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Reclaiming the Security if God’s Love

God is my refuge and security.

I will identify with what I think is refuge and security. ²I will behold myself where I perceive my strength, and think I live within the citadel where I am safe and cannot be attacked. ³Let me today seek not security in danger, nor attempt to find my peace in murderous attack. ⁴I live in God. ⁵In Him I find my refuge and my strength. ⁶In Him is my Identity. ⁷In Him is everlasting peace. ⁸And only there will I remember Who I really am.

Let me not seek for idols. ²I would come, my Father, home to You today. ³I choose to be as You created me, and find the Son whom You created as my Self. (A Course in Miracles, W-261. See also ACIM Lesson 261 Insights.)

In this dream world our identity is defined by a body, personality and beliefs. None of these are permanent and therefore not of God. God does not change and His Creations are changeless and formless like Himself. Our mistaken identification with a separate identity is an idol which has no meaning and substance in truth. It is a substitute for the Identity that God created as our one Self.

Being unreal, this substitute needs constant defense to protect it from change. Yet because its foundation is not true, this idol is constantly vulnerable. It is time to let it go, for this false identity keeps us in fear and guilt. This is not God’s Will for His Son.

Our refuge can only be found in the security of God’s changeless Love. This is our Home, our Life, our Being. We can reclaim this Identity we threw away by following the Holy Spirit’s guidance in our thoughts and actions. He will always lead us in the way of Love. He leads us to the security of the Home God wills for us where we rest in the certainty of His peace.

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The Call of Love to Love

I am surrounded by the Love of God.

Father, You stand before me and behind, beside me, in the place I see myself, and everywhere I go. ²You are in all the things I look upon, the sounds I hear, and every hand that reaches for my own. ³In You time disappears, and place becomes a meaningless belief. ⁴For what surrounds Your Son and keeps him safe is Love itself. ⁵There is no source but this, and nothing is that does not share its holiness; that stands beyond Your one creation, or without the Love which holds all things within itself. ⁶Father, Your Son is like Yourself. ⁷We come to You in Your Own Name today, to be at peace within Your everlasting Love.

My brothers, join with me in this today. ²This is salvation’s prayer. ³Must we not join in what will save the world, along with us? (, W-264. See also ACIM Lesson 264 Insights.)

The changelessness of God’s Love makes It invincible. This is the Home God keeps for us to protect us from mistaken beliefs and attempts to change what cannot be changed. We can rest in peace in the certainty of God’s sure protection. Only illusions of differences bring uncertainty and only to the mind that believes differences are possible and real.

God calls to us through the Holy Spirit to let go of these mistaken beliefs, not because it affects Him at all. But in His Love for His Son, God gave the Holy Spirit to awaken him from his dream of pain, guilt, fear and anger. God’s only desire is that we remain one with Him as He created us, and so it is.

Today let us answer to His Call by accepting the Holy Spirit’s help to forgive our mistaken beliefs. It is a Call to peace and happiness. It is the Call of Love to Love.

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Letting Our Light Shine

I am the light of the world.

²How holy am I, who have been given the function of lighting up the world! ³Let me be still before my holiness. ⁴In its calm light let all my conflicts disappear. ⁵In its peace let me remember Who I am.

Forgiveness is my function as the light of the world.

²It is through accepting my function that I will see the light in me. ³And in this light will my function stand clear and perfectly unambiguous before my sight. ⁴My acceptance does not depend on my recognizing what my function is, for I do not yet understand forgiveness. ⁵Yet I will trust that, in the light, I will see [my function] as it is. (A Course in Miracles, W-81.1;3. See also ACIM Lesson 81 Insights.)

The Light of Love is in everyone and everywhere. While we believe separation is real, we cannot see this Light. We have taught ourselves to trust what the body’s eyes show us. But the ego made them unable to see Love’s Light because it denies Love.

Denial has no effect on the reality of Love and the Light it radiates without limit. We become the Light of the world when we forgive our wish to be separate and special. We cannot ask the ego to teach us how to forgive. The ego knows forgiveness would dispel it.

But we have a Teacher we can trust to show us how to forgive, to see past the images of the dream. With His help we become aware of Love’s presence. As we welcome Love, It guides our thoughts and deeds. We become a Light in the world where the Light has been denied.

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Opening to Our True Self in God’s Love

Let all things be exactly as they are.

Let me not be Your critic, Lord, today, and judge against You. ²Let me not attempt to interfere with Your creation, and distort it into sickly forms. ³Let me be willing to withdraw my wishes from its unity, and thus to let [creation] be as You created it. ⁴For thus will I be able, too, to recognize my Self as You created me. ⁵In love was I created, and in love will I remain forever. ⁶What can frighten me, when I let all things be exactly as they are?

Let not our sight be blasphemous today, nor let our ears attend to lying tongues. ²Only reality is free of pain. ³Only reality is free of loss. ⁴Only reality is wholly safe. ⁵And it is only this we seek today. (A Course in Miracles, W-268. See also ACIM Lesson 268 Insights.)

God’s Creation extends the Love He is. Only Love creates, and only like Itself.

When we believe separate bodies and separate things are real, we deny God’s Creation. The body is not Love because it is a limited form that cannot exist in the oneness of Love. Thus to identify with a body is to be blasphemous against God.

This mistaken identification blinds us to our true Self. Yet the Self God created as His Son remains unchanged. We seem to live in a world of form which has no effect whatsoever to our real Life we live in God. But our engagement in this dream prevents us from knowing the joy and peace that come with co-creating in Love with God.

We can awaken from this dream by welcoming the Holy Spirit’s vision. Today we seek the Holy Spirit’s interpretation of all our perceptions. With His reinterpretation, our minds are opened to know the Self God created as His Son.

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Welcoming Our Mighty Companion

Into His Presence would I enter now.

“his is a day of silence and of trust. ²It is a special time of promise in your calendar of days. ³It is a time Heaven has set apart to shine upon, and cast a timeless light upon this day, when echoes of eternity are heard. ⁴This day is holy, for it ushers in a new experience; a different kind of feeling and awareness. ⁵You have spent long days and nights in celebrating death. ⁶Today you learn to feel the joy of life.

Your body will be sanctified today, its only purpose being now to bring the vision of what you experience this day to light the world. ²We cannot give experience like this directly. ³Yet it leaves a vision in our eyes which we can offer everyone, that he may come the sooner to the same experience in which the world is quietly forgot, and Heaven is remembered for a while.

As this experience increases and all goals but this become of little worth, the world to which you will return becomes a little closer to the end of time; a little more like Heaven in its ways; a little nearer its deliverance. ²And you who bring it light will come to see the light more sure; the vision more distinct.

…the Holy One, the Giver of the happy dreams of life, Translator of perception into truth, the holy Guide to Heaven given you, has dreamed for you this journey which you make and start today, with the experience this day holds out to you to be your own.

Into Christ’s Presence will we enter now, serenely unaware of everything except His shining face and perfect Love. (A Course in Miracles, W-157.1;6:1–7:2;8:2–9:1. See also ACIM Lesson 157 Insights.)

We do not have to continue our lonely journey in a dream where we feel isolated and without a love that we search for unceasingly. This is not our home. It is not what God wills for us. God wills that we remain eternally safe in His Love, fulfilled by giving It as It was given us. We seem to have lost our way, but God has given us His Comforter and Teacher to lead us out of our misguided dream. His Comforter is with us always, but we must welcome Him to know His Presence.

Today we affirm that we want Love to guide our ways. We want to join in the eternal extension of Love. We want the vision that shows us Love’s Presence in everyone, everywhere. This is a journey of return to joy. It leads to our awakening to the Will we share with God. We welcome His Comforter as our mighty Companion throughout this day.

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Reclaiming Our True Identity

I am as God created me.

Today we continue with the one idea which brings complete salvation; the one statement which makes all forms of temptation powerless; the one thought which renders the ego silent and entirely undone. ²You are as God created you. ³The sounds of this world are still, the sights of this world disappear, and all the thoughts that this world ever held are wiped away forever by this one idea. ⁴Here is salvation accomplished. ⁵Here is sanity restored.

True light is strength, and strength is sinlessness. ²If you remain as God created you, you must be strong and light must be in you. ³He Who ensured your sinlessness must be the guarantee of strength and light as well. ⁴You are as God created you.

³I am as God created me.
⁴I am His Son eternally.

⁵…the Son of God in you… is the Self that never sinned [separated], nor made an image to replace reality. ⁷This is the Self that never left Its home in God to walk the world uncertainly. ⁸This is the Self that knows no fear, nor could conceive of loss or suffering or death.

…be sure to respond to anyone who seems to irritate you with these words:

⁶You are as God created you.
⁷You are His Son eternally.
(A Course in Miracles, W-94.1:1–2:4;3:3-8;5:5-7. See also ACIM Lesson V Insights.)

When we choose to identify with the body, we choose a fake identity. We are trying to hide our real Identity beneath an image that limits and distorts the truth of What we are. We have so thoroughly convinced ourselves that we are this alias that we do not question its reality. We walk about in a world that seems hazardous to our existence. We need to be constantly alert to defend against outside forces that can harm us and even kill us. There is no peace in this seeming existence. But it is all false.

When we repeat today’s idea, we remind ourselves of our true Identity. Our true Identity is secure in the mind of God, held forever in His changelessness. The memory of our true Identity is always with us. It calls to us, leading us to search for what seems to be missing in our life. It is not missing. It is only hidden behind a false façade.

As we awaken to the fact that we are as God created us, the façade is dispelled and the Light of Love we are radiates throughout all eternity.

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The Lesson That Transforms Our World

⁶You who have taught yourself the Son of God is guilty, say not that you cannot learn the simple things salvation teaches you!

The lessons to be learned are only two. ²Each has its outcome in a different world. ³And each world follows surely from its source. ⁴The certain outcome of the [ego’s] lesson that God’s Son is guilty is the world you see. ⁵It is a world of terror and despair. ⁶Nor is there hope of happiness in it. ⁷There is no plan for safety you can make that ever will succeed. ⁸There is no joy that you can seek for here and hope to find. ⁹Yet this is not the only outcome which your learning can produce. ¹⁰However much you may have overlearned your chosen task, the lesson that reflects the Love of God is stronger still. ¹¹And you will learn God’s Son is innocent, and see another world.

The outcome of the lesson that God’s Son is guiltless is a world in which there is no fear, and everything is lit with hope and sparkles with a gentle friendliness. ²Nothing but calls to you in soft appeal to be your friend, and let it join with you. ³And never does a call remain unheard, misunderstood, nor left unanswered in the selfsame tongue in which the call was made. ⁴And you will understand it was this call that everyone and everything within the world has always made, but you had not perceived it as it was. ⁵And now you see you were mistaken. ⁶You had been deceived by forms the call [for Love] was hidden in. ⁷And so you did not hear it, and had lost a friend who always wanted to be part of you. ⁸The soft eternal calling of each part of God’s creation to the whole is heard throughout the world this second lesson brings. (A Course in Miracles, T-31.I.4:6;7:1–8:8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Think what a loving world we would experience if we recognized every fearful or guilty thought as a call for Love. Our true Nature would automatically respond with Love. An appearance of attack would be transformed with a joyous, loving response. Joy always comes with Love.

We have taught ourselves to give our own meaning to forms in the world. We learned this lesson so thoroughly that we cannot see the forms have no meaning of their own. The ego’s meaning given to forms overshadows the ever-present Light of Love.

The fact that this world and all its forms seems so real confirms that we have a highly developed learning skill. Thankfully this skill can be redirected to learn to undo the false meanings we have given to the world. We can learn to see the forms in the world as calls for Love. This lesson opens our days to joy, peace and love.

Shall we join with each other in the practice of learning the Holy Spirit’s lessons to recognize calls for Love? In this joining we experience the real world where guilt and fear are forgiven and Love guides us moment by moment.

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