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Accepting the Christ Within

⁴Deep in your mind the holy Christ in you is waiting your acknowledgment as you. ⁵And you are lost and do not know yourself while He is unacknowledged and unknown.

Seek Him today, and find Him. ²He will be your Savior from all idols you have made. ³For when you find Him, you will understand how worthless are your idols, and how false the images which you believed were you. ⁴Today we make a great advance to truth by letting idols go, and opening our hands and hearts and minds to God today.

We will remember Him throughout the day with thankful hearts and loving thoughts for all who meet with us today. ²For it is thus that we remember Him. ³And we will say, that we may be reminded of His Son, our holy Self, the Christ in each of us:

⁴I am as God created me.

⁵Let us declare this truth as often as we can. ⁶This is the Word of God that sets you free. ⁷This is the key that opens up the gate of Heaven, and that lets you enter in the peace of God and His eternity. (A Course in Miracles, W-110.9:4–11:7. See also ACIM Lesson 110 Insights.)

When we are remembering the Christ within, we look upon everyone we meet with thankful hearts and loving thoughts. This is what we are called to do in every moment. And if we do not have gratitude and loving thoughts for our brother, we remember that it’s time to forgive our misperception.

We ask the Holy Spirit to heal our fear-based thoughts. We pause to welcome the peace of God within with willingness to share it with our brothers. In the sharing we reclaim His gift of peace. This practice will help us awaken to the fact that we remain God’s Son eternally.

We dedicate this day to seeing our brothers with gratitude and loving thoughts.

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Gratitude Comes with Identifying with Love

We thank our Father for one thing alone; that we are separate from no living thing, and therefore one with Him. ²And we rejoice that no exceptions ever can be made which would reduce our wholeness, nor impair or change our function to complete the One Who is Himself completion. ³We give thanks for every living thing, for otherwise we offer thanks for nothing, and we fail to recognize the gifts of God to us.

Then let our brothers lean their tired heads against our shoulders as they rest a while. ²We offer thanks for them. ³For if we can direct them to the peace that we would find, the way is opening at last to us. ⁴An ancient door is swinging free again; a long forgotten Word re-echoes in our memory, and gathers clarity as we are willing once again to hear.

Walk, then, in gratitude the way of love. ²For hatred is forgotten when we lay comparisons aside. ³What more remains as obstacles to peace? ⁴The fear of God is now undone at last, and we forgive without comparing. ⁵Thus we cannot choose to overlook some things, and yet retain some other things still locked away as “sins.” ⁶When your forgiveness is complete you will have total gratitude, for you will see that everything has earned the right to love by being loving, even as your Self.

⁶For love can walk no road except the way of gratitude, and thus we go who walk the way to God. (A Course in Miracles, W-195.6:1–8:6;10:6. See also ACIM Lesson 195 Insights.)

Gratitude is natural when we join with the Love that is the Reality in which we live. We are grateful for the quiet peace that cannot be disturbed when we dwell in Love. We are grateful for the joy of extending Love and experiencing Love’s flow through our Being. This is the experience of the Life we live in God.

This gratitude is blocked when we think we are a unique and different self. It only seems real by comparing our self with others, who seem to be different. Joy cannot be fully experience when we are seeing differences. The flow of Love only occurs from Love to Love. There are no differences in Love’s oneness.

We walk the path of gratitude when we forgive the appearance of differences to see our oneness with our brothers, joined in Love. We ask the Holy Spirit for His help to see past appearances to the Love in which we live. As we accept His help, we will walk in gratitude knowing our Identity is Love.

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Accepting Peace of Mind

In quiet I receive God’s Word today.

Let this day be a day of stillness and of quiet listening. ²Your Father wills you hear His Word today. ³He calls to you from deep within your mind where He abides. ⁴Hear Him today. ⁵No peace is possible until His Word is heard around the world; until your mind, in quiet listening, accepts the message that the world must hear to usher in the quiet time of peace.

This world will change through you. ²No other means can save it, for God’s plan is simply this: The Son of God is free to save himself, given the Word of God to be his Guide, forever in his mind and at his side to lead him surely to his Father’s house by his own will, forever free as God’s. ³He is not led by force, but only love. ⁴He is not judged, but only sanctified.

In stillness we will hear God’s Voice today without intrusion of our petty thoughts, without our personal desires, and without all judgment of His holy Word. ²We will not judge ourselves today, for what we are can not be judged. ³We stand apart from all the judgments which the world has laid upon the Son of God. ⁴It knows him not. ⁵Today we will not listen to the world, but wait in silence for the Word of God. (A Course in Miracles, W-125.1:1–3:5. See also ACIM Lesson 125 Insights.)

The dream is made by the ego to deny the eternal Love of God. Because peace is an attribute of Love, the peace of God is not welcome in the dream. But God’s Will is that His Son share His peace. He has given us the means through His Voice to learn how to welcome His gift of peace. This requires that we pay attention to His Voice and accept His lessons.

We have trained ourselves to pay attention to the ego. Our training has been very effective. This fact demonstrates how well we can learn our lessons. To accept the peace of God, we need to be willing to follow the Teacher Whose mission is to help us free ourselves from the ego’s lessons in fear. Our willingness to be vigilant of our thoughts, and welcome the Holy Spirit’s purpose in place of the ego’s, will set us free.

Today is a day to welcome the peace of mind that comes with learning the Holy Spirit’s lessons.

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The Choice for Peace

This day I choose to spend in perfect peace.

It does not seem to me that I can choose to have but peace today. ²And yet, my God assures me that His Son is like Himself. ³Let me this day have faith in Him Who says I am God’s Son. ⁴And let the peace I choose be mine today bear witness to the truth of what He says. ⁵God’s Son can have no cares, and must remain forever in the peace of Heaven. ⁶In His Name, I give today to finding what my Father wills for me, accepting it as mine, and giving it to all my Father’s Sons, along with me.

And so, my Father, would I pass this day with You. ²Your Son has not forgotten You. ³The peace You gave him still is in his mind, and it is there I choose to spend today. (A Course in Miracles, W-255. See also ACIM Lesson 255 Insights.)

Our thoughts of the past in our mind stand as a defense against accepting God’s peace. These thoughts seem to make the past real. Its seeming reality is a veil that hides the presence of peace from our awareness. Peace cannot be found in illusions of the past. God’s peace is eternal, now and forever.

We choose peace by withdrawing the value we give to illusions of the past. When we accept the Holy Spirit’s lessons in Love, we learn that the past is nothing. With this lesson learned, we naturally withdraw any value we have given to thoughts of the past. We make the choice to accept peace now and disregard the past.

Today we choose to be mindful of our thoughts of the past and accept the Holy Spirit’s vision. This practice frees us to live in God’s peace. It dispels the veil that seemed to separate us from our Creator and every brother. In Love’s oneness, we are at peace.

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Laying Down the Past Welcomes the Present

The past is over. It can touch me not.

Unless the past is over in my mind, the real world must escape my sight. ²For I am really looking nowhere; seeing but what is not there. ³How can I then perceive the world forgiveness offers? ⁴This the past was made to hide, for this the world that can be looked on only now. ⁵It has no past. ⁶For what can be forgiven but the past, and if it is forgiven it is gone.

Father, let me not look upon a past that is not there. ²For You have offered me Your Own replacement, in a present world the past has left untouched and free of sin. ³Here is the end of guilt. ⁴And here am I made ready for Your final step. ⁵Shall I demand that You wait longer for Your Son to find the loveliness You planned to be the end of all his dreams and all his pain? (A Course in Miracles, W-289. See also ACIM Lesson 289 Insights.)

The ego’s part of the mind dwells upon the past. The thoughts it lets into awareness are about past events, relationships, situations and circumstances. They all focus on the body and what it does and seems to happen to it. This is the ego’s mechanism for hiding from the present, where only the oneness of Love abides. This is why forgiveness of the past is the means to awaken to our invulnerability in the protection of God’s Love.

The past has no power to effect our true Self in any way. Only our belief in it keeps it in our mind. In every moment the Holy Spirit offers His kindness and strength to help us let go of the value we have invested in the past. His vision shows us that the past is nothing and cannot harm the Self that is God’s Son. With His help, we lay down the past and welcome the Presence of Love.

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Accepting the Holiness of Our True Self

²From my holiness does the perception of the real world come. ³Having forgiven, I no longer see myself as guilty. ⁴I can accept the innocence that is the truth about me. ⁵Seen through understanding eyes, the holiness of the world is all I see, for I can picture only the thoughts I hold about myself.

²The perception of my holiness does not bless me alone. ³Everyone and everything I see in its light shares in the joy it brings to me. ⁴There is nothing that is apart from this joy, because there is nothing that does not share my holiness.

²My holiness is unlimited in its power to heal, because it is unlimited in its power to save. ³What is there to be saved from except illusions? ⁴And what are all illusions except false ideas about myself?

³I am blessed as a Son of God. ⁴All good things are mine, because God intended them for me. ⁵I cannot suffer any loss or deprivation or pain because of Who I am. ⁶My Father supports me, protects me, and directs me in all things. ⁷His care for me is infinite, and is with me forever. ⁸I am eternally blessed as His Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-58.1:2-5;2:2-4;3:2-4;5:3-8. See also ACIM Lesson 58 Insights.)

The self we believe we are in this world is anything but holy. Because we believe our identity is a body, we believe we are vulnerable, weak and in need of constant defense. This defense is maintained in the mind with judgment that separates the self from everything perceived in the world.

This judgment can lead to a sense of being alone but also can be acted out with extreme viciousness. This false self does not appear holy. In fact, claiming holiness is at least considered arrogant and may also be called blasphemous.

This false identity denies the truth of the Self that remains eternally united with Its Creator. We need to be reminded again and again that our true Self is the Son of God. To accept this fact, we need to forgive the false images we have made which deny the Self we Are. If we believe a brother is his body and what it does and says, we are denying our true Self. In truth, the Self we are is the same Self that is the truth in our brother.

The Holy Spirit in our mind is our Guide to forgive the mistaken beliefs that make us unaware of the holy Self that is God’s Son. Today we ask: “Holy Spirit, help me see past my mistaken beliefs to the truth of Love’s eternal presence. Please heal my fear-based thoughts. I am grateful that I can count on your strength to support my willingness to learn the truth that I am the holy Son of God.”

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Opening Our Minds to God’s Gifts

⁷To feel the Love of God within you is to see the world anew, shining in innocence, alive with hope, and blessed with perfect charity and love.

Simply do this: Be still, and lay aside all thoughts of what you are and what God is; all concepts you have learned about the world; all images you hold about yourself. ²Empty your mind of everything it thinks is either true or false, or good or bad, of every thought it judges worthy, and all the ideas of which it is ashamed. ³Hold onto nothing.

Is it not He Who knows the way to you? ²You need not know the way to Him. ³Your part is simply to allow all obstacles that you have interposed between the Son and God the Father to be quietly removed forever. ⁴God will do His part in joyful and immediate response. ⁵Ask and receive. ⁶But do not make demands, nor point the road to God by which He should appear to you. ⁷The way to reach Him is merely to let Him be. ⁸For in that way is your reality proclaimed as well.

And so today we do not choose the way in which we go to Him. ²But we do choose to let Him come. ³And with this choice we rest. ⁴And in our quiet hearts and open minds, His Love will blaze its pathway of itself. (A Course in Miracles, W-189.1:7;7:1-3;8:1-9:4. See also ACIM Lesson 189 Insights.)

God has never stopped including His Son in all His Love. We live in His Love. Engaging in a dream of specialness and separation has no effect on our Home within His Love. But while we are in this dream we are unaware of His all encompassing Love.

God calls to us unceasingly to lay aside our wishes for something different, our preferences, our opinions that seem to differentiate us from everyone else. In this dream we do not know that all we really want is to extend the Love of God. This is our true Will.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit’s help to lay down our thoughts of individuality and differences, with open hands to receive God’s gifts. Our true Self shares the peace and joy of God’s Love with the world.

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