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Seeing God’s World of Unity in Love

⁴His Word has promised peace. ⁵It has also promised that there is no death, that resurrection must occur, and that rebirth is man’s inheritance. ⁶The world you see cannot be the world God loves, and yet His Word assures us that He loves the [real] world. ⁷God’s Word has promised that peace is possible here, and what He promises can hardly be impossible. ⁸But it is true that the world must be looked at differently, if His promises are to be accepted. ⁹What the world is, is but a fact. ¹⁰You cannot choose what this should be. ¹¹But you can choose how you would see it. ¹²Indeed, you must choose this.

The text explains that the Holy Spirit is the Answer to all problems you have made. ²These problems are not real, but that is meaningless to those who believe in them. ³And everyone believes in what he made, for it was made by his believing it. ⁴Into this strange and paradoxical situation,—one without meaning and devoid of sense, yet out of which no way seems possible,—God has sent His Judgment to answer yours. ⁵Gently His Judgment substitutes for yours. ⁶And through this substitution is the un-understandable made understandable. ⁷How is peace possible in this world? ⁸In your judgment it is not possible, and can never be possible. ⁹But in the Judgment of God what is reflected here is only peace.

Peace is impossible to those who look on war. ²Peace is inevitable to those who offer peace. ³How easily, then, is your judgment of the world escaped! ⁴It is not the world that makes peace seem impossible. ⁵It is the world you see that is impossible. ⁶Yet has God’s Judgment on this distorted world redeemed it and made it fit to welcome peace. ⁷And peace descends on it in joyous answer. ⁸Peace now belongs here, because a Thought of God has entered. (A Course in Miracles, M-11.1:4-12;3:1–4:8)

Under the direction of the ego, our judgments hold the false world of separation anchored in our mind. It seems that we must judge to function in this world and even to survive. We judge that death is real and believe we must defend against it with all our effort only to fail in the end. It is a battle against illusions that do not exist in truth.

But we can choose to let God’s Answer to this false world guide our judgments. As we let His Judgment replace our own, we see a different world. We see a world of Love, unity, peace and joy. We see a world in which we are one with our Creator and every brother.

Today we choose to accept the Holy Spirit’s judgments in place of our own, for we would see a forgiven world where Love presides.

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Answering the Call to Joy

The Holy Spirit is the spirit of joy. ²He is the Call to return with which God blessed the minds of His separated Sons.

This Call [to joy] is so strong that the ego always dissolves at Its sound. …⁷The Holy Spirit is in you in a very literal sense. ⁸His is the Voice that calls you back to where you were before and will be again. ⁹It is possible even in this world to hear only that Voice and no other. ¹⁰It takes effort and great willingness to learn.

The Voice of the Holy Spirit does not command, because It is incapable of arrogance. ²It does not demand, because It does not seek control. ³It does not overcome, because It does not attack. ⁴It merely reminds. ⁵It is compelling only because of what It reminds you of. ⁶It brings to your mind the other way, remaining quiet even in the midst of the turmoil you may make. ⁷The Voice for God is always quiet, because It speaks of peace. ⁸Peace is stronger than war because it heals.

The Holy Spirit is your Guide in choosing. ²He is in the part of your mind that always speaks for the right choice, because He speaks for God. ³He is your remaining communication with God, which you can interrupt but cannot destroy.

⁷Our task is the joyous one of waking it to the Call for God. (A Course in Miracles, T-5.II.2:1-2;3:3,7-10;7:1-8;8:1-3;10:7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We have the means to be joyous all the time. The Voice for God is calling us to joy in every moment. But we hear It only if we are willing to listen. The only interference with this willingness is our wish for specialness, to have more than everything. Since joy is an attribute of the Love that created us, It is everything. Only Love is real.

The ego is constantly defending specialness. All our judgments, our guilt, our fear of harm, are simply ego defenses against the joy that we share in the oneness of God’s Love. When we are willing to hear the Holy Spirit’s call to joy, He will teach us where to find it. He will offer correction of our misperceptions.

As we are willing to accept His corrections, the shadows of the ego’s call to death fade into the nothingness from which they came. We awaken to the truth that we are God’s Love, united, whole and at one with every brother.

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How to Have a Miraculous Day

You are entitled to miracles because of what you are. ²You will receive miracles because of what God is. ³And you will offer miracles because you are one with God. ⁴Again, how simple is salvation! ⁵It is merely a statement of your true Identity. ⁶It is this that we will celebrate today.

…claim the miracles which are your right, since they belong to you. ²You have been promised full release from the world you made. ³You have been assured that the Kingdom of God is within you, and can never be lost.

…remind yourself that you are asking only for what is rightfully yours. ³Remind yourself also that miracles are never taken from one and given to another, and that in asking for your rights, you are upholding the rights of everyone. ⁴Miracles do not obey the laws of this world. ⁵They merely follow from the laws of God.

²Tell yourself often today:

³I am entitled to miracles.

²Be quick to tell yourself, should you be tempted:

³I will not trade miracles for grievances. ⁴I want only what belongs to me. ⁵God has established miracles as my right. (A Course in Miracles, W-77.1;3:1-3;4:2-5;7:2-3;8:2-5. See also ACIM Lesson 77 Insights.)

Miracles are expressions of Love. Love sees only Itself everywhere and is inherently joined with all Love, which is all Reality. Love answers calls for Love with Love. Love sees only innocence. It holds no grievances, makes no judgments.

Because we were created by Love as Love, miracles are inherently ours to give. Today can be an important day of giving only Love. We choose to let Love be our inspiration. We let Love be our Interpreter of everything we perceive today. By letting Love be our Guide, we experience the miracles of Love’s expression in our thoughts, words and actions. Today will be a blessed day indeed.

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We Do Not Walk Alone

Forget not once this journey is begun the end is certain. ²Doubt along the way will come and go and go to come again. ³Yet is the ending sure. ⁴No one can fail to do what God appointed him to do. ⁵When you forget, remember that you walk with Him and with His Word upon your heart. ⁶Who could despair when hope like this is his? ⁷Illusions of despair may seem to come, but learn how not to be deceived by them. ⁸Behind each one there is reality and there is God. ⁹Why would you wait for this and trade it for illusions, when His Love is but an instant farther on the road where all illusions end? ¹⁰The end is sure and guaranteed by God. ¹¹Who stands before a lifeless image when a step away the Holy of the Holies opens up an ancient door that leads beyond the world?

You are a stranger here. ²But you belong to Him Who loves you as He loves Himself. ³Ask but my help to roll the stone away, and it is done according to His Will. ⁴We have begun the journey. ⁵Long ago the end was written in the stars and set into the Heavens with a shining Ray that held it safe within eternity and through all time as well. ⁶And holds it still; unchanged, unchanging and unchangeable.

³Now we are sure we do not walk alone. ⁴For God is here, and with Him all our brothers. ⁵Now we know that we will never lose the way again. (A Course in Miracles, C-ep.1–2;4:3-5)

While we identify with a body, a separate identity, there is always an underlying sense of loneliness. We seek in many ways to fill the void, the emptiness. But while we follow the ego’s direction, we will never find what we seek.

There is no real cause for the perception of something missing, of being alone. Only an illusion stands between our perception and awareness that we remain forever united with our Creator. We need seek for nothing, for we already have everything that is real. We already have all of God’s Love. In truth, we cannot walk alone, for the idea of being alone itself is an illusion.

Today we remind ourselves that God walks with us. He has given us His Comforter to show us the way to remember we are God’s Son, now and forever.

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Accept the Holy Spirit’s Gentle Dream

You are the dreamer of the world of dreams. ²No other cause it has, nor ever will. ³Nothing more fearful than an idle dream has terrified God’s Son, and made him think that he has lost his innocence, denied his Father, and made war upon himself. ⁴So fearful is the dream, so seeming real, he could not waken to reality without the sweat of terror and a scream of mortal fear, unless a gentler dream preceded his awaking, and allowed his calmer mind to welcome, not to fear, the Voice that calls with love to waken him; a gentler dream, in which his suffering was healed and where his brother was his friend. ⁵God willed he waken gently and with joy, and gave him means to waken without fear.

Accept the dream He gave instead of yours. ²It is not difficult to change a dream when once the dreamer has been recognized. ³Rest in the Holy Spirit, and allow His gentle dreams to take the place of those you dreamed in terror and in fear of death. ⁴He brings forgiving dreams, in which the choice is not who is the murderer and who shall be the victim. ⁵In the dreams He brings there is no murder and there is no death. ⁶The dream of guilt is fading from your sight, although your eyes are closed. ⁷A smile has come to lighten up your sleeping face. ⁸The sleep is peaceful now, for these are happy dreams.

Dream softly of your sinless brother, who unites with you in holy innocence. ²And from this dream the Lord of Heaven will Himself awaken His beloved Son. ³Dream of your brother’s kindnesses instead of dwelling in your dreams on his mistakes. ⁴Select his thoughtfulness to dream about instead of counting up the hurts he gave. ⁵Forgive him his illusions, and give thanks to him for all the helpfulness he gave. ⁶And do not brush aside his many gifts because he is not perfect in your dreams. ⁷He represents his Father, Whom you see as offering both life and death to you.

Brother, He gives but life. ²Yet what you see as gifts your brother offers represent the gifts you dream your Father gives to you. ³Let all your brother’s gifts be seen in light of charity and kindness offered you. ⁴And let no pain disturb your dream of deep appreciation for his gifts to you.” (A Course in Miracles, T-27.VII.13–16. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The Holy Spirit has a gift for us given Him by our Creator. He holds it for us until we are ready to accept it. We need not qualify to receive it. But we do need to remove the barriers we have built against this loving gift.

The Holy Spirit offers us a kind and loving dream as a replacement for the ego’s dream of fear, guilt and death. We come to the Holy Spirit today with open hands. We have laid down our defenses and are willing to accept His offering. With His help, we will see the Love in our brothers Whose Self we share.

The Holy Spirit offers His Hand. As we take His Hand, we feel His limitless flow of Love fill our hearts. Peace fills our mind, for we remember that this is our natural state, where there is no conflict, no differences. In gratitude we remember the gift of Love that created us one with our Creator.

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Forgiveness Brings True Perception

Forgiveness lets me know that minds are joined.

Forgiveness is the means appointed for perception’s ending. ²Knowledge is restored after perception first is changed, and then gives way entirely to what remains forever past its highest reach. ³For sights and sounds, at best, can serve but to recall the memory that lies beyond them all. ⁴Forgiveness sweeps away distortions, and opens the hidden altar to the truth. ⁵Its lilies shine into the mind, and call it to return and look within, to find what it has vainly sought without. ⁶For here, and only here, is peace of mind restored, for this the dwelling place of God Himself.

In quiet may forgiveness wipe away my dreams of separation and of sin. ²Then let me, Father, look within, and find Your promise of my sinlessness is kept; Your Word remains unchanged within my mind, Your Love is still abiding in my heart. (A Course in Miracles, W-336. See also ACIM Lesson 336 Insights.)

Our perceptions are our own projections reflected back to us. Thus our perceptions offer us important insight about what we believe we are. Our perceptions can be effective teaching aids when interpreted for us by the Holy Spirit.

When we choose the Holy Spirit as our Interpreter instead of the ego, we learn to see beyond the illusionary forms of the world and recognize the presence of Love. We see the Love we are reflected back to us. This is what forgiveness reveals, for it removes the veil of the ego’s projections and lets the Light of Love shine through.

Today we count upon the Holy Spirit’s interpretation of our perceptions. For we desire to join with the Love that is the truth in our brothers. With His help, we will walk in gratitude for the Love we share.

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Accepting Christ’s Vision of the World

It cannot be that it is hard to do the task that Christ appointed you to do, since it is He Who does it. ²And in the doing of it will you learn the body merely seems to be the means to do it. ³For the Mind is His. ⁴And so it must be yours. ⁵His Holiness directs the body through the mind at one with Him.

How can you manifest the Christ in you except to look on holiness and see Him there? …⁹Set in his holiness, the Christ in him proclaims Himself as you.

Perception is a choice of what you want yourself to be; the world you want to live in, and the state in which you think your mind will be content and satisfied. ²It chooses where you think your safety lies, at your decision. ³It reveals yourself to you as you would have you be. …⁵Perception is a part of what it is your purpose to behold, for means and end are never separate. ⁶And thus you learn what seems to have a life apart has none.

You are the means for God; not separate, nor with a life apart from His. ²His life is manifest in you who are His Son. (A Course in Miracles, T-25.I.1:1-5;2:1,9–3:3,5–4:2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Our sole purpose in this world is to see the Christ in every brother. By seeing the innocence in him, we learn of our own innocence. Christ’s vision shows us a forgiven world where thoughts of specialness and separation have been let go. It comes to us when we forgive the world for all we thought it was.

Today we call upon the Holy Spirit to help us heal our beliefs in separation. As we accept His help, Christ’s vision dawns upon our mind. As our forgiveness is complete, we awaken to the Heaven of God’s Love.

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