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The Keystone to Remembering Heaven

I have invented the world I see. I made up the prison in which I see myself. All I need do is recognize this and I am free. I have deluded myself into believing it is possible to imprison the Son of God. I was bitterly mistaken in this belief, which I no longer want. The Son of God must be forever free. He is as God created him, and not what I would make of him. He is where God would have him be, and not where I thought to hold him prisoner.

There is another way of looking at the world. Since the purpose of the world is not the one I ascribed to it, there must be another way of looking at it. I see everything upside down, and my thoughts are the opposite of truth. I see the world as a prison for God’s Son. It must be, then, that the world is really a place where he can be set free. I would look upon the world as it is, and see it as a place where the Son of God finds his freedom.

The world I look upon has taken on the light of my forgiveness, and shines forgiveness back at me. In this light I begin to see what my illusions about myself kept hidden. I begin to understand the holiness of all living things, including myself, and their oneness with me.” (, A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 57,W-pI.57.2-3;5:4-6. See also ACIM Lesson 57 Insights.)

Forgiveness is the means to see the world as the Holy Spirit sees it. The Holy Spirit’s purpose for the world is to use it as a means to teach us how to recognize illusions and let them go. Forgiveness is how we let go of the meaning we have given the images of the world made by the ego.

The ego’s images are empty substitutes for God’s gifts. Belief in them makes us unaware of the truth that we remain as God created us, one with every brother in His Love. This is why accepting Holy Spirit’s help to forgive — let go of — our mistaken beliefs is the keystone that sets us free to remember we are eternally at Home in Love.

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Following the Lead of Truth

The world is an illusion. Those who choose to come to it are seeking for a place where they can be illusions, and avoid their own reality. Yet when they find their own reality is even here, then they step back and let it lead the way. What other choice is really theirs to make? To let illusions walk ahead of truth is madness. But to let illusion sink behind the truth and let the truth stand forth as what it is, is merely sanity.

This is the simple choice we make today. The mad illusion will remain awhile in evidence, for those to look upon who chose to come, and have not yet rejoiced to find they were mistaken in their choice. They cannot learn directly from the truth, because they have denied that it is so. And so they need a Teacher [Holy Spirit] Who perceives their madness, but Who still can look beyond illusion to the simple truth in them.

Step back in faith and let truth lead the way. You know not where you go. But One Who knows goes with you. Let Him lead you with the rest.

I will step back and let Him lead the way,
For I would walk along the road to Him.
(A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 155, W-pI.155.2-3;10:3-6;14:3. See also ACIM Lesson 155 Insights.)

The key to living in a joyful, peaceful state of being is letting Truth be our guide in all things. To do this we need to monitor our thoughts and step back from the meaning we are giving the world. Of ourselves, we do not know what anything means. But when we step back and allow ourselves to remember the peace of God in us, we open our minds to our inner Teacher, Who is ever present to teach us the truth.

It helps to start the day with a dedication to following the lead of Truth, our inner Teacher, the Voice for God. During the day, whenever we think of it, we pause and step back for a moment from our doing and our thinking, to remember peace and welcome the lead of Truth. And at the day’s end, we give thanks for the Truth that has led us through the day. The more we practice this, the more consistent we will become at taking the hand of our inner Teacher and letting It guide us to the Truth. Our days will be increasingly peaceful and happy.

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How to Accept God’s Eternal Love

Love does not limit, and what it creates is not limited. To give without limit is God’s Will for you, because only this can bring you the joy that is His and that He wills to share with you. Your love is as boundless as His because it is His.

Could any part of God be without His Love, and could any part of His Love be contained? God is your heritage, because His one gift is Himself. How can you give except like Him if you would know His gift to you? Give, then, without limit and without end, to learn how much He has given you. Your ability to accept Him depends on your willingness to give as He gives. Your fatherhood and your Father are One. God wills to create [extend Love], and your will is His. It follows, then, that you will to create [extend Love], since your will follows from His. And being an extension of His Will, yours must be the same.

…healing is the beginning of the recognition that your will is His. (A Course in Miracles, T-11.I.6:6-7:9;11:9. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We can only give without limit what we have been given and accepted without limit. God created His Son by extending His Love without limit. For His Love to remain limitless, His Son must also create by extending His Love without limit. This is how the unity of God’s limitless Love is maintained eternally.

This unified creation, extending all Love to all, cannot be understood in the dream of separation, which is a dream in which everything is defined by its limits. It is impossible to give without limit what is defined as limited and not suffer loss. This is why “giving” in the world is really a negotiation to get something of equal “value” in return for what we give.

If we believe we are not getting acceptable value for what we give, we believe we are being asked to sacrifice. And because we believe our will opposes God’s Will, we believe His Will demands sacrifice of what we treasure. Yet it is we who are “sacrificing” the joy and peace of His Love by attempting to limit Love’s creation. We learn to accept God’s gift of all His Love by forgiving the judgments that deny our brothers’ innocence. This releases the barriers to recognizing Love’s eternal Presence in our mind.

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We Are Wholly Loving and Lovable

At one with God and with the universe we go our way rejoicing, with the thought that God Himself goes everywhere with us.

Our shining footprints point the way to truth, for God is our Companion as we walk the world a little while. And those who come to follow us will recognize the way because the light we carry stays behind, yet still remains with us as we walk on.

Today we will not doubt His Love for us, nor question His protection and His care. No meaningless anxieties can come between our faith and our awareness of His Presence. We are one with Him today in recognition and remembrance. We feel Him in our hearts. Our minds contain His Thoughts; our eyes behold His loveliness in all we look upon. Today we see only the loving and the lovable.

No miracle can ever be denied to those who know that they are one with God.

Peace be to you today. Secure your peace by practicing awareness you are one with your Creator, as He is with you. (, A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 124, W-pI.124.1:5;2:4-5;4;6:1;8:1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 124 Insights.)

God goes with us because we are one with God, our Creator. While we identify with a body and believe what its senses report to us is real, we are unaware of God’s Presence. We are unaware that we are one with Him, for the ego uses the body as a defense against our unity in Love. Yet the ego’s defenses cannot change Reality. We still walk with God, in God. Behind the ego’s stream of thoughts of fear and guilt, God’s Thoughts of Love remain unaltered in our mind.

Today we practice giving our attention to the Thought of Love that is our Source, our Reality. As we remember and accept the Love of God given us eternally without limit, we see the Love reflected back to us everywhere. The separate images of the world fade into the background and the radiant Light of Love shines through every brother, reflecting back to us the truth of What we are. This practice will lead us out of the dream of separation and remind us that we are at Home in Love — wholly loving and wholly lovable.

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Being a Teacher of God

A teacher of God is anyone who chooses to be one. His qualifications consist solely in this; somehow, somewhere he has made a deliberate choice in which he did not see his interests as apart from someone else’s.

They come from all over the world. They come from all religions and from no religion. They are the ones who have answered. The Call is universal. It goes on all the time everywhere. It calls for teachers to speak for It and redeem the world. Many hear It, but few will answer. …Their function is to save time. Each one begins as a single light, but with the Call at its center it is a light that cannot be limited. And each one saves a thousand years of time as the world judges it.

There is a course for every teacher of God. The form of the course varies greatly. So do the particular teaching aids involved. But the content of the course never changes. Its central theme is always, “God’s Son is guiltless, and in his innocence is his salvation.” It can be taught by actions or thoughts; in words or soundlessly; in any language or in no language; in any place or time or manner. It does not matter who the teacher was before he heard the Call. He has become a savior by his answering. He has seen someone else as himself. He has therefore found his own salvation and the salvation of the world. In his rebirth is the world reborn. (A Course in Miracles, M-1.1:1-2;2:1-2,11-13;3)

Are we ready to be a teacher of God? Are we willing? Are we willing to let go of our judgments and see the innocence in our brothers and ourselves? It is our willingness to let go of our judgments, our insistence on bringing the past with us and overlaying it on our perception of the present, that makes us ready to be a teacher of God. This is how we answer the Call.

Whenever we see a brother as having the same interests as our own, we teach the lesson of innocence. We have set aside a judgment that would see a brother guilty. This is a holy instant in which we see the one Self that unites us with all our brothers. In that moment we are a teacher of God, learning and teaching the lesson of guiltlessness. We may fall back into old patterns of judgment, but the gift of that instant remains with us. We have taken a step forward toward freeing the world from fear and guilt.

Today let us be willing to let the Holy Spirit show us the Light of Truth in our brother and shine away the dark belief that we are separate and alone.

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Walking with the Guide to Truth

The Holy Spirit needs a happy learner, in whom His mission can be happily accomplished.

To those unhappy learners who would teach themselves nothing, and delude themselves into believing that it is not nothing, the Holy Spirit says, with steadfast quietness:

The truth is true. Nothing else matters, nothing else is real, and everything beside it is not there. Let Me make the one distinction for you that you cannot make, but need to learn. Your faith in nothing is deceiving you. Offer your faith to Me, and I will place it gently in the holy place where it belongs. You will find no deception there, but only the simple truth. And you will love it because you will understand it.

If you would be a happy learner, you must give everything you have learned to the Holy Spirit, to be unlearned for you. And then begin to learn the joyous lessons that come quickly on the firm foundation that truth is true.

All this lies in the Holy Spirit’s plan to free you from the past, and open up the way to freedom for you. For truth is true. What else could ever be, or ever was? This simple lesson holds the key to the dark door that you believe is locked forever. You made this door of nothing, and behind it is nothing. The key is only the light that shines away the shapes and forms and fears of nothing. (A Course in Miracles, T-14.II.1:1;3:2-9;6:1-2;7:1-7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

An early workbook lesson teaches us that we do not know what anything means. Learning this is fundamental to free ourselves from the world of fear and guilt. Accepting that we do not know what anything means opens our minds to the Holy Spirit’s loving lessons, which help us recognize nothingness for what it is. By accepting the ego’s lessons in separation, we have deceived ourselves into accepting its lies in place of truth. This belief blinds us to the truth and we cannot find our way out without the Holy Spirit’s help.

Learning to question everything we believe and asking the Holy Spirit to shine His Light on it is the path to freedom. The Light He brings from God dissolves the illusion that nothing is something and reveals the truth that only God’s Love is true. Today we walk with Holy Spirit as our Guide in all our doing. He will guide us truly, for He remembers for us that truth is true and nothing else is true.

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The Holy Instant’s Gift of Heaven

The holy instant is a miniature of Heaven, sent you from Heaven. …The holy instant is a miniature of eternity. It is a picture of timelessness, set in a frame of time. If you focus on the picture, you will realize that it was only the frame that made you think it was a picture. Without the frame, the picture is seen as what it represents. For as the whole thought system of the ego lies in its gifts, so the whole of Heaven lies in this instant, borrowed from eternity and set in time for you.

As God ascends into His rightful place and you to yours, you will experience again the meaning of relationship and know it to be true. Let us ascend in peace together to the Father, by giving Him ascendance in our minds. We will gain everything by giving Him the power and the glory, and keeping no illusions of where they are. [Power and glory] are in us, through His ascendance. What He has given is His. It shines in every part of Him, as in the whole. The whole reality of your relationship with Him lies in our relationship to one another. The holy instant shines alike on all relationships, for in it they are one. For here is only healing, already complete and perfect. For here is God, and where He is only the perfect and complete can be. (A Course in Miracles, T-17.IV.11:1,4-8;16. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

All conflicts in our relationships come from not seeing the truth in each other. Our true relationship is that we are one in the oneness of Love. What is one cannot conflict with itself. But if we believe we are a separate identity, housed in a body, our oneness is unknown to us. We project this belief on the world and see separate bodies different from us capable of conflicting with what we believe we are. This belief puts us in a state of constant vigilance to protect our chosen identity.

The holy instant is a moment in time in which we see past the individual identities of the world. In this moment we experience the unity of Heaven. We experience the relationship of oneness with all things; we are part of all That is as It is part of us. Through this experience our mistaken beliefs are healed in the instant of timelessness. We may return to the dream of time, but we become more aware that appearances in form are not the truth. Each holy instant reinforces our remembrance of Heaven and our attachment to the dream fades.

Let us pause today to welcome peace in our hearts and feel its blessing in timelessness. And we will see a world blessed by Love.

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