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Letting Our Mind Rest in God

Forgiveness ends all suffering and loss.

Forgiveness paints a picture of a world where suffering is over, loss becomes impossible and anger makes no sense. Attack is gone, and madness has an end. What suffering is now conceiv­able? What loss can be sustained? The world becomes a place of joy, abundance, charity and endless giving. It is now so like to Heaven that it quickly is transformed into the light that it reflects. And so the journey which the Son of God began has ended in the light from which he came.

Father, we would return our minds to You. We have betrayed them, held them in a vise of bitterness, and frightened them with thoughts of violence and death. Now would we rest again in You, as You created us. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 249, W-pII.249. See also ACIM Lesson 249 Insights.)

The ego paints a picture of a world filled with suffering, violence and death. While we accept the ego as our identity, this is the picture we see. It seems very real to us. Fear and conflict are our constant companions. Yet this world we see is only a dream made by the ego thought system of separation to hide from the eternal oneness of God’s Love.

Forgiveness is the way to awaken from this frightening and loveless world. Throughout every day we are presented with opportunities to forgive and let the false images disappear. Each moment in which we feel anything but peace indicates that somewhere in our mind we are denying Love’s presence. We release this denial by asking the Holy Spirit to heal our fear-based thoughts.

We do not have to dig deeply to try to find a specific event or past experience to label as the “cause” of the disturbance to our peace. But we do have to recognize the disturbance and offer it to the Holy Spirit for His healing. He will respond with vision that shows us the truth of Love’s presence beyond the dream images. He will help us join with the Love beyond the dark forms and welcome Love’s Light into the world.

Each time we accept the Holy Spirit’s healing, the world is brightened a little more with Love’s Light. The more we practice, the more we experience the presence of peace, happiness and changeless Love.

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Our True Self Gives Love Without Limit

It is not you who are so vulnerable and open to attack that just a word, a little whisper that you do not like, a circumstance that suits you not, or an event that you did not anticipate upsets your world, and hurls it into chaos. Truth is not frail. Illusions leave it perfectly unmoved and undisturbed. But specialness is not the truth in you. It [specialness] can be thrown off balance by anything. What rests on nothing never can be stable. However large and overblown it seems to be, it still must rock and turn and whirl about with every breeze.

[Specialness] will forevermore be unforgiving, for that is what it is; a secret vow that what God wants for you will never be, and that you will oppose His Will forever.

God asks for your forgiveness. He would have no separation, like an alien will, rise between what He wills for you and what you will. They are the same, for neither One wills specialness.

Forgive the great Creator of the universe, the Source of life, of love and holiness, the perfect Father of a perfect Son, for your illusions of your specialness. …Forgive the Holy One the specialness He could not give, and that you made instead.

The special ones are all asleep, surrounded by a world of loveliness they do not see. Freedom and peace and joy stand there, …call them to come forth and waken from their dream of death. Yet they hear nothing. They are lost in dreams of specialness. …Open your eyes a little; see the savior God gave to you that you might look on him, and give him back his birthright. It is yours. (A Course in Miracles, T-24.III.3;4:8;5:1-3;6:1,7;7:1-4,7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

If we deny the Love that is the truth in our brother, we have first denied it in ourselves. We have denied our birthright, for God wills that we have all of His Love. The ego denies that Love is the truth in all God’s Creation, given equally to all. Equality is the antithesis of the ego. That is why it must people the world with images of differences and inequality. It cannot see a brother as an equal, for the complete recognition of equality would dispel the ego entirely.

Because God’s Love is given equally to all, we must accept equality to accept God’s gift of Love. When we forgive God for not giving us the specialness we asked for, we open the veil to receive the Love He wills we have. His Will is our Will.

Our true Self wants only to be and give Love without limit, as God has given It to His Son. We want to awaken from the dream of lovelessness and return to the Heaven of God’s Love.

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Serving the Love We Are

True light that makes true vision possible is not the light the body’s eyes behold. It is a state of mind that has become so unified that darkness cannot be perceived at all. And thus what is the same is seen as one, while what is not the same remains un­noticed, for it is not there.

This is the light that shows no opposites, and vision, being healed, has power to heal. This is the light that brings your peace of mind to other minds, to share it and be glad that they are one with you and with themselves. This is the light that heals because it brings single perception, based upon one frame of ref­erence, from which one meaning comes.

Here are both giving and receiving seen as different aspects of one Thought whose truth does not depend on which is seen as first, nor which appears to be in second place. Here it is under­stood that both occur together, that the Thought remain complete. And in this understanding is the base on which all opposites are reconciled, because they are perceived from the same frame of reference which unifies this Thought. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 108, W-pI.108.2-4. See also ACIM Lesson 108 Insights.)

Our true Self already rests in God. It has always rested in Him and always will, for It was created one with Him. The experience of pain and suffering come from swearing allegiance to the false image made by the ego.

The affirmation “I rest in God” is a way to change our allegiance. It declares our willingness to accept the Reality of Love as our Identity. As we acknowledge our true Identity, we become instruments of God’s Voice to bring the message of Love’s oneness to the world. No longer do we serve the ego’s goal of separation with judgments and guilt.

Now we serve the Love we are by seeing Love beyond the world’s appearances. We recognize expressions of fear and hate as calls for Love. The Love of our true Self resting in God answers these calls for Love. This practice brings healing to our mind and to the world. We rest in the safety and innocence of Love.

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Let’s Light the World with Love

Forgiveness ends the dream of conflict here.

Conflict must be resolved. It cannot be evaded, set aside, denied, disguised, seen somewhere else, called by another name, or hidden by deceit of any kind, if it would be escaped. It must be seen exactly as it is, where it is thought to be, in the reality which has been given it, and with the purpose that the mind accorded it. For only then are its defenses lifted, and the truth can shine upon it as it disappears.

Father, forgiveness is the light You chose to shine away all conflict and all doubt, and light the way for our return to You. No light but this can end our evil dream. No light but this can save the world. For this alone will never fail in anything, being Your gift to Your beloved Son. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 333, W-pII.333. See also ACIM Lesson 333 Insights.)

The perception of conflict comes from our own mind. It comes with accepting a self-identity that is separate from the world. From this separation conflict seems real. To be free of conflict and experience the joy and peace of God, we need to let go of this false identity which we attach to the body. We are not a body. We are not an identity separate from God. Our attachment to a false identity darkens our world, for it hides the Light of Love from our awareness. Separation cannot exist in Love, where conflict is impossible because there are no differences.

God has given us His Voice to guide us out of this dream of a separate self. Our only meaningful use of time is to be mindful of our perceptions of conflict and be willing to let them go. As we take these dark thoughts to the Holy Spirit to let Him shine His Light on them, we learn they are based on illusion. The Light of Love dispels them.

We see clearly with Holy Spirit’s vision that there is no conflict in truth. We rest in peace with the certainty that God’s changeless Love is ours. Having accepted this Love as ours, we freely extend it to our brothers, for that is Love’s nature.

Let’s join together in mindfulness of our thoughts of conflict with dedication to let the Holy Spirit’s Light of Love dispel them. Together we can light the world with Love.

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Choosing the Holy Spirit’s Lessons in Love

Heaven is the decision I must make.

You need to be reminded that you think a thousand choices are confronting you, when there is really only one to make. And even this but seems to be a choice. Do not confuse yourself with all the doubts that myriad decisions would induce. You make but one. And when that one is made, you will perceive it was no choice at all. For truth is true, and nothing else is true. There is no opposite to choose instead. There is no contradiction to the truth.

Choosing depends on learning. …Decisions are the outcome of your learning, for they rest on what you have accepted as the truth of what you are, and what your needs must be.

We make the choice for Heaven as we wake, and spend five minutes making sure that we have made the one decision that is sane. We recognize we make a conscious choice between what has existence and what has nothing but an appearance of the truth.

Heaven is the decision I must make. I make it now, and will not change my mind, because it is the only thing I want. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 138, W-pI.138.4;5:1,6;11:1-2;12:5-6. See also ACIM Lesson 138 Insights.)

The ego is the mastermind of complications. It does not want us to find the one thing we really want — the Love we are. It covers this Love with a thick veil of images which lead us to believe there are many choices to be made to reach our goal. The problem is the ego’s goal is to avoid Love, not find It. It is terrified of Love because if we were to find It, Love’s oneness would dismiss the ego for the nothingness it is. The ego would simply cease to seem to be.

We make the choice for Heaven by choosing the Holy Spirit as our Teacher instead of the ego. His goal is to teach us What we are. His lessons always teach that no form is real, no differences exist in truth. Only the oneness of Love is real. The emptiness we have felt in the world reflects our heart’s yearning to awaken to our true Self, forever at home in Heaven.

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Willingness to Accept Our True Self

Be in my mind, my Father, through the day.

Be in my mind, my Father, when I wake, and shine on me throughout the day today. Let every minute be a time in which I dwell with You. And let me not forget my hourly thanksgiving that You have remained with me, and always will be there to hear my call to You and answer me. As evening comes, let all my thoughts be still of You and of Your Love. And let me sleep sure of my safety, certain of Your care, and happily aware I am Your Son.

This is as every day should be. Today, practice the end of fear. Have faith in Him Who is your Father. Trust all things to Him. Let Him reveal all things to you, and be you undismayed be­cause you are His Son. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 232, W-pII.232. See also ACIM Lesson 232 Insights.)

Today’s prayer expresses a willingness to accept our true Self as It is — free of limitation and eternally united with our Creator. Our true Self knows It is eternally safe in the Mind of God. It knows It is in need of nothing, for God has given His Son all of Himself. Nothing else exists.

Our true Self rests in the peace of God and shares His joy. All this is already ours. We are willing to let go of the limited self-concept that we have believed is our identity. We are willing to remember that we are united with every brother in Love as God’s one Son. This is what we accept when we let our mind welcome God and remember Who we are.

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How to Bring Peace and Joy to a Troubled World

There are no laws but God’s. Dismiss all foolish magical beliefs today, and hold your mind in silent readiness to hear the Voice that speaks the truth to you. You will be listening to One Who says there is no loss under the laws of God. Payment is neither given nor received. Exchange cannot be made; there are no substitutes; and nothing is replaced by something else. God’s laws forever give and never take.

Hear Him Who tells you this, and realize how foolish are the “laws” you thought upheld the world you thought you saw. Then listen further. He will tell you more. About the Love your Father has for you. About the endless joy He offers you. About His yearning for His only Son, created as His channel for creation; denied to Him by his [Son’s] belief in hell.

Let us today open God’s channels to Him, and let His Will extend through us to Him. Thus is creation [extension of Love] endlessly increased. His Voice will speak of this to us, as well as of the joys of Heaven which His laws keep limitless forever. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 76, W-pI.76.9:1-11:3. See also ACIM Lesson 76 Insights.)

We obey God’s Law by extending Love’s oneness. Our true Self does this by Its nature. It sees nothing as separate. It sees only the Love in every brother, united with Itself in our Creator. This is the Self that shares Heaven’s joy and wishes only to extend the Love It is.

The world we see with separate images defined by differences, capable of change or harm, is a defense against God’s Law. It begins with an image of a separate self from which a world is projected that seems to prove the reality of separation. If only Love is real, this could never be true. We are believing in a mistaken set of laws that bind us to a false identity.

Let us join together today to quiet our minds and wait for His Voice to help us see past the laws of limitation and accept the law of limitless Love. With His help, we will become aware of the Love behind the fearful or angry calls for Love that stem from false perception. With this vision, the innate Love of our true Self will respond with Love. This is how we bring peace and joy to the world.

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