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Accepting Christ as Our True Self

My eyes, my tongue, my hands, my feet today have but one purpose; to be given Christ to use to bless the world with miracles.

Father, I give all that is mine today to Christ, to use in any way that best will serve the purpose that I share with Him. ²Nothing is mine alone, for He and I have joined in purpose. ³Thus has learning come almost to its appointed end. ⁴A while I work with Him to serve His purpose. ⁵Then I lose myself in my Identity, and recognize that Christ is but my Self. (A Course in Miracles, W-353. See also ACIM Lesson 353 Insights.)

When we let go of our imagined limited identity with a body, we make way to accept our unlimited true Identity as one with God. This Identity is the Christ Whose vision sees past illusions to the presence of Love everywhere. We give up nothing to welcome All that is real.

We cannot serve two masters. As long as we want the “benefits” of separation—the specialness of individuality, private thoughts and personal possessions—we cannot know the joy our true Identity has in Its unity with Love.

Today we welcome Christ, our true Identity, by choosing Love as our Guide for all our thoughts and actions. It’s a choice for happiness.

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Our Journey Without Distance

²No one created by God can find joy in anything except the eternal; not because he is deprived of anything else, but because nothing else is worthy of him.

There is no question but one you should ever ask of yourself;—“Do I want to know my Father’s Will for me?” …⁴Our function is to work together, because apart from each other we cannot function at all. ⁵The whole power of God’s Son lies in all of us, but not in any of us alone.

³We cannot be separated. ⁴Whom God has joined cannot be separated, and God has joined all His Sons with Himself. ⁵Can you be separated from your life and your being? ⁶The journey to God is merely the reawakening of the knowledge of where you are always, and what you are forever. ⁷It is a journey without distance to a goal that has never changed. ⁸Truth can only be experienced. ⁹It cannot be described and it cannot be explained. ¹⁰I can make you aware of the conditions of truth, but the experience is of God. ¹¹Together we can meet its conditions, but truth will dawn upon you of itself. (A Course in Miracles, T-8.VI.3:2;8:1,4-5;9:3-11. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We cannot be alone. But we can dream that we are alone and on our own. The dream is caused by our belief and wish for separation. This wish needs to be undone for us to awaken to our Reality as one with every brother and God in His Love. Our function while we believe we are in this world is to let go of the beliefs that stand as a barrier against the awareness of Love’s presence.

The way to undo the barriers to Love is through true forgiveness. We cannot forgive on our own alone because we are not alone in truth. We need the help of the Holy Spirit Who knows the truth and can see our mistaken beliefs but not believe them.

Our role in forgiveness is to diligently turn over every perception that disturbs our peace of mind. The Holy Spirit knows what to do with our misperceptions. He offers us Christ’s vision to bring us true perception that sees past our false beliefs to the presence of Love in everyone and everywhere.

Today we practice bringing our perceptions to the Holy Spirit with willingness to receive the Holy Spirit’s replacement to show us our Reality in Love’s oneness.

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Awakening to Our Life in Love

Father, my freedom is in You alone.

I did not understand what made me free, nor what my freedom is, nor where to look to find it. ²Father, I have searched in vain until I heard Your Voice directing me. ³Now I would guide myself no more. ⁴For I have neither made nor understood the way to find my freedom. ⁵But I trust in You. ⁶You Who endowed me with my freedom as Your holy Son will not be lost to me. ⁷Your Voice directs me, and the way to You is opening and clear to me at last. ⁸Father, my freedom is in You alone. ⁹Father, it is my will that I return.

Today we answer for the world, which will be freed along with us. ²How glad are we to find our freedom through the certain way our Father has established. ³And how sure is all the world’s salvation, when we learn our freedom can be found in God alone.” (A Course in Miracles, W-321.1:1–2:3. See also ACIM Lesson 321 Insights.)

The ego is the attempt to be independent of God. But this is like trying to run an electric appliance without plugging it into a source of electricity. There is no life independent of God because He is the source of all Life. Trying to be independent of the source of all Life is the wish for death, which could not occur except in a dream.

We imprison ourselves by accepting the ego’s dream of separation. Fortunately there is a way to wake up. God gave us His Voice, which calls to us in every moment. It is a call to return to Life, to the joy and peace of unity with our Creator. His Voice offers us help to awaken from the dream of misperceptions and see the Love that never left. We choose to listen to God’s Voice today, for we would be free of the ego’s limitations.

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Removing Our Limits on Love

I want the peace of God.

To say these words is nothing. ²But to mean these words is everything. ³If you could but mean them for just an instant, there would be no further sorrow possible for you in any form; in any place or time. ⁴Heaven would be completely given back to full awareness, memory of God entirely restored, the resurrection of all creation fully recognized.

No one can mean these words and not be healed. ²He cannot play with dreams, nor think he is himself a dream. ³He cannot make a hell and think it real. ⁴He wants the peace of God, and it is given him. ⁵For that is all he wants, and that is all he will receive.

To mean you want the peace of God is to renounce all dreams.

The mind which means that all it wants is peace must join with other minds, for that is how peace is obtained. ²And when the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is given, in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand. (A Course in Miracles, W-185.1:1–2:5;5:1;6:1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 185 Insights.)

The things we want in the world—safety, possessions, status, relationships—are the ego’s substitutes for the peace of God. Everyone wants to be happy. But what the ego offers are illusions and only seem to offer temporary happiness or security. No illusion lasts forever.

But the reality of Love is eternal. Love is innately joyous, for there is no greater happiness than to extend the Love God has given us. Extending Love is the only way to accept It. By Its nature, Love extends and cannot be known if we try to limit it, to be selective of who we would offer Love.

The ego is selective in what it gives, for it judges the worthiness of all things. God knows not of judgment or limitation. He deemed His Son worthy by giving Him all of His Love without limit. Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us remove the limits we have attempted to impose on Love. This is how we accept God’s gift of all of His peace and joy.

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Building Our Life on Changeless Love

I. The Origins of Separation

To extend [Love] is a fundamental aspect of God which He gave to His Son. ²In the creation, God extended Himself to His creations and imbued them with the same loving Will to create [extend Love]. ³You have not only been fully created, but have also been created perfect. ⁴There is no emptiness in you. ⁵Because of your likeness to your Creator you are creative [loving]. ⁶No child of God can lose this ability because it is inherent in what he is, but he can use it inappropriately by projecting. ⁷The inappropriate use of extension, or projection, occurs when you believe that some emptiness or lack exists in you, and that you can fill it with your own ideas instead of truth. ⁸This process involves the following steps:
⁹First, you believe that what God created can be changed by your own mind.
¹⁰Second, you believe that what [the Son of God] is perfect can be rendered imperfect or lacking.
¹¹Third, you believe that you can distort the creations of God, including yourself.
¹²Fourth, you believe that you can create yourself, and that the direction of your own creation is up to you.

These related distortions represent a picture of what actually occurred in the separation, or the “detour into fear.” ²None of this existed before the separation, nor does it actually exist now. ³Everything God created is like Him. ⁴Extension, as undertaken by God, is similar to the inner radiance that the children of the Father inherit from Him. …all loving creation is freely given in one continuous line, in which all aspects are of the same order. (A Course in Miracles, T-2.I.1:1–2:4,8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Belief does not make true, but it can make a lie appear true. Our beliefs represent what we want to be true. If what we believe is an illusion or untrue, we need to disregard truth to maintain the illusions that a lie is true. The ego is the wish that separation, which could never be true, is real. The entire dream of a world of separation is built on a foundation of belief. It is like building a house on a foundation of sand. Like shifting sand, beliefs are unstable and changeable.

The Love of God is unchangeable, the rock upon which we create by extending His Love. The return to Love comes as we let go of our beliefs and accept that only Love is real. By the grace of God, beliefs cannot change Reality. He has given us the Holy Spirit to help us release our mistaken beliefs to free ourselves to be only Love.

Today we choose the Holy Spirit as our Guide all through the day.

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Let’s Be Ministers of Love Today

…we will observe our trust as ministers of God, in hourly remembrance of our mission and His Love. ²And we will quietly sit by and wait on Him and listen to His Voice, and learn what He would have us do the hour that is yet to come; while thanking Him for all the gifts He gave us in the one gone by.

In time, with practice, you will never cease to think of Him, and hear His loving Voice guiding your footsteps into quiet ways, where you will walk in true defenselessness.

Today our theme is our defenselessness. ²We clothe ourselves in it, as we prepare to meet the day. ³We rise up strong in Christ, and let our weakness disappear, as we remember that His strength abides in us. ⁴We will remind ourselves that He remains beside us through the day, and never leaves our weakness unsupported by His strength. ⁵We call upon His strength each time we feel the threat of our defenses undermine our certainty of purpose. ⁶We will pause a moment, as He tells us, ‘I am here.’

⁴The ministers of God can never fail, because the love and strength and peace that shine from them to all their brothers come from Him. ⁵These are His gifts to you. ⁶Defenselessness is all you need to give Him in return. ⁷You lay aside but what was never real, to look on Christ and see His sinlessness. (A Course in Miracles, W-153.171-18:1;19;20:4-7. See also ACIM Lesson 153 Insights.)

Judgment is a key ego tool to defend against the oneness of God’s Love. From birth in the world we are carefully taught to judge everything. We learn to categorize and prioritize so that we know how to protect ourselves and survive in a dangerous world. All this reinforces the belief that we are alone, separate and subject to outside influences beyond our control.

As we relinquish our habit of judging based upon past learning and accept the Holy Spirit’s judgment on our behalf, our defenses are laid down. The Holy Spirit’s judgment is very simple—if it’s God’s Love it is real. Everything else is unreal.

As we learn to accept that the images of the world cannot be real because they represent separation which denies Love, we forgive the world. Our vision is cleared and we see the presence of Love everywhere, in everyone. There can be no judgment in defenselessness, for in our recognition that only Love is real, there is nothing left to judge. Today let us be ministers of Love.

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We Are Complete in God’s Love

Whenever you are angry, you can be sure that you have formed a special relationship which the ego has “blessed,” for anger is its blessing. ²Anger takes many forms, but it cannot long deceive those who will learn that love brings no guilt at all, and what brings guilt cannot be love and must be anger. ³All anger is nothing more than an attempt to make someone feel guilty, and this attempt is the only basis the ego accepts for special relationships. ⁴Guilt is the only need the ego has, and as long as you identify with [the ego], guilt will remain attractive to you. ⁵Yet remember this; to be with a body is not communication. ⁶And if you think it is, you will feel guilty about communication and will be afraid to hear the Holy Spirit, recognizing in His Voice your own need to communicate.

²In the holy instant guilt holds no attraction, since communication has been restored. ³And guilt, whose only purpose is to disrupt communication, has no function here. ⁴Here [in the holy instant] there is no concealment, and no private thoughts. ⁵The willingness to communicate attracts communication to it, and overcomes loneliness completely. ⁶There is complete forgiveness here, for there is no desire to exclude anyone from your completion, in sudden recognition of the value of his part in [your completion]. ⁷In the protection of your wholeness, all are invited and made welcome. ⁸And you understand that your completion is God’s, Whose only need is to have you be complete. ⁹For your completion makes you His in your awareness. ¹⁰And here it is that you experience yourself as you were created, and as you are. (A Course in Miracles, T-15.VII.10;14:2-10. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Anger takes many forms. It can be as innocuous as a sigh of discontent or as violent as a murderous rage. These forms are the same because they can only seem to occur where separation seems real. We believe something in the world separate from us needs to change.

Separation is not what God wills for us. He created His Son one with Him and maintains this unity with the uninterrupted flow of His Love. But we cannot be aware of His Love if we interrupt it with belief that separation is real.

Loneliness and fear are inevitable if we believe separation is real. Only in separation can attack or isolation seem possible. God does not will to be alone, so His Creation remains eternally united with Him in Love. Forgiveness is the means to release us from the bondage of belief that separation is real.

As we accept our unity with the Love in every brother and with God, we know that we are complete in Him. We lack nothing for we have all that is real. Fear and guilt are impossible, for we know our Reality in the eternal flow of God’s Love.

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