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The Power of God Is in Us

[Trust] is the foundation on which [teachers’ of God) ability to fulfill their function rests. Perception is the result of learning. In fact, perception is learning, because cause and effect are never separated. The teachers of God have trust in the [real] world, because they have learned it is not governed by the laws the world made up. It is governed by a power that is in [the teachers of God] but not of them. It is this power that keeps all things safe. It is through this power that the teachers of God look on a forgiven world.

When this power has once been experienced, it is impossible to trust one’s own petty strength again. Who would attempt to fly with the tiny wings of a sparrow when the mighty power of an eagle has been given him? And who would place his faith in the shabby offerings of the ego when the gifts of God are laid before him? (A Course in Miracles, M-4.I.1-2)

When we perceive the world as a body, there are myriad reasons to feel unsafe, weak and vulnerable. But this perception comes from believing illusions are real and that we are separate from the only real Source of strength — our Creator. The correction of this misperception comes with accepting our true Self’s vision.

Our true Self does not believe we are separate from our Creator. It remembers we are Love, all that is Real. With the strength and power of God in us, there is nothing to fear. God is invincible and so is our true Self. No harm can come to what God created changeless as Himself.

Trust comes to us as we accept our true Self as our Identity and disown the false identity made by the ego. In truth, we walk with God, sharing all His Love, His strength, His peace and joy. We will remind ourselves often of this today.

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From Double Vision to True Vision

The Holy Spirit looks through me today.

Christ asks that He may use my eyes today, and thus redeem the world. He asks this gift that He may offer peace of mind to me, and take away all terror and all pain. And as they are removed from me, the dreams that seemed to settle on the world are gone. Redemption must be one. As I am saved, the world is saved with me. For all of us must be redeemed together. Fear appears in many different forms, but love is one.

My Father, Christ has asked a gift of me, and one I give that it be given me. Help me to use the eyes of Christ today, and thus allow the Holy Spirit’s Love to bless all things which I may look upon, that His forgiving Love may rest on me. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 295, W-pII.295. See also ACIM Lesson 295 Insights.)

In the world we have two ways of seeing. What the body’s eyes see are images of separation — forms that have meaning only because we have given them meaning by our belief. We also have spiritual vision which A Course in Miracles calls Christ’s vision or the vision of the Holy Spirit. This vision sees only the reality of Love’s oneness. It is this true vision that shows us the presence of Love everywhere. It disregards the images of the body and what it sees. It is this vision that redeems the world for it sees the world as Love and nothing else.

The way we free ourselves from the limitations of the body and what it sees and redeem the world is to give priority to our inner Spiritual vision. This shifts our attention from believing in illusions to knowing the truth that unifies us in God’s Love.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us bring His vision into clear focus. We want to remember the truth. With this dedication the images of the world diminish in importance. We become increasingly certain of our safety in the ever present Love of our true Self.

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How to Feel Blessed by Blessing

The truth maintains that giving will increase what you possess.

…things but represent the thoughts that make them. And you do not lack for proof that when you give ideas away, you strengthen them in your own mind.

Ideas must first belong to you, before you give them. If you are to save the world, you first accept salvation for yourself. …Now you can perceive that by your giving is your store increased.

Protect all things [ideas] you value by the act of giving them away, and you are sure that you will never lose them. What you thought you did not have is thereby proven yours. Yet value not its form. For [form] will change and grow unrecognizable in time, however much you try to keep it safe. No form endures. It is the [loving] thought behind the form of things that lives unchangeable.

Give [Love] gladly. You can only gain thereby. The [loving] thought remains, and grows in strength as it is reinforced by giving. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 187, W-pI.187.1:8;2:3-4;3:1-2,5;4;5:1-3. See also ACIM Lesson 187 Insights.)

Only Love, which has no form, is real. But we perceive ourselves in a world of form. Due to this self-imposed limitation, Love is represented by forms in the world. The Love behind these forms endures forever, though the forms may fade or change.

We learn that we have Love by giving Love. The form in which It is given varies according to the situation in which It is given. It may appear as a smile to someone we walk by on the sidewalk. It may be expressing appreciation for a store clerk’s service. Longer term relationships may be expressed as a life-long dedication to extend Love to each other.

All of these forms can change, including the form of life-long relationships. What remains eternal and unchanging is the Love behind the form. All these Thoughts of Love given freely bless us in the giving, for they remind us that we have the Love we are extending. We remember the blessings we have by appreciating and giving Love in the world.

Every day we have the opportunity to be blessed by blessing.

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Learning to Live in Love

Yet if you are as God created you, you cannot think apart from Him, nor make what does not share His timelessness and Love. Are these inherent in the world you see? Does it create like Him? Unless it does, it is not real, and cannot be at all. If you are real the world you see is false, for God’s creation is unlike the world in every way. And as it was His Thought by which you were created, so it is your thoughts which made [the world] and [your thoughts] must set it free, that you may know the Thoughts you share with God.

Release the world! Your real creations [extensions of Love] wait for this release to give you fatherhood, not of illusions, but as God in truth. God shares His Fatherhood with you who are His Son, for He makes no distinctions in what is Himself and what is still Himself. What He creates is not apart from Him, and nowhere does the Father end, [or] the Son begin as something separate from Him.

There is no world because it is a thought apart from God, and made to separate the Father and the Son, and break away a part of God Himself and thus destroy His Wholeness. Can a world which comes from this idea be real? Can it be anywhere? Deny illusions, but accept the truth. Deny you are a shadow briefly laid upon a dying world. Release your mind, and you will look upon a world released. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 132, W-pI.132.11-13. See also ACIM Lesson 132 Insights.)

Only Love is real and only Love creates by extending Itself. These facts are the core upon which the message of A Course in Miracles is built. By believing in a world of bodies and images of separation, we are denying the truth by believing in the lies of the ego, which itself is a denial of Love.

We release the world by denying the lies of the ego and accepting the reality of Love and only Love. We have become so engaged with the ego’s illusions that it seems impossible that anything but fear and guilt, pain, sickness and death are real. Evan death does not seem to be an escape. The ego would have us believe that our guilt will pursue us beyond the death of the body.

But there is a way out, which the ego will never teach us. To find our way out, we must realign our allegiance from the ego to the Voice for God in our mind. It will teach us that we are not the image of a body; that we remain as God created us. When we are willing to let the Holy Spirit direct our thoughts, He will patiently and lovingly teach us to recognize the lies of the ego for what they are. He will teach us to overlook the lies and see the eternal presence of Love in which we live in perfect safety and timelessness. We will learn to see that Love in every brother and ourselves.

Today we practice asking frequently,

Holy Spirit, show me how you would see this. Help me to respond to this perception with Love, for I would remember Who I am.

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Reclaiming the Power of Our Mind

The acceptance [that] sickness [is] a decision of the mind, for a purpose for which it would use the body, is the basis of healing. And this is so for healing in all forms. A patient decides that [sickness is a decision of the mind] is so, and he recovers. If he decides against recovery, he will not be healed. Who is the physician? Only the mind of the patient himself. The outcome is what he decides that it is. Special agents seem to be ministering to him, yet they but give form to his own choice. He chooses them in order to bring tangible form to his desires. And it is this they do, and nothing else. They are not actually needed at all. The patient could merely rise up without their aid and say, “I have no use for this.” There is no form of sickness that would not be cured at once.

What is the single requisite for this shift in perception? It is simply this; the recognition that sickness is of the mind, and has nothing to do with the body. What does this recognition “cost”? It costs the whole world you see, for the world will never again appear to rule the mind. For with this recognition is responsibility placed where it belongs; not with the world, but on him who looks on the world and sees it as it is not. He looks on what he chooses to see. No more and no less. The world does nothing to him. He only thought it did. Nor does he do anything to the world, because he was mistaken about what it is. Herein is the release from guilt and sickness both, for they are one. Yet to accept this release, the insignificance of the body must be an acceptable idea. (A Course in Miracles, M-5.II.2-3)

Elsewhere in the Course we are told that the ego tries to discredit the power of the mind. It attempts to make the body the central figure in its world. The ego assigns attributes of the mind to the body to make the body seem to be capable of making decisions on its own and subject to external forces.

A Course in Miracles is teaching us to reclaim the power of our mind which is an extension of the Mind of God. Our true Self is united with the Mind of God and shares all Its power, Its strength, peace and Love.

As we practice opening to the Holy Spirit’s lessons, we learn to recognize the insignificance of the body. Because the body is an illusion made by the ego, it has no value of its own. Its only seeming value comes from our belief in it.

As we withdraw from believing the body is our identity, the shadows the body seems to cast on our existence fade. The Light of the Love we are shines the shadows away. When we have wholly accepted our true Self as Mind at one with God, we are free of the limitations of the body image. We remember that we are eternally at Home in the Heaven of God’s Love.

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Accepting the One Solution to Every Problem

We will not assume that we already know [what the problem is].

[You] will be successful to the extent to which you do not insist on defining the problem. Perhaps you will not succeed in letting all your preconceived notions go, but that is not necessary. All that is necessary is to entertain some doubt about the reality of your version of what your problems are. You are trying to recognize that you have been given the answer by recognizing the problem [separation], so that the [real] problem and the answer can be brought together and you can be at peace.

Be not deceived by the form of problems today. Whenever any difficulty seems to rise, tell yourself quickly:

Let me recognize this problem [thought of separate] so it can be solved.

Then try to suspend all judgment about what the problem is. If possible, close your eyes for a moment and ask what it is. You will be heard and you will be answered. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 79, W-pI.79.7:2;8;10. See also ACIM Lesson 79 Insights.)

The dream world we experience is the manifestation of the ego’s grievance against God. The ego wants God to give special status, which God cannot give and be true to the oneness He is. Dissatisfied with God’s response, the ego dreams of a world of specialness with myriad different forms to make specialness seem real. When we identify a brother as a body, we are believing the ego’s dream is real and joining with the ego’s grievance against God.

To see our brother truly, we must overlook the ego’s false images of bodies and other forms. These false images represent the problem. Illusions have no meaning of their own except for the meaning we assign to them. This recognition is the first step to recognizing that the real problem is nothing more than a false idea.

Now our mind is open to receive another way of seeing. With this little willingness, the Holy Spirit will help us overlook the false images to see the Light of Love that lies behind every form. This Light is the solution to every perceived problem. In this Light the forms fade in importance and we learn that all that is real is Love. We join with the Love in every brother and learn that we are Love, united in the Love of God.

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Valuing Love Above All Else

This is salvation’s keynote: What I see reflects a process in my mind, which starts with my idea of what I want. From there, the mind makes up an image of the thing the mind desires, judges valuable, and therefore seeks to find. These images are then projected outward, looked upon, esteemed as real and guarded as one’s own. From insane wishes comes an insane world. From judgment comes a world condemned. And from forgiving thoughts a gentle world comes forth, with mercy for the holy Son of God, to offer him a kindly home where he can rest a while before he journeys on, and help his brothers walk ahead with him, and find the way to Heaven and to God.

Our Father, Your ideas reflect the truth, and mine apart from Yours but make up dreams. Let me behold what only Yours reflect, for Yours and Yours alone establish truth. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 325, W-pII.325. See also ACIM Lesson 325 Insights.)

Forgiving thoughts come from the Mind of Love. They extend only Love, for nothing else is real. Forgiving thoughts include all the attributes of God’s Love — His joy, peace, harmlessness, gentleness and kindness.

If we value the ego’s images of separation, we deny God’s Love. Love is one and cannot be known by a mind that believes separation is real. The world of images we perceive comes from the ego mind that wants separation to be real. Judgment is an ego mechanism to divide and make separation appear to be real.

To function in the ego’s world we judge all things and label them. As long as we value these labels for the images we perceive, we are blind to the oneness of God’s Love. To experience salvation from the loveless ego world, we need to value the Thoughts of Love we share with God. Love is our Home. Love is where we are free to extend Love without limit. It is this limitless joining in Love that brings us joy.

Today we choose Love as our Guide. We offer all our perceptions to the Voice of Love and ask to see all things as Love sees them. We choose to value Love above all else.

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