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Celebrate Christmas by Forgiving

In the holy instant the condition of love is met, for minds are joined without the body’s interference, and where there is communication there is peace. The Prince of Peace was born to re-establish the condition of love by teaching that communication remains unbroken even if the body is destroyed, provided that you see not the body as the necessary means of communication. And if you understand this lesson, you will realize that to sacrifice the body is to sacrifice nothing, and communication, which must be of the mind, cannot be sacrificed. Where, then, is sacrifice? The lesson I was born to teach, and still would teach to all my brothers, is that sacrifice is nowhere and love is everywhere. For communication embraces everything, and in the peace it re-establishes, love comes of itself.

Let no despair darken the joy of Christmas, for the time of Christ is meaningless apart from joy. Let us join in celebrating peace by demanding no sacrifice of anyone, for so you offer me the love I offer you. What can be more joyous than to perceive we are deprived of nothing? Such is the message of the time of Christ, which I give you that you may give it and return it to the Father, Who gave it to me. For in the time of Christ communication is restored, and He joins us in the celebration of His Son’s creation. (A Course in Miracles, T-15.XI.7-8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

To perceive a brother as limited to a body is to imprison him. But when we have forgiven everyone we see, think of or imagine, we are born again in Christ. (Lesson 192) We have returned to the full remembrance that we are God’s Son, the unlimited extension of the oneness of His Love.

Jesus’ life demonstrated that the body is nothing, but the oneness of Love that is God’s Son is all that is real. This Love remains untouched by dreams of separation. We celebrate Christmas each time we forgive a perception of separation (lovelessness) and let Love replace fear, joy replace sadness and peace replace conflict.

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Freeing Ourselves from the Body’s Limitations

The Holy Spirit sees perception as a means to teach you that the vision of a holy relationship is all you want to see. Then will you give your faith to holiness, desiring and believing in it because of your desire.

For all who choose to look away from sin [separation] are given vision, and are led to holiness.

The body was made to be a sacrifice to sin, and in the darkness so it still is seen. Yet in the light of vision, [the body] is looked upon quite differently. You can have faith in it to serve the Holy Spirit’s goal, and give it power to serve as means to help the blind to see. But in their seeing they look past [the body], as do you. The faith and the belief you gave it belongs beyond. You gave perception and belief and faith from mind to body. Let [perception, faith and belief] now be given back to [the mind that] produced them, and can use them still to save [the mind] from what it made. (A Course in Miracles, T-21.III.6:6-7;8:6;12. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The Holy Spirit can use everything the ego made to produce a dream of separation to help us awaken from the dream. When we are willing to accept the Holy Spirit’s perception in place of the ego’s, His vision shows us the reality of the Love we are beyond the forms of bodies. With the Holy Spirit’s help, the limitations of the body become less and less real to us.

The unity of Love grows stronger in our awareness. The temptation to judge diminishes. The awareness of the Love every brother is grows stronger. As we accept Love’s vision in our mind, our joy and peace increase. We join with that Love in our brothers who are no longer a threat. Instead they are seen as part of our extension of Love. We have accepted It in ourselves and welcome our brothers as we join together in the Love we are. Bodies become a means to extend Love in the world in forms that It can be accepted.

Every day we have the opportunity to free ourselves from the body’s limitations by looking beyond them to the Reality of Love which is everywhere to be seen.

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Awakening to Our Home in Love

Within me is eternal innocence, because it is God’s Will that it be there forever and forever. I, His Son, whose will is limitless as is His Own, can will no change in this. For to deny my Father’s Will is to deny my own. To look within is but to find my will as God created it, and as it is. I fear to look within because I think I made another will that is not true, and made it real. Yet it has no effects. Within me is the Holiness of God. Within me is the memory of Him.

The step I take today, my Father, is my sure release from idle dreams of sin [separation]. Your altar stands serene and undefiled. It is the holy altar to my Self, and there I find my true Identity. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 309, W-pII.309.1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 309 Insights.)

The world we experience is a dream coming from a made up will in opposition to God’s Will and our own true Will. This pseudo will has taken over our awareness so that we don’t know our true Will. Fortunately this dream has no effect on Reality. We remain as God created us, wholly innocent and wholly loving, united in the oneness of Love.

This is our true Home, held undisturbed by our wild dreams, awaiting our awakening. We hasten our awakening by reminding ourselves that we are truly innocent as God’s Son because we dwell in the Home He holds safe for us.

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Our Gentle Path to Awakening

…what you need are intervals each day in which the learn­ing of the world becomes a transitory phase; a prison house from which you go into the sunlight and forget the darkness. Here you understand the Word, the Name which God has given you; the one Identity which all things share; the one acknowledgment of what is true. And then step back to darkness, not because you think it real, but only to proclaim its unreality in terms which still have meaning in the world that darkness rules.

Use all the little names and symbols which delineate the world of darkness. Yet accept them not as your reality. The Holy Spirit uses all of them, but He does not forget creation has one Name, one meaning, and a single Source which unifies all things within Itself. Use all the names the world bestows on them but for convenience, yet do not forget [all things] share the Name of God along with you. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 184, W-pI.184.10-11. See also ACIM Lesson 184 Insights.)

The Course offers us a gentle path to awaken from the dream of separation, guilt and fear. It is designed to not trigger fears of loss and death, but to show us the peace and Love that is our natural Home beyond the dream. It teaches us how to live in the world while waking up.

In the world all things are images, each with its own name to distinguish it as separate. We use these names to communicate. At the same time we need to practice holding the awareness that words are only symbols and therefore not real. Beyond the symbols is the eternal presence of Love’s oneness.

To keep in touch with Love’s Reality, we need to take time each day to go to the center of peace within, where the Holy Spirit reminds us that we are God’s Son, united with Him eternally. Each time we touch base with God’s peace helps us loosen our investment in the world’s symbols. The dream becomes less real and our reactions to perceptions of the symbols softens. We experience consistently deeper levels of peace. Things that used to upset us no longer trigger our guilt. More we frequently see through the eyes of Love. The veil of separation gets thinner and thinner.

When our forgiveness is complete, we awaken to our Home in the oneness of Love.

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Celebrating Christ’s Vision

To do nothing is to rest, and make a place within you where the activity of the body ceases to demand attention. Into this place the Holy Spirit comes, and there abides. He will remain when you forget, and the body’s activities return to occupy your conscious mind.

Yet there will always be this place of rest to which you can return. And you will be more aware of this quiet center of the storm than all its raging activity. This quiet center, in which you do nothing, will remain with you, giving you rest in the midst of every busy doing on which you are sent. For from this center will you be directed how to use the body sinlessly. It is this center, from which the body is absent, that will keep [keep the body sinless] in your awareness of it. (A Course in Miracles, T-18.VII.7:7-8:5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

When we pause to step back from the busyness of our daily activity and focus on the center of peace within, we open our minds the the Holy Spirit’s guidance to use the body sinlessly. We are not asked to deny that we have things to do in the world. But when we go to our quiet center, our use of the body is directed by Love’s oneness instead of the ego’s demand for separation and the guilt that comes with it. The body is used for Love’s unifying purpose.

Let’s use this season of celebrating Christ to welcome His vision by frequently going to the quiet inner place where we rest in the Love of our Creator.

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Our Unbreakable Communication with God

[The Holy Spirit] is the Voice for God, and has therefore taken form. This form is not His reality, which God alone knows along with Christ, His real Son, Who is part of Him.

The Holy Spirit is described throughout the course as giving us the answer to the separation and bringing the plan of the Atonement [undoing of the dream of separation] to us, establishing our particular part in it and showing us exactly what it is.

The Holy Spirit is described as the remaining Communication Link between God and His separated Sons. In order to fulfill this special function the Holy Spirit has assumed a dual function. He knows because He is part of God; He perceives because He was sent to save humanity. He is the great correction principle; the bringer of true perception, the inherent power of the vision of Christ. He is the light in which the forgiven world is perceived; in which the face of Christ alone is seen. (A Course in Miracles, C-6.1:4-2:1;3:1-5)

By choosing to accept the thought that we could separate from our Creator, we established a situation in which we believed we had broken our communication with God. In that instant God established the Holy Spirit to be His Communication Link with His Son Who mistakenly believed he was separate.

The Self that is God’s Son was not affected by this mistaken belief. The Holy Spirit speaks for this Self to the part of the mind that perceives separation is real. He is the Bridge between this Self and the self made by the ego in the attempt to make separation and specialness seem real.

As long as part of our mind accepts belief in separation, the Holy Spirit is needed to teach us to look beyond appearances. With His help, we learn to see with Christ’s vision which shows us a forgiven world. When forgiveness is complete, the made-up self no longer seems to exist and the Holy Spirit is no longer needed. We remember we are the Self God created as His one Son.

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Being a Messenger of Love

Be not afraid today to circumvent the voices of the world. Walk lightly past their meaningless persuasion. Hear them not. Be still today and listen to the truth. Go past all things which do not speak of Him Who holds your happiness within His Hand, held out to you in welcome and in love. Hear only Him today, and do not wait to reach Him longer. Hear one Voice today.

He comes with miracles a thousand times as happy and as wonderful as those you ever dreamed or wished for in your dreams.

Listen today, and you will hear a Voice which will resound throughout the world through you.

Let me be still and listen to the truth.
I am the messenger of God today,
My voice is His, to give what I receive. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 106, W-pI.106.3;4:4;6:4;10:3-4. See also ACIM Lesson 106 Insights.)

We have used our “lives” to learn the ego’s lessons in separation. We have hidden from the fear and guilt that come with these lessons by projecting them on an outside world. These lessons leave us feeling weak, vulnerable, uncertain, unhappy and incomplete. It is time to stop listening to ego’s voice which speaks only lies. It can never bring us peace of mind, lasting happiness and changeless Love.

Today, let us join together in a shared commitment to listen to the Voice of truth. With this shared intent, we become God’s messengers to bring His lessons in Love to the world.

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