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Answering Heaven’s Call

Come home. …This world is not where you belong. You are a stranger here. But it is given you to find the means whereby the world no longer seems to be a prison house or jail for anyone.

Peace is the bridge that everyone will cross, to leave this world behind. But peace begins within the world perceived as differ­ent, and leading from this fresh perception to the gate of Heaven and the way beyond. Peace is the answer to conflicting goals, to senseless journeys, frantic, vain pursuits, and meaningless endeavors. Now the way is easy, sloping gently toward the bridge where freedom lies within the peace of God.

The peace of God is ours, and only this will we accept and want. Peace be to us today. For we have found a simple, happy way to leave the world of ambiguity, and to replace our shifting goals and solitary dreams with single purpose and companionship. For peace is union, if it be of God. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 200, W-pI.200.4:1,3-5;8;11:3-6. See also ACIM Lesson 200 Insights.)

To understand something is to know its true meaning. The images of the world cannot be understood because they are illusions with no meaning of their own. We make the images seem real by assigning meaning to them, but an assigned meaning can never be true. The world is chaotic because everyone assigns their own meaning to the world. Thankfully, this is not our true Home.

The Course tells us that peace and understanding come together and are never found alone. This is why peace is the bridge that leads us to the door of our true Home in Heaven, where all true meaning is. Only Love is real so all true meaning is Love.

When we quiet our minds and let ourselves rest in peace, the meaningless world fades so that we can see the eternal presence of Love. This Love calls to us, reminding us that we share the Will of Love. Our only function is to be Love by extending Love. This is Heaven, our Home.

Today let us join together to answer Heaven’s call by letting the Holy Spirit help us see with Christ’s vision the Love that is everywhere.

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Forgiving Our Self Deception

The major difficulty that you find in genuine forgiveness on your part is that you still believe you must forgive the truth, and not illusions.

It is sin’s unreality that makes forgiveness natural and wholly sane, a deep relief to those who offer it; a quiet blessing where it is received. It does not countenance illusions, but collects them lightly, with a little laugh, and gently lays them at the feet of truth. And there they disappear entirely.

Forgiveness is the only thing that stands for truth in the illusions of the world. It sees [illusions’] nothingness, and looks straight through the thousand forms in which they may appear. It looks on lies, but it is not deceived.

The strength of [true] pardon is its honesty, which is so uncorrupted that it sees illusions as illusions, not as truth. It is because of this that it becomes the undeceiver in the face of lies; the great re­storer of the simple truth. By its ability to overlook what is not there, [forgiveness] opens up the way to truth, which has been blocked by dreams of guilt. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 134, W-pI.134.3:1;6:1-7:3;8:1-3. See also ACIM Lesson 134 Insights.)

Every day in the dream we are tempted to believe that what our body’s eyes show us is true and real. This belief makes true forgiveness impossible. While we hang on to this belief, it seems that forgiveness cannot be justified. We believe what we perceive really happened. This belief that must be undone to truly forgive. We must stop deceiving ourselves into believing illusions are real.

We are so identified with our individuality in the world — being separate and alone — that it seems accepting this is an illusion would mean the complete elimination of our identity. In fact it would be the elimination of the false identity sold to us by the ego.

But this elimination would reveal the glory of God’s Creation, His Son, Who shares all the attributes of his Creator. It would restore us from believing we nothing to accepting our true Self, the Son of God. There is no greater gift we can give ourselves than to let the Holy Spirit help us let go of our self-deception and remember that we remain Love, at one with all Love eternally.

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How to Replace Guilt with Happiness

My present happiness is all I see.

Unless I look upon what is not there, my present happiness is all I see. Eyes that begin to open see at last. And I would have Christ’s vision come to me this very day. What I perceive with­out God’s Own Correction for the sight I made is frightening and painful to behold. Yet I would not allow my mind to be deceived by the belief the dream I made is real an instant longer. This the day I seek my present happiness, and look on nothing else except the thing I seek.

With this resolve I come to You, and ask Your strength to hold me up today, while I but seek to do Your Will. You cannot fail to hear me, Father. What I ask have You already given me. And I am sure that I will see my happiness today. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 290, W-pII.290. See also ACIM Lesson 290 Insights.)

Christ’s vision sees only innocence because it sees only Love. Love is eternal and ever present in the now moment. While we hold on to thoughts and beliefs from the past, our awareness of Love in the now moment is blocked.

The body and its eyes only seem to exist in the ego’s dream. The body’s eyes can only show us illusions. While we believe these illusions are real, Christ’s vision of Love is blocked. This is why forgiveness is the means to free ourselves from our dependence upon what the body sees. Forgiveness opens our mind to see past the illusions to the eternal presence of Love.

We were created as Love and nothing else. Our true Self remains at Home in God’s Love, living in His joy and peace. This is His Will for us. We do His Will by extending the Love He gave us. We know we have the Love He gave us by extending It. This is our purpose. It is how we experience our present happiness today and every day.

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