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Blessings Come in the Details

God’s healing Voice protects all things today.

Let us today attend the Voice for God, which speaks an ancient lesson, no more true today than any other day. ²Yet has this day been chosen as the time when we will seek and hear and learn and understand. ³Join me in hearing. ⁴For the Voice for God tells us of things we cannot understand alone, nor learn apart. ⁵It is in this that all things are protected. ⁶And in this the healing of the Voice for God is found.

Your healing Voice protects all things today, and so I leave all things to You. ²I need be anxious over nothing. ³For Your Voice will tell me what to do and where to go; to whom to speak and what to say to him, what thoughts to think, what words to give the world. ⁴The safety that I bring is given me. ⁵Father, Your Voice protects all things through me. (W-275, A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 275. See also ACIM Lesson 275 Insights.)

We can call upon God’s Voice to guide us throughout the day, every day. There is no detail too small or mundane to be unworthy of His attention. The ego would have us believe that we live on an island lost to God, lost to our true Self, alone and vulnerable. We can count on the help of God’s Voice to help us, but we must be willing to listen. The ego defends against this help by flooding our mind with meaningless thoughts about the past and worries about the future.

To neutralize the ego’s defenses, we need to practice stepping back from our involvement in our current circumstance to welcome the peace of God into our mind. It is always there to be called upon. As we let peace quiet our minds, we become open to His Help through which all seeming problems are quietly resolved.

His answers come in many ways. A thought enters our mind on what to do. We hear something in a conversation that helps us—a passage in a book, an unexpected phone call, someone shows up with skills to help. These are just a few of the ways God’s Voice speaks to us. But we need to be attentive by welcoming His peace in our mind.

The more we practice this, the more we will experience His Help throughout the day. The ego’s chatter will fade. We become less willing to respond to it and more willing to respond to God’s Voice. These experiences build upon each other, strengthening our confidence and teaching us that we are not alone. We are still united with our Creator, at Home in His Love.

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Great News!

Salvation requires the acceptance of but one thought;—you are as God created you, not what you made of yourself. ²Whatever evil you may think you did, you are as God created you. ³Whatever mistakes you made, the truth about you is unchanged. ⁴Creation is eternal and unalterable. ⁵Your sinlessness is guaranteed by God. ⁶You are and will forever be exactly as you were created. ⁷Light and joy and peace abide in you because God put them there.

…for the first five minutes of every waking hour, begin by stating the truth about your creation:

²Light and joy and peace abide in me.
³My sinlessness is guaranteed by God.

⁴Then put away your foolish self-images, and spend the rest of the practice period in trying to experience what God has given you, in place of what you have decreed for yourself.

You are what God created or what you made. ²One Self is true; the other is not there. ³Try to experience the unity of your one Self. ⁴Try to appreciate Its Holiness and the love from which It was created. ⁵Try not to interfere with the Self which God created as you, by hiding Its majesty behind the tiny idols of evil and sinfulness you have made to replace It. ⁶Let It come into Its Own. ⁷Here you are; This is You. ⁸And light and joy and peace abide in you because this is so. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 93, W-93.7:1–9:8. See also ACIM Lesson 93 Insights.)

By the grace of God, we are and will forever be as God created us. We are His Sons Whom He sees as one. This lesson assures us that we have not succeeded in making a sinner of the Son God created holy as Himself. The appearances that seem to justify guilt and fear are nothing but illusions. It is only our belief in them that seems to make them real.

These beliefs are based on our mistaken identification with the ego and its images of bodies and myriad separate forms. This exercise can open our divided mind to learn the truth that we are Love and nothing else. The Light and joy of Love are our innate characteristics. God guarantees that we cannot lose them.

This exercise has the potential to free us from the dream of belief in separation. Just five minutes of every hour can be used to transform our mind to awaken us to God’s Mind of Love. It is worth diligent practice.

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Bringing Love’s Blessing to the World

I can give up but what was never real.

I sacrifice illusions; nothing more. ²And as illusions go I find the gifts illusions tried to hide, awaiting me in shining welcome, and in readiness to give God’s ancient messages to me. ³His memory abides in every gift that I receive of Him. ⁴And every dream serves only to conceal the Self which is God’s only Son, the likeness of Himself, the Holy One Who still abides in Him forever, as He still abides in me.

Father, to You all sacrifice remains forever inconceivable. ²And so I cannot sacrifice except in dreams. ³As You created me, I can give up nothing You gave me. ⁴What You did not give has no reality. ⁵What loss can I anticipate except the loss of fear, and the return of love into my mind? (A Course in Miracles, W-322. See also ACIM Lesson 322 Insights.)

Because God is only Love, all His gifts are extensions of His Love. Love makes no demands; It only gives of Itself. Nothing else exists.

Yet the ego portrays God in its own image. It tells us that God demands sacrifice to His Will. But the ego demands we sacrifice our inheritance from our Creator and accept its illusions which hide the fact that we share God’s Will. We do not have to surrender to what we already are. In fact, the word “surrender” does not occur in A Course in Miracles. But to know the Love of God as ours, we do need to accept His gift.

Love gives of Itself eternally; that is its nature. We accept His gift of Love by giving It. We give It by seeing the Love in our brothers. We answer calls for Love with Love’s blessing as guided by our true Self, a.k.a. the Holy Spirit. While we still identify with the ego, we do not know how to extend Love. But our true Self knows. It extends Love without limit, for this one Self is joined with all our brothers as God’s one Son.

Today we choose to express our one Self by letting It guide our thoughts, words and actions. We let Love bring blessing to the world through us.

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How to Receive Forgiveness by Giving It

All that I give is given to myself.

Let us consider what you do believe, in place of this idea. ²It seems to you that other people are apart from you, and able to behave in ways which have no bearing on your thoughts, nor yours on theirs. ³Therefore, your attitudes have no effect on them, and their appeals for help are not in any way related to your own. ⁴You further think that they can sin without affecting your perception of yourself, while you can judge their sin, and yet remain apart from condemnation and at peace.

You do not understand forgiveness. …⁶[Your ‘forgiveness’] is not what God intended it to be for you.

Today we try to understand the truth that giver and receiver are the same.

In silence, close your eyes upon the world that does not understand forgiveness, and seek sanctuary in the quiet place where thoughts are changed and false beliefs laid by. ²Repeat today’s idea, and ask for help in understanding what it really means. ³Be willing to be taught. ⁴Be glad to hear the Voice of truth and healing speak to you, and you will understand the words He speaks, and recognize He speaks your words to you.

³All that I give is given to myself. ⁴The Help I need to learn that this is true is with me now. ⁵And I will trust in Him. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 126, W-126.2;6:1,6;8:1;10;11:3-5. See also ACIM Lesson 126 Insights.)

In the world, it is impossible to give anything away and also receive it. This is because the world is based on belief in separation. Nothing is truly shared. True forgiveness is the one illusion that heals belief in separation. We receive the forgiveness we give in the world as we receive the Love we extend in the Heaven of God’s Love.

Having divorced God by choosing the ego as our identity, we need Help to forgive our misperceptions of separation. We need to be willing to be taught true forgiveness by frequently stepping back from our involvement in the world, quieting our mind, and asking the Holy Spirit’s Help to teach us how to see with Christ’s vision and give the gift of joining in Love.

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Seeing Our Completion with Brothers

³To everyone who lives will Christ yet come, for everyone must live and move in Him. ⁴His Being in His Father is secure, because Their Will is One. ⁵Their gratitude to all They have created has no end, for gratitude remains a part of love.

Thanks be to you, the holy Son of God. ²For as you were created, you contain all things within your Self. ³And you are still as God created you. ⁴Nor can you dim the light of your perfection. ⁵In your heart the Heart of God is laid. ⁶He holds you dear, because you are Himself. ⁷All gratitude belongs to you, because of what you are.

Give thanks as you receive it. ²Be you free of all ingratitude to anyone who makes your Self complete. ³And from this Self is no one left outside. ⁴Give thanks for all the countless channels which extend this Self. ⁵All that you do is given unto Him. ⁶All that you think can only be His Thoughts, sharing with Him the holy Thoughts of God. ⁷Earn now the gratitude you have denied yourself when you forgot the function God has given you. ⁸But never think that He has ever ceased to offer thanks to you. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 197, W-197.7:3–9:8. See also ACIM Lesson 197 Insights.)

Everyone in this world feels incomplete. This is because we have identified with the ego and its world of make believe where everything is different and separate. As we learn to accept Christ’s vision, which sees the Reality the body’s eyes cannot see, we recognize that we remain as God created us. Vision shows us we are complete. Everything God is, we are for He knows us as part of Himself. When we accept God’s gift of all of His Love, gratitude is inevitable, for there is no greater gift.

Today we choose Christ’s vision to see with the forgiving eyes of Love. We see our brother as one with our Self in God. It brings us joy to join in the eternal flow of Love within all of God’s Creation. Let us join with the Truth today and be glad.

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Preparing for Mind Healing

The Holy Spirit can use all that you give to Him for your salvation. ²But He cannot use what you withhold, for He cannot take it from you without your willingness. ³For if He did, you would believe He wrested it from you against your will. ⁴And so you would not learn it _is_ your will to be without it. ⁵You need not give it to Him wholly willingly, for if you could you had no need of Him. ⁶But this He needs; that you prefer He take it than that you keep it for yourself alone, and recognize that what brings loss to no one you would not know. ⁷This much is necessary to add to the idea no one can lose for you to gain. ⁸And nothing more.

You who know not of justice still can ask, and learn the answer. ²Justice looks on all in the same way. ³It is not just that one should lack for what another has. ⁴For that is vengeance in whatever form it takes. ⁵Justice demands no sacrifice…

⁸It is impossible for you to share the Holy Spirit’s justice with a mind that can conceive of specialness at all.

⁷Without love is justice prejudiced and weak. ⁸And love without justice is impossible. …¹¹In justice, then, does love correct mistakes, but not in vengeance. ¹²For that would be unjust to innocence. (A Course in Miracles, T-25.VIII.1:1-8;4:1-5;5:8;11:7-8,11-12. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

In preparation for our recent move, we went through a process of letting go of things we had saved but did not perceive as worth moving. Similarly we need to look at our beliefs and evaluate whether we want to keep them. Is a belief helpful? Does it keep us safe or make us happy? Does it strengthen or weaken us? Does it trigger fear or guilt?

This evaluation process needs to be guided by the Holy Spirit. The ego is an inappropriate guide for it will defend beliefs that keep it in place. But the Holy Spirit will always lead us to see beyond the ego’s limited perspective with Christ’s vision. With His help we learn that ego-based beliefs do not serve us. The value we have given them diminishes.

When we reach the point of willingness that the Holy Spirit replace our limiting beliefs with awareness of Love’s presence in our mind, we are open to mind healing. Our mind is progressively healed as we are willing to receive Love’s blessing in place of the ego’s offerings of specialness. Our perceptions are increasingly guided by Love. We are restored to the peace and happiness that is eternally ours as God’s Son.

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Healing Our Divided Mind

Take pity on yourself, so long enslaved. ²Rejoice whom God hath joined have come together and need no longer look on sin apart. …⁴Sin is a strictly individual perception, seen in the other yet believed by each to be within himself. ⁵And each one seems to make a different error, and one the other cannot understand.

Who has need for sin? ²Only the lonely and alone, who see their brothers different from themselves. ³It is this difference, seen but not real, that makes the need for sin, not real but seen, seem justified. ⁴And all this would be real if sin were so. ⁵For an unholy relationship is based on differences, where each one thinks the other has what he has not.

A holy relationship starts from a different premise. ²Each one has looked within and seen no lack. ³Accepting his completion, he would extend it by joining with another, whole as himself. ⁴He sees no difference between these selves, for differences are only of the body.

Think what a holy relationship can teach! ²Here is belief in differences undone. ³Here is the faith in differences shifted to sameness. ⁴And here is sight of differences transformed to vision. …⁶It must extend, as you extended when you and he joined. ⁷It must reach out beyond itself, as you reached out beyond the body, to let you and your brother be joined. ⁸And now the sameness that you saw extends and finally removes all sense of differences, so that the sameness that lies beneath them all becomes apparent. (A Course in Miracles, T-22.in.1:1-2,4-5;2:1-5;3:1-4;4:1-4,6-8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Oneness and changelessness are boring to the ego. It treasures change and differences. If we do not like our present experience, change offers hope that it can improve. But it also offers fear that it could become worse. Differences depend on change, for they cannot be perceived except if oneness has been changed to separation.

The Holy Spirit sees another use for change. He can help us change our mind, change what we believe. The belief that we are a body is the basis for perceiving differences in the world. The Holy Spirit teaches that we are not a body and differences are unreal.

Only the oneness of Love is real. This lesson is taught through the holy relationship. As we learn to see there is no difference between our brother and ourself, we let go of the mistaken belief in our mind. Now we accept our unity with our brother. We are one Love, not different. Separation is not real.

We are blessed as we let the Holy Spirit use change to heal our divided mind. We welcome the Holy Spirit’s lessons today.

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