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Remembering the Limitless Love We Are

⁶Ideas leave not their source. ⁷The emphasis this course has placed on that idea is due to its centrality in our attempts to change your mind about yourself. ⁸It is the reason you can heal. ⁹It is the cause of healing. ¹⁰It is why you cannot die. ¹¹Its truth established you as one with God.

Let us today be children of the truth, and not deny our holy heritage. ²Our life is not as we imagine it. ³Who changes life because he shuts his eyes, or makes himself what he is not because he sleeps, and sees in dreams an opposite to what he is? ⁴We will not ask for death in any form today. ⁵Nor will we let imagined opposites to life abide even an instant where the Thought of life eternal has been set by God Himself.

His holy home we strive to keep today as He established it, and wills it be forever and forever. ²He is Lord of what we think today. ³And in His Thoughts, which have no opposite, we understand there is one life, and that we share with Him,… (A Course in Miracles, W-167.3:6-11;10:1–11:3. See also ACIM Lesson 167 Insights.)

When we identify with the ego and the body image it made, it does not seem that we are a Thought in the Mind of God. The body image is a barrier that seems to house a separate mind, impervious to the Will of God. This is the way the ego protects itself from God’s Love. The ego fears Love because Its Presence would make the wish for specialness recognizable as insane. Who but the insane would wish for conflict, danger, lovelessness and loss when they have been given limitless Love, peace that cannot be disturbed and indescribable joy?

We have been given the Holy Spirit to lead us out of our insanity. Lovingly and gently He guides us to recognize the foolishness of wishing for specialness in the presence of limitless Love. With His help we learn that what we really want is to be what we were created to be — Love and nothing else. As we accept this, we are accepting our true Life, the Life we live in God’s Love.

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Releasing the Grievances That Imprison Us

²Because your grievances are hiding the light of the world in you, everyone stands in darkness, and you beside him. ³But as the veil of your grievances is lifted, you are released with him. ⁴Share your salvation now with him who stood beside you when you were in hell. ⁵He is your brother in the light of the world that saves you both.

²Salvation is our only need. ³There is no other purpose here, and no other function to fulfill. ⁴Learning salvation is our only goal. ⁵Let us end the ancient search today by finding the light in us, and holding it up for everyone who searches with us to look upon and rejoice.

²Your little effort and small determination [to find the light] call on the power of the universe to help you, and God Himself will raise you from darkness into light. ³You are in accord with His Will. ⁴You cannot fail because your will is His.

…what you undertake with God must succeed. ⁶Then let the power of God work in you and through you, that His Will and yours be done.

⁴My grievances hide the light of the world in me. ⁵I cannot see what I have hidden. ⁶Yet I want to let it be revealed to me, for my salvation and the salvation of the world. (A Course in Miracles, W-69.1:2-5;3:2-5;7:2-4;8:5-6;9:4-6. See also ACIM Lesson 69 Insights.)

Judgment imprisons those who judge. To maintain justification for their judgments, they must believe they are a body with a separate mind. This is the jail that seems to keep the Son of God in a loveless world of darkness. There Love is absent and fear and guilt are Love’s replacement.

Yet beyond the darkness lies the eternal Light of God, forever united with His Son, our true Self. This Light is hidden only by our mistaken beliefs. We free ourselves from the hell of isolation by letting God help us find His Light within. His strength supports our efforts. We cannot fail, for He is with us.

Today we choose to let the Light and strength of God help us let go of our grievances. With His help, we are restored to the certainty that we share God’s Will for perfect peace and happiness for His Son. The jailhouse door is open and we walk free with the Love of God beside us and in us, along with all our brothers.

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Fulfilling Our Function of Salvation

⁷Salvation is my only function here.
⁸God still is Love, and this is not His Will.

³Your Father loves you. ⁴All the world of pain is not His Will. ⁵Forgive yourself the thought He wanted this for you. ⁶Then let the Thought with which He has replaced all your mistakes enter the darkened places of your mind that thought the thoughts that never were His Will.

³Let in the light, and you will look upon no obstacle to what He wills for you. ⁴Open your secrets to His kindly light, and see how bright this light still shines in you.

Practice His Thought today, and let His Light seek out and lighten up all darkened spots, and shine through them to join them to the rest. ²It is God’s Will your mind be one with His. ³It is God’s Will that He has but one Son. ⁴It is God’s Will that His one Son is you. (A Course in Miracles, W-99.6:7-8;7:3-6;8:3–9:4). See also ACIM Lesson 99 Insights.

The ego teaches that it is God’s Will that we suffer, that God is judgmental and will condemn us to death because we have sinned against Him. All this is a decoy to hide the fact that what the ego projects on God is what it wants for us. The ego wants us dead, the ultimate “proof” that it has prevailed against God. This is the ego’s ideal dream. But we can awaken from this dream of pain, guilt, fear and death because it is not God’s Will for us.

God’s Will is Love and nothing else. The truth in us is God’s Son to Whom He gives all of His Love, without limit nor end. The acceptance of this fact is our salvation. It frees us from the ego’s dark thoughts which deny the Light of Love that is forever ours.

Today we take time to open our mind to God’s Light. We let It fill our mind and shine away the shadows of fear and guilt. We let It comfort us in Its sure protection. We let Love’s peace flow through us and feel Its blessing as we share It with the world. Thus do we fulfill our function of salvation.

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Replacing the Ego’s Projections with True Perception

Let me remember what my purpose is.

If I forget my goal I can be but confused, unsure of what I am, and thus conflicted in my actions. ²No one can serve contradicting goals and serve them well. ³Nor can he function without deep distress and great depression. ⁴Let us therefore be determined to remember what we want today, that we may unify our thoughts and actions meaningfully, and achieve only what God would have us do this day.

Father, forgiveness is Your chosen means for our salvation. ²Let us not forget today that we can have no will but Yours. ³And thus our purpose must be Yours as well, if we would reach the peace You will for us. (A Course in Miracles, W-257. See also ACIM Lesson 257 Insights.)

If our will is the same as God’s Will, our purpose must be to extend His gift of peace, joy and Love. As we accept our true Will, the certainty of our changeless, true Self dispels the conflict and certainty in the world.

Our practice today is to give our true Will priority. We ask the Holy Spirit to help us see the Presence of Love beyond appearances in the world. We ask His help to let go of the mistaken beliefs which cloud our vision. We accept His help by bringing all our perceptions to Him with willingness to accept His true perception in their place.

As we do this, we learn to disregard the ego’s projections and join with our brothers in the joyous giving and receiving of God’s gifts. This is our path to peace and happiness in the certainty of God’s Love.

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The Practice That Leads to Heaven

⁷Never forget the Love of God, Who has remembered you. ⁸For it is quite impossible that He could ever let His Son drop from the loving Mind wherein he was created, and where his abode was fixed in perfect peace forever.

Say to the Holy Spirit only, “Decide for me,” and it is done. ²For His decisions are reflections of what God knows about you, and in this light, error of any kind becomes impossible. ³Why would you struggle so frantically to anticipate all you cannot know, when all knowledge lies behind every decision the Holy Spirit makes for you? ⁴Learn of His wisdom and His Love, and teach His answer to everyone who struggles in the dark. ⁵For you decide for them and for yourself.

Whenever you are in doubt what you should do, think of His Presence in you, and tell yourself this, and only this:

²He leadeth me and knows the way, which I know not.
³Yet He will never keep from me what He would have me learn.
⁴And so I trust Him to communicate to me all that He knows for me.

⁵Then let Him teach you quietly how to perceive your guiltlessness, which is already there. (A Course in Miracles, T-14.III.15:7–16:5;19:1-5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Nothing is worthy of our trust in the world because nothing we perceive is real. This is why experiencing the peace of God in the world is impossible as long as we believe separation and specialness are real.

Yet it is possible to learn what can be truly trusted if we accept the Holy Spirit’s help in everything we think, say and do. We have trained ourselves to trust in what is untrustworthy. Now we need to unlearn this mistaken trust.

We need to reinforce a new habit of welcoming the Holy Spirit’s help every day, all day. This new habit requires reinforcement again and again daily. It is a practice that leads us to the peace of God. It leads to the experience of God’s Love that far exceeds anything we can experience in this world. It leads to forgiving the world for all we thought it was and awakening to our Home in Heaven. Let’s join in this practice today.

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Accepting Perfect Happiness

…sin [separation] is not real, and all that you believe must come from sin will never happen, for it has no cause. ³Accept Atonement with an open mind, which cherishes no lingering belief that you have made a devil of God’s Son. ⁴There is no sin. ⁵We practice with this thought as often as we can today, because it is the basis for today’s idea.

God’s Will for you is perfect happiness because there is no sin, and suffering is causeless. ²Joy is just, and pain is but the sign you have misunderstood yourself. ³Fear not the Will of God. ⁴But turn to It in confidence that [God’s Will] will set you free from all the consequences sin has wrought in feverish imagination. ⁵Say:

⁶God’s Will for me is perfect happiness.
⁷There is no sin; it has no consequence.

³You are set on freedom’s road, and now today’s idea brings wings to speed you on, and hope to go still faster to the waiting goal of peace. ⁴There is no sin. ⁵Remember this today, and tell yourself as often as you can:

⁶God’s Will for me is perfect happiness.
⁷This is the truth, because there is no sin. (A Course in Miracles, W-101.5:2–6:7;7:3-7. See also ACIM Lesson 101 Insights.)

The cause of all our fear and guilt is the mistaken belief that we have changed what God created as His Son. We have accepted a false identity in a dream that could never be real. All the pain and lovelessness that we experience in the world is not God’s Will for His Son, our true Self.

God’s Will for us is perfect happiness. The fact that we do not experience His joy does not mean He has changed His Will. It only means that we are refusing to accept His Will because we believe separation and specialness is more to our liking. To avoid acknowledging the price we pay for this preference, the ego directs us to project our belief on an outside world. This is the ego’s sleight of hand to hide the fact that it is only our mistaken belief that denies the Love and joy that is God’s Will for us.

We need to remember that joy and peace are God’s Will for us. The acceptance of this fact is our release from the hell of the ego’s denial.

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Bringing Joy to the World

Projection makes perception. ²The world you see is what you gave it, nothing more than that. ³But though it is no more than that, it is not less. ⁴Therefore, to you it is important. ⁵It is the witness to your state of mind, the outside picture of an inward condition. ⁶As a man thinketh, so does he perceive. ⁷Therefore, seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. ⁸Perception is a result and not a cause. ⁹And that is why order of difficulty in miracles is meaningless. ¹⁰Everything looked upon with vision is healed and holy. ¹¹Nothing perceived without it means anything. ¹²And where there is no meaning, there is chaos.

⁷The world you see but shows you how much joy you have allowed yourself to see in you, and to accept as yours. ⁸And, if this is its meaning, then the power to give [the world] joy must lie within you. (A Course in Miracles, T-21.in.1;2:7-8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The world we perceive gives us constant immediate feedback about what we believe about ourselves. This is why all things are lessons God would have us learn. To learn His lessons, we must be willing to accept the Holy Spirit’s guidance and vision. If we are willing, He will teach us to see the unchanging presence of Love beyond appearances of chaos, lack and loss.

Today we remind ourselves that we want to learn the Holy Spirit’s lessons. We want the joy and peace we will perceive when we let His vision replace our perceptions of limitation and lack of love. We are willing to accept the truth of our true Self and lay aside the false image we have accepted from the ego. Joy and peace and Love are ours now and we would bring them to the world.

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