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Choosing Love as Our Guide Blesses the World

The truth maintains that giving will increase what you possess.

…things but represent the thoughts that make them. And you do not lack for proof that when you give ideas away, you strengthen them in your own mind.

Ideas must first belong to you, before you give them. If you are to save the world, you first accept salvation for yourself. …Now you can perceive that by your giving is your store increased.

Protect all things you value by the act of giving them away, and you are sure that you will never lose them. What you thought you did not have is thereby proven yours. Yet value not its form. For this will change and grow unrecognizable in time, however much you try to keep it safe. No form endures. It is the [loving] thought behind the form of things that lives unchangeable.

Give gladly. You can only gain thereby. The thought remains, and grows in strength as it is reinforced by giving. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 187, W-pI.187.1:8;2:3-4;3:1-2,5;4:1-5:3. See also ACIM Lesson 187 Insights.)

Beyond all forms in the world there are only two orders of thought—Love or a call for Love. If we are engaged with the ego thought system, we will see only our own calls for Love reflected back to us. The ego cannot recognize Love’s presence.

When we are willing to accept Christ’s vision in our mind, we are open to true perception that reveals the presence of Love. It also responds to calls for Love by giving Love.

The forms in which we respond varies widely. The underlying thought system that motivates our response leads either to the furtherance of our descent into hell or leads to our awakening to our oneness in the Heaven of God’s Love. We make this choice in every moment.

Today let’s join together in choosing Love as our Guide and awaken to the oneness of our true Self in God.

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Accepting God’s Strength as Our Own

If you are trusting in your own strength, you have every reason to be apprehensive, anxious and fearful. What can you predict or control? What is there in you that can be counted on? What would give you the ability to be aware of all the facets of any problem, and to resolve them in such a way that only good can come of it? What is there in you that gives you the recognition of the right solution, and the guarantee that it will be accomplished?

Of yourself you can do none of these things.

God is your safety in every circumstance. His Voice speaks for Him in all situations and in every aspect of all situations, telling you exactly what to do to call upon His strength and His protec­tion.

…reach down into your mind to a place of real safety. You will recognize that you have reached it if you feel a sense of deep peace, however briefly. …There is a place in you where there is perfect peace. There is a place in you where nothing is impossible. There is a place in you where the strength of God abides.

Remember that peace is your right, because you are giving your trust to the strength of God. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 47, W-pI.47.1;2:1;3:1-2;7:1-2,4-6;8:3. See also ACIM Lesson 47 Insights.)

The strength of God is in us, guaranteed by our Creator. But our allegiance to the ego, which denies God, leaves us feeling weak, vulnerable, unloved and unworthy. All this comes only because we are denying God’s gift of all of Himself. It is time to deny the ego’s denial.

We are assured that we have not lost God’s strength. It remains in us now, available to be claimed in every moment. We have a process to follow to reclaim the strength we have denied.

Pause and step back from the chaos and uncertainty of the world. We let our minds return to the place in us where God’s strength abides, never to be lost. As we welcome His peace, our minds are open to His Voice. We will be told exactly what to do and say from the Holy Spirit’s perspective. He knows how to lead us to full awareness of our safety, our comfort and our well being. 

Today we choose peace, for we would accept God’s strength as our own.

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The Light of Love Leads Us Home

In quietness is [the peace of God] acknowledged universally. For what your inward vision looks upon is your perception of the universe.

Sit quietly and close your eyes. The light within you is sufficient. It alone has power to give the gift of sight to you. Exclude the outer world, and let your thoughts fly to the peace within. They know the way. For honest thoughts, untainted by the dream of worldly things outside yourself, become the holy messengers of God Himself.

We practice coming nearer to the light in us today. We take our wandering thoughts, and gently bring them back to where they fall in line with all the thoughts we share with God.

…we acknowledge that the peace of God still shines in us, and from us to all living things that share our life. We will forgive them all, absolving all the world from what we thought it did to us. For it is we who make the world as we would have it. Now we choose that it be innocent, devoid of sin and open to salvation. And we lay our saving blessing on it, as we say:

The peace of God is shining in me now.
Let all things shine upon me in that peace,
And let me bless them with the light in me. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 188, W-pI.188.5:6-6:6;9:1-2;10. See also ACIM Lesson 188 Insights.)

The practice of frequently quieting our mind and going to the Light within helps welcome the Holy Spirit’s voice. This is key to letting the Holy Spirit’s insight and guidance into our awareness. He shines His Light upon our thoughts. This Light dispels the dark shadows of ego’s misperceptions, revealing the Love that joins us with all of Reality. With the Holy Spirit’s help we see the truth in our brothers that unites us in the one Self we share as God’s Son.

The more frequently we remember to pause and welcome the peace of God, the greater will be our happiness. We learn to see all things in His Light. And the ego’s darkness fades away as we journey Home to Love.

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Giving Allegiance to Love Instead of Fear

When your body and your ego and your dreams are gone, you will know that you will last forever. Perhaps you think this is accomplished through death, but nothing is accomplished through death, because death is nothing. Everything is accomplished through life, and life is of the mind and in the mind. The body neither lives nor dies, because it cannot contain you who are life. If we share the same mind, you can overcome death because I did. Death is an attempt to resolve conflict by not deciding at all. Like any other impossible solution the ego attempts, it will not work.

God did not make the body, because it is destructible, and therefore not of the Kingdom. The body is the symbol of what you think you are. It is clearly a separation device, and therefore does not exist. The Holy Spirit, as always, takes what you have made and translates it into a learning device. Again as always, He reinterprets what the ego uses as an argument for separation into a demonstration against [separation]. If the mind can heal the body, but the body cannot heal the mind, then the mind must be stronger than the body. Every miracle demonstrates this. (A Course in Miracles, T-6.V.A.1-2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Because of our allegiance to the ego, we accept the body as what we are. The body is a symbol made by the ego. But symbols cannot be real. They can only seem real in dreams. The body is made real by our mistaken belief that a symbol could be real. Without this belief, the symbol is disregarded, making way for us to awaken to the reality of our real Mind in the Mind of God.

We awaken from the dream by withdrawing our allegiance from the ego. If we are willing to give our allegiance to the Holy Spirit, He will use the body to teach us that we are not limited to it. We are Mind. We share the one Mind of God with Jesus. He demonstrated that what appeared to happen to his body had no effect on his Life in God. His demonstration shows us that we can do the same. We need only accept the help of the Holy Spirit as he did.

As we give our allegiance to the Holy Spirit in our mind, He will guide us to let go of our mistaken allegiance to the ego and the body. His lessons will teach us that the body cannot limit us. We are free to be Love in the one Mind of Love. We will see that we can let Love be extended through us in a world filled with symbols of separation. As we let the Light of Love illuminate our vision, we see the truth in our brothers with whom we share the one Mind of Love. We awaken from the dream of separation to the truth of the one Self Love created like Itself.

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Welcoming the Peace of Our True Self

There is nothing else for you to find except the peace of God, unless you seek for misery and pain.

Come home. You have not found your happiness in foreign places and in alien forms that have no meaning to you, though you sought to make them meaningful. This world is not where you belong. You are a stranger here. But it is given you to find the means whereby the world no longer seems to be a prison house or jail for anyone.

Peace is the bridge that everyone will cross, to leave this world behind. But peace begins within the world perceived as differ­ent, and leading from this fresh perception to the gate of Heaven and the way beyond. Peace is the answer to conflicting goals, to senseless journeys, frantic, vain pursuits, and meaningless endeavors. Now the way is easy, sloping gently toward the bridge where freedom lies within the peace of God.

For peace is union, if it be of God. We seek no further. We are close to home, and draw still nearer every time we say:

There is no peace except the peace of God,
And I am glad and thankful it is so. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 200, W-pI.200.1:5;4;8;11:7-9. See also ACIM Lesson 200 Insights.)

Peace is our Home. It is where God created His Son to remain at one with Himself. There is nowhere else in truth.

In the ego’s quest for specialness, it made itself a home where the oneness of God could not enter. The ego always sees itself in opposition, for the idea of joining in oneness terrifies it. The acceptance of oneness without reservation would instantly dispel the ego. For this is the choice for Reality in place of the ego’s illusions of being separate and different.

Perception of a world of differences and limitation is a choice to be undone. These perceptions can never bring us happiness and peace. Each time we recognize a perception that disturbs our peace, we can undo it by asking the Holy Spirit for help. We accept His help by pausing and welcoming the peace of our true Self. It is always there to receive through our willingness to step back from our involvement in the world.

Our willingness to question the reality of our perceptions opens our mind to receive the Holy Spirit’s true perception instead. His true perceptions show us the oneness of God’s Love that joins us with every brother. It frees us from conflict, guilt and fear and carries us to the gates of Heaven. We are welcomed home with His full embrace.

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Choosing Perception That Heals

Forgiveness is the home of miracles. The eyes of Christ deliver them to all they look upon in mercy and in love. Perception stands corrected in His sight, and what was meant to curse has come to bless. Each lily of forgiveness offers all the world the silent miracle of love.

The miracle is taken first on faith, because to ask for it implies the mind has been made ready to conceive of what it cannot see and does not understand. Yet faith will bring its witnesses to show that what it rested on is really there. And thus the miracle will justify your faith in it, and show it rested on a world more real than what you saw before; a world redeemed from what you thought was there. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 1, W-pII.13.3:1-4;4. See also ACIM Lesson 341 Insights.)

Ego-directed perception will always show us lies, illusions that hide the truth. But we have an alternate Guide that offers true perception. We can call upon Christ’s vision, which will show us the presence of Love beyond the masks of differences and separation in the world. Love may seem hidden but It has never left the world because only Love is real. Love is everywhere, without limit.

Do we want to see a world of hate and fear? Or do we want to see a world where Love prevails, our unity with every brother is recognized and our mind is at peace? Do we want to continue with the ego’s quest for specialness and separation? Or do we want to remember the certainty of our Home in changeless Love where we share God’s joy and peace. In every moment we make this choice. When we choose Christ’s vision, we are accepting the Love of our true Self.

Today we offer our perceptions to the Holy Spirit to be exchanged for Christ’s vision. We want to awaken to Love. We want the peace of God. We want to be truly happy, at Home in Heaven.

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Accepting Love’s Light in Our Mind

What makes this world seem real except your own denial of the truth that lies beyond? What but your thoughts of misery and death obscure the perfect happiness and the eternal life your Father wills for you? And what could hide what cannot be concealed except illusion? What could keep from you what you already have except your choice to see it not, denying it is there?

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.

We count on God, and not upon ourselves, to give us certainty. And in His Name we practice as His Word directs we do. His sureness lies beyond our every doubt. His Love remains beyond our every fear. The Thought of Him is still beyond all dreams and in our minds, according to His Will. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 165, W-pI.165.1;2:6;8. See also ACIM Lesson 165 Insights.)

We, God’s Son, are God’s Thought, held eternally in His Mind. This is our only Reality. Nothing else exists because only Love is real.

This world is only the effect of denying our Father and His Creation. Denial does not make true; it only hides Reality beneath a veil of illusions. This veil of denial hides our safety, our happiness, our peace and our Love, which God has given us. His gift is still ours, never to be lost nor withdrawn.

Today we welcome God’s Love in our mind. We want to experience His comfort and happiness. We welcome it by accepting the Holy Spirit’s help to see with Christ’s vision. This vision sees past the veil of denial and allows our mind to be lit with the Light of Love.

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