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Accepting Love as Our Identity

Love created me like itself.

²I am in the likeness of my Creator. ³I cannot suffer, I cannot experience loss and I cannot die. ⁴I am not a body. ⁵I would recognize my reality today. ⁶I will worship no idols, nor raise my own self-concept to replace my Self. ⁷I am in the likeness of my Creator. ⁸Love created me like itself.

‘You might find these specific forms helpful in applying the idea:

²Let me not see an illusion of myself in this.
³As I look on this, let me remember my Creator.
⁴My Creator did not create this as I see it. (A Course in Miracles, W-84.1:1–2:4. See also ACIM Lesson 84 Insights.)

We are all innately loving. But if we identify with a separate image that we believe is our self, the Love we are is denied. This image of a separate self needs constant defense because it is not real. So it seems that the world is a place of conflict, lack, loss and attack.

To remember that we were created as changeless Love, by Love, we need to let go of the separate self image as our identity. Forgiveness is the way to remember we are Love and nothing else. We need to remind ourselves frequently that we are not a body and what the body seems to show us cannot be real. This is the first step. It needs to be followed by being willing to let Christ’s vision show us what is real.

This process of letting go of illusion and accepting the reality of Love as our Identity is our journey Home.

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The Happy Exchange of Fear for Love

The real world holds a counterpart for each unhappy thought reflected in your world; a sure correction for the sights of fear and sounds of battle which your world contains. ²The real world shows a world seen differently, through quiet eyes and with a mind at peace. ³Nothing but rest is there. ⁴There are no cries of pain and sorrow heard, for nothing there remains outside forgiveness. ⁵And the sights are gentle. ⁶Only happy sights and sounds can reach the mind that has forgiven itself.

The real world is the symbol that the dream of sin and guilt is over, and God’s Son no longer sleeps. ²His waking eyes perceive the sure reflection of his Father’s Love; the certain promise that he is redeemed. ³The real world signifies the end of time, for its perception makes time purposeless.

…as we look upon a world forgiven, it is He [God] Who calls to us and comes to take us home, reminding us of our Identity which our forgiveness has restored to us. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.8.2;4;5:4. See also ACIM Lesson 291 Insights.)

The ego is always angry. It is upset with God because He could not give it more than everything. The world we experience with the ego is a manifestation of its temper tantrum. It does not like the Home God created for His Son so it’s trying to run away from Home. But there is no other place that is real. So the ego has had to make a dream world to satisfy its wish for specialness.

We can leave this dream behind by forgiving—letting go of—the insane wish to have more than everything. Because we have identified with the ego, we need the help of the Holy Spirit to wake up from the dream. Our part of waking up is to offer all our perceptions to Him to be exchanged for Christ’s vision. With this happy exchange the shadows of the ego’s denial are dispelled and we see past its meaningless images to the eternal presence of Love.

Today we happily welcome Christ’s vision.

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The Gift of a Peaceful Mind

This world you seem to live in is not home to you. ²And somewhere in your mind you know that this is true.

We speak today for everyone who walks this world, for he is not at home. ²He goes uncertainly about in endless search, seeking in darkness what he cannot find; not recognizing what it is he seeks. ³A thousand homes he makes, yet none contents his restless mind. ⁴He does not understand he builds in vain. ⁵The home he seeks can not be made by him. ⁶There is no substitute for Heaven. ⁷All he ever made was hell.

When you are still an instant, when the world recedes from you, when valueless ideas cease to have value in your restless mind, then will you hear His Voice.

Take time today to lay aside your shield which profits nothing, and lay down the spear and sword you raised against an enemy without existence.

You have not lost your innocence. ²It is for this you yearn. ³This is your heart’s desire. ⁴This is the voice you hear, and this the call which cannot be denied. …⁸And now the way is open, and the journey has an end in sight at last. ⁹Be still an instant and go home with Him, and be at peace a while. (A Course in Miracles, W-182.1:1-2;3;8:1;11:1;12:1-4,8-9. See also ACIM Lesson 182 Insights.)

The ego and the body, its chosen home, seem to exist in this world. But our true Self is not at home in this world. While we identify with the ego, there is an underlying feeling that we are aliens here in a world that is not our Home. We yearn to return to our Home in the changelessness of God’s Love.

Just as the alien in the movie “E.T.” needed help to communicate with his source, we need help to restore our communication with our Creator. We access this Help by stepping back from the values of the world and letting our mind be still. In this stillness, our communication is restored. The Holy Spirit helps us see beyond the alien world to the Love we never left in truth. We “phone home” by welcoming the Holy Spirit’s Voice accepting peace in our mind.

Today we remind ourselves frequently to be still and listen. We want to remember our innocence as Love we are. We want to be at peace. We want to join with God’s joy in the eternal extension of Love.

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Remembering the Love God Gave Us

I love You, Father, and I love Your Son.

My gratitude permits my love to be accepted without fear. And thus am I restored to my reality at last. All that intruded on my holy sight forgiveness takes away. And I draw near the end of senseless journeys, mad careers and artificial values. I accept instead what God establishes as mine, sure that in that alone I will be saved; sure that I go through fear to meet my Love.

Father, I come to You today, because I would not follow any way but Yours. You are beside me. Certain is Your way. And I am grateful for Your holy gifts of certain sanctuary, and escape from everything that would obscure my love for God my Father and His holy Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.298. See also ACIM Lesson 298 Insights.)

The Course tells us “Love is the way I walk in gratitude” (Lesson 195) And “…Love cannot be far behind a grateful heart.” (M-23.4:6)

The ego is the manifestation of lack of gratitude for God’s gifts. What is not appreciated is rejected. Our engagement with the ego thought system brings with it ingratitude for God’s Creation, which is our true Self. Perception is selective, accepting only what is valued. The world of the ego does not value Love, so it is a loveless state of mind.

The Course is teaching us that all we truly want is to remember the Love God gave us in our Creation. Our belief in a loveless world has not changed the fact that we are the Love that we seem not to have. Perception of lovelessness brings fear with it. Though it is disguised in many forms, our underlying fear is of the Love of God.

Forgiveness clears away our mistaken beliefs, our artificial values that hide the Love we are from our awareness. Today we dedicate to frequently remind ourselves of God’s Love for us and express our gratitude for His eternal gift that remains the truth of What we are. What we value most is that we are safe in the Heart of God.

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The Means to Remember Our True Self

I choose to see my brother’s sinlessness.

Forgiveness is a choice. ²I never see my brother as he is, for that is far beyond perception. ³What I see in him is merely what I wish to see, because it stands for what I want to be the truth. ⁴It is to this alone that I respond, however much I seem to be impelled by outside happenings. ⁵I choose to see what I would look upon, and this I see, and only this. ⁶My brother’s sinlessness shows me that I would look upon my own. ⁷And I will see it, having chosen to behold my brother in its holy light.

What could restore Your memory to me, except to see my brother’s sinlessness? ²His holiness reminds me that he was created one with me, and like myself. ³In him I find my Self, and in Your Son I find the memory of You as well. (W-335)

It is essential to the ego that we see an external world populated by people and images, separate and distinct from ourselves. This perception maintains our belief that we are separate and alone. It doesn’t seem that we want to see war, conflict, disease and death. But we do want confirmation that we are unique, special and different. It is this underlying wish that determines how we perceive our brothers and the world.

But hidden beneath this wish for specialness is the Self that remains eternally at one with our Creator. This Self knows only Love and sees only Love, for It sees only Itself everywhere and in everything. This is the vision of Christ which sees with forgiving eyes. It does not try to limit what It is by giving It a form, a separate body.

As we let the Holy Spirit help us see with Christ’s vision, we forgive the world for the projections we have laid upon it. We learn that we do not want separation or specialness. We want to remember the Love in which we live eternally. Forgiveness is the means to remember.

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Choosing to Follow the Guide to Joy

I see all things as I would have them be.

Perception follows judgment. ²Having judged, we therefore see what we would look upon. ³For sight can merely serve to offer us what we would have. ⁴It is impossible to overlook what we would see, and fail to see what we have chosen to behold. ⁵How surely, therefore, must the real world come to greet the holy sight of anyone who takes the Holy Spirit’s purpose as his goal for seeing. ⁶And he cannot fail to look upon what Christ would have him see, and share Christ’s Love for what he looks upon.

I have no purpose for today except to look upon a liberated world, set free from all the judgments I have made. ²Father, this is Your Will for me today, and therefore it must be my goal as well. (A Course in Miracles, W-312. See also ACIM Lesson 312 Insights.)

There is a path we can follow that leads to the Heaven of God’s Love. Everyone is on that path. For most of us it seems to have many twists and turns—times bright with Love and other times dark with fear.

We have been given a Guide Whose only purpose is to keep the Light shining on the path to Heaven. When we follow Him and only Him, the path is straight. Fear is dispelled. Happiness is a consistent quality in our life, for He is the Guide to joy. He reminds us that God’s Will for us is perfect happiness and peace. He offers us Christ’s vision which shows us our unity in Love with all Reality.

Today we choose to follow this Guide and disregard our past judgments which have kept us separate from our brothers. Now we would remember that we are one in the Love of God.

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Being a Teacher of Love

The Holy Spirit needs my voice today, that all the world may listen to Your Voice, and hear Your Word through me. ²I am resolved to let You speak through me, for I would use no words but Yours, and have no thoughts which are apart from Yours, for only Yours are true. ³I would be savior to the world I made. ⁴For having damned it I would set it free, that I may find escape, and hear the Word Your holy Voice will speak to me today.

We teach today what we would learn, and that alone. ²And so our learning goal becomes an unconflicted one, and possible of easy reach and quick accomplishment. ³How gladly does the Holy Spirit come to rescue us from hell, when we allow His teaching to persuade the world, through us, to seek and find the easy path to God. (A Course in Miracles, W-296.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 296 Insights.)

The Holy Spirit calls to us unceasingly. Are we willing to listen? We demonstrate our willingness when we pause in the midst of our daily activities to step back in our mind from our engagement in the world. We ask in humbleness, without conditions on what we are willing to receive.

We welcome the peace of God in our minds to help us overlook the ego’s chatter. We remember that in quietness every perceived problem is resolved. In quietness we welcome the Love being given to us without limit. We accept this Love by joining with It to extend It to the world.

The Love we are freely joins with God’s world of Love. Old habits of judgment fade away in the Light of Love. We see clearly now, for we have passed by the dark shadows of beliefs in separation. We become messengers of Love expressing in the world.

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