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Remembering Our Oneness in Love

…judgment has no value unless the goal is sin [separation].

The body cannot be looked upon except through judgment. To see the body is the sign that you lack vision, and have denied the means the Holy Spirit offers you to serve His purpose. How can a holy relationship achieve its purpose through the means of sin? Judgment you taught yourself; vision is learned from Him Who would undo your teaching. His vision cannot see the body because it cannot look on sin [separation]. And thus it leads you to reality. Your holy brother, sight of whom is your release, is no illusion. Attempt to see him not in darkness, for your imaginings about him will seem real there. You closed your eyes to shut him out. Such was your purpose, and while this purpose seems to have a meaning, the means for its attainment will be evaluated as worth the seeing, and so you will not see.

Your question should not be, “How can I see my brother without the body?” Ask only, “Do I really wish to see him sinless?” And as you ask, forget not that his sinlessness is your escape from fear. Salvation is the Holy Spirit’s goal. The means is vision. For what the seeing look upon is sinless. No one who loves can judge, and what he sees is free of condemnation. And what he sees he did not make, for it was given him to see, as was the vision that made his seeing possible. (A Course in Miracles, T-20.VII.7:7-9:8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Love does not condemn. It is one, indivisible, unlimited, changeless and eternal. Seeing a brother as a body is an attempt to limit Love, to separate off a part from Love that is different. Yet what is one can have no differences. Bodies cannot exist in the oneness of Love.

The image of a body is neither holy nor unholy. It was made by the ego for its unholy purpose of making separation seem real. We have taught ourselves to believe that this unreal image is real. But what denies the unity of God’s Love must be unholy. This is why the ego’s goal of separation is called sin. Only our belief in separation makes judgment seem justified.

We have the means to undo the ego’s teaching and remember our holiness in the oneness of Love. The Holy Spirit offers us vision that shows us the reality of our unity in Love with every brother. This vision is the means that leads to the acceptance of our holy relationship with every brother and our unity with our Father.

With the Holy Spirit’s teaching, we no longer give credence to the illusion of a body. Our attention now is on the changeless, limitless Love that is everywhere to be seen with the Holy Spirit’s vision. Now we find peace and happiness, for we accept the gifts God has given us.

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Bringing the Light of Love to the World

I am the light of the world. 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. See also ACIM Lesson 81 Insights.)

The Course uses “Light” as a symbol for the oneness of God’s Love. God’s Son is an extension of His Love and remains part of Love’s Light. Love is eternally changeless. Therefore this Light extends eternally. Only our choice to deny our unity with Love makes the eternal Light unknown to us. The wish to be a separate identity is alien to God’s Will that Love extends eternally without limit.

While we experience ourselves in a world of the ego’s limitations, our function is to let go of those limitations. Because of our choice to identify with the ego, we need help from outside the ego’s thought system to let go of (forgive) our self-imposed limits.

Accepting the help of the Holy Spirit to let go of our chosen limits is our only meaningful function in the world. Each time we accept our function by accepting Holy Spirit’s help, we pull away the curtains that have hidden the Light of Love from our awareness. Though this practice we bring the Light of Love to the world.

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Love’s Vision Brings Healing to the World

Look on your brother with the willingness to see him as he is. And do not keep a part of him outside your willingness that he be healed. To heal is to make whole. And what is whole can have no missing parts that have been kept outside. Forgiveness rests on recognizing this, and being glad there cannot be some forms of sickness which the miracle must lack the power to heal.

God’s Son is perfect, or he cannot be God’s Son. Nor will you know him, if you think he does not merit the escape from guilt in all its consequences and its forms. There is no way to think of him but this, if you would know the truth about yourself.

I thank You, Father, for Your perfect Son,
and in his glory will I see my own.

Here is the joyful statement that there are no forms of evil that can overcome the Will of God; the glad acknowledgment that guilt has not succeeded by your wish to make illusions real. And what is this except a simple statement of the truth?” (A Course in Miracles, T-30.VI.8-9. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

To see our brother as he is is to see him as Love and nothing else. God’s Son is an extension of the unity of the Love of God. What is one has no differences; it is the same throughout Its oneness. There are no different parts. This is the key to forgiveness and healing.

The ego has made myriad images in its world of make-believe illusions of separation. It is the ego’s made up beliefs in separation, represented by forms that appear different, that blind us to Love’s oneness. It is these images that are let go through forgiveness.

As we shift our focus from the ego’s dark projections of separation to our true Self’s vision of Love’s oneness and innocence, we free ourselves from fear and guilt. Our true Self’s vision heals our minds and frees the body from projections of guilt. The body is then used as nothing more than a means to communicate Love in a world made by belief in lovelessness. We bring healing to the world and ourselves through our forgiveness.

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What Time Is For

Conflicting wishes cannot be my will. Father, Your Will is mine, and only that. There is no other will for me to have. Let me not try to make another will, for it is senseless and will cause me pain. Your Will alone can bring me happiness, and only Yours exists. If I would have what only You can give, I must accept Your Will for me, and enter into peace where conflict is impossible, Your Son is one with You in being and in will, and nothing contradicts the holy truth that I remain as You created me.

And with this prayer we enter silently into a state where conflict cannot come, because we join our holy will with God’s, in recognition that they are the same. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 307, W-pII.307. See also ACIM Lesson 307 Insights.)

The ego is in competition with God. It tries to make a will that denies God’s Love and our unbreakable unity with Him. Only in fantasies could this denial seem to exist. But fantasies are not real and therefore do not exist in truth. While we are engaged in fantasy, we are unaware of Reality, but Reality is not changed by our lack of awareness of It.

The moment we accept Reality, our fantasy disappears. We return to the awareness that we remain as Love created us. Love is the only Reality. Our true Self’s Will is to only be Love, which extends Itself without limit. This is the Will we share with God. This is what brings us indescribable joy and peace that cannot be disturbed.

Each time we forgive a judgment, we remove a barrier to accepting our true Will. Each time we let the Holy Spirit correct our mistaken perceptions, we take a step up the ladder that frees us from conflict and returns us to the peace of God. This practice is what time is for.

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Being Led by the Light of Love

Creation leans across the bars of time to lift the heavy burden from the world. Lift up your hearts to greet its advent. See the shadows fade away in gentleness; the thorns fall softly from the bleeding brow of him who is the holy Son of God. How lovely are you, child of Holiness! How like to Me! How lovingly I hold you in My Heart and in My Arms. How dear is every gift to Me that you have made, who healed My Son and took him from the cross. Arise and let My thanks be given you. And with My gratitude will come the gift first of forgiveness, then eternal peace.

So now return your holy voice to Me. The song of prayer is silent without you. The universe is waiting your release because it is its own. Be kind to it and to yourself, and then be kind to Me. I ask but this; that you be comforted and live no more in terror and in pain. Do not abandon Love. Remember this; whatever you may think about yourself, whatever you may think about the world, your Father needs you and will call to you until you come to Him in peace at last. (A Course in Miracles, S-3.IV.9-10)

Together we are God’s Son. We crucify His Son when we choose to identify with the ego, which is the denial of our unbreakable unity with God. This denial blocks our awareness of His gifts of eternal Love, joy and peace. This is the cross we bear by our choice to believe we are separated from God.

This need not be. We can choose once again to accept the truth of our eternal unity with Love, where peace abides and joy is limitless. These are the gifts that are God’s Will for us. Our choice to accept the help of the Holy Spirit to undo our mistaken choices takes us down off the cross and brings peace to our holy mind.

Today we practice accepting Holy Spirit’s help to reinterpret all our perceptions in the Light of Love. With His help, we bring healing to the world. We become Love’s messengers as we accept Love for ourselves and share It. We join in the song of Love and remember our Home in Love’s reality.

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Joining in Love’s Eternal Song

[Christ] comes for Me and speaks My Word to you. I would recall My weary Son to Me from dreams of malice to the sweet embrace of everlasting Love and perfect peace. My Arms are open to the Son I love, who does not understand that he is healed, and that his prayers have never ceased to sing his joyful thanks in unison with all creation, in the holiness of Love. Be still an instant. Underneath the sounds of harsh and bitter striving and defeat there is a Voice that speaks to you of Me. Hear this an instant and you will be healed. Hear this an instant and you have been saved.

Help Me to wake My children from the dream of retribution and a little life beset with fear, that ends so soon it might as well have never been. Let Me instead remind you of eternity, in which your joy grows greater as your love extends along with Mine beyond infinity, where time and distance have no meaning. While you wait in sorrow Heaven’s melody is incomplete, because your song is part of the eternal harmony of love. Without you is creation unfulfilled. Return to Me Who never left My Son. Listen, My child, your Father calls to you. Do not refuse to hear the Call for Love. Do not deny to Christ what is His Own. Heaven is here and Heaven is your home. (A Course in Miracles, S-3.IV.7-8)

It doesn’t seem that when we experience the sadness, loneliness, vulnerability, anger, fear and guilt of the ego’s dream of separation that we have never ceased to sing our joyful thanks in unison with all creation. This is because the ego is the denial of our true Self and our unity with Love. It is this denial that leads to our experience of a world without Love’s oneness.

Yet our denial has had no effect whatsoever on our natural, uninterrupted unity with the Song of Love that is our Home. Love calls to us to return from the dream to the Reality of Love we never left in truth. Forgiveness leads the way and brings gratitude with it. Gratitude welcomes the joy of extending Love without limit. This joy is magnified by God’s joy returned to us.

Each time we are willing to accept the vision of Christ instead of the ego’s myopic identification with separation, we welcome the Song of Love into our hearts. We welcome God into our heart. We remember we are safe at Home in the Heart of Love.

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Choose Peace Today

Do not choose amiss, or you will think that it is you who are creator in [God’s] place, and He is then no longer Cause but only an effect. Now healing is impossible, for He is blamed for your deception and your guilt. He Who is Love becomes the source of fear, for only fear can now be justified. Vengeance is His. His great destroyer, death. And sickness, suffering and grievous loss become the lot of everyone on earth, which He abandoned to the devil’s care, swearing He will deliver it no more.

Come unto Me, My children, once again, without such twisted thoughts upon your hearts. You still are holy with the Holiness which fathered you in perfect sinlessness, and still surrounds you with the Arms of peace. Dream now of healing. Then arise and lay all dreaming down forever. You are he your Father loves, who never left his home, nor wandered in a savage world with feet that bleed, and with a heavy heart made hard against the love that is the truth in you. Give all your dreams to Christ and let Him be your Guide to healing, leading you in prayer beyond the sorry reaches of the world. (A Course in Miracles, S-3.IV.5:3-6:6)

The belief that God condemns, punishes or makes bodies that die is a projection of the ego. God’s Love is eternal and does not condemn. His Will for us is perfect happiness as we remain eternally in His arms of Love. This is our true Home.

While we identify with the ego, we seem to be in opposition to God’s Will. The ego tells us that to accept His Will is a sacrifice. Yet the truth is that by identifying with the ego we sacrifice eternal Love, peace that cannot be disturbed and indescribable joy. We can reclaim this inheritance by disidentifying with the ego. Forgiveness is the means through which we let go of our mistaken beliefs and learn to see Love’s innocence everywhere, where It has always been, unchanged and unchangeable.

Choose peace today and welcome the Voice for God, Whose guidance will lead us to the freedom of limitless Love.

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