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Happiness and Peace Are Ours Now

Can you imagine what it means to have no cares, no worries, no anxieties, but merely to be perfectly calm and quiet all the time? ²Yet that is what time is for; to learn just that and nothing more.

…time, according to [the ego’s] teaching, is nothing but a teaching device for compounding guilt until it becomes all-encompassing, demanding vengeance forever.

The Holy Spirit would undo all of this now. ²Fear is not of the present, but only of the past and future, which do not exist. ³There is no fear in the present when each instant stands clear and separated from the past, without its shadow reaching out into the future. ⁴Each instant is a clean, untarnished birth, in which the Son of God emerges from the past into the present. ⁵And the present extends forever. ⁶It is so beautiful and so clean and free of guilt that nothing but happiness is there. ⁷No darkness is remembered, and immortality and joy are now.

⁵Take this very instant, now, and think of it as all there is of time. ⁶Nothing can reach you here out of the past, and it is here that you are completely absolved, completely free and wholly without condemnation. ⁷From this holy instant wherein holiness was born again you will go forth in time without fear, and with no sense of change with time. (A Course in Miracles, T-15.I.1:1-2;7:7;8;9:5-7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Happiness and peace are ours now. It is only the ego’s dream that makes us unaware of this fact. Through forgiveness, we awaken from this dream in which the past is held dear and makes fear and guilt justified. Through forgiveness, we let go of the past. Each judgment released allows a spark of Light to enlighten the part of our mind that has not known the Self we are. This Self is known only in the present.

As we release the past, the Love and peace of God dawns upon our mind. It is a new day in the eternal now where joy is a constant state of mind. Today we are willing to accept the Holy Spirit’s help to release the past and welcome the eternal presence of Love now.

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The Value of Wishing Our Brothers Well

Today accept God’s peace and joy as yours. ²Let Him complete Himself as He defines completion. ³You will understand that what completes Him must complete His Son as well. ⁴He cannot give through loss. ⁵No more can you. ⁶Receive His gift of joy and peace today, and He will thank you for your gift to Him.

²Begin today by thinking of those brothers who have been denied by you the peace and joy that are their right under the equal laws of God. ³Here you denied them to yourself. ⁴And here you must return to claim them as your own.

Think of your “enemies” a little while, and tell each one, as he occurs to you:

My brother, peace and joy I offer you, that I may have God’s peace and joy as mine.

³Thus you prepare yourself to recognize God’s gifts to you, and let your mind be free of all that would prevent success today. ⁴Now are you ready to accept the gift of peace and joy that God has given you. ⁵Now are you ready to experience the joy and peace you have denied yourself. ⁶Now you can say, “God’s peace and joy are mine,” for you have given what you would receive. (A Course in Miracles, W-105.5;6:2–4;7. See also ACIM Lesson 105 Insights.)

When we judge anyone, we judge ourselves. Anger, resentment or fear do not affect their object, but they hurt our own state of mind by denying the peace and joy of God. To be happy, we must want happiness for our brothers. To be peaceful, we must want peace for our brothers. Only in recognizing our oneness with our brothers can we know the joy and peace God wills for us.

Today we wish all our brothers well, knowing the joy and peace we give is given to ourselves as well. This is how we remember our oneness with God.

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Let’s Be the Love We Are Today

The power of decision is our own. ²And we accept of Him that which we are, and humbly recognize the Son of God. ³To recognize God’s Son implies as well that all self-concepts have been laid aside, and recognized as false. ⁴Their arrogance has been perceived. ⁵And in humility the radiance of God’s Son, his gentleness, his perfect sinlessness, his Father’s Love, his right to Heaven and release from hell, are joyously accepted as our own.

Now do we join in glad acknowledgment that lies are false, and only truth is true. ²We think of truth alone as we arise, and spend five minutes practicing its ways, encouraging our frightened minds with this:

³The power of decision is my own. ⁴This day I will accept myself as what my Father’s Will created me to be.

⁵Then will we wait in silence, giving up all self-deceptions, as we humbly ask our Self that He reveal Himself to us. ⁶And He Who never left will come again to our awareness, grateful to restore His home to God, as it was meant to be.

In patience wait for Him throughout the day, and hourly invite Him with the words with which the day began, concluding it with this same invitation to your Self. ²God’s Voice will answer, for He speaks for you and for your Father. ³He will substitute the peace of God for all your frantic thoughts, the truth of God for self-deceptions, and God’s Son for your illusions of yourself. (A Course in Miracles, W-152.10-12. See also ACIM Lesson 152 Insights.)

Our true Self is happy, loving and calm. Nothing occurs to disturb Its peace. It joyfully sees Love everywhere and extends Itself in that oneness. Fear cannot occur to this Self. This is What we are.

If we do not experience this Self, it is because we have decided against It in favor of a separate identity. This choice to be separate brings with it fear and guilt, unhappiness and lack of peace. But we can choose to remember the Self that God created as His Son. Every time we lay aside a fearful thought, let go of a judgment or sense of guilt, we take a step towards awakening to our true Self.

Without a body and a personality, we join in the oneness of Love. We remember our Home in Love.  It is a happy day indeed.

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News That Can Awaken Us to Love

There are not different kinds of life, for life is like the truth. ²It does not have degrees. ³It is the one condition in which all that God created share. ⁴Like all His Thoughts, it has no opposite. ⁵There is no death because what God created shares His life. ⁶There is no death because an opposite to God does not exist. ⁷There is no death because the Father and the Son are one.

Death is the thought that you are separate from your Creator. ²It is the belief conditions change, emotions alternate because of causes you cannot control, you did not make, and you can never change. ³It is the fixed belief ideas can leave their source, and take on qualities the source does not contain, becoming different from their own origin, apart from it in kind as well as distance, time and form.

His holy home we strive to keep today as He established it, and wills it be forever and forever. ²He is Lord of what we think today. ³And in His Thoughts, which have no opposite, we understand there is one life, and that we share with Him, with all creation, with their thoughts as well, whom He created in a unity of life that cannot separate in death and leave the Source of life from where it came.

We share one life because we have one Source, a Source from which perfection comes to us, remaining always in the holy minds which He created perfect. ²As we were, so are we now and will forever be. (A Course in Miracles, W-167.1;4;11;12:1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 167 Insights.)

The news that thoughts do not leave their source is news that ends all news. It establishes the fact that change is impossible in what is created by the changeless. This idea, when accepted without reservation, returns us the to the changeless Love of our Creator. News is always about change; if there is no change, there is no news.

While we seem to dream of change, the changeless continues unaffected. In the dream, the idea that thoughts do not leave their Source is news. Today we welcome this news with willingness to accept It as our Reality. With this acceptance, we awaken to Love’s oneness.

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The Love We Are Blesses the World

A day devoted now to gratitude will add the benefit of some insight into the real extent of all the gains which you have made; the gifts you have received. ²Be glad today, in loving thankfulness, your Father has not left you to yourself, nor let you wander in the dark alone. ³Be grateful He has saved you from the self you thought you made to take the place of Him and His creation. ⁴Give Him thanks today.

Give thanks that He has not abandoned you, and that His Love forever will remain shining on you, forever without change. ²Give thanks as well that you are changeless, for the Son He loves is changeless as Himself. ³Be grateful you are saved. ⁴Be glad you have a function in salvation to fulfill.

³Today we smile on everyone we see, and walk with lightened footsteps as we go to do what is appointed us to do.

Receive His thanks, and you will understand how lovingly He holds you in His Mind, how deep and limitless His care for you, how perfect is His gratitude to you. ²Remember hourly to think of Him, and give Him thanks for everything He gave His Son, that he might rise above the world, remembering his Father and his Self. (A Course in Miracles, W-123.2:1–3:4;4:3;8. See also ACIM Lesson 123 Insights.)

The Love we are shines brightly, forever without limit. It is What we are. All our real Thoughts extend the Love we are. This Love surrounds us and keeps us safe in Its changelessness. It inspires us to be loving and truly helpful. It sees Love everywhere. If it sees someone who seems to be unaware of the Love they are, It answers the call for Love with Love.

All day, every day, we are called to remind ourselves that Love is our Reality. It is ours to share. It blesses us as It blesses the world. We give thanks for our Creator’s gift of all His Love. And we share It with the world in gratitude.

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Accepting the Love We Are

Father, I will but to remember You.

What can I seek for, Father, but Your Love? ²Perhaps I think I seek for something else; a something I have called by many names. ³Yet is Your Love the only thing I seek, or ever sought. ⁴For there is nothing else that I could ever really want to find. ⁵Let me remember You. ⁶What else could I desire but the truth about myself?

This is your will, my brother. ²And you share this will with me, and with the One as well Who is our Father. ³To remember Him is Heaven. ⁴This we seek. ⁵And only this is what it will be given us to find. (A Course in Miracles, W-231. See also ACIM Lesson 231 Insights.)

This dream world is the effect of choosing to be separate from Love. Consequently, everyone here is searching for Love. The ego directs us to look for it in some form or circumstance. But Love is not a form or a unique situation that we can call our own. Love is not limited nor selective.

To remember our Father is to remember the Love we are. We cannot possess Love as something we keep for ourselves alone. Love is our Being, the Self our Father, Love, created. It remains forever united in Its oneness.

We resolve today to accept the Love we are by being loving. With Love guiding our thoughts and actions as our mission, we will be truly helpful. We will know we are safe and rest peacefully knowing nothing can change the Love we are. Love welcomes and joins with Love; nothing else exists.

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Through Forgiveness We Awaken to God’s Peace

Father, today I am Your Son again.

Today we will anticipate the time when dreams of sin and guilt are gone, and we have reached the holy peace we never left. ²Merely a tiny instant has elapsed between eternity and timelessness. ³So brief the interval there was no lapse in continuity, nor break in thoughts which are forever unified as one. ⁴Nothing has ever happened to disturb the peace of God the Father and the Son. ⁵This we accept as wholly true today.

We thank You, Father, that we cannot lose the memory of You and of Your Love. ²We recognize our safety, and give thanks for all the gifts You have bestowed on us, for all the loving help we have received, for Your eternal patience, and the Word which You have given us that we are saved. (A Course in Miracles, W-234. See also ACIM Lesson 234 Insights.)

God’s grace is so profound that no matter how emphatically we have insisted on believing we are separate, we remain united with our Creator with an unbreakable bond. We can dream of being separate, but we cannot make separation real. We can awaken to our true Self, forever at peace in God’s Mind.

We have been given a singular process that lets this awakening happen. We just need to forgive our mistaken belief in the various forms it is projected in our dream. Through forgiveness we remember that we are forever God’s Son. We awaken to His peace.

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