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Waking to Love

Now would I be as God created me.

Today I will accept the truth about myself. ²I will arise in glory, and allow the light in me to shine upon the world throughout the day. ³I bring the world the tidings of salvation which I hear as God my Father speaks to me. ⁴And I behold the world that Christ would have me see, aware it ends the bitter dream of death; aware it is my Father’s Call to me.

Christ is my eyes today, and He the ears that listen to the Voice for God today. ²Father, I come to You through Him Who is Your Son, and my true Self as well. ³Amen. (A Course in Miracles, W-237. See also ACIM Lesson 237 Insights.)

Christ is in us as the Self God created eternally one with Himself. Christ is the holy extension of God. He sees Himself forever united in holiness with every brother. Were it not for our allegiance to the ego, we would see the Christ everywhere.

This allegiance is a choice. We can choose differently. We can choose Love over fear, oneness over division. This is the choice between waking to Reality and dreaming of denying God’s Love.

Today we choose Love. We choose to see with the eyes of Christ and hear God’s Voice with His ears. With this choice, we see a world of Light without the shadows of the ego thought system. We welcome Love today.

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Acknowledging Our Unity in God’s Love

I am forever an Effect of God.

Father, I was created in Your Mind, a holy Thought that never left its home. ²I am forever Your Effect, and You forever and forever are my Cause. ³As You created me I have remained. ⁴Where You established me I still abide. ⁵And all Your attributes abide in me, because it is Your Will to have a Son so like his Cause that Cause and Its Effect are indistinguishable. ⁶Let me know that I am an Effect of God, and so I have the power to create like You. ⁷And as it is in Heaven, so on earth. ⁸Your plan I follow here, and at the end I know that You will gather Your effects into the tranquil Heaven of Your Love, where earth will vanish, and all separate thoughts unite in glory as the Son of God.

Let us today behold earth disappear, at first transformed, and then, forgiven, fade entirely into God’s holy Will. (A Course in Miracles, W-326. See also ACIM Lesson 326 Insights.)

The ego tells us that it is arrogant to claim that all God’s attributes are ours and that we can create like Him. Yet, in Reality, it is arrogant to deny God’s Will. Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us let go of our mistaken attempts to be separate from all things. Specialness offers nothing of value, for it is nothing more than a dream.

Today we choose to let go of this dream and welcome the Reality that we remain forever united with our Creator. As we learn this lesson, we become His messengers. As we accept the Love we are, we demonstrate to our brothers the Love they are. We acknowledge our unity in Love, joined in the Light of Heaven, at Home in the Heart of God.

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Learn to Be Quiet

¹¹Holy are you, eternal, free and whole, at peace forever in the Heart of God. ¹²Where is the world, and where is sorrow now?

Is this your judgment on yourself, teacher of God? ²Do you believe that this is wholly true? ³No; not yet, not yet. ⁴But this is still your goal; why you are here. ⁵It is your function to prepare yourself to hear this Judgment and to recognize that it is true. ⁶One instant of complete belief in this, and you will go beyond belief to Certainty. ⁷One instant out of time can bring time’s end. ⁸Judge not, for you but judge yourself, and thus delay this Final Judgment. ⁹What is your judgment of the world, teacher of God? ¹⁰Have you yet learned to stand aside and hear the Voice of Judgment in yourself? ¹¹Or do you still attempt to take His role from Him? ¹²Learn to be quiet, for His Voice is heard in stillness. ¹³And His Judgment comes to all who stand aside in quiet listening, and wait for Him.

⁶There is no deceit in God. ⁷His promises are sure. ⁸Only remember that. ⁹His promises have guaranteed His Judgment, and His alone, will be accepted in the end. ¹⁰It is your function to make that end be soon. ¹¹It is your function to hold it to your heart, and offer it to all the world to keep it safe. (A Course in Miracles, M-15.1:11–2:13;.3:6-11)

Learn to be quiet. This is key to letting the Holy Spirit be your Guide. There are times when it can help to step away from the busyness of the world to a quiet place. This can be an opportunity to reset our mind to bring it in greater alignment with our true Self.

But we each have a role to play in the world. It is important to learn to pause and return to peace for a moment in the midst of everyday activity. Such a pause gives the Voice for God welcome in our mind. This practice is the way to let our daily activities be directed by God’s Voice. It is a way to let forgiveness welcome Love’s presence. With His Voice as our Guide, we see the Love in our brothers and we respond with Love when there are calls for It.

The practice of stepping for a moment to the peace in our mind leads to a happy and peaceful life. Kindness becomes our general mood and we walk in gratitude.

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Living in the Heart of Love

Judgment and love are opposites.
From one come all the sorrows of the world.
But from the other comes the peace of God Himself.

Forgiveness looks on sinlessness alone, and judges not. ²Through this I come to You. ³Judgment will bind my eyes and make me blind. ⁴Yet love, reflected in forgiveness here, reminds me You have given me a way to find Your peace again. ⁵I am redeemed when I elect to follow in this way. ⁶You have not left me comfortless. ⁷I have within me both the memory of You, and One Who leads me to it. ⁸Father, I would hear Your Voice and find Your peace today. ⁹For I would love my own Identity, and find in It the memory of You. A Course in Miracles, (W-352. See also ACIM Lesson 352 Insights.)

Love is one and does not judge, for It sees only Itself everywhere. It is all that is real. In a world where judgment seems to be necessary for survival, forgiveness lets Love into our awareness. When we forgive, we become messengers of Love. Where we saw conflict, we see the continuity of eternal Love.

Today we ask for Christ’s vision to show us the presence of Love. With Christ’s vision we will learn to forgive all things that separate us from our oneness in Love. As we lay down our judgments, we awaken to our true Identity as Love, living in the Heart of Love.

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Forgiving the Wish for Specialness

Forgiveness is the only gift I give.

Forgiveness is the only gift I give, because it is the only gift I want. ²And everything I give I give myself. ³This is salvation’s simple formula. ⁴And I, who would be saved, would make it mine, to be the way I live within a world that needs salvation, and that will be saved as I accept Atonement for myself.

Father, how certain are Your ways; how sure their final outcome, and how faithfully is every step in my salvation set already, and accomplished by Your grace. ²Thanks be to You for Your eternal gifts, and thanks to You for my Identity. (A Course in Miracles, W-297. See also ACIM Lesson 297 Insights.)

What is it that seems to need forgiveness? What affront or seeming harm are we defending against? It is always something that seems to “damage” our identity. But this identity is a false construct of the ego, made to set us apart from the world.

But our true Self is one with the world of Love. It is only our wish to be set apart, to be special, that needs to be forgiven. All the perceptions of attack, the affronts to our identity, stem from this one wish. As we forgive each seeming circumstance or situation, we are forgiving the wish for specialness.

Each forgiving thought opens the door wider to welcome the blessing of Love’s oneness. This is true, whether we forgive what appears to be someone else or forgive ourselves for something we thought we did. Forgiveness is the same. It lets go of the wish to be different and special. It welcomes the Love of God, which is our true Identity.

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Remembering Our Unity in God’s Love

Let me remember that my goal is God.

All that is needful is to train our minds to overlook all little senseless aims, and to remember that our goal is God. ²His memory is hidden in our minds, obscured but by our pointless little goals which offer nothing, and do not exist. ³Shall we continue to allow God’s grace to shine in unawareness, while the toys and trinkets of the world are sought instead? ⁴God is our only goal, our only Love. ⁵We have no aim but to remember Him.

Our goal is but to follow in the way that leads to You. ²We have no goal but this. ³What could we want but to remember You? ⁴What could we seek but our Identity? (A Course in Miracles, W-258. See also ACIM Lesson 258 Insights.)

Everyone wants peace and happiness. But it cannot be found in the world of form. Every goal in the world at best offers temporary happiness. The peace we may seem to achieve never seems certain to last. We need to constantly defend against upsets that disturb our peace. What seems to bring happiness doesn’t last. All this is in keeping with the ego’s intent to seek and not find.

But the peace and happiness we seek is already ours. Only our allegiance to the ego makes us unaware of the presence of God’s Love. Beneath all of our seeking in the world is the desire to unite with God. God is the Love we seek, the safety and happiness. Nothing else will satisfy. We need to train our minds to seek where happiness and Love can be found.

Forgiveness lets us release the quest for forms that never satisfy. This release opens the veil to receive the Love of God. This is our heart’s desire. It is the desire to reunite with our Source — to be the Love that is our Self, the Son of God.

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We Are Safe in the Love of God

Forgiveness ends all suffering and loss.

“Forgiveness paints a picture of a world where suffering is over, loss becomes impossible and anger makes no sense. ²Attack is gone, and madness has an end. ³What suffering is now conceivable? ⁴What loss can be sustained? ⁵The world becomes a place of joy, abundance, charity and endless giving. ⁶It is now so like to Heaven that it quickly is transformed into the light that it reflects. ⁷And 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. ²We have betrayed them, held them in a vise of bitterness, and frightened them with thoughts of violence and death. ³Now would we rest again in You, as You created us. (A Course in Miracles, W-249. See also ACIM Lesson 249 Insights.)

Do we want to be happy and peaceful? Do we want to know that we are loved and safe? Forgiveness clears the way for this to be a constant state of mind. We know we live in Love.

But when we believe we are the ego with a separate identity, we do not know that we are in Love. We see ourselves as disconnected from God’s Love. We have chosen specialness in place of Love’s oneness. It is this choice we need to forgive. This is how we welcome the Love the ego denies. The quest for specialness is replaced by the blessing of knowing we are eternally safe in the Love of God.

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