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Bringing Healing to the World

I feel the Love of God within me now.
The Love of God is what created me. The Love of God is
everything I am. The Love of God proclaimed me as His
Son. The Love of God within me sets me free.

I choose the joy of God instead of pain.
Pain is my own idea. It is not a Thought of God, but one I
thought apart from Him and from His Will. His Will is joy,
and only joy for His beloved Son. And that I choose, instead
of what I made.

I have a function God would have me fill.
I seek the function that would set me free from all the vain
illusions of the world. Only the function God has given me
can offer freedom. Only this I seek, and only this will I
accept as mine. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 209, W-pI.209.1:1-5;210.1:1-5;212.1:1-4. See also ACIM Lesson 209 Insights.)

When we look at events and behavior of people in the world, it doesn’t seem that there is much love to be seen. We see a lot more fear, anger, guilt, loss, chaos and lack of Love. This is because the body’s eyes can only see the images the ego made to hide the eternal Presence of Love.

We have a function given us by our Creator to see past the false images to the reality of Love. The ego cannot show us this. Our job is to turn away from the ego to the Voice for God within, with willingness to be guided to see truly. As we do this, we bring healing to our brothers and the world. Simultaneously we bring healing to ourselves, for pain is not a part of Love. When we accept the Love we are, there can be no pain, no loss, no guilt, nothing to fear.

Today we would accept the function we have been given by our Source.

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Being Willing to Receive Christ’s Vision

Grace is acceptance of the Love of God within a world of seeming hate and fear. By grace alone the hate and fear are gone, for grace presents a state so opposite to everything the world contains, that those whose minds are lighted by the gift of grace can not believe the world of fear is real.

…an open mind can hear the Call to waken. It is not shut tight against God’s Voice. It has become aware that there are things it does not know, and thus is ready to accept a state completely different from experience with which it is familiarly at home. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 169, W-pI.169.2:1-2;3:4-6. See also ACIM Lesson 169 Insights.)

Our experience as a body in a world of form is not our natural state. It is the projection of an aspect of our mind that want separation to be real. This aspect projects images of separation and believes it is real, though it is based entirely on belief in an idea that could never be true. As long as we are attached to this false idea and want it to be true, we are trapped in a dream that keeps the Love of God out of our awareness.

By God’s grace we have the Means to let go of belief in what could never be true. The Holy Spirit is ever present in our minds, ready to show us the truth that lies beyond the false images. But we need to be willing to ask for His help and accept His loving correction. This is how we forgive. This is how we let go of the dream. This is how we remove the barriers to Love and return to our natural state in Love’s Oneness.

Today we would remember that we do not know what anything means and we are willing to receive Christ’s vision of truth.

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Seeing the World Anew

Everyone here has entered darkness, yet no one has entered it alone. Nor need he stay more than an instant. For he has come with Heaven’s Help within him, ready to lead him out of darkness into light at any time. The time he chooses can be any time, for help is there, awaiting but his choice. And when he chooses to avail himself of what is given him, then will he see each situation that he thought before was means to justify his anger, turned to an event which justifies his love. He will hear plainly that the calls to war he heard before are really calls to peace. He will perceive that where he gave attack is but another altar where he can, with equal ease and far more happiness, bestow forgiveness. And he will reinterpret all temptation [to see separation] as just another chance to bring him joy.

How can a misperception be a sin? Let all your brother’s errors be to you nothing except a chance for you to see the workings of the Helper given you to see the world He made instead of yours. (A Course in Miracles, T-25.III.6:1-7:2. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

It is time to see the world anew. It is time to stop interpreting anything based upon our past learning. All that we have taught ourselves is false. Yet we have a Teacher within Whose function is to teach us what is true. But we must be willing to be taught.

Any moment that we are not supremely happy and at peace is an indication that we are misperceiving. We need to ask our inner Teacher to correct our misperception. If we are willing, we will see past our brother’s behavior; we will see past appearances to the truth that only Love is real. Every seeming disturbance is a call to be reminded that only Love is there. If we are willing to receive the Answer to that call, our natural response will be to forgive and extend Love.

That means that if we are willing, the Holy Spirit will show us that a racist attitude is a call for love coming from belief in lack of Love. Likewise, anger, guilt, shame, pain, depression, etc., are all calls for Love. As we let the Holy Spirit correct our misperceptions, which come from belief in separation, we return to God’s joy and peace.

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