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Returning to the Heart of Love

What but Christ’s vision would I use today, when it can offer me a day in which I see a world so like to Heaven that an ancient memory returns to me? Today I can forget the world I made. Today I can go past all fear, and be restored to love and holiness and peace. Today I am redeemed, and born anew into a world of mercy and of care; of loving kindness and the peace of God.

And so, our Father, we return to You, remembering we never went away; remembering Your holy gifts to us. In gratitude and thankfulness we come, with empty hands and open hearts and minds, asking but what You give. We cannot make an offering sufficient for Your Son. But in Your Love the gift of Christ is his. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 306, W-pII.306. See also ACIM Lesson 306 Insights.)

How do we come to our Father with empty hands and open hearts? We have to fully accept that we do not know what anything in the world means. Our judgments and opinions separate us from our brothers, closing our hearts against the unity of Love that joins us with all that is real. Judgments fill our hands with meaningless illusions that do not leave room to receive the gift of truth.

The process of opening our hearts and emptying our hands is the practice of forgiveness. As we let go of our judgments, the veil of separation weakens and we begin to see through it to the eternal presence of changeless Love.

The appeal of happiness and peace that comes with this Love grows stronger. We are less and less willing to settle for the illusions of the ego. All we really want is the gift of Christ’s vision — the recognition that our true Self has always had and still has all of God’s gifts. We accept Christ’s vision for we have opened our hands to receive the gift of oneness and opened our hearts to welcome our brothers as part of our one Self.

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Recognizing Our Eternal Presence in Love

Your Friend [Holy Spirit] goes with you. You are not alone. No one who calls on Him can call in vain. Whatever troubles you, be certain that He has the answer, and will gladly give it to you, if you simply turn to Him and ask it of Him. He will not withhold all answers that you need for anything that seems to trouble you. He knows the way to solve all problems, and resolve all doubts. His certainty is yours. You need but ask it of Him, and it will be given you.

Henceforth, hear but the Voice for God and for your Self when you retire from the world, to seek reality instead. He will direct your efforts, telling you exactly what to do, how to direct your mind, and when to come to Him in silence, asking for His sure direction and His certain Word. His is the Word that God has given you. His is the Word you chose to be your own.

And now I place you in His hands, to be His faithful follower, with Him as Guide through every difficulty and all pain that you may think is real. …Now you walk with Him, as certain as is He of where you go; as sure as He of how you should proceed; as confident as He is of the goal, and of your safe arrival in the end.

You will be told exactly what God wills for you each time there is a choice to make. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 1, W-pII.Ep.1:2-8;3:2-5;4:1,6;5:3. See also ACIM Lesson 365 and Epilogue Insights.)

We have a Guide Whose sole purpose is to lead us back to the full remembrance of the Self that God created one with Him. This is the Self that is eternally at peace, continuously extending Love and always sharing God’s joy.

If we experience anything other than this, we have chosen to believe another guide whose purpose is to deny God and all His Love. This guide would lead us to death, the ultimate symbol that it is right and God is wrong about what you are. It “proves” that separation is real. But only our belief in this guide makes separation and death seem real. No matter what appearances are in the world, our true Self remains unchanged. In truth we remain as God created us.

No matter how real the world seems to us, we can choose to give our attention to the Guide God gave us to lead us out of the ego’s made-up hell and back to our Home in Love Which we never left in truth. This Guide is like a personal Tutor. He sees our illusions, but does not believe them. His curriculum teaches us how to step back from illusions. With His help, we free ourselves from the ego’s limitations by learning to overlook the world’s appearances and recognize the eternal presence of Love in us and all around us. This is our Home in truth.

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Our True Reality Is Changeless Love

Reality is changeless. It is this that makes it real, and keeps it separate from all appearances. It must transcend all form to be itself. It cannot change.

The miracle is means to demonstrate that all appearances can change because they are appearances, and cannot have the changelessness reality entails. The miracle attests salvation from appearances by showing they can change. Your brother has a changelessness in him beyond appearance and deception, both. It is obscured by changing views of him that you perceive as his reality. The happy dream about him takes the form of the appearance of his perfect health, his perfect freedom from all forms of lack, and safety from disaster of all kinds. The miracle is proof he is not bound by loss or suffering in any form, because it can so easily be changed. This demonstrates that [form] was never real, and could not stem from his reality. For that is changeless, and has no effects that anything in Heaven or on earth could ever alter. But appearances are shown to be unreal because they change.

Because reality is changeless is a miracle already there to heal all things that change, and offer them to you to see in happy form, devoid of fear. (A Course in Miracles, T-30.VIII.1:6-9;2;5:1. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

In the world our brothers appear in billions of forms. But beyond all bodies, all forms, is changeless Love. To welcome the miracle that changes our perception, we must be willing to let the Holy Spirit show us the Love that is beyond all form.

When we accept this Help, the appearances of form in the world become happy expressions of changeless Love. These happy forms become a bridge leading from the limitations and divisions of the world we have been perceiving to the Love of our Home in Heaven. It is a blessed replacement of forms of fear and loss by the eternal abundance of Love eternal. The acceptance of Reality as changeless awakens us to our Home in Heaven.

Today let us remind ourselves frequently that our true Reality is changeless Love.

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Let’s Be Messengers of Love Today

[Your real thoughts] are nothing that you think you think, just as nothing that you think you see is related to vision in any way. There is no relationship between what is real and what you think is real. Nothing that you think are your real thoughts resemble your real thoughts in any respect. Nothing that you think you see bears any resemblance to what vision will show you.

You think with the Mind of God.

We will attempt to leave the unreal and seek for the real. We will deny the world in favor of truth. We will not let the thoughts of the world hold us back. We will not let the beliefs of the world tell us that what God would have us do is impossible. Instead, we will try to recognize that only what God would have us do is possible.

We will also try to understand that only what God would have us do is what we want to do. And we will also try to remember that we cannot fail in doing what He would have us do. There is every reason to feel confident that we will succeed today. It is the Will of God. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 45, W-pI.45.1:2-2:1;4:2-6;5. See also ACIM Lesson 45 Insights.)

All God’s Thoughts are Thoughts of Love because God is only Love. Our real Thoughts, which we share with God, must also be Thoughts of Love. When we seek to find our real Thoughts, we are seeking to remember our loving Thoughts.

The Thoughts we share with God are one and always the same because God’s Love is changeless. The world we are aware of is the ego’s attempt to change God’s Love. The path to awakening to our true Self is the process of changing from our belief that it is possible to change Love to accepting Love’s oneness that surrounds us and is our true Self.

The only meaningful purpose we have in the world now is to replace our mistaken thoughts with expressions of Love. Each thought of kindness, helpfulness and appreciation blesses the world with Love. Simultaneously it hastens our awakening to our real Thoughts of Love.

Today let us be messengers of Love in the world.

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Accepting Dreams of Kindness and Gentleness

Into His Presence would I enter now.
This day is holy, for it ushers in a new experience; a different kind of feeling and awareness. You have spent long days and nights in celebrating death. Today you learn to feel the joy of life.

From this day forth, your ministry takes on a genuine devotion, and a glow that travels from your fingertips to those you touch, and blesses those you look upon. A vision reaches every­one you meet, and everyone you think of, or who thinks of you. For your experience today will so transform your mind that it becomes the touchstone for the holy Thoughts of God.

…the Holy One, the Giver of the happy dreams of life, Translator of perception into truth, the holy Guide to Heaven given you, has dreamed for you this journey which you make and start today, with the experience this day holds out to you to be your own. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 157, W-pI.157.1:4-6;5;8:2. See also ACIM Lesson 157 Insights.)

Every brother is one with us in the Self Love created like Itself. Every thought we accept in our mind is heard throughout the Sonship. Our only real Thoughts are the Thoughts of Love we share with God. Thus our Thoughts of Love are a blessing to the world as much as they are a blessing to our Self.

We are unaware of the ongoing Thoughts of Love in our mind while we give our allegiance to the ego, which denies Love. This allegiance leads to dreams of guilt and fear. But we can choose to give our allegiance to the Holy Spirit, Who dreams for us a dream of expressions of Love, peace and happiness. We cannot serve two masters simultaneously. We serve either the ego or the Holy Spirit.

We enter into God’s presence by choosing the Holy Spirit to guide our dream. With His guidance, we learn to let go of the past, for His lesson teaches that the past is gone and cannot affect us now. With His help our dream becomes a dream of kindness, gentleness, peace and happiness. We choose this today.

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Holy Spirit’s Plans Bring Peace of Mind

A healed mind is relieved of the belief that it must plan, al­though it cannot know the outcome which is best, the means by which it is achieved, nor how to recognize the problem that the plan is made to solve. [The mind] must misuse the body in its plans until it recognizes this is so. But when [the mind] has accepted [it need not plan is] true, then is it healed, and lets the body go.

Enslavement of the body to the plans the unhealed mind sets up to save itself must make the body sick. It is not free to be the means of helping in a plan which far exceeds [the body’s] own protection, and which needs its service for a little while. In this capacity is health assured. For everything the mind employs for this will function flawlessly, and with the strength that has been given it and cannot fail.

The mind engaged in planning for itself is occupied in setting up control of future happenings. It does not think that it will be provided for, unless it makes its own provisions. Time becomes a future emphasis, to be controlled by learning and experience obtained from past events and previous beliefs. It overlooks the present, for it rests on the idea the past has taught enough to let the mind direct its future course.

The mind that plans is thus refusing to allow for change. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 135, W-pI.135.12-13;15:1-16:1. See also ACIM Lesson 135 Insights.)

One of the early workbook lessons reminds us that we do not know what anything means. Thus any plans we make must be based on a false premises and illusions. Because the things we see are illusions and therefore meaningless, we assign them meaning to give ourselves some sense of security. But this practice has a consequence — any change that may seem to occur in the illusions we have given meaning threatens our sense of safety.

We carefully make plans to protect against change. Yet no matter how carefully we plan on our own, things can come up that we have not planned for and therefore further threaten us. These plans spiral deeper and deeper into cycles of attack and defense. On our own, we cannot free ourselves from this spiral because all our defenses simply reinforce our fear and the perceived threat leads to more defenses and more fear.

The key to release from this spiral is to disengage our identity from the ego and let the Holy Spirit do our planning for us. The Holy Spirit will always guide us to recognize what we thought was a threat has no substance because it is not real. He replaces this perception with the vision of Love’s eternal presence. He offers us the safety of Love’s changelessness in place of the vulnerability of illusions.

Today we let our minds be healed by practicing letting Holy Spirit plan all things on our behalf. Here we will find the safety that brings with it peace of mind.

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The Gift of Deliverance and Peace

…everyone is equally entitled to His gift of healing and deliverance and peace. To give a problem to the Holy Spirit to solve for you means that you want it solved. To keep it for yourself to solve without His help is to decide it should remain unsettled, unresolved, and lasting in its power of injustice and attack.

The little problems that you keep and hide become your secret sins, because you did not choose to let them be removed for you. …The unforgiven have no mercy to bestow upon another. That is why your sole responsibility must be to take forgiveness for yourself.

Each miracle is an example of what justice can accomplish when it is offered to everyone alike. It is received and given equally. It is awareness that giving and receiving are the same. Because it does not make the same unlike, it sees no differences where none exists. And thus it is the same for everyone, because it sees no differences in them. Its offering is universal, and it teaches but one message:

What is God’s belongs to everyone, and is [everyone’s] due. (A Course in Miracles, T-25.IX.7:4-6;9:1,5-6;10:4-10. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We cannot truly forgive without Help from outside the ego’s thought system of separation and specialness. The ego cannot conceive of equality because it is built upon the foundation of inequality. To experience the miracle the Holy Spirit offers to everyone, we must be willing to let Him replace our perception of differences and limitation with His certainty that everyone is worthy and deserving of God’s changeless Love.

As we accept the Holy Spirit’s vision, the adversaries we once perceived become our dearest friends, for we recognize our unity with them in Love. The Holy Spirit sees everyone the same as God’s Son. When we become totally aligned with the Holy Spirit’s vision, we remember our true Self in peace and joy.

We dedicate today to offering all our perceptions to the Holy Spirit for His loving correction so we may experience the blessing of forgiveness.

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