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Listen for the Voice for Love

The Holy Spirit is the spirit of joy. He is the Call to return with which God blessed the minds of His separated Sons.

This Call is so strong that the ego always dissolves at Its sound. …The Holy Spirit is in you in a very literal sense. His is the Voice that calls you back to where you were before and will be again. It is possible even in this world to hear only that Voice and no other. It takes effort and great willingness to learn.

The Voice of the Holy Spirit does not command, because It is incapable of arrogance. It does not demand, because It does not seek control. It does not overcome, because It does not attack. It merely reminds. It is compelling only because of what It reminds you of. It brings to your mind the other way, remaining quiet even in the midst of the turmoil you may make. The Voice for God is always quiet, because It speaks of peace. Peace is stronger than war because it heals.

The Holy Spirit is your Guide in choosing. He is in the part of your mind that always speaks for the right choice, because He speaks for God. He is your remaining communication with God, which you can interrupt but cannot destroy.

Our task is the joyous one of waking [the world] to the Call for God.” (A Course in Miracles, T-5.II.2:1-2;3:3,7-10;7:1-8;8:1-3;10:7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Everyone is seeking for Love, for the world was made to be loveless. We yearn to remember Love, to experience Its joy and peace. The best the world can offer is substitutes that can temporarily comfort but never satisfy.

God’s Voice is the answer to our call for Love. It reminds us of the Love we are, have been and will forever be. That is why It is a call to joy and a call to peace. This Voice is always present in our mind, quietly offering an alternative to the ego’s unsatisfying substitutes for Love. The ego seems to speak louder only because we have convinced ourselves that we want specialness, to stand out from the crowd, to be different. But this wish leaves us feeling weak, for we have denied the power of Love. It leaves us feeling lonely, for we have denied our unity with the Love of God.

Everyone will ultimately reach the point of willingness to quiet their minds and open to hearing another Voice. This Voice is ever present, ready to guide us past the images of the world to see the Light of Love that shines forever within their Mind Which remains in the Mind of Love.

Today we remind ourselves to listen for the Voice that guides us back to Love.

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Awakening to Love’s Heaven

The Thought of God created you. It left you not, nor have you ever been apart from it an instant. It belongs to you. By it you live. It is your Source of life, holding you one with it, and every­thing is one with you because it left you not. The Thought of God protects you, cares for you, makes soft your resting place and smooth your way, lighting your mind with happiness and love. Eternity and everlasting life shine in your mind, because the Thought of God has left you not, and still abides with you.

Deny not Heaven. It is yours today, but for the asking.

Ask with desire. You need not be sure that you request the only thing you want. But when you have received, you will be sure you have the treasure you have always sought. What would you then exchange for it? What would induce you now to let it fade away from your ecstatic vision? For this sight proves that you have exchanged your blindness for the seeing eyes of Christ; your mind has come to lay aside denial, and accept the Thought of God as your inheritance. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 165, W-pI.165.2;4:1-2;5. See also ACIM Lesson 165 Insights.)

Because God is only Love, His Thought is Love. The Thought of Love extends Love, remaining one with Its Source. Love is our Source, our safety, our peace and happiness. Love is our true Nature, the one Self Love created as Itself.

Nothing but Love exists. A world where Love is denied is nothing more than a dream, a nightmare filled with conflict, loss, loneliness, lack, fear and guilt. This only seems to be real in a dream that denies Love. Yet the Love that is our inheritance remains with us eternally. We can be unaware of It, but we cannot lose It. We need only awaken from the dream of lovelessness to know our true Self.

From within the dream, its reality seems undeniable. But we have Help to teach us to recognize the dream for what it is. We need to call upon the Voice of Love, forever in our mind, for help to learn the unreality of the dream.

As we learn Love’s lessons, the denial of Love is weakened and the Light of Love shines more brightly in our mind. Our happiness increases. Conflict diminishes and our mind is increasingly at peace. We are awakening to our Home in Love’s Heaven.

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Resting in the Peace of the Eternal Now

I place the future in the Hands of God.

Accept today’s idea, and you have passed all anxiety, all pits of hell, all blackness of depression, thoughts of sin [separation, lack of Love], and devastation brought about by guilt. Accept today’s idea, and you have re­leased the world from all imprisonment by loosening the heavy chains that locked the door to freedom on it. You are saved, and your salvation thus becomes the gift you give the world, because you have received.

In no one instant is depression felt, or pain experienced or loss perceived. In no one instant sorrow can be set upon a throne, and worshipped faithfully. In no one instant can one even die. And so each instant given unto God in passing, with the next one given Him already, is a time of your release from sadness, pain and even death itself.

What worry can beset the one who gives his future to the lov­ing Hands of God? What can he suffer? What can cause him pain, or bring experience of loss to him? What can he fear? And what can he regard except with love? For he who has escaped all fear of future pain has found his way to present peace, and certainty of care the world can never threaten. He is sure that his perception may be faulty, but will never lack correction. He is free to choose again when he has been deceived; to change his mind when he has made mistakes. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 194, W-pI.194.2-3;7. See also ACIM Lesson 194 Insights.)

The reality of Love’s eternal oneness can only be experienced when we have not covered the present moment with images from our imagined past. The ego’s scheme to maintain itself is to keep a library of past experiences which it uses to project a future like the past. It skips over the present, keeping the peace, safety and happiness of the eternal now from our awareness. Thus it denies the present and future of the peace, joy and Love the God wills for us.

To place the future in the Hands of God is to rest in His Eternal Love, perfectly safe, happy, abundantly loved and loving. This is our Home. When we rest in Him, we serve as His messengers to bring Love’s healing to the world. We dedicate this day to remembering that our true future is in the loving Hand’s of God.

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Our Path to Enlightenment

Your Self retains Its Thoughts, and they remain within your mind and in the Mind of God. The Holy Spirit holds salvation in your mind, and offers it the way to peace. Salvation is a thought you share with God…

Salvation comes from this one Self through Him Who is the Bridge between your mind and It. Wait patiently, and let Him speak to you about your Self, and what your mind can do, restored to It and free to serve Its Will.

Begin with saying this:

Salvation comes from my one Self. Its Thoughts are mine to use.

Then seek Its Thoughts, and claim them as your own. These are your own real thoughts you have denied, and let your mind go wandering in a world of dreams, to find illusions in their place. Here are your thoughts, the only ones you have. Salvation is among them; find it there.

Each time today you tell your frantic mind salvation comes from your one Self, you lay another treasure in your growing store. And all of it is given everyone who asks for it, and will accept the gift. Think, then, how much is given unto you to give this day, that it be given you! (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 96, W-pI.96.7:1-3;8:3-9:7;12. See also ACIM Lesson 96 Insights.)

The Thoughts of our one Self are Thoughts of Love. They are united with God’s Thoughts, extending Creation, for they extend Love. We need to be saved from the ego’s dream of separation because it keeps us unaware of our one Self. We have not lost our one Self. But the dream of separation we believe is real makes our one Self unknown to us.

No matter how deeply we have sunk into the dream, we cannot permanently break our eternal unity with Love in the Mind of God. We are given the Holy Spirit to help us awaken to our one Self and accept the gift of God’s peace, happiness and Love.

There is a path leading out of the ego’s loveless world. As we practice opening our mind to the Thoughts of our one Self, the darkness of the dream is brought to the Light of Love. And we remember our perfect safety in the Love that is guaranteed by God.

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Love Is the Only Power

It is God’s strength in you that is the light in which you see, as it is His Mind with which you think. His strength denies your weakness. It is your weakness that sees through the body’s eyes, peering about in darkness to behold the likeness of itself…

Strength overlooks these things by seeing past appearances.

Truth is a savior and can only will for happiness and peace for everyone. It gives its strength to everyone who asks, in limitless supply. It sees that lack in anyone would be a lack in all. And so it gives its light that all may see and benefit as one. Its strength is shared, that it may bring to all the miracle in which they will unite in purpose and forgiveness and in love.

Weakness, which looks in darkness, cannot see a purpose in forgiveness and in love. It sees all others different from itself, and nothing in the world that it would share.

The light of strength is constant, sure as love, forever glad to give itself away, because it cannot give but to itself.

…for the peace of God is where your Self, His Son, is waiting now to meet Itself again, and be as one. (W-pI.92.3:1-3;4:1;5:3-6:2;8:1;9:3)

It is impossible to feel completely safe in this world. Even if we build a bunker safe from an atomic bomb, it is simply a monument proclaiming our weakness. Yet this perception of weakness and vulnerability is nothing more than a dream. It has no effect whatsoever on our true Self, the Son of God.

The changelessness of the Love we are protects us from all harm. The eyes of Love see only Itself, united in Its Light which nothing can oppose. This Love is our rock, the foundation of our eternal certainty that we remain as Love created us.

Today we choose the Holy Spirit to help us see past appearances with the eyes of Love. With this vision, we see only Love or calls for Love. From the innate Love we are, we answer calls for Love with Love.

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Welcoming God’s Joy as Our Own

God, being Love, is also happiness.

Happiness is an attribute of love. It cannot be apart from it. Nor can it be experienced where love is not. Love has no limits, being everywhere. And therefore joy is everywhere as well. Yet can the mind deny that this is so, believing there are gaps in love where sin can enter, bringing pain instead of joy. This strange belief would limit happiness by redefining love as limited, and introducing opposition in what has no limit and no opposite.

Allow this one correction to be placed within your mind each waking hour today. Then welcome all the happiness it brings as truth replaces fear, and joy becomes what you expect to take the place of pain. God, being Love, it will be given you. Bolster this expectation frequently throughout the day, and quiet all your fears with this assurance, kind and wholly true:

God, being Love, is also happiness.
And it is happiness I seek today.
I cannot fail, because I seek the truth. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 103, W-pI.103.1;3. See also ACIM Lesson 103 Insights.)

Happiness is an inside job. We experience it as we identify with our true Self, Who is eternally united with God and shares His joy. The only reason we do not experience God’s joy is because we have chosen to believe in a false identity that denies our unity in Love. The Love and joy of our true Self remains untouched by this denial. It is only hidden from our awareness until we accept It as What we are.

Forgiveness is the way to let go of the denial and accept God’s gift of Love. Every moment of every day we are presented with a choice between believing in the denial, which could never be true, or accepting the reality of Love. Today we break from our past habits and choose once again to accept our true Identity as Love. By this choice we welcome God’s joy as our own.

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Letting Go of Denying Love

Be you not separate, for the One Who does surround [the world] has brought union to you, returning your little offering of darkness to the eternal light.

The body will remain guilt’s messenger, and will act as it directs as long as you believe that guilt is real. For the reality of guilt is the illusion that seems to make it heavy and opaque, impenetrable, and a real foundation for the ego’s thought system. Its thinness and transparency are not apparent until you see the light behind it. And then you see it as a fragile veil before the light.

This world of light, this circle of brightness is the real world, where guilt meets with forgiveness. Here the world outside is seen anew, without the shadow of guilt upon it. Here are you forgiven, for here you have forgiven everyone. Here is the new perception, where everything is bright and shining with innocence, washed in the waters of forgiveness, and cleansed of every evil thought you laid upon it. Here there is no attack upon the Son of God, and you are welcome. Here is your innocence, waiting to clothe you and protect you, and make you ready for the final step in the journey inward. Here are the dark and heavy garments of guilt laid by, and gently replaced by purity and love. (A Course in Miracles, T-18.IX.2:1;5;9. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

An evil thought is nothing more than the denial of Love’s reality. This denial makes lovelessness and guilt seem real. This “reality” is held in place by judgment, based upon the conviction that separation is real. Judgment would be impossible without this belief in what could never be true. It seems to be our job to carefully evaluate what is good and what is evil. Yet nothing “evil” exists because only Love is real.

Forgiveness lets go of the denial of Love. It lets in Love’s Light to shine away the shadows of guilt. Each time we let the Holy Spirit help us forgive an unloving thought, our world becomes brighter. We see the Love we are reflected back to us as the veil of guilt is lifted.

Today we resolve to let the Holy Spirit show us the reality of Love beyond the images the body sees. With His help Love will guide our way and we will experience Its blessing as we share It with the world.

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