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God’s Guarantee of Peace and Happiness

You who believed that God’s Last Judgment would condemn the world to hell along with you, accept this holy truth: God’s Judgment is the gift of the Correction He bestowed on all your errors, freeing you from them, and all effects they ever seemed to have. To fear God’s saving grace is but to fear complete release from suffering, return to peace, security and happiness, and union with your own Identity.

Be not afraid of love. For it alone can heal all sorrow, wipe away all tears, and gently waken from his dream of pain the Son whom God acknowledges as His.

This is God’s Final Judgment: “You are still My holy Son, for­ever innocent, forever loving and forever loved, as limitless asyour Creator, and completely changeless and forever pure. Therefore awaken and return to Me. I am your Father and you are My Son.”” (A Course in Miracles Workbook: What is the Last Judgment, W-pII.10.3;4:2-3;5. See also ACIM Lesson 3111 Insights.)

The key message of A Course in Miracles, stated in the Introduction, is that only Love is real. It has no opposite. The rest of the Course is dedicated to help us undo our fear of Love and accept that Love is our Identity, united eternally with our Creator.

The ego is afraid of Love because separation cannot exist within the oneness of Love. Its thought system of separation has built myriad forms to make separation appear real. And we have taught ourselves to believe that this world of form is all that exists. This belief blinds us to the eternal presence of changeless Love.

But this blindness has no effect on the Love we are. It only makes us unaware of It. Meanwhile God knows that we remain united with Him in Love. This is His first and final judgment. The fact that God has not changed His Mind about His Creation guarantees that we are safe in His Love. His Voice is in our mind, calling us to return to Him. This Voice is available to us in every moment to teach us the true perception that recognizes the innocence of Love beyond the appearance of forms.

Today we choose to listen to His Voice, for we would awaken the safety, peace and happiness that is our natural Home.

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Letting Love Lead Our Way

I will step back and let Him lead the way.

There is a way of living in the world that is not here, although it seems to be. You do not change appearance, though you smile more frequently. Your forehead is serene; your eyes are quiet. And the ones who walk the world as you do recognize their own. Yet those who have not yet perceived the way will recognize you also, and believe that you are like them, as you were before.

They cannot learn directly from the truth, because they have denied that it is so. And so they need a Teacher Who perceives their madness, but Who still can look beyond illusion to the simple truth in them.

…there is [a] road that leads away from loss of every kind, for sacrifice and deprivation both are quickly left behind. This is the way appointed for you now. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 155, W-pI.155.1;3:3:3-4;5:1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 155 Insights.)

The Course is telling us what we will experience when we follow the lead of the Holy Spirit instead of the ego. It is not hard to follow the Holy Spirit’s lead because He is ever present in our mind. Only our unwillingness to let go of what we value in the world makes it seem difficult.

Much of the Course teaches us that what we value in the world are empty images with no lasting value. Only our belief that we want these images makes them seem valuable. But as we follow our inner Teacher, we learn these images have no value whatsoever. When we recognize they are valueless, we freely let them go.

Then we are willing to accept God’s gifts that have been ours all along. The world we experience is peaceful, loving and happy. We no longer need to protect the false images we have valued. We know we are safe. We increasingly recognize that every brother is a true friend, for we are joined in Love’s oneness. We teach our brothers the way to live in Love by our practice of letting Love lead the way.

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Choosing the Guide to Perfect Love

I merely follow, for I would not lead.

Father, You are the One Who gave the plan for my salvation to me. You have set the way I am to go, the role to take, and every step in my appointed path. I cannot lose the way. I can but choose to wander off a while, and then return. Your loving Voice will always call me back, and guide my feet aright. My brothers all can follow in the way I lead them. Yet I merely follow in the way to You, as You direct me and would have me go.

So let us follow One Who knows the way. We need not tarry, and we cannot stray except an instant from His loving Hand. We walk together, for we follow Him. And it is He Who makes the ending sure, and guarantees a safe returning home. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 324, W-pII.324. See also ACIM Lesson 324 Insights.)

The Holy Spirit leads us on the path to happiness and peace. The ego leads us to chaos, conflict, fear and guilt. It seems that the choice for which leader to follow is obvious. Why would we choose to follow the lead of the ego and suffer its consequences? The ego came out of the wish for specialness, to have something no one else has. The Holy Spirit cannot lead us to this because He leads to God, Who gives all of His Love to everyone equally. There is nothing else to give.

With the ego as our leader, we have taught ourselves that we can have our own special status. But this “status” is built on believing empty, illusionary forms are real. It seems that we can be special, somehow different from anyone else. But this brings guilt with it. The ego’s domain is a world of give and take. We take from others in order to have more for ourselves, either by a bargain in which we give something of lesser value or an outright attack in which we forcibly take what we want. These transactions inevitably bring guilt with them.

When we choose the Holy Spirit as our Guide, we are led on a path that frees us from guilt and restores us to the Love that is our Home. In this Love we find peace and happiness without limit. Today we choose to follow the Holy Spirit’s lead. We would not try to lead ourselves alone.

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Love Guides Us to Reclaim Our Inheritance

In peace I was created. And in peace do I remain. It is not given me to change my Self. How merciful is God my Father, that when He created me He gave me peace forever. Now I ask but to be what I am. And can this be denied me, when it is forever true?

Father, I seek the peace You gave as mine in my creation. What was given then must be here now, for my creation was apart from time, and still remains beyond all change. The peace in which Your Son was born into Your Mind is shining there unchanged. I am as You created me. I need but call on You to find the peace You gave. It is Your Will that gave it to Your Son. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 230, W-pII.230. See also ACIM Lesson 230 Insights.)

Peace is our birthright. If we are not experiencing deep peace and happiness, we are denying our inheritance. In its place we have accepted the insane belief that it is possible to be separate and alone. We want this to be true because if it were, it would be possible to have special things that we could call our own to make us unique. We want to have a domain we can call our own because we think this domain will give us what we want. But this treasured domain comes with a price — lack of peace.

In a world where differences appear real, the things we value can be changed. It is an unstable world where certainty is impossible and happiness is fleeting at best. This is what we choose when we deny our inheritance by believing we are separate from our Source. We reclaim our inheritance by choosing to accept God’s gift of Love. His Will for us is perfect happiness and Love without end.

Today we practice choosing His Love by letting Love guide all our perceptions. Love will show us our unity with every brother. Whenever an attack is perceived, Love recognizes it as a call for Love and answers with kindness and gentleness.

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The Practice That Frees Us to Be Love

Three times today, at times most suitable for silence, give ten minutes set apart from listening to the world, and choose instead a gentle listening to the Word of God. He speaks from nearer than your heart to you. His Voice is closer than your hand. His Love is everything you are and that He is; the same as you, and you the same as He.

It is your [true] voice to which you listen as He speaks to you. It is your word He speaks. It is the Word of freedom and of peace, of unity of will and purpose, with no separation nor division in the single Mind of Father and of Son. In quiet listen to your Self to­day, and let Him tell you God has never left His Son, and you have never left your Self.

Only be quiet. You will need no rule but this, to let your practicing today lift you above the thinking of the world, and free your vision from the body’s eyes. Only be still and listen. You will hear the Word in which the Will of God the Son joins in His Father’s Will, at one with it, with no illusions interposed be­tween the wholly indivisible and true. As every hour passes by today, be still a moment and remind yourself you have a special purpose for this day; in quiet to receive the Word of God. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 125, W-pI.125.7-9. See also ACIM Lesson 125 Insights.)

What the body’s eyes and ears see and hear are illusions that interfere with what our true Self is communicating in every instant. This Self remains united with Its Source, eternally Love and Loving. Today’s practice will help free us from the ego’s interference which would keep us believing we are limited and alone. It will help us break free from believing we are a body so we can experience the fact that we are Love as Love created us — and nothing else.

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Accepting Our True Self as Love

[“I am spirit”] identifies you with your one Self. It accepts no split identity, nor tries to weave opposing factors into unity. It simply states the truth. Practice this truth today as often as you can, for it will bring your mind from conflict to the quiet fields of peace. No chill of fear can enter, for your mind has been ab­solved from madness, letting go illusions of a split identity.

We state again the truth about your Self, the holy Son of God Who rests in you, whose mind has been restored to sanity. You are the spirit lovingly endowed with all your Father’s Love and peace and joy. You are the spirit which completes Himself, and shares His function as Creator. He is with you always, as you are with Him.

…He will speak to you, reminding you that you are spirit, one with Him and God, your brothers and your Self. …The Holy Spirit gives you peace today. Receive His words, and offer them to Him. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 97, W-pI.97.1-2;8:2,5-6. See also ACIM Lesson 9 Insights.)

It is impossible for there to be differences within unity. If we try to introduce differences, we lose awareness of oneness and our eternal connection with the Love of God. Our connection remains unaltered by our unwillingness to know it is there. But in every instant we have the opportunity to awaken to the unity of Love. Each time we remind ourselves, “I am spirit,” we open the door a little more to welcome the eternal Love that is our inheritance.

We have taught ourselves with great vigilance to believe that differences are real. We perceive ourselves as separate from the world and think this separateness establishes our identity. But all it does is make a pseudo identity that stands as a veil to shield our awareness from the truth that we are eternal Love, and nothing else. The ego is all about convincing us that something else is real. The Holy Spirit’s purpose is to remind us that only Love is real.

Today let us join in the Holy Spirit’s purpose by reminding ourselves often that we are Spirit that we may accept the Self God created us to be.

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The Choice for Happiness

Each day, each hour and minute, even each second, you are deciding between the crucifixion and the resurrection; between the ego and the Holy Spirit. The ego is the choice for guilt; the Holy Spirit the choice for guiltlessness. The power of decision is all that is yours. What you can decide between is fixed, because there are no alternatives except truth and illusion. And there is no overlap between them, because they are opposites which cannot be reconciled and cannot both be true. You are guilty or guiltless, bound or free, unhappy or happy.

The miracle [true perception] teaches you that you have chosen guiltlessness, freedom and joy. It is not a cause, but an effect. It is the natural result of choosing right, attesting to your happiness that comes from choosing to be free of guilt. Everyone you offer healing to returns it. Everyone you attack keeps it and cherishes it by holding it against you. Whether he does this or does it not will make no difference; you will think he does. It is impossible to offer what you do not want without this penalty. The cost of giving is receiving. (A Course in Miracles, T-14.III.4:1-5:8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

God sees His Son as innocent because He sees his Son as one with Himself. Whenever we perceive guilt in another or our self, we are perceiving wrongly. We are believing we are a false image of what God created us to be. This does not affect God’s knowing of His Son as guiltless. But it does make us unaware of our eternal unity with our Creator.

The choice to accept the ego belief in separation is the crucifixion of God’s Son by denying our true Life in God. The Holy Spirit teaches us to choose the oneness of Love, to choose the Life we live in God. This is the choice for happiness because joy is an attribute of Love.

Today we practice letting Love be our Guide in all that we do, say and think because we want to be happy.

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