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Walking with Our Brothers in Love’s Light

…be you …grateful that you can be the means to serve [God’s] end. ³This is the only service that leads to freedom.

This holy relationship, lovely in its innocence, mighty in strength, and blazing with a light far brighter than the sun that lights the sky you see, is chosen of your Father as a means for His Own plan.

Child of peace, the light has come to you. ²The light you bring you do not recognize, and yet you will remember. ³Who can deny himself the vision that he brings to others? ⁴And who would fail to recognize a gift he let be laid in Heaven through himself? ⁵The gentle service that you give the Holy Spirit is service to yourself. ⁶You who are now His means must love all that He loves. ⁷And what you bring is your remembrance of everything that is eternal. ⁸No trace of anything in time can long remain in a mind that serves the timeless. ⁹And no illusion can disturb the peace of a relationship that has become the means of peace. (T-22.VI.3:2-3;4:1;6)

We serve the Holy Spirit when we are willing to bring all our guilt and fear to Him for His healing. Fear and guilt are signs that we are judging based upon belief that we are separate, alone and capable of harm or being harmed. Our identification with the ego and the body, its primary image of separation, is the cause of our fear and guilt.

We serve the Holy Spirit by offering Him our perceptions with willingness to receive His gift of true perception in exchange. This is how we forgive and learn that we are Love and nothing else. Forgiveness clears away the veil that hid Love’s presence from our awareness.

As we learn to accept the Holy Spirit’s vision in place of the body’s limited perceptions, we become a Light in the world. This Light of Love illuminates the way for us to join with our brothers in holy relationships. Whom we once perceived as different from ourselves is recognized as part of us in Love. In that recognition we acknowledge our oneness with God.

Today we welcome the Light of Love. We welcome Love’s guiding Light to walk with our brothers with joyful and peaceful hearts.

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Christ’s Vision Reveals the Love We Are

⁶In quietness is [the peace of God] acknowledged universally. ⁷For what your inward vision looks upon is your perception of the universe.

Sit quietly and close your eyes. ²The light within you is sufficient. ³It alone has power to give the gift of sight to you. ⁴Exclude the outer world, and let your thoughts fly to the peace within. ⁵They know the way. ⁶For honest thoughts, untainted by the dream of worldly things outside yourself, become the holy messengers of God Himself.

We practice coming nearer to the light in us today. ²We take our wandering thoughts, and gently bring them back to where they fall in line with all the thoughts we share with God.

…we acknowledge that the peace of God still shines in us, and from us to all living things that share our life. ²We will forgive them all, absolving all the world from what we thought it did to us. ³For it is we who make the world as we would have it. ⁴Now we choose that it be innocent, devoid of sin and open to salvation. ⁵And we lay our saving blessing on it, as we say:

⁶The peace of God is shining in me now.
⁷Let all things shine upon me in that peace,
and let me bless them with the light in me. (A Course in Miracles, W-188.5:6–6:6;9:1-2;10. See also ACIM Lesson 188 Insights.)

Because God is Love and nothing else, His Thoughts are extensions of His Love. The thoughts we share with Him must also be thoughts of Love. Everything in the world is a projection from our mind. Thus forgiving thoughts reflect the thoughts of Love we share with God.

Forgiveness lifts the veil of unforgiveness that hides the presence of Love in which we dwell. Forgiveness occurs when we are willing to step back from the wish for specialness and separation. When we pause to go within to find the peace of God, we receive Christ’s vision. His vision shows us the Love that is with us always.

Like superman’s x-ray vision, Christ’s vision sees beyond the images in the world to the oneness of Love we share with every brother in God’s Love. We learn that nothing has occurred to change our true Self’s eternal unity with changeless Love.

Today we are willing to step aside from our perceptions of the world with willingness to receive true perceptions through Christ’s vision. This is how we welcome the peace of God.

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Finding Comfort in God’s Peace

“I rest in God.” ²Completely undismayed, this thought will carry you through storms and strife, past misery and pain, past loss and death, and onward to the certainty of God. ³There is no suffering it cannot heal. ⁴There is no problem that it cannot solve. ⁵And no appearance but will turn to truth before the eyes of you who rest in God.

This is the day of peace. ²You rest in God, and while the world is torn by winds of hate your rest remains completely undisturbed. ³Yours is the rest of truth. ⁴Appearances cannot intrude on you. ⁵You call to all to join you in your rest, and they will hear and come to you because you rest in God. ⁶They will not hear another voice than yours because you gave your voice to God, and now you rest in Him and let Him speak through you.

In Him you have no cares and no concerns, no burdens, no anxiety, no pain, no fear of future and no past regrets. ²In timelessness you rest, while time goes by without its touch upon you, for your rest can never change in any way at all. (A Course in Miracles, W-109.3:1–5:2. See also ACIM Lesson 109 Insights.)

There is only one way to resolve the appearances in the world that seem to justify anxiety, pain and guilt. We need to remember that in truth, we rest in God, not in the dream of conflict, loss and death. We along with every brother rest in God. He is our Creator, our Source and our refuge. He is the peace we yearn for. He is our Home, for we remain eternally united with Him and in Him.

Today, whenever we observe our peace is disturbed, we find comfort in remembering that we rest in God. We are eternally safe in His changeless Love. Nothing can harm our one Self, the Son of God.

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Peace Comes with Accepting God’s Will as Ours

The Communication Link that God Himself placed within you, joining your mind with His, cannot be broken. ²You may believe you want It broken, and this belief does interfere with the deep peace in which the sweet and constant communication God would share with you is known. ³Yet His channels of reaching out cannot be wholly closed and separated from Him. ⁴Peace will be yours because His peace still flows to you from Him Whose Will is peace. ⁵You have it now. ⁶The Holy Spirit will teach you how to use it, and by extending it, to learn that it is in you. ⁷God willed you Heaven, and will always will you nothing else. ⁸The Holy Spirit knows only of His Will. ⁹There is no chance that Heaven will not be yours, for God is sure, and what He wills is as sure as He is.

⁵Learn that even the darkest nightmare that disturbs the mind of God’s sleeping Son holds no power over him. ⁶He will learn the lesson of awaking. ⁷God watches over him and light surrounds him.

⁵You do not have to know that Heaven is yours to make it so. ⁶It is so. ⁷Yet to know it, the Will of God must be accepted as your will. (A Course in Miracles, T-13.XI.8;9:5-7;10:5-7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

It is always possible to touch the peace of God that dwells within us. But we must be willing to accept His Will for us. If we believe we want separation and specialness, then we are rejecting God’s Will for His Son. Instead we are choosing the ego whose wish is that death be real along with deprivation, conflict, guilt and fear. The ego is the denial of God’s eternal Love. It is not our identity. But if we believe we want what the ego offers, we will believe the ego is our identity.

The Holy Spirit is given us to teach us first that what the ego offers we do not really want. Second, To teach us that God’s Will is our will for we do want His peace, happiness and Love.

Today we practice reminding ourselves, “God’s Will is my will. I want His peace. I want His joy and Love. I want to awaken to the loving Home God wills for me.”

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Steps to Release from Fear

You who have tried to banish love have not succeeded, but you who choose to banish fear must succeed. ²The Lord is with you, but you know it not. ³Yet your Redeemer liveth, and abideth in you in the peace out of which He was created. ⁴Would you not exchange [the awareness of peace] for the awareness of fear? ⁵When we have overcome fear—not by hiding it, not by minimizing it, and not by denying its full import in any way—this is what you will really see. ⁶You cannot lay aside the obstacles to real vision without looking upon them, for to lay aside means to judge against. ⁷If you will look, the Holy Spirit will judge, and He will judge truly. ⁸Yet He cannot shine away what you keep hidden, for you have not offered it to Him and He cannot take it from you.

We are therefore embarking on an organized, well-structured and carefully planned program aimed at learning how to offer to the Holy Spirit everything you do not want. ²He knows what to do with it. ³You do not understand how to use what He knows. ⁴Whatever is given Him that is not of God is gone. ⁵Yet you must look at it yourself in perfect willingness, for otherwise His knowledge remains useless to you. ⁶Surely He will not fail to help you, since help is His only purpose. ⁷Do you not have greater reason for fearing the world as you perceive it, than for looking at the cause of fear and letting it go forever? (A Course in Miracles, T-12.II.9:1–10:7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We each have an important role to play in the process of awakening to Love. But while we must do our part, we cannot awaken without the Holy Spirit’s help. We must be willing to look at our fears and offer them to Him. When we release them to Him, He will take them and they will disappear.

As it always does, the ego will try to usurp the Holy Spirit’s role. It will tell us that we must analyze the fear and convince ourselves that forgiveness is justified. But forgiveness on the ego’s terms can never be justified because the it will never contribute to its own demise. It will always direct us on a circular journey that goes nowhere and does nothing. To protect its domain, it will try hide fear and make us afraid of approaching it.

We begin by recognizing when we are not at peace so we must be having a fearful thought. This is when we need to call upon the strength of the Holy Spirit in us to help us look upon our fears. With Him as our Comforter, we know it is safe to look at the fear. Then we must offer it to Him. We can use a simple prayer, “Holy Spirit, please heal my fear-based thoughts.” This practice will lead to our awakening to Love.

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God’s Love Is Our Foundation

I am sustained by the Love of God.

Only the Love of God will protect you in all circumstances. ²It will lift you out of every trial, and raise you high above all the perceived dangers of this world into a climate of perfect peace and safety. ³It will transport you into a state of mind that nothing can threaten, nothing can disturb, and where nothing can intrude upon the eternal calm of the Son of God.

Put not your faith in illusions. ²They will fail you. ³Put all your faith in the Love of God within you; eternal, changeless and forever unfailing. ⁴This is the answer to whatever confronts you today. ⁵Through the Love of God within you, you can resolve all seeming difficulties without effort and in sure confidence. ⁶Tell yourself this often today. ⁷It is a declaration of release from the belief in idols. ⁸It is your acknowledgment of the truth about yourself. (A Course in Miracles, W-50.3:1–4:8. See also ACIM Lesson 50 Insights.)

The Love of God is our foundation, the rock upon which our Home is built. We have one Life, the Life we live in Love. In this Life is our perfect safety, happiness and peace.

The ego offers a substitute “life” with no foundation. Without any foundation, everything the ego offers is unstable, unreliable and chaotic. Nothing the ego offers is sustainable, for it is based on fantasy. Only our belief in the ego and the idea that separation is real seems to make its offerings meaningful. But the ego’s instability requires it to be constantly defensive. Most importantly it defends against Love. For the acceptance of Love’s oneness would eliminate the ego altogether.

Today we remind ourselves frequently, “I am sustained by the Love of God. It is my Source of strength, happiness and peace. It is What I am. It is everything I desire to share, for in its sharing I remember Who I am.”

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Love’s Invitation to Return Home

God’s Voice speaks to me all through the day.

It is quite possible to listen to God’s Voice all through the day without interrupting your regular activities in any way. ²The part of your mind in which truth abides is in constant communication with God, whether you are aware of it or not. ³It is the other part of your mind that functions in the world and obeys the world’s laws. ⁴It is this part that is constantly distracted, disorganized and highly uncertain.

The part that is listening to the Voice for God is calm, always at rest and wholly certain. ²It is really the only part there is. ³The other part is a wild illusion, frantic and distraught, but without reality of any kind. ⁴Try today not to listen to it. ⁵Try to identify with the part of your mind where stillness and peace reign forever. ⁶Try to hear God’s Voice call to you lovingly, reminding you that your Creator has not forgotten His Son.

Listen in deep silence. ²Be very still and open your mind. ³Go past all the raucous shrieks and sick imaginings that cover your real thoughts and obscure your eternal link with God. ⁴Sink deep into the peace that waits for you beyond the frantic, riotous thoughts and sights and sounds of this insane world. ⁵You do not live here. ⁶We are trying to reach your real home. ⁷We are trying to reach the place where you are truly welcome. ⁸We are trying to reach God.

…be sure to sit quietly and repeat the idea for today whenever you can, closing your eyes on the world, and realizing that you are inviting God’s Voice to speak to you. (A Course in Miracles, W-49.1–2,4,5:3. See also ACIM Lesson 49 Insights.)

The Voice for Love is always with us, whether we are aware of It or not. If we do not hear Its loving and compassionate guidance it is because we choose not to listen. We have chosen instead to give our attention to the ego’s illusions that show us a loveless world. But we can choose once again.

Today we choose to attend to the Voice of kindness, helpfulness and appreciation. When we listen, it teaches us that the images of the world we see and hear are not real. It tells us that we can see beyond the illusions of the world if we are willing to let go of our attachment to the ego.

We can exchange the chaotic thoughts of the ego for the peaceful and happy thoughts of Love if we are willing to pause and quiet our minds. Our willingness to welcome peace in place of chaos, Love in place of fear opens our mind to hear God’s Voice. It invites us to awaken to the Home God has prepared for us safe in the Heart of Love.

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