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Accepting God’s Plan of Awakening

You may wonder how you can be at peace when, while you are in time, there is so much that must be done before the way to peace is open. Perhaps this seems impossible to you. But ask yourself if it is possible that God would have a plan for your salvation that does not work. Once you accept His plan as the one function that you would fulfill, there will be nothing else the Holy Spirit will not arrange for you without your effort. He will go before you making straight your path, and leaving in your way no stones to trip on, and no obstacles to bar your way. Nothing you need will be denied you. Not one seeming difficulty but will melt away before you reach it. You need take thought for nothing, careless of everything except the only purpose that you would fulfill. As that was given you, so will its fulfillment be. God’s guarantee will hold against all obstacles, for it rests on certainty and not contingency. It rests on you. And what can be more certain than a Son of God? (A Course in Miracles, T-20.IV.8. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

The doubt and uncertainty we experience in the world comes from believing we are disconnected from the Source of certainty. Believing we are alone in a world of conflict leaves us feeling vulnerable and in need of defense.

This sense of weakness is dispelled when we accept God’s plan for our awakening. God’s plan leads us back to the remembrance of our eternal Home in which we are perfectly safe, perfectly loved and perfectly loving. To help us fulfill God’s plan, we have the Holy Spirit to guide us. His sole purpose is to teach us to recognize the false identity we have believed in.

When its falsity is recognized, we automatically withdraw our belief in it. Because of our decision to accept God’s plan for our release from the dream of separation, the Holy Spirit prepares the way for us. He guides us to the experiences that will help us let go of the mistaken beliefs that keep us imprisoned. We can be confident that the Holy Spirit prepares the way for us to return Home to the certainty of God’s changeless Love.

We dedicate today to accepting God’s plan for our awakening.

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Our Mission of Awakening

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.

I will accept Atonement for myself,
For I remain as God created me.

We have not lost the knowledge that God gave to us when He created us like Him. We can remember it for everyone, for in creation are all minds as one. And in our memory is the recall how dear our brothers are to us in truth, how much a part of us is every mind, how faithful they have really been to us, and how our Father’s Love contains them all. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 139, W-pI.139.9-10;11:3-6. See also ACIM Lesson 139 Insights.)

It brings us great joy when we see the Love that is the truth in every brother. All the loneliness, sadness, pain, guilt and fear we experience comes from seeing false images that deny the truth of What we are. To see ourselves or anyone as a body denies our true Identity as extensions of God’s Love.

Our mission here is to lay aside the false beliefs that blind us to the presence of changeless Love everywhere. The focal point of these false images is the body. This is why we need to remind ourselves frequently, every day, “I am not a body. I am free. I am still as God created me.” This is our mission.

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Our Purpose Is to Bless the World

[‘My holiness blesses the world’] contains the first glimmerings of your true function in the world, or why you are here. Your purpose is to see the world through your own holiness. Thus are you and the world blessed together. No one loses; nothing is taken away from anyone; everyone gains through your holy vision. It signifies the end of sacrifice because it offers everyone his full due. And he is entitled to everything because it is his birthright as a Son of God.

Your holiness is the salvation of the world. It lets you teach the world that it is one with you, not by preaching to it, not by telling it anything, but merely by your quiet recognition that in your holiness are all things blessed along with you.

If anyone seems to cause an adverse reaction in you, offer him the blessing of your holiness immediately, that you may learn to keep it in your own awareness. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 37, W-pI.37.1;3;6:3-4. See also ACIM Lesson 37 Insights.)

The ego tries to convince us that we are anything but holy. It tells us that claiming we are holy is arrogant. This is because the ego needs us to believe we are guilty and unworthy in order to maintain its status as our guide in the world.

Actually it is the ego that is arrogant when it denies the truth that we were created holy as God’s one Son. Our purpose in the world is to remember that we were created holy and all that is real is holy, along with us. In our acceptance of our shared holiness, we recognize that we remain whole, united as God’s one Son.

The practice of sharing Holy Spirit’s vision helps us remember our own wholeness. In this remembering we are blessed and we bless our brothers by seeing them whole. This vision comes in our mind, not through the body’s eyes, for they were made to see only limitation. Our mind’s eye sees only the one Mind, where we live and have our being eternally.

Holy Spirit, help us see as you see, for we would bless the world.

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Accepting the Light of Truth Within

…while the body stands at the center of your concept of yourself, you are attacking God’s plan for salvation, and holding your grievances against Him and His creation, that you may not hear the Voice of truth and welcome It as Friend.

The light of truth is in us, where it was placed by God. It is the body that is outside us, and is not our concern. To be without a body is to be in our natural state. To recognize the light of truth in us is to recognize ourselves as we are. To see our Self as separate from the body is to end the attack on God’s plan for salvation, and to accept it instead. And wherever His plan is accepted, it is accomplished already.

We are no longer asking the ego what salvation is and where to find it. We are asking it of truth. Be certain, then, that the answer will be true because of Whom you ask. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 72, W-pI.72.7:4;9;11:5-7. See also ACIM Lesson 72 Insights.)

Being the denial of Truth, the ego is incapable of leading us to Truth. When we identify with the body as what we are, we are identifying with the ego and thus denying Truth. We are accepting the body’s limitations as our own, making it impossible to hear the Voice of Truth.

But there is a way to hear the Voice of Truth. As we are willing to step back from identifying with the body as what we are, we release the Self from the illusion of limitation. We open the door to the recognition that we are not a body. We are free. We are still as God created Us. The acceptance of this fact is our salvation from the limitations of the ego.

We move toward this release by being willing to quiet our minds and welcome the Light of Truth which is within us. Peace and understanding are always found together. In peace the Voice of Truth is heard. In peace we can receive Christ’s vision, which looks beyond the body to the Light of Love that is God’s Creation.

Today we practice stepping back from bodily identification and welcoming the peace within. In this peace we will have the vision that shows us the one Self we share with all our brothers. With this vision we are freed.

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Opening to the Vision of Truth

The idea for today [My only function is the one God gave me] reaffirms your commitment to salvation. It also reminds you that you have no function other than that. Both these thoughts are obviously necessary for a total commitment. Salvation cannot be the only purpose you hold while you still cherish others. The full acceptance of salvation as your only function necessarily entails two phases; the recognition of salvation as your function, and the relinquishment of all the other goals you have invented for yourself.

Today’s idea offers you escape from all your perceived difficulties. It places the key to the door of peace, which you have closed upon yourself, in your own hands. It gives you the answer to all the searching you have done since time began. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 65, W-pI.65.1;3:2-3. See also ACIM Lesson 65 Insights.)

The world we experience and see through the body’s eyes is a made up-virtual reality. By definition, a virtual reality is an illusion of reality. It is a substitute for the true Reality that is ours as God’s Creation. This virtual reality only seems to affect us if we believe that this substitute is real. Given this belief, we react to all that seems to happen in this substitute reality as if it were real.

We have been given a function by our Creator that will help us withdraw our belief in the substitute reality. This function will relieve us of all the conflict, guilt, fear and loneliness that is inherent in the substitute reality. The function is very simple. It is to let go of identifying with the false reality and be willing to accept our true Reality instead.

We accept the function given us by God by offering all our perceptions to the Holy Spirit with willingness to have our illusions of purpose be replaced by Truth. We need to be vigilant in the practice of turning over our perceptions to the Holy Spirit, Who will purify them and return to us the vision of Truth that looks beyond the substitute appearances of the world.

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Release from Guilt

It is essential that error be not confused with sin, and it is this distinction that makes salvation possible. For error can be corrected, and the wrong made right. But sin, were it possible, would be irreversible. The belief in sin is necessarily based on the firm conviction that minds, not bodies, can attack. And thus the mind is guilty, and will forever so remain unless a mind not part of it can give it absolution. Sin calls for punishment as error for correction, and the belief that punishment is correction is clearly insane.

Sin is not an error, for sin entails an arrogance which the idea of error lacks. To sin would be to violate reality, and to succeed. Sin is the proclamation that attack is real and guilt is justified. It assumes the Son of God is guilty, and has thus succeeded in losing his innocence and making himself what God created not. Thus is creation seen as not eternal, and the Will of God open to opposition and defeat. Sin is the grand illusion underlying all the ego’s grandiosity. For by it God Himself is changed, and rendered incomplete.

The Son of God can be mistaken; he can deceive himself; he can even turn the power of his mind against himself. But he cannot sin. There is nothing he can do that would really change his reality in any way, nor make him really guilty. (A Course in Miracles, T-19.II.1:1-3:3. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

The ego’s seeming existence is founded on the false belief that mistakes cannot be corrected. This is the ego’s substitute for the reality of God’s eternal Love. By making mistakes uncorrectable, the ego seems to make itself eternal. This is nothing but the ego’s grand illusion.

The release from the guilt built into the ego thought system cannot be found in the ego. It is designed to be self-perpetuating. But guilt only persists as long as belief is invested in the ego’s lies. We have a Teacher Whose sole purpose is the teach us to recognize these lies for what they are. As we are willing to let our thoughts be purified by the Holy Spirit’s vision, we learn to recognize the ego’s deceptions for what they are.

Today we focus on holding our minds open to the Holy Spirit’s perception of our thoughts, feelings, experiences and interpretations as we go through our day. This is how we let our minds be purified of self-deceit that makes guilt seem real and welcome the truth that we remain Love as Love created us.

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Receiving the Holy Spirit’s Gifts of Release

To forgive is merely to remember only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you. All the rest must be forgotten. Forgiveness is a selective remembering, based not on your selection.

The real world is attained simply by the complete forgiveness of the old, the world you see without forgiveness. The great Transformer of perception will undertake with you the careful searching of the mind that made this world, and uncover to you the seeming reasons for your making it. In the light of the real reason that He brings, as you follow Him, He will show you that there is no reason here at all. Each spot His reason touches grows alive with beauty, and what seemed ugly in the darkness of your lack of reason is suddenly released to loveliness. Not even what the Son of God made in insanity could be without a hidden spark of beauty that gentleness could release.

All this beauty will rise to bless your sight as you look upon the world with forgiving eyes. For forgiveness literally transforms vision, and lets you see the real world reaching quietly and gently across chaos, removing all illusions that had twisted your perception and fixed it on the past. (A Course in Miracles, T-17.III.1:1-3;II.5:1-6:2. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

It is not our responsibility to root out the hidden memories that foster our judgments and guilt. It is our responsibility to offer all our thoughts of judgment, guilt and fear to the Holy Spirit with willingness to let Him uncover for us the mistaken beliefs that deny us the vision of the loveliness of God’s Son. The Holy Spirit will show us that our mistaken beliefs are based on nothing and have no substance. As we receive His vision, we freely release mistaken beliefs and the fearful, guilty shadows of these beliefs fade into the nothingness from which they came.

Today we practice bringing our judgments and fears to the Holy Spirit, with willingness to receive the His gift of release.

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