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We Are at Home Only in the Peace of God

²The peace of God is everything I want. ³The peace of God is my one goal; the aim of all my living here, the end I seek, my purpose and my function and my life, while I abide where I am not at home.

²I am entrusted with the gifts of God, because I am His Son. ³And I would give His gifts where He intended them to be.

⁴I am not a body. ⁵I am free.
⁶For I am still as God created me. (A Course in Miracles, W-205.1:2-3. 206.1:2-6. See also ACIM Lesson 205 Insights.)

The ego is the master identity thief. Our acceptance of its offering of a substitute identity has usurped our Identity as God’s Son. This fake identity is the cause of all forms of suffering in the world we see. God does not will His Son to suffer. He gave His Son all of His peace in his Creation.

While we believe we are a body, our only meaningful goal is to seek God’s peace. When we accept His peace, we accept our true Identity. When we remember we are not a body and still as God created us, we awaken to the Reality of our Home in God’s Love.

As we look upon the world with its seeming conflicts and strife, we need to remind ourselves that this is not our Home. We still dwell in the peace and Love of God.

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Joining Together as Messengers of Peace

We ask for rest today, and quietness unshaken by the world’s appearances. ²We ask for peace and stillness, in the midst of all the turmoil born of clashing dreams. ³We ask for safety and for happiness, although we seem to look on danger and on sorrow.

“I rest in God.” ²This thought will bring to you the rest and quiet, peace and stillness, and the safety and the happiness you seek. ³“I rest in God.” ⁴This thought has power to wake the sleeping truth in you, whose vision sees beyond appearances to that same truth in everyone and everything there is.

You rest within the peace of God today, and call upon your brothers from your rest to draw them to their rest, along with you. ²You will be faithful to your trust today, forgetting no one, bringing everyone into the boundless circle of your peace, the holy sanctuary where you rest. ³Open the temple doors and let them come from far across the world, and near as well; your distant brothers and your closest friends; bid them all enter here and rest with you. (A Course in Miracles, W-109.1:1-3;2:1-4;8. See also ACIM Lesson 109 Insights.)

Each of us can do our part to bring healing to the clashing dreams of the world. As we remember and accept that we rest in God, we become messengers of His peace. If we perceive something in the world that disturbs us, it is time to step back and quiet our mind. Let it sink deeply into the peace within.

As we welcome peace, we feel the safety and certainty of God’s Love. This is our true Home. From this center of peace, we see with Christ’s vision that no conflict can bring harm to God’s Sons. Everyone remains eternally held in the presence of His Love. He has not abandoned His Son.

Every Son remains eternally united in the Oneness of God’s Love. This is where we live and have our being. As we join together to hold this thought, we bring healing to the world’s dream of fear and guilt, lack and loss. Let us join together as messengers of peace today.

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Seeing God’s Love in Every Brother

God is my Father, and He loves His Son.

My true Identity is so secure, so lofty, sinless, glorious and great, wholly beneficent and free from guilt, that Heaven looks to It to give it light. ²It lights the world as well. ³It is the gift my Father gave to me; the one as well I give the world. ⁴There is no gift but this that can be either given or received. ⁵This is reality, and only this. ⁶This is illusion’s end. ⁷It is the truth.

My Name, O Father, still is known to You. ²I have forgotten It, and do not know where I am going, who I am, or what it is I do. ³Remind me, Father, now, for I am weary of the world I see. ⁴Reveal what You would have me see instead. (A Course in Miracles, W-224. See also ACIM Lesson 224 Insights.)

When we identify with the ego and the body it made, we believe what the bodies eyes see is real. What happens to bodies seems real. But we are told we are not a body. It was not created by God. What God created as His Son is an extension of His Love. It has no form but lasts forever, unchanged and at one with God. This is our Identity.

Christ’s vision overlooks the body and sees God’s Love in every brother. This recognition shows us the Love of God that is our true Self.

Today we call upon His Voice to guide us to see the Truth and overlook appearances made by the ego. The sameness of God’s Love brings us peace. Our extension of His Love brings us joy. As we perceive His Love reflected in the world we remember the Love we are, forever at Home in the Heaven of God’s Love.

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Choosing to Receive God’s Gifts

This day is God’s. It is my gift to Him.

I will not lead my life alone today. ²I do not understand the world, and so to try to lead my life alone must be but foolishness. ³But there is One Who knows all that is best for me. ⁴And He is glad to make no choices for me but the ones that lead to God. ⁵I give this day to Him, for I would not delay my coming home, and it is He Who knows the way to God.

And so we give today to You. ²We come with wholly open minds. ³We do not ask for anything that we may think we want. ⁴Give us what You would have received by us. ⁵You know all our desires and our wants. ⁶And You will give us everything we need in helping us to find the way to You. (A Course in Miracles, W-242. See also ACIM Lesson 242 Insights.)

The ego is in constant competition with God. It has an endless list of demands for what it needs to maintain specialness. But these demands block us from receiving the gifts of limitless joy and Love that God extends to us. He holds nothing back but we must extend His gifts to know we have them. The ego wants only what it can keep for itself alone. This God cannot give.

God’s gifts are ours now and forever. To know that we have them we need to have an open mind free of demands that His gifts come in a form we like. Of ourself alone we do not know what will bring us happiness and peace, but the Holy Spirit does.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit with an open mind and welcoming hands to choose for us the gifts God that lead us Home.

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Remembering the Thought of Love We Are

The way to recognize your brother is by recognizing the Holy Spirit in him. ²I have already said that the Holy Spirit is the Bridge for the transfer of perception to knowledge…

The Holy Spirit is the idea of healing. ²Being thought, the idea gains as it is shared. ³Being the Call for God, it is also the idea of God. ⁴Since you are part of God it is also the idea of yourself, as well as of all His creations. ⁵The idea of the Holy Spirit… is strengthened by being given away. ⁷It increases in you as you give it to your brother. ⁸Your brother does not have to be aware of the Holy Spirit in himself or in you for this miracle to occur. ⁹He may have dissociated the Call for God, just as you have. ¹⁰This dissociation is healed in both of you as you become aware of the Call for God in him, and thus acknowledge Its being.

⁴See [your brother] through the Holy Spirit in his mind, and you will recognize Him in yours. ⁵What you acknowledge in your brother you are acknowledging in yourself, and what you share you strengthen.

⁵The Holy Spirit has the task of undoing what the ego has made. ⁶He undoes it at the same level on which the ego operates, or the mind would be unable to understand the change. (A Course in Miracles, T-5.III.1:1-2;2;3:4-5;5:5-6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The principal that ideas do not leave their source is the key to understanding that we, His Son, are God’s idea. This idea is the Thought of Love. God is only Love so His only Thought is Love. His Will is to share this Thought yet It remains held within His Mind. The shared Thought of Love created His extension, His Son with all His attributes. The attribute of sharing makes the Thought of Love extend forever.

The ego is the wish not to share and therefore cannot know the Reality of Love. While we identify with the ego’s wish for separation and specialness, we cannot experience or know Love. The wish to not share stands as a wall that guards us from the intrusion of Love. This wall is held in place only by a belief.

God gave us the Holy Spirit as a Bridge to transcend the wall the ego hides behind. Because of our engagement with the ego, we cannot understand the oneness and changelessness of God’s Love. But as a Bridge, the Holy Spirit translates the reality of Love into forms we can grasp while we believe we are within the limited perspective of the ego.

To connect with this bridge we must welcome peace into our mind. The Holy Spirit is dwells in peace. When we welcome His peace, we can recognize the Holy Spirit in our brothers. With His help, the barriers we have accepted that separate us from our brothers are undone.

Today we practice welcoming peace to let the Holy Spirit help us forgive our mistaken beliefs. As we accept the Holy Spirit’s undoing of our false beliefs, we remember the Thought of Love that is our true Self.

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Letting Love Guide Our Thoughts Brings Miracles

Sickness is but another name for sin.
Healing is but another name for God.
The miracle is thus a call to Him.

Father, You promised You would never fail to answer any call Your Son might make to You. ²It does not matter where he is, what seems to be his problem, nor what he believes he has become. ³He is Your Son, and You will answer him. ⁴The miracle reflects Your Love, and thus it answers him. ⁵Your Name replaces every thought of sin, and who is sinless cannot suffer pain. ⁶Your Name gives answer to Your Son, because to call Your Name is but to call his own. (A Course in Miracles, W-356. See also ACIM Lesson 356 Insights.)

The mind that believes separation is real is sick indeed. This belief denies the Will of God, and therefore denies Reality. Only a sick mind, an insane mind, could believe in the reality of what could never be real. Because Love is one, indivisible and the only Reality, believing in anything else is believing the unreal is real. This is the definition of insanity.

Our real Mind, the Mind at one with God, is eternally united in the oneness of God’s Love. As we let Love guide all our thoughts, the sick thoughts of separation, and the guilt and fear they engender, fade away into the nothing from which they came. The Light of Love illuminates our mind. We see that Light in our brothers and learn from Its reflection the Light that is in us. Together in our unity we remember God. This is the change of mind the miracle brings.

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Freeing Our Mind from Barriers to Love

I loose the world from all I thought it was.

What keeps the world in chains but your beliefs? ²And what can save the world except your Self? ³Belief is powerful indeed. ⁴The thoughts you hold are mighty, and illusions are as strong in their effects as is the truth.

Yet is salvation easily achieved, for anyone is free to change his mind, and all his thoughts change with it. ²Now the source of thought has shifted, for to change your mind means you have changed the source of all ideas you think or ever thought or yet will think. ³You free the past from what you thought before. ⁴You free the future from all ancient thoughts of seeking what you do not want to find.

The present now remains the only time. ²Here in the present is the world set free. ³For as you let the past be lifted and release the future from your ancient fears, you find escape and give it to the world.

The world is nothing in itself. ²Your mind must give it meaning. ³And what you behold upon it are your wishes, acted out so you can look on them and think them real.

There is no world apart from what you wish, and herein lies your ultimate release. ²Change but your mind on what you want to see, and all the world must change accordingly. ³Ideas leave not their source. (A Course in Miracles, W-132.1:1-4;2:1–3:3;4:1-3;5:1-3. See also ACIM Lesson 132 Insights.)

The world we see is built on the foundation of a wish for specialness. Specialness only seems possible when differences are believed to be real. The oneness of Love leaves no room for differences. In Love’s oneness only Love is known, for only Love is real.

The mind healing the Course offers us is the shift from the wish for specialness to acceptance of our true Self, forever united in the Mind of God. Forgiveness is the means for release from our mistaken belief. This belief in separation stands as a barrier against the truth. By the grace of God, beliefs cannot change Reality. But they can hide It from our awareness.

Our only meaningful function in this world is to forgive our thoughts based on the wish for specialness. We call upon the Holy Spirit to help us release our mistaken beliefs, for we would be free to join in the oneness of Love.

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