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Awakening from the Dream of Death

Be glad today how very easily is hell undone. You need but tell yourself:

I am the holy Son of God Himself. I cannot suffer, cannot be in pain; I cannot suffer loss, nor fail to do all that salvation asks.

And in that thought is everything you look on wholly changed.”

All power is given unto you in earth and Heaven. There is nothing that you cannot do.

…let the Son of God awaken from his sleep, and opening his holy eyes, return again to bless the world he made. In error it began, but it will end in the reflection of his holiness. And he will sleep no more and dream of death. Then join with me today. Your glory is the light that saves the world. Do not withhold salvation longer. Look about the world, and see the suffering there. Is not your heart willing to bring your weary brothers rest?

You are the holy Son of God Himself. Remember this, and all the world is free. Remember this, and earth and Heaven are one. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 191, W-pI.191.7;9:1-2;10;11:6-8. See also ACIM Lesson 191 Insights.)

The world wide pandemic of disease and death is the ego’s attempt to prove the “reality” of separation. But it is only a dream which can have no effect on our true Self, the Son of God. The real world reflects our holiness, for it is perceived when forgiveness of the dream is complete. (W-pII.8)

No longer is hell and death believed to be real. We have let go of all investment in the wish for specialness. We have accepted our true Self and claimed the power God has given us to be only Love. With this acceptance we become channels of God’s Love as we join with the Love in every brother.

With our complete forgiveness, all our barriers to Love have been removed. God welcomes us Home and we bring every brother with us for we have remembered he is one with with us. We will use the affirmation in this lesson frequently today to remember we are God’s holy Son.

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Resting in the Safety of Love

If you will lay aside the ego’s voice, however loudly it may seem to call; if you will not accept its petty gifts that give you nothing that you really want; if you will listen with an open mind, that has not told you what salvation is; then you will hear the mighty Voice of truth, quiet in power, strong in stillness, and completely certain in Its messages.

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. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 106, W-pI.106.1&3. See also ACIM Lesson 106 Insights.)

The ego always speaks first and loudly. It sends messages of guilt and fear to cloud our mind and foster stress to deafen our inner hearing to God’s Voice. But we do not have to pay attention to the chaos of the ego’s messages of loss and death.

Whenever we lack peace, we need to practice stepping back to focus on the center of peace within. Each time we quiet our mind to welcome peace, we make way for God’s Voice to be heard. His Voice tells us of the reality of our true Self. It speaks to us of changeless Love that unites us with all that is real. When we are willing to pause for an instant and welcome the Holy Spirit’s teaching, we learn that beyond the veil of chaos in the world is the eternal presence of Love.

Love’s changelessness is the home of our safety. It is the retreat to which we return for release from the stress of believing in a world of lack and loss. As we rest in this Love, our view of the world changes. The images of the world fade as we accept Love’s presence. We recognize Love as our true Identity and see It as the Identity we share with every brother. The Love we are joins with the Love in every brother and we both experience Love’s blessing.

Today let’s frequently practice stepping back into our peaceful center to offer the gift of Love to the world. It will be a day of blessing and being blessed.

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Bringing Love’s Healing to the World

God is my Father, and He loves His Son.

My true Identity is so secure, so lofty, sinless, glorious and great, wholly beneficent and free from guilt, that Heaven looks to It to give it light. [My true Identity] lights the world as well. It is the gift my Father gave to me; the one as well I give the world. There is no gift but this that can be either given or received. This is reality, and only this. This is illusion’s end. It is the truth.

My Name, O Father, still is known to You. I have forgotten It, and do not know where I am going, who I am, or what it is I do. Remind me, Father, now, for I am weary of the world I see. Reveal what You would have me see instead. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 224, W-pII.224. See also ACIM Lesson 224 Insights.)

God is Love and nothing else. He shares this Identity with His Son. Our true Self, God’s Son, is Love. We bring Light to the darkened world of fear by letting the Love we are shine through.

Today let us all join with the Holy Spirit to be beacons of Love’s Light. We maintain our focus on God’s peace at the center of our being. In this Center we dwell in His Love. We remember the one Identity which unifies the world.

We channel the Love of God to the world as we let the Holy Spirit’s vision show us the Presence of Love everywhere. Love’s blessing flows through us and we feel Its healing touch in our minds. It heals the misperceptions of differences and division. With this focus, we bring healing to the world.

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Bringing Love’s Peace to the World

I am God’s Son, complete and healed and whole, shining in the reflection of His Love. In me is His creation sanctified and guaranteed eternal life. In me is love perfected, fear impossible, and joy established without opposite. I am the holy home of God Himself. I am the Heaven where His Love resides. I am His holy Sinlessness Itself, for in my purity abides His Own.

The truth of what we are is not for words to speak of nor describe. Yet we can realize our function here, and words can speak of this and teach it, too, if we exem­plify the words in us.

We are the bringers of salvation. We accept our part as saviors of the world, which through our joint forgiveness is redeemed. And [forgiveness], our gift, is therefore given us. We look on everyone as brother, and perceive all things as kindly and as good. We do not seek a function that is past the gate of Heaven. Knowledge will return when we have done our part. We are concerned only with giving welcome to the truth. (A Course in Miracles Workbook 14. What Am I, W-pII.14.1;2:4-3:7. See also ACIM Lesson 351 Insights.)

The Holy Spirit’s purpose is to teach us to accept our Identity as God’s Son. God’s holiness and Love are ours because He created His Son one with Him.

The world we experience as a body is a dream that denies our oneness with God. If we are willing, the Holy Spirit will teach us how to forgive this denial. As the bridge between God’s Creation and the limited self-identity we made, the Holy Spirit uses symbols in the world to guide us Home. He teaches us to forgive and see past the images of the world to join with the Love that is ever present everywhere.

The first paragraph quoted here reminds us of our true Identity as God’s Son. It bears repeating again and again to help us remember Who we are. Forgiveness clears away the shadows of denial and opens the door to welcome the Light of Love. Today we practice holding our minds open to the Holy Spirit’s guidance, for we would bring Love’s peace to the world of fear. This is how we reclaim our true Identity.

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Learning to See Love Everywhere

It would indeed be strange if you were asked to go beyond all symbols of the world, forgetting them forever; yet were asked to take a teaching function. You have need to use the symbols of the world a while. But be you not deceived by them as well. They do not stand for anything at all, and in your practicing it is this thought that will release you from them. They become but means by which you can communicate in ways the world can understand, but which you recognize is not the unity where true communication can be found.

Thus 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.

The Holy Spirit uses all [names and symbols], 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 they share the Name [Identity] of God along with you. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 184, W-pI.184.9-10;11:3-4. See also ACIM Lesson 184 Insights.)

Our true Identity is beyond the world we see, sharing the limitlessness of our Creator. It is not limited to an image, a form or a certain space and time. This fact is incomprehensible to the mind that believes separation from Love is real. We need to let go of the beliefs which blind us to the eternal presence of limitless Love. Only our beliefs make a loveless world seem real. Only in Love’s oneness is true communication—the eternal flow of Love—possible.

It is impossible to define Love in the symbols and words of the world. But symbols can be used by the Holy Spirit to teach us how to recognize the barriers to Love we have made. With His help the barriers are dispelled, if we are willing to accept His reinterpretation of our perceptions.

We want the peace of God. Today we practice asking the Holy Spirit for His help to see past our barriers to Love and let them go. We are willing to see the Light of Love everywhere, in everyone and in all things. We teach only Love and learn we are Love.

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Accepting Our Identity as Love

God has no name. And yet His Name [Identity] becomes the final lesson that all things are one, and at this lesson does all learning end. All names are unified; all space is filled with truth’s reflection. Every gap is closed, and separation healed. [God’s Identity — Love — is the inheritance He gave to those who chose the teaching of the world to take the place of Heaven. In our practicing, our pur­pose is to let our minds accept [the Identity] God has given as the answer to the pitiful inheritance you made as fitting tribute to the Son He loves.

Father, our Name is Yours. In It we are united with all living things, and You Who are their one Creator. What we made and call by many different names is but a shadow we have tried to cast across Your Own reality. And we are glad and thankful we were wrong. All our mistakes we give to You, that we may be absolved from all effects our errors seemed to have. And we accept the truth You give, in place of every one of them. Your Name is our salvation and escape from what we made. Your Name unites us in the oneness which is our inheritance and peace. Amen. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 184, W-pI.184.12;15. See also ACIM Lesson 184 Insights.)

God shared His Identity with His Son, our true Self. Because God is one, His Son shares His oneness. Nothing exists outside of God’s Love. No form, no separate image can be real because form denies the reality of oneness. The fear and guilt, the images of sickness and death, the appearances of lack and loss, cannot be real. They are all based on the false idea that it is possible to be separate from God’s oneness.

Because God shared His one Identity with His Son, all we need do to awaken to Love is accept God’s Identity as our own — accept that we are Love and nothing else. The world we perceive is healed when we accept the Love we are. We do this by forgiving, letting go of, the judgments that make separation appear real. Each time we give a name to an object or an event, we make it real to us by judging it as separate and giving it meaning. An illusion has no meaning of its own. When we withdraw the meaning we give an illusion, the illusion fades away. Then the Love the illusion hid dawns upon our mind. This is how we accept the Identity of God as our own.

Our prayer to day: Holy Spirit I give to you my mistaken thoughts about what I am. I choose instead to accept Your vision that shows me the Love I am in truth. I accept this Love by offering It to every brother.

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Our Joyful To-Do List

There is no end to all the peace and joy,
And all the miracles that I will give,
When I accept God’s Word. Why not today?

Why should I wait, my Father, for the joy You promised me? For You will keep Your Word You gave Your Son in exile. I am sure my treasure waits for me, and I need but reach out my hand to find it. Even now my fingers touch it. It is very close. I need not wait an instant more to be at peace forever. It is You I choose, and my Identity along with You. Your Son would be Himself, and know You as his Father and Creator, and his Love. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 355, W-pII.355. See also ACIM Lesson 355 Insights.)

God’s gifts of peace and joy are within us, hidden behind a wall built by our choice to exile ourselves from the Self that is God’s Son. This exile was not God’s choice. It is our choice to believe we are separate and isolated from the Universe of God’s Love.

When we undo this choice, we accept God’s gifts and bring them to the world. It is only in sharing His gifts that we know we have them. We share God’s gifts by letting the Holy Spirit direct all thoughts, words and deeds on our behalf. As we dedicate our day to following His lead, we choose a day of giving and receiving God’s joy and peace. This to-do list awakens us to our true Self, along with every brother. It is a joyful choice to answer God’s call, “Welcome Home My Son.”

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