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Accepting Our Perfect Self

God goes with me wherever I go. How can I be alone when God always goes with me? How can I be doubtful and unsure of myself when perfect certainty abides in Him? How can I be disturbed by anything when He rests in me in absolute peace? How can I suffer when love and joy surround me through Him? Let me not cherish illusions about myself. I am perfect because God goes with me wherever I go.

God is my strength. Vision is His gift. Let me not look to my own eyes to see today. Let me be willing to exchange my pitiful illusion of seeing for the vision that is given by God. Christ’s vision is His gift, and He has given it to me. Let me call upon this gift today, so that this day may help me to understand eternity. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 59, W-pI.59.1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 59 Insights.)

Our true Self is wholly unaffected by the chaos of the world seen through the body’s eyes. Our true Self is perfect Love and sees only perfect Love. As we choose God’s gift of Christ’s vision, we will see the same perfect Love everywhere. Christ’s vision shows us the peace and changeless certainty of God. This is our Home, where we were created to be and still remain. We can claim it now.

Each time we choose Christ’s vision over the ego’s perception of separation, guilt and fear, we are clearing the way to remembering our Home. Today we choose Christ’s vision to guide our seeing that we may recognize the perfection of our one Self everywhere.

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Learning Holy Spirit’s Lessons in Love

I seek my own Identity, and find It in these words: “Love, which created me, is what I am.” Now need I seek no more. Love has prevailed. So still It waited for my coming home, that I will turn away no longer from the holy face of Christ. And what I look upon attests the truth of the Identity I sought to lose, but which my Father has kept safe for me.

Father, my thanks to You for what I am; for keeping my Identity untouched and sinless, in the midst of all the thoughts of sin my foolish mind made up. And thanks to You for saving me from them. Amen. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 229, W-pII.229. See also ACIM Lesson 229 Insights.)

Love sees only Love, for only Love is real. As I let the Holy Spirit teach me to look past the images of the world I made, I will see the Love He sees.

As I acknowledge the Love in my brother, I acknowledge It in myself. As my judgments deny the Love I am, forgiveness helps me remember that I am Love. I want to forgive truly and I am willing to be taught to remember What I am.

Today I am willing to accept the Holy Spirit’s lessons in Love and learn that I am Love.

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Returning to Love, Our Self

…truth remains forever living in the joy of love. And this [is] the choice to recognize the Self Whom God created as the Son He loves, and Who remains my one Identity.

Father, Your Name is Love and so is mine. Such is the truth. And can the truth be changed by merely giving it another name? The name of fear is simply a mistake. Let me not be afraid of truth today. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 282, W-pII.282.1:3-2:5. See also ACIM Lesson 282 Insights.)

A Course in Miracles is training us to return to Love — our true Identity. Our true Identity has never changed, but we have covered It over with images of many names that hide our true Identity from our awareness. Yet the Love we are remains ever present, waiting only on our acceptance to be experienced.

Learning to forgive, to look past all the made up images is the way we return to the Love that is our true Self. If we want to experience Love, we have to give up all of our judgments and let the Holy Spirit judge everything on our behalf. The Holy Spirit sees only Love and dismisses any appearance of lack of Love as meaningless and nothing. This means we must give up our judgments of fear and guilt of anyone and anything.

Holy Spirit, we give our thoughts to you today. Teach us to see them truly so that we may learn that only Love is real.

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Choosing the Path to Healing

You see what you expect, and you expect what you invite. Your perception is the result of your invitation, coming to you as you sent for it. Whose manifestations would you see? Of whose presence would you be convinced? For you will believe in what you manifest, and as you look out so will you see in. Two ways of looking at the world are in your mind, and your perception will reflect the guidance you have chosen.

When you want only love you will see nothing else.

The power of decision is your one remaining freedom as a prisoner of this world. You can decide to see it right. What you made of it is not its reality, for its reality is only what you gave it. You cannot really give anything but love to anyone or anything, nor can you really receive anything but love from them. If you think you have received anything else, it is because you have looked within and thought you saw the power to give something else within yourself. It was only this decision that determined what you found, for it was the decision for what you sought. (A Course in Miracles, T-12.VII.5;8:1;9. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

It seems hard to believe that the world we see is there by our invitation. We invite it by identifying with the ego. When we accept the ego thought system as our own, all of its wild imaginings seem to be ours.

The core destructive aspect of the ego thought system is its wish for death, its wish to be separate from the Source of Life. All the seeming pleasant aspects of the world’s appearance are just camouflage for the underlying ego wish for separation and death. But this underlying wish still shows up in all the appearances of destruction in the world.

The means to release ourselves from the prison of the ego thought system is forgiveness. If we choose the Holy Spirit as our Guide in all our decisions, all our perceptions, we loosen the chains of the belief in fear. The Holy Spirit will always lead us to healing. The ego will always lead us to the appearance of death. We can choose the path to healing and release by choosing the Holy Spirit as our Guide.

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Accepting God’s Strength as Ours

God is my strength. Vision is His gift.

You will see because it is the Will of God. It is His strength, not your own, that gives you power. And it is His gift, rather than your own, that offers vision to you.

God is indeed your strength, and what He gives is truly given. This means that you can receive it any time and anywhere, wherever you are, and in whatever circumstance you find yourself. Your passage through time and space is not at random. You cannot but be in the right place at the right time. Such is the strength of God. Such are His gifts. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 42, W-pI.42.1:3-2:6. See also ACIM Lesson 42 Insights.)

God is our strength. We can do anything that is God’s (our) Will. Seeing the face of Christ in all our brothers is our natural ability. It is easy to see innocence because God gave us the ability to see it.

God’s strength is always available to help us see. Whenever we are in fear, we can always call on God’s strength in us to help us see Love. The vision given us by God shows us innocence and nothing else. With the vision given by God, we see past judgment to Love.

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Letting God’s Joy Fill Our Hearts

God’s is the only Will. When you have recognized this, you have recognized that your will is His. The belief that conflict is possible has gone. Peace has replaced the strange idea that you are torn by conflicting goals. As an expression of the Will of God, you have no goal but His.

Without illusions conflict is impossible. Let us try to recognize this today, and experience the peace this recognition brings.

There is no will but God’s. I cannot be in conflict.

I am at peace.
Nothing can disturb me. My will is God’s.
My will and God’s are one.
God wills peace for His Son.

There is no will but God’s. …conflict
thoughts are meaningless.

There is no will but God’s. I share it with Him.
My conflicts about _____ cannot be real.

There is no will but God’s. I seek His peace today. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 74, W-pI.74.1:2-6;2:4-5;3:2-3,5-9,12-13;4:3-5;7:2-3. See also ACIM Lesson 74 Insights.)

What if all that we experience is the continuous flow of Love — giving and receiving, receiving and giving? There could be no conflict in this experience, only the limitless joy of the constant flow of Love. The Love that we are would freely join with Love everywhere, in everyone. This is our natural state.

We do not experience the constant flow of Love because we believe we have a will apart from God. This belief introduces conflict. Peace and joy disappear.

But we are not lost forever in this illusion of a separate will. We can let go of the mistaken belief that we have a will in opposition to God’s. We need only be willing to accept that the appearance of conflict is not real. This opens the door for the Holy Spirit to remind us of the truth that we share the Will of Love in perfect oneness and perfect peace.

Today we will be vigilant to let the Holy Spirit interpret all that we perceive on our behalf. He will teach us that all conflict is meaningless and God’s joy will fill our hearts.

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Accepting Perfect Happiness

My present happiness is all I see.

With this resolve I come to You, and ask Your strength to hold me up today, while I but seek to do Your Will. You cannot fail to hear me, Father. What I ask have You already given me. And I am sure that I will see my happiness today. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 290, W-pII.290.2. See also ACIM Lesson 290 Insights.)

There is only one thing we need to do today to make us happy. We need to do God’s Will because His Will is our will. This is the only way to be happy. The ego’s plan for happiness is actually to short circuit happiness because it is the denial of God and therefore the denial of our true Will.

We dedicate today to following our true Will and accepting God’s strength as ours. It is through the strength of God in us that we do what is given to us to do to bring happiness to the world. We are not on our own. We are united with the Source of all strength, the Source of Love, the Source of happiness.

Today we accept God’s Will for our perfect happiness.

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