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Remembering We Are Spirit

You see the flesh or recognize the spirit. There is no compromise between the two. If one is real the other must be false, for what is real denies its opposite. There is no choice in vision but this one. What you decide in this determines all you see and think is real and hold as true. On this one choice does all your world depend, for here have you established what you are, as flesh or spirit in your own belief. If you choose flesh, you never will escape the body as your own reality, for you have chosen that you want it so. But choose the spirit, and all Heaven bends to touch your eyes and bless your holy sight, that you may see the world of flesh no more except to heal and comfort and to bless.

Salvation is undoing. If you choose to see the body, you behold a world of separation, unrelated things, and happenings that make no sense at all. This one appears and disappears in death; that one is doomed to suffering and loss. And no one is exactly as he was an instant previous, nor will he be the same as he is now an instant hence. Who could have trust where so much change is seen, for who is worthy if he be but dust? Salvation is undoing of all this. For constancy arises in the sight of those whose eyes salvation has released from looking at the cost of keeping guilt, because they chose to let it go instead.

Salvation does not ask that you behold the spirit and perceive the body not. It merely asks that this should be your choice. (A Course in Miracles, T-31.VI.1:1-3:2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Workbook lesson 97 is titled, “I am Spirit.” This lesson brings into focus the recognition of What we are in truth. Spirit is one and has no limits because it is one with God.

The world we see seems to show us that we are not Spirit. The image of a separate body has been substituted for the formless, unlimited Spirit that is our Self. The body’s eyes cannot see Spirit, for they were made to limit perception to what confirms the “reality” of separation. We are not asked to deny what the body’s eyes see. But we are asked to recognize the body does not see reality and choose instead to accept our true Identity as Spirit.

We free ourselves from identifying with a body through forgiveness. Only bodies can seem to harm or be harmed. The perception of harm justifies judgment and guilt. When we choose to accept the Holy Spirit’s help to reinterpret our perceptions, we learn that nothing has happened to change our true Identity. We forgive the misperception that blinded us from knowing that we remain whole, as God created us.

Today we practice remembering “I am Spirit.” This practice opens our mind to the Holy Spirit’s guidance that will free us to identify with the one Self that God created as His Son.

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We Are Forever Safe in God’s Love

God in His mercy wills that I be saved. I need but look upon all things that seem to hurt me, and with perfect certainty assure myself, “God wills that I be saved from this,” and merely watch them disappear. I need but keep in mind my Father’s Will for me is only happiness, to find that only happiness has come to me. And I need but remember that God’s Love surrounds His Son and keeps his sinlessness forever perfect, to be sure that I am saved and safe forever in His Arms. I am the Son He loves. And I am saved because God in His mercy wills it so.

Father, Your Holiness is mine. Your Love created me, and made my sinlessness forever part of You. I have no guilt nor sin in me, for there is none in You. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 235, W-pII.235. See also ACIM Lesson 235 Insights.)

We are forever safe in the loving arms of God. He has given us all His strength, which keeps us eternally one with Him. We share His invulnerability and His joy. He is our Home where nothing can intrude on His perfect peace.

God’s holy Teacher offers us lessons in Love which teach us to remember that we are God’s Son Whom He loves without reservation. We can count on the certainty and safety of His Love to support us in truth in every moment. We accept God’s gift of perfect happiness as we put the Holy Spirit in charge of all our thoughts. We let Him decide what everything means.

With this practice we learn to disregard the appearances of harm and loss and see the changelessness of the Life we live in God.

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Learning the Truth Beyond the Body

Your brother’s holiness is sacrament and benediction unto you. His errors cannot withhold God’s blessing from himself, nor you who see him truly. His mistakes can cause delay, which it is given you to take from him, that both [you and he] may end a journey that has never begun, and needs no end. What never was is not a part of you. Yet you will think it is, until you realize that it [also] is not a part of him who stands beside you. He is the mirror of yourself, wherein you see the judgment you have laid on both of you. The Christ in you beholds his holiness. Your specialness looks on his body and beholds him not.

See [the Christ in] him as what he is, that your deliverance may not be long. A senseless wandering, without a purpose and without accomplishment of any kind, is all the other choice can offer you. Futility of function not fulfilled will haunt you while your brother lies asleep, till what has been assigned to you is done and he is risen from the past. He who condemned himself, and you as well, is given you to save from condemnation, along with you. And both shall see God’s glory in His Son [our true Self], whom you mistook as flesh, and bound to laws that have no power over him at all.

Would you not gladly realize these laws are not for you? Then see him not as prisoner to them. It cannot be what governs part of God holds not for all the rest. …Think, then, how great the Love of God for you must be, that He has given you a part of Him to save from pain and give you happiness. And never doubt but that your specialness will disappear before the Will of God, Who loves each part of Him with equal love and care. The Christ in you can see your brother truly. Would you decide against the holiness He sees? (A Course in Miracles, T-24.VI.8-10. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

When we identify with a body as our self we will see our brother as a body, imprisoning both to the limitations of the ego belief in separation. This is why the most emphasized lesson in the workbook is the idea, “I am not a body, I am free. For I am still as God created me.” This is the key to learning to look past the body to the true Self, the Christ, in our brother and ourself. This practice, under the direction of the Holy Spirit, will lead us to the recognition of our oneness with our brother in the safe embrace of God’s Love.

Let us join in practicing accepting Holy Spirit’s help to see with the eyes of Love. This is how we heal and extend the healing offered us by the Holy Spirit.

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Learning How to Love

…the miracle… means that you have understood that dreams are dreams; and that escape depends, not on the dream, but only on awaking. Could it be some dreams are kept, and others wakened from? The choice is not between which dreams to keep, but only if you want to live in dreams or to awaken from them. Thus it is the miracle does not select some dreams to leave untouched by its beneficence. You cannot dream some dreams and wake from some, for you are either sleeping or awake. And dreaming goes with only one of these.

The dreams you think you like would hold you back as much as those in which the fear is seen. For every dream is but a dream of fear, no matter what the form it seems to take. The fear is seen within, without, or both. Or [fear] can be disguised in pleasant form. But never is it absent from the dream, for fear is the material of dreams, from which they all are made.

The core of dreams the Holy Spirit gives is never one of fear. The coverings may not appear to change, but what they mean has changed because they cover something else. …A shadow figure who attacks becomes a brother giving you a chance to help, if this becomes the function of the dream. And dreams of sadness thus are turned to joy. (A Course in Miracles, T-29.IV.1:3-2:5;5:3-4,6-7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

It is helpful to remember that the Holy Spirit recognizes only Love or calls for Love. Dreams with its shadow figures of fear are recognized as calls for Love. Thus the Holy Spirit gives a new purpose to dreams of fear by answering them with His loving helpfulness.

This new purpose makes every moment an opportunity to demonstrate the reality of Love. This is the miracle that transforms dreams of fear to happy dreams of joining with the Love in our brothers. From the happy dream of Love welcomed through forgiveness, waking to our Home in the Heaven of God’s Love is the natural outcome.

Let us join today in the practice of asking the Holy Spirit to teach us how to Love.

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The Safety of God’s Love

‘I am sustained by the Love of God.’ Here is the answer to every problem that will confront you, today and tomorrow and throughout time. In this world, you believe you are sustained by everything but God.

Only the Love of God will protect you in all circumstances. It will lift you out of every trial, and raise you high above all the perceived dangers of this world into a climate of perfect peace and safety. It will transport you into a state of mind that nothing can threaten, nothing can disturb, and where nothing can intrude upon the eternal calm of the Son of God.

Through the Love of God within you, you can resolve all seeming difficulties without effort and in sure confidence. Tell yourself this often today.

…let [I am sustained by the Love of God] sink deep into your consciousness. Repeat it, think about it, let related thoughts come to help you recognize its truth, and allow peace to flow over you like a blanket of protection and surety. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 50, W-pI.50.1:1-2;3;4:5-6;5:1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 50 Insights.)

Imagine what it would feel like to be in a cocoon of Light, which allows Love to flow freely to and through you, while preventing any harm from coming to you. This cocoon is the eternal, changeless Love of God. It keeps us safe and meets our only need — to Love and be Loved.

This is the Home our Father created for us. In this cocoon we experience perfect peace because we are certain no harm can come to us. We are certain that our only Reality is God’s joy and love and peace.

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Welcoming Lessons in Love

Humility will never ask that you remain content with littleness. But it does require that you be not content with less than greatness that comes not of you. Your difficulty with the holy instant arises from your fixed conviction that you are not worthy of it. And what is this but the determination to be as you would make yourself? God did not create His dwelling place unworthy of Him. And if you believe He cannot enter where He wills to be, you must be interfering with His Will. You do not need the strength of willingness to come from you, but only from His Will.

The holy instant does not come from your little willingness alone. It is always the result of your small willingness combined with the unlimited power of God’s Will. You have been wrong in thinking that it is needful to prepare yourself for Him.

In preparing for the holy instant, do not attempt to make yourself holy to be ready to receive it. That is but to confuse your role with God’s. Atonement cannot come to those who think that they must first atone, but only to those who offer it nothing more than simple willingness to make way for it. Purification is of God alone, and therefore for you. Rather than seek to prepare yourself for Him, try to think thus:

I who am host to God am worthy of Him.
He Who established His dwelling place in me created it as He would have it be.
It is not needful that I make it ready for Him, but only that I do not interfere with His plan to restore to me my own awareness of my readiness, which is eternal.
I need add nothing to His plan.
But to receive it, I must be willing not to substitute my own in place of it. (A Course in Miracles, T-18.IV.3:1-4:3;5:4-13. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We do not have to work to achieve holiness. We only need to accept the holiness that God gave us when He created His Son one with Him. Our true Self is God’s Son. The world we see is a dream of being different from what God created. It is an attempt to usurp the Will of God and make our own world. This dream makes our holiness invisible to us. Yet it remains our only Reality.

We reclaim our Reality by being willing to receive the Holy Spirit’s lessons in Truth. Our willingness to be taught is all that is needed. The Holy Spirit’s lessons in Truth are empowered by the limitless strength of God’s Love. Let us be willing today, to welcome the Holy Spirit’s lessons in Love.

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Love Is the Only Real Value

You have the right to all the universe; to perfect peace, complete deliverance from all effects of sin, and to the life eternal, joyous and complete in every way, as God appointed for His holy Son. This is the only justice Heaven knows, and all the Holy Spirit brings to earth. Your special function shows you nothing else but perfect justice can prevail for you. And you are safe from vengeance in all forms. The world deceives, but it cannot replace God’s justice with a version of its own. For only love is just, and can perceive what justice must accord the Son of God. Let love decide, and never fear that you, in your unfairness, will deprive yourself of what God’s justice has allotted you.

Unless you think that all your brothers have an equal right to miracles with you, you will not claim your right to them because you were unjust to one with equal rights. Seek to deny and you will feel denied. Seek to deprive, and you have been deprived. A miracle can never be received because another could receive it not. Only forgiveness offers miracles. And pardon must be just to everyone. (A Course in Miracles, T-25.VIII.14;IX.8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Love is just because Love does not condemn. Love sees all that is real as equal to Itself because only Love is real. This is the foundation of miracles. Miracles restore the mind to its natural state as Love.

Because Love sees only Itself, knowing nothing else exists, it sees only innocence, no cause for judgment. Love’s perfect oneness excludes nothing except the unreal. What is unreal does not exist.

While we are engaged in the ego thought system of separation, we cannot be just because we cannot see equality. The ego is the belief that inequality is true, making justice impossible in the ego’s view. On our own we cannot be just because the belief that we are on our own denies the equality of Love. But we have the Holy Spirit in our mind Who teaches only perfect justice. He teaches that only Love is real. Justice comes as we lay aside the values of the ego and welcome Love, the only real value.

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