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Awaken to the World of Love

³Our emphasis is not on giving up the world, but on exchanging it for what is far more satisfying, filled with joy, and capable of offering you peace.

Is it a loss to find a world instead where losing is impossible; where love endures forever, hate cannot exist and vengeance has no meaning? ²Is it loss to find all things you really want, and know they have no ending and they will remain exactly as you want them throughout time?

⁴Value …not [the little things the world sets forth], and they will disappear. ⁵Esteem them, and they will seem real to you.

Such is the choice. ²What loss can be for you in choosing not to value nothingness? ³This world holds nothing that you really want, but what you choose instead you want indeed! ⁴Let it be given you today. ⁵It waits but for your choosing it, to take the place of all the things you seek but do not want.

³Beyond this world there is a world I want. ⁴I choose to see that world instead of this, for here is nothing that I really want. (A Course in Miracles, W-129.1:3;3:1-2;5:4–6:5;7:3-4. See also ACIM Lesson 129 Insights.)

We live in a world of Love. It was created for us by our Creator as our Home, which He holds forever in His embrace.  He wants us to remember that He loves His Son eternally.

This Home we can claim right now. It will never be withdrawn nor fade in the brilliance Its Light. The ego has no interest in this Home. In fact, it denies It and tells us It is not real. When we follow the ego, we believe the body is real and “lives” in a world of other bodies amid myriad forms that it tells us we need.

But it’s all make believe, made to hide our real Home. Today we choose instead to accept the Love that God has given us and awaken to the world of Love.

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Love Unites Us with Our Brother

To love my Father is to love His Son.

Let me not think that I can find the way to God, if I have hatred in my heart. ²Let me not try to hurt God’s Son, and think that I can know his Father or my Self. ³Let me not fail to recognize myself, and still believe that my awareness can contain my Father, or my mind conceive of all the love my Father has for me, and all the love which I return to Him.

I will accept the way You choose for me to come to You, my Father. ²For in that will I succeed, because it is Your Will. ³And I would recognize that what You will is what I will as well, and only that. ⁴And so I choose to love Your Son. ⁵Amen. (A Course in Miracles, W-246. See also ACIM Lesson 246 Insights.)

If we believe we are a separate individual, hatred is inevitable. It is an attempt to project our guilt for separating from Love onto anything external. This projection holds separation in place instead of getting rid of it. It serves as a veil that keeps us from seeing the presence of Love that is everywhere. Love is What we are so this projection makes us unaware of our true Self.

We cannot Love a form that seems to be separate from ourselves, because Love is one. What is one cannot be separate. To see the Love that is our brother, we must use the vision of Christ that is in our mind. Christ sees only Love and disregards all form. With Christ’s vision, we see the Love our brother is and join with Him in loving our Father. We are one Love as God’s Son.

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We Are Love and Nothing Else

This holy instant is salvation come.

What joy there is today! ²It is a time of special celebration. ³For today holds out the instant to the darkened world where its release is set. ⁴The day has come when sorrows pass away and pain is gone. ⁵The glory of salvation dawns today upon a world set free. ⁶This is the time of hope for countless millions. ⁷They will be united now, as you forgive them all. ⁸For I will be forgiven by you today.

We have forgiven one another now, and so we come at last to You again. ²Father, Your Son, who never left, returns to Heaven and his home. ³How glad are we to have our sanity restored to us, and to remember that we all are one. (A Course in Miracles, W-241. See also ACIM Lesson 241 Insights.)

Time is the ego’s tool for avoiding the present moment where peace is found. Any moment in time can be a holy instant. It is that instant when we forgive the past and let the awareness of present Love fill our mind. This Love knows no limits nor exceptions. It is the Love of our true Self.

When we let go of the past, we are letting go of the dream of separation. When we remember the past, we hold it as a defense against present Love. We do not see our brother as he is when we hold the past in our mind. We are overlaying this memory on our brother and see it reflected back to us.

But when we come to see our brother without the past, the Love he is is all there is to see. In this vision we learn that we are Love and nothing else. Today we welcome the Holy Spirit’s help to release the past and awaken to the Love in which we live and have our being.

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Being in the Eternal Flow of Love

Today I will judge nothing that occurs.

I will be honest with myself today. ²I will not think that I already know what must remain beyond my present grasp. ³I will not think I understand the whole from bits of my perception, which are all that I can see. ⁴Today I recognize that this is so. ⁵And so I am relieved of judgments that I cannot make. ⁶Thus do I free myself and what I look upon, to be in peace as God created us.

Father, today I leave creation free to be itself. ²I honor all its parts, in which I am included. ³We are one because each part contains Your memory, and truth must shine in all of us as one. (A Course in Miracles, W-243. See also ACIM Lesson 243 Insights.)

The Light of Truth is in everyone. But this Light cannot be seen by the body’s eyes. It is the Light of Love, which has no form, being everywhere, without limit. Our true Self sees this Light, for It is Its Home.

Today we choose to give priority to the vision of our true Self. This Self sees only the truth and disregards the forms of the dream. With this vision, we recognize the Love that Is the Truth in everyone. We know we are safe in this Love, for It is unchangeable and eternal.

Following this vision, we walk in gratitude, for we are part of the eternal flow of Love to Itself.

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Step Back and Welcome Love

Love holds no grievances.

²Grievances are completely alien to love. ³Grievances attack love and keep its light obscure. ⁴If I hold grievances I am attacking love, and therefore attacking my Self. ⁵My Self thus becomes alien to me. ⁶I am determined not to attack my Self today, so that I can remember Who I am.

“These specific forms for applying this idea would be helpful:

²This is no justification for denying my Self.
³I will not use this to attack love.
⁴Let this not tempt me to attack myself. (A Course in Miracles, W-84.3:1–4:4. See also ACIM Lesson 84 Insights.)

Anytime we are sad, discouraged, disappointed, frustrated, impatient, uncertain, lonely, afraid, angry or feeling guilty, we are denying our Self. We are denying our oneness in Love. Whenever we experience any emotions like these, it is time to step back and ask for help to remember the Love we are.

God remains eternally connected with His extensions of Love, His Son. The Self we are is Love and nothing else. Whenever we experience anything but the certainty of peace, happiness and Love, we are identifying with a false image.

But w We see the Love that is the one Self which unites us with everyone. We dwell in Love. As we accept this fact, we find peace. We appreciate every brother for What he Is. We are grateful to recognize him as part of our one Self. We are grateful to join with everyone in our Home in the Love of God.

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Remembering Eternal Love in Everyone

There is no need for help to enter Heaven for you have never left. ²But there is need for help beyond yourself as you are circumscribed by false beliefs of your Identity, which God alone established in reality. ³Helpers are given you in many forms, although upon the altar they are one. ⁴Beyond each one there is a Thought of God, and this will never change.

The name of Jesus is the name of one who was a man but saw the face of Christ in all his brothers and remembered God. ²So he became identified with Christ, a man no longer, but at one with God. ³The man was an illusion, for he seemed to be a separate being, walking by himself, within a body that appeared to hold his self from Self, as all illusions do. ⁴Yet who can save unless he sees illusions and then identifies them as what they are? ⁵Jesus remains a Savior because he saw the false without accepting it as true.

⁸Yet still it is his lesson most of all that he would have you learn, and it is this:

⁹There is no death because the Son of God is like his Father. ¹⁰Nothing you can do can change Eternal Love. ¹¹Forget your dreams of sin and guilt, and come with me instead to share the resurrection of God’s Son. ¹²And bring with you all those whom He has sent to you to care for as I care for you. (A Course in Miracles, C-5.1:1-4;2:1-5;6:8-12)

Our Self is the extension of changeless Eternal Love. Thus it can never die. This Self shares the peace and joy that are aspects of Eternal Love. This is what we will remember when we awaken from the dream of separation.

We need help from beyond our limited separate-self identity to awaken. When we accept the Help of Christ we learn to see with Christ’s vision. We recognize the unreality of form and see the reality of Love in everyone. As we let His vision be our guide, we remember God and become saviors to the world.

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Rising Above to Awaken to Love

I am in danger nowhere in the world.

Your Son is safe wherever he may be, for You are there with him. ²He need but call upon Your Name, and he will recollect his safety and Your Love, for they are one. ³How can he fear or doubt or fail to know he cannot suffer, be endangered, or experience unhappiness, when he belongs to You, beloved and loving, in the safety of Your Fatherly embrace?

And there we are in truth. ²No storms can come into the hallowed haven of our home. ³In God we are secure. ⁴For what can come to threaten God Himself, or make afraid what will forever be a part of Him? (A Course in Miracles, W-244. See also ACIM Lesson 244 Insights.)

We dwell in the safety of God’s eternal presence. He has kept His Son united with Himself. God has no opponent, for He is all of Reality.

But we can dream of being in opposition to our Father. In this dream we believe we have lost our connection with our safety and peace. It is a dream fraught with uncertainty and fear. We seek for Love and certainty, but it cannot be found in the dream. But we can step back from the dream and rise above it.

We ask the Holy Spirit for help to reconnect with the certainty of God’s Love. When we are willing to let go of our judgments to be replaced with the Holy Spirit’s judgment of real or unreal, we see the way to peace of mind. As we recognize the unreal for what it is, we dismiss it. We see our safety in God’s changeless Love. We know we are loved and loving.

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