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Accepting the Eternal Love We Are

I will accept Atonement for myself.

Here is the end of choice. For here we come to a decision to accept ourselves as God created us. And what is choice except uncertainty of what we are? There is no doubt that is not rooted here. There is no question but reflects this one. There is no conflict that does not entail the single, simple question, “What am I?”

Yet who could ask this question except one who has refused to recognize himself?

Thus he becomes uncertain of his life, for what [his life] is has been denied by him. It is for this denial that you need Atonement. Your denial made no change in what you are. But you have split your mind into what knows and does not know the truth.

Atonement remedies the strange idea that it is possible to doubt yourself, and be unsure of what you really are. This is the depth of madness. Yet it is the universal question of the world. What does this mean except the world is mad? Why share its madness in the sad belief that what is universal here is true?

We have not lost the knowledge that God gave to us when He created us like Him. We can remember it for everyone, for in creation are all minds as one. And in our memory is the recall how dear our brothers are to us in truth, how much a part of us is every mind, how faithful they have really been to us, and how our Father’s Love contains them all. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 139, W-pI.139.1;2:1;5:1-4;6;11:4-6. See also ACIM Lesson 139 Insights.)

The ego’s answer to the question, “What am I?” is that we are a body which seems to live for a brief time until it dies — our life has ended. Yet the Course tells us that we have one life which we share with God. This life must be eternal because God is eternal.

In the Course, Atonement means we have let go of all false beliefs that deny the eternal Love we are. All barriers to Love have been released by forgiving our mistaken perceptions and accepting Love as our Identity instead of a false image of our self.

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Remembering Our Home in God’s Love

I thank You, Father, knowing You will come to close each little gap that lies between the broken pieces of Your holy Son. Your Holiness, complete and perfect, lies in every one of them. And they are joined because what is in one is in them all. How holy is the smallest grain of sand, when it is recognized as being part of the completed picture of God’s Son! The forms the broken pieces seem to take mean nothing. For the whole is in each one. And every aspect of the Son of God is just the same as every other part.

Join not your brother’s dreams but join with him, and where you join His Son the Father is. Who seeks for substitutes when he perceives he has lost nothing? Who would want to have the “benefits” of sickness when he has received the simple happiness of health? What God has given cannot be a loss, and what is not of Him has no effects. What, then, would you perceive within the gap? The seeds of sickness come from the belief that there is joy in separation, and [giving up separation] would be a sacrifice. But miracles are the result when you do not insist on seeing in the gap what is not there. Your willingness to let illusions go is all the Healer of God’s Son requires. He will place the miracle of healing where the seeds of sickness were. And there will be no loss, but only gain. (A Course in Miracles, T-28.IV.9-10. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The Spirit of Love is eternally whole. It has no form nor any distinction within It to separate It from any other part. The ego’s world relies on our belief in the reality of differences to seem to exist. A grain of sand seems different than a hurricane. We can only perceive these differences if we deny the oneness of Love by believing in the ego’s dream. Yet Love is eternally present and complete.

If we look upon a grain of sand with Love’s vision, we see the same presence of Love as It sees in every brother or any form in the world. Only the Love has meaning. As we learn to overlook the meaningless forms in the dream to recognize the eternal Love that unites us with our Creator, peace is restored to our troubled mind. There is no conflict in Love.

Today we give thanks that we rest eternally in the peace of God. We are held safely in His Love and share His joy. We welcome this rest by choosing Love’s vision in place of believing the ego’s images of separation. With this practice we awaken from the dream of separation and remember our Home in Love.

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Finding Our Invulnerability in God’s Love

It is surely obvious that if you can be attacked you are not invulnerable. You see attack as a real threat. That is because you believe that you can really attack. And what would have effects through you must also have effects on you.

Because your attack thoughts will be projected, you will fear attack. And if you fear attack, you must believe that you are not invulnerable. Attack thoughts therefore make you vulnerable in your own mind, which is where the attack thoughts are. Attack thoughts and invulnerability cannot be accepted together. They contradict each other.

…you always at­tack yourself first.

…vulnerability or invulnerability is the result of your own thoughts. Nothing except your thoughts can attack you. Noth­ing except your thoughts can make you think you are vulner­able. And nothing except your thoughts can prove to you this is not so. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 26, W-pI.26.1:1-4;2;3:1;4. See also .)

Thoughts about what might happen in the future or about something we experienced or did in the past are attack thoughts. They deny the changelessness and oneness of the Love that is What we are. Love can neither harm nor be harmed.

Our attack thoughts always involve some element of belief in the reality of change, which could never be true about our true Self. The ego feeds us a constant stream of thoughts based upon “memories” of the past to “prepare us” for an imagined future. Yet nothing the ego believes happened or can happen is real and therefore could never occur in truth.

To remember the truth about ourself, we need to bring our thoughts from the past to the Holy Spirit and ask Him for help to heal these misperceptions. He will shine His Light on these dark shadows from the past so we can learn that Love is here now and always. Love is our safety, our refuge, our place of invulnerability, forever protected by Its changelessness.

Today we practice being mindful of thoughts that disturb our peace of mind. We bring these thoughts to the Holy Spirit with willingness to receive His help. This is how we free our minds from attack thoughts and find peace in Love’s invulnerability.

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Finding Our Real Thoughts of Love

There is no relationship between what is real and what you think is real. Nothing that you think are your real thoughts resemble your real thoughts in any respect. Nothing that you think you see bears any resemblance to what vision will show you.

You think with the Mind of God. Therefore you share your thoughts with Him, as He shares His with you. They are the same thoughts, because they are thought by the same Mind. To share is to make alike, or to make one. Nor do the thoughts you think with the Mind of God leave your mind, because thoughts do not leave their source. Therefore, your [real] thoughts are in the Mind of God, as you are. They are in your mind as well, where He is. As you are part of His Mind, so are your thoughts part of His Mind.

We will not let the thoughts of the world hold us back. We will not let the beliefs of the world tell us that what God would have us do is impossible. Instead, we will try to recognize that only what God would have us do is possible.

…tell yourself gently:

My real thoughts are in my mind. I would like to find them.

Then try to go past all the unreal thoughts that cover the truth in your mind, and reach to the eternal. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 45, W-pI.45.1:4-2:8;4:4-6;6:3-6. See also ACIM Lesson 45 Insights.)

If our real Thoughts are only the Thoughts we share with God, then our real Thoughts must be Thoughts of Love and nothing else. While we believe the world we see is real, we are unaware of the loving Thoughts we share with God.

Because of our true Self’s unbreakable unity with the Mind of Love, we are never without Love. Yet the world seems to be a place where Love is hard to find. Most of us are consciously or unconsciously seeking Love which cannot be found in the ego’s thought system. The ego’s dictates will always direct us to look where Love cannot be found. At best it offers temporary fixes with substitutes for Love that provide only fleeting satisfaction.

The loving Thoughts of our true Self remain with us. To find them, we need to pause and step back from the ego’s chatter. As we let peace come forward, we find the Thoughts of Love which guide us to be Love’s messengers in the world. We reflect Love in the world through kindness, helpfulness, appreciation and forgiveness. We see our brother’s through the inner vision of Love, which reminds us of our unity with the one Self of all our brothers in the Mind of God. Our experience of the world is transformed.

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Accepting a Transformed Vision of the World

You see the flesh or recognize the spirit. There is no compromise between the two. If one is real the other must be false, for what is real denies its opposite.

Salvation does not ask that you behold the spirit and perceive the body not. It merely asks that this should be your choice.

You who believe that you can choose to see the Son of God as you would have him be, forget not that no concept of yourself will stand against the truth of what you are. Undoing truth would be impossible. But concepts are not difficult to change. One vision, clearly seen, that does not fit the picture as it was perceived before will change the world for eyes that learn to see, because the concept of the self has changed.

Are you invulnerable? Then the world is harmless in your sight. Do you forgive? Then is the world forgiving, for you have forgiven it its trespasses, and so it looks on you with eyes that see as yours. Are you a body? So is all the world perceived as treacherous, and out to kill. Are you a spirit, deathless, and without the promise of corruption and the stain of sin upon you? So the world is seen as stable, fully worthy of your trust; a happy place to rest in for a while, where nothing need be feared, but only loved. Who is unwelcome to the kind in heart? And what could hurt the truly innocent? (A Course in Miracles, T-31.VI.1:1-3;3:1-2;5-6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The practice of forgiveness progressively leads to increasing awareness of the Spirit that is our true Self. It diminishes our attraction to separation and specialness. As the Reality of Love is accepted, the daily experience of conflict, fear and guilt is replaced by increasing peace, happiness, gratitude and the free flow of Love to the truth of everyone’s being.

Eventually everyone reaches the point when dissatisfaction with the world we experience becomes intolerable. We seek a better way. Forgiveness is the answer to that search. We become open to another way of seeing the world. We begin to use our perceptions of the world as opportunities for mind healing. We are willing to ask for help to see with the eyes of Love instead of the body’s eyes, which were made to deny Love.

Every moment becomes an opportunity to choose once again; to choose our true Identity and see the Love that is the only Reality. We cannot make this choice with the reasoning of the world. The choice becomes clear when we accept Christ’s Vision in our mind to see the presence of Love’s innocence and peace beyond the appearances of the world. It is this transformed vision that heals and reminds us we have not left the safety and comfort of our Home in God.

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Letting Love Replace Fear in Our Mind

Forgiveness lets me know that minds are joined.

Forgiveness is the means appointed for perception’s ending. Knowledge is restored after perception first is changed, and then gives way entirely to what remains forever past its highest reach. For sights and sounds, at best, can serve but to recall the memory that lies beyond them all. Forgiveness sweeps away distortions, and opens the hidden altar to the truth. Its lilies shine into the mind, and call it to return and look within, to find what it has vainly sought without. For here, and only here, is peace of mind restored, for this the dwelling place of God Himself.

In quiet may forgiveness wipe away my dreams of separation and of sin. Then let me, Father, look within, and find Your promise of my sinlessness is kept; Your Word remains unchanged within my mind, Your Love is still abiding in my heart. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 336, W-pII.336. See also ACIM Lesson 336 Insights.)

Forgiveness is the key to peace of mind. It clears the way for Love’s perception of unity and innocence instead of division and guilt. Perception of conflict and lack of Love are founded upon the mistaken belief in being separate and alone. This belief could never be true but it hides truth from our awareness.

Each time our peace is disturbed to any extent, even a sigh of frustration, we have let this mistaken belief dominate our mind. It blinds us from seeing the Light of Love. Now is the time to take the blindfold off.

The practice of being mindful to recognize disturbances to our peace of mind is a key step toward forgiveness. Unconscious defenses stand as barriers against awareness of Love’s presence. We need to interrupt the trance of mindlessly following the ego’s dictates.

Through mindfulness we can take the next step of offering our perception to the Holy Spirit for His purification. His vision will show us the truth beyond the false perception. What stood as a barrier becomes a path of Light to the limitless peace God Wills for us.

Today is a day of opportunity to move forward on the path of healing with our Mighty Companion guiding us along the way. It will be a day of increasing happiness and peace.

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Answering the Call for Forgiveness

I feel the Love of God within me now.

There is a light in you the world can not perceive. And with its eyes you will not see this light, for you are blinded by the world. Yet you have eyes to see it. It is there for you to look upon. It was not placed in you to be kept hidden from your sight. This light is a reflection of the thought we practice now. To feel the Love of God within you is to see the world anew, shining in innocence, alive with hope, and blessed with perfect charity and love.

This is the world the Love of God reveals. …A world in which forgiveness shines on everything, and peace offers its gentle light to eve­ryone, is inconceivable to those who see a world of hatred rising from attack, poised to avenge, to murder and destroy.

Yet is the world of hatred equally unseen and inconceivable to those who feel God’s Love in them. Their world reflects the qui­etness and peace that shines in them; the gentleness and inno­cence they see surrounding them; the joy with which they look out from the endless wells of joy within. What they have felt in them they look upon, and see its sure reflection everywhere.

If you feel the Love of God within you, you will look out on a world of mercy and of love. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 189, W-pI.189.1;3:1,5;4;5:5. See also ACIM Lesson 189 Insights.)

What kind of world are we seeing? If we are seeing a world of danger, conflict and guilt, we are seeing the projection of our unforgiving mind. Only a mind convinced that separation is real could see such a world. The fact that we see this world is our own call for forgiveness. It reflects our yearning to remember the eternal Love of our true Self.

If we answer this call with forgiveness of the belief that we are separate and alone, apart from Love, we open to our true Mind, one with the Mind of Love. The specific need for forgiveness reflected in our perception can be the focus of our forgiveness.

The practice of bringing that perception to the Holy Spirit, with willingness to receive His perception in place of ours, brings healing to our mind. This practice leads to full forgiveness of our belief in separation. It leads to acceptance of the reality of Love’s innocence and peace that our true Self shares with God. We want to see the world of mercy and of Love, so we dedicate today to this practice.

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