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Celebrate Christmas with Forgiveness

The name of Jesus is the name of one who was a man but saw the face of Christ in all his brothers and remembered God. So he became identified with Christ, a man no longer, but at one with God. The man was an illusion, for he seemed to be a separate being, walking by himself, within a body that appeared to hold his self from Self, as all illusions do. Yet who can save unless he sees illusions and then identifies them as what they are? Jesus remains a Savior because he saw the false without accepting it as true. And Christ needed his form that He might appear to men and save them from their own illusions.

In his complete identification with the Christ—the perfect Son of God, His one creation and His happiness, forever like Himself and One with Him–Jesus became what all of you must be. He led the way for you to follow him. He leads you back to God because he saw the road before him, and he followed it. He made a clear distinction, still obscure to you, between the false and true. He offered you a final demonstration that it is impossible to kill God’s Son; nor can his life in any way be changed by sin and evil, malice, fear or death. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 1, C-5.2-3)

Jesus learned a lesson we all must learn. He learned to look at all the forms in the world, but accepted none of them as real. His “life” in the world demonstrated that nothing that seems to occur in the world had any effect on the truth of his Self, the Christ. This Self can never be harmed because it shares the changelessness of God.

This is the lesson all of us can and must learn if we would free ourselves from our mistaken beliefs that separation is real. This lesson fully learned without exception awakens us to the Christ we are, along with Jesus.

We celebrate Christmas by not revering the body named Jesus, but by accepting our true Self as our Identity, by learning the lesson Jesus learned. We take a step in this direction every time we accept the Holy Spirit’s help to forgive a misperception. We accept Christ into our hearts by letting go of our self-made barriers to Love’s presence. As the barriers are released, our true Self, the Christ, is revealed. When forgiveness is complete, the Love we are is united wholeheartedly with the Love that is the truth in every brother.

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Remembering Our Eternal Safety

There is a peace that Christ bestows on us.

Who uses but Christ’s vision finds a peace so deep and quiet, undisturbable and wholly changeless, that the world contains no counterpart. Comparisons are still before this peace. And all the world departs in silence as this peace envelops it, and gently car­ries it to truth, no more to be the home of fear. For love has come, and healed the world by giving it Christ’s peace.

Father, the peace of Christ is given us, because it is Your Will that we be saved. Help us today but to accept Your gift, and judge it not. For it has come to us to save us from our judgment on ourselves. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 305, W-pII.305. See also ACIM Lesson 305 Insights.)

We don’t have to wait for peace. We only need to accept the gift God has already given us. Christ and our true Self are one and the same. The world we experience as a body is the effect of refusing God’s gift. Being the denial of truth, this world is loveless and filled with conflict.

We have the means to escape from this fearful, loveless world. We can turn to the peace of our true Self. It is in us now. We access it by stepping back from our investment in the world’s appearances.

Take a deep breath and relax. Call upon the Christ in our mind, the truth of the Self God created one with Him. Here is the Home of peace. As we let this peace flow across our mind, the Light of Love dispels the dark shadows of the ego’s denial. Love brings peace to our troubled mind and we see beyond the forms to the presence of Love. The appearance of conflict and loss fades into the distance as the peace, joy and Love of our Self steps forward. We remember our eternal safety in God.

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Remembering the Love We Are

I am in need of nothing but the truth.

I sought for many things, and found despair. Now do I seek but one, for in that one is all I need, and only what I need. All that I sought before I needed not, and did not even want. My only need I did not recognize. But now I see that I need only truth. In that all needs are satisfied, all cravings end, all hopes are finally fulfilled and dreams are gone. Now have I everything that I could need. Now have I everything that I could want. And now at last I find myself at peace.

And for that peace, our Father, we give thanks. What we denied ourselves You have restored, and only that is what we really want. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 251, W-pII.251. See also ACIM Lesson 251 Insights.)

Only Love is real. Thus, like the Beatles song, “All we need is Love.” There is nothing else to seek, though the ego sends us endless quests for substitutes. But these substitutes are illusions and could never be real nor satisfy our need. Love cannot be found in a dream that denies Love. Yet our true Identity remains Love and nothing else.

Forgiveness of our attempts to find substitutes under the ego’s direction is the means to awaken from the dream. God has given us His Voice to guide us through the forgiveness process that will renew our memory of our true Identity. Love is the only Truth. Every appearance in the world, every brother, offers us a lesson in forgiveness. We need only listen for God’s Voice to teach us.

We listen, not with the body’s ears, but by stepping back from our attention on the world to let peace return to our troubled mind. The peace of God is in us. As we pause to welcome it, God’s Voice becomes clearer and the ego’s chatter fades. His Voice reminds us of the Truth: God is only Love and therefore so is everyone. Collectively we are God’s one Son.

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Knowing Our Brother as Our Self

To heal is to make happy. …The light that belongs to you is the light of joy. Radiance is not associated with sorrow. Joy calls forth an integrated willingness to share it, and promotes the mind’s natural impulse to respond as one.

There is no difference between love and joy. Therefore, the only possible whole state is the wholly joyous. To heal or to make joyous is therefore the same as to integrate and to make one.

You are being blessed by every beneficent thought of any of your brothers anywhere. You should want to bless them in return, out of gratitude. You need not know them individually, or they you. The light is so strong that it radiates throughout the Sonship and returns thanks to the Father for radiating His joy upon it. …It is impossible for a child of God to love his neighbor except as himself. That is why the healer’s prayer is:

Let me know this brother as I know myself. (A Course in Miracles, T-5.in.1:1,4-6;2:3-5;3:1-4,6-8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We, united as God’s one Son, were created as Love by Love. The ego’s dedication to judgment denies our Love. As long as we participate in judgment, we do not know the Love we are. Consequently we cannot love our brother. We cannot give what we are not aware we have. Yet being unaware of Love does not mean we don’t have Love. As we forgive our judgments, we become aware of the presence of Love.

When we ask the Holy Spirit to help us forgive our fear-based thoughts, the Light of Love within us is allowed to shine forth. We experience and know this Light as our Self. It radiates to every brother and embraces all in its Oneness. We join together in joyous celebration of the Love we are.

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Demonstrating for Love’s Freedom

I judge all things as I would have them be.

Judgment was made to be a weapon used against the truth. It separates what it is being used against, and sets it off as if it were a thing apart. And then it makes of it what you would have it be. It judges what it cannot understand, because it cannot see totality and therefore judges falsely. Let us not use it today, but make a gift of it to Him Who has a different use for it. He will relieve us of the agony of all the judgments we have made against ourselves, and re-establish peace of mind by giving us God’s Judgment of His Son.

Father, we wait with open mind today, to hear Your Judgment of the Son You love. We do not know him, and we cannot judge. And so we let Your Love decide what he whom You created as Your Son must be. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 311, W-pII.311. See also ACIM Lesson 311 Insights.)

Whenever we judge anyone or any situation in the world, we are actually judging ourselves. We could not see an external world if we had not already accepted the ego’s judgment that we are limited to a body, separate from our Creator. Our mistaken allegiance to the ego has put us in a dream where nothing appears as it is in truth. We see only false images that hide the eternal presence of Love from our awareness. Judgment is the ego’s tool to make these images appear real and impenetrable.

It is time to let go of judging anything on our own. Our self-imposed limitations make it impossible for us to judge truly. This is why the Course teaches us to ask of everything, “What is this for?” He will judge for us based on His certainty of the truth that we remain united in God’s Love. He knows that only Love is real. As we learn to accept the Holy Spirit’s judgment, which dismisses the images of the world as unreal, we free ourselves to accept the limitless Love God gave us as His Son.

Today we demonstrate for freedom by letting Love guide our thoughts, words and actions. By this practice we teach ourselves and the world of the reality of Love.

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Remembering God Walks with Us

Today we will again give thanks for our Identity in God. Our home is safe, protection guaranteed in all we do, power and strength available to us in all our undertakings. We can fail in nothing. Everything we touch takes on a shining light that blesses and that heals. At one with God and with the universe we go our way rejoicing, with the thought that God Himself goes everywhere with us.

How holy are our minds! And everything we see reflects the holiness within the mind at one with God and with itself. How easily do errors disappear, and death give place to everlasting life. Our shining footprints point the way to truth, for God is our Companion as we walk the world a little while. And those who come to follow us will recognize the way because the light we carry stays behind, yet still remains with us as we walk on.

We feel Him in our hearts. Our minds contain His Thoughts; our eyes behold His loveliness in all we look upon. Today we see only the loving and the lovable. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 124, W-pI.124.1-2;4:4-6. See also ACIM Lesson 124 Insights.)

The true Self of everyone is Love. It sees only the loving and the lovable. This is the world we will see when we have forgiven the world for all our projections of fear and guilt.

The world reflects our beliefs back to us, showing us either Love or our calls for Love. If someone’s behavior upsets us, we are being shown a belief about what we are. We must be seeing a brother as a body, for his true Identity could only bring us joy. The upset is telling us we have a belief that needs to be forgiven. At its core, it is a belief in separation.

On our own, we do not know how to forgive this belief. We need help from beyond our mistaken belief system. This Help comes from God as His Voice in our mind. When we are willing to listen, it will teach us to see past our veil of false beliefs. We will learn that what we believe is disturbing us has no effect on What we are. We remain safe in God’s Love, our eternal Home. God walks with us in every moment, keeping us safe in His changeless Love.

Today we remind ourselves frequently: “God walks with me. His Love surrounds me and holds me in His peace. His Love flows through me to all I see. With the vision of Love, I see only the loving and lovable.”

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Accepting the Miracle of Love

Today I let Christ’s vision look upon All things for me and judge them not, but give Each one a miracle of love instead.

So would I liberate all things I see, and give to them the freedom that I seek. For thus do I obey the law of love, and give what I would find and make my own. It will be given me, because I have chosen it as the gift I want to give. Father, Your gifts are mine. Each one that I accept gives me a miracle to give. And giving as I would receive, I learn Your healing miracles belong to me.

Our Father knows our needs. He gives us grace to meet them all. And so we trust in Him to send us miracles to bless the world, and heal our minds as we return to Him. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 349, W-pII.349)

When we judge, we deny Love because Love does not condemn. Believing a brother is a body is an attempt to limit God’s Son which denies the limitless Love He and our Self is.

But when we let go of judgment, we make way for Christ’s vision to show us the Love we and every brother are. Forgiveness releases judgment and lifts the veil to reveal the miracle of Love given and received. Our fractured mind is healed as we accept God’s gift of His Love.

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