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Remembering We Are God’s Son

God is the only goal I have today.

The way to God is through forgiveness here. ²There is no other way. ³If sin had not been cherished by the mind, what need would there have been to find the way to where you are? ⁴Who would still be uncertain? ⁵Who could be unsure of who he is? ⁶And who would yet remain asleep, in heavy clouds of doubt about the holiness of him whom God created sinless? ⁷Here we can but dream. ⁸But we can dream we have forgiven him in whom all sin remains impossible, and it is this we choose to dream today. ⁹God is our goal; forgiveness is the means by which our minds return to Him at last.

And so, our Father, would we come to You in Your appointed way. ²We have no goal except to hear Your Voice, and find the way Your sacred Word has pointed out to us. (A Course in Miracles, W-256. See also ACIM Lesson 256 Insights.)

The path of return to God is singular. We must forgive — let go of — our dream of individuality, differences and specialness. There is no other way. Only our belief in what could never be true hides from our awareness the fact that we share God’s Love. These beliefs have put us to sleep to dream of a world that is completely opposite to the Reality of the Life we live in God.

We are not asked to forgive the dream on our own. We have been given the Holy Spirit in our mind to Whom we can turn in every moment for help in letting go of our mistaken beliefs. He will teach us that we are not weak and vulnerable but strong in the certainty of God’s Love. He shines the Light of Love on every mistaken belief when we are willing to accept It.

In His Light the veil of false beliefs dissolves and we see the Love that unites us with every brother and our Creator. We learn that we are safe, innocent, loved and loving. We remember we are God’s Son.

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Welcoming Peace into Our Minds

The hush of Heaven holds my heart today.

Father, how still today! ²How quietly do all things fall in place! ³This is the day that has been chosen as the time in which I come to understand the lesson that there is no need that I do anything. ⁴In You is every choice already made. ⁵In You has every conflict been resolved. ⁶In You is everything I hope to find already given me. ⁷Your peace is mine. ⁸My heart is quiet, and my mind at rest. ⁹Your Love is Heaven, and Your Love is mine.

The stillness of today will give us hope that we have found the way, and travelled far along it to a wholly certain goal. ²Today we will not doubt the end which God Himself has promised us. ³We trust in Him, and in our Self, Who still is one with Him. (A Course in Miracles, W-286.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 286 Insights.)

The ego is terrified of peace. It recognizes that a mind at peace is open to the Holy Spirit’s inspiration. A mind at peace is not paying attention to past “memories.” A mind at peace welcomes the vision of Christ which sees past the ego’s false images to the eternal presence of Love in the now moment.

The ego has many schemes to distract us, keeping our mind busy with meaningless activities. To the ego, form is all meaning and the content doesn’t matter. To our true Self, the oneness of Love is all meaning and form without Love is meaningless. We can free ourselves from the temptations of the ego by pausing frequently to welcome peace into our minds. With this practice, we welcome Love and happiness. We welcome the hush of Heaven.

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The Path Revealed by Christ’s Vision “

Today we will again give thanks for our Identity in God. ²Our home is safe, protection guaranteed in all we do, power and strength available to us in all our undertakings. ³We can fail in nothing. ⁴Everything we touch takes on a shining light that blesses and that heals. ⁵At one with God and with the universe we go our way rejoicing, with the thought that God Himself goes everywhere with us.

What we receive is our eternal gift to those who follow after, and to those who went before or stayed with us a while. ²And God, Who loves us with the equal love in which we were created, smiles on us and offers us the happiness we gave.

Today we will not doubt His Love for us, nor question His protection and His care. ²No meaningless anxieties can come between our faith and our awareness of His Presence. ³We are one with Him today in recognition and rememberance. ⁴We feel Him in our hearts. ⁵Our minds contain His Thoughts; our eyes behold His loveliness in all we look upon. ⁶Today we see only the loving and the lovable. (A Course in Miracles, W-124.1;3-4. See also ACIM Lesson 124 Insights.)

This passage describes our true Self’s experience. We are unaware of this experience when it is hidden behind projected illusions of separation. The benefit of forgiving our wish for specialness is the experience of our eternal existence in the Love of God.

Today we remind ourselves of the safety and joy of our true Home. As we pause to welcome God’s Love, we see our brothers with loving eyes and we remember the Love we are. We rest in the eternal peace of changeless Love. With this as our foundation, we walk in the world knowing that beyond appearances of conflict is the Love that is our strength. Love is our rock and our salvation. We carry that thought with us today. It lights our way, showing us the path of Christ’s vision with which we see our brothers truly.

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How to Bring Love to the World

Do not be afraid of the ego. ²It depends on your mind, and as you made it by believing in it, so you can dispel it by withdrawing belief from it. ³Do not project the responsibility for your belief in it onto anyone else, or you will preserve the belief. ⁴When you are willing to accept sole responsibility for the ego’s existence you will have laid aside all anger and all attack, because they come from an attempt to project responsibility for your own errors. ⁵But having accepted the errors as yours, do not keep them. ⁶Give them over quickly to the Holy Spirit to be undone completely, so that all their effects will vanish from your mind and from the Sonship as a whole.

The Holy Spirit will teach you to perceive beyond your belief, because truth is beyond belief and His perception is true. ²The ego can be completely forgotten at any time, because it is a totally incredible belief, and no one can keep a belief he has judged to be unbelievable. ³The more you learn about the ego, the more you realize that it cannot be believed.

The whole purpose of this course is to teach you that the ego is unbelievable and will forever be unbelievable. (A Course in Miracles, T-7.VIII.5:1–6:3;7:1. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The ego seems to exist only because of the belief we have invested in it. Here we have a practice that we can use to withdraw our mistaken investment. First we must accept responsibility for our belief in the ego. This means we stop projecting our belief about what we are onto the world. Next we must be willing to ask the Holy Spirit for His help to see past our projections of our mistaken beliefs. As we accept His help, the influence of the ego, aka our beliefs, diminish. These effects will be replaced by the awareness of Love’s eternal presence in everything, everywhere, always. This could be called a recipe for awakening from the dream of separation.

Today is a good day to practice. It is a way to do our part in bringing Love to the world.

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Our True Identity Is in God

God’s Name is holy, but no holier than yours. ²To call upon His Name is but to call upon your own. ³A father gives his son his name, and thus identifies the son with him. ⁴His brothers share his name, and thus are they united in a bond to which they turn for their identity. ⁵Your Father’s Name reminds you who you are, even within a world that does not know; even though you have not remembered it.

God’s Name can not be heard without response, nor said without an echo in the mind that calls you to remember. ²Say His Name, and you invite the angels to surround the ground on which you stand, and sing to you as they spread out their wings to keep you safe, and shelter you from every worldly thought that would intrude upon your holiness.

Repeat God’s Name [acknowledge His Identity], and you acknowledge Him as sole Creator of reality. ²And you acknowledge also that His Son is part of Him, creating in His Name. ³Sit silently, and let His Name become the all-encompassing idea that holds your mind completely. ⁴Let all thoughts be still except this one. ⁵And to all other thoughts respond with this, and see God’s Name replace the thousand little names you gave your thoughts, not realizing that there is one Name for all there is, and all that there will be. (A Course in Miracles, W-183.1–2;8. See also ACIM Lesson 183 Insights.)

In the world we use names to label everything. It is what we do to distinguish the differences between all the forms in the world. But there is one label, one Name, that supersedes them all. Labels in the world distinguish between illusions. The Name of God identifies the one Reality that dismisses all illusions as meaningless. What is meaningless does not warrant a name in truth. To call upon God’s Identity is to acknowledge the truth of our Creator and our Creation. We are calling upon our own identity when we call upon God’s Name.

The Course tells us that God is only Love, and so is our true Self. To acknowledge God as the Source of our identity, we withdraw our mistaken identification with the ego’s illusions. We are not a body. We are Love and nothing else in the oneness of God. This is our Home, our Reality. We acknowledge the Source of our safety, our happiness and peace.

Today we are willing to set aside our mistaken identification with forms in the world. We welcome our unity in the Love of God. We share His joy in the eternal extension of Love.

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Remembering Love’s Eternal Presence

To forgive is merely to remember only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you. ²All the rest must be forgotten. ³Forgiveness is a selective remembering, based not on your selection. ⁴For the shadow figures you would make immortal are “enemies” of reality. ⁵Be willing to forgive the Son of God for what he did not do. ⁶The shadow figures are the witnesses you bring with you to demonstrate he did what he did not. ⁷Because you bring them, you will hear them. ⁸And you who keep them by your own selection do not understand how they came into your mind, and what their purpose is. ⁹They represent the evil that you think was done to you. ¹⁰You bring them with you only that you may return evil for evil, hoping that their witness will enable you to think guiltily of another and not harm yourself. ¹¹They speak so clearly for the separation that no one not obsessed with keeping separation could hear them. ¹²They offer you the “reasons” why you should enter into unholy alliances to support the ego’s goals, and make your relationships the witness to its power.

How can the Holy Spirit bring His interpretation of the body as a means of communication into relationships whose only purpose is separation from reality? ²What forgiveness is enables Him to do so. ³If all but loving thoughts have been forgotten, what remains is eternal. ⁴And the transformed past is made like the present. …⁸That is why Atonement centers on the past, which is the source of separation, and where it must be undone. ⁹For separation must be corrected where it was made. (A Course in Miracles, T-17.III.1;5:1-4,8-9. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Love is eternal. Being eternal, it is forever in the present. Our loving thoughts are expressions of our recognition of the Love we are, eternally united with the Love that is the truth in everyone. They extend God’s Creation by sharing the oneness of His Love.

Thoughts of guilt and fear are projections of the ego’s “memories” of the past. The body is the central figure of these these thoughts which cast a veil across the real world. They make the eternal presence of Love invisible. We dispel the veil by forgiving the past as we accept the Holy Spirit’s interpretations in place of our projections.

Our prayer today: “Holy Spirit, help me see as you see. Help me remember only the loving thoughts and recognize thoughts of the past as meaningless. With Your help, I will learn they had no effect on the loving Self I share with every brother.”

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Answering Calls for Love with Love

Faith is the opposite of fear, as much a part of love as fear is of attack. ²Faith is the acknowledgment of union. ³It is the gracious acknowledgment of everyone as a Son of your most loving Father, loved by Him like you, and therefore loved by you as yourself. ⁴It is His Love that joins you and your brother, and for His Love you would keep no one separate from yours. ⁵Each one appears just as he is perceived in the holy instant, united in your purpose to be released from guilt. ⁶[Through the eyes of faith,] You see the Christ in him, and he is healed because you look on what makes faith forever justified in everyone.

Faith is the gift of God, through [the Holy Spirit] Whom God has given you. ²Faithlessness looks upon the Son of God, and judges him unworthy of forgiveness. ³But through the eyes of faith, the Son of God is seen already forgiven, free of all the guilt he laid upon himself. ⁴Faith sees him only now because it looks not to the past to judge him, but would see in him only what it would see in you. ⁵It sees not through the body’s eyes, nor looks to bodies for its justification. ⁶It is the messenger of the new perception, sent forth to gather witnesses unto its coming, and to return their messages to you.

Faith is as easily exchanged for knowledge as is the real world. ²For faith arises from the Holy Spirit’s perception, and is the sign you share it with Him. ³Faith is a gift you offer to the Son of God through Him, and wholly acceptable to his Father as to Him. ⁴And therefore offered you. (A Course in Miracles, T-19.I.10:1–12:4. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The ego looks to the past to justify guilt and fear. The Holy Spirit looks only on the present in which the innocence of Love is recognized as the only reality. In every moment we choose between following the ego or the Holy Spirit, between guilt and innocence, fear and Love.

When we choose the Holy Spirit as our Guide for seeing, He offers us His faith in the truth of What we are as God’s Son. With the Holy Spirit’s help, one whom the ego labels a villain is seen as a Son of God calling for Love. The Holy Spirit’s purpose is to help everyone who believes he is lacking Love the gift of faith that he remains Love as Love created him. As we accept the Holy Spirit’s vision, calls for Love by anyone, including ourselves, are answered with Love.

Today we call upon the Holy Spirit’s help to be Love’s messengers to answer calls for Love. This is how we bring healing to our mind and to the world.

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