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We Offer Love’s Blessing to the World

If you are blessed and do not know it, you need to learn it must be so. The knowledge is not taught, but its conditions must be acquired for it is they (the conditions of knowledge) that have been thrown away. You can learn to bless, and cannot give what you have not. If, then, you offer blessing, it must have come first to yourself. And you must also have accepted [blessing] as yours, for how else could you give it away? That is why miracles offer you the testimony that you are blessed. If what you offer is complete forgiveness you must have let guilt go, accepting the Atonement for yourself and learning you are guiltless.

Indirect proof of truth is needed in a world made of denial and without direction. You will perceive the need for this if you realize that to deny is the decision not to know. The logic of the world must therefore lead to nothing, for its goal is nothing. If you decide to have and give and be nothing except a dream, you must direct your thoughts unto oblivion. And if you [truly] have and give and are everything [Love], and all this has been denied, your thought system is closed off and wholly separated from the truth. This is an insane world, and do not underestimate the extent of its insanity. There is no area of your perception that it has not touched, and your dream is sacred to you. That is why God placed the Holy Spirit in you, where you placed the dream. A Course in Miracles, T-14.I.1:1-7;2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Belief in guilt manifests in many ways: Sadness, loneliness. a sense of inadequacy, remorse, shame, resentment, blame, irritation, anger and rage. We can only experience these symptoms if we deny the reality and eternal presence of Love. The world we experience is the effect of this denial. Only our belief in the world that denies Love makes it seem real.

This belief is self-perpetuating unless the mind is helped to learn that it could never be true. God answered our denial of Love by placing the Holy Spirit in our mind to lead us out of the denial of Truth. He is the Bridge between the dream based on belief and the knowledge of God’s changeless Love.

If we are willing to offer all our thoughts that are not wholly loving to the Holy Spirit, He will correct our mistaken thoughts for us. Our misperceptions will be transformed into the recognition of calls for Love and the presence of Love. There is truly nothing else to see. Our willingness to accept the Holy Spirit’s correction is willingness to accept Love’s blessing. As our mistaken thoughts are healed, we offer Love’s blessing to the world.

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Recognizing Opportunities to Forgive

Let me not forget my function.

Today’s idea is merely another way of saying “Let me not wan­der into temptation.” The purpose of the world you see is to obscure your function of forgiveness, and provide you with a justification for forgetting it. It is the temptation to abandon God and His Son by taking on a physical appearance. It is this the body’s eyes look upon.

Nothing the body’s eyes seem to see can be anything but a form of temptation, since this was the purpose of the body itself. Yet we have learned that the Holy Spirit has another use for all the illusions you have made, and therefore He sees another purpose in them. To the Holy Spirit, the world is a place where you learn to forgive yourself what you think of as your sins. In this perception, the physical appearance of temptation becomes the spiritual recognition of salvation.

The world’s salvation awaits your forgiveness, because through it does the Son of God escape from all illusions, and thus from all temptation. The Son of God is you. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 64, W-pI.64.1-2;3:3-4. See also ACIM Lesson 64 Insights.)

It is important to understand that the ego made the body as a defense against the oneness of God’s Love. When we are tempted to identify with the body, we cannot know that we are God’s Son because we are believing the illusion of separation is real.

The Holy Spirit has another purpose for the body. His purpose is to use the body to bring to our attention the beliefs that need to be forgiven. When we believe what the body perceives is real, we inevitably react with various forms of fear or guilt. The Holy Spirit uses these reactions to bring our attention to the need for forgiveness.

Whenever there is a feeling of fear or guilt, there is a mistaken belief that needs to be let go. When we accept the Holy Spirit’s guidance, He will show us how to let go of the mistaken belief. Leading us on this path to forgiveness is the Holy Spirit’s only purpose. Every moment of every day we have opportunities to learn His lessons.

Today we dedicate to following the lead of our inner Teacher.

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Remembering Our Safety in God

[We] invite the memory of God to come… to all the seeming happen­ings throughout the day.

[We say:]

I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.

When you are tempted [with a thought of separation], hasten to proclaim your freedom from temptation, as you say:

This thought I do not want. I choose instead __________.

…let Him teach you what to do and say and think, each time you turn to Him. He will not fail to be available to you, each time you call to Him to help you. (A Course in Miracles Workbook, Part I, Review VI, W-pI.rVI.1:4;2:2;3:3-5;)

The world was made by the ego to usurp God and banish His memory from our mind. The ego believes it is constantly threatened by God and must protect itself. God does not do battle or attack. He remains eternally the same — eternal, changeless Love and nothing else. The ego’s perception of threat is justified from its perspective because were we to accept that we are not a body and remain as God created us, the ego would simply cease to seem to exist.

As we invite the memory of God into our mind in every situation, the ego’s illusions of attack and defend are recognized as meaningless and ineffectual. Our safety lies in our unity with God. The truth in us is God’s Love.

With the memory of God accepted in our mind, we are naturally a channel of His Love in every situation. Where there is a call for Love, the Love we are answers. We automatically recognize and join with the presence of Love everywhere and in all situations.

The body becomes an instrument of Love’s expression instead of the ego’s symbol of vulnerability and conflict. The memory of God assures us of our safety. We reside in His Love, peace and joy.

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Claiming Our True Identity

I am as God created me.

This single thought, held firmly in the mind, would save the world. …These words are sacred, for they are the words God gave in an­swer to the world you made. By them it disappears, and all things seen within its misty clouds and vaporous illusions vanish as these words are spoken. For they come from God.

Here is the Word by which the Son became his Father’s happiness, His Love and His completion. Here creation is proclaimed, and honored as it is. There is no dream these words will not dispel; no thought of sin and no illusion which the dream contains that will not fade away before their might.

Holy indeed is he who makes these words his own; arising with them in his mind, recalling them throughout the day, at night bringing them with him as he goes to sleep. His dreams are happy and his rest secure, his safety certain and his body healed, because he sleeps and wakens with the truth before him always. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 162, W-pI.162.1:1,4-6;2:1-3;3:1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 162 Insights.)

While we believe we are a body, we are identifying with an image that does not come from God. God’s Love is limitless, boundless and eternal. To be in God’s likeness, we must have His attributes. But the image of a body is a limitation that binds us to a world of separation that God did not create. It is a world made by the ego to hide from God’s Love.

Love is one, eternal and changeless. The differences in the world of bodies cannot exist in Love. The Love, joy and peace of God are the same everywhere, always without limit. This is what God created as His extension, His Son — our true Self.

When we affirm, “I am as God created me,” we are claiming our true Identity. This Identity cannot be sick, lonely, afraid or guilty. As we claim this Identity, we let go of the mistaken beliefs that make the world of bodies seem real. The images of the ego fade as our belief in them is withdrawn to be replaced by the Light of Love. As we let this Light shine through us, we bring healing to the world.

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Choosing to Value What Brings Us Peace

I loose the world from all I thought it was.

What keeps the world in chains but your beliefs? And what can save the world except your Self? Belief is powerful indeed. The thoughts you hold are mighty, and illusions are as strong in their effects as is the truth.

Yet is salvation easily achieved, for anyone is free to change his mind, and all his thoughts change with it. Now the source of thought has shifted, for to change your mind means you have changed the source of all ideas you think or ever thought or yet will think. You free the past from what you thought before. You free the future from all ancient thoughts of seeking what you do not want to find.

The present now remains the only time. Here in the present is the world set free. For as you let the past be lifted and release the future from your ancient fears, you find escape and give it to the world.

There is no world apart from what you wish, and herein lies your ultimate release. Change but your mind on what you want to see, and all the world must change accordingly. Ideas leave not their source. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 132, W-pI.132.1:1-4;2:1-3:3;5:1-3. See also ACIM Lesson 132 Insights.)

In every moment we choose between the ego and the Holy Spirit as the guide for our thoughts. When we value the ego as our source, our thoughts bring us a world of fear and guilt, lack and loss. When we choose the Holy Spirit as our Source, our thoughts bring us the real world of true forgiveness. Thus the change of mind that needs to happen for us to see a forgiven world is to value the Holy Spirit’s lead and give no value to the ego. This is the change of mind that the Course is teaching us to make.

Because of our investment in the ego as our identity, the change of mind we need occurs gently under the Holy Spirit’s guidance. As we remember that of our little self we know nothing and choose the Holy Spirit’s meaning for what we perceive, our mind is healed of an unforgiveness. We withdraw some of the value we have given the ego. This is a step forward on our journey Home to the oneness of Love. This needs to be a daily, hourly and even moment-by-moment practice to break the trance of the ego’s false images.

Each time we accept the Holy Spirit’s interpretation, more healing happens beyond the apparent specific issue forgiven. We learn to generalize forgiveness because the underlying foundation of the specific situation forgiven applies to far more unforgiveness in our mind. Over time we find things that used to bother us no longer disturb our peace. What used to trigger a disturbance in our mind no longer comes up. Peace instead of conflict increasingly becomes our state of mind. We are letting what we thought about the world go and finding the peace that was there all along.

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Accepting Our Presence in God

God goes with me wherever I go.

Today’s idea will eventually overcome completely the sense of loneliness and abandonment all the separated ones experience. Depression is an inevitable consequence of separation. So are anxiety, worry, a deep sense of helplessness, misery, suffering and intense fear of loss.

Deep within you is everything that is perfect, ready to radiate through you and out into the world.

You can never be deprived of your perfect holiness because its Source goes with you wherever you go. You can never suffer because the Source of all joy goes with you wherever you go. You can never be alone because the Source of all life goes with you wherever you go. Nothing can destroy your peace of mind because God goes with you wherever you go.

You can indeed afford to laugh at fear thoughts, remembering that God goes with you wherever you go. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 41, W-pI.41.1;3:1;4;10. See also ACIM Lesson 41 Insights.)

The world we experience is wrought with sadness, loneliness, fear, loss, sickness and death. It is the opposite of the Home of our true Self. We do not experience this Home because we have convinced ourselves that the ego’s lies are true. We really believe our existence is confined to a body, destined to sicken and die. No wonder this world is depressing.

We can experience this world differently if we let the Holy Spirit teach us to see beyond the false images perpetrated by the ego. The Holy Spirit is in us always. We need only welcome His lead. We do this by questioning the meaning of everything we perceive. Of our self alone, we do not know what anything means.

The willingness to question opens our mind to the loving guidance of the Holy Spirit. He will teach us of the strength of our true Self, the companionship of our unity with every brother in Love, the peace that is God’s gift to us. As we accept our true Self as our Identity, fear is dispelled and Love is accepted as our one Reality. We can laugh at the insanity of fear thoughts.

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Following the Guide to Peace of Mind

Peace of mind is clearly an inter­nal matter. It must begin with your own thoughts, and then extend outward. It is from your peace of mind that a peaceful perception of the world arises.

…when­ever you feel your peace of mind is threatened in any way …the exercise should take this form:

I could see peace in this situation instead of what I now see in it.

It will help you if you tell yourself specifically:

I can replace my feelings of depression, anxiety or worry [or my thoughts about this situation, personality or event] with peace. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 34, W-pI.34.1:2-4;5:1,3-4;6:3-4. See also ACIM Lesson 34 Insights.)

As part of its agenda, the ego wants us to believe that peace depends on anything but the beliefs we hold in our mind. It leads us to seek for peace in the world where it cannot be found. This is key to its strategy to maintain the seeming reality of separation. As long as we follow the ego’s direction, peace and the experience of God’s Love will illude us.

We have another Guide Whose agenda is to lead us Home to the peace within that is our true Self, eternally united with God. The Holy Spirit is not deceived by the ego’s misdirections, its sleight of hand. He is ever ready to guide us Home. We only need to be willing to follow His lead. Willingness comes with an open mind that has not decided on its own what anything means. This openness welcomes the Holy Spirit’s interpretation of our perceptions, which show us the presence of peace and Love beyond all the world’s appearances.

Today we will remind ourselves that we do not know what anything means. We ask for the Holy Spirit’s vision and reinterpretation of our perceptions, for we would find our peace of mind.

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