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Hearing God’s Voice in Our Brothers

There is a place in you where this whole world has been forgotten; where no memory of sin and of illusion lingers still. There is a place in you which time has left, and echoes of eternity are heard. There is a resting place so still no sound except a hymn to Heaven rises up to gladden God the Father and the Son.

The still infinity of endless peace surrounds you gently in its soft embrace, so strong and quiet, tranquil in the might of its Creator, nothing can intrude upon the sacred Son of God within.

Nothing is asked of you but to accept the changeless and eternal that abide in [your brother, God’s Son], for your Identity is there. The peace in you can but be found in him. And every thought of love you offer him but brings you nearer to your wakening to peace eternal and to endless joy.

Be very still and hear God’s Voice in [your brother], and let It tell you what his function is.

Forgiving dreams are means to step aside from dreaming of a world outside yourself. And leading finally beyond all dreams, unto the peace of everlasting life. (A Course in Miracles, T-29.V.1:1-3;2:4;3:3-5;4:2;8:5-6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Everyone in this world is searching for peace. This peace is available to be found in every instant. We find peace by paying attention to the Voice for God in our mind and letting It show us our oneness with every brother, united as God’s one Son. As we accept our unity, we accept our Self as God created It.

Our dedication to listening to the Voice of Oneness, speaking through our brother, leads us to remember the peace of God is ours now. This Voice speaks of our unity, where there is no conflict. Only Love is there. Bodies are overlooked as illusions, for we have joined with the Holy Spirit’s vision, which sees only Love. We commit to this today.

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Claiming Love’s Invincibility

My holiness shines bright and clear today.

Today I wake with joy, expecting but the happy things of God to come to me. I ask but them to come, and realize my invitation will be answered by the Thoughts [of God] to which [my invitation] has been sent by me. And I will ask for only joyous things the instant I accept my holiness. For what would be the use of pain to me, what purpose would my suffering fulfill, and how would grief and loss avail me if insanity departs from me today, and I accept my holiness instead?

Father, my holiness is Yours. Let me rejoice in [my oneness], and through for­giveness [seeing past illusions of separation] be restored to sanity. Your Son is still as You created him. My holiness is part of me, and also part of You. And what can alter Holi­ness Itself? (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 285, W-pII.285. See also ACIM Lesson 285 Insights.)

The ego is in a constant state of alert to defend against impending danger. This is because the ego has denied the innate power of God, which is our inheritance. Denying the only Source of strength is clearly insane. When we identify with the ego, we begin the day with a sense of fear, ranging from mild anxiety to fear and depression. We start the day making plans to protect and make safe the self we think we are.

When we accept our holiness as God’s Son, we awaken with joy. All we see ahead of us is the opportunity to be and extend Love. This is our Will, united with our Creator. In the awareness of Love, we are certain of our safety, for we have accepted the strength of God as ours.

The Love we are is invincible, for nothing other than Love exists. This is our natural state of mind. To claim it, we need only accept the Self that God created as His Son as our Identity. We remind ourselves throughout this day and every day that we are God’s Son, complete and whole and safe in His Love.

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The Practice That Brings Us Joy

Creation is the sum of all God’s Thoughts, in number infinite, and everywhere without all limit. Only love creates, and only like itself. There was no time when all that it created was not there. Nor will there be a time when anything that it created suffers any loss. Forever and forever are God’s Thoughts exactly as they were and as they are, unchanged through time and after time is done.

Creation is the opposite of all illusions, for Creation is the truth. Creation is the holy Son of God, for in creation is His Will complete in every aspect, making every part container of the whole.

We are Creation; we the Sons of God. We seem to be discrete, and unaware of our eternal unity with Him. Yet back of all our doubts, past all our fears, there still is certainty. For love remains with all its Thoughts, its sureness being theirs. God’s memory is in our holy minds, which know their oneness and their unity with their Creator. Let our function be only to let this memory return, only to let God’s Will be done on earth, only to be restored to sanity, and to be but as God created us. (W-pII.11.1;3:1-2;4)

All God’s Thoughts are the Sons of God. Because thoughts do not leave their source, God’s Sons remain united with Him. Our true Self, God’s Son, remains united with God and all Creation. As God’s Son, we share His function to Create — to extend Love without limit. Joining in God’s extension of Love is the Source of all joy, for we are fulfilling our sole function.

Whenever we are not wholly joyous, we are limiting the extension of Love through us because we are accepting the ego’s goal of separation and limitation in place of God’s Will to extend His Love eternally. Today we practice letting Love guide all our thoughts and actions.

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Seeing Past Fantasies to Eternal Love

Perception has a focus. It is this that gives consistency to what you see. Change but this focus, and what you behold will change accordingly. Your vision now will shift, to give support to the intent which has replaced the one you held before. Remove your focus on your brother’s sins, and you experience the peace that comes from faith in sinlessness. This faith receives its only sure support from what you see in others past their sins. For their mistakes, if focused on, are witnesses to sins in you. And you will not transcend their sight and see the sinlessness that lies beyond.

We seek for innocence and nothing else. We seek for it with no concern but now.

For the past is gone; the future but imagined. These concerns are but defenses against present change of focus in perception. …We do not look to past beliefs, and what we will believe will not intrude upon us now.

…as our focus goes beyond mistakes, we will behold a wholly sinless world. When seeing this is all we want to see, when this is all we seek for in the name of true perception, are the eyes of Christ inevitably ours. And the Love He feels for us becomes our own as well. This will become the only thing we see reflected in the world and in ourselves. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 181, W-pI.181.2;3:5-6;5:2-3,6;8:3-6. See also ACIM Lesson 181 Insights.)

When we see a brother as a body, we are not trusting in our brother’s truth. We are believing in a false image and calling it “reality”. This belief in what our brother is reflects what we believe we are. Focusing on bodies limits our perceptions to fantasies of images that are capable of harm and being harmed. It comes from belief in sin — separation from the oneness of Love.

Healing comes as we shift our focus from fantasies of separation to the truth of the innocence of Love. Love is incapable of harm or being limited in any way. Love is our true Self, united with every brother. This Self is eternal and changeless. It knows no past. There is no need to imagine a future because changeless Love is now eternally.

Let us remind ourselves frequently today to let the Holy Spirit help us see past body images and personalities to the unity of Love that joins us with every brother now. As we accept this Reality, we will experience the peace and joy that are God’s Will for us.

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Resting in the Comfort of God’s Love

The very fact that the Will of God, which is what you are, is perceived as fearful, demonstrates that you are afraid of what you are. It is not, then, the Will of God of which you are afraid, but [your true will].

Your [true] will is not the ego’s, and that is why the ego is against you. What seems to be the fear of God is really the fear of your own reality.

You have set up this strange situation so that it is impossible to escape from it without a Guide Who does know what your reality is. The purpose of this Guide is merely to remind you of what you want.

When I said that the Holy Spirit’s function is to sort out the true from the false in your mind, I meant that He has the power to look into what you have hidden and recognize the Will of God there. His recognition of this Will can make it real to you because He is in your mind, and therefore He is your reality.

Reality [God’s Love] is the only safety. Your will is your salvation because it is the same as God’s. The separation is nothing more than the belief that [your will] is different [from God’s]. (T-9.I.1:4-2:2;3:5-6;4:2-3;7:7-9)

In truth, we are eternally safe in the Heart of Love. We are unaware of this while we believe we are in the dream of separation. Separation denies Love, making the Love we are unconscious. Denial does not change Reality; it only makes us unaware of It.

The Holy Spirit in our mind sees past our denial, recognizing the true Self that God created, forever united in His Reality. Thus the Holy Spirit helps us awaken from the dream of denying Love to recognize that we are God’s Son, one Self, united with Him in Love.

The dream of images which conflict with each other and compete for attention and value fades as we accept the Holy Spirit’s vision. Peace replaces conflict, the joy of extending Love replaces unhappiness, and we rest in the comfort of God’s Love.

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Claiming God’s All-Encompassing Love

God’s blessing shines upon me from within my heart, where He abides. I need but turn to Him, and every sorrow melts away, as I accept His boundless Love for me.

I will be still, and let the earth be still along with me. And in that stillness we will find the peace of God. It is within my heart, which witnesses to God Himself. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lessons 207 & 208, W-pII.207,208. See also ACIM Lessons 207 & 208 Insights.)

God is Love and nothing else. The Love He is dwells in our heart. His Love is not distant. It is the Heart of What we are. We live and are in His Love, where we are eternally safe, happy and at peace.

Experiences of fear, sadness and loneliness come only when we believe the ego’s lie that we are separate from God’s Love. This need not be.

Today we practice pausing to go to the quiet place within our mind and heart to welcome the experience of the safety and peace of God’s all-encompassing Love. This is our true Home. We claim it now.

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The Key to Happiness and Inner Peace

It is not our part to judge our worth, nor can we know what role is best for us; what we can do within a larger plan we cannot see in its entirety.

Whatever your appointed role may be, it was selected by the Voice for God, Whose function is to speak for you as well. Seeing your strengths exactly as they are, and equally aware of where they can be best applied, for what, to whom and when, He chooses and accepts your part for you. He does not work with­out your own consent. But He is not deceived in what you are, and listens only to His Voice in you.

It is through His ability to hear one Voice which is His Own that you become aware at last there is one Voice in you. And that one Voice appoints your function, and relays it to you, giving you the strength to understand it, do what it entails, and to succeed in everything you do that is related to it. God has joined His Son in this, and thus His Son becomes His messenger of unity with Him.

It is this Voice which speaks of laws the world does not obey; which promises salvation from all sin, with guilt abolished in the mind that God created sinless. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 154, W-pI.154.1:5;2-3;4:2. See also ACIM Lesson 154 Insights.)

The key to happiness and inner peace is to let the Voice for God direct all our perceptions, thoughts and doing. We lost our way to happiness when we chose the ego as our guide. it does not know what happiness and peace are and can only offer illusions that offer temporary relief from the painful belief that we have lost God’s Love.

God’s Voice assures us that we cannot lose His Love because He has given It to His Son for eternity. God’s unity with His Son is immutable. Only in dreams does loss seem possible. Our function, given us by God and accepted for us by the Holy Spirit in our mind, is to extend Love to everyone, always. Only with His help can we learn how to do this while we dream of lack of Love.

Today we welcome God’s Voice in our mind. We are willing to listen and let It guide our ways. We want to awaken from the world and accept our eternal place in the Heart of Love.

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