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Awakening to the Love We Are

The world you see has nothing to do with reality. It is of your own making, and it does not exist.”

God did not create a meaningless world” is another step in learning to let go the thoughts that you have written on the world, and see the Word of God in their place. …Our direction is toward perfect safety and perfect peace.

With eyes closed, think of all the horrors in the world that cross your mind. Name each one as it occurs to you, and then deny its reality. God did not create it, and so it is not real. Say, for example:

God did not create that war, and so it is not real.
God did not create that airplane crash, and so it is not real.
God did not create that disaster [specify], and so it is not real.

Suitable subjects for the application of today’s idea also in­clude anything you are afraid might happen to you, or to anyone about whom you are concerned.

These things are part of the world you see. Some of them are shared illusions, and others are part of your personal hell. It does not matter. What God did not create can only be in your own mind apart from His. Therefore, it has no meaning. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 14, W-pI.14.1:4-5;3:1,6;4:1-5:1;6:2-6. See also ACIM Lesson 14 Insights.)

The world we see seems very real to us. Yet we are told not only that it is not real, but it is of our own making. The Course uses the metaphor of dreams to help us grasp this truth. In our sleeping dreams, what we see seems very real to us. We react to it as if it were real, sometimes with happiness, but probably more often with fear. When we awaken from the dream, we realize that what we were reacting to was only a dream.

The Course tells us that when we waken from a sleeping dream, we are still dreaming. To waken from this dream world, we need to let go of our belief in its reality, just as we dismissed the reality of our sleeping dream when we awoke from it.

We need help from beyond this dream to learn to let go of the mistaken beliefs that make the dream world seem real. This Help is the Holy Spirit in our mind. He sees the dreams we believe in but does not believe them. Knowing their unreality, He helps us bridge from our mistaken perceptions to His true perception. From true perception, we easily recognize the mistaken beliefs and dismiss them just as we easily dismissed our sleeping dream when we woke up.

Today we practice reminding ourselves that God did not create the world we see. We ask the Holy Spirit to help us see truly, for we would remember that we are God’s Love and nothing else.

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Lifting the Veil of Unforgiveness

What could you want forgiveness cannot give? Do you want peace? Forgiveness offers it. Do you want happiness, a quiet mind, a certainty of purpose, and a sense of worth and beauty that transcends the world? Do you want care and safety, and the warmth of sure protection always? Do you want a quietness that cannot be disturbed, a gentleness that never can be hurt, a deep abiding comfort, and a rest so perfect it can never be upset?

All this forgiveness offers you, and more. It sparkles on your eyes as you awake, and gives you joy with which to meet the day. It soothes your forehead while you sleep, and rests upon your eyelids so you see no dreams of fear and evil, malice and attack. And when you wake again, it offers you another day of happiness and peace. All this forgiveness offers you, and more.

Forgiveness lets the veil be lifted up that hides the face of Christ from those who look with unforgiving eyes upon the world. It lets you recognize the Son of God, and clears your memory of all dead thoughts so that remembrance of your Father can arise across the threshold of your mind. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 122, W-pI.122.1:1-3:2. See also ACIM Lesson 122 Insights.)

The ego’s images of bodies and forms are attempts to hide the loving Son of God from our awareness. These illusions were made out of the ego’s anger against God for not giving the specialness it requested. Love, being one, loves all that is equally. Specialness is an attempt to make inequality real.

The ego’s illusions are the veil that must be lifted for us to recognize the presence of the Son of God everywhere. There are no gaps in the oneness of God’s Love. He has extended His Love to all that is. Forgiveness clears our mind to accept God’s gift and remember His Will is ours. We remain as God created us. Love’s innocence is ours.

To lift the veil of unforgiveness, we need Help from outside the ego’s thought system — the Holy Spirit. As we give up interpreting our perceptions and offer them to the Holy Spirit with willingness to receive His vision, the ego’s illusions are recognized as ineffectual. The face of Christ, the presence of Love, are recognized as all that is real. With this recognition, we accept God’s gifts of Love, joy and peace.

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Remembering We Are Love

I am as God created me.

If you remain as God created you fear has no meaning, evil is not real, and misery and death do not exist.

If you remain as God created you, appearances cannot replace the truth, health cannot turn to sickness, nor can death be substi­tute for life, or fear for love. All this has not occurred, if you remain as God created you. You need no thought but just this one, to let redemption come to light the world and free it from the past.

We will remember Him throughout the day with thankful hearts and loving thoughts for all who meet with us today. For it is thus that we remember Him. And we will say, that we may be reminded of His Son, our holy Self, the Christ in each of us:

I am as God created me.

Let us declare this truth as often as we can. This is the Word of God that sets you free. This is the key that opens up the gate of Heaven, and that lets you enter in the peace of God and His eternity. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 110, W-pI.110.1:4;3;11. See also ACIM Lesson 110 Insights.)

When we remember God, we remember that only Love is real. Love has no form because it is unlimited by time or space. When we accept that we are as God created us, we accept our limitlessness in the oneness of Love. We accept God’s strength as ours, along with His peace and His joy. We no longer choose appearances made by the ego in place of the experience of unlimited, eternal Love. We remember Who we are. All this comes to our quiet mind when we accept we are as God created us.

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The Answer to Every Prayer

Your brother may not know who he is, but there is a light in his mind that does know. This light can shine into yours, giving truth to his words and making you able to hear them. His words [from the truth in him] are the Holy Spirit’s answer to you. Is your faith in him strong enough to let you hear?

I hear only the Holy Spirit in you, Who speaks to me through you. If you would hear me, hear [the truth in] my brothers in whom God’s Voice speaks. The answer to all prayers lies in them. You will be answered as you hear the answer in everyone. Do not listen to anything else [but the truth in them] or you will not hear truly.

Believe in your brothers because I believe in you, and you will learn that my belief in you is justified. Believe in me by believing in [the truth] them, for the sake of what God gave them. They will answer you if you learn to ask only truth of them. Do not ask for blessings without blessing them, for only in this way can you learn how blessed you are. By following this way you are seeking the truth in you. This is not going beyond yourself but toward yourself. Hear only God’s Answer in His Sons, and you are answered. (A Course in Miracles, T-9.II.5:8-11;7:4-8:7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Because only Love is real, the truth in everyone is Love. To perceive ourselves or anyone as a body is to deny the truth of the Love that everyone is. Love has no form; it is limitless and eternal.

If we are willing to connect with the truth in our brother, we will hear the Holy Spirit’s Voice in him. It will speak to us of his Love and his calls for Love, which show us the Love and calls for Love in ourselves. This is the answer to everyone’s prayer. No matter what form prayers may take, the content is always the desire to awaken to Love. This prayer is always answered and held for us when we are not willing to hear the answer. When we are willing to accept the answer without fear, we will recognize it.

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The Call to Remember Love

All fear is past and only love is here.

All fear is past, because its source is gone, and all its thoughts gone with it. Love remains the only present state, whose Source is here forever and forever. Can the world seem bright and clear and safe and welcoming, with all my past mistakes oppressing it, and showing me distorted forms of fear? Yet in the present love is obvious, and its effects apparent. All the world shines in re­flection of [Love’s] holy light, and I perceive a world forgiven at last.

Father, let not Your holy world escape my sight today. Nor let my ears be deaf to all the hymns of gratitude the world is singing underneath the sounds of fear. There is a real world which the present holds safe from all past mistakes. And I would see only this [present] world before my eyes today. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 293, W-pI.293. See also ACIM Lesson 293 Insights.)

The ego’s “presence” in our mind depends on our decision to retain the past in our mind. Only formless Love exists in the eternal now. The ego depends on the past for all our judgments and perceptions. The images we see in the world are constructed from our beliefs about the past. But no matter how real these images seem, they are not real and therefore have no effect on our true Self, God’s extension of His Love.

Our fears are all constructed out of memories of past experiences. These experiences are always about interactions between forms — our identity interacting with someone else’s identity, which the ego associates with the body. But Love has no form. To believe a form is real, we must deny the reality of Love. That is why the world we see is a loveless world.

Because fear is the opposite of Love, the world is loveless. Though the world we see seems to be all there is to experience, the Love we are remains with us. It calls to us to remember Love, to remember we are God’s Son. It is this call that leads us to search for what we feel is missing, though we may not realize it is Love we are we search for.

We answer this call of our heart by choosing to step back and return to our peaceful mind every day. Each time we open to the peace within, we strength our awareness of Love’s Presence. The more we practice this throughout the day, the happier our life experience will be, for we remember God, Who is happiness.

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Giving Meaning to Our Time in the World

You can lose sight of oneness, but can not make sacrifice of its reality. Nor can you lose what you would sacrifice, nor keep the Holy Spirit from His task of showing you that [oneness] has not been lost. Hear, then, the song your brother sings to you, and let the world recede, and take the rest his witness offers on behalf of peace. But judge him not, for you will hear no song of liberation for yourself, nor see what it is given [your brother] to witness to, that you may see [oneness] and rejoice with him. Make not his holiness a sacrifice to your belief in sin. You sacrifice your innocence with his, and die each time you see in him a sin deserving death.

Yet every instant can you be reborn, and given life again. [Your brother’s] holiness gives life to you, who cannot die because his sinlessness is known to God; and can no more be sacrificed by you than can the light in you be blotted out because he sees it not. You who would make a sacrifice of life, and make your eyes and ears bear witness to the death of God and of His holy Son, think not that you have power to make of Them what God willed not They be. In Heaven, God’s Son is not imprisoned in a body, nor is sacrificed in solitude to sin. And as [God’s Son] is in Heaven, so must he be eternally and everywhere. He is the same forever. (A Course in Miracles, T-26.I.6:1-7:6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We see our brother as a body because we believe we are a body. But the body’s eyes cannot see Reality. We need to give our attention to seeing with Christ’s vision, which is not of the body. Christ’s vision shows us our unity with the Christ in every brother. It shows us the Reality of Love’s oneness, which joins us with every brother and our Creator.

Giving priority to our Inner Vision is what gives meaning to our time in the world. Our Inner Vision will show us that forgiveness is always justified because nothing ever happens to change the one Self we are. It is this intent that will lead us to forgiveness of the world and return to full awareness that we are in Heaven now. It will free us from perceiving we are limited to a body. We are as God created us.

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The Practice That Returns Us to Heaven

Today He speaks to you. His Voice awaits your silence, for His Word can not be heard until your mind is quiet for a while, and meaningless desires have been stilled. Await His Word in quiet. There is peace within you to be called upon today, to help make ready your most holy mind to hear the Voice for its Creator speak.

He speaks from nearer than your heart to you. His Voice is closer than your hand. His Love is everything you are and that He is; the same as you, and you the same as He.

It is your [true] voice to which you listen as He speaks to you. It is your word He speaks. It is the Word of freedom and of peace, of unity of will and purpose, with no separation nor division in the single Mind of Father and of Son. In quiet listen to your Self to­day, and let Him tell you God has never left His Son, and you have never left your Self.

Only be quiet. You will need no rule but this, to let your practicing today lift you above the thinking of the world, and free your vision from the body’s eyes. Only be still and listen. You will hear the Word in which the Will of God the Son joins in His Father’s Will, at one with it, with no illusions interposed be­tween the wholly indivisible and true. As every hour passes by today, be still a moment and remind yourself you have a special purpose for this day; in quiet to receive the Word of God. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 125, W-pI.125.6;7:2-9:5. See also ACIM Lesson 125 Insights.)

The ego feeds our mind a constant stream of meaningless thoughts to keep us distracted from the quiet Voice for God within. These thoughts are meaningless because they are based on the illusion of separation from the oneness of God’s Love. Separation denies Love’s oneness. God’s Love threatens the ego because, were we to accept His Love as ours, the ego would cease to seem to be.

Going to the quiet place of peace in our mind opens us to receive the Voice for Truth. In quiet, every perceived problem is resolved. In quiet we remember our True Self. We accept Christ’s vision and see the loving reality of every brother. The practice of pausing and quieting our minds leads us Home to Heaven.

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