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An Accelerated Path of Return to Love

Father, today I would but hear Your Voice. In deepest silence I would come to You, to hear Your Voice and to receive Your Word. I have no prayer but this: I come to You to ask You for the truth. And truth is but Your Will, which I would share with You today.

Today we let no ego thoughts direct our words or actions. When such thoughts occur, we quietly step back and look at them, and then we let them go. We do not want what they would bring with them. And so we do not choose to keep them. They are silent now. And in the stillness, hallowed by His Love, God speaks to us and tells us of our will, as we have chosen to remember Him. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 254,W-pII.254. See also ACIM Lesson 254 Insights.)

Here we have a concise summary of the process of true forgiveness: When ego thoughts occur, “we quietly step back and look at them, and then we let them go.” This is how we open our minds to the truth that will set us free from the ego’s tyranny of fear and guilt.

The first step is to recognize ego thoughts. A key symptom of ego thoughts is lack of peace because ego thoughts always deny the peace of God. Whenever we recognize our peace has been disturbed, it is time to step back, look at the thoughts and turn them over to the Holy Spirit with willingness to receive His guidance and help to let them go.

This every day, all day, practice will accelerate our return to the recognition and certainty that we are at Home in Heaven. We are safe in Love. Our will is joined with God’s Will with the sole focus of being and extending Love.

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Accepting God’s Strength as Ours

The world gives rise but to defensiveness. For threat brings anger, anger makes attack seem reasonable, honestly provoked, and righteous in the name of self-defense.

Defenselessness is strength. It testifies to recognition of the Christ in you. Perhaps you will recall the text maintains that choice is always made between Christ’s strength and your own weakness, seen apart from Him. Defenselessness can never be attacked, because it recognizes strength so great attack is folly, or a silly game a tired child might play, when he becomes too sleepy to remember what he wants.

We look past dreams today, and recognize that we need no defense because we are created unassailable, without all thought or wish or dream in which attack has any meaning. Now we cannot fear, for we have left all fearful thoughts behind. And in defenselessness we stand secure, serenely certain of our safety now, sure of salvation; sure we will fulfill our chosen purpose, as our ministry extends its holy blessing through the world.

Be still a moment, and in silence think how holy is your purpose, how secure you rest, untouchable within its light. God’s ministers have chosen that the truth be with them. A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 153,(W-pI.153.2:1-2;6;9:1-10:2. See also ACIM Lesson 153 Insights.)

When we believe we are a body, we automatically have an attitude of defensiveness, because we believe the body is weak, vulnerable and needs protection. But as the Course emphasizes, we are not a body. Accepting this fact frees us from the fear that comes with believing we are a vulnerable body.

It is not God’s Will that we be separate, alone and imprisoned in a body. Only illusions could seem to make this belief real. We feel no need to defend when we accept that we are in truth God’s Son and all God’s strength is ours. God’s changelessness is ours. What is changeless is invulnerable. When we accept that God’s Will is ours, we accept our Identity as His Son.

Our true Identity is a fact that cannot be changed. But we have hidden It from our awareness with dreams of separation. It is these dreams that must be forgiven to let go of the veil that hides our true Identity. As we choose the Holy Spirit’s vision in place of our perceptions, we move to the experience of knowing God’s peace and joy and Love are ours eternally. We dedicate today to choosing Holy Spirit’s vision.

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Gratitude for Our Unbreakable Link with God

A day devoted now to gratitude will add the benefit of some insight into the real extent of all the gains which you have made; the gifts you have received. Be glad today, in loving thankfulness, your Father has not left you to yourself, nor let you wander in the dark alone. Be grateful He has saved you from the self you thought you made to take the place of Him and His creation. Give Him thanks today.

Give thanks that He has not abandoned you, and that His Love forever will remain shining on you, forever without change. Give thanks as well that you are changeless, for the Son He loves is changeless as Himself. Be grateful you are saved. Be glad you have a function in salvation to fulfill.

Today we smile on everyone we see, and walk with lightened footsteps as we go to do what is appointed us to do.

Receive His thanks, and you will understand how lovingly He holds you in His Mind, how deep and limitless His care for you, how perfect is His gratitude to you. Remember hourly to think of Him, and give Him thanks for everything He gave His Son, that he might rise above the world, remembering his Father and his Self. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 123,W-pI.123.2:1-3:4;4:3;8. See also ACIM Lesson 123 Insights.)

Because we are as changeless as our Creator, we only need to be saved from the illusion of a separate self we have made up. We need only accept the truth to know that we are free of the limitations of the ego thought system.

While we believe we are a limited self, it is helpful to be assured that our Creator still Loves us without limit or condition. As we express gratitude for the certainty of God’s Love, it reinforces the truth of this in our troubled mind. Everything that disturbs our peace, seems to be cause for guilt or fear, comes solely from believing in a false identity.

We are grateful today that no matter what we may dream, the dream cannot change our Reality. Though we may seem to be alone in our dream, our Creator is still with us in our mind. The certainty of God’s Love in our mind guarantees our safety. We can rest assured that we are safe in the Heart of God.

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Seeing Love’s Light in Everyone

Grandeur is of God, and only of Him. Therefore it is in you. Whenever you become aware of it, however dimly, you abandon the ego automatically, because in the presence of the grandeur of God the meaninglessness of the ego becomes perfectly apparent. When this occurs, even though it does not understand it, the ego believes that its “enemy” has struck, and attempts to offer gifts to induce you to return to its “protection.” Self-inflation is the only offering it can make. The grandiosity of the ego is its alternative to the grandeur of God. Which will you choose?

Grandiosity is always a cover for despair. It is without hope because it is not real. It is an attempt to counteract your littleness, based on the belief that the littleness is real. Without this belief grandiosity is meaningless, and you could not possibly want it. The essence of grandiosity is competitiveness, because it always involves attack. It is a delusional attempt to outdo, but not to undo.

The ego is immobilized in the presence of God’s grandeur, because His grandeur establishes your freedom.

From your grandeur you can only bless, because your grandeur is your abundance. By blessing you hold it in your mind, protecting it from illusions and keeping yourself in the Mind of God. Remember always that you cannot be anywhere except in the Mind of God. When you forget this, you will despair and you will attack. (A Course in Miracles, T-9.VIII.1:-2:6;4:1;5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The grandeur of God is in us because our true Self remains united with Its Creator. Our sense of vulnerability, uncertainty and guilt comes from believing in the ego thought system of separation. In Reality, separation is impossible. But if we believe we are separate, this sense of vulnerability and isolation is automatic.

The ego is in competition with God for our attention. It has no substance and no strength of its own. It depends entirely on our belief and our identification with it to seem to have any effect at all. But the ego’s effects are meaningless because they are based on the false premise that separation is real. The moment we accept our unity with our Creator we accept our true grandeur, which shines away the dark beliefs of the ego.

It is helpful to realize that when we feel defensive, competitive, depressed or alone, we are denying our innate grandeur that comes from our oneness with God. We are believing in a false image of our self. By asking the Holy Spirit to be the interpreter of all our perceptions, we learn to overlook displays of grandiosity and see beyond them to the grandeur of the Light of Love that is in everyone. The more we welcome this vision, the more we will experience the peace and joy of God. We will bless everyone by seeing the truth in them.

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Choosing Perfect Happiness

It is perfectly obvious that if the Holy Spirit looks with love on all He perceives, He looks with love on you. His evaluation of you is based on His knowledge of what you are, and so He evaluates you truly. And this evaluation must be in your mind, because He is. The ego is also in your mind, because you have accepted it there. Its evaluation of you, however, is the exact opposite of the Holy Spirit’s, because the ego does not love you. It is unaware of what you are, and wholly mistrustful of everything it perceives because its perceptions are so shifting. The ego is therefore capable of suspiciousness at best and viciousness at worst. That is its range. It cannot exceed it because of its uncertainty. And it can never go beyond it because it can never be certain.

You, then, have two conflicting evaluations of yourself in your mind, and they cannot both be true. You do not yet realize how completely different these evaluations are, because you do not understand how lofty the Holy Spirit’s perception of you really is. He is not deceived by anything you do, because He never forgets what you are.

The Holy Spirit judges against the reality of the ego’s thought system merely because He knows its foundation is not true. Therefore, nothing that arises from it means anything. He judges every belief you hold in terms of where it comes from. If it comes from God, He knows it to be true. If it does not, He knows that it is meaningless. (A Course in Miracles, T-9.VII.3:1-4:3;7:6-10. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Our happiness, which is our salvation, comes with accepting our true Will — the Will of God. God’s Will for us is perfect happiness. When we align with the ego thought system in our mind, we are choosing against our true Will. We are choosing against happiness. To seek for happiness within the ego thought system is futile because the ego is the denial of what brings us true happiness.

If we let the Holy Spirit judge all things on our behalf, He will dismiss as meaningless what comes from the ego thought system and bring to Light the truth as He knows it. What the Holy Spirit knows is in perfect alignment with the Will of God. To choose the Holy Spirit to guide us in all things is to choose perfect happiness.

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A Practice to Awaken to Love

You are one Self, united and secure in light and joy and peace. You are God’s Son, one Self, with one Creator and one goal; to bring awareness of this oneness to all minds, that true creation may extend the allness and the unity of God. You are one Self, complete and healed and whole, with power to lift the veil of darkness from the world, and let the light in you come through to teach the world the truth about yourself.

You are one Self, in perfect harmony with all there is, and all that there will be. You are one Self, the holy Son of God, united with your brothers in that Self; united with your Father in His Will. Feel this one Self in you, and let It shine away all your illusions and your doubts. This is your Self, the Son of God Himself, sinless as Its Creator, with His strength within you and His Love forever yours. You are one Self, and it is given you to feel this Self within you, and to cast all your illusions out of the one Mind that is this Self, the holy truth in you.

To everyone you meet today, be sure to give the promise of today’s idea and tell him this:

You are one Self with me, united with our Creator in this Self. I honor you because of What I am, and What He is, Who loves us both as One. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 95,W-pI.95.12-13;15:2-4. See also ACIM Lesson 95 Insights.)

Our one Self is Love and nothing else, for It is the creation of Love. Our one Self remains united with our Creator and therefore shares all of Its attributes. What is one is the same everywhere, with no differences, shadows or forms that could distinguish one part from another.

To perceive a part is to perceive separation, which cannot be contained in oneness. This uniformity of Love is what makes us whole and complete, invulnerable and in perfect peace. Whenever we experience any disturbance to our peace, perceive anything as different from What we are, we are believing in a false self-image.

The practice, today, of acknowledging that our one Self encompasses every brother and keeps us whole and safe is the way to remember the truth of What we are. It helps us forgive our mistaken self-image and open our minds to the inclusiveness of our one Self, which unites us with every brother and our Creator. It is the path of return to our eternal Home in Love.

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Returning to Our True Home

Can you imagine how beautiful those you forgive will look to you? In no fantasy have you ever seen anything so lovely. Nothing you see here, sleeping or waking, comes near to such loveliness. And nothing will you value like unto this, nor hold so dear. Nothing that you remember that made your heart sing with joy has ever brought you even a little part of the happiness this sight will bring you. For you will see the Son of God. You will behold the beauty the Holy Spirit loves to look upon, and which He thanks the Father for. He was created to see this for you, until you learned to see it for yourself. And all His teaching leads to seeing it and giving thanks with Him.

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. (A Course in Miracles, T-17.II.1;5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

It is time to give up seeking happiness in the forms of the world. Happiness is an inside job because it is a gift already given us by our Creator. The world of separation made by the ego stands as a barrier that hides our happiness, peace and our limitless Love from our awareness.

The Holy Spirit, the great Transformer, is ever-present in our mind. If we choose His guidance, He will gently and lovingly guide us out of the chaotic world of images made by the ego as a substitute for the reality of changeless Love. He will help us ferret out the mistaken beliefs that hide the real world from our awareness and help us let them go.

Each time we forgive we take another step toward the bridge of return. At this bridge, where forgiveness is complete, we leave behind the fantasies of the world of separation and are drawn gently Home to the place where our joy and peace are complete and changeless. Today we welcome the Holy Spirit’s guidance, for we desire to return to our true Home.

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