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Walking the Path of Light

…this course was sent to open up the path of light to us, and teach us, step by step, how to return to the eternal Self we thought we lost.

I take the journey with you. For I share your doubts and fears a little while, that you may come to me who recognize the road by which all fears and doubts are overcome. We walk together. I must understand uncertainty and pain, although I know they have no meaning. Yet a savior must remain with those he teaches, seeing what they see, but still retaining in his mind the way that led him out, and now will lead you out with him. God’s Son is crucified until you walk along the road with me. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 171, W-pI.V.5:4-6:6. See also ACIM Lesson 171 Insights.)

It seems that we are on our own, struggling to function in a world of guilt and fear. But we have a mighty Companion Who is always with us. He understands what we experience but doesn’t believe in its seeming reality. He remembers for us that only Love is real. He is there to guide us along the path out of the chaos of the dream of separation into the quiet garden of peace, where we can rest in the certainty of the Love that created us, supports us and flows through us without limit.

Our mighty Companion is dedicated to guiding us to awaken to our one Self, united with all Love. Let us take the hand of our Companion and join with all our brothers as we walk the path of Light that leads us Home.

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Accepting True Vision

Whatever your appointed role may be, it was selected by the Voice for God, Whose function is to speak for you as well. …He is not deceived in what you are, and listens only to His Voice in you.

It is through [the Holy Spirit’s] ability to hear one Voice which is His Own that you become aware at last there is one Voice in you. And that one Voice appoints your function, and relays it to you, giving you the strength to understand it, do what it entails, and to succeed in everything you do that is related to it. God has joined His Son in this, and thus His Son becomes His messenger of unity with Him.

We practice giving Him what He would have, that we may recognize His gifts to us. He needs our voice that He may speak through us. He needs our hands to hold His messages, and carry them to those whom He appoints. He needs our feet to bring us where He wills, that those who wait in misery may be at last delivered. And He needs our will united with His Own, that we may be the true receivers of the gifts He gives. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 154, W-pI.154.2:1,4;3;11. See also ACIM Lesson 154 Insights.)

When we believe in the ego thought system of separation, we are deceiving ourselves about what we are. We believe we are a body, on our own and alone. But we are not eternally lost in this wilderness because the Holy Spirit remains in our mind to bring us the message that we remain one with Love as Love created us.

To know our oneness with our Source, we must recognize our oneness with all our brothers. That is the message the Holy Spirit offers in every moment. As we let go of the false self-image and see our brothers truly, we experience our oneness with our Source more and more. As we practice accepting the Holy Spirit’s vision to see as He sees, we accept His gift of freedom to be Love and nothing else. Today we practice accepting Holy Spirit’s gift of true vision.

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Accepting Freedom to Be Love

Behind the search for every idol lies the yearning for completion. Wholeness has no form because it is unlimited. To seek a special person or a thing to add to you to make yourself complete, can only mean that you believe some form is missing. And by finding this, you will achieve completion in a form you like. This is the purpose of an idol; that you will not look beyond it, to the source of the belief that you are incomplete. Only if you had sinned could this be so. For sin is the idea you are alone, and separated off from what is whole. And thus it would be necessary for the search for wholeness to be made beyond the boundaries of limits on yourself.

Completion is the function of God’s Son. He has no need to seek for it at all. Beyond all idols stands his holy will to be but what he is. For more than whole is meaningless.… What is not whole cannot make whole. But what is really asked for cannot be denied. Your will is granted. Not in any form that would content you not, but in the whole completely lovely Thought God holds of you. (A Course in Miracles, T-30.III.3;5:1-4,8-11. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Everyone in the world feels a sense of being incomplete. All the conflict in the world comes from attempts to get what we believe would resolve our sense of incompletion.

Think of what the world would be like if everyone knew that they were whole and complete; they need nothing. There would be no conflict, no attempts to take from another. There would be only a quiet peace and extension of Love. There would be joyous celebration of the limitless flow of Love.

This is our natural state. We need only accept it by letting go of the false beliefs that tell us we are alone and incomplete. We have an inner Teacher Whose purpose it is to guide us to discern what is false and help us let it go. As we accept this Help, we free ourselves from the mistaken belief in limitation and move closer to the full acceptance that we share the unlimited Will of our Creator. It is inevitable that we will remember our freedom to be Love and extend Love without limit. We need only accept the Help already given us.

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All of God’s Strength Is In Us Now

I live in God. In Him I find my refuge and my strength. In Him is my Identity. In Him is everlasting peace. And only there will I remember Who I really am.

Let me not seek for idols. I would come, my Father, home to You today. I choose to be as You created me, and find the Son whom You created as my Self. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 261, W-pII.261.1:4-2:3. See also ACIM Lesson 261 Insights.)

Superman and other super heroes are symbols of the strength we think we lack because we believe we have separated from God, the Source of all our strength. Believing we are now weak, we look to external heroes to protect us and save us from the perceived evil and danger in the world. Neither the external saviors nor the perceived danger are real.

God is our strength. In truth, we live in the strength of God. We live within the Source of all power so that in truth, we remain the same changeless Love as Love created us. When we see images of harm and loss, it can be helpful to remember that we are seeing a false perception. God is our strength and our Reality. Harm and loss are impossible. As we call upon God’s strength in us and welcome it, we open our minds to seeing with the vision of Christ.

Today we will remind ourselves often that all of God’s strength is in us now.

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Increasing Our Willingness to Be Free

Think, then, how great your own release will be when you are willing to receive correction for all your problems. You will not keep one, for pain in any form you will not want. And you will see each little hurt resolved before the Holy Spirit’s gentle sight. For all of them are little in His sight and worth no more than just a tiny sigh before they disappear, to be forever undone and unremembered. What seemed once to be a special problem, a mistake without a remedy, or an affliction without a cure, has been transformed into a universal blessing. Sacrifice is gone. And in its place the Love of God can be remembered, and will shine away all memory of sacrifice and loss. (A Course in Miracles, T-26.II.7. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

We were created by Limitlessness as limitless as Itself. When we perceive a problem in the world, it is reflecting back to us our belief in limitation, which comes with belief in separation. It is impossible for what is limitless to have a problem.

So each appearance of a problem in the world is an opportunity for us to let Holy Spirit show us its lack of substance. What is not true is by definition nothing. When we perceive a problem, we are believing that nothing is something, making it real in our belief. It is this mistaken belief that the Holy Spirit is ready, willing and dedicated to help us release.

We can be free of problems to the degree that we are willing to let the Holy Spirit solve all our problems for us. Any problem that we reserve to solve on our own simply represents an unwillingness to the healed, an unwillingness to be free of limitation.

Every day is an opportunity to increase our willingness to be free. It is our choice.

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The Release from Fear

In the holy instant, you will see the smile of Heaven shining on both you and your brother. And you will shine upon him, in glad acknowledgment of the grace that has been given you. For sin will not prevail against a union Heaven has smiled upon. Your perception was healed in the holy instant Heaven gave you. Forget what you have seen, and raise your eyes in faith to what you now can see. The barriers to Heaven will disappear before your holy sight, for you who were sightless have been given vision, and you can see. Look not for what has been removed, but for the glory that has been restored for you to see.

You will not see sin long. For in the new perception the mind corrects it when it seems to be seen, and it becomes invisible. Errors are quickly recognized and quickly given to correction, to be healed, not hidden. You will be healed of sin and all its ravages the instant that you give it no power over your brother. And you will help him overcome mistakes by joyously releasing him from the belief in sin. (A Course in Miracles, T-19.III.10;9:2-6. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

The ego’s foundation is the belief that separation is real. But because separation is not real, the ego has made up a world of images to give separation the appearance of reality. We seem to be housed in individual bodies that are vulnerable and ultimately die. Conflict and peril appear everywhere and justify our need to build defenses. As we build our defenses, we are reinforcing the belief that separation is real. It seems to be a closed cycle from which there is no way out. Within the ego thought system, this is true.

Fortunately, we have in our minds the Holy Spirit Who knows that nothing in form is real. Only Love is real. The Holy Spirit sees all the seeming conflict and fear and guilt in the world as calls for correction, not punishment. Calls for Love, not justification of guilt. We can free ourselves from the guilt and fear of the world by the practice of bringing all our perceptions to the Holy Spirit with willingness for them to be replaced by the His true perception. With the Holy Spirit’s vision, we see past the behavior of bodies and see every moment as an opportunity to extend Love. Thus are we released from the bondage of fear.

Today we pray to accept the Holy Spirit’s vision and recognize the truth in our brothers and ourselves.

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God Has Not Written Us Out of His Will

The miracle comes quietly into the mind that stops an instant and is still. It reaches gently from that quiet time, and from the mind it healed in quiet then, to other minds to share its quietness. And they will join in doing nothing to prevent its radiant extension back into the Mind Which caused all minds to be. Born out of sharing, there can be no pause in time to cause the miracle delay in hastening to all unquiet minds, and bringing them an instant’s stillness, when the memory of God returns to them. Their own remembering is quiet now, and what has come to take its place will not be wholly unremembered afterwards.”

His Father wills that [His Son] be lifted up and gently carried over [the bridge]. He has built the bridge, and it is He Who will transport His Son across it. Have no fear that He will fail in what He wills. Nor that you be excluded from the Will that is for you. (A Course in Miracles, T-28.I.11;15:6-9. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

The decision to not accept God’s Love and to seek specialness in Its place has left us feeling abandoned. When we identified with the ego’s belief in separation, we abandoned our Creator. To avoid the guilt that comes with this choice, we tell ourselves that it is God who abandoned us. God has not changed His Mind about His Son. He has not written us out of His Will. All of God’s Love remains in place in the Mind of His Son. The Love can be hidden through denial, but it cannot be destroyed.

We can remember God’s Love for us. We can feel Its comfort and safety. We can remember Its harmlessness and innocence. It is What we are in truth. To remember this truth, we need only forgive or let go of the false beliefs that deny Its presence. We are not permanently stuck with our denial. We have been given the means, the Holy Spirit, to help us and guide us out of the darkness of our denial and into the Light of our Source.

Today we pray to accept the Holy Spirit’s Help to release our mistaken beliefs and return to our true Home that is eternally God’s Will for us.

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