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The Forgiveness That Ends All Grievances

This holy instant is salvation come.

What joy there is today! It is a time of special celebration. For today holds out the instant to the darkened world where its release is set. The day has come when sorrows pass away and pain is gone. The glory of salvation dawns today upon a world set free. This is the time of hope for countless millions. They will be united now, as you forgive them all. For I will be forgiven by you today.

We have forgiven one another now, and so we come at last to You again. Father, Your Son, who never left, returns to Heaven and his home. How glad are we to have our sanity restored to us, and to remember that we all are one. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 241, W-pII.241. See also ACIM Lesson 241 Insights.)

The ego is a grievance against God. It is like a rebellious teenager, unwilling to accept the universal gifts of joy and peace our Father gives to His Son. The ego is the wish to have a unique domain it can call its own without interference from God’s Will of joy, peace and Love. So it makes up a world that must exclude God’s gifts. This is a world of sorrow, conflict, fear and death that overshadows God’s Universe of eternal joy, peace and Love.

All the images and experiences of this made-up world represent the core grievance against accepting God’s gifts. Every time we experience unhappiness, guilt and fear, even in the form of the slightest sigh of frustration, is based upon the ego’s core grievance against God. It cannot forgive God for not yielding to its demand for specialness because it would mean the ego would cease to seem to exist.

Each time we forgive a mistaken perception, a false belief, we make way for the acceptance of God’s joy. All those forms that must be forgiven pass as we let the Holy Spirit teach us to see with the eyes of Love. We gradually learn that all the different things that need forgiveness are really just disguises for the one grievance behind them all. When forgiveness is complete, our grievance against God is let go. We release the world to let Love be our one Reality. We celebrate in joy, for we have returned Home.

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Letting Love Correct Our Misperceptions

I am in danger nowhere in the world.

Your Son is safe wherever he may be, for You are there with him. He need but call upon Your Name, and he will recollect his safety and Your Love, for they are one. How can he fear or doubt or fail to know he cannot suffer, be endangered, or experience unhappiness, when he belongs to You, beloved and loving, in the safety of Your Fatherly embrace?

And there we are in truth. No storms can come into the hal­lowed haven of our home. In God we are secure. For what can come to threaten God Himself, or make afraid what will forever be a part of Him? (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 244, W-pII.244. See also ACIM Lesson 244 Insights.)

We are forever part of God. Our true Self is already safe in His changelessness. Our only problem is a mistaken belief that we have separated from our Father and left the safety of our Home.

This belief is the cause of our experiences of fear and guilt, loneliness and loss, sickness and death in the world. The belief in separation can only be maintained in a dream that cannot change Reality. But this dream makes us unaware of our eternal safety in God. We need to awaken from the nightmare. We have a kind and loving Presence in our mind Who sees our fitful dreams and knows they are not true.

In every moment we can turn to Him for help. He knows how to translate our perceptions in the dream to a bridge that leads to our acceptance of the Love beyond the dream. Today we choose the Presence of Love as our Guide to lead us Home.

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We Give This Day to Love

This day is God’s. It is my gift to Him.

I will not lead my life alone today. I do not understand the world, and so to try to lead my life alone must be but foolishness. But there is One Who knows all that is best for me. And He is glad to make no choices for me but the ones that lead to God. I give this day to Him, for I would not delay my coming home, and it is He Who knows the way to God.

And so we give today to You. We come with wholly open minds. We do not ask for anything that we may think we want. Give us what You would have received by us. You know all our desires and our wants. And You will give us everything we need in helping us to find the way to You. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 242, W-pII.242. See also ACIM Lesson 242 Insights.)

As long as we follow the ego’s lead, we have closed part of our mind against the truth. This separation is the ego’s mandate to maintain the separation that is essential to the ego’s seeming existence. The Course is dedicated to help us open that split-off part of our mind to consider the possibility that it is not real.

The split mind cannot know the truth; it sees itself alone and disconnected from everything. The ego is dispelled the moment the truth of our Self is accepted as one in Love with every brother and God.

We have been given the Holy Spirit, our inner Teacher, to gently and lovingly help us let go of our fearful beliefs and open our mind to welcome Love. His curriculum is customized to our individual need. We each have our unique set of memories from the past that we use to judge the present, blinding us to the presence of Love now. The Holy Spirit helps us forgive these memories by showing us they have had no effect on our true Self, which remains as God created It.

We give this day to God. His response is gratitude for our willingness to welcome His Love.

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How to Have a Day of Blessings

Illusion recognized must disappear. Accept not suffering, and you remove the thought of suffering. …The thought of sacrifice gives rise to all the forms that suffer­ing appears to take. And sacrifice is an idea so mad that sanity dismisses it at once.

Never believe that you can sacrifice [lose by giving]. There is no place for sac­rifice [loss] in what has any value. If the thought [of sacrifice] occurs, its very pres­ence proves that error has arisen and correction must be made. Your blessing [forgiveness] will correct [the error]. Given first to you, it now is yours to give as well. No form of sacrifice and suffering can long endure before the face of one who has forgiven and has blessed himself. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 187, W-pI.187.7:1-2,4-5;8. See also ACIM Lesson 187 Insights.)

The ego insists that form has value and possessing a form makes it ours alone. But we are learning that form is an illusion, for only the oneness of Love is real. Love cannot be divided into multiple parts. This is the key to distinguishing between illusions and the truth that Love is all That is.

When we forgive a perception of separation, we make way for Love to bless the world through forgiveness. How we perceive our brother tells us what we believe about ourselves. If he is a body separate from ours, we must first believe we are a body. This belief needs to be let go, for it blocks our awareness of our true Self, the extension of God’s Love. This belief seems to make bodies valuable. But belief does not make real or true value, though it seems to affirm separation’s reality.

To truly bless our brother, we need to let the Holy Spirit show us the Love our brother is behind the mask of physical appearance. This is the blessing we give our brother. And because our brother is reflecting back to us what we believe about ourselves, we receive the blessing as we bless our brother. We have forgiven ourself.

Today we welcome opportunities to let the Holy Spirit show us the truth in our brothers. It will be a day of many blessings.

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Accepting Our Holy Purpose

The beautiful relationship you have with all your brothers is a part of you because it is a part of God Himself.

Either there is a gap between you and your brother, or you are as one. There is no in between, no other choice, and no allegiance to be split between the two. …[the body] can be seen as not your home, but merely as an aid to help you reach the home where God abides.

With this as purpose is the body healed. It is not used to witness to the dream of separation and disease. Nor is it idly blamed for what it did not do. It serves to help the healing of God’s Son, and for this purpose it cannot be sick. It will not join a purpose not your own, and you have chosen that it not be sick. All miracles are based upon this choice, and given you the instant it is made. No forms of sickness are immune, because the choice cannot be made in terms of form. The choice of sickness seems to be of form, yet it is one, as is its opposite. And you are sick or well, accordingly.

…the body can be seen as what it is, and neither less nor more in worth than the extent to which it can be used to liberate God’s Son unto his home. And with this holy purpose is it made a home of holiness a little while, because it shares your Father’s Will with you. (A Course in Miracles, T-28.VII.2:1;3:1-2,6;4;7:7-8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

An early ACIM Workbook lesson teaches that we do not know what anything is for. To the ego, everything is for justifying belief that separation is real. It is a hoax on such a grand scale that it has made a world that pictures separation so vividly that we really do seem to be separate individuals imprisoned in a body for a life that ends in death. It is not true and never can be true. Only our belief in in this ego dream binds us to it.

We can awaken from the dream. A child having a nightmare needs a kind and loving parent to awaken him from the dream and show him he is safe at home. Likewise the Voice for our Father is ever present in our mind to lovingly awaken us from the ego’s dream. The Holy Spirit gives the body a different purpose, using it as a teaching aid. Gently and patiently He guides us to recognize that the body and this world are not our Home. He brings the Light of Love into our mind in a way that does not frighten us, but instead attracts us to the peace and joy Love offers.

Each time we learn one of His lessons, we experience increased peace and happiness. The body is used for the Holy Spirit’s holy purpose to lead us Home to the Love that is our Life in God. Today we welcome His lessons.

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Remembering the Holiness We Share with God

The Word of God is given me to speak.

What is the Word of God? “My Son is pure and holy as Myself.” And thus did God become the Father of the Son He loves, for thus was he created. This the Word His Son did not create with Him, because in this His Son was born. Let us accept His Fatherhood, and all is given us. Deny we were created in His Love and we deny our Self, to be unsure of Who we are, of Who our Father is, and for what purpose we have come. And yet, we need but to acknowledge Him Who gave His Word to us in our creation, to remember Him and so recall our Self.

Father, Your Word is mine. And it is this that I would speak to all my brothers, who are given me to cherish as my own, as I am loved and blessed and saved by You. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 276, W-pII.276. See also ACIM Lesson 276 Insights.)

Our true Self is as holy as God because It is eternally united within His Love. Our true Self sees every brother as holy as God. Here we are called upon to remind ourselves mentally as we think of every brother, “You are holy, as holy as my Self and united in God’s oneness.”

This is how we are called to think of everyone, whether we think of them as friend or foe, for the truth in us can never be separate. This thought is a reminder of Who we are. It passes by the dream’s images of separation. It focuses our attention on the truth instead of mistakenly believing in images of separation. Seeing our brothers and our Self as holy as God heals our mind of the thought of separation. It accepts that our will is one with God’s.

Today we will practice reminding ourselves that we are holy along with every brother because we were created by the Source of holiness.

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Unlocking Our Self-Made Prison

How can illusions satisfy God’s Son?

Father, the truth belongs to me. My home is set in Heaven by Your Will and mine. Can dreams content me? Can illusions bring me happiness? What but Your memory can satisfy Your Son? I will accept no less than You have given me. I am surrounded by Your Love, forever still, forever gentle and forever safe. God’s Son must be as You created him.

Today we pass illusions by. And if we hear temptation call to us to stay and linger in a dream, we turn aside and ask ourselves if we, the Sons of God, could be content with dreams, when Heaven can be chosen just as easily as hell, and love will happily replace all fear. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 272, W-pII.272. See also ACIM Lesson 272 Insights.)

The fact that we experience ourselves as a body functioning in the world demonstrates that we have chosen dreams in place of the truth. Fortunately dreams are only illusions and do not change Reality. The Son of God, Who is our true Self, remains at Home in Heaven. We have chosen dreams of fear and guilt where division is the rule that governs the world we see.

True happiness is impossible in this world because it denies the Source of happiness. This choice for denial can be reversed. The body is not our identity. It does not imprison us in the world. We have the key to unlock the prison door.

We can choose to choose again. We can accept God’s gift of Heaven that is ours now and forever. We can choose to overlook the false images that seem to make separation real. We do this with the Holy Spirit’s help. We need to let Him show us the oneness of Love that unites us with every brother. With His help, Love becomes our guide and we look past illusions to see Love everywhere.

Today we choose to follow the Holy Spirit’s lead. He knows the way to Heaven and the joy and peace that is our birthright. The Holy Spirit is the key that unlocks the self-made prison door. The door swings open and we walk freely into the Heaven of God’s Love. We choose to follow the way to Heaven today.

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