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Freeing Ourselves to Be Love

In our remembrance of each other lies our remembrance of God. And in this remembrance lies your freedom because your freedom is in Him. Join, then, with me in praise of Him and you whom He created. This is our gift of gratitude to Him, which He will share with all His creations, to whom He gives equally whatever is acceptable to Him. Because it is acceptable to Him it is the gift of freedom, which is His Will for all His Sons. By offering freedom you will be free.

Freedom is the only gift you can offer to God’s Sons, being an acknowledgment of what they are and what He is. Freedom is creation, because it is love. Whom you seek to imprison you do not love. Therefore, when you seek to imprison anyone, including yourself, you do not love him and you cannot identify with him. When you imprison yourself you are losing sight of your true identification with me and with the Father. Your identification is with the Father and with the Son. It cannot be with One and not the Other. If you are part of One you must be part of the Other, because They are One. The Holy Trinity is holy because It is One. If you exclude yourself from this union, you are perceiving the Holy Trinity as separated. You must be included in It, because It is everything. Unless you take your place in It and fulfill your function as part of It, the Holy Trinity is as bereft as you are. No part of It can be imprisoned if Its truth is to be known. (A Course in Miracles, T-8.IV.7:6-8:13. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We imprison ourselves and our brothers by believing we are separate identities. What is one cannot encompass separate identities because if separate identities were true, oneness would no longer exist. The most repeated Workbook lesson (201-220) asks us to remind ourselves, “I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.” Disconnecting our identification from the body sets us free to accept our Identity in the oneness of Love. It is letting go of limitation and accepting the limitlessness of the eternal universe of Love.

The Holy Spirit is one with the universe of Love, which encompasses God and all of His Creation. It is also the bridge between God and the split mind that dreams of separation and limitation. It is this Bridge which we must call upon to help us see past our mistaken beliefs and let them go. The ego is the idea of limitation and is incapable of guiding us to the recognition of oneness.

Today we call upon the Holy Spirit in our minds to help us see past our mistaken beliefs and see the truth of Love that is eternally present beyond all forms.

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All We Really Want Is the Peace of God

The mind which means that all it wants is peace must join with other minds, for that is how peace is obtained. And when the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is given, in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.

Today devote your practice periods to careful searching of your mind, to find the dreams you cherish still. What do you ask for in your heart? Forget the words you use in making your requests. Consider but what you believe will comfort you, and bring you happiness. But be you not dismayed by lingering illusions, for their form is not what matters now. Let not some dreams be more acceptable, reserving shame and secrecy for others. They are one. And being one, one question should be asked of all of them, “Is this what I would have, in place of Heaven and the peace of God?”

This is the choice you make. Be not deceived that it is otherwise. No compromise is possible in this. You choose God’s peace, or you have asked for dreams. And dreams will come as you requested them. Yet will God’s peace come just as certainly, and to remain with you forever. It will not be gone with every twist and turning of the road, to reappear, unrecognized, in forms which shift and change with every step you take.

You want the peace of God. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 185,W-pI.185.6:1-2;8:1-10.1. See also ACIM Lesson 185 Insights.)

It is helpful to know that if we seek for any form in the dream with the belief that the form will bring us comfort, happiness or safety, we are choosing against the peace of God. We are choosing a substitute for God’s Love that will never bring us lasting peace. Peace is found in the changelessness of Love.

Everything in the dream of separation changes and therefore is not a substitute for God’s peace. Because of the unreliability of the dream, the peace of God cannot be found there. This is why it is important for us to search our minds to identify the ways that we seek for comfort or happiness in the world.

To find the peace of God, we need to set aside these mistaken wishes and choose only to follow the Holy Spirit’s lead in all things. His guidance will always direct us to the remembrance that only Love is real and in God’s Love we have His peace. This is why all we really want is the peace of God.

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Accepting the Love We Are

You are entitled to miracles because of what you are. You will receive miracles because of what God is. And you will offer miracles because you are one with God. Again, how simple is salvation! It is merely a statement of your true Identity. It is this that we will celebrate today.

Your claim to miracles does not lie in your illusions about yourself. …It is inherent in the truth of what you are. It is implicit in what God your Father is. It was ensured in your creation, and guaranteed by the laws of God.

Today we will claim the miracles which are your right, since they belong to you. You have been promised full release from the world you made. You have been assured that the Kingdom of God is within you, and can never be lost. We ask no more than what belongs to us in truth. Today, however, we will also make sure that we will not content ourselves with less.

Miracles do not obey the laws of this world. They merely follow from the laws of God. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 77,W-pI.77.1;2:1,3-5;3;4:4-5. See also ACIM Lesson 77 Insights.)

Miracles are extensions of Love. Love (God) created us like Itself by extending Love. The nature of Love is to eternally extend Love without limit. This is what our true Self is and does.

The thought system of belief in separation is an attempt to limit Love, which is impossible. Only illusions can make it seem that Love is limited by our belief in it. Reminding ourselves that we are entitled to miracles is a way to undo our belief that Love could be limited or withheld. We are entitled to extensions of Love because God has never stopped extending His Love to us, the one Self He created one with Himself. Proclaiming that we are entitled to miracles is proclaiming our true Identity.

In every moment everyone is entitled to Love because of What we all are. As we let Christ vision show us the Love beyond the images of the world, we learn that we remain as Love created us.

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