christ’s vision finds a peace so deep and quiet, undisturbable and wholly changeless, that the world contains no counterpart. Comparisons are still before this peace. And all the world departs in silence as this peace envelops it, and gently carries it to truth, no more to be the home of fear. For love has come, and healed the world by giving it Christ’s peace.

Father, the peace of Christ is given us, because it is Your Will that we be saved. Help us today but to accept Your gift, and judge it not. For it has come to us to save us from our judgment on ourselves. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 305, W-pII.305. See also ACIM Lesson 305 Insights.)

We have judged ourselves to be different from our Father. We have judged ourselves to be different and alone. We are now finding out out that we have been mistaken and the thoughts we think with God alone are true.

God sees us as one with Him. God sees that we are joined and not separate nor different. In God there is only Wholeness, with no division of any kind. As we accept our true beingness as one with all of God’s Love, peace comes with it. We easily see past illusions to the ever present Love That is everywhere.

Today we welcome God’s peace and Love… We rest in the ever present beingness of peace and extend it to every brother we encounter or even think of… This acceptance of God’s peace opens the door to Holy Spirit’s inspiration all through the day… For this we are eternally grateful.

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Asking, “What Is This For?”

[God is in everything I see] explains why you can see all purpose in everything. It explains why nothing is separate, by itself or in itself. And it explains why nothing you see [with the body’s eyes] means anything.

Try then, today, to begin to learn how to look on all things with love, appreciation and open-mindedness. You do not see them now. Would you know what is in them? Nothing is as it appears to you. Its holy purpose stands beyond your little range. When vision has shown you the holiness that lights up the world, you will understand [God is in everything I see] perfectly. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 29, W-pI.29.1:1-3;3:1-6. See also ACIM Lesson 29 Insights.)

The Course tells us to ask of everything, “What is this for?” If we believe we know the meaning of what we see with the body’s eyes, we are not willing to ask what it is for. Most of the Course works on bringing us to the willingness to ask this important question.

It brings to light the hidden agenda of the ego thought system that blocks us from the awareness of Love’s presence. It helps us see the price we pay for believing that we have succeeded in separating from Love, our Source. It helps us realize the magnificent gift our Creator has given us and the blessings we will experience when we accept the gift.

For every experience or perception, the practice of asking the Holy Spirit, “What is this for?” opens the door to learning the truth of What we are. In truth, we were created by Love as Love and nothing else. As we open our minds to be taught the difference between the real and the unreal, we learn to see the Love beyond every form. As we see this, our hearts are filled with appreciation, kindness and gentleness. Where once we saw cause for judgment, we now see cause to offer Love. Where once we saw cause for defense, we now see cause for kindness and compassion.

Today we would open our hearts and minds to this by remembering to ask the Holy Spirit of everything, “What is this for?”

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Letting Our Grievances Be Replaced By Miracles

I am entitled to miracles because I am under no laws but God’s. His laws release me from all grievances, and replace them with miracles. And I would accept the miracles in place of the grievances, which are but illusions that hide the miracles beyond. Now I would accept only what the laws of God entitle me to have, that I may use it on behalf of the function He has given me.

Behind this is a miracle to which I am entitled.
Let me not hold a grievance against you, [name],
but offer you the miracle that belongs to you instead.
Seen truly, this offers me a miracle.

(A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 89, W-pI.89.1:2-5;2:2-4. See also ACIM Lesson 89 Insights.)

To hold a grievance, we must believe that something other than our self can harm us or deprive us of something we want. This is a denial of the law of God, which is that Love is One; there is no “other.” So any perceived problem comes from the belief that we are separate and that there is something else other than what we are. This is the core of all grievances. The answer to the grievance is the recognition that we are one in Love. There is nothing else.

Both the thought that we are alone and the thought that we are Love are in our mind. That is why the solution to the problem is already present. We need only turn away from the false belief in being alone and accept the reality of Love as our Identity for all “problems” to be solved.

In practice in the world, we need to bring everything that disturbs our peace to the Holy Spirit in our mind with willingness to accept His vision in place of our perception. His vision will show us the Love that lies beyond the appearance. With His help we will learn that no matter what the circumstance appears to be, we remain Love as Love created us. And we will see that our brothers are joined with us in that one Love. This is how we let our grievances be replaced by miracles.

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Remembering “I Am Spirit”

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.

Spirit am I, a holy Son of God, free of all limits, safe and
healed and whole, free to forgive, and free to save the world.

Expressed through you, the Holy Spirit will accept this gift that you received of Him, increase its power and give it back to you.

The Holy Spirit gives you peace today. Receive His words, and offer them to Him. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 97, W-pI.97.2:2-4;4:1;7:2-3;8:5-6. See also ACIM Lesson 97 Insights.)

The experience of being a bodily identity in a world of form is severely limiting. As a body, it is impossible to truly join with anything. Yet we were created limitless Spirit by a limitless Source.

While we believe we are a body, the Course is giving us tools to practice loosening our identification with the body. We are not asked to deny the body or lay it down all at once. But we are encouraged to begin identifying with limitless Spirit as our reality.

As we shift in this direction, the body becomes less of our identity and its value shifts to its use as a means of communication. The world where everyone identifies with being a body needs those who recognize and accept that they are Spirit and use the body as a means to communicate the unity and Love that is the one Self we share. This communication happens in many ways. It can be simply a smile to someone we walk by on the street. It can be a word of appreciation to a checkout clerk. It can be bringing comfort to someone who is upset or in pain. It can be a loving thought about one was once seen as an adversary.

As we remember we are Spirit, we are open to inspiration from the Holy Spirit for what would be truly helpful in each moment. Frequently reminding ourselves, “I am Spirit,” holds our minds open to Holy Spirit’s guidance in all our doing. With this dedication we serve as teachers of God.

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