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Choosing the Truth That Leads Us Home

What can correct illusions but the truth? ²And what are errors but illusions that remain unrecognized for what they are? ³Where truth has entered errors disappear. ⁴They merely vanish, leaving not a trace by which to be remembered. ⁵[Illusions] are gone because, without belief, they have no life. ⁶And so they disappear to nothingness, returning whence they came. ⁷From dust to dust they come and go, for only truth remains.

Can you imagine what a state of mind without illusions is? ²How it would feel? ³Try to remember when there was a time,—perhaps a minute, maybe even less—when nothing came to interrupt your peace; when you were certain you were loved and safe.

Begin by asking Him Who goes with you upon this undertaking that He be in your awareness as you go with Him.

…make your pledge to let His function be fulfilled through you. ³To share His function is to share His joy. ⁴His confidence is with you, as you say:

⁵Truth will correct all errors in my mind,
and I will rest in Him Who is my Self.

⁶Then let Him lead you gently to the truth, which will envelop you and give you peace so deep and tranquil that you will return to the familiar world reluctantly.

And yet you will be glad to look again upon this world. ²For you will bring with you the promise of the changes which the truth that goes with you will carry to the world. (A Course in Miracles, W-107.1:1–2:3;8:1;9:2–10:2. See also ACIM Lesson 107 Insights.)

The gift we receive for accepting truth in our mind to correct all errors is far beyond our limited imagination. By definition, imagination is image-making, which denys the truth. Love cannot be limited to an image. But even our limited imagination can be used by the Holy Spirit to motivate us to choose truth in place of illusions, to choose God’s gift of Love instead of the ego’s denial.

We have been given a Helper to show us how to welcome truth in our mind. We choose truth today by committing to follow the Holy Spirit’s lead in our thoughts and actions. We want the certainty of our safety that comes with accepting the truth that we are Love and nothing else. We want the joy and peace of mind it offers. We went to remember the Home God has held open to us, for we would remember that we are His Son, forever loved and loving.

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Finding Our Safety in God’s Love

The holy Christ is born in me today.

Watch with me, angels, watch with me today. ²Let all God’s holy Thoughts surround me, and be still with me while Heaven’s Son is born. ³Let earthly sounds be quiet, and the sights to which I am accustomed disappear. ⁴Let Christ be welcomed where He is at home. ⁵And let Him hear the sounds He understands, and see but sights that show His Father’s Love. ⁶Let Him no longer be a stranger here, for He is born again in me today.

Your Son is welcome, Father. ²He has come to save me from the evil [loveless] self I made. ³He is the Self that You have given me. ⁴He is but what I really am in truth. ⁵He is the Son You love above all things. ⁶He is my Self as You created me. ⁷It is not Christ that can be crucified. ⁸Safe in Your Arms let me receive Your Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-303. See also ACIM Lesson 303 Insights.)

Everyone in the world wants to be safe. If we accept the ego as our identity, we will seek for safety through inappropriate means, guaranteed not to work. Our only source of safety is rejected by the ego. It does not want the oneness of God’s Love.

Today we are reminded that Love walks with us everywhere and always. Love’s changelessness is the safety we seek in truth. The certainty of God’s unlimited Love offers comfort, security, happiness and peace. We need not seek for God’s Love, for it is already given us. But we do need to seek out our self-made barriers that hide the eternal presence of Love.

There is no need to be afraid of uncovering these barriers, because the Holy Spirit is with us. His sole purpose is to help us forgive these mistaken barriers. He shows us they have no substance in truth. He is the truth in us that guides us to the full remembrance of the Love we are. With His help the barriers fade away and we rest in the comfort and happiness of the Love we are, at one with God.

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Accepting God’s World of Love

Father, unless I judge I cannot weep. ²Nor can I suffer pain, or feel I am abandoned or unneeded in the world. ³[Your world] is my home because I judge it not, and therefore is it only what You will. ⁴Let me today behold [Your world] uncondemned, through happy eyes forgiveness has released from all distortion. ⁵Let me see Your world instead of mine. ⁶And all the tears I shed will be forgotten, for their source is gone. ⁷Father, I will not judge Your world today.

God’s world is happy. ²Those who look on it can only add their joy to it, and bless it as a cause of further joy in them. ³We wept because we did not understand. ⁴But we have learned the world we saw was false, and we will look upon God’s world today. (A Course in Miracles, W-301. See also ACIM Lesson 301 Insights.)

Our wish for specialness produces a projected world of separation and differences. There can be no difference in the oneness of God’s Love. It is the same everywhere and always. To maintain the illusions of specialness, we must judge the world. This judgment puts a dark veil over the Light of Love. On this veil we project images of a false world where conflict and loss are possible and guilt and fear are inevitable. This is the world we see while we want specialness. It is not God’s world.

God’s world is Love. It is wholly joyous and peaceful. We see this world when we forgive and withdraw our judgments on His World. As we accept the World of Love God has given us, sadness, guilt and fear fade away. And our life is filled with happy laughter and peace of mind.

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The Choice to Heal Our Misperceptions

Let not my world obscure the sight of Christ.

I can obscure my holy sight, if I intrude my world upon it. ²Nor can I behold the holy sights Christ looks upon, unless it is His vision that I use. ³Perception is a mirror, not a fact. ⁴And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward. ⁵I would bless the world by looking on it through the eyes of Christ. ⁶And I will look upon the certain signs that all my sins [thoughts of separation] have been forgiven me.

You lead me from the darkness to the light; from sin to holiness [separation to oneness]. ²Let me forgive, and thus receive salvation for the world. ³It is Your gift, my Father, given me to offer to Your holy Son, that he may find again the memory of You, and of Your Son as You created him. (A Course in Miracles, W-304. See also ACIM Lesson 304 Insights.)

It is very helpful to remember that everything we perceive in the world is a reflection of our state of mind. What we do with this recognition will either keep us in the dream of fear and guilt or will be used as an opportunity to forgive and let go of misperceptions.

Which of these options we choose depends upon what we value. If it is important to us that we judge our perceptions as either good or bad, right or wrong, we will maintain the dream of being separate in our mind.

But if we truly want the peace of God, we will accept the Holy Spirit’s help to see with Christ’s vision. With His help, we will see that beyond the perceptions projected in the world lies the unity of God’s Love which keeps us eternally joined in His peace. With this choice, we free ourselves from the limitations of the ego thought system.

The Light of Love shines brighter in our mind and we see Love reflected to us in the world. Fear diminishes. Peace grows stronger. We walk in gratitude and joy as we see the Love in our brothers That joins us as God’s one Son.

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Manifesting Christ in the World

The Christ in you inhabits not a body. ²Yet He is in you. ³And thus it must be that you are not within a body. ⁴What is within you cannot be outside. ⁵And it is certain that you cannot be apart from what is at the very center of your life. ⁶What gives you life cannot be housed in death. ⁷No more can you. ⁸Christ is within a frame of Holiness whose only purpose is that He may be made manifest to those who know Him not, that He may call to them to come to Him and see Him where they thought their bodies were. ⁹Then will their bodies melt away, that they may frame His Holiness in them.

No one who carries Christ in him can fail to recognize Him everywhere. ²Except in bodies. ³And as long as he believes he is in a body, where he thinks he is [Christ] cannot be. ⁴And so he carries Him unknowingly, and does not make Him manifest.

The body needs no healing. ²But the mind that thinks it is a body is sick indeed! ³And it is here [in the mind] that Christ sets forth the remedy. ⁴His purpose folds the body in His light, and fills it with the Holiness that shines from Him. ⁵And nothing that the body says or does but makes [Christ] manifest. ⁶To those who know Him not [the body] carries Him in gentleness and love, to heal their minds. ⁷Such is the mission that your brother has for you. ⁸And such it must be that your mission is for him. A Course in Miracles, T-25.in.1:1–2:4;3. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The Course tells us to ask of everything, “What is it for?” This includes asking, “What is the body for?” While specialness is our wish, the body is used to maintain the illusion that separation is real. The body cannot see beyond the images of the world which seem to make separation real. This is its purpose as long as we choose the body as our identity.

The body is given another purpose when we choose to accept the Christ That dwells in our mind. Christ is our true Self, the Son of God, forever united with our Creator. When we choose our true Self as our Identity we manifest Christ in the world. We become messengers of Love and peace. We walk in joy, for we have accepted the truth of What we are. When we demonstrate Christ to our brothers we help them see Him in themselves and remember Christ in our own mind.

Today we choose to identify with Christ in our mind and let Love be our Guide. With this dedication, we will bring healing to our world, for we accept Christ’s healing in our mind.

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Being Vigilant to Honor Our True Self

Whom God created limitless is free. ²I can invent imprisonment for him, but only in illusions, not in truth. ³No Thought of God has left its Father’s Mind. ⁴No Thought of God is limited at all. ⁵No Thought of God but is forever pure. ⁶Can I lay limits on the Son of God, whose Father willed that he be limitless, and like Himself in freedom and in love?

Today let me give honor to Your Son, for thus alone I find the way to You. ²Father, I lay no limits on the Son You love and You created limitless. ³The honor that I give to him is Yours, and what is Yours belongs to me as well. (A Course in Miracles, W-280. See also ACIM Lesson 280 Insights.)

To honor God’s Son we need to see the truth in him, which is the truth in ourselves. Our judgments block us from recognizing the truth. Love is the only truth because only Love is real. Love does not condemn so whenever we judge, we are dishonoring Love.

Today we can honor Love by being vigilant for Love. This vigilance will bring us peace and happiness, which are attributes of Love. With vigilance, our unforgiving thoughts of judgment will alert us by the disturbance they bring to our mind.

The consistent practice of bringing our disturbing thoughts to the Holy Spirit for His help to forgive them and let them go will honor God’s Son. As we let go of limitations imposed by our mistaken beliefs, the Love we are as God’s one Son is allowed to shine through the veil of judgment.

Today we practice with vigilance to let the veil be lifted and awaken to the Self God loves as His Son.

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The Means to Remember God’s Peace

Freedom is given you where you beheld but chains and iron doors. ²But you must change your mind about the purpose of the world, if you would find escape. ³You will be bound till all the world is seen by you as blessed, and everyone made free of your mistakes and honored as he is. ⁴You made him not; no more yourself. ⁵And as you free the one, the other is accepted as he is.

There is no peace except the peace of God, because He has one Son who cannot make a world in opposition to God’s Will and to his own, which is the same as His.

Peace is the bridge that everyone will cross, to leave this world behind. ²But peace begins within the world perceived as different, and leading from this fresh perception to the gate of Heaven and the way beyond. ³Peace is the answer to conflicting goals, to senseless journeys, frantic, vain pursuits, and meaningless endeavors. ⁴Now the way is easy, sloping gently toward the bridge where freedom lies within the peace of God. (A Course in Miracles, W-200.5;7:1;8. See also ACIM Lesson 200 Insights.)

To honor our brother as he is, we must perceive him as Love. The body still sees the brother as a body.

But with true perception, we overlook the body and what it appears to do, remembering he is Love and nothing else.

The world is populated by perceptions that originate in our own mind. Thus the perception of our brothers reflects back to us what we believe about ourselves. The recognition of this reflection is key to our healing of our disordered mind. It shows us our mistaken beliefs that need to be healed. As we let the Holy Spirit help us heal our misperceptions of our brothers, our own mind is healed. The unity we share with our brother is accepted.

As we join with the Holy Spirit’s purpose, the world becomes our classroom in which we learn to let go of our mistaken wishes for specialness in all its forms. Every encounter is holy when we let the Holy Spirit use it as a teaching opportunity and accept His lesson. This is the purpose for our journey now. It is the means to remember the peace of God is our Home.

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