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Accepting the Holy Spirit’s Lessons in Love

All things are lessons God would have me learn.

A lesson is a miracle which God offers to me, in place of thoughts I made that hurt me. What I learn of Him be­comes the way I am set free. And so I choose to learn His lessons and forget my own.

I place the future in the Hands of God.

The past is gone; the future is not yet. Now am I freed from both. For what God gives can only be for good. And I accept but what He gives as what belongs to me.

I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.
(A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 213, W-pI.213:1-4;214:1-8. See also ACIM Lesson 213 Insights.)

We are constantly offered lessons. What we learn from these lessons depends on which teacher we choose. If we choose the ego, we are taught that separation and fear are real, and judgment is necessary for our “survival.” These lessons insure the continuance of the ego as our accepted identity. As long as we accept the ego as our teacher, what we believe we are is limited to the ego’s closed thought system.

But we have another Teacher we can choose Who shares God’s limitlessness. He sees what we believe but does not join us in accepting it as true. His lessons teaches us that we are not a body, we remain as God created us. In His curriculum, we are taught that we are Love and nothing else, unlimited and free to extend Love without limit.

The Holy Spirit’s curriculum offers lessons in joy, peace and the certainty of changeless Love. As we learn these lessons, we realize that God’s Love is our only future. There is no past. There is only the eternal Love in which we live and have our being.

Today we practice choosing to accept the miracles of the Holy Spirit’s lessons in Love.

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Claiming the Reality of Our True Self

What you think you are is a belief to be undone. But what you really are must be revealed to you. The belief you are a body calls for correction, being a mistake. The truth of what you are calls on the strength in you to bring to your awareness what the mistake conceals.

You need to be aware of what the Holy Spirit uses to replace the image of a body in your mind. You need to feel something to put your faith in, as you lift [your faith] from the body. You need a real experience of something else, something more solid and more sure; more worthy of your faith, and really there.

…allow your mistaken thoughts about your attributes to be corrected, and their opposites to take their place. Say, for example:

I am not weak, but strong.
I am not helpless, but all powerful.
I am not limited, but unlimited.

Remember that all sense of weakness is associated with the belief you are a body, a belief that is mistaken and deserves no faith. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 91, W-pI.91.6:7-10;7:2-4;8:2-6;9:3. See also ACIM Lesson 91 Insights.)

The undoing of the mistaken belief that we are a body is one of the central messages of A Course in Miracles. Twenty of the Workbook lessons tell us to repeat many times a day, “I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.” This is because the image of a body blocks our awareness from experiencing the Love we are.

Images can only be “seen” in the realm of illusions of separation. But the Love we are is one, united with God and all His Creations. Love cannot be perceived, but It can be felt or experienced. We can feel the attributes of Love such as strength, power and limitlessness.

The daily practice of taking time to quiet our minds to reach the center of peace within opens us to the experience of the Love we are. We experience the power of Love, which is God’s power. We experience His limitlessness as ours. We experience His strength as our invincibility. The truth of What we are dwells in God and cannot be altered by images made to hide the Truth in us.

Each time we pause to feel this from the center of peace within, our faith in What we are grows stronger. We are freed from a mistaken belief and welcome our Reality as Love.

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Resolving to Give Gentleness to the World

Creation’s gentleness is all I see.

I have indeed misunderstood the world, because I laid my sins (belief in separation) on it and saw them looking back at me. How fierce they seemed! And how deceived was I to think that what I feared was in the world, instead of in my mind alone. Today I see the world in the celestial gentleness with which creation shines. There is no fear in it. Let no appearance of my sins obscure the light of Heaven shining on the world. What is reflected there is in God’s Mind. The images I see reflect my thoughts. Yet is my mind at one with God’s. And so I can perceive creation’s gentleness.

In quiet would I look upon the world, which but reflects Your Thoughts, and mine as well. Let me remember that they are the same, and I will see creation’s gentleness. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 265, W-pII.265. See also ACIM Lesson 265 Insights.)

Everything in the world is a reflection. If we believe we are separate, we perceive separation reflected back to us. But when we accept Christ’s vision, Creation’s gentleness is all we see. We are seeing the reflection what is in God’s Mind.

Let us dedicate this year to the practice of going to the center of peace in our mind throughout the day so that we perceive Creation’s gentleness. It is a gift we give to ourselves and the world.

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