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We Choose the Voice of Love Today

My sinlessness protects me from all harm.

My sinlessness ensures me perfect peace, eternal safety, everlasting love, freedom forever from all thought of loss; complete deliverance from suffering. And only happiness can be my state, for only happiness is given me. What must I do to know all this is mine? I must accept Atonement for myself, and nothing more. God has already done all things that need be done. And I must learn I need do nothing of myself, for I need but accept my Self, my sinlessness, created for me, now already mine, to feel God’s Love protecting me from harm, to understand my Father loves His Son; to know I am the Son my Father loves.

You Who created me in sinlessness are not mistaken about what I am. I was mistaken when I thought I sinned, but I accept Atonement for myself. Father, my dream is ended now. Amen. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 337, W-pII.337. See also ACIM Lesson 337 Insights.)

God has already given us all that we need to be eternally safe, peaceful and loving. When we accept the ego as our guide, we are oblivious to the reality of all God has given us as His Son. Our belief and acceptance of the ego as our identity brings guilt with it. The ego’s message is that our denial of God has condemned us to guilt. It tells us that God is angry because of what we have done. Our experience of fear, no matter what its apparent cause in the world may seem to be, comes from the fear of God instilled by the ego. This experience is based on the lie.

God could not be angry, for he knows nothing has happened to His Son. His Love for the Son He created remains unchanged, for He has not changed His Mind. He does not condemn because He is Love and Love does not condemn.

We accept the Atonement by forgiving ourselves for the mistaken belief that we have succeeded in separating from our Creator. Separation seems to have happened in the dream but never occurred in Reality. Every time we let the Love in our heart heal the self-condemnation, we move closer to awakening to our Home in God. Let’s listen to the Voice of Love today.

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The Gift of Christ’s Vision

Now let a new perception come to me.

Father, there is a vision which beholds all things as sinless, so that fear has gone, and where it was is love invited in. And love will come wherever it is asked. This vision is Your gift. The eyes of Christ look on a world forgiven. In His sight are all its sins forgiven, for He sees no sin in anything He looks upon. Now let His true perception come to me, that I may waken from the dream of sin and look within upon my sinlessness, which You have kept completely undefiled upon the altar to Your holy Son, the Self with which I would identify.

Let us today behold each other in the sight of Christ. How beautiful we are! How holy and how loving! Brother, come and join with me today. We save the world when we have joined. For in our vision it becomes as holy as the light in us. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 313, W-pII.313. See also ACIM Lesson 313 Insights.)

When we believe we are a body, we identify with limitation, weakness and lovelessness. We perceive a world where hate is strong and love is weak. But all this is not true. It can only seem real in a dream where the reality of Love is excluded.

We have a new perception available to us right now and always. This new perception shows the way out of the dream. It looks upon the presence of Love beyond the veil of separate identities. Christ’s vision shows us the reality of Love in which we live. It sees that Love in every brother, either as a call for Love or Love’s expression.

A brother’s loveless behavior inspires Love in us instead of fear. We no longer want to hold our brother to his fear-based image. The Love in us is inspired to reach out to our brother to give him Love. The giving of this gift is possible because we have accepted the gift ourselves. We are both blessed in the giving.

Today we call upon Christ’s vision to replace our mistaken perceptions. As we accept this gift, we bring healing to our mind and the world.

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From Ego’s Denial to Accepting God’s Peace

Peace to my mind. Let all my thoughts be still.

Father, I come to You today to seek the peace that You alone can give. I come in silence. In the quiet of my heart, the deep recesses of my mind, I wait and listen for Your Voice. My Father, speak to me today. I come to hear Your Voice in silence and in certainty and love, sure You will hear my call and answer me.

Now do we wait in quiet. God is here, because we wait together. I am sure that He will speak to you, and you will hear. Accept my confidence, for it is yours. Our minds are joined. We wait with one intent; to hear our Father’s answer to our call, to let our thoughts be still and find His peace, to hear Him speak to us of what we are, and to reveal Himself unto His Son. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 221, W-pII.221. See also ACIM Lesson 221 Insights.)

God has already given us His peace, for He has given all of Himself to His Son. To experience His peace, we need only accept it. That means we need to stop listening to the ego’s constant stream of thoughts based on belief in separation. Its thoughts deny Love and consequently deny God’s peace.

Today let’s join together in the practice of quieting our mind. We let the ego’s thoughts pass by as we choose not to listen. Like the bullfighter says “Olé!” to the charging bull, we say “Olé!” to the ego’s thoughts. They cannot harm us nor change the reality of our Identity.

We remain as God created us. We claim His peace as we listen to His Voice. We let the vision of Love supersede the ego’s denial. We become more and more aware of the peace of God within and give it to the world.

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Bringing Love’s Unity to the World

My true Identity abides in You.

Father, I made an image of myself, and it is this I call the Son of God. Yet is creation as it always was, for Your creation is unchangeable. Let me not worship idols. I am he my Father loves. My holiness remains the light of Heaven and the Love of God. Is not what is beloved of You secure? Is not the light of Heaven infinite? Is not Your Son my true Identity, when You created everything that is?

Now are we one in shared Identity, with God our Father as our only Source, and everything created part of us. And so we offer blessing to all things, uniting lovingly with all the world, which our forgiveness has made one with us. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 283, W-pII.283. See also ACIM Lesson 283 Insights.)

It doesn’t seem that everyone in the world is the Son of God. We see behavior that doesn’t show us expressions of God’s Love. But this perception comes from the ego’s false foundation of belief that separation is real. What we perceive in the world through the body is false images that blind us to the recognition of God’s Son. The body was made from the ego’s denial of Love, so it is incapable of recognizing the presence of Love everywhere. It can only see a false identity.

To be free of this false identity, we need to forgive the belief in lovelessness. Instead of relying on the body as our source of information, we need to turn to our Source and listen to His Voice. Like changing the TV channel, we switch from the ego’s fake news to the Holy Spirit’s vision of Truth. We make this switch by pausing and focusing our attention on the peace in our hearts. As we let ourselves settle into peace, Love’s Light enlightens our perception. The veil of false belief fades away as we let the vision of Love show us the presence of God’s Son everywhere, including ourselves.

Let’s bring Love’s unity to the world by choosing to accept Love’s vision of Truth.

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Going to Our Place of Peace

God alone is sure, and He will guide our footsteps. He will not desert His Son in need, nor let him stray forever from his home. The Father calls; the Son will hear. And that is all there is to what appears to be a world apart from God, where bodies have reality.

You have come to where the road is carpeted with leaves of false desires, fallen from the trees of hopelessness you sought before. Now are they underfoot. And you look up and on toward Heaven, with the body’s eyes but serving for an instant longer now. Peace is already recognized at last, and you can feel its soft embrace sur­round your heart and mind with comfort and with love.

The peace of God is ours, and only this will we accept and want. Peace be to us today. For we have found a simple, happy way to leave the world of ambiguity, and to replace our shifting goals and solitary dreams with single purpose and companionship. For peace is union, if it be of God. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 200, W-pI.200.9:4-7;10:3-6;11:3-6. See also ACIM Lesson 1 Insights.)

We have a place to go where we can feel perfectly safe and at peace. It is not a place in the world and it does not involve the body at all. It is in the Mind we share with God, where the body is no longer accepted as our identity. Free of false claims of the reality of separation and the body, we rest in the eternal now moment at peace and certain of our safety.

What the body’s eyes see is dismissed as meaningless and the vision of Christ is accepted as it shows us only Love is real. We have freed ourselves to be what we were created to be—at one with God, at Home in the Heaven of His Love.

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Answering the Call to Love

Three times today, at times most suitable for silence, give ten minutes set apart from listening to the world, and choose instead a gentle listening to the Word of God [the Holy Spirit]. He speaks from nearer than your heart to you. His Voice is closer than your hand. His Love is everything you are and that He is; the same as you, and you the same as He.

It is your voice to which you listen as He speaks to you. It is your word He speaks. It is the Word of freedom and of peace, of unity of will and purpose, with no separation nor division in the single Mind of Father and of Son. In quiet listen to your Self to­day, and let Him tell you God has never left His Son, and you have never left your Self.

Only be quiet. You will need no rule but this, to let your practicing today lift you above the thinking of the world, and free your vision from the body’s eyes. Only be still and listen. You will hear the Word in which the Will of God the Son joins in His Father’s Will, at one with it, with no illusions interposed be­tween the wholly indivisible and true. As every hour passes by today, be still a moment and remind yourself you have a special purpose for this day; in quiet to receive the Word of God. (W-pI.125.7-9)

Our true Self and God are of one Mind. But while we identify with the ego, we believe we have a different mind. This infinitely small, meaningless thought believes it is in a world of its own, split off from Reality.

Yet hidden beneath this belief is an unbreakable link to the one Mind of God. Through this link God’s Voice calls to the part of the mind that believes it is alone. It is a call to Love. Our heart yearns to answer this call, for it yearns to remember Love, our Self.

We can hear the call by quieting our mind. As we let our mind settle into the stillness within, the Voice of our Self fills our mind with peace. Conflict fades away and we are blessed by the unity of Love. Today we will pause every hour to be still to receive Love’s blessing and give it to the world.

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Undoing the Dream of Lovelessness

I see all things as I would have them be.

Perception follows judgment. Having judged, we therefore see what we would look upon. For sight can merely serve to offer us what we would have. It is impossible to overlook what we would see, and fail to see what we have chosen to behold. How surely, therefore, must the real world come to greet the holy sight of any­one who takes the Holy Spirit’s purpose as his goal for seeing. And he cannot fail to look upon what Christ would have him see, and share Christ’s Love for what he looks upon.

I have no purpose for today except to look upon a liberated world, set free from all the judgments I have made. Father, this is Your Will for me today, and therefore it must be my goal as well. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 312, W-pII.312. See also ACIM Lesson 312 Insights.)

The choice to believe we are a body is the choice to see a loveless world where attack, loss, loneliness, destruction and death are perceived as real. It seems amazing that we would make this choice. Why would we choose to die? Why would we choose loneliness, depression, guilt and fear? It stems from the wish for special love, to have part of God’s Love for ourself alone. But because God’s Love is one, this could never be possible in truth.

Having sided with the wish for specialness, we have chosen to dream of a world which satisfies our wish. We have condemned ourselves to a life of searching and not finding Love, our true Self. This dream is made of perceptions projected by the ego thought system that offers empty substitutes for the Love we have hidden beneath the veil of projections.

The means to pass by the seemingly endless cycle of seeking and not finding is to forgive the wish for special Love. This wish is reflected back to us in our perceptions of the world. Every perception offers us an opportunity to forgive the belief behind the false perception.

To do this we need the help of the Holy Spirit. He recognizes our misperceptions but does not believe them. From His foundation in God’s Love, He offers us a vision to correct our misperceptions. We forgive by accepting His correction.

Today we commit to asking for the Holy Spirit’s vision and accepting it to bring healing to our mind. It is a practice that will undo the dream of a loveless world and return us to our Home in Heaven.

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