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The Certainty of Our Home in Heaven

⁵Learn that even the darkest nightmare that disturbs the mind of God’s sleeping Son holds no power over him. ⁶He will learn the lesson of awaking. ⁷God watches over him and light surrounds him.

Can God’s Son lose himself in dreams, when God has placed within him the glad Call to waken and be glad? ²He cannot separate himself from what is in him. ³His sleep will not withstand the Call to wake. ⁴The mission of redemption will be fulfilled as surely as the creation will remain unchanged throughout eternity. ⁵You do not have to know that Heaven is yours to make it so. ⁶It is so. ⁷Yet to know it, the Will of God must be accepted as your will.

The Holy Spirit will undo for you everything you have learned that teaches that what is not true must be reconciled with truth.

⁶You will be released, and you will not remember anything you made that was not created for you and by you in return. ⁷For how can you remember what was never true, or not remember what has always been? ⁸It is this reconciliation with truth, and only truth, in which the peace of Heaven lies. (A Course in Miracles, T-13.XI.9:5–11:1,6-8.. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The ego loves to worry. It tells us it is important for our survival. We need to be prepared to protect ourselves from something that may harm us, like the common saying, “Waiting for the other shoe to drop.” It even seems that worrying about the wellbeing of our loved ones is the kind and helpful way to be supportive. All these fear thoughts are ego mechanisms to keep us locked into its dream of fear. We need not be caught in the ego’s trap.

We can be released from this fear by accepting the Holy Spirit’s help to undo our fruitless attempts to make this frightening dream real. God guarantees that His Son share His peace and happiness. He has given the Holy Spirit the function to undo the dream. We need only be willing to accept His help to teach us to recognize what is true and dismiss the false. He is the Call to awaken from the dream and remember the certainty that Heaven is our Home.

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Willingness to Be Happy

²Your vision, given you from far beyond all things within the world, looks back on them in a new light. ³And what you see becomes the healing and salvation of the world. ⁴The valuable and valueless are both perceived and recognized for what they are. ⁵And what is worthy of your love receives your love, while nothing to be feared remains.

We will not judge today. ²We will receive but what is given us from judgment made beyond the world. ³Our practicing today becomes our gift of thankfulness for our release from blindness and from misery. ⁴All that we see will but increase our joy, because its holiness reflects our own.

Open the curtain in your practicing by merely letting go all things you think you want. ²Your trifling treasures put away, and leave a clean and open space within your mind where Christ can come, and offer you the treasure of salvation. ³He has need of your most holy mind to save the world. ⁴Is not this purpose worthy to be yours? ⁵Is not Christ’s vision worthy to be sought above the world’s unsatisfying goals? (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 164, W-164.6:2–7:4;8:1-5. See also ACIM Lesson 164 Insights.)

The key to accepting the indescribable joy God has given His Son is letting go of all things we think we want. There is nothing in the world that can offer anything remotely joyful compared to God’s gifts. Only the ego wants anything in the world. It offers myriad substitutes for God’s gifts as a defense to protect the false identity it has made. Acceptance of God’s gifts means the end of the ego.

The only interference that stands between us and the perfect happiness given by God is our fantasies that anything in the world has value. Today we remind ourselves, “I do not know what anything means. I ask Holy Spirit to judge all things on my behalf to help me recognize the meaningful and disregard the meaningless. I am willing to let go of my judgments and accept the Will of God as my own. I am willing to be happy.”

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Make Way for Love to Guide

Knowledge is not the motivation for learning this course. ²Peace is. ³This is the prerequisite for knowledge only because those who are in conflict are not peaceful, and peace is the condition of knowledge because it is the condition of the Kingdom. ⁴Knowledge can be restored only when you meet its conditions.

…the ego has no power to distract you unless you give it the power to do so. ²The ego’s voice is an hallucination. ³You cannot expect it to say “I am not real.” ⁴Yet you are not asked to dispel your hallucinations alone. ⁵You are merely asked to evaluate them in terms of their results to you. ⁶If you do not want [the hallucinations] on the basis of loss of peace, they will be removed from your mind for you.

Your past learning must have taught you the wrong things, simply because it has not made you happy. ²On this basis alone its value should be questioned.

²You cannot learn simultaneously from two teachers who are in total disagreement about everything. ³Their joint curriculum presents an impossible learning task. ⁴They are teaching you entirely different things in entirely different ways, which might be possible except that both are teaching you about yourself. ⁵Your reality is unaffected by both, but if you listen to both, your mind will be split about what your reality is. (A Course in Miracles, T-8.I.1:1-4;2:1-6;4:1-2;6:2-5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

In every moment we choose which teacher we would listen to. One teaches Love in an environment of perfect peace. The other denies Love and teaches hate and conflict.

This world is the effect of choosing to deny the oneness of Love. Lasting peace is impossible here. Though our experience in this world shows us that we have chosen the wrong teacher, we have not lost the Teacher God gave us in response to our mistaken choice.

The Holy Spirit is always in our mind, no matter how engaged we are in the ego’s dream. We can choose to pay attention to the ego by choosing peace. We step back from our engagement with the conflicts of the world. We rise above the battleground as we let the peace of God come forward. Peace is the nature of our true Self.

As we let peace step forward, the Holy Spirit’s guidance will teach us how to see beyond the world’s conflict. He will teach us to recognize they have no substance in truth so we can let them go. Our life becomes more peaceful as we let the Love of our true Self direct our thoughts and actions.

We choose peace today to make way for Love to guide our ways and awaken us to our Home in Love.

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In Peace God’s Voice Is Clear

If you will lay aside the ego’s voice, however loudly it may seem to call; if you will not accept its petty gifts that give you nothing that you really want; if you will listen with an open mind, that has not told you what salvation is; then you will hear the mighty Voice of truth, quiet in power, strong in stillness, and completely certain in Its messages.

Listen, and hear your Father speak to you through His appointed Voice, which silences the thunder of the meaningless, and shows the way to peace to those who cannot see. ²Be still today and listen to the truth.

Be not afraid today to circumvent the voices of the world. ²Walk lightly past their meaningless persuasion. ³Hear them not. ⁴Be still today and listen to the truth. ⁵Go past all things which do not speak of Him Who holds your happiness within His Hand, held out to you in welcome and in love. ⁶Hear only Him today, and do not wait to reach Him longer. ⁷Hear one Voice today. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 106, W-106.1:1–2:2;3. See also ACIM Lesson 106 Insights.)

Behind all the things we think we want in the world is our call to return to Love. The answer to this call cannot be found in the world. It only offers the ego’s empty substitutes for Love that shine with the glitter of specialness. They seem to satisfy temporarily but soon fade, for the ego’s offerings are illusions that have no substance.

All we really want is to remember the Love God has already given us. Being still is the means to connect with this Love. Let the peace of God within rise to the surface and bless our mind. In this peace God’s Voice is clear. It leads us to recognize the presence of Love in which we live.

Today we practice stilling our mind to welcome the peace of God and let His Voice speak to us of the Life we live in God.

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Following the Call to Joy

I will receive whatever I request.

No one desires pain. ²But he can think that pain is pleasure. ³No one would avoid his happiness. ⁴But he can think that joy is painful, threatening and dangerous. ⁵Everyone will receive what he requests. ⁶But he can be confused indeed about the things he wants; the state he would attain. ⁷What can he then request that he would want when he receives it? ⁸He has asked for what will frighten him, and bring him suffering. ⁹Let us resolve today to ask for what we really want, and only this, that we may spend this day in fearlessness, without confusing pain with joy, or fear with love.

Father, this is Your day. ²It is a day in which I would do nothing by myself, but hear Your Voice in everything I do; requesting only what You offer me, accepting only Thoughts You share with me. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 339, W-339. See also ACIM Lesson 339 Insights.)

We have a Guide in our mind Whose sole purpose is to lead us to the perfect happiness God wills we have. Only His joy will satisfy us, His Son.

The ego is unwilling to accept God’s equal gift of joy to all. It wanted more than everything. It was a request that God change the oneness of Love He is. When we identify with the ego, we make that same request. We ask for what God cannot give and receive instead the ego’s dream of specialness. It seems to offer us things that will make us happy. Yet it all comes without Love because Love is given equally to all. The loveless world will never satisfy though it can give appearances we like and that seem to give us pleasure and happiness. Yet without Love, it is an empty and meaningless shell.

Today we choose to follow the Voice for God. His Voice will lead us to everything we truly want. It will lead us to the unlimited Love of God, the Home of our true Self. His Voice is a call to joy and peace. It is a call to awaken to the Love we share with every brother that never ends. This is all we really want.

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The Search That Leads to All That Is Real

All idols of this world were made to keep the truth within from being known to you, and to maintain allegiance to the dream that you must find what is outside yourself to be complete and happy. ²It is vain to worship idols in the hope of peace. ³God dwells within, and your completion lies in Him. ⁴No idol takes His place. ⁵Look not to idols. ⁶Do not seek outside yourself.

Let us forget the purpose of the world the past has given it. ²For otherwise, the future will be like the past, and but a series of depressing dreams, in which all idols fail you, one by one, and you see death and disappointment everywhere.

To change all this, and open up a road of hope and of release in what appeared to be an endless circle of despair, you need but to decide you do not know the purpose of the world.

⁵Let [God] remind you of His Love for you, and do not seek to drown His Voice in chants of deep despair to idols of yourself. ⁶Seek not outside your Father for your hope. ⁷For hope of happiness is not despair. (A Course in Miracles, T-29.VII.6:1–8:1;10:5-7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

If we were to accept the certainty of God’s Love for us, there would be no need for hope. We would know that we have all that we need in God’s Love. We would know that we are safe and that God’s eternal Life is ours.

To reach this certainty, we need to accept the Holy Spirit’s help to let go of our misplaced allegiance to the ego’s wish for specialness. The search for more than everything is a path of seeking but not finding. This search is guaranteed to lead to despair and dissatisfaction. But with the Holy Spirit’s guidance, we are led to where we find the only thing we need — God’s Love. Nothing else exists. His Love is our Home, our happiness and our peace.

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Now Is the Time to Accept God’s Gift

Problems are not specific but they take specific forms, and these specific shapes make up the world. ²And no one understands the nature of his problem. ³If he did, [the problem] would be there no more for him to see. ⁴Its very nature is that it is not [there]. ⁵And thus, while he perceives it he can not perceive it as it is. ⁶But healing is apparent in specific instances, and generalizes to include them all. ⁷This is because they really are the same, despite their different forms.

Your healing will extend, and will be brought to problems that you thought were not your own. ²And it will also be apparent that your many different problems will be solved as any one of them has been escaped.

Peace be to you to whom is healing offered. ²And you will learn that peace is given you when you accept the healing for yourself. …⁴What occurred within the instant that love entered in without attack will stay with you forever. ⁵Your healing will be one of its effects, as will your brother’s. ⁶Everywhere you go, will you behold its multiplied effects. …⁸Infinity cannot be understood by merely counting up its separate parts. ⁹God thanks you for your healing, for He knows it is a gift of love unto His Son, and therefore is it given unto Him. (ACIM T-27.V.8:1-7;9:1-2;11:1-2,4-6,8-9. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We are not responsible for our healing. That is the Holy Spirit’s function. But we are responsible to being willing to turn over all our perceived problems and accept the Holy Spirit’s healing lessons. This is a daily practice that leads us out of the ego’s loveless world intro the reality of God’s changeless Love. The process of the Holy Spirit’s healing curriculum is to teach us that we do not want to be limited to a body as our identity. It literally offers us nothing, for it is not real.

The Holy Spirit’s lessons lead us to accept our true Identity as God’s Son in the unity of his Love. We are led from a world of lack and loss to God’s universe of unlimited, eternal Love. God gave His Son this gift in his creation. It is ours to accept now.

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