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Choosing Love as Our Priority

I will step back and let Him lead the way.

There is a way of living in the world that is not here, although it seems to be. You do not change appearance, though you smile more frequently. Your forehead is serene; your eyes are quiet. And the ones who walk the world as you do recognize their own.

The world is an illusion. Those who choose to come to it are seeking for a place where they can be illusions, and avoid their own reality. Yet when they find their own reality is even here, then they step back and let it lead the way. What other choice is really theirs to make? To let illusions walk ahead of truth is madness. But to let illusion sink behind the truth and let the truth stand forth as what it is, is merely sanity.

[Those who seek to avoid their reality] cannot learn directly from the truth, because they have denied that it is so. And so they need a Teacher Who perceives their madness, but Who still can look beyond illusion to the simple truth in them.

…there is another road that leads away from loss of every kind, for sacrifice and deprivation both are quickly left behind. This is the way appointed for you now. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 155, W-pI.155.1:1-4;2;3:3-4;5:1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 155 Insights.)

To return to the joy and peace of our Home in God’s Love requires a singular change in our priorities. We experience ourselves in this world because our priority is to deny the Love that is our Reality. This priority has sent us down a rabbit hole of lack and loss, guilt and fear. We people the darkness of this rabbit hole with images of conflict, attack and lovelessness. None of this made up world is real.

But we can climb out of the depths of this darkness by choosing to seek the Light as our priority. We have been given a Guide to lead us to the Light of Love. When we are willing to give up our denial and step back to let our Guide lead the way, we return to serenity and happiness, filled with gratitude for the Love in which we dwell and have our being.

The practice of frequently stepping back and letting Love lead the way returns us to sanity and the certainty of God’s Love.

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Fulfilling Our True Purpose

The Holy Spirit’s purpose rests in peace within you. Yet you are still unwilling to let it join you wholly. You still oppose the Will of God, just by a little. And that little is a limit you would place upon the whole. God’s Will is One, not many. It has no opposition, for there is none beside it. What you would still contain behind your little barrier and keep separate from your brother seems mightier than the universe, for it would hold back the universe and its Creator. This little wall would hide the purpose of Heaven, and keep it from Heaven.

Peace could no more depart from you than from God. Fear not this little obstacle. It cannot contain the Will of God. Peace will flow across it, and join you without hindrance. Salvation cannot be withheld from you. It is your purpose. …The little wall will fall away so quietly beneath the wings of peace. For peace will send its messengers from you to all the world, and barriers will fall away before their coming as easily as those that you interpose will be surmounted. (A Course in Miracles, T-19.IV.A.3;4:3-8;11-12. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

God’s Will for His Son is to give Him all of His Love without end. Like God, this gift will never change. Only Love is real. The changelessness of Love is the assurance that we remain safe in God’s peace.

The ego’s denial of God’s Will does not change His Will. But it does make us unaware of It. His Will is still in us, behind the wall of denial we have built. The ego builds walls for its protection. These walls protect the ego from God’s peace, for were we to accept His Will, the ego would cease to seem to exist. The peace of God is the ego’s ultimate enemy. Though peace is our inheritance, we are unaware of this treasure within us. Yet it calls to us to remember, to awaken to our true Self.

The purpose of God’s Son is to extend Love as God extends It to him. When we let Love guide our perceptions and actions, we fulfill our purpose. We bring Love to the world. We look past the ego’s barriers of denial and recognize the oneness we share with every brother. God has given us the mission to extend Love. Today we choose to let Love be our Guide throughout the day.

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Walking with Our Brothers in Peace

Salvation can be seen as nothing more than the escape from concepts.

You will make many concepts of the self as learning goes along. Each one will show the changes in your own relationships, as your perception of yourself is changed. There will be some confusion every time there is a shift, but be you thankful that the learning of the world is loosening its grasp upon your mind. And be you sure and happy in the confidence that it will go at last, and leave your mind at peace. The role of the accuser will appear in many places and in many forms. And each will seem to be accusing you. Yet have no fear it will not be undone.

There will come a time when images have all gone by, and you will see you know not what you are. It is to this unsealed and open mind that truth returns, unhindered and unbound. …There is no statement that the world is more afraid to hear than this:

I do not know the thing I am, and therefore do not know what I am doing, where I am, or how to look upon the world or on myself. (A Course in Miracles, T-31.V.14:3;16;17:2-3,6-7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The beginning of the Workbook Lessons introduce the idea that we do not know what anything means. The full acceptance of this idea will release us to the Heaven of God’s Love forever. Yet we resist accepting this idea. It seems to threaten our very existence because we believe we are a false identity in an imaginary world.

The ego surrounds us with myriad images portraying differences and separation to deceive us into believing that our unique identity as a separate body is real. If we accept the idea that we do not know what anything means, it would seem to leave us without an identity. If we are not a body, what are we? If we are not our status, our beliefs, our social group or our family heritage, if none of these mean anything, what are we?

In fact, our true Identity as one in God’s Love is unchanged by the ego’s denial and projection of false images. We are still God’s Son. We are still Love and nothing else. We are still innocent, whole and complete in God’s Love. It is this reality that will be revealed when we accept, without reservation, that of our limited self-identity does not know what anything means.

To reach this full acceptance we ask the Holy Spirit to be our Interpreter of everything we perceive in the world. He will teach us to see the world differently. With His lessons, the veil of the ego’s denial fades and the truth of our Identity in Love grows stronger. We increasingly see the Love in every brother beyond his image as a body. We walk with him in Love and peace more and more. This is our practice today.

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Letting Love’s Light Replace the Ego’s Darkness

I came for the salvation of the world.

Here is a thought from which all arrogance has been removed, and only truth remains. For arrogance opposes truth. But when there is no arrogance the truth will come immediately, and fill up the space [dream] the ego left unoccupied by lies. Only the ego can be limited, and therefore it must seek for aims which are curtailed and limiting. The ego thinks that what one gains, totality must lose. And yet it is the Will of God I learn that what one gains is given unto all.

Father, Your Will is total. And the goal which stems from it shares its totality. What aim but the salvation of the world could You have given me? And what but this could be the Will my Self has shared with You? (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 319, W-pII.319. See also ACIM Lesson 319 Insights.)

Only in a dream where separation and limitation are believed real does the ego seem to exist. Our belief in this “reality” is represented by our seeming identity as a separate body with a separate life and separate thoughts. In the dream, our survival depends upon defending this identity, even unto death. All this is playing out the acceptance of the ego’s lies as true. It is played out in myriad scenarios around the world and throughout time.

But when we accept God’s gift of His changeless Love, we release ourselves from the ego’s dream. We accept God’s gift when we forgive the ego’s projections of separation, guilt and fear. Though we have accepted the darkness of the ego’s lies which deny the Light of Love, the means to accept the Light remains in our mind. We call upon It when we ask for help to release our misperceptions and mistaken beliefs.

First we need to recognize that we don’t know what anything means. With our mind now open, we ask for the Holy Spirit’s help from beyond the limitations of the dream to shine the Light of Love into the darkened, loveless ego dream of separation. As we welcome the Light, peace replaces conflict, joy replaces fear and guilt. We bring salvation to the world.

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Making Forgiveness Our Priority

Everyone here has entered darkness, yet no one has entered it alone. Nor need he stay more than an instant. For he has come with Heaven’s Help [God’s Voice] within him, ready to lead him out of darkness into light at any time. The time he chooses can be any time, for help is there, awaiting but his choice. And when he chooses to avail himself of what [the Help] is given him, then will he see each situation that he thought before was means to justify his anger turned to an event which justifies his love. He will hear plainly that the calls to war he heard before are really calls to peace [Love]. He will perceive that where he gave attack is but another altar where he can, with equal ease and far more happiness, bestow forgiveness. And he will reinterpret all temptation [to perceive separation] as just another chance to bring him joy.

How can a misperception be a sin? Let all your brother’s errors be to you nothing except a chance for you to see the workings of the Helper given you to see the world He made instead of yours. …This world has much to offer to your peace, and many chances to extend your own forgiveness. Such its purpose is, to those who want to see peace and forgiveness descend on them, and offer them the light. (A Course in Miracles, T-25.III.6;7:1-2,8-9. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

In every instant the Holy Spirit is ready to help us perceive the presence of Love instead of the world of guilt and fear. But do we want His Help? That is a decision we make constantly throughout our day and in our dreams. The ego is attracted to guilt because guilt justifies judgment, “confirming” the reality of separation.

The temptation to see guilt in another or in ourself comes from our allegiance to the ego. This temptation produces only misperception. This misperception is corrected when we accept the Holy Spirit’s help to see with the vision of Love. The choice to accept His Love is the choice to see a forgiven world that is peaceful and loving.

Today we remind ourselves often, “I want the peace of God. I want to remember Love and see It in my brother and myself. I am willing to accept the Holy Spirit’s gift of Christ’s vision.”

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Remembering the Life We Live in God

It is your forgiveness that will bring the world of darkness to the light. It is your forgiveness that lets you recognize the light in which you see. Forgiveness is the demonstration that you are the light of the world. Through your forgiveness does the truth about yourself return to your memory. Therefore, in your for­giveness lies your salvation.

Illusions about yourself and the world are one. That is why all forgiveness is a gift to yourself. Your goal is to find out who you are, having denied your Identity by attacking creation and its Creator. Now you are learning how to remember the truth. For this attack must be replaced by forgiveness, so that thoughts of life may replace thoughts of death [separation].

Remember that in every attack [perceived separation] you call upon your own weakness, while each time you forgive you call upon the strength of Christ in you. Do you not then begin to understand what forgiveness will do for you? It will remove all sense of weakness, strain and fatigue from your mind. It will take away all fear and guilt and pain. It will restore the invulnerability and power God gave His Son to your awareness.

Forgiveness is my function as the light of the world.
I would fulfill my function that I may be happy.
(A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 62, W-pI.62.1-3;5:2-3. See also ACIM Lesson 62 Insights.)

God is our Life and source of strength. He created us eternally one with Himself. When we identify with a body, we perceive separation. This is a denial of the Self God created one with Him. It is an attack on God and His Son. This could only seem to occur in a dream which has no effect on Reality.

Forgiveness releases us from the dream of lovelessness, weakness and death. It awakens us to the truth that we remain as God created us. In the dream we accept a false image of ourself as separate and alone. From the perspective of this false image, we see a false world that seems to confirm the reality of our false identity.

But in the dream we still have an unbreakable connection to the Life we live in God. Christ’s vision reveals this connection by showing us the oneness of Love that has been covered by the ego’s false images. We welcome Christ’s vision by pausing to question our perceptions in the world. By questioning what we believe, we open our mind to the vision of Christ. It shows us that what seems to happen in the world has no effect on our true Self. It reminds us of the strength, Love and Life we share with God.

Today we practice asking of Holy Spirit, “What does this mean?” With this open mind we will remember our strength and eternal Life in God.

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Seeing Love’s Reflection in the World

What the body’s eyes behold is only conflict. Look not to them for peace and understanding. M-8.2. Illusions are always illusions of differences.

When he realizes they are all illusions they will disappear.

The body’s eyes will continue to see differences. But the mind that has let itself be healed will no longer acknowledge them. There will be those who seem to be “sicker” than others, and the body’s eyes will report their changed appearances as before. But the healed mind will put them all in one category; they are unreal. This is the gift of its Teacher; the understanding that only two categories are meaningful in sorting out the messages the mind receives from what appears to be the outside world. And of these two, but one is real. Just as reality is wholly real, apart from size and shape and time and place–for differences cannot exist within it–so too are illusions without distinctions. The one answer to sickness of any kind is healing. The one answer to all illusions is truth. (A Course in Miracles, M-8.1:6-2:1;5:7;6)

While we seem to be in the world seeing it through the body’s eyes, it is not useful to deny what the body’s eyes see. But as we let our mind be healed with Christ’s vision, we no longer give credence to what the body’s eyes see. The truth in us takes precedence. Love, in Its oneness, sees only Itself.

Each time we forgive the ego’s judgment of an appearance, we clear the way for Christ’s vision to show us the truth. The veil of unforgiveness becomes less dense and the Light of Love is reflected back to us.

Today we welcome healing in our mind by choosing Christ’s vision instead of the ego’s misperceptions. It is a choice between happiness and depression, peace and conflict, Love and fear. Let us join together in Love to see Love’s reflection in the world.

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