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The Practice That Leads Us Back to Heaven

Today the promise of God’s Word is kept. ²Hear and be silent. ³He would speak to you. ⁴He comes with miracles a thousand times as happy and as wonderful as those you ever dreamed or wished for in your dreams. ⁵His miracles are true. ⁶They will not fade when dreaming ends. ⁷They end the dream instead; and last forever, for they come from God to His dear Son, whose other name is you. ⁸Prepare yourself for miracles today. ⁹Today allow your Father’s ancient pledge to you and all your brothers to be kept.

Be ready for salvation. ²It is here, and will today be given unto you. ³And you will learn your function from the One Who chose it in your Father’s Name for you. ⁴Listen today, and you will hear a Voice which will resound throughout the world through you. ⁵The bringer of all miracles has need that you receive them first, and thus become the joyous giver of what you received.

Thus does salvation start and thus it ends; when everything is yours and everything is given away, it will remain with you forever. ²And the lesson has been learned. ³Today we practice giving, not the way you understand it now, but as it is. ⁴Each hour’s exercises should begin with this request for your enlightenment:

⁵I will be still and listen to the truth. (A Course in Miracles, W-106.4;6;7:1–5. See also ACIM Lesson 106 Insights.)

The practice of pausing to be still and listen to the truth will transform our life experience. It puts us on a path of awakening to Heaven. We dream of hell, where danger seems to lurk around every corner, and lack and loss are real. This is not our home. It need not be.

When we pause, with willingness to accept God’s peace, we welcome the Light of His Love. This Light reveals the safety of Love that surrounds us and protects us. We remember our unbroken link with our Father, Whose strength is ours. Images of darkness and threat are dispelled by the Light, which shows us the presence of Love that never left.

The way to remembering Love becomes clearer each time we step back and let Him lead the way. Each time we pause to be still and listen to the truth today leads us forward on our journey of awakening to Love.

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Recognizing the Love in Every Brother

That you and your brother are joined is your salvation; the gift of Heaven, not the gift of fear. ²Does Heaven seem to be a burden to you? ³In madness, yes. ⁴And yet what madness sees must be dispelled by reason. ⁵Reason assures you Heaven is what you want, and all you want. ⁶Listen to Him Who speaks with reason, and brings your reason into line with His. ⁷Be willing to let reason be the means by which He would direct you how to leave insanity behind. ⁸Hide not behind insanity in order to escape from reason. ⁹What madness would conceal, the Holy Spirit still holds out for everyone to look upon with gladness.

You are your brother’s savior. ²He is yours. ³Reason speaks happily indeed of this. ⁴This gracious plan was given love by Love. ⁵And what Love plans is like Itself in this: Being united, It would have you learn what you must be. ⁶And being one with It, it must be given you to give what It has given, and gives still. ⁷Spend but an instant in the glad acceptance of what is given you to give your brother, and learn with him what has been given both of you. ⁸To give is no more blessed than to receive. ⁹But neither is it less. (A Course in Miracles, T-21.VI.8–9. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

As God’s Son, we were created as Love. His oneness forever unites Him with His Son, the extension of His Love. The Love we are unites us with every brother in the Sonship God created one with Himself.

We have convinced ourselves that we are not united with our brother, nor anything in the world. We need to have a separate identity in order to experience the specialness we seek. The cost for this unique identity is fear and guilt. The belief that harm and loss is possible was introduced when we wished to be separate.

Beneath the world of separation we have made remains the unifying Love that keeps us safe and brings us joy. The Love that we are remains secure in the oneness of God’s Love. As we learn to let the Holy Spirit teach us to let go of our false images, our brother is recognized as our savior. He shows us the Love that we are. The truth in him speaks messages of Love and oneness to us.

Today we welcome the Holy Spirit’s teaching, for we would remember that we remain safe at Home in the Love of God, along with every brother.

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Learning to Live in the Timeless Eternal Present

Let me recognize my problems have been solved.

²I seem to have problems only because I am misusing time. ³I believe that the problem comes first, and time must elapse before it can be worked out. ⁴I do not see the problem and the answer as simultaneous in their occurrence. ⁵That is because I do not yet realize that God has placed the answer together with the problem, so that they cannot be separated by time. ⁶The Holy Spirit will teach me this, if I will let Him. ⁷And I will understand it is impossible that I could have a problem which has not been solved already.

These forms of the idea will be useful for specific applications:

²I need not wait for this to be resolved.
³The answer to this problem is already given me, if I will accept it.
⁴Time cannot separate this problem from its solution. (A Course in Miracles, W-90. See also ACIM Lesson 90 Insights.)

Time is a construct of the belief in separation. It is used to make forgiveness appear to be unjustified. It holds guilt as baggage from the past that cannot be released.

But the past does not exist. This fact is the basis for all forgiveness, for what did not occur cannot be cause for guilt. This is the message the Holy Spirit holds for us, given Him by God to help His Son remember His Father’s Love for Him. The ego diligently builds scenarios that seem to confirm the reality of harm and loss. But this can only seem to occur in illusions.

Love cannot be lost. It is eternal and changeless, given without limit. Every time we seem to have a problem, the Holy Spirit is available to us to help us learn that Love is present, now and forever. The past is gone, does not exist, and cannot affect us now or ever. The reality of timelessness is the basis for this lesson.

We can ask ourselves this question, “Am I willing to be free of the past?” Any seeming problem is an attempt to hold on to the past. When we are willing to learn the Holy Spirit’s lesson that only Love is now, the past is released. We remember the Love in which we live and have our being. Gratitude fills our hearts. Joy overflows as we join in the eternal giving and receiving of Love.

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Accepting the Holy Spirit’s Purpose for the Body

The beautiful relationship you have with all your brothers is a part of you because it is a part of God Himself.

Either there is a gap between you and your brother, or you are as one. ²There is no in between, no other choice, and no allegiance to be split between the two.

…[the body] can be seen as not your home, but merely as an aid to help you reach the home where God abides.

With this as purpose is the body healed. ²It is not used to witness to the dream of separation and disease. ³Nor is it idly blamed for what it did not do. ⁴It serves to help the healing of God’s Son, and for this purpose it cannot be sick. ⁵It will not join a purpose not your own, and you have chosen that it not be sick. ⁶All miracles are based upon this choice, and given you the instant it is made. ⁷No forms of sickness are immune, because the choice cannot be made in terms of form. ⁸The choice of sickness seems to be of form, yet it is one, as is its opposite. ⁹And you are sick or well, accordingly. (A Course in Miracles, T-28.VII.2:1;3:1-2;3:6–4:9. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The ego made the body as a substitute identity to replace what God created as His Son. Because of our allegiance to the ego’s desire for specialness, we have accepted the ego’s purpose for the body. With this purpose, the body seems to need constant defense. It never seems to be safe. It is always vulnerable to outside forces that can harm it, age it, and ultimately lead it to death.

Having accepted the body as our identity, the Holy Spirit gives the body another purpose to free it from the ego’s story. When we are willing to join with the Holy Spirit and accept His purpose for the body, we are set on the path of return to our Home in the oneness of God’s Love. This is the journey of healing which dispels the story of vulnerability, limitation, lack and death.

Love cannot die, for It is eternal. Love has no opposite, for only Love is real. Joined with the Holy Spirit’s purpose, the body becomes an aid to teach and learn to that we are God’s Love. We become a healing presence as we join with the Love in every brother.

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Making Way for Love’s Light to Shine

Forgiveness paints a picture of a world where suffering is over, loss becomes impossible and anger makes no sense. Attack is gone, and madness has an end. What suffering is now conceiv­able? What loss can be sustained? The world becomes a place of joy, abundance, charity and endless giving. It is now so like to Heaven that it quickly is transformed into the light that it reflects. And so the journey which the Son of God began has ended in the light from which he came.

Father, we would return our minds to You. We have betrayed them, held them in a vise of bitterness, and frightened them with thoughts of violence and death. Now would we rest again in You, as You created us. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.249. See also ACIM Lesson 249 Insights.)

The ego paints a picture of a world filled with suffering, violence and death. While we accept the ego as our identity, this is the picture we see. It seems very real to us. Fear and conflict are our constant companions. Yet this world we see is only a dream made by the ego thought system of separation to hide from the eternal oneness of God’s Love.

Forgiveness is the way to awaken from this frightening and loveless world. Throughout every day we are presented with opportunities to forgive and let the false images disappear. Each moment in which we feel anything but peace indicates that somewhere in our mind we are denying Love’s presence. We release this denial by asking the Holy Spirit to heal our fear-based thoughts.

We do not have to dig deeply to try to find a specific event or past experience to label as the “cause” of the disturbance to our peace. But we do have to recognize the disturbance and offer it to the Holy Spirit for His healing. He will respond with vision that shows us the truth of Love’s presence beyond the dream images. He will help us join with the Love beyond the dark forms and welcome Love’s Light into the world.

Each time we accept the Holy Spirit’s healing, the world is brightened a little more with Love’s Light. The more we practice, the more we experience the presence of peace, happiness and changeless Love.

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The Certainty of God’s Love Keeps Us Safe

The miracle comes quietly into the mind that stops an instant and is still. ²It reaches gently from that quiet time, and from the mind it healed in quiet then, to other minds to share its quietness. ³And they will join in doing nothing to prevent its radiant extension back into the Mind which caused all minds to be. ⁴Born out of sharing, there can be no pause in time to cause the miracle delay in hastening to all unquiet minds, and bringing them an instant’s stillness, when the memory of God returns to them. ⁵Their own remembering is quiet now, and what has come to take its place will not be wholly unremembered afterwards.

He to Whom time is given offers thanks for every quiet instant given Him. ²For in that instant is God’s memory allowed to offer all its treasures to the Son of God, for whom they have been kept. …⁵The instant’s silence that His Son accepts gives welcome to eternity and Him, and lets Them enter where They would abide. ⁶For in that instant does the Son of God do nothing that would make himself afraid.

How instantly the memory of God arises in the mind that has no fear to keep the memory away! (A Course in Miracles, T-28.I.11;12:1-2,5-6;13:1. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

No matter how entrenched we have become in the dream of separation, the memory of God is still in our mind. The dream is cluttered with distractions that attract our attention. Some are attractive because we believe they will bring happiness. Others attract our attention because they seem to portend harm to defend against. These distractions serve the ego’s purpose of hiding the presence of Love which it denies.

True happiness and safety are available to us when we remember our oneness with God. He has already shared His joy with His Son. Our forgetting has not stopped His sharing, only hidden it. The certainty of His Love keeps us safe. What cannot be changed cannot be harmed. The Love with which He embraces His Son keeps His Son perfectly safe.

We remember this Reality when we pause to accept His peace. In that instant the memory of God comes forth. It is the memory of the present moment that never changes. It is the forgetting of the illusions of the past that were never real. We welcome God’s peace today to undo memories of illusions of the past, and dwell in the present moment.

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Accepting the Certainty of God’s Love

The mind engaged in planning for itself is occupied in setting up control of future happenings. ²It does not think that it will be provided for, unless it makes its own provisions. ³Time becomes a future emphasis, to be controlled by learning and experience obtained from past events and previous beliefs. ⁴It overlooks the present, for it rests on the idea the past has taught enough to let the mind direct its future course.

The mind that plans is thus refusing to allow for change.

Your present trust in Him is the defense that promises a future undisturbed, without a trace of sorrow, and with joy that constantly increases, as this life becomes a holy instant, set in time, but heeding only immortality. ²Let no defenses but your present trust direct the future, and this life becomes a meaningful encounter with the truth that only your defenses would conceal.

Without defenses, you become a light which Heaven gratefully acknowledges to be its own. ²And it will lead you on in ways appointed for your happiness according to the ancient plan, begun when time was born.

²We will be sure that everything we need is given us for our accomplishment of [God’s plan] today. ³We make no plans for how it will be done, but realize that our defenselessness is all that is required for the truth to dawn upon our minds with certainty. (A Course in Miracles, W-135.15:1–16:1;19:1–20:2;21:2-3. See also ACIM Lesson 135 Insights.)

Everything in the world is uncertain. Illusions are inherently unstable and unreliable. When we believe we dwell in illusions, there is always an underlying anxiety that makes us feel a need to provide for our protection. Yet within this dream there is nothing that can guarantee protection.

But beyond this dream there is guarantee of sure protection in the Reality of God’s Love. This is our Home in truth. We can trust God’s Love, for It never changes, never is held back nor conditional. God offers His plan for our safety and release from fear through the Holy Spirit. He is the reliable Source to lead us to the full awareness that we rest in God’s Love, now and forever.

Our safety is guaranteed by God. As we let the Holy Spirit guide our thoughts and perceptions, the uncertainty of the world is replaced by the certainty of God’s Love. Today is another day to open our minds to His certainty.

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