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In Peace We Hear God’s Voice

If you will lay aside the ego’s voice, however loudly it may seem to call; if you will not accept its petty gifts that give you nothing that you really want; if you will listen with an open mind, that has not told you what salvation is; then you will hear the mighty Voice of truth, quiet in power, strong in stillness, and completely certain in Its messages.

Listen, and hear your Father speak to you through His appointed Voice, which silences the thunder of the meaningless, and shows the way to peace to those who cannot see. ²Be still today and listen to the truth.

Be not afraid today to circumvent the voices of the world. ²Walk lightly past their meaningless persuasion. ³Hear them not. ⁴Be still today and listen to the truth. ⁵Go past all things which do not speak of Him Who holds your happiness within His Hand, held out to you in welcome and in love. ⁶Hear only Him today, and do not wait to reach Him longer. ⁷Hear one Voice today.

…reinforce your choice to hear and to receive the Word by this reminder, given to yourself as often as is possible today:

³Let me be still and listen to the truth.
⁴I am the messenger of God today, my voice is His,
to give what I receive. (A Course in Miracles, W-106.1:1–2:2;3;10:2-4. See also ACIM Lesson 106 Insights.)

We have trained ourselves to listen to a voice that always lies to us. It denies the truth that only Love is real. But we have convinced ourselves that the ego’s voice is real because it offers us a substitute world that seems to make us special.

But though the ego speaks first and loudly, the Holy Spirit’s Voice remains in our mind. This Voice is heard when we quiet our mind and accept the peace that dwells within us. Peace is the gateway that leads us past the ego’s substitute world.

In peace God’s Voice speaks only the truth to us. It teaches us that only Love is real and shows us how to recognize Love’s presence. When we feel loveless, lonely and afraid, He shows us the Love that remains untouched by the shadow of the ego’s denial.

Today we frequently pause to remind ourselves that only Love is real and everyone is Love in truth. As we accept this fact, we become messengers of Love in the world.

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Remembering Our True Identity

…once you understand it is impossible that you be hurt except by your own thoughts, the fear of God must disappear. ⁴You cannot then believe that fear is caused without.

²If it can but be you you crucify, you did not hurt the world, and need not fear its vengeance and pursuit. ³Nor need you hide in terror from the deadly fear of God projection hides behind. ⁴The thing you dread the most is your salvation. ⁵You are strong, and it is strength you want. ⁶And you are free, and glad of freedom.

²When you realize, once and for all, that it is you you fear, the mind perceives itself as split. ³And this had been concealed while you believed attack could be directed outward, and returned from outside to within.

²Yet in this instant is the time as well in which salvation comes. ³For fear of God has disappeared. ⁴And you can call on Him to save you from illusions by His Love, calling Him Father and yourself His Son. ⁵Pray that the instant may be soon,—today. ⁶Step back from fear, and make advance to love.

²When the fear of God is gone, there are no obstacles that still remain between you and the holy peace of God. (A Course in Miracles, W-196.8:3-4;9:2-6;10:2-3;11:2-6;12:2. See also ACIM Lesson 196 Insights.)

The ego is the quest for specialness, which is the denial of God’s changeless Love. Thus the ego is an attack on the Love that is our true Identity. Believing it has attacked God, the ego is constantly in fear which it projects upon the world. Everything it perceives either supports its belief in its specialness or threatens it. And the biggest threat of all is God, for the ego perceives Love as an attack on its unique identity. The unity of Love and individuality of the special cannot coexist.

We are learning that we are not the ego. We remain Love as Love created us. The changelessness of Love is Its strength. It sees no opposition, for only Love is real.

Love is our true Identity. It unites us with every brother and our Creator. We rest in the strength of Love, confident that we are safe. We find joy in extending the Love that created us and creates with us as we extend It to the world. No longer do we try to claim a little piece of Love for ourselves alone. We rejoice in the realization that Love is all there is.

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The Path That Leads to Love

³Learn now, without despair, there is no hope of answer in the world. ⁴But do not judge the lesson that is but begun with this. …⁸For from this lowest point will learning lead to heights of happiness, in which you see the purpose of the lesson shining clear, and perfectly within your learning grasp.

Who would be willing to be turned away from all the roadways of the world, unless he understood their real futility?

The learning that the world can offer but one choice, no matter what its form may be, is the beginning of acceptance that there is a real alternative instead.

There is a choice that you have power to make when you have seen the real alternatives. …³This course attempts to teach no more than that the power of decision cannot lie in choosing different forms of what is still the same illusion and the same mistake.

Forgive yourself your madness, and forget all senseless journeys and all goal-less aims. ²They have no meaning. ³You can not escape from what you are. ⁴For God is merciful, and did not let His Son abandon Him. ⁵For what He is be thankful, for in that is your escape from madness and from death. ⁶Nowhere but where He is can you be found. ⁷There is no path that does not lead to Him. (A Course in Miracles, T-31.IV.4:3-4,8;5:1;6:1;8:1,3;11. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We are all searching for love and happiness while we believe we want specialness. The wish for specialness denies the oneness of God’s Love. Thus the search for specialness will never bring us what we truly desire. Eventually we all must come to the point of realizing there must be better way.

What we are truly seeking we already have but do not realize it because it is hidden behind the wish for specialness. But at the turning point of realizing there must be better way, we have reached a point of willingness to learn what it is. Now we are willing to seek the answer where it can be found.

We have been given the Holy Spirit to teach us that the Love we seek is What we are. In truth, we are the answer to What we seek. We are Love and nothing else. We share God’s joy in the eternal extension of Love. Our willingness to accept Help is the path of return to Love.

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Turning Our Thoughts Toward Healing

The ego is the part of the mind that believes in division. ²How could part of God detach itself without believing it is attacking Him? …⁵If you identify with the ego, you must perceive yourself as guilty. ⁶Whenever you respond to your ego you will experience guilt, and you will fear punishment. ⁷The ego is quite literally a fearful thought. …¹⁰Listening to the ego’s voice means that you believe it is possible to attack God, and that a part of Him has been torn away by you. ¹¹Fear of retaliation from without follows, because the severity of the guilt is so acute that it must be projected.

⁸Guilt is a sure sign that your thinking is unnatural. ⁹Unnatural thinking will always be attended with guilt, because it is the belief in sin. ¹⁰The ego does not perceive sin as a lack of love, but as a positive act of assault. ¹¹This is necessary to the ego’s survival because, as soon as you regard sin as a lack, you will automatically attempt to remedy the situation. ¹²And you will succeed. ¹³The ego regards this as doom, but you must learn to regard it as freedom.

The guiltless mind cannot suffer. ²Being sane, the mind heals the body because it has been healed. ³The sane mind cannot conceive of illness because it cannot conceive of attacking anyone or anything. ⁴I said before that illness is a form of magic. ⁵It might be better to say that it is a form of magical solution. ⁶The ego believes that by punishing itself it will mitigate the punishment of God. (A Course in Miracles, T-5.V.3:1-2,5-7,10-11;4:8-13;5:1-6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Love does not condemn. God’s Son is Love’s Creation. We are Love and nothing else. Our Real thoughts must be thoughts of Love. It is impossible that thoughts of Love could be cause for guilt. Thoughts of Love are extensions of Love.

If we feel guilty, we are thinking unnaturally. Thoughts of separation cannot be true but they do repeat the error of belief in what could never be true. Our engagement with the ego thought system engenders guilt. But the ego thought system is only a belief that separation has occurred, though this could never be true.

The antidote to fear and guilt is to undo the mistaken beliefs that are their cause. For this undoing we need Help from beyond the ego. We can use awareness of guilt feelings and thoughts as a reminder to ask the Holy Spirit to heal our fear-based thoughts. This practice interrupts the ego’s guilty scripts and turns our thoughts in the direction of healing.

Today we choose to let our fear-based thoughts be healed, for we want the peace of God.

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Release from Belief in Death

⁴Think not that you can set a goal unlike God’s purpose for you, and establish it as changeless and eternal. ⁵You can give yourself a purpose that you do not have. ⁶But you can not remove the power to change your mind, and see another purpose there.

Change is the greatest gift God gave to all that you would make eternal, to ensure that only Heaven would not pass away. ²You were not born to die. ³You cannot change, because your function has been fixed by God. ⁴All other goals are set in time and change that time might be preserved, excepting one. ⁵Forgiveness does not aim at keeping time, but at its ending, when it has no use. ⁶Its purpose ended, it is gone. ⁷And where it once held seeming sway is now restored the function God established for His Son in full awareness. ⁸Time can set no end to its fulfillment nor its changelessness. ⁹There is no death because the living share the function their Creator gave to them. ¹⁰Life’s function cannot be to die. ¹¹It must be life’s extension, that it be as one forever and forever, without end.

How lovely is the world whose purpose is forgiveness of God’s Son! ²How free from fear, how filled with blessing and with happiness! ³And what a joyous thing it is to dwell a little while in such a happy place! ⁴Nor can it be forgot, in such a world, it is a little while till timelessness comes quietly to take the place of time. (A Course in Miracles, T-29.VI.3:4–4:11;6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Forgiveness is the way to release the ego belief that death is real. God’s Love is eternal and changeless. Love is Life. When Love is denied, the illusion of death replaces the Reality of eternal Life.

The entire dream of bodies in a world of separate images is the effect of the wish for special Love. Love is one and must be given equally to all to be Itself. Only a dream of specialness could hide the eternal Life we live in God. Because this dream denies Life, it must seem to end in death, though death could never occur in truth.

Today we choose to accept the Holy Spirit’s help to forgive the mistaken wish for specialness. Without that wish, we are free to live the life of Love in oneness with our Creator.

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Becoming an Instrument of Healing

Healing, forgiveness, and the glad exchange of all the world of sorrow for a world where sadness cannot enter, are the means by which the Holy Spirit urges you to follow Him. ²His gentle lessons teach how easily salvation can be yours; how little practice you need undertake to let His laws replace the ones you made to hold yourself a prisoner to death. ³His life becomes your own, as you extend the little help He asks in freeing you from everything that ever caused you pain.

And as you let yourself be healed, you see all those around you, or who cross your mind, or whom you touch or those who seem to have no contact with you, healed along with you. ²Perhaps you will not recognize them all, nor realize how great your offering to all the world, when you let healing come to you. ³But you are never healed alone. ⁴And legions upon legions will receive the gift that you receive when you are healed.

Those who are healed become the instruments of healing. (A Course in Miracles, W-137.9:1–11:1. See also ACIM Lesson 137 Insights.)

Do we want to perceive a peaceful world, a happy world, a loving world? Then we need to heal our beliefs about what we are. When we accept the Self God created one with Him, we accept the attributes of His Love — peace, joy and Love. Our perceptions always reflect what we believe we are.

If we experience anything less than perfect peace, joy and limitless Love, we are believing in a false image of what we are. It is time to call upon the Holy Spirit for help to heal the thought in our mind that interferes with our awareness of Love’s presence. That is His function. Our role in the healing of the world, which is the healing of our perceptions, is to be willing to accept the Holy Spirit’s help. He will do the rest.

Today we call upon the Holy Spirit to replace our misperceptions with His true perception. We will see a forgiven world through the His gift of Christ’s vision. This is how we become instruments of healing.

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Accepting the Happy Dream of Forgiveness

[Christ’s vision] is the Holy Spirit’s single gift; the treasure house to which you can appeal with perfect certainty for all the things that can contribute to your happiness. ²All are laid here already. ³All can be received but for the asking. ⁴Here the door is never locked, and no one is denied his least request or his most urgent need. ⁵There is no sickness not already healed, no lack unsatisfied, no need unmet within this golden treasury of Christ.

⁴No one will be turned away from this new home, where his salvation waits. ⁵No one is stranger to him. ⁶No one asks for anything of him except the gift of his acceptance of his welcoming.

Behold the store of miracles set out for you to give. ²Are you not worth the gift, when God appointed it be given you? ³Judge not God’s Son, but follow in the way He has established. ⁴Christ has dreamed the dream of a forgiven world. ⁵It is His gift, whereby a sweet transition can be made from death to life; from hopelessness to hope. ⁶Let us an instant dream with Him. ⁷His dream awakens us to truth. ⁸His vision gives the means for a return to our unlost and everlasting sanctity in God. (A Course in Miracles, W-159.6;7:4-6;10. See also ACIM Lesson 159 Insights.)

Christ’s vision shows us the happy dream of forgiveness. We welcome His vision when we pause to remember the peace of God within. Peace is the condition for Christ’s vision, for His is the vision of Love. The Light of Love is so brilliant that it shines away the ego’s dark thoughts of fear and guilt.

We dedicate this day to holding our mind open to Christ’s vision. It is the means for us to accept the happiness God wills for us. And we would share it with the world.

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