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Claiming the Love That Is Already Ours

Light and joy and peace abide in me.

I am the home of light and joy and peace. I welcome them into the home I share with God, because I am a part of Him.

I am as God created me.

I will remain forever as I was, created by the Change­less like Himself. And I am one with Him, and He with me. (W-pI.112.1-2)

This lesson is reminding us about what we already have and are. We don’t realize this because we have given our allegiance to the ego, which is the denial of God’s gifts. We can reclaim God’s gifts by giving our allegiance to the Holy Spirit in our mind.

Each time we ask for and accept His help to see past the ego’s illusions to the truth of Love’s eternal Reality, we weaken our attachment to the ego thought system. We let go of judgment based on separation and accept the Holy Spirit’s only judgment: Only Love is real; nothing else exists.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to direct our thoughts, for we would let Him heal our fear based thoughts. We are ready and willing to accept God’s gifts and be free of fear.

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Releasing the Power of Love

As the ego would limit your perception of your brothers to the body, so would the Holy Spirit release your vision and let you see the Great Rays shining from them, so unlimited that they reach to God. It is this shift [from perception] to vision that is accomplished in the holy instant.

In the holy instant, where the Great Rays replace the body in awareness, the recognition of relationships without limits is given you. But in order to see this, it is necessary to give up every use the ego has for the body, and to accept the fact that the ego has no purpose you would share with it. For the ego would limit everyone to a body for its own purposes, and while you think [the body] has a purpose, you will choose to utilize the means by which [the ego] tries to turn its purpose into accomplishment.

It is impossible to divide your strength between Heaven and hell, God and the ego, and release your power to creation [extension of Love], which is the only purpose for which power was given you. Love would always give increase. Limits are demanded by the ego, and represent its demands to make little and ineffectual. Limit your sight of a brother to his body, which you will do as long as you would not release him from it, and you have denied his gift [of Love] to you. His body cannot give it. And seek it not through yours. Yet your minds are already continuous, and their union need only be accepted and the loneliness in Heaven is gone.

If you would but let the Holy Spirit tell you of the Love of God for you, and the need your creations have to be with you forever, you would experience the attraction of the eternal. (A Course in Miracles, T-15.IX.1:1-2;3:1-3;4:1-5:1. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The Holy Spirit’s sole purpose is to teach us to see the Light of Love instead of perceiving the ego’s images of separation. When we accept the ego’s purpose, the body is used to make separation seem real. Vision does not seem to be an option because the ego uses everything to limit awareness of the truth that we remain Love as Love created us.

To free ourselves from this limited perspective, we need to accept the Holy Spirit’s help. As we practice asking for Holy Spirit’s translation of our perceptions into His vision, we open our minds to the holy instant. In this instant, we experience the unity of Love and the free communication of Love flowing to Love. Love eternally extends to Itself. This is how it creates.

While we still believe the ego offers us something we want the holy instant, brought to us by the Holy Spirit, gives us the miracle experience of Love’s blessing. This blessing is beyond what the ego can offer. It teaches us that we find the Love we seek only with the Holy Spirit’s help. The more we accept these holy instants, the more we recognize the ego offers nothing we really want. When we accept this completely, we want only to see the Love that is our brother and ourselves, unified in God’s Love.

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We Live Eternally in the Mind of God

I walk with God in perfect holiness.

Today’s idea but states the simple truth that makes the thought of sin impossible. It promises there is no cause for guilt, and being causeless it does not exist. It follows surely from the basic thought so often mentioned in the text; ideas leave not their source. If this be true, how can you be apart from God? How could you walk the world alone and separate from your Source?

You cannot walk the world apart from God, because you could not be without Him. He is what your life is. Where you are He is. There is one life. That life you share with Him. Nothing can be apart from Him and live.

Yet where He is, there must be holiness as well as life. No attribute of His remains unshared by everything that lives. What lives is holy as Himself, because what shares His life is part of Holiness…” (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 156, W-pI.156.1;2:4-3:3. See also ACIM Lesson 156 Insights.)

The Course is trying to teach us that our true Self is innocent and the self we think we are does not exist at all. To the part of our mind identified with the ego, this seems ludicrous. We carry a constant burden of guilt that we try to easy by projecting it on the world. But this attitude is just the ego’s smokescreen to hide the truth from our awareness.

The Holy Spirit was given us in our mind to help us recognize that we are not the ego and that it has no power to change what God created Holy. It is only our belief in it that keeps the ego with its burden of guilt hanging out in our mind. As we let the Light of the Holy Spirit shine into the part of our mind that believes in the ego, the illusionary clouds of guilt are dispelled.

With Christ’s vision we see past the ego’s false images of separation. We accept the fact that we, along with every brother, walk with God in perfect holiness. We awaken to our true Self, living eternally in the Mind of God.

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Choosing to Accept the Love We Are

What keeps the world in chains but your beliefs? And what can save the world except your Self? Belief is powerful indeed. The thoughts you hold are mighty, and illusions are as strong in their effects as is the truth.

Yet is salvation easily achieved, for anyone is free to change his mind, and all his thoughts change with it. Now the source of thought has shifted, for to change your mind means you have changed the source of all ideas you think or ever thought or yet will think. You free the past from what you thought before. You free the future from all ancient thoughts of seeking what you do not want to find.

The present now remains the only time. Here in the present is the world set free. For as you let the past be lifted and release the future from your ancient fears, you find escape and give it to the world.

There is no world apart from what you wish, and herein lies your ultimate release. Change but your mind on what you want to see, and all the world must change accordingly. Ideas leave not their source. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 132, W-pI.132.1:1-4;2:1-3:3;5:1-3. See also ACIM Lesson 132 Insights.)

The ego is the wish for specialness. This could only seem to be true if there were differences. In the oneness of Love, all is the same unified, changeless Love of God. It is all that is real because only Love is real. The differences we perceive could only seem to exist in illusions. To change our mind is to change our allegiance from the split off part of the mind that believes in illusions to the Mind of our True Self, our right Mind. It is a simple choice that is made difficult by the myriad forms the ego offers to tempt us to believe separation is real.

We have been given an inner Teacher Whose sole purpose is to help us free ourselves from mistaken beliefs that chain us to the world. This chain is maintained by thoughts from the past retained in our mind and used to hide the present, either with guilt from the past or fear of the future. The Holy Spirit teaches us that none of these thoughts are true and shows us the peaceful and happy present. As we align with the Holy Spirit, we lay aside the ego belief system.

We learn what we thought was real had no substance. It dissipates into the nothingness from which it came. We choose the Thoughts of the Mind of our true Self which are shared with the Thoughts of God. What we thought the world was is let go and we remember the Love that is only now.

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Our Only Purpose Is to Live in Love

I do not know what anything is for.

Purpose is meaning. Today’s idea explains why nothing you see means anything. You do not know what it is for.

You perceive the world and everything in it as meaningful in terms of ego goals. These goals have nothing to do with your own best interests, because the ego is not you. This false identifi­cation makes you incapable of understanding what anything is for. As a result, you are bound to misuse it. When you believe this, you will try to withdraw the goals you have assigned to the world, instead of attempting to reinforce them.

Another way of describing the goals you now perceive is to say that they are all concerned with “personal” interests. Since you have no personal interests, your goals are really concerned with nothing. In cherishing them, therefore, you have no goals at all. And thus you do not know what anything is for.

It is crucial to your learning to be willing to give up the goals you have established for everything. The recognition that they are meaningless, rather than “good” or “bad,” is the only way to accomplish this. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 25, W-pI.25.1:1-2;2-3;5:1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 25 Insights.)

The ego’s goals are always in opposition to our best interests. This is because the ego is the denial of God’s Love. But if we identify with the ego, the statement that everything is in our best interests can arouse defensiveness, resistance and even anger. But resistance to this idea stands as a barrier against God’s gift of all of His Love. It is a denial of our true Self, which accepts and knows It is united with the eternal Love of God.

The world does not seem to present anything that is in our best interests because we need to shift from accepting the ego’s purpose, which is to maintain the illusion of separation, to accepting the Holy Spirit’s purpose for everything. The Holy Spirit has one unified purpose — to bring the Love we are to our awareness.

As we accept the Holy Spirit’s purpose for all things, we join with the unity of Love. No longer is there any perceived adversary or threat to our existence. Instead we dwell in the joyous flow of giving and receiving Love. This is the purpose that is in our best interests.

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Remembering We Are as God Created Us

Does Jesus Have a Special Place in Healing?

God’s gifts can rarely be received directly. Even the most advanced of God’s teachers will give way to temptation in this world.

[Jesus Christ] has recognized himself as God created him, and in so doing he has recognized all living things as part of him. There is now no limit on his power, because it is the power of God. So has his name become the Name of God, for he no longer sees himself as separate from Him.

What does this mean for you? It means that in remembering Jesus you are remembering God.

The name of Jesus Christ as such is but a symbol. But it stands for love that is not of this world. It is a symbol that is safely used as a replacement for the many names of all the gods to which you pray. It becomes the shining symbol for the Word of God, so close to what it stands for that the little space between the two is lost, the moment that the name is called to mind. Remembering the name of Jesus Christ is to give thanks for all the gifts that God has given you. And gratitude to God becomes the way in which He is remembered, for love cannot be far behind a grateful heart and thankful mind. God enters easily, for these are the true conditions for your homecoming. (A Course in Miracles, M-23.1:1-2;2:6-3:2;4)

In the Clarification of Terms we are told that Christ is in us just as it is in Jesus. The only difference between us and Jesus is that he has accepted Christ wholly and thus has acknowledged his unity with God. That same unity exists in us but is hidden by illusions of separation coming from the ego. Only these illusions need to be healed.

Calling upon the name of Jesus Christ is calling upon the memory of our complete and total unity in God’s Love. It is calling upon the strength of this union in Love to support us in forgiving the illusions that tempt us to believe we are alone, weak and guilty for having denied our Creator. Jesus has demonstrated that it is possible to wholly forgive all the ego beliefs that stand as barriers to our awareness of the Love we are. His demonstration becomes the staff upon which we can lean for strength when we are tempted by illusions.

Today we call upon the name of Jesus to strengthen us as we practice forgiving the world for what we thought it was. As we walk with him, we journey to Heaven.

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Joining in Love Saves the World

There is a peace that Christ bestows on us.

Who uses but Christ’s vision finds a peace so deep and quiet, undisturbable and wholly changeless, that the world contains no counterpart. Comparisons are still [silent] before this peace. And all the world departs in silence as this peace envelops it, and gently car­ries it to truth, no more to be the home of fear. For love has come, and healed the world by giving it Christ’s peace.

Father, the peace of Christ is given us, because it is Your Will that we be saved. Help us today but to accept Your gift, and judge it not. For it has come to us to save us from our judgment on ourselves. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 305, W-pII.305. See also ACIM Lesson 305 Insights.)

The ego judges God’s gift of Love as inadequate because it does not offer the specialness the ego demands. Having identified with the ego, we need the help of the Holy Spirit to heal the ego’s judgments which we have embraced as our own. These judgments make the world of separation seem real.

As we consistently practice asking the Holy Spirit to reinterpret our perception with Christ’s vision, we learn that the ego’s judgments are not our own. They stand as a barrier to our awareness of God’s gift of Love. With the help of Christ’s vision, we overlook the ego’s interpretations and see the face of Love’s innocence in every brother. Our hearts join together in the oneness of Love.

It is this joining that heals and saves the world. We recognize that God’s Love is everything we want and need. The ego offers us nothing of value, for it only offer illusions. Now we seek only the truth. We seek to accept God’s Love as What we are. Here we find the undisturbable peace of God.

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