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Freedom from Pain and Guilt

Father, there is a vision which beholds all things as sinless, so that fear has gone, and where it was is love invited in. And love will come wherever it is asked. This vision is Your gift. The eyes of Christ look on a world forgiven. In His sight are all its sins forgiven, for He sees no sin in anything He looks upon. Now let His true perception come to me, that I may waken from the dream of sin and look within upon my sinlessness, which You have kept completely undefiled upon the altar to Your holy Son, the Self with which I would identify.

Let us today behold each other in the sight of Christ. How beautiful we are! How holy and how loving! Brother, come and join with me today. We save the world when we have joined. For in our vision it becomes as holy as the light in us. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 313, W-pII.313.1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 313 Insights.)

When we truly want the truth, it will be given us. We will open our minds to the Light and peace of the Holy Spirit, and we will receive a different way of seeing. We will see innocence where we once saw guilt. We will see Love where we once saw fear. We will know oneness where we once saw separation. We will be aware of Love’s Presence, which never fluctuates or changes into something else.

When we truly want freedom from the ego’s thoughts system, we will receive it. We will be vigilant for old thought systems brought forward from the past that carry the seeds of darkness, fear and guilt. We will consistently allow ourselves to be lifted up and rise above the ego’s battleground of projecting guilt and see past illusions of separation to the truth of Love’s eternal Oneness. This is our practice for today.

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Rest in the Assurance of God’s Love

In this world, there appears to be a state that is life’s opposite. You call it death. Yet we have learned that the idea of death takes many forms. It is the one idea which underlies all feelings that are not supremely happy. It is the alarm to which you give response of any kind that is not perfect joy. All sorrow, loss, anxiety and suffering and pain, even a little sigh of weariness, a slight discomfort or the merest frown, acknowledge death. And thus deny you live.

Death is the thought that you are separate from your Creator.

What seems to be the opposite of life is merely sleeping. When the mind elects to be what it is not, and to assume an alien power which it does not have, a foreign state it cannot enter, or a false condition not within its Source, it merely seems to go to sleep a while. It dreams of time; an interval in which what seems to happen never has occurred, the changes wrought are substanceless, and all events are nowhere. When the mind awakes, it but continues as it always was. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 167, W-pI.167.2;4:1;9. See also ACIM Lesson 167 Insights.)

Perception of loss or lack of any kind indicates that there is a belief in death or separation from God’s oneness. But the Course is telling us that we, the Son of God, can never be separate from our Creator. We are God’s Thought. And thoughts cannot leave their Source. We are forever united in the Thought of Love.

Yet we can imagine we are separate and experience the sense of loss and lack that this imagined state induces. While we are engaged in this imagined scenario, the Presence of Love is all around, yet unknown to us. This is the thought of death.

But an imagined condition is just a false image that could never be true. No matter how horrific or terrorizing the images our imagination generates, they cannot alter the Reality that we remain united in Love with our Creator. We remain eternally safe, eternally loved and loving, eternally innocent, eternally at Home in the Mind of God.

Today let us rest in the assurance that this is so.

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Seeing What Our Creator Loves with Charity

What can it be but universal blessing to look on what your Father loves with charity? Extension of forgiveness is the Holy Spirit’s function. Leave this to Him. Let your concern be only that you give to Him that which can be extended. Save no dark secrets that He cannot use, but offer Him the tiny gifts He can extend forever. He will take each one and make of it a potent force for peace. He will withhold no blessing from it, nor limit it in any way. He will join to it all the power that God has given Him, to make each little gift of love a source of healing for everyone. Each little gift you offer to your brother lights up the world. Be not concerned with darkness; look away from it and toward your brother. And let the darkness be dispelled by Him Who knows the light, and lays it gently in each quiet smile of faith and confidence with which you bless your brother. (A Course in Miracles, T-22.VI.9. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Each of us has an important role to play in God’s plan for salvation of the world. We do not need to shout glory from the mountain tops. We need only bring each unforgiving thought, no matter how seemingly insignificant, to the Holy Spirit in our mind with willingness to receive His gentle correction.

Correction is not our job. Any attempt to correct ourselves, to try to “reason” ourselves to forgive, is simply an ego attempt to interfere with our healing and release. We just need to do our job: Turn over each unforgiving thought. The Holy Spirit will do the rest. Our little, separated ego minds cannot fathom the unlimited scope of the blessing that extends each time we offer an unforgiving thought to Holy Spirit.

Today we will be vigilant for every unforgiving thought that disturbs our peace. And we will offer it in humility and gratitude to the Holy Spirit, with willingness to receive His gift in return. This is how we bless the world and bless ourselves.

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