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We Welcome God’s Ceaseless Love

Now do we come to Him with but His Word upon our minds and hearts, and wait for Him to take the step to us that He has told us, through His Voice, He would not fail to take when we invited Him.

⁵Sit silently and wait upon your Father. ⁶He has willed to come to you when you have recognized it is your will He do so.

²We have found the way He chose for us, and made the choice to follow it as He would have us go. ³His Hand has held us up. ⁴His Thoughts have lit the darkness of our minds. ⁵His Love has called to us unceasingly since time began.

…we need only call to God, and all temptations disappear. ³Instead of words, we need but feel His Love. ⁴Instead of prayers, we need but call His Name. ⁵Instead of judging, we need but be still and let all things be healed. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.in.4:1;5:5-6;8:2-5)

God’s Love flows to us unceasingly. If we don’t feel It, it is because we are giving our attention to the ego’s thoughts which refuse to accept His Love. But we can accept His Love simply by sitting quietly and letting our mind sink deeply into the peace within us. It is God’s peace. When we quiet our minds, we call upon God’s Love. We open the door to welcome It.

As we let ourselves welcome His Love, we feel His Hand supporting us and giving us His strength. The Light of His Love fills our mind so we can see clearly the presence of Love beyond the ego’s dark veil. We rest in peace because we rest in the certainty of God’s promise that we remain eternally united with Him.

Each time we call upon God’s Love, we feel His gentleness and kindness and express It in the world. We can never be alone. When we do not feel the comfort of His Love, we remember to call on Him to help us awaken to our true Self. His Voice answers with the clarity of true vision to show us that the Love we are is eternally united with the Love in all that Is.

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Returning to the Source of Peace and Joy

I seek but what belongs to me in truth.

Today’s idea continues with the thought that joy and peace are not but idle dreams. ²They are your right, because of what you are. ³They come to you from God, Who cannot fail to give you what He wills. ⁴Yet must there be a place made ready to receive His gifts. ⁵[Peace and joy] are not welcomed gladly by a mind that has instead received the gifts it made where His belong, as substitutes for them.

Today we would remove all meaningless and self-made gifts which we have placed upon the holy altar where God’s gifts belong. ²His [peace and joy] are the gifts that are our own in truth. ³His are the gifts that we inherited before time was, and that will still be ours when time has passed into eternity. ⁴His are the gifts that are within us now, for they are timeless. ⁵And we need not wait to have them. ⁶They belong to us today.

So do we clear the way for Him today by simply recognizing that His Will is done already, and that joy and peace belong to us as His eternal gifts. …we bring to mind as often as we can:

⁴I seek but what belongs to me in truth.
⁵God’s gifts of joy and peace are all I want. (A Course in Miracles, W-104.1–2;5:1,3-5. See also ACIM Lesson 104 Insights.)

As long as we identify with the ego and its goal, unhappiness, conflict and depression are inevitable because the ego’s primary goal is to seek and not find. The continuing dissatisfaction we experience following the ego’s directions can only lead to frustration, guilt and anger.

But we have another Guide Whose mission is to lead us to the memory of the gifts we have already received from God. He is the Guide to peace and joy guaranteed to be successful because it is God’s Will.

In myriad ways the Course tells us to follow Holy Spirit’s lead because it will always lead us to the truth. It will always lead us to what we really want—peace and joy.

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Awakening to Heaven’s Happiness and Peace

Heaven is the decision I must make.

Heaven is chosen consciously. ²The choice cannot be made until alternatives are accurately seen and understood. ³All that is veiled in shadows must be raised to understanding, to be judged again, this time with Heaven’s help. ⁴And all mistakes in judgment that the mind had made before are open to correction, as the truth dismisses them as causeless. ⁵Now are they without effects. ⁶They cannot be concealed, because their nothingness is recognized.

The conscious choice of Heaven is as sure as is the ending of the fear of hell, when [hell] is raised from its protective shield of unawareness, and is brought to light.

We make the choice for Heaven as we wake, and spend five minutes making sure that we have made the one decision that is sane. ²We recognize we make a conscious choice between what has existence and what has nothing but an appearance of the truth.

Before we close our eyes in sleep tonight, we reaffirm the choice that we have made each hour in between. ²And now we give the last five minutes of our waking day to the decision with which we awoke. ³As every hour passed, we have declared our choice again, in a brief quiet time devoted to maintaining sanity. ⁴And finally, we close the day with this, acknowledging we chose but what we want:

⁵Heaven is the decision I must make. ⁶I make it now, and will not change my mind, because it is the only thing I want. (A Course in Miracles, W-138.9:1–10:1;11:1-2;12. See also ACIM Lesson 138 Insights.)

We make the choice for Heaven when we choose to actively listen to the Holy Spirit. He will teach us to understand our mistaken choices in the world. With this understanding we will recognize that choosing separation in the world brings us nothing that we really want.

We will learn that we have chosen empty illusions with no meaning or value and freely let them go as valueless. Without interference by mistaken values, we awaken to the Heaven of God’s Love. Truth replaces illusions that were hidden beneath unconscious choices for the meaningless.

We make the decision for Heaven by actively listening to the Holy Spirit’s lessons in Love, moment by moment throughout the day, every day.

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