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Remembering the Strength of Love in Us

…forgiveness is the means by which I will recognize my innocence. It is the reflection of God’s Love on earth.

It is not my own strength through which I forgive. It is through the strength of God in me, which I am remembering as I forgive.

God’s Voice speaks to me all through the day.

There is not a moment in which God’s Voice ceases to call on my forgiveness to save me. There is not a moment in which His Voice fails to direct my thoughts, guide my actions and lead my feet. I am walking steadily on toward truth. There is nowhere else I can go, because God’s Voice is the only Voice and the only Guide that has been given to His Son.

I am sustained by the Love of God.

As I listen to God’s Voice, I am sustained by His Love. As I open my eyes, His Love lights up the world for me to see. As I forgive, His Love reminds me that His Son is sinless. And as I look upon the world with the vision He has given me, I remember that I am His Son. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 60, W-pI.60.1:2-3;2:2-3;4-5. See also ACIM Lesson 60 Insights.)

The ego is the denial of God’s Love and strength. While we identify with the ego, true forgiveness is impossible because we are believing we are weak. Yet God gave all His strength to His Son in His creation. His strength is already ours. We can call on His strength in us to help us forgive, to overlook the ego’s image-making.

We cannot do this while we give credence to what the body perceives. The body is the ego’s chief tool for deception. But we have within our mind the ability to see the truth. Christ’s vision shows us the presence of Love that is everywhere to be seen. When we prefer His vision over the image-making of the ego, the vision of Love supersedes the ego’s fear and weakness.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to heal our mind of the ego’s fearful thoughts and welcome the strength of God in us. Thus will we remember the reality of Love in which we live.

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Accepting Our Innate Happiness

…teach sin is not real, and all that you believe must come from sin will never happen, for it has no cause. Accept Atonement with an open mind, which cherishes no lingering belief that you have made a devil of God’s Son. There is no sin [separation or harm]. We practice with this thought as often as we can today, because it is the basis for to­day’s idea.

God’s Will for you is perfect happiness because there is no sin, and suffering is causeless. Joy is just, and pain is but the sign you have misunderstood yourself. Fear not the Will of God. But turn to It in confidence that [His Will] will set you free from all the conse­quences sin has wrought in feverish imagination. Say:

God’s Will for me is perfect happiness.
There is no sin; it has no consequence. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 101, W-pI.101.5:2-6:7. See also ACIM Lesson 101 Insights.)

The fact that separation from God’s Love has not occurred in truth is a central idea the Course is teaching us. It is the basis for complete release from the hell we experience in the world. Here loss and pain seem real and death inevitable.

Yet this can only seem to be real in a dream that denies the Love of our true Self. The image of a body in a dream is a mask the ego uses to hide the Son of God, our true Self, from our awareness. Yet only our true Self is real, can never change nor be harmed.

Today we remind ourselves that God’s Will for us is perfect happiness because He has never ceased to share His joy with His Son. We remain Love as Love created us. This is our changeless Reality. As we remind ourselves frequently of this fact today, we weaken our investment in a false identity and open our minds to our reality as God’s Love.

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Pausing for Peace Heals Our Mind

You who were created by Love like Itself can hold no griev­ances and know your Self. To hold a grievance is to forget who you are. To hold a grievance is to see yourself as a body. To hold a grievance is to let the ego rule your mind and to condemn the body to death. Perhaps you do not yet fully realize just what holding grievances does to your mind. It seems to split you off from your Source and make you unlike Him. It makes you believe that He is like what you think you have become, for no one can conceive of his Creator as unlike himself.

Shut off from your Self, which remains aware of Its likeness to Its Creator, your Self seems to sleep, while the part of your mind that weaves illusions in its sleep appears to be awake. Can all this arise from holding grievances? Oh, yes! For he who holds grievances denies he was created by Love, and his Creator has become fearful to him in his dream of hate. Who can dream of hatred and not fear God?

It is as sure that those who hold grievances will suffer guilt, as it is certain that those who forgive will find peace. It is as sure that those who hold grievances will forget who they are, as it is certain that those who forgive will remember. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 68, W-pI.68.1-2;3:2-3. See also ACIM Lesson 68 Insights.)

The ego, the wish for specialness, is a grievance against God. The dream it spawns is the projection of that grievance. When we accept the dream of separation as real, we are joining with the ego’s grievance against God. The cost of this joining is guilt for having denied God and our Self. With it comes fear because the ego projects on God its own intension for retribution for the perceived attack. As long as we accept the ego as our identity, we are imprisoned in the cycle of grievances, guilt and fear and attack.

This is why we need to forgive our grievances. Forgiveness opens the door in our mind to accept the Love of our true Self. Every judgment is an expression of the ego’s core grievance against God. Feelings of unhappiness, stress, guilt and fear, even the slightest disturbance of our peace, all are signs that we have chosen the ego’s grievance against God as our identity.

We undo grievances each time we bring our fear-based thoughts to the Holy Spirit for His help to heal our minds. When we pause for peace, we welcome His help and make way for the return of our eternal unity in God’s Love.

Today we dedicate to pausing for peace in our mind and welcome the Loving correction of our misperceptions. It is a journey we take to letting go of all our grievances and accepting our Identity as God’s Son.

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Being a Messenger of Love

Let this day be a day of stillness and of quiet listening. Your Father wills you hear His Word today. He calls to you from deep within your mind where He abides. Hear Him today. No peace is possible until His Word is heard around the world; until your mind, in quiet listening, accepts the message that the world must hear to usher in the quiet time of peace.

This world will change through you. No other means can save it, for God’s plan is simply this: The Son of God is free to save himself, given the Word of God [the Holy Spirit] to be his Guide, forever in his mind and at his side to lead him surely to his Father’s house by his own will, forever free as God’s. He is not led by force, but only love. He is not judged, but only sanctified.

In stillness we will hear God’s Voice today without intrusion of our petty thoughts, without our personal desires, and without all judgment of His holy Word. We will not judge ourselves today, for what we are can not be judged. We stand apart from all the judgments which the world has laid upon the Son of God. It knows him not. Today we will not listen to the world, but wait in silence for the Word of God. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 125, W-pI.125.1-3. See also ACIM Lesson 125 Insights.)

While we identify with the ego’s belief in separation, we are constantly tempted to react to the appearances of the world. We react to them because we believe they are real. But the Course is teaching us that this world is nothing more than a dream.

We have Help to wake up from this dream of guilt, fear and death. God gave us His Word, the Holy Spirit, in our mind to teach us to discern between illusion and Reality, separation and Love’s oneness. The practice of pausing before reacting to connect with the center of peace within interrupts the chain that continues the ego’s reign.

We are not the ego. Our true Identity is the Love of God. Interrupting the chain of reactions gives us an opportunity to let the Holy Spirit replace our fearful perceptions with Christ’s vision. It enables us to see past the images of separation to the unifying Presence of Love. From this state of mind, we serve as messengers of His Word to bring peace and healing to the world.

Today let’s join together to be messengers of Love in the world.

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Christ’s Vision Sees the Love We Are

My present happiness is all I see.

Unless I look upon what is not there, my present happiness is all I see. Eyes that begin to open see at last. And I would have Christ’s vision come to me this very day. What I perceive with­out God’s Own Correction for the sight I made is frightening and painful to behold. Yet I would not allow my mind to be deceived by the belief the dream I made is real an instant longer. This the day I seek my present happiness, and look on nothing else except the thing I seek.

With this resolve I come to You, and ask Your strength to hold me up today, while I but seek to do Your Will. You cannot fail to hear me, Father. What I ask have You already given me. And I am sure that I will see my happiness today. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 290, W-pII.290. See also ACIM Lesson 290 Insights.)

The body’s eyes are blind to the truth. All they are capable of seeing are separate forms, each with its own limits. But Love is one and cannot be limited. God has given us Christ’s vision in our minds to correct the false vision the ego offer through the body. Christ’s vision is always available to us, but we must give it priority over what the body’s eyes show us.

When we give this Vision priority, we see the eternal presence of Love beyond the limitations of the images of the world. The Love we see with Christ’s vision brings with It the happiness that is God’s Will for us, His Son. It is only this happiness that will satisfy us because it comes with the acceptance of our true Self God created as His Son. This Self is Love and nothing else, one with God’s Love. Love is joy. Love is peace that cannot be disturbed. Love is one and sees only Itself.

Today we remind ourselves that we are God’s Son, one with Him, eternally and without limit. We are Love and nothing else. We choose Christ’s vision that we may see the Love we are everywhere.

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Accepting God’s Gift of Heaven

In God’s Own justice does He recognize all you deserve, but understands as well that you cannot accept it for yourself. It is [the Holy Spirit’s] special function to hold out to you the gifts the innocent deserve. And every one that you accept brings joy to Him as well as you. He knows that Heaven is richer made by each [gift] you accept.

You have the right to all the universe; to perfect peace, complete deliverance from all effects of sin, and to the life eternal, joyous and complete in every way, as God appointed for His holy Son. This is the only justice Heaven knows, and all the Holy Spirit brings to earth. Your special function shows you nothing else but perfect justice can prevail for you. And you are safe from vengeance in all forms. The world deceives, but it cannot replace God’s justice with a version of its own. For only love is just, and can perceive what justice must accord the Son of God. Let love decide, and never fear that you, in your unfairness, will deprive yourself of what God’s justice has allotted you. (A Course in Miracles, T-25.VIII.9:5-8;14. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The Holy Spirit is in our mind, ready to give us God’s gifts. The gifts He gave are ours already, never to be withdrawn nor limited. The gifts of Heaven — peace, happiness, guiltlessness and Life eternal — are already bestowed upon our True Self, God’s Son.

God has judged us worthy of these gifts as His one Son. Why wait for Heaven? It is our Home now. We need only be willing to accept the gifts which are already ours. The world of conflict, loss, guilt and fear fade away when we accept God’s gifts.

Each time we pause and step back from our perceptions of the world and let the Holy Spirit show us how Love perceives it, we are accepting God’s gift. Today we practice choosing Love as our Guide, for we want to remember Heaven.

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Letting Love Direct Our Thoughts and Actions

What I see is the projection of my own errors of thought [judgments]. I do not understand what I see because it is not understandable. There is no sense in trying to understand it. But there is every reason to let it go, and make room for what can be seen and understood and loved. I can exchange what I see now for this merely by being willing to do so. Is not this a better choice than the one I made before?

The thoughts of which I am aware do not mean anything be­cause I am trying to think without God. What I call “my” thoughts are not my real thoughts. My real thoughts are the thoughts I think with God. I am not aware of them because I have made my thoughts to take their place. I am willing to rec­ognize that my thoughts do not mean anything, and to let them go. I choose to have them be replaced by what they were in­tended to replace. My thoughts are meaningless, but all creation lies in the thoughts I think with God. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 51, W-pI.51.3:2-8;3:2-8. See also ACIM Lesson 51 Insights.)

Because God is Love, our real thoughts are thoughts of Love. These loving thoughts are all inclusive because Love makes no exceptions. God’s Love is given without condition or limit.

In the world it seems that we have different levels of love. Some love is reserved for certain special people. Other love is given with expectations of something of value to be returned, even if it’s only an expression of thanks.

This love is based on judging whether the focus of this love is worthy of it. Judgments can only be made if there is a belief that what is being judged is separate from the perceiver. To perceive the other as separate, we must first believe that we are separate. This belief is an attack on the oneness of God’s Love. We need to let go of this belief because it is costing us the awareness of God’s gift of Love and the peace and joy that come with it.

Today we practice pausing to remember Love and let Love direct our thoughts, our words and actions. By welcoming the loving thoughts we think with God, we remember Love we are.

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