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Claiming Our True Self’s Reality

Dwell not upon the past today. ²Keep a completely open mind, washed of all past ideas and clean of every concept you have made. ³You have forgiven the world today. ⁴You can look upon it now as if you never saw it before. ⁵You do not know yet what it looks like. ⁶You merely wait to have it shown to you. ⁷While you wait, repeat several times, slowly and in complete patience:

⁸The light has come. ⁹I have forgiven the world.

Realize that your forgiveness entitles you to vision. ²Understand that the Holy Spirit never fails to give the gift of sight to the forgiving. ³Believe He will not fail you now. ⁴You have forgiven the world. ⁵He will be with you as you watch and wait. ⁶He will show you what true vision sees. ⁷It is His Will, and you have joined with Him. ⁸Wait patiently for Him. ⁹He will be there. ¹⁰The light has come. ¹¹You have forgiven the world.

We dedicate this day to the serenity in which God would have you be. ²Keep it in your awareness of yourself and see it everywhere today, as we celebrate the beginning of your vision and the sight of the real world, which has come to replace the unforgiven world you thought was real. (A Course in Miracles, W-75.6–7;11. See also ACIM Lesson 75 Insights.)

When we experience fear, anger or guilt, it does not seem that we have forgiven the world. Only in the dream of separation does there seem to be a past that needs to be forgiven. Our true Self knows that nothing has happened to change God’s one Son, forever united with Him. This is our only Reality.

Time is part of the illusion; there is no past. This is why we can honestly claim that we have forgiven the world now. As we assure ourselves of this fact, we are claiming the Reality of our true Self and disowning the ego thought system of separation. By accepting that the Light has come, we are welcoming the vision that sees nothing has changed the Love we are. We remain safe in our oneness with God.

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Seeing Beyond the Body to Our True Self

I bless the world because I bless myself.

²God’s blessing shines upon me from within my heart, where He abides. ³I need but turn to Him, and every sorrow melts away, as I accept His boundless Love for me.

²I will be still, and let the earth be still along with me. ³And in that stillness we will find the peace of God. ⁴It is within my heart, which witnesses to God Himself.

⁵I am not a body. ⁶I am free.
⁷For I am still as God created me.
(A Course in Miracles, W-207.1;208.1:2-7. See also ACIM Lesson 207 Insights.)

The wish for specialness requires that we perceive everyone and everything in the world as different from what we are. But this perception can only seem to be real in illusions. Within the dream of separateness, the idea that we bless the world when we bless ourselves seems impossible.

The Course is teaching us that our Reality is the opposite of our perceptions in the dream. The oneness of Love unites us with every brother and our Creator. This is why we bless the world when we bless our Self. There is no separation. We are one Self, united with our Creator. This is why it is important that we remind ourselves that we are not a body. It is an image made to make separation seem real.

Beyond that image is the Love we are. Love has no form; It is not limited by time or space. As we let go of body identification, we free ourselves to experience the joy and peace of the Love we are. Today we call upon the Holy Spirit for His help to learn this important lesson.

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We Are Never Alone

God’s healing Voice protects all things today.

Let us today attend the Voice for God, which speaks an ancient lesson, no more true today than any other day. ²Yet has this day been chosen as the time when we will seek and hear and learn and understand. ³Join me in hearing. ⁴For the Voice for God tells us of things we cannot understand alone, nor learn apart. ⁵It is in this that all things are protected. ⁶And in this the healing of the Voice for God is found.

Your healing Voice protects all things today, and so I leave all things to You. ²I need be anxious over nothing. ³For Your Voice will tell me what to do and where to go; to whom to speak and what to say to him, what thoughts to think, what words to give the world. ⁴The safety that I bring is given me. ⁵Father, Your Voice protects all things through me. (A Course in Miracles, W-275. See also ACIM Lesson 275 Insights.)

We are never alone. This is the message God’s Voice offers us. It assures us of our safety, comfort, happiness and peace. When we are willing to listen and learn, the wish to be special and alone us undone.

The ego clutters our mind with complications. These complications seem to be beyond the interest of the Holy Spirit to help. How could He know what to do when there seems to be a software glitch with our phone? But every situation is a learning opportunity if we are willing to listen to God’s Voice. We are not alone. This is the lesson every moment offers us through His Voice.

Today we take comfort knowing that His Voice guides us in the details of our life. It leads us to remembering that we are joined forever in the oneness of God’s Love.

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Accepting the Strength of the Love We Are

⁷What is unalterable cannot change. ⁸And what is wholly sinless cannot sin.

Such is the simple truth. ²It does not make appeal to might nor triumph. ³It does not command obedience, nor seek to prove how pitiful and futile your attempts to plan defenses that would alter it. ⁴Truth merely wants to give you happiness, for such its purpose is. ⁵…what God wills for you must be received.

It is this fact that demonstrates that time is an illusion. ²For time lets you think what God has given you is not the truth right now, as it must be. ³The Thoughts of God are quite apart from time. ⁴For time is but another meaningless defense you made against the truth. ⁵Yet what He wills is here, and you remain as He created you.

Truth has a power far beyond defense, for no illusions can remain where truth has been allowed to enter. ²And it comes to any mind that would lay down its arms, and cease to play with folly. ³It is found at any time; today, if you will choose to practice giving welcome to the truth.

This is our aim today. …⁵We introduce it with a healing prayer, to help us rise above defensiveness, and let truth be as it has always been:

⁶Sickness is a defense against the truth. ⁷I will accept the truth of what I am, and let my mind be wholly healed today.

Healing will flash across your open mind, as peace and truth arise to take the place of war and vain imaginings. (A Course in Miracles, W-136.11:7–15:1,5–16:1. See also ACIM Lesson 136 Insights.)

The ego is in a constant battle against the truth. It seeks to dominate our attention. It has no strength of its own and depends solely on our belief in it for its seeming strength. It presents appearances that portray vulnerability to make defense against the truth seem to be necessary for our survival. But this is not for our survival, only for the ego’s.

The Holy Spirit does not participate in the ego’s battle. It knows the ego is nothing but a mistaken belief that can be corrected. When we accept the Holy Spirit’s help to see past the ego’s defenses, our minds are healed. Like water melted the wicked witch, the Light of Love dispels the ego’s thoughts that deny God’s Love.

As we are willing to accept the Holy Spirit’s lessons in Love, we learn of our real strength. The ego fades away and we remember the peace and Love of God that is our Reality.

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Our True Self Remains United with Our Creator

You are one Self, united and secure in light and joy and peace. ²You are God’s Son, one Self, with one Creator and one goal; to bring awareness of this oneness to all minds, that true creation may extend the allness and the unity of God. ³You are one Self, complete and healed and whole, with power to lift the veil of darkness from the world, and let the light in you come through to teach the world the truth about yourself.

You are one Self, in perfect harmony with all there is, and all that there will be. ²You are one Self, the holy Son of God, united with your brothers in that Self; united with your Father in His Will. ³Feel this one Self in you, and let It shine away all your illusions and your doubts. ⁴This is your Self, the Son of God Himself, sinless as Its Creator, with His strength within you and His Love forever yours. ⁵You are one Self, and it is given you to feel this Self within you, and to cast all your illusions out of the one Mind that is this Self, the holy truth in you.”

²To everyone you meet today, be sure to give the promise of today’s idea and tell him this:

³You are one Self with me, united with our Creator in this Self. ⁴I honor you because of What I am, and What He is, Who loves us both as One. (A Course in Miracles, W-95.12–13;15:2-4. See also ACIM Lesson 95 Insights.)

The Course is offering us an alternative view of our identity. It states that, in fact, it is the only alternative that is real. This Identity is a complete reversal of what we believe about ourselves in this world. But it offers us peace instead of conflict, joy instead of distress, loneliness and lack, and changeless Love in place of fear and guilt.

This Self has never changed, no matter what we believe about ourself. But our belief has made a dark veil that hides the Light of Love we are. The Course provides means for us to change our mind. We need to undo our mistaken beliefs. No battle is needed. But vigilance is needed to pay attention to our thoughts that come from a false image of our self. These thoughts we need to bring to the Holy Spirit in our mind for His loving correction.

With His help, we will see our brothers as sharing our journey of returning to Love. We learn that what bothers us about our brother reflects a mistaken belief we have about ourself. As we take this mistaken belief to the Holy Spirit, we learn to let it go. The veil fades as we remember we are one Self, united in the oneness of our Creator, along with every brother.

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Remembering Our Home in Love

…it is your thoughts which made [the world] and [your thoughts] must set it free, that you may know the Thoughts you share with God.

Release the world!

There is no world because it is a thought apart from God, and made to separate the Father and the Son, and break away a part of God Himself and thus destroy His Wholeness. ²Can a world which comes from this idea be real? ³Can it be anywhere? ⁴Deny illusions, but accept the truth. ⁵Deny you are a shadow briefly laid upon a dying world. ⁶Release your mind, and you will look upon a world released.

Today our purpose is to free the world from all the idle thoughts we ever held about it, and about all living things we see upon it. ²They can not be there. ³No more can we. ⁴For we are in the home our Father set for us, along with them. ⁵And we who are as He created us would loose the world this day from every one of our illusions, that we may be free.

[Affirm:] ²I who remain as God created me would loose the world from all I thought it was. ³For I am real because the world is not, and I would know my own reality. (A Course in Miracles, W-132.11:6–12:1;13;14;15:2-3. See also ACIM Lesson 132 Insights.)

History is important to the ego because it uses the past to make its illusions seem real. Without the past, without time, we are aware of the eternal Reality in the present. The ego thoughts based in time are used to hide the present from our awareness. This is why the key to our release is to let the past go — to forgive.

Today we welcome the Holy Spirit’s lessons which teach us the past does not exist. His shows us the changeless presence of Love. When we look on the world through the eyes of Love, there is no judgment, only the joyous joining of Love with Love. We recognize the Love our brother is. We remember our unbreakable link with the Love that created us.

No longer is the past held in our mind. We let Love guide our thoughts. Love’s vision sees the universe of Love and nothing else. We remember our Home in Love.

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Opening to the Miracle of True Perception

Your holiness reverses all the laws of the world. ²It is beyond every restriction of time, space, distance and limits of any kind. ³Your holiness is totally unlimited in its power because it establishes you as a Son of God, at one with the Mind of his Creator.

Through your holiness the power of God is made manifest. ²Through your holiness the power of God is made available. ³And there is nothing the power of God cannot do. ⁴Your holiness, then, can remove all pain, can end all sorrow, and can solve all problems. ⁵It can do so in connection with yourself and with anyone else. ⁶It is equal in its power to help anyone because it is equal in its power to save anyone.

If you are holy, so is everything God created. ²You are holy because all things He created are holy.”

…search your mind for any sense of loss or unhappiness of any kind as you see it. …[Use the following to apply today’s idea:]

⁵In the situation involving _________ in which I see myself, there is nothing that my holiness cannot do.
⁶In the situation involving _________ in which _________ sees himself, there is nothing my holiness cannot do.
(A Course in Miracles, W-38.1:1–3:2;4:1,5-6. See also ACIM Lesson 38 Insights.)

It is tempting to believe that our holiness cannot do anything about a perceived problem in the world. How can our holiness help fix a problem with a car or a computer? These doubts come from the ego defending its domain. As long as we believe we have to rely on our own devices, we are limited to using ego illusions to fix the ego’s illusions. This circular reasoning blocks our awareness of the power God shares with us.

This lesson is telling us that no ego illusion can be maintained in the presence of God’s holiness. And His holiness is everywhere and in everyone. Only our allegiance to the ego blocks our awareness of the holiness God shares with His Son.

It is time to stop swearing allegiance to the ego. When we withdraw this allegiance, we open our mind and heart to the strength and Love that God shares with us without limit, eternally. If we let Him into our awareness, He can help us forgive our mistaken wish for specialness. This makes way for the miracle of changed perception, where the idea of loss, lack or harm is dispelled. There is nothing our holiness cannot do.

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