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Opening to the Holy Instant

The holy instant is your invitation to love to enter into your bleak and joyless kingdom, and to transform it into a garden of peace and welcome. Love’s answer is inevitable. It will come because you came without the body, and interposed no barriers to interfere with its glad coming. In the holy instant, you ask of love only what it offers everyone, neither less nor more. Asking for everything, you will receive it.

Receive it now of Him, for He would have you know Him. Only a little wall of dust still stands between you and your brother. Blow on it lightly and with happy laughter, and it will fall away. And walk into the garden love has prepared for both of you.” (A Course in Miracles, T-18.VIII.11:1-5;13:5-8. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

The holy instant is a time free of conflict because we have been willing to set aside our judgments, if only for a moment. It is our judgments that make separation seem real. When we are willing to set them aside we welcome the loving vision of Christ, which shows us only the unity of Love.

In that instant, the sense of being separate and alone fades away and we welcome our brother as the Love he is. The body no longer dominates our attention. We no longer identify our brother with the body. Instead, we experience the joy of Heaven’s oneness.

Today we practice stepping back from judgment and welcoming the vision of Love that joins us together in the center of peace.

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Accepting the Love We Are

See no one from the battleground, for there you look on him from nowhere.

Think what is given those who share their Father’s purpose, and who know that it is theirs. They want for nothing. Sorrow of any kind is inconceivable. Only the light they love is in awareness, and only love shines upon them forever. [Love] is their past, their present and their future; always the same, eternally complete and wholly shared. They know it is impossible their happiness could ever suffer change of any kind. Perhaps you think the battleground can offer something you can win. Can it be anything that offers you a perfect calmness, and a sense of love so deep and quiet that no touch of doubt can ever mar your certainty? And that will last forever?

Those with the strength of God in their awareness could never think of battle. (A Course in Miracles, T-23.IV.7:1;8:1-9:1. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

We need not seek for Love, for Love is What we are. We need only accept What we are. We are surrounded, supported and embraced by God’s Love eternally. To find the Love we seem to lack, we need to seek out all the barriers against Love we have built in our mind.

As we take our barriers to Love to the Holy Spirit in our mind, He will shine His Light upon them, showing us they have no substance and revealing the Love That is there. This is the practice of forgiveness. This is how we heal the perceived lack of Love that makes us feel lacking, inadequate, unloved and guilty. As we let our self-made barriers be shined away with the Light of Love, we recognize that we are truly complete in the Heart of God. It is worthy of our vigilance.

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God’s Love Has Forgotten No One

…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.

My resurrection comes again each time I lead a brother safely to the place at which the journey ends and is forgot. I am renewed each time a brother learns there is a way from misery and pain. I am reborn each time a brother’s mind turns to the light in him and looks for me. I have forgotten no one. Help me now to lead you back to where the journey was begun, to make another choice with me. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 171, W-pI.V.5:4-7:5. See also ACIM Lesson 171 Insights.)

Contrary to the ego’s belief, we are never really alone. Jesus, the symbol of complete forgiveness, walks with us to lead us Home. We have the means to learn how to awaken to the Light of our true Self.

It is comforting to know that One Who has completed the journey of awakening from the dream is always with us to guide us along the path of Light. Let us today take His Hand and accept His strength when our willingness seems weak. He understands our doubts and fears and assures us from His experience that they can be overcome. He knows that our uncertainty has no meaning, remembering for us that we remain Love as Love created us. His Love has forgotten no one.

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Letting Our Mind Be at Peace

The real world cannot be perceived except through eyes forgiveness blesses, so they see a world where terror is impossible, and witnesses to fear can not be found.

The real world holds a counterpart for each unhappy thought reflected in your world; a sure correction for the sights of fear and sounds of battle which your world contains. The real world shows a world seen differently, through quiet eyes and with a mind at peace. Nothing but rest is there. There are no cries of pain and sorrow heard, for nothing there remains outside forgiveness. And the sights are gentle. Only happy sights and sounds can reach the mind that has forgiven itself. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 291, W-pII.8.1:4-2:6. See also ACIM Lesson 291 Insights.)

If we want to be happy we have to let go of all judgment. It is judgment that holds the perception of separation in place. It is judgment that sets us apart from our brothers and the world. It is judgment that makes differences seem real and conflict inevitable.

We have taught ourselves that our survival depends upon judgment. The seeming life we are protecting is a false image that is not real. Our real life is in God, the Source of real happiness. Yet God seems far away, out of reach. But we have been given the means to lay down our investment in the false images of separation and see past them to the real world, where there is no conflict and only joy.

When we accept the Holy Spirit’s help to see with Christ’s vision, we accept the means to freedom from fear and guilt. As we are willing to bring our perceptions to the Holy Spirit in our minds, we learn to see that we remain united with our brothers and our Source. Our mind accepts peace as we let go of judgment with the Holy Spirit’s help.

Today we would let the Holy Spirit guide our vision so that our minds can be at peace.

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God Goes with Us Wherever We Go

You who hold your brother’s hand also hold mine, for when you joined each other you were not alone.

Each instant that we spend together will teach you that this goal [of oneness] is possible, and will strengthen your desire to reach [oneness]. And in your desire lies its accomplishment. Your desire is now in complete accord with all the power of the Holy Spirit’s Will. No little, faltering footstep that you may take can separate your desire from His Will and from His strength. I hold your hand as surely as you agreed to take your brother’s. You will not separate, for I stand with you and walk with you in your advance to truth. And where we go we carry God with us. (A Course in Miracles, T-18.III.4:1;5:1-7. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

When we join with the Holy Spirit, our job is to see the Light beyond the dream in every brother. As we join with the Holy Spirit in our one goal of remembering our oneness, we see the Light of Truth in every brother. We remember we do not go Home alone.

The Holy Spirit guides us, step by step, in how to be truly helpful to every brother we meet or even think of. This is our practice for today.

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Seeing the Light and Love Beyond Appearances

You have given everything you see the meaning it has for you. The meaning you give determines your response to it and its effect on you. Behind the appearance of separation is your desire to have it so; therein arises its seeming effect on you. The world you see has the power over you that you gave it, nothing more.

Withdraw the desire to believe it real, and its power will vanish. Your eyes will continue to see the forms of separation, but your mind will see the Light and Love just beyond form. Through that perception, you are restored to the Unity beyond all form. Abide in that wholly purified perception, and the world will affect you not.

You need not suffer, though a suffering world appears all around you, if you abide in the heart of Love. Rest in the Self, give all to all, and you will be free. (From the Christ Mind Book II, page 120,121. Italics added.)

Our desire for separation comes from our grievance against God. We asked God for specialness, to have more than everything, something we could call ours alone. God could not give this, for it was asking God to change, to not be Himself. This is the foundation of the ego.

This is why forgiveness is the central theme of A Course in Miracles. Though it appears that we forgive others and ourselves, they are representations of what we believe about God. When we achieve full forgiveness, we are able to accept the limitless, eternal Love God gave us in the creation of our Self.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us see with His Light and Love, that we may look past appearances and remember our Self.

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We Are One in the Endless Love of God

We have a mission here. We did not come to reinforce the madness that we once believed in. Let us not forget the goal that we accepted. It is more than just our happiness alone we came to gain. What we accept as what we are proclaims what everyone must be, along with us. Fail not your brothers, or you fail yourself. Look lovingly on them, that they may know that they are part of you, and you of them.

This does Atonement teach, and demonstrates the Oneness of God’s Son is unassailed by his belief he knows not what he is. Today accept Atonement, not to change reality, but merely to accept the truth about yourself, and go your way rejoicing in the endless Love of God. It is but this that we are asked to do. It is but this that we will do today. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 139, W-pI.139.9-10. See also ACIM Lesson 139 Insights.)

Today we give thanks for the truth of what we are. Today we practice giving recognition to the truth that everyone is God’s pure love and nothing else. The ego’s ideas of separation, guilt and fear are not true. Stories of winning and losing, birth and death are not true. Everyone is the eternal Spirit of Love, just as we are. Today we celebrate this fact.

We rest in God’s Love… We extend our gratitude that only the truth of God’s eternal oneness is true… We rest in this remembering today.

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