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Claiming God’s Peace as Our Own

God’s peace and joy are mine.

Today I will accept God’s peace and joy, in glad ex­change for all the substitutes that I have made for happiness and peace.

Let me be still and listen to the truth.

Let my own feeble voice be still, and let me hear the mighty Voice for Truth Itself assure me that I am God’s perfect Son. (W-pI.118)

When we have an instant response of defensiveness, it comes from belief in our guilt. We are not accepting our Identity as God’s Son. Our true Self is Love and nothing else. It shares God’s innocence. Our Self cannot conceive of harm or attack, for they do not exist in the oneness of Love.

As God’s Son, we live in His happiness and peace. This Self is eternally invulnerable. Its only desire is to be Love and give Love. It sees defensiveness as a call for Love and answers with Love.

Today we claim the peace of God as our own. We ask the Holy Spirit’s help to heal our defensive thoughts, for our desire is to live in peace and joy.

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Remembering Our True Home

Now are we one with Him Who is our Source.

What time but now can truth be recognized? The present is the only time there is. And so today, this instant, now, we come to look upon what is forever there; not in our sight, but in the eyes of Christ. He looks past time, and sees eternity as represented there. He hears the sounds the senseless, busy world en­genders, yet He hears them faintly. For beyond them all He hears the song of Heaven, and the Voice for God more clear, more meaningful, more near.

…Christ gives you His sight and hears for you, and answers in your name the Call He hears!

There is a silence into which the world can not intrude. There is an ancient peace you carry in your heart and have not lost. There is a sense of holiness in you the thought of sin has never touched.

Open the curtain in your practicing by merely letting go all things you think you want. Your trifling treasures put away, and leave a clean and open space within your mind where Christ can come, and offer you the treasure of salvation. He has need of your most holy mind to save the world. Is not this purpose wor­thy to be yours? Is not Christ’s vision worthy to be sought above the world’s unsatisfying goals? (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 164, W-pI.164.1;3:1;4:1-3;8. See also ACIM Lesson 164 Insights.)

While we identify with the ego, our thoughts are based on memories of the past. Our thoughts about the future are also built upon the past. The ego ignores the eternal present, which it covers over with perceptions projected from the past.

Beneath the ego’s projections lies the reality of changeless Love. Here is the Home of our true Self, the extension of God’s Love. Our Self lives and has Its being in the joy and peace of God’s Love. This never changes because God does not change His Will, which is to forever share Himself with His extension.

Today we practice pausing to quiet our mind. We set aside our goals and desires and settle gently into the quiet peace within. Here Christ’s vision shows us the Love that fills the world in truth, now. It is here to be seen with the eyes of Christ.

As we shift our attention to His vision, the discord of the world fades to the background. The Light of Love shines everywhere and warms our heart. We join with that Love everywhere. And in our joining, Love blesses the world as It blesses us. We remember our true Home.

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We Want to Remember We Are Love

The attraction of guilt produces fear of love, for love would never look on guilt at all. It is the nature of love to look upon only the truth, for there it sees itself, with which it would unite in holy union and completion. As love must look past fear, so must fear see love not. For love contains the end of guilt, as surely as fear depends on it. Love is attracted only to love. Overlooking guilt completely, it sees no fear. Being wholly without attack, it could not be afraid. Fear is attracted to what love sees not, and each believes that what the other looks upon does not exist. Fear looks on guilt with just the same devotion that love looks on itself. And each has messengers which it sends forth, and which return to it with messages written in the language in which their going forth was asked.

Love’s messengers are gently sent, and return with messages of love and gentleness. The messengers of fear are harshly ordered to seek out guilt,… What fear would feed upon, love overlooks. What fear demands, love cannot even see.

If you send forth only the messengers the Holy Spirit gives you, wanting no messages but theirs, you will see fear no more. The world will be transformed before your sight, cleansed of all guilt and softly brushed with beauty. (A Course in Miracles, T-19.IV.A.10;11:1-2,4-5;15:1-2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We perceive what we want to perceive. If we identify with the ego, we will see images that confirm separation is real and harm is possible; with harm possible, guilt and fear are justified.

If we identify with our true Self, the extension of God’s Love, we will perceive only Love reflected in the world. We will see kindness, gentleness, helpfulness, beauty and opportunities to give and receive Love. If this is not what we see, we have chosen to identify with the ego. But we can choose our real Identity at any moment.

We have God’s Teacher in our mind to help us make this choice. He will help us learn that the ego offers nothing of value we really want. As we learn that the ego’s illusions are empty and offer us nothing to treasure, we freely let them go. No one keeps what they recognize as valueless.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to teach us true perception. We want to see the Reality of Love. We want to experience Love’s blessing. We want to see Love’s reflection everywhere. We want to identify with our true Self.

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Choose to Learn the Truth

My holy brother, think of this awhile: The world you see does nothing. It has no effects at all. It merely represents your thoughts. And it will change entirely as you elect to change your mind, and choose the joy of God as what you really want. Your Self is radiant in this holy joy, unchanged, unchanging and unchangeable, forever and forever. And would you deny a little corner of your mind its own inheritance, and keep it as a hospital for pain; a sickly place where living things must come at last to die?

Pain is illusion; joy, reality. Pain is but sleep; joy is awakening. Pain is deception; joy alone is truth.

And so again we make the only choice that ever can be made; we choose between illusions and the truth, or pain and joy, or hell and Heaven. Let our gratitude unto our Teacher fill our hearts, as we are free to choose our joy instead of pain, our holiness in place of sin, the peace of God instead of conflict, and the light of Heaven for the darkness of the world. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 190, W-pI.190.6;10:4-6;11. See also ACIM Lesson 190 Insights.)

The world we see is a reflection of our thoughts based on the belief that separation is real. But this belief denies the eternal oneness of God’s Love. A false belief can only lead to illusions which are not true.

Fortunately a belief can be changed. Even in this world everyone has experienced learning that a belief they held was wrong and let it go. This was accomplished with help by someone who was not limited by the false belief. Likewise we can learn that the core belief that holds the world together (belief in separation) can be corrected.

The Holy Spirit provides the help we need to heal our minds. He sees the world we perceive but does not believe it. As God’s answer to our mistaken belief, He can help us learn the truth instead of hanging on to the belief that denies truth. The choice to let the Holy Spirit reinterpret all our perceptions clears away the veil that hides the joy, peace and Love of our true Self.

Today we dedicate to letting the Holy Spirit heal our misperceptions. We choose to believe the Truth. We want to remember the peace, joy and Love given us by God.

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Accepting the Love We Are

What could you want forgiveness cannot give? Do you want peace? Forgiveness offers it. Do you want happiness, a quiet mind, a certainty of purpose, and a sense of worth and beauty that transcends the world? Do you want care and safety, and the warmth of sure protection always? Do you want a quietness that cannot be disturbed, a gentleness that never can be hurt, a deep abiding comfort, and a rest so perfect it can never be upset?

All this forgiveness offers you, and more.

Forgiveness lets the veil be lifted up that hides the face of Christ from those who look with unforgiving eyes upon the world. It lets you recognize the Son of God, and clears your memory of all dead thoughts so that remembrance of your Father can arise across the threshold of your mind. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 122, W-pI.122.1;2:1;3:1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 122 Insights.)

The Course tells us that we have one Life, which we share with God. The ego’s thoughts of separation deny the Life we share with God. When we believe we are a body separate from other bodies, we are accepting the ego’s lifeless thoughts. These thoughts hide our true Life in God.

By forgiving or letting go of the ego’s thoughts, the veil of lovelessness is lifted. The radiant Light of Love in every brother is revealed. We discover that the Light in our brothers is our own, for we are one Self, united with our Creator. The darkness of the ego’s illusions of fear and guilt is dispelled as we accept the Love we are.

With this acceptance comes unspeakable joy, peace beyond words and a freedom that lets Love bless us as it extends through us to all the world. This is everything we truly want.

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Replacing Fear with the Reality of Love

The world is false perception. It is born of error, and it has not left its source. It will remain no longer than the thought that gave it birth is cherished. When the thought of separation has been changed to one of true forgiveness, will the world be seen in quite another light; and one which leads to truth, where all the world must disappear and all its errors vanish. Now its source has gone, and its effects are gone as well.

The world was made as an attack on God. It symbolizes fear. And what is fear except love’s absence? Thus the world was meant to be a place where God could enter not, and where His Son could be apart from Him.

As sight was made to lead away from truth, it can be redirected. Sounds become the call for God, and all perception can be given a new purpose by the One Whom God appointed Savior to the world. Follow His light, and see the world as He beholds it. (A Course in Miracles Workbook, What Is the World?, W-pII.3.1:1-2:4;4:1-3)

We have thoroughly trained ourselves to believe that what the ego sees through the body’s eyes is true. But what we see with the ego is images in darkness, devoid of the Light of Love. The effect of this “seeing” is appearance of conflict, loss, guilt and fear — lack of Love.

It is time to retrain our minds to choose the Holy Spirit’s vision, which sees with the Light of Love. This vision shows us the reality of Love’s oneness. There is no conflict here, for Love is one and the same, everywhere, always and forever.

This vision cannot be seen by the body. It is seen with the vision of Christ in our mind. With this vision the images of the ego’s dark world are dispelled by the Light. They are overlooked as Love’s reality dawns upon our mind. Where we saw loss, we see only the constant extension of Love. Where we saw cause for guilt, we see Love’s eternal innocence. The reality of Love replaces the illusion of fear.

All this comes as we forgive by choosing the Holy Spirit’s vision over the ego’s image-making in darkness. This is how we accept that the Light of Love is here, now and always.

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Seeing Beyond Bodies to the Light of Love

Our goal …is to become aware that God’s plan for salvation has already been accom­plished in us. To achieve this goal, we must replace attack [identifying with a body] with acceptance [of our true Identity]. As long as we attack [His plan], we cannot understand what God’s plan for us is. We are therefore attacking what we do not recognize.… We have attacked God’s plan for salvation without waiting to hear what it is. We have shouted our grievances so loudly that we have not listened to His Voice. We have used our grievances to close our eyes and stop our ears.

Now we would see and hear and learn. “What is salvation, Father?” Ask and you will be answered. Seek and you will find. We are no longer asking the ego what salvation is and where to find it. We are asking it of truth. Be certain, then, that the answer will be true because of Whom you ask. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 72, W-pI.72.10:1-4,10-12;11. See also ACIM Lesson 72 Insights.)

While we believe the body is our identity, death seems real and grievances about what the body does seem justified. Identification with the body is the ego’s substitute for our true Identity as an extension of God’s Love. The body is limited. Love is unlimited and eternal.

The ego denies the reality of Love and cannot offer anything but an illusion of a loveless reality. This is the world we see. But we have a Guide Whose purpose is to help us see what the body’s eyes cannot. The Holy Spirit’s vision sees past appearances to the changeless Love of our true Identity. As we accept His vision in our mind, we find certainty and comfort in the Love we are.

Our prayer today: Holy Spirit, I welcome Your vision to see the Light of Love beyond bodies in the world. I would be Your instrument of communication to bring Love to the world. With Your help, I will see the unity of Truth beyond the appearances of separation. I will remember my true Identity.

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