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Being a Messenger of Love in the World

We stand together, Christ and I, in peace
and certainty of purpose. And in Him
is His Creator, as He is in me.

My oneness with the Christ establishes me as Your Son, beyond the reach of time, and wholly free of every law but Yours. ²I have no self except the Christ in me. ³I have no purpose but His Own. ⁴And He is like His Father. ⁵Thus must I be one with You as well as Him. ⁶For who is Christ except Your Son as You created Him? ⁷And what am I except the Christ in me? (A Course in Miracles, W-354. See also ACIM Lesson 354 Insights.)

The ego wants us to believe we are not the Christ. Acknowledging the Christ in us would disown the ego. For us to awaken to our true Self, we must let go of our mistaken identification with the ego.

We let go of the ego through forgiveness of our mistaken beliefs. Only these beliefs stand in the way of our awareness of the Christ within. Christ has never left us, for as God’s Son, we were created as the Christ.

Today we continue our journey of awakening by choosing the Holy Spirit as our Guide for all our thoughts, words and actions. With this practice we fulfill our purpose as messengers of Love in the world.

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The Foundation of Forgiveness

I do not know what anything is for.

Purpose is meaning. ²Today’s idea explains why nothing you see means anything.

You perceive the world and everything in it as meaningful in terms of ego goals. ²These goals have nothing to do with your own best interests, because the ego is not you. ³This false identification makes you incapable of understanding what anything is for. ⁴As a result, you are bound to misuse it. ⁵When you believe this, you will try to withdraw the goals you have assigned to the world, instead of attempting to reinforce them.

Another way of describing the goals you now perceive is to say that they are all concerned with “personal” interests. ²Since you have no personal [separate] interests, your goals are really concerned with nothing.

It is crucial to your learning to be willing to give up the goals you have established for everything. ²The recognition that they are meaningless, rather than “good” or “bad,” is the only way to accomplish this. (A Course in Miracles, W-25.1:1-2;2:1-3:2;5:1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 25 Insights.)

This lesson is the foundation of the Course’s teaching on forgiveness. When we align with the ego, we accept the meaning it gives for the images of separation it projects. But we are not the ego. This fact is why we are not eternally condemned to live in the hell of separation. The ego’s world denies the reality of Love’s oneness and thus it denies Life Itself. True Life is the eternal giving and receiving of Love.

Our conviction that separation is real must be undone for us to awaken from the dream and remember that we are Love and nothing else. Reminding ourselves frequently that we do not know what any appearance means unlocks the door to forgiveness. We become willing to accept that there may be a different meaning than we perceive. Now we are teachable. Our inner Teacher will lead us to the true meaning of Love’s reality.

Appearances of separation are transformed as we are shown the opportunity to join with the Love that is everywhere in everything. Only the Love is real. With the Holy Spirit’s help, we see Love’s Reality beyond the appearances which stood as a barrier against Love’s presence.

Today we practice welcoming the Holy Spirit’s loving lessons in forgiveness as we remember we do not know what anything means.

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Awakening to God’s Love in Us

⁹Everyone God created is part of you and shares His glory with you. ¹⁰His glory belongs to Him, but it is equally yours. ¹¹You cannot, then, be less glorious than He is.

³Neither God’s light nor yours is dimmed because you do not see. ⁴Because the Sonship must create as one, you remember creation whenever you recognize part of creation. ⁵Each part you remember adds to your wholeness because each part _is_ whole. ⁶Wholeness is indivisible, but you cannot learn of your wholeness until you see it everywhere. ⁷You can know yourself only as God knows His Son, for knowledge is shared with God. ⁸When you awake in Him you will know your magnitude by accepting His limitlessness as yours.

²Very simply, the Holy Spirit teaches you to awaken others. ³As you see them waken you will learn what waking means, and because you have chosen to wake them, their gratitude and their appreciation of what you have given them will teach you its value.

⁸Accept [the truth of] your brother in this world and accept nothing else, for in him you will find your creations because he created [extended Love] with you. ⁹You will never know that you are co-creator with God until you learn that your brother is co-creator with you. (A Course in Miracles, T-9.VI.3:9-11;4:3-8;5:2-3;7:8-9. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Everything we see in the world reflects what we believe we are. When we believe we are a separate identity, we seem to be surrounded by other separate identities. But as we learn to see the truth in our brothers, we realize we are surrounded by Love, the glory of God. His Love, His glory are ours because He shared them with His Son in His creation.

The way to see the truth in our brothers is to forgive our mistaken beliefs about what we are. Our perceptions of our brothers show us either the truth of what we are or reflect back to us our mistaken beliefs about what we are. These reflections are gifts providing an opportunity to recognize and forgive a mistaken belief. Our brothers’ calls for love help us see our own. The form of the call may seem to be different, but the underlying error is the same. We are not separate. We are one in the glory and Love of God.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us see the glory of God in our brothers so we can learn to see It in ourselves. Thus we awaken to the glory we share with God. We awaken to Love.

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The Path That Leads to Heaven’s Love

No one remains in hell, for no one can abandon his Creator, nor affect His perfect, timeless and unchanging Love. ²You will find Heaven. ³Everything you seek but this will fall away. ⁴Yet not because it has been taken from you. ⁵It will go because you do not want it. ⁶You will reach the goal you really want as certainly as God created you in sinlessness.

⁵For several minutes watch your mind and see, although your eyes are closed, the senseless world you think is real. ⁶Review the thoughts as well which are compatible with such a world, and which you think are true. ⁷Then let them go, and sink below them to the holy place where they can enter not. ⁸There is a door beneath them in your mind, which you could not completely lock to hide what lies beyond.

Put out your hand, and see how easily the door swings open with your one intent to go beyond it. ²Angels light the way, so that all darkness vanishes, and you are standing in a light so bright and clear that you can understand all things you see.

You cannot fail today. ²There walks with you the Spirit Heaven sent you, that you might approach this door some day, and through His aid slip effortlessly past it, to the light. ³Today that day has come. (A Course in Miracles, W-131.5;11:5-8;13:1-2;14:1-3. See also ACIM Lesson 131 Insights.)

The world seems real because we have accepted the ego as our identity and guide. The thought that separation and specialness could offer us something of value and worth striving for made a world filled with images that are not true. Specialness could never be true in the oneness of eternal Love, the only reality. But our wish for something else has filled our mind with substitutes that interfere with our awareness of the Love God gave His Son in his creation.

The first step in awakening to our Home in Heaven is to become aware that the things we seek for in the world offer nothing we really want. The goals we seem to achieve in the world lose their value when they are achieved. The ego answers by sending us on another search for meaning and value. But they cannot be found in illusions.

When we honestly step back and look at what we do in the world, we realize there must be a better way, a way that does not continue with fruitless searching. We become willing to move beyond the images of the world to open the door to the awareness of Love’s Light. Here we find the peace of God. We find the certainty and joy of engaging with the Love that is our Being.

Today we choose to pause and reflect on what we have been searching for. We ask the Holy Spirit to help us see where our true treasure is. We are willing to follow His lead on the path that leads to Heaven’s Love.

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Claiming God’s Love as Our Identity

²It is but lies that would condemn. ³In truth is innocence the only thing there is. ⁴Forgiveness stands between illusions and the truth; between the world you see and that which lies beyond; between the hell of guilt and Heaven’s gate.

Across this bridge, as powerful as love which laid its blessing on it, are all dreams of evil and of hatred and attack brought silently to truth. ²They are not kept to swell and bluster, and to terrify the foolish dreamer who believes in them. ³He has been gently wakened from his dream by understanding what he thought he saw was never there. ⁴And now he cannot feel that all escape has been denied to him.

Forgiveness must be practiced, for the world cannot perceive its meaning, nor provide a guide to teach you its beneficence.

Today we practice true forgiveness, that the time of joining be no more delayed. ²For we would meet with our reality in freedom and in peace. ³Our practicing becomes the footsteps lighting up the way for all our brothers, who will follow us to the reality we share with them. (A Course in Miracles, W-134.10:2–11:4;13:1;14:1-3. See also ACIM Lesson 134 Insights.)

Judgment is a self-deception. We only judge what we perceive to be outside of us. Yet our true Self, eternally united with God, sees nothing separate from Itself. Forgiveness undoes the deception that believes separation is possible, that there can be anything outside of What we are in truth. But we have convinced ourselves that an outside world is real. As long as we believe this, true forgiveness is needed.

For this God gave us His Teacher to guide us in the way of Love’s oneness, to recognize that all external appearances are false. With His help, we learn to recognize illusions and freely let them go. No one wants to keep what he recognizes is not real.

Today we call upon the Holy Spirit to teach us true forgiveness, for we want to remember the joy and peace that are our natural state as Love’s extension.

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Our Focus on Gratitude Today

In gratitude I remember that no problem is too big for the Holy Spirit to handle. I am willing to take all my problems to the Holy Spirit for healing…

In gratitude I follow my highest path, which leads me to my Home in peace…

In gratitude I accept that all my real needs are met. All is safe. All is very, very well. I am eternally safe in God…

In gratitude I remember all of Heaven supports my awakening to my True Identity…

In gratitude I choose peace instead of conflict…

In gratitude I experience the joy that forgiveness offers me…

In gratitude I remember that mistakes are always forgivable…

In gratitude I remember that of my ego, I can do nothing. Of my Spirit, I can do everything…

In gratitude I am led by the Holy Spirit’s kind and loving Voice in every area of my life…

In gratitude I release all grievances from the past…

In gratitude I invite the Holy Spirit into all my relationships…

In gratitude I remember that all I need is given me by God…

In gratitude I remember that I am loved unconditionally by God…

In gratitude I remember that Love goes with me wherever I go…

In gratitude I now extend Love and appreciation to all equally…

In gratitude I see past the form to the Christ in those whom I live and work with…

In gratitude I love my brother, who is one with me…

In gratitude I see past illusions to the Truth about All That Is…

In gratitude I see that peace, joy and love are mine to choose…

In gratitude I experience the Love of God…

In gratitude I remember my true Identity as Love and extend this Love to others…

In gratitude I recognize the miracles in my life…

In gratitude I acknowledge the miracle-working power of Love in my life…

In gratitude I accept that my mind is part of God’s Mind. I accept my totality in God…

In gratitude I heal. I count my blessings all through the day as I continue to heal my mind…

Excerpt from Pathways of Light ACIM Practitioner course “903: Gratitude for God’s Gifts”.
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How to Use Our Projections to Heal Our Minds

Let us this day accept forgiveness as our only function. ²Why should we attack our minds, and give them images of pain? ³Why should we teach [our minds] they are powerless, when God holds out His power and His Love, and bids them take what is already theirs? ⁴The mind that is made willing to accept God’s gifts has been restored to spirit, and extends [spirit’s] freedom and its joy, as is the Will of God united with its own. ⁵The Self which God created cannot sin, and therefore cannot suffer. ⁶Let us choose today that [this Self] be our Identity, and thus escape forever from all things the dream of fear appears to offer us.

Father, Your Son can not be hurt. ²And if we think we suffer, we but fail to know our one Identity we share with You. ³We would return to It today, to be made free forever from all our mistakes, and to be saved from what we thought we were. (A Course in Miracles, W-330.1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 330 Insights.)

The dream of the world is the outward picture of the ego’s grievance against God. God could not grant the ego’s wish for specialness which would require separation. Separation is impossible in the oneness of God’s Love. The ego’s judgments appear to be about the world outside our mind. It does not want us to know that those external appearances are the its own projections.

We can learn to use our perceptions in the world as paths to forgiveness by being willing to accept that they reflect beliefs we hold in our mind. Just as we can only see our face when it is reflected in a mirror, we can only see our beliefs reflected back to us by our perceptions.

The ego uses perceptions to project guilt and fear. The Holy Spirit transforms our perceptions to heal our unforgiveness. The ego offers only continuation of the hell of separation from Love. The Holy Spirit offers return to the joy and peace of our Home in the Heaven of God’s Love.

Let’s join with each other by dedicating today to following the Holy Spirit’s lead.

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