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Accepting Love’s Oneness

Grace is acceptance of the Love of God within a world of seeming hate and fear. ²By grace alone the hate and fear are gone, for grace presents a state so opposite to everything the world contains, that those whose minds are lighted by the gift of grace can not believe the world of fear is real.

Oneness is simply the idea God is. ²And in His Being, He encompasses all things. ³No mind holds anything but Him. ⁴We say “God is,” and then we cease to speak, for in that knowledge words are meaningless. ⁵There are no lips to speak them, and no part of mind sufficiently distinct to feel that it is now aware of something not itself. ⁶It has united with its Source. ⁷And like its Source Itself, it merely is.

We cannot speak nor write nor even think of this at all. ²It comes to every mind when total recognition that its will is God’s has been completely given and received completely. ³It returns the mind into the endless present, where the past and future cannot be conceived. ⁴It lies beyond salvation; past all thought of time, forgiveness and the holy face of Christ. ⁵The Son of God has merely disappeared into his Father, as his Father has in him. ⁶The world has never been at all. ⁷Eternity remains a constant state. (A Course in Miracles, W-169.2;5-6. See also ACIM Lesson 169 Insights.)

The world we see is a reflection of our belief that separation is real. When this belief is wholly released through forgiveness, the world will simply cease to seem to exist. Our role in the salvation of the world is to accept the Holy Spirit’s help to heal our mistaken beliefs.

Each time we accept the Holy Spirit’s help to heal a misperception, we open our mind to the recognition of our oneness with God. This seems to take many steps only because of our resistance. We made the choice to treasure specialness, which brought the perception of the world into our split mind.

When we accept the Holy Spirit’s help we release our attachment to specialness. We have disguised the wish for specialness in myriad forms. Thus it seems forgiveness must be repeated many times. This is true until we recognize that every belief in form is the same mistake. With this generalization we take giant steps to awareness of oneness through forgiveness.

We are on a journey of awakening that goes nowhere, but leads to awakening to our Home in Love we never left in truth. Today we are willing to forgive our perceptions and remember our oneness in God’s Love.

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Accepting Holy Spirit’s True Correction

Salvation requires the acceptance of but one thought;—you are as God created you, not what you made of yourself. ²Whatever evil you may think you did, you are as God created you. ³Whatever mistakes you made, the truth about you is unchanged. ⁴Creation is eternal and unalterable. ⁵Your sinlessness is guaranteed by God. ⁶You are and will forever be exactly as you were created. ⁷Light and joy and peace abide in you because God put them there.

…for the first five minutes of every waking hour, begin by stating the truth about your creation:

²Light and joy and peace abide in me.
³My sinlessness is guaranteed by God.

⁴Then put away your foolish self-images, and spend the rest of the practice period in trying to experience what God has given you, in place of what you have decreed for yourself.

You are what God created or what you made. ²One Self is true; the other is not there. ³Try to experience the unity of your one Self. ⁴Try to appreciate Its Holiness and the love from which It was created. ⁵Try not to interfere with the Self which God created as you, by hiding Its majesty behind the tiny idols of evil and sinfulness you have made to replace It. ⁶Let It come into Its Own. ⁷Here you are; This is You. ⁸And light and joy and peace abide in you because this is so. (A Course in Miracles, W-93.7;8:1–9:8. See also ACIM Lesson 93 Insights.)

Truth does not need correction. It is true and nothing else is true. But errors are simply mistakes that call for correction.

As long as we believe our identity is determined by a body and what it does, we are believing in an error. The complete correction of this error will return us to full awareness of the Self we are as God created Us, His Son. This mistaken belief calls for correction, not punishment. Judgment simply supports a false belief without correcting it.

Our healing comes when we let the Holy Spirit help us forgive the mistake that calls for Love and correct it with Love. This is what forgiveness does. We cannot do it alone. We need to welcome the Holy Spirit’s correction of our misperceptions with true perception. His vision sees only Love or a call for Love.

Misperceptions are the effect of mistaken beliefs. Because the beliefs are untrue and not real, the misperceptions are not real. As we accept the Holy Spirit’s help, we heal the beliefs that cause of our fear and guilt. We awaken to the Love we are.

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Following Holy Spirit’s Lessons in Love

To teach is to demonstrate. There are only two thought systems, and you demonstrate that you believe one or the other is true all the time. From your demonstration others learn, and so do you. The question is not whether you will teach, for in that there is no choice. The purpose of the course might be said to provide you with a means of choosing what you want to teach on the basis of what you want to learn. You cannot give to someone else, but only to yourself, and this you learn through teaching. Teaching is but a call to witnesses to attest to what you believe. It is a method of conversion. This is not done by words alone. Any situation must be to you a chance to teach others what you are, and what they are to you. No more than that, but also never less.

The self-deceiving must deceive, for they must teach deception. And what else is hell? This is a manual for the teachers of God. They are not perfect, or they would not be here. Yet it is their mission to become perfect here, and so they teach perfection over and over, in many, many ways, until they have learned it. And then they are seen no more, although their thoughts remain a source of strength and truth forever. (A Course in Miracles, M-In.2;5:2-7)

In every moment we demonstrate what we believe we are by our thoughts, words and actions. If we believe we are a separate individual, identified with a body, we will think of ourselves as disconnected from everyone and everything. We perceive and judge others as separate from us. We respond to relationships and situations based upon our judgments which reflect our belief in what we are. All this teaches others and ourselves, reinforcing our belief that we are separate.

Yet every moment can be used to teach a different lesson. As we practice letting the Holy Spirit guide our thoughts and interpret all our perceptions, our lessons teach us and the world that we are Love, united in Its Oneness. Our response to appearances that seem unloving is to extend Love in answer to the call for Love, thus teaching ourselves that we are Love. In every moment we choose between the ego’s lessons of separation and fear, or the Holy Spirit’s lessons of Oneness and Love. One choice makes hell; the other choice leads us back to our Home in Heaven. 

Now we are willing to follow the Holy Spirit’s lessons in Love.

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Accepting and Giving God’s Gifts

There is no end to all the peace and joy, and all the miracles that I will give, when I accept God’s Word. Why not today?

Why should I wait, my Father, for the joy You promised me? ²For You will keep Your Word You gave Your Son in exile. ³I am sure my treasure waits for me, and I need but reach out my hand to find it. ⁴Even now my fingers touch it. ⁵It is very close. ⁶I need not wait an instant more to be at peace forever. ⁷It is You I choose, and my Identity along with You. ⁸Your Son would be Himself, and know You as his Father and Creator, and his Love. (A Course in Miracles, W-355. See also ACIM Lesson 355 Insights.)

We can be an open channel for the limitless flow of peace and joy and miracles. We need only accept the word of God which declares that we are forever united with our Creator. The free flow of His Gifts requires both acceptance and giving. This is how we know His Love is What we are. His joy is ours.

Are we willing to accept it? We make this choice every moment of every day. When we believe the dream is real, we deny our unity with God. This belief is what needs to be forgiven. We have Help. As we practice letting the Holy Spirit guide our way through the day, we open our channel to be the extension of God’s Love. Forgiveness is the means to remember we are in Heaven now.

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Uniting with the Eternal Flow of Love

A major learning goal this course has set is to reverse your view of giving, so you can receive. ²For giving has become a source of fear, and so you would avoid the only means by which you can receive. ³Accept God’s peace and joy, and you will learn a different way of looking at a gift. ⁴God’s gifts will never lessen when they are given away. ⁵They but increase thereby.

As Heaven’s peace and joy intensify when you accept them as God’s gift to you, so does the joy of your Creator grow when you accept His joy and peace as yours. ²True giving is creation. ³It extends the limitless to the unlimited, eternity to timelessness, and love unto itself. ⁴It adds to all that is complete already, not in simple terms of adding more, for that implies that it was less before. ⁵It adds by letting what cannot contain itself fulfill its aim of giving everything it has away, securing it forever for itself.

Today accept God’s peace and joy as yours. ²Let Him complete Himself as He defines completion. ³You will understand that what completes Him must complete His Son as well. ⁴He cannot give through loss. ⁵No more can you. ⁶Receive His gift of joy and peace today, and He will thank you for your gift to Him. (A Course in Miracles, W-105.3–5. See also ACIM Lesson 105 Insights.)

God’s Love is one and limitless. The nature of Love is to extend, to give and receive in full cycle. If there is an attempt to limit receiving or giving, Love is denied. To join in the joyous extension of God’s Love, we must accept His gift and share it. This brings with it God’s joy and peace, for we are accepting Him and His Creation, our true Self.

God created His Son worthy of His Love. To believe we are unworthy to receive It, to think we must do anything to deserve it, is to reject His Love. God places no qualifications on His Creation. It is His Will that all His Creation remain one with Him eternally. Likewise, no brother needs do anything to qualify for God’s Love. Any attempt to judge a brother is an attempt to limit Love. It denies God’s Love.

Our role as God’s Son is to accept His Love and extend It by joining with the Love that is every brother. In the dream, we move toward completing that function by forgiving the barriers we have guilt against Love’s completion by seeking specialness instead of uniting with the eternal flow of Love.

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Finding Peace in the World

I want the peace of God.

To say these words is nothing. ²But to mean these words is everything. ³If you could but mean them for just an instant, there would be no further sorrow possible for you in any form; in any place or time. ⁴Heaven would be completely given back to full awareness, memory of God entirely restored, the resurrection of all creation fully recognized.

No one can mean these words and not be healed. ²He cannot play with dreams, nor think he is himself a dream. ³He cannot make a hell and think it real. ⁴He wants the peace of God, and it is given him. ⁵For that is all he wants, and that is all he will receive.

To mean you want the peace of God is to renounce all dreams.

The mind which means that all it wants is peace must join with other minds, for that is how peace is obtained. ²And when the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is given, in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand. A Course in Miracles, (W-185.1:1–2:5;5:1;6:1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 185 Insights.)

Everyone wants peace, for the mind identified with the ego thought system is unsettled and stressed. But under the ego’s direction we seek peace by inappropriate means. The ego always wants to seek and not find to maintain its seeming reality. The mind at peace has dismissed the ego and wants only the unity of God’s Love.

Throughout today we ask to see the world through the eyes of Love. This is how we align our mind with God’s. For His Will is to extend Love eternally. We will find peace in this practice, for peace is an attribute of Love.

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Accepting No Substitute for God’s Love

Today the peace of God envelops me, and I forget all things except His Love.

Father, I wake today with miracles correcting my perception of all things. ²And so begins the day I share with You as I will share eternity, for time has stepped aside today. ³I do not seek the things of time, and so I will not look upon them. ⁴What I seek today transcends all laws of time and things perceived in time. ⁵I would forget all things except Your Love. ⁶I would abide in You, and know no laws except Your law of love. ⁷And I would find the peace which You created for Your Son, forgetting all the foolish toys I made as I behold Your glory and my own.

And when the evening comes today, we will remember nothing but the peace of God. ²For we will learn today what peace is ours, when we forget all things except God’s Love. (A Course in Miracles, W-346. See also ACIM Lesson 346 Insights.)

We do not have to wait for the peace of God. His peace is now and always. We do not have to do anything to qualify for His peace. It is God’s Will that we have His peace now and forever.

We need only be willing to accept the fact that our will is God’s Will, one and the same. His peace was given us in our Creation as His Son. What God gives is eternal. Only our wish for specialness, to have more than everything interferes with our awareness of the peace that is already ours. The substitutes the ego offers to make a semblance of specialness interfere with our awareness of God’s gift because the substitutes deny His gifts.

Today we have the opportunity to lay down the ego’s substitutes and welcome His peace and Love.

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