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Look Past Appearances to Remember Love

The Holy Spirit holds this plan of God [for salvation] exactly as it was received of Him within the Mind of God and in your own. It is apart from time in that its Source is timeless. Yet it operates in time, because of your belief that time is real. Unshaken does the Holy Spirit look on what you see; on sin and pain and death, on grief and separation and on loss. Yet does He know one thing must still be true; God is still Love, and this is not His Will.

This is the Thought that brings illusions to the truth, and sees them as appearances behind which is the changeless and the sure. This is the Thought that saves and that forgives, because it lays no faith in what is not created by the only Source it knows. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 99, W-pI.99.5:1-6:2. See also ACIM Lesson 99 Insights.)

Changeless Love created us like Itself. Love is eternal along with all Its Creation. Because only Love is real, we must also be only Love.

Appearances in the world make it seem that there is Love’s opposite — fear, guilt, attack and loss. God’s plan for salvation brings us the Holy Spirit. He remembers for us the reality and changelessness of Love. He sees the appearances we see in the illusion of separation but does not believe in them.

Thus He can offer us a helping hand to lift us out of the dark shadows of separation and bring us to the Light of Love. He reminds us that what frightens us and seems to be cause for guilt is not God’s Will and therefore is not real. In our belief in separation we have taught ourselves to deny the Love we are, yet the Love remains.

As we practice offering all our thoughts to the Holy Spirit, He will shine away the shadows so we can look past them to the eternal Light of Love that is everywhere. He teaches us to overlook appearances and remember Love.

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The Gift of the Holy Relationship

The Light that joins you and your brother shines throughout the universe, and because It joins you and him, so It makes you and him one with your Creator. And in Him is all creation joined. Would you regret you cannot fear alone, when your relationship can also teach the power of Love is there, which makes all fear impossible? Do not attempt to keep a little of the ego with [the gift of the holy relationship]. For it was given you to be used, and not obscured. What teaches you that you cannot separate denies the ego. Let truth decide if you and your brother be different or the same, and teach you which is true. (A Course in Miracles, T-22.VI.15. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

A relationship becomes holy when it is dedicated to seeing only innocence. It thus becomes a classroom for learning to overlook what never happened; to overlook separation. As we learn in a holy relationship that we are one with our brother, we learn that there can be no harm, for what is one cannot harm itself. The idea of harm depends on belief that separation is real. There must appear to be two opposing entities that conflict. Yet conflict is impossible in the oneness of Love.

If we want to fully learn the lesson of Love’s oneness which the holy relationship teaches, we must be willing to let go of our investment in the ego thought system of separation. We cannot keep one little part of it, for even the “smallest” thought of separation draws a veil over the vision of innocence.

Today we practice accepting Holy Spirit’s help to lift the veil and see our brother’s innocence.

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We Would Remember the Truth of Love Today

Love created me like itself.
I am in the likeness of my Creator. I cannot suffer, I cannot experience loss and I cannot die. I am not a body. I would recognize my reality today. I will worship no idols, nor raise my own self-concept to replace my Self. I am in the likeness of my Creator. Love created me like itself.

You might find these specific forms helpful in applying the idea:

Let me not see an illusion of myself in this.
As I look on this, let me remember my Creator.
My Creator did not create this as I see it. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 84, W-pI.84. See also ACIM Lesson 84 Insights.)

Because we remain an extension of God’s Love, there is nothing to fear. We are coming to the recognition the nothing really happens except Love. Dreams of separation from Love are just dreams and nothing more. Love is… God is… There is nothing else in truth. Our purpose now is to remember this and apply it as we forgive the world for all we ever thought it was.

Herein lies our happiness… herein lies our peace… We help our awakening to the truth, along with every brother, as we practice remembering that we all are still in the likeness of our Creator. We all are still love and nothing else, no matter what stories we make up in dreams of separation. We would remember the truth today and be happy.

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Opening to Love’s Eternal Presence

You must discover and open to the timeless while living under the laws of time. The changeless must be realized in the midst of the constantly changing. The eternal is always with you in the present, but is not noticed. The mind is very busy, so preoccupied with the past and the future that the present is overlooked and passed by. So long as you identify with the ego, with the constant activity of the mind, with its unceasing stream of thoughts, feelings, images, impulses, and desires, so long will you bypass the present. Your life takes place now, not in the past or future. If you would reclaim your life as it really is from the illusion you thought it was, you must return your attention to the present. Nowhere else does real learning take place; nowhere else can your mind be healed. (From the Christ Mind Book II, p. 188)

Amidst all the turmoil found in the world, there is a place of inner quiet in our mind where eternal peace and Love reside… Today we practice going there and opening to Love’s quiet inner joy and happiness… Today we go to that eternal, changeless Love That remains our true Identity…

We ask that our minds be healed and purified of thoughts of being separate and alone… We ask to be Love’s reflection… We ask to see past the illusions of separation to the truth of Love’s oneness… We give time to let our thoughts be cleansed in Love’s healing Light…

We give thanks as we open to Love’s eternal Presence and receive God’s Gifts of peace, Love and joy.

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Being a Teacher of God

Sometimes a teacher of God may have a brief experience of direct union with God. In this world, it is almost impossible that this endure. It can, perhaps, be won after much devotion and dedication, and then be maintained for much of the time on earth. But this is so rare that it cannot be considered a realistic goal. If it happens, so be it. If it does not happen, so be it as well. All worldly states must be illusory. If God were reached directly in sustained awareness, the body would not be long maintained. Those who have laid the body down merely to extend their helpfulness to those remaining behind are few indeed. And they need helpers who are still in bondage and still asleep, so that by their awakening can God’s Voice be heard.

Do not despair, then, because of limitations. It is your function to escape from them, but not to be without them. If you would be heard by those who suffer, you must speak their language. If you would be a savior, you must understand what needs to be escaped. Salvation is not theoretical. Behold the problem, ask for the answer, and then accept it when it comes. Nor will its coming be long delayed. All the help you can accept will be provided, and not one need you have will not be met. Let us not, then, be too concerned with goals for which you are not ready. God takes you where you are and welcomes you. What more could you desire, when this is all you need? (A Course in Miracles, M-26.3-4)

To be a teacher of God requires that we be willing to let the Holy Spirit guide everything we say and do. The practice of consistently asking Holy Spirit’s help with letting go of judgment and healing our minds is an essential first step. We must also be willing to accept His help. If we have a preconceived idea of how the help will come or what it will look like, we have made a barrier that prevents us from fully receiving His help.

We are always given all the help we need. The help we accept is limited only by our willingness to follow His lead. This is why the early lessons in the Workbook remind us that we do not know what anything means in the world. This means we let go of all our opinions. We come to our inner Guide with wholly open hands and hearts. With this practice we heal our minds and join with our brothers in this healing. This is how we remember God.

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The Miracle of Changed Perception