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We Welcome God’s Answer

If you but knew the meaning of His Love, hope and despair would be impossible. For hope would be forever satisfied; despair of any kind unthinkable. His grace is His answer to all despair, for in [His grace] lies remembrance of His Love. Would He not gladly give the means by which His Will is recognized? His grace is yours by your acknowledgment. And memory of Him awakens in the mind that asks the means of Him whereby its sleep is done.

His gift of grace is more than just an answer. It restores all memories the sleeping mind forgot; all certainty of what Love’s meaning is.

God loves His Son. Request Him now to give the means by which this world will disappear, and vision first will come, with knowledge but an instant later. For in grace you see a light that covers all the world in love, and watch fear disappear from every face as hearts rise up and claim the light as theirs. {A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 168, W-pI.168.2;3:5-4:3. See also ACIM Lesson 168 Insights.)

The Holy Spirit is the means God gave us to restore our sleeping minds to the full awareness of God’s Presence. When we are willing to turn to the Holy Spirit to receive His perception in place of ours, He shines the Light of Love on what we perceive, dissipating the shadows of fear and guilt. For Love is the opposite of fear and sees only innocence.

Today we welcome God’s Answer to our sleep, for we would waken to our one Self Which is God’s Son.

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Our Journey of Awakening

Why would you not be overjoyed to be assured that all the evil that you think you did was never done, that all your sins are nothing, that you are as pure and holy as you were created, and that light and joy and peace abide in you? Your image of yourself cannot withstand the Will of God. You think that this is death, but it is life. You think you are destroyed, but you are saved.

The self you made is not the Son of God. Therefore, this self does not exist at all. And anything it seems to do and think means nothing. It is neither bad nor good. It is unreal, and nothing more than that. It does not battle with the Son of God. It does not hurt him, nor attack his peace. It has not changed creation, nor reduced eternal sinlessness to sin, and love to hate. What power can this self you made possess, when it would contradict the Will of God?

Salvation requires the acceptance of but one thought;—you are as God created you, not what you made of yourself.… You are and will forever be exactly as you were created. Light and joy and peace abide in you because God put them there. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 93, W-pI.93.4-5;7:1,6-7. See also ACIM Lesson 93 Insights.)

We are afraid of God’s Will because we believe we are in opposition to God when we identify with the Self the ego made. The ego is the denial of God. Because God’s Love is all that is real, anything made by the denial of God must be unreal, a fantasy. Our experience as a body in a world of form is pure fantasy and therefore not real.

By the grace of God, we are not stuck in this fearful fantasy without a way out. The moment we accepted the idea of separation, God gave us the Holy Spirit to guide us out of the hell we believe we are in. Let us accept this Help today by bringing all our fearful, guilty thoughts to the Holy Spirit to receive His help in releasing them. He will help us see these thoughts are based on nothing so we can freely let them go. This is our journey of awakening.

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How to Have a Year of Joy

No evidence will convince you of the truth of what you do not want. Yet your relationship with [the Holy Spirit] is real. Regard this not with fear, but with rejoicing. The One you called upon is with you. Bid Him welcome, and honor the witnesses who bring you the glad tidings He has come. It is true, just as you fear, that to acknowledge Him is to deny all that you think you know. But what you think you know was never true. What gain is there to you in clinging to it, and denying the evidence for truth? For you have come too near to truth to renounce it now, and you will yield to its compelling attraction. You can delay this now, but only a little while. The Host of God has called to you, and you have heard. Never again will you be wholly willing not to listen.

This is a year of joy, in which your listening will increase and peace will grow with its increase. The power of holiness and the weakness of attack are both being brought into your awareness. And this has been accomplished in a mind firmly convinced that holiness is weakness and attack is power. Should not this be a sufficient miracle to teach you that your Teacher is not of you? But remember also that whenever you listened to His interpretation the results have brought you joy. Would you prefer the results of your interpretation, considering honestly what they have been? God wills you better. Could you not look with greater charity on whom God loves with perfect Love?” (A Course in Miracles, T-16.II.6-7. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Every interpretation made with the ego is guaranteed to reinforce fear and guilt, for it is an interpretation made without Love. Every interpretation made with the Holy Spirit is guaranteed to bring peace and joy, for it is an interpretation made with Love.

This should be enough to motivate us to interpret everything with the Holy Spirit. Yet most of us are still tempted daily to choose the ego’s interpretations. This is because we are still confused about what will bring us happiness and peace. We think if someone else behaved differently, if our circumstances were different, if we had more money or a special relationship we would be happy.

Clearly we need to be taught where true and eternal happiness and peace can be found. Each time we follow the Holy Spirit’s interpretation, we experience more joy and greater peace. This is how we learn the Holy Spirit’s lessons in forgiveness. The increased joy and peace we feel becomes motivation to pay more attention to the Holy Spirit and less to the ego. We are more inclined to lay aside the illusions of the ego and accept the reality of our true Self as Love. This is how we move from hell to Heaven, our Home in God.

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Welcoming Holy Spirit’s Healing Lessons

The Son of God has both Father and Son, because he is both Father and Son. To unite having and being is to unite your will with His, for He wills you Himself. And you will yourself to Him because, in your perfect understanding of Him, you know there is but one Will. Yet when you attack any part of God and His Kingdom your understanding is not perfect, and what you really want is therefore lost to you.

Healing thus becomes a lesson in understanding, and the more you practice it the better teacher and learner you become.… Every healing thought that you accept, either from your brother or in your own mind, teaches you that you are God’s Son. In every hurtful thought you hold, wherever you perceive it, lies the denial of God’s Fatherhood and of your Sonship.

Healing is a sign that you want to make whole. And this willingness opens your ears to the Voice of the Holy Spirit, Whose message is wholeness. He will enable you to go far beyond the healing you would undertake, for beside your small willingness to make whole He will lay His Own complete Will and make yours whole. (A Course in Miracles, T-11.II.1:3-2:1,5-6;4:1-3. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Every thought stemming from belief in separation is an attack on the Son of God. We cannot know or understand the Self that is God’s Son while we believe we are a separate identity housed in a body. This is a belief in a false image. In many ways the Course tells us not to mistake the body for the Son of God.

The Holy Spirit is always ready to help us learn that we are not a body and remain whole as God’s Son. But we must welcome His lessons. We do not have to be certain that we want the Holy Spirit’s lesson. But we must be willing to invite Him in. To that little willingness, the Holy Spirit adds His total willingness to make us whole. Just be willing to let our mistaken thoughts be healed and God’s teacher will show us the truth of What we are. We will learn to see our oneness with our brother. We will realize that we want to be truly helpful to every brother, for that is how we both heal.

Today we welcome Holy Spirit’s lessons in wholeness that we may heal and be healed.

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Learning Forgiveness from the Holy Spirit

How holy am I, who have been given the function of lighting up the world! Let me be still before my holiness. In its calm light let all my conflicts disappear. In its peace let me remember Who I am.

Some specific forms for applying this idea when special difficulties seem to arise might be:

Let me not obscure the light of the world in me.
Let the light of the world shine through this appearance.
This shadow will vanish before the light.

Forgiveness is my function as the light of the world. It is through accepting my function that I will see the light in me. And in this light will my function stand clear and perfectly unambiguous before my sight. My acceptance does not depend on my recognizing what my function is, for I do not yet understand forgiveness. Yet I will trust that, in the light, I will see it as it is.

Specific forms for using this idea might include:

Let this help me learn what forgiveness means.
Let me not separate my function from my will.
I will not use this for an alien purpose. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 81, W-pI.81.1:2-4:4. See also ACIM Lesson 81 Insights.)

What is forgiveness? The ego’s version is to first decide that something wrong really happened. Through our belief, what appeared to happen is real. Then we must be generous and tell ourselves that seemed to happen is okay so we will be magnanimous and “forgive” it. Yet we still believe that what we “forgave” really happened.

A sign that that the ego’s “forgiveness” didn’t work is, if what we believe happened occurs again and maybe again and again, we react in the same way with anger, fear or guilt. We might say to ourselves, “That’s the third time!” If we have been counting, we haven’t truly forgiven.

The Holy Spirit has a different definition of forgiveness which we must learn if we would heal and remember Who we truly are. If we are willing to learn the Holy Spirit’s lesson, we must be willing to let Him show us His way of seeing what we believe happened. His Light will show us that what we thought harmed us or another had no effect on our true Self.

God’s Son can neither harm nor be harmed. The ego is incapable of showing us this. We must bring our anger, fear or guilt to the Holy Spirit to let Him help us see truly. With His vision, we will have certainty that nothing happened to harm or be harmed. With His vision, the pain of unforgiveness will be replaced with peace. It is this process that is our function as the Light of the world.

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Forgiveness Guarantees Happiness

All false humility we lay aside today, that we may listen to God’s Voice reveal to us what He would have us do. We do not doubt our adequacy for the function He will offer us. We will be certain only that He knows our strengths, our wisdom and our holiness. And if He deems us worthy, so we are. It is but arrogance that judges otherwise.

His gentle Voice is calling from the known to the unknowing. He would comfort you, although He knows no sorrow. He would make a restitution, though He is complete; a gift to you, although He knows that you have everything already. He has Thoughts which answer every need His Son perceives, although He sees them not. For Love must give, and what is given in His Name takes on the form most useful in a world of form.

These are the forms which never can deceive, because they come from Formlessness Itself. Forgiveness is an earthly form of love, which as it is in Heaven has no form. Yet what is needed here is given here as it is needed. In this form you can fulfill your function even here, although what love will mean to you when formlessness has been restored to you is greater still. Salvation of the world depends on you who can forgive. Such is your function here. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 186, W-pI.186.4;13;14. See also ACIM Lesson 186 Insights.)

Forgiveness is our only function given us by God in His plan for our salvation. Fulfilling this function guarantees a happy outcome, for it takes away the barriers to Love’s presence.

As we are willing to welcome God’s Voice, He will teach us how to see past the images of guilt and fear to help us recognize that nothing can happen to change the truth of What we are as God’s one Son. God’s Son can neither harm nor be harmed because Love is wholly harmless. This is what God created us to be.

Today we practice bringing everything that disturbs our peace of mind to the Voice for God, willing to receive His gentle correction. Thus will we do our part in God’s plan for salvation.

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Accepting Holy Spirit’s Gift of Peace

Before a holy relationship there is no sin. The form of error is no longer seen, and reason, joined with love, looks quietly on all confusion, observing merely, “This was a mistake.” And then the same Atonement you accepted in your relationship corrects the error, and lays a part of Heaven in its place. How blessed are you who let this gift be given! Each part of Heaven that you bring is given you. And every empty place in Heaven that you fill again with the eternal light you bring, shines now on you. The means of sinlessness can know no fear because they carry only love with them.

Child of peace, the light has come to you. The light you bring you do not recognize, and yet you will remember. Who can deny himself the vision that he brings to others? And who would fail to recognize a gift he let be laid in Heaven through himself? The gentle service that you give the Holy Spirit is service to yourself. You who are now His means must love all that He loves. And what you bring is your remembrance of everything that is eternal. No trace of anything in time can long remain in a mind that serves the timeless. And no illusion can disturb the peace of a relationship that has become the means of peace. (A Course in Miracles, T-22.VI.5-6. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

The Holy Spirit’s purpose is to lead our minds to the recognition that we remain unchanged as God created us. We serve the Holy Spirit’s purpose by letting the Holy Spirit help us forgive our thoughts of separation, guilt and fear. Each time we accept His help we let the brilliant Light of Heaven into our minds. The Light of Heaven shines ever more brightly each time we let go of a barrier to the awareness of Love’s presence. Love is everywhere to be seen. We need only let go of mistaken beliefs that hide it from our vision.

The holy relationship, dedicated to forgiveness, is the classroom for the Holy Spirit’s lessons. It is how we learn to open to His gifts of freedom and peace. We accept these gifts as we share them with our brother. For it is in the sharing that we learn that they belong to us.

Today we practice bringing all our guilty, fearful and judgmental thoughts to the Holy Spirit for His loving correction.

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