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Choosing the Reality of God’s Love

Reality observes the laws of God, and not the rules you set. It is His laws that guarantee your safety. All illusions that you believe about yourself obey no laws. …[Illusions] must be neither cherished nor attacked, but merely looked upon as children’s toys without a single meaning of their own. See one [meaning] in them and you will see them all. See [no meaning] in them and they will touch you not.

Appearances deceive because they are appearances and not reality.

Appearances can but deceive the mind that wants to be deceived.

Salvation is a paradox indeed! What could it be except a happy dream? It asks you but that you forgive all things that no one ever did; to overlook what is not there, and not to look upon the unreal as reality. You are but asked to let your will be done, and seek no longer for the things you do not want. And you are asked to let yourself be free of all the dreams of what you never were, and seek no more to substitute the strength of idle wishes for the Will of God.

…[salvation] but asks forgiveness be the substitute for fear. Such is the only rule for happy dreams. …They offer him no single thing that he could ever want. He is delivered from illusions by his will, and but restored to what he is. What could God’s plan for his salvation be, except a means to give him to Himself? (A Course in Miracles, T-30.IV.4:1-2,9-10;5:1;6:1;7;8:6-7,11-13. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Everyone wants love and peace. Everything we do is motivated by this desire. Even murder is motivated by the desire to get rid of what is judged to be preventing the achievement of peace. All fear, ranging from a little irritation to murderous rage, is based on the perception of separation and differences that interfere with our happiness and peace of mind.

But these differences are empty images, made by the ego to make differences and separation appear to be real. Yet appearances are not real, by definition. They are substitutes which cannot offer the reality of Love’s oneness. When we identify with the ego, the thought system of separation, we have chosen to be deceived. It is the effect of wanting more than all the Love of God, to have something we can claim as ours alone. Yet this wish denies everything that is Real (God’s Love), leaving us with nothing.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to heal our fear-based thoughts and show us the reality of Love that is everywhere to be seen.

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Christ’s Vision Undoes the Dream of Fear

We have a mission here. We did not come to reinforce the madness that we once believed in. Let us not forget the goal that we accepted. It is more than just our happiness alone we came to gain. What we accept as what we are proclaims what everyone must be, along with us. Fail not your brothers, or you fail yourself. Look lovingly on them, that they may know that they are part of you, and you of them.

This does Atonement teach, and demonstrates the Oneness of God’s Son is unassailed by his belief he knows not what he is. Today accept Atonement, not to change reality, but merely to accept the truth about yourself, and go your way rejoicing in the endless Love of God. It is but this that we are asked to do. It is but this that we will do today.

I will accept Atonement for myself,
For I remain as God created me.

We have not lost the knowledge that God gave to us when He created us like Him. We can remember it for everyone, for in creation are all minds as one. And in our memory is the recall how dear our brothers are to us in truth, how much a part of us is every mind, how faithful they have really been to us, and how our Father’s Love contains them all. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 139, W-pI.139.9-10;11:3-6. See also ACIM Lesson 139 Insights.)

We seem to be in the world because we chose to believe that we succeeded to separate from God. The Atonement undoes our mistaken beliefs in separation from God and all His Love. It clears away the barriers that prevent us from seeing our brothers as united with us in Love’s oneness. But we can undo our mistaken beliefs and once again accept the knowledge that we remain Love as God created us.

Our mission now is to accept the reality of Love in our brothers. We do this by letting the Holy Spirit heal our fear-based judgments. This is our only meaningful purpose because it undoes our meaningless illusions and restores our awareness to our true Self, Which is Love and nothing else.

Our prayer today: Holy Spirit, I release all thoughts that disturb my peace to you. I am willing to accept your vision of the Love of Christ in their place. I am willing to remember Who I am.

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Accepting God’s Guarantee

No one can fail to do what God appointed him to do. When you forget, remember that you walk with Him and with His Word upon your heart. Who could despair when hope like this is his? Illusions of despair may seem to come, but learn how not to be deceived by them. Behind each one there is reality and there is God. Why would you wait for this and trade it for illusions, when His Love is but an instant farther on the road where all illusions end? The end is sure and guaranteed by God.

You are a stranger here. But you belong to Him Who loves you as He loves Himself. Ask but my help to roll the stone away, and it is done according to His Will. We have begun the journey. Long ago the end was written in the stars and set into the Heavens with a shining Ray that held it safe within eternity and through all time as well. And holds it still; unchanged, unchanging and unchangeable.

Now we are sure we do not walk alone. For God is here, and with Him all our brothers. Now we know that we will never lose the way again. The song begins again which had been stopped only an instant, though it seems to be unsung forever. What is here begun will grow in life and strength and hope, until the world is still an instant and forgets all that the dream of sin had made of it. (A Course in Miracles, C-ep.1:4-10;2;3:3-7)

All the strength and Love of God support us in our journey of awakening to the certainty that we are as God created us. God does not change and neither do His creations (extensions of Love). We have bought into illusions of separation that hide our reality in God from our awareness. The dream of separation, fear and guilt is not true nor ever was. God’s guarantee of our unity with Him is our certainty that we can awaken from the dream of fear and death.

Today we choose to hear His Voice assure us of our innocence, our Love and our unity with every brother in God. As we accept His Word in our minds, the world we thought we knew fades away, for it was nothing but illusions. We are ready to awaken to the Home we never left in truth. God’s arms are open to welcome us.

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Choosing Holy Spirit’s Loving Lessons

We stand together, Christ and I, in peace And certainty of purpose. And in Him Is His Creator, as He is in me.

My oneness with the Christ establishes me as Your Son, beyond the reach of time, and wholly free of every law but Yours. I have no self except the Christ in me. I have no purpose but His Own. And He is like His Father. Thus must I be one with You [Father] as well as Him [Christ]. For who is Christ except Your Son as You created Him? And what am I except the Christ in me? (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 354, W-pII.354. See also ACIM Lesson 354 Insights.)

A body, with all that is associated with it, is not our identity. Our true Identity is Christ, the Son of God. This Identity is free of all limitations because it is unified in the oneness of Love. Nothing but Love is real.

To know the peace and joy of our true Self, we need to let go of the beliefs that bind us to the ego and the body, its principal image of separation. This is the purpose of forgiveness. When we let go of a belief in limitation or separation, we open our mind to accept that Love is our only Reality.

Our belief in the ego as our identity is deeply entrenched, hidden under layers of denial. Fortunately the Holy Spirit has a personalized curriculum to teach us to recognize our mistaken beliefs and let them go. He can use every perception in every moment to help us heal our misperceptions if we let Him be our Guide.

Our prayer today: Holy Spirit, I am willing to accept Your help. I choose Your plan for me today, not my own. I want to learn Your lessons in Love, for I want to remember my true Identity.

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The Journey Home to Love

The body is a fence the Son of God imagines he has built, to separate parts of his Self from other parts. It is within this fence he thinks he lives, to die as it decays and crumbles. For within this fence he thinks that he is safe from love. Identifying with his safety, he regards himself as what his safety is. How else could he be certain he remains within the body, keeping love outside?

But we can change the purpose that the body will obey by changing what we think that it is for.

The body is the means by which God’s Son returns to sanity. Though it was made to fence him into hell without escape, yet has the goal of Heaven been exchanged for the pursuit of hell. The Son of God extends his hand to reach his brother, and to help him walk along the road with him. Now is the body holy.

Love is your safety. Fear does not exist. Identify with love, and you are safe. Identify with love, and you are home. Identify with love, and find your Self. (A Course in Miracles Workbook What Is the Body?, W-pII.5.1;3:5-4:4;5:4-8. See also ACIM Lesson Insights: What Is the body?.)

The body is so real to us that it doesn’t seem we are imagining it. It doesn’t seem that it is a defense against Love. In fact it seems that throughout the body’s life we are searching for Love. But because the ego defends against Love, all our searching under its direction comes up empty. At best we obtain substitutes for Love that do not fully satisfy and are not eternal. The fact that the ego’s substitutes for Love never last is a sure sign that they are not real. As long as we think the body is our identity, the ego’s goal of hiding from Love is satisfied.

Still we search for Love because we hear the Voice of our true Self calling us to return to Love. Love is our Home. Nothing but the changelessness of our eternal Home will ever satisfy. As we let the Holy Spirit’s purpose replace the ego’s purpose for the body, it becomes an instrument used to bring Love into the world where Love’s oneness is denied. When we identify with our true Self instead of the ego, the body becomes holy. It is used to extend Love instead of deny It.

Today is a perfect day to choose the Love of our true Self as our Identity and become messengers of Love in the world. This is the journey that leads us Home to Love.

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Remembering Our Home in Heaven

Christ’s is the vision I will use today.

Each day, each hour, every instant, I am choosing what I want to look upon, the sounds I want to hear, the witnesses to what I want to be the truth for me. Today I choose to look upon what Christ would have me see, to listen to God’s Voice, and seek the Witnesses to what is true in God’s creation. In Christ’s sight, the world and God’s creation meet, and as they come together all perception disappears. His kindly sight redeems the world from death, for nothing that He looks on but must live, remembering the Father and the Son; Creator and creation unified.

Father, Christ’s vision is the way to You. What He beholds invites Your memory to be restored to me. And this I choose, to be what I would look upon today. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 271, W-pII.271. See also ACIM Lesson 271 Insights.)

In every instant we make a choice between two perceptions. If we choose to believe what the body’s eyes show us, we perceive separation, differences, lack, loss and vulnerability. If we choose the perception of Christ’s vision, we see the innocence of Love that unifies us with our brothers. We see a world of kindness, helpfulness and innocence. We feel the safety that comes with the assurance that our true Self, created by Love, is changeless and eternal.

One choice brings fear and guilt. The other choice brings Love, peace and joy, for it brings us to a state of mind so close to Heaven that the images seen by the body’s eyes fade away. We remember we are eternally at Home in Heaven.

Today we practice welcoming Christ’s vision by asking the Holy Spirit to help us see beyond the images of the world to the presence of Love’s oneness.

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Sharing Love’s Joy by Giving It

Let this day be a day of stillness and of quiet listening. Your Father wills you hear His Word today. He calls to you from deep within your mind where He abides. Hear Him today. No peace is possible until His Word is heard around the world; until your mind, in quiet listening, accepts the message that the world must hear to usher in the quiet time of peace.

This world will change through you. No other means can save it, for God’s plan is simply this: The Son of God is free to save himself, given the Word of God [Holy Spirit] to be his Guide, forever in his mind and at his side to lead him surely to his Father’s house by his own will, forever free as God’s. He is not led by force, but only love. He is not judged, but only sanctified. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 125, W-pI.125.1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 125 Insights.)

To hear the Voice for God, we need to turn our attention away from the chaos of the world. The peace of God is always within us, ready to be welcomed into our awareness. We quiet our minds by letting the thoughts of the world pass by without giving them attention. We remember that we really want the peace of God. We want to receive the guidance of His Voice, confident that He will lead us to forgive the thoughts that disturb our peace.

We are worthy of taking time to step back from the world and to enter the quiet place in our mind where we remember that we are eternally safe in God. We welcome the message from His Voice that tells us of the true Self we share with all our brothers and that is at Home in the Heart of God. In the oneness of this one Self, conflict and loss are impossible. We are free to share the Love’s joy as we give the gift of Love we have accepted. We let Love be our Guide throughout the day.

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