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Finding Peace in the Changelessness of Love

Today I claim the gifts forgiveness gives.

I will not wait another day to find the treasures that my Father offers me. ²Illusions are all vain, and dreams are gone even while they are woven out of thoughts that rest on false perceptions. ³Let me not accept such meager gifts again today. ⁴God’s Voice is offering the peace of God to all who hear and choose to follow Him. ⁵This is my choice today. ⁶And so I go to find the treasures God has given me.

I seek but the eternal. ²For Your Son can be content with nothing less than this. ³What, then, can be his solace but what You are offering to his bewildered mind and frightened heart, to give him certainty and bring him peace? ⁴Today I would behold my brother sinless. ⁵This Your Will for me, for so will I behold my sinlessness. (A Course in Miracles, W-334. See also ACIM Lesson 334 Insights.)

Judgment is the ego’s key tool for making the world of separation seem real. But we pay a high price for our habit of judging. With judgment comes fear and guilt. These are the triggers that foster more judgment of others and ourselves. This process is a self-maintaining loop that can be broken only with forgiveness. For this we need God’s Voice to help us see the eternal presence of Love’s innocence beyond the images maintained by fear and guilt.

Today we welcome the Holy Spirit’s help to see past the form our brothers seem to be to the innocence of the Love that they are. God created His Son, the Self we share with every brother, as an extension of His Love. This is our Reality. It has no form, but it carries the Light of Love throughout God’s Universe. As we let go of our judgments of our brothers, we discover the Love we are and find peace in Its changelessness.

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Walking to God with Our Brothers

Let me forget my brother’s past today.

This is the thought that leads the way to You, and brings me to my goal. ²I cannot come to You without my brother. ³And to know my Source, I first must recognize what You created one with me. ⁴My brother’s is the hand that leads me on the way to You. ⁵His sins are in the past along with mine, and I am saved because the past is gone. ⁶Let me not cherish it within my heart, or I will lose the way to walk to You. ⁷My brother is my savior. ⁸Let me not attack the savior You have given me. ⁹But let me honor him who bears Your Name, and so remember that It is my own.

Forgive me, then, today. ²And you will know you have forgiven me if you behold your brother in the light of holiness. ³He cannot be less holy than can I, and you can not be holier than he. (A Course in Miracles, W-288. See also ACIM Lesson 288 Insights.)

When we accept our Self which God created as His Son, we will not see our brothers as separate from us. We, along with all our brothers, are one Self, united in the Love in God. This is why no one can reach Heaven while they believe they are alone.

The concept of alone is an ego construct, which it maintains in order to perceive specialness. By definition to be special is to be different. Forgiveness is the means to undo the wish for specialness. It opens our mind to recognize the Love we share with every brother within God’s Love. The recognition that we are one Self awakens us to awareness of our Home in Love.

As we learn to use our perception of a brother as an opportunity to let Christ’s vision reveal his innocence, we free ourselves from the ego thought system. We recognize that we are not alone. The acceptance of our brothers as one with us brings us joy. We walk to God, holding our brother’s hand in the unity of Love.

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Forgiveness Frees Us to Be Happy

Happiness is an attribute of love. ²It cannot be apart from it. ³Nor can it be experienced where love is not. ⁴Love has no limits, being everywhere. ⁵And therefore joy is everywhere as well. ⁶Yet can the mind deny that this is so, believing there are gaps in love where sin can enter, bringing pain instead of joy. ⁷This strange belief would limit happiness by redefining love as limited, and introducing opposition in what has no limit and no opposite.

Fear is associated then with love, and its results become the heritage of minds that think what they have made is real. ²These images, with no reality in truth, bear witness to the fear of God, forgetting being Love, He must be joy. ³This basic error we will try again to bring to truth today, and teach ourselves:

⁴God, being Love, is also happiness.
⁵To fear Him is to be afraid of joy.

…happiness belongs to you, because of what He is.

Allow this one correction to be placed within your mind each waking hour today. ²Then welcome all the happiness it brings as truth replaces fear, and joy becomes what you expect to take the place of pain. ³God, being Love, it will be given you. (A Course in Miracles, W-103.1:1–2:5,7;3:1-3. See also ACIM Lesson 103 Insights.)

The barrier that stands between us and the experience of God’s joy is the belief that separation is possible and real. It is the denial of the oneness of God’s Love. This core belief takes many forms in this world, centered on the body. We believe the body can be hurt and even dies. We believe that we have a separate identity that continues even beyond the “life” of the body.

These beliefs prevent us from knowing the supreme happiness, perfect peace and limitless Love that God gave us when He created His Son one with Him. This is why forgiveness is the key to happiness. When we forgive the belief that separation is real, we open our hearts to God’s joy. No longer are we wary of potential threats to our existence. We feel no need to defend; no need to judge what is good or bad, helpful or harmful. Forgiveness frees us from the wearing past of judging what will keep us safe.

As we frequently remind ourselves that God is happiness and we are His Son, forgiveness becomes a higher priority. We are less willing to tolerate fear. We know better. We know the happiness that comes when we forgive and welcome God’s Love.

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Seeing Our True Self in Every Brother

I need but call and You will answer me.

I am not asked to take salvation on the basis of an unsupported faith. ²For God has promised He will hear my call, and answer me Himself. ³Let me but learn from my experience that this is true, and faith in Him must surely come to me. ⁴This is the faith that will endure, and take me farther and still farther on the road that leads to Him. ⁵For thus I will be sure that He has not abandoned me and loves me still, awaiting but my call to give me all the help I need to come to Him.

Father, I thank You that Your promises will never fail in my experience, if I but test them out. ²Let me attempt therefore to try them, and to judge them not. ³Your Word is one with You. ⁴You give the means whereby conviction comes, and surety of Your abiding Love is gained at last. (A Course in Miracles, W-327. See also ACIM Lesson 327 Insights.)

In our Creation, God promised that we would be forever united one with Him and share all His attributes. His peace, His Love and His joy are ours, for God holds nothing back. Being limitless, He cannot conceive of limitation.

But we have chosen to identify with the ego, the “god” of limitation. The only way to seem to achieve specialness is to limit everything perceived to some form that separates and makes different. This is the world we experience while we believe we are a body and accept the ego’s beliefs about reality. This misidentification makes us unaware of the limitless Self God created as His Son.

But we can choose differently. We may have hidden our true Identity beneath layers of beliefs that support the quest for specialness, but we cannot obliterate Reality. We can hide from It but we cannot change It. It is time to come out of hiding. Beneath all the striving in the world is our deep and abiding desire to be Love, to remember our true Self.

We call upon God’s Voice to help us see the truth beyond the ego’s false images. We truly desire to see the Love that is the truth in our brothers, for they but reflect the truth of What we are.

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Forgiveness Reveals Love’s Innocence

My sight goes forth to look upon Christ’s face.

I ask Your blessing on my sight today. ²It is the means which You have chosen to become the way to show me my mistakes, and look beyond them. ³It is given me to find a new perception through the Guide You gave to me, and through His lessons to surpass perception and return to truth. ⁴I ask for the illusion which transcends all those I made. ⁵Today I choose to see a world forgiven, in which everyone shows me the face of Christ, and teaches me that what I look upon belongs to me; that nothing is, except Your holy Son.

Today our sight is blessed indeed. ²We share one vision, as we look upon the face of Him Whose Self is ours. ³We are one because of Him Who is the Son of God; of Him Who is our own Identity. (A Course in Miracles, W-269. See also ACIM Lesson 269 Insights.)

Christ’s face is a symbol of forgiveness. To see the face of Christ in anyone is to see him forgiven of our illusions of separation. This vision sees only the innocence of God’s Love. Love does not need forgiveness.

But in this world, we need the illusion of forgiveness to let go of the illusions that make our brother appear different and separate. When we except nothing from our forgiveness, it is no longer needed. We have accepted the truth that only Love is real.

This is our only purpose in the world: To let go of all beliefs in separation and awaken to the eternal, changeless Love in which we live.

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The Choice to Accept the Power of Love

This is the only thing that you need do for vision, happiness, release from pain and the complete escape from sin, all to be given you. ²Say only this, but mean it with no reservations, for here the power of salvation lies:

³I am responsible for what I see.
⁴I choose the feelings I experience, and I decide
upon the goal I would achieve.
⁵And everything that seems to happen to me
I ask for, and receive as I have asked.

⁶Deceive yourself no longer that you are helpless in the face of what is done to you. ⁷Acknowledge but that you have been mistaken, and all effects of your mistakes will disappear.

It is impossible the Son of God be merely driven by events outside of him. ²It is impossible that happenings that come to him were not his choice. ³His power of decision is the determiner of every situation in which he seems to find himself by chance or accident. ⁴No accident nor chance is possible within the universe as God created it, outside of which is nothing. ⁵Suffer, and you decided sin was your goal. ⁶Be happy, and you gave the power of decision to Him Who must decide for God for you. (A Course in Miracles, T-21.II.2:1–3:6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The choice to identify with the ego is the choice to be powerless. It is the choice to be a victim of the world we see. And ultimately it is the choice for death. The ego is not our friend. It wants us dead as the final “proof” that separation is real.

Just as the ego is a choice, we still have the choice to remember our true Self. Because the ego is not real, it cannot block us forever from remembering the truth. Only our choice keeps the ego in charge.

When we choose the Holy Spirit as our Guide for Its interpretation of every perception, the ego is dispelled. Just as turning on a light in a dark room dispels the darkness, choosing the Holy Spirit as our Guide enlightens our mind and dispels the ego’s denial of Love. We are free to choose Love today, in this instant. Love is our eternal Life.

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Accepting Love’s Oneness

All fear is past and only love is here.

All fear is past, because its source is gone, and all its thoughts gone with it. ²Love remains the only present state, whose Source is here forever and forever. ³Can the world seem bright and clear and safe and welcoming, with all my past mistakes oppressing it, and showing me distorted forms of fear? ⁴Yet in the present, love is obvious, and its effects apparent. ⁵All the world shines in reflection of its holy light, and I perceive a world forgiven at last.

Father, let not Your holy world escape my sight today. ²Nor let my ears be deaf to all the hymns of gratitude the world is singing underneath the sounds of fear. ³There is a real world which the present holds safe from all past mistakes. ⁴And I would see only this world before my eyes today. (A Course in Miracles, W-293. See also ACIM Lesson 293 Insights.)

The ego would not seem to exist without “memories” of the past. It uses the past to justify guilt, which is essential to maintain the appearance of separation. Judgment depends upon belief in differences.

Yet Love is universal and one. It is the same everywhere, always, never changing. The certainty of Love is our refuge from the ego’s fear and guilt. We can count on it always being the same. We need only accept this gift our Creator gave us without reservation.

This Love unites us with every brother in our Source. We are at Home in Love and nowhere else. Nothing else exists in truth. We can relax into Love’s peace. We can joyously celebrate our unity in the happy, eternal extension of Love. Now is the time to accept the Love we are.

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