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Keeping Our Mind Open to Holy Spirit’s Lead

²Communication is not limited to the small range of channels the world recognizes. ³If it were, there would be little point in trying to teach salvation. ⁴It would be impossible to do so. ⁵The limits the world places on communication are the chief barriers to direct experience of the Holy Spirit, Whose Presence is always there and Whose Voice is available but for the hearing. ⁶These limits are placed out of fear, for without them the walls that surround all the separate places of the world would fall at the holy sound of His Voice. ⁷Who transcends these limits in any way is merely becoming more natural. ⁸He is doing nothing special, and there is no magic in his accomplishments.

The seemingly new abilities that may be gathered on the way can be very helpful. ²Given to the Holy Spirit, and used under His direction, they are valuable teaching aids.

⁹The Holy Spirit needs these gifts, and those who offer them to Him and Him alone go with Christ’s gratitude upon their hearts, and His holy sight not far behind. (A Course in Miracles, M-25.2:2–3:2;6:9)

The key to release from limitations of the world is willingness to accept the Holy Spirit’s guidance in all things and always. This willingness is the choice to be happy. The Holy Spirit’s function is to teach us how to undo the lessons we have learned that deny truth.

When we are willing, there are many avenues through which the Holy Spirit can communicate with us. The most direct is when we are able to accept His Thoughts in our mind. These thoughts may seem to occur as a voice, an image, a feeling, or a sense of knowing what is truly helpful. Other avenues may come through a conversation with another person, a chance meeting or seeming event that brings us insight. We may have a thought to obtain a book or view a movie. These avenues provide the Holy Spirit an opportunity to get our attention and inspire us when we are open to His lead.

We can strengthen our willingness each day with our dedication to pay attention to His lead. During the day it is helpful to frequently pause in the midst of our doing, relax and ask how He would view our present circumstance; what would we have us say or do? He will always guide us with Love to greater peace and happiness.

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Claiming God’s Gift of His Glory

The glory of my Father is my own.

Let not the truth about ourselves today be hidden by a false humility. ²Let us instead be thankful for the gifts our Father gave us. ³Can we see in those with whom He shares His glory any trace of sin and guilt? ⁴And can it be that we are not among them, when He loves His Son forever and with perfect constancy, knowing he is as He created him?

We thank You, Father, for the light that shines forever in us. ²And we honor it, because You share it with us. ³We are one, united in this light and one with You, at peace with all creation and ourselves. (A Course in Miracles, W-239.1:1–2:3. See also ACIM Lesson 239 Insights.)

The ego would have us believe that we are despicable, of no value and the only way to rectify this terrible situation is to grab some form of specialness. But its efforts to compensate cannot succeed. The only answer that will truly resolve this seeming problem is to accept the truth in place of the ego’s illusions.

We have not lost our eternal link with our Creator. It is unbreakable. It keeps us united with God’s glory; everything He is, we are. To deny the glory He has given us is arrogant. But to accept His Love is to accept the truth of the glory, peace and joy He shares with us, His Son.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us let go of our mistaken identification with the ego and accept the glory we share with God.

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Love Is Our Heart’s Desire

God’s peace and joy are mine.

Today I will accept God’s peace and joy, in glad ex­change for all the substitutes that I have made for happiness and peace.

Let me be still and listen to the truth.

Let my own feeble voice be still, and let me hear the mighty Voice for Truth Itself assure me that I am God’s perfect Son. (W-pI.118)

When we have an instant response of defensiveness, it comes from belief in our guilt. We are not accepting our Identity as God’s Son. Our true Self is Love and nothing else. It shares God’s innocence. Our Self cannot conceive of harm or attack, for they do not exist in the oneness of Love.

As God’s Son, we live in His happiness and peace. This Self is eternally invulnerable. Its only desire is to be Love and give Love. It sees defensiveness as a call for Love and answers with Love.

Today we claim the peace of God as our own. We ask the Holy Spirit’s help to heal our defensive thoughts, for our desire is to live in peace and joy.

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Remembering We Are God’s Son

Perhaps it is not yet quite clear to you that each decision that you make is one between a grievance and a miracle. ²Each grievance stands like a dark shield of hate before the miracle it would conceal. ³And as you raise it up before your eyes, you will not see the miracle beyond. ⁴Yet all the while it waits for you in light, but you behold your grievances instead.

…every grievance is a block to sight, and as it lifts you see the Son of God where he has always been. ³He stands in light, but you were in the dark. ⁴Each grievance made the darkness deeper, and you could not see.

²We ask [the Holy Spirit] in the holy Name of God and of His Son, as holy as Himself:

³Let me behold my savior in this one You have appointed as the one for me to ask to lead me to the holy light in which he stands, that I may join with him.

What you have asked for cannot be denied. …⁴The Holy Spirit leans from him to you, seeing no separation in God’s Son. ⁵And what you see through Him will free you both. (A Course in Miracles, W-78.1;3:2-4;7:2-3;8:1,4-5. See also ACIM Lesson 78 Insights.)

Our identification with the body as our identity is the basis for all our grievances. The body itself is an expression of the ego’s grievance against God for not offering the specialness the ego demands. All grievances are expressions of an affront to this special image of a separate identity.

We heal this grievance as we let the Holy Spirit help us see the Light of Love beyond the ego’s images of separation. The practice of today’s exercise is an expression of our willingness to let go of our grievance and see past the images of separation to the eternal presence of Love.

We remember we are not a body. We are Love and nothing else; we are forever united with the Love that created us. As we accept help to see the Love in our brothers, we recognize it as a reflection of the Love we are. This exercise, practiced without reservation, can awaken us the the full remembrance that we are God’s Son.

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Making Christ’s Vision Our Priority

Now are we one with Him Who is our Source.

What time but now can truth be recognized? ²The present is the only time there is. ³And so today, this instant, now, we come to look upon what is forever there; not in our sight, but in the eyes of Christ. ⁴He looks past time, and sees eternity as represented there. ⁵He hears the sounds the senseless, busy world engenders, yet He hears them faintly. ⁶For beyond them all He hears the song of Heaven, and the Voice for God more clear, more meaningful, more near.

³Now is the balance righted, and the scale of judgment left to Him Who judges true. ⁴And in His judgment will a world unfold in perfect innocence before your eyes. ⁵Now will you see it with the eyes of Christ.

We will not judge today. ²We will receive but what is given us from judgment made beyond the world. ³Our practicing today becomes our gift of thankfulness for our release from blindness and from misery. ⁴All that we see will but increase our joy, because its holiness reflects our own. ⁵We stand forgiven in the sight of Christ, with all the world forgiven in our own. ⁶We bless the world, as we behold it in the light in which our Savior looks on us, and offer it the freedom given us through His forgiving vision, not our own. (A Course in Miracles, W-164.1;5:3-5;7. See also ACIM Lesson 164 Insights.)

While we seem to be in this world we need to give priority to our inner vision, the vision of Christ. When we have accepted this as our primary way of perceiving in the world, the things of the world will fade into the background. This is how we live in the world while waking up.

Now we give priority to seeing with Christ’s vision. We remember that only Love is real. His vision shows us the innocence of Love in every brother, for Christ does not judge on appearances in the world. As we accept His judgment in place of the judgments we have harbored from the past, we see cause for happiness and peace instead of depression and discord. This priority is how we remember we one with Him Who is our Source.

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Opening to the Light of Love

To give and to receive are one in truth.

Vision depends upon today’s idea. ²The light is in it, for it reconciles all seeming opposites. ³And what is light except the resolution, born of peace, of all your conflicts and mistaken thoughts into one concept which is wholly true? ⁴Even that one will disappear, because the Thought behind it will appear instead to take its place. ⁵And now you are at peace forever, for the dream is over then.

True light that makes true vision possible is not the light the body’s eyes behold. ²It is a state of mind that has become so unified that darkness cannot be perceived at all. ³And thus what is the same is seen as one, while what is not the same remains unnoticed, for it is not there.

This is the light that shows no opposites, and vision, being healed, has power to heal. ²This is the light that brings your peace of mind to other minds, to share it and be glad that they are one with you and with themselves. ³This is the light that heals because it brings single perception, based upon one frame of reference, from which one meaning comes.

Here are both giving and receiving seen as different aspects of one Thought whose truth does not depend on which is seen as first, nor which appears to be in second place. ²Here it is understood that both occur together, that the Thought remain complete. (A Course in Miracles, W-108.1:1–4:2. See also ACIM Lesson 108 Insights.)

When the Course speaks of giving and receiving, it is not about an object or form, which is never real. The only true giving and receiving must be Love, for only Love is real. Whenever we have loving thoughts, we experience Love’s blessing. These thoughts may not be expressed in words, but the blessing is both experienced and extended. As we let Love be the Guide for all our thoughts and actions, we have a joyful life experience. Joy is an aspect of Love.

But if we harbor guilt because of a belief that we have separated from Love, we cannot experience Love’s blessing. Guilt is denial of Light. Forgiveness welcomes Light. It lets go of a belief that darkens our mind. When we identify with the ego, we deny the Light of Love.

But forgiveness of our mistaken identification with the ego dispels the ego’s dark thoughts. We are able to see with true perception, the vision of Christ, and recognize the presence of the Light of Love. Light always dispels darkness. Our denial of Light has no effect whatsoever on the Light. It only hides it from our awareness. Today we choose Christ’s vision which sees truly and brings Light to our experience of the world.

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Reclaiming Our Identity as Light of the World

Who is the light of the world except God’s Son? ²This, then, is merely a statement of the truth about yourself. ³It is the opposite of a statement of pride, of arrogance, or of self-deception. ⁴It does not describe the self-concept you have made. ⁵It does not refer to any of the characteristics with which you have endowed your idols. ⁶It refers to you as you were created by God. ⁷It simply states the truth.

You will want to think about this idea as often as possible today. ²It is the perfect answer to all illusions, and therefore to all temptation. ³It brings all the images you have made about yourself to the truth, and helps you depart in peace, unburdened and certain of your purpose.

As many practice periods as possible should be undertaken today, although each one need not exceed a minute or two. ²They should begin with telling yourself:

³I am the light of the world. ⁴That is my only function. ⁵That is why I am here.

Today’s idea goes far beyond the ego’s petty views of what you are and what your purpose is. …⁵You are the light of the world. ⁶God has built His plan for the salvation of His Son on you. (A Course in Miracles, W-61.1;4:1–5:5;7:1,5-6. See also ACIM Lesson 61 Insights.)

In order to make specialness seem possible, the ego had to make a downsized, limited image of our identity. Only if our identity were limited, would it be possible to have more than other limited identities. The ego populates the world with projected images that seem to be different from our own ego-defined identity. These differences are the basis for specialness, being different from everything else.

The effect of this image making is a world of conflicting images, some seeming to have more value and others less. All these false images hide the Reality of our one Self, the Light of the world. God shared all of His Light, all of His Love with His Son, our Self. To deny God’s gift is arrogant. Believing we are limited to a body is believing we know the truth but God does not.

The antidote to this insane thinking is to accept the fact that we are the Light of the world because we remain at one with our Creator, the Source of all Love. Our function is to extend Love without limit as God has extended it to us. As we remove our self-imposed limits on Love’s extension we experience being the Light of the world.

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