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A Resolution for a Happy Year

The body is a fence the Son of God imagines he has built, to separate parts of his Self from other parts.

The body is a dream. ²Like other dreams it sometimes seems to picture happiness, but can quite suddenly revert to fear, where every dream is born. ³For only love creates in truth, and truth can never fear. ⁴Made to be fearful, must the body serve the purpose given it. ⁵But we can change the purpose that the body will obey by changing what we think that it is for.

The body is the means by which God’s Son returns to sanity. ²Though it was made to fence him into hell without escape, yet has the goal of Heaven been exchanged for the pursuit of hell. ³The Son of God extends his hand to reach his brother, and to help him walk along the road with him. ⁴Now is the body holy. ⁵Now it serves to heal the mind that it was made to kill.

⁴Love is your safety. ⁵Fear does not exist. ⁶Identify with love, and you are safe. ⁷Identify with love, and you are home. ⁸Identify with love, and find your Self. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.5.1:1;3-4;5:4-8. See also ACIM Lesson 261 Insights.)

This is a time that is traditionally used to make resolutions, goals to which we aspire. It is important to know what Guide we are using to choose our goals. If we are seeking goals to find safety in the world of form, we are choosing the ego. Form is the mechanism the ego uses to make illusions seem real. But goals in the world leave us feeling unsatisfied when they are achieved.

The only meaningful purpose in the world is to awaken to the reality of Love, our only Identity. We have thoroughly convinced ourselves that the forms in the dream are real. So we need the Holy Spirit’s help to learn to let go of the ego’s substitutes for Love. As we clear away our mistaken identification with a separate identity, the Light of Love shines through in our dream. We feel the safety and certainty of Love’s strength in us. We also see It in our brothers and join with It.

When we practice bringing everything that disturbs our peace to the Holy Spirit to receive His vision, we see what seemed to be a threat as a plea for Love. Our belief that we can be threatened is our own call for Love.

We welcome the Holy Spirit’s gift of God’s Love and discover we are safe. God’s joy fills our heart. Today we resolve to choose the Holy Spirit as our Guide moment by moment, day by day. This is how we make the year loving, happy and peaceful.

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Resolving to Be Heaven’s Reflection

In this world you can become a spotless mirror, in which the Holiness of your Creator shines forth from you to all around you. ²You can reflect Heaven here. ³Yet no reflections of the images of other gods must dim the mirror that would hold God’s reflection in it. ⁴Earth can reflect Heaven or hell; God or the ego. ⁵You need but leave the mirror clean and clear of all the images of hidden darkness you have drawn upon it. ⁶God will shine upon it of Himself. ⁷Only the clear reflection of Himself can be perceived upon it.

Could you but realize for a single instant the power of healing that the reflection of God, shining in you, can bring to all the world, you could not wait to make the mirror of your mind clean to receive the image of the holiness that heals the world.

The response of holiness to any form of error is always the same. ²There is no contradiction in what holiness calls forth. ³Its one response is healing, without regard for what is brought to it. ⁴Those who have learned to offer only healing, because of the reflection of holiness in them, are ready at last for Heaven. ⁵There, holiness is not a reflection, but rather the actual condition of what was but reflected to them here [in the world]. ⁶God is no image, and His creations, as part of Him, hold Him in them in truth. ⁷They do not merely reflect truth, for they are truth. (A Course in Miracles, T-14.IX.5;7:1;8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Everything we perceive in the world is a projection. We cannot even see our own face without looking in a mirror. What we reflect in the world reflects what we believe we are. If we identify with the ego, the world reflects the ego’s denial of Love. We see it played out in images of attack, defense, guilt and fear. If we identify with our true Self, the world reflects the presence of Love. We see a world of kindness, helpfulness, patience and the free flow of Love’s expression.

In every moment we choose what we reflect in the world by what we identify with. In the coming year, let us join together in the resolution to reflect the Self that God created one with Him. We make way for this clear reflection by forgiving our mistaken identification with the ego. We resolve to let the Holy Spirit help us forgive the world for all we have believed it was. With each belief forgiven, we become a brighter mirror that reflects the healing of our mind and shares it with the world.

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Finding Joy in Our Relationships

My holiness shines bright and clear today.

Today I wake with joy, expecting but the happy things of God to come to me. ²I ask but them to come, and realize my invitation will be answered by the thoughts to which it has been sent by me. ³And I will ask for only joyous things the instant I accept my holiness. ⁴For what would be the use of pain to me, what purpose would my suffering fulfill, and how would grief and loss avail me if insanity departs from me today, and I accept my holiness instead?

Father, my holiness is Yours. ²Let me rejoice in it, and through forgiveness be restored to sanity. ³Your Son is still as You created him. ⁴My holiness is part of me, and also part of You. ⁵And what can alter Holiness Itself? (A Course in Miracles, W-285.1:1–2:5. See also ACIM Lesson 285 Insights.)

Joy is the natural state of our true Self. It is a condition we share with the one Self that joins us with every brother. If we are not experiencing this joy, it is because we have accepted an illusion of what we are instead of the Self God created one with Him.

Forgiveness is the means to release our misconceptions about Who we are. If our perception of a brother does not activate awareness of the joy we share, we need to forgive.

Today we ask of Holy Spirit,
Help me recognize the illusions I have substituted for my reality in God’s Love. Help me to let them go and remember the joy God wills for me in every relationship, including my relationship to Him.

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The Responsibility of a Miracle Worker

…the one responsibility of the miracle worker is to accept the Atonement for himself. ³The teacher of God is a miracle worker because he gives the gifts he has received. ⁴Yet he must first accept them. ⁵He need do no more, nor is there more that he could do. ⁶By accepting healing he can give it. ⁷If he doubts this, let him remember Who gave the gift and Who received it. ⁸Thus is his doubt corrected. ⁹He thought the gifts of God could be withdrawn. ¹⁰That was a mistake, but hardly one to stay with. ¹¹And so the teacher of God can only recognize it for what it is, and let it be corrected for him.

One of the most difficult temptations to recognize is that to doubt a healing because of the appearance of continuing symptoms is a mistake in the form of lack of trust. ²As such it is an attack. ³Usually it seems to be just the opposite. ⁴It does appear unreasonable at first to be told that continued concern is attack. ⁵It has all the appearances of love. ⁶Yet love without trust is impossible, and doubt and trust cannot coexist. ⁷And hate must be the opposite of love, regardless of the form it takes. ⁸Doubt not the gift and it is impossible to doubt its result. ⁹This is the certainty that gives God’s teachers the power to be miracle workers, for they have put their trust in Him. (A Course in Miracles, M-7.3:2–4:9)

While we identify with the body, we see our brothers as bodies. This perception interferes with our ability to bring Love to a brother who is calling for Love. We may recognize his call and offer Love from our hearts outwardly or within our mind.

But if we believe our brother is a body we will be tempted to look for the body to show signs that the Love has been received. We may look for a change in behavior or physical symptoms. But this is not the level at which healing happens. All healing is of the mind. To look for outward symptoms is a mistake stemming from our misidentification with a separate self.

The most important step in bringing Love to the world is to accept It for ourselves. As we let go of a mistaken belief about our identity, we become more open to God’s Love. Certainty comes with the acceptance of the changelessness of Love.

The more we are willing to accept Love as our Identity, the more effective we are as a miracle worker. We demonstrate through our acceptance that loss and lack are impossible. As we acknowledge the presence of Love in our brother, we support him in His awakening to his true Self. Whether or not he manifests signs of accepting Love is immaterial. The Love we see in him is given him by the Holy Spirit and saved for him until he is ready to accept It.

Today we call upon the Holy Spirit to help us clear away our mistaken doubts about the Love we are as God’s Son.

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Our Deepest Desire

Love created me like itself.

²I am in the likeness of my Creator. ³I cannot suffer, I cannot experience loss and I cannot die. ⁴I am not a body. ⁵I would recognize my reality today. ⁶I will worship no idols, nor raise my own self-concept to replace my Self. ⁷I am in the likeness of my Creator. ⁸Love created me like itself.

You might find these specific forms helpful in applying the idea:

²Let me not see an illusion of myself in this.
³As I look on this, let me remember my Creator.
⁴My Creator did not create this as I see it. (A Course in Miracles, W-84.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 84 Insights.)

Because our true Self is eternally united with and the same as God’s Love, It sees only Love. This means our true Self shares God’s undisturbable peace and joy beyond comprehension. The fact that we don’t experience this shows us that we are identifying with a false image of What we are. If we look on a brother as an image with the potential to harm us, we are seeing a reflection of what we believe we are.

Belief makes the appearance of reality, but the reality of the changeless Love we are is unchanged. We remain as Love created us. We have the means, given us by God, to release ourselves from our limited image of our identity.

Holy Spirit, help me see with Christ’s vision. I am willing to bring all my perceptions to You for Your loving correction. I want to remember my true Identity. With Your help, I will see my Identity reflected in the Love my brother is. It is my deepest desire to remember that I am Love and nothing else.

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The One Thought We Share with God

Peace to my mind. Let all my thoughts be still.

Father, I come to You today to seek the peace that You alone can give. ²I come in silence. ³In the quiet of my heart, the deep recesses of my mind, I wait and listen for Your Voice. ⁴My Father, speak to me today. ⁵I come to hear Your Voice in silence and in certainty and love, sure You will hear my call and answer me.

Now do we wait in quiet. ²God is here, because we wait together. ³I am sure that He will speak to you, and you will hear. ⁴Accept my confidence, for it is yours. ⁵Our minds are joined. ⁶We wait with one intent; to hear our Father’s answer to our call, to let our thoughts be still and find His peace, to hear Him speak to us of what we are, and to reveal Himself unto His Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-221.1:1–2:6. See also ACIM Lesson 221 Insights.)

Most of us experience a constant stream of thoughts in our mind. The Course tells us we are far too tolerant of mind wandering. The attention we give to the thoughts that stream in our mind blocks us from being aware of the one Thought we think with God.

God’s singular Thought, which He shares with His Son, is the Thought of Love. Within this Thought is the greatest joy and deepest peace that we could possibly experience. It is the condition in which our true Self dwells in the Heart of God. In every instant God welcomes us into His Home. But we must be willing to set aside the ego’s stream of distracting thoughts, even if it’s only for an instant. We prepare for this instant by quieting our mind, stepping back from the chaos of the world.

As we let the peace of God that dwells in us come forward in our mind, we join with the Holy Spirit’s Love that also dwells in every brother. In peace we experience God’s gift of Love’s oneness. We feel His strength supporting us. We remember we are being carried by His Love. Our hearts overflow with gratitude for God’s gifts. The Light of Love shines all around us and we experience the real world forgiveness reveals to us.

Today we seek to join with God’s one Thought. It will be a day blessed by Love.

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We Celebrate Christ in Everyone

You are a stranger here. ²But you belong to Him Who loves you as He loves Himself. ³Ask but my help to roll the stone away, and it is done according to His Will. ⁴We have begun the journey. ⁵Long ago the end was written in the stars and set into the Heavens with a shining Ray that held it safe within eternity and through all time as well. ⁶And holds it still; unchanged, unchanging and unchangeable.

Let us go out and meet the newborn world, knowing that Christ has been reborn in it, and that the holiness of this rebirth will last forever. ²We had lost our way but He has found it for us. ³Let us go and bid Him welcome Who returns to us to celebrate salvation and the end of all we thought we made. ⁴The morning star of this new day looks on a different world where God is welcomed and His Son with Him. ⁵We who complete Him offer thanks to Him, as He gives thanks to us. ⁶The Son is still, and in the quiet God has given him enters his home and is at peace at last. (A Course in Miracles, C-ep.2;5)

Today we celebrate the rebirth of Christ in our holy mind.

We lost our way in a dream of separation from Love. But Christ within, the Son of God, our true Self was never lost.

We make this day a celebration of Christ by accepting God’s Love for us and sharing It with the world. Judgment gives way to the joyous exchange of Love. Conflict is dispelled as the peace of God washes over us. Loneliness fades away as the joy of joining with the Love in every brother brings us Home to the Heart of God.

And we accept God’s eternal blessing.

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