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Being a Messenger of God’s Love

Love holds no grievances.

²Grievances are completely alien to love. ³Grievances attack love and keep its light obscure. ⁴If I hold grievances I am attacking love, and therefore attacking my Self. ⁵My Self thus becomes alien to me. ⁶I am determined not to attack my Self today, so that I can remember Who I am.

These specific forms for applying this idea would be helpful:

²This is no justification for denying my Self.
³I will not use this to attack love.
⁴Let this not tempt me to attack myself. (A Course in Miracles, W-84.3:1–4:4. See also ACIM Lesson 84 Insights.)

Consider some of the many forms of grievances—frustration, impatience, sadness, irritation, guilt, fear, loneliness—are a few. The dream of separation is itself a grievance against the oneness of Love. Our habit of holding grievances needs to be undone if we want to experience the joy and peace that is the eternal condition of our true Self.

There is nothing we need do to qualify for God’s Love. But we do need to undo our grievances that block our awareness of His gift. That is why forgiveness is our only meaningful purpose in this world. It undoes the barriers that hide the Light of Love from our awareness.

Today we will be vigilant to bring every sigh of impatience, every form of grievance to the Holy Spirit for His help to let them go. We want to remember the Love we are. We want to experience the joy that comes with joining with the Love in every brother. We want to accept the gift of Love God has given His one Son. With the Holy Spirit’s help, we will be messenger’s of Love today.

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Accepting a Day of Joy

In fearlessness and love I spend today.

This day, my Father, would I spend with You, as You have chosen all my days should be. ²And what I will experience is not of time at all. ³The joy that comes to me is not of days nor hours, for it comes from Heaven to Your Son. ⁴This day will be Your sweet reminder to remember You, Your gracious calling to Your holy Son, the sign Your grace has come to me, and that it is Your Will I be set free today.

We spend this day together, you and I. ²And all the world joins with us in our song of thankfulness and joy to Him Who gave salvation to us, and Who set us free. ³We are restored to peace and holiness. ⁴There is no room in us for fear today, for we have welcomed love into our hearts.” (A Course in Miracles, W-310.1:1–2:4. See also ACIM Lesson 310 Insights.)

Today can be a day of joy. It will be so if we choose to accept our true Self, which God created one with Him. In that oneness, He shares His joy without limit.

This joy has nothing to do with anything we perceive or experience through the body. The image of the body comes from the ego’s denial of oneness. The body does not exist in the oneness of Love, the only Reality and the Source of eternal joy. We have bought into the ego’s thought system of separation by teaching ourselves to believe that the images of the world are real.

To undo this mistaken belief, God gave us the Holy Spirit, His Teacher, Whose mission is to help us learn of our reality and recognize the illusions of the world for what they are. We choose joy when we choose to accept the Holy Spirit’s lessons in Love. And we choose peace, for it is an attribute of God’s Love.

Today we welcome the Holy Spirit’s lessons in Love, for we want it to be a day of joy.

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Awakening to Our True Identity

Love, which created me, is what I am.

I seek my own Identity, and find It in these words: “Love, which created me, is what I am.” ²Now need I seek no more. ³Love has prevailed. ⁴So still It waited for my coming home, that I will turn away no longer from the holy face of Christ. ⁵And what I look upon attests the truth of the Identity I sought to lose, but which my Father has kept safe for me.

Father, my thanks to You for what I am; for keeping my Identity untouched and sinless, in the midst of all the thoughts of sin my foolish mind made up. ²And thanks to You for saving me from them. ³Amen. (A Course in Miracles, W-229. See also ACIM Lesson 229 Insights.)

The ego is an attempt to usurp our Identity. Fortunately the strength of God prevents any attempt to change the Son He created one with Himself. In truth, nothing can prevail against His Love, for nothing else is real.

Believing we are a separate identity in a separate body in a separate place and time is a dream of an identity crisis. It is not real but our belief in it makes it seem real. The healing antidote is to accept the vision of Christ, which sees only the truth—the unaltered, eternal Love that is our true Identity. When we are willing to pause and step back from our perceptions in the moment, we welcome the gift of vision that shows us the presence of Love in us and around us everywhere.

Today we remind ourselves often that Love is our Creator and our Self. As we remember this, we are able to see the Love in our brothers and answer their calls for Love with Love.

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Accepting God’s Joy as Ours

Only God’s plan for salvation will work.

²It is senseless for me to search wildly about for salvation. ³I have seen it in many people and in many things, but when I reached for it, it was not there. ⁴I was mistaken about where it is. ⁵I was mistaken about what it is. ⁶I will undertake no more idle seeking. ⁷Only God’s plan for salvation will work. ⁸And I will rejoice because His plan can never fail.

These are some suggested forms for applying this idea specifically:

²God’s plan for salvation will save me from my perception of this.
³This is no exception in God’s plan for my salvation.
⁴Let me perceive this only in the light of God’s plan for salvation. (A Course in Miracles, W-86.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 86 Insights.)

What we believe will make us happy we think is our salvation. The ego has a plan for our salvation, but like everything else the ego directs, it will not work. The ego sends us on myriad fruitless searches for forms that it tells us will make us happy. But forms are illusions without real content so they never satisfy. We tell ourselves if we get the right job, we will be happy. If we find the right significant other we will be happy, and on and on.

The ego has a million decoys that glitter with the possibility of making us happy. But if we achieve any of them, they do not satisfy. At best they offer temporary happiness that does not compare to the indescribable joy that comes with accepting God’s Love.

God’s plan for our salvation provides means for us to let go of the mistaken beliefs that prevent us from experiencing God’s joy and peace. Everything He is, we are. God holds nothing back in His eternal sharing of His Love with His Creation. Throughout every day we make choices between the ego’s offerings of pseudo happiness and God’s gift of joy unlimited.

Today we practice welcoming the Holy Spirit’s vision in place of our perceptions of the world. This is how we accept God’s plan for our salvation, our happiness.

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Forgiveness Brings Lasting Happiness

My only function is the one God gave me.

²I have no function but the one God gave me. ³This recognition releases me from all conflict, because it means I cannot have conflicting goals. ⁴With one purpose only, I am always certain what to do, what to say and what to think. ⁵All doubt must disappear as I acknowledge that my only function is the one God gave me.

My happiness and my function are one.

²All things that come from God are one. ³They come from Oneness, and must be received as one. ⁴Fulfilling my function is my happiness because both come from the same Source. ⁵And I must learn to recognize what makes me happy, if I would find happiness. (A Course in Miracles, W-83.1;3. See also ACIM Lesson 83 Insights.)

Love created us like Itself. Our true Self, like God, is Love and nothing else. A characteristic of Love is to extend Itself eternally without limit. The reflection of Love in the dream of separation is forgiveness. The dream denies the presence of Love. When we forgive our mistaken beliefs in separation, we let go of the barrier that hides the eternal presence of Love.

As an extension of God’s Love, our only function is to forgive the barriers we have accepted which deny Love’s presence. Love always forgives because it knows that nothing has happened to change Love. When we accept the function of forgiveness, we accept our true Nature.

Forgiveness brings happiness because we accept the joy that is an attribute of the Love we are. Nothing but forgiveness can bring us true and lasting happiness. Forgiveness clears the way for acceptance of the fact that we are God’s one Son, eternally loved and loving.

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Gratitude for God’s Eternal Gifts

There is one life, and that I share with God.

…the idea of death takes many forms. ⁴It is the one idea which underlies all feelings that are not supremely happy. ⁵It is the alarm to which you give response of any kind that is not perfect joy. ⁶All sorrow, loss, anxiety and suffering and pain, even a little sigh of weariness, a slight discomfort or the merest frown, acknowledge death. ⁷And thus deny you live.

Death is the thought that you are separate from your Creator. ²It is the belief conditions change, emotions alternate because of causes you cannot control, you did not make, and you can never change. ³It is the fixed belief ideas can leave their source, and take on qualities the source does not contain, becoming different from their own origin, apart from it in kind as well as distance, time and form.

We share one life because we have one Source, a Source from which perfection comes to us, remaining always in the holy minds which He created perfect. ²As we were, so are we now and will forever be. ³A sleeping mind must waken, as it sees its own perfection mirroring the Lord of life so perfectly it fades into what is reflected there. ⁴And now it is no more a mere reflection. ⁵It becomes the thing reflected, and the light which makes reflection possible. ⁶No vision now is needed. ⁷For the wakened mind is one that knows its Source, its Self, its Holiness. (A Course in Miracles, W-167.2:3-7;4;12. See also ACIM Lesson 167 Insights.)

Whenever we experience anything less than supreme happiness and perfect peace, we are believing that we have separated from our Creator. This could never happen in truth, so our belief makes a world of illusion in which everything appears separate, different, changeable and limited to a “life” bound to end. Yet this belief does not change the real Life we live in God. It merely covers it with false images in a dream that denies our unbreakable unity with our Creator.

By the grace of God we can awaken from the dream. He gave us His Comforter Whose mission is to help us heal our mistaken beliefs, to forgive them. Today we are mindful of our thoughts and feelings. When they do not reflect God’s joy and peace, we take them to the Holy Spirit and ask for help to let them go.

Our willingness welcomes the gift of Christ’s vision, which shows us the unity of Love we share with every brother and our Creator. Each time we accept this vision, our joy increases and our peace of mind is deeper. Gratitude for all God’s gifts fills our heart.

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Let Christ’s Vision Correct Our Perceptions

My sight goes forth to look upon Christ’s face.

I ask Your blessing on my sight today. ²It is the means which You have chosen to become the way to show me my mistakes, and look beyond them. ³It is given me to find a new perception through the Guide You gave to me, and through His lessons to surpass perception and return to truth. ⁴I ask for the illusion which transcends all those I made. ⁵Today I choose to see a world forgiven, in which everyone shows me the face of Christ, and teaches me that what I look upon belongs to me; that nothing is, except Your holy Son.

Today our sight is blessed indeed. ²We share one vision, as we look upon the face of Him Whose Self is ours. ³We are one because of Him Who is the Son of God; of Him Who is our own Identity. (A Course in Miracles, W-269. See also ACIM Lesson 269 Insights.)

What we call seeing in the world is myopic. We cannot see beyond the false images projected from our belief that separation is real. But Christ’s vision has been given us to show us what lies beyond our shortsightedness. Beyond the images of the world is the reality of God’s Son, our true Identity. It is the reality of changeless, eternal Love.

Today we choose to accept Christ’s vision to correct our mistaken perceptions. We want to remember Love. We want to experience the joy that comes with accepting the continuous, limitless flow of Love God extends to His Son eternally. When we choose reality over illusion, we choose freedom from fear and guilt. We choose joy instead of loneliness and depression. We choose peace instead of conflict and loss. Today we accept Christ’s vision to remember our unity with every brother and our Creator.

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