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Welcoming the Happy Present

My present happiness is all I see.

Unless I look upon what is not there, my present happiness is all I see. ²Eyes that begin to open see at last. ³And I would have Christ’s vision come to me this very day. ⁴What I perceive without God’s Own Correction for the sight I made is frightening and painful to behold. ⁵Yet I would not allow my mind to be deceived by the belief the dream I made is real an instant longer. ⁶This the day I seek my present happiness, and look on nothing else except the thing I seek.

With this resolve I come to You, and ask Your strength to hold me up today, while I but seek to do Your Will. ²You cannot fail to hear me, Father. ³What I ask have You already given me. ⁴And I am sure that I will see my happiness today. (A Course in Miracles, W-290. See also ACIM Lesson 290 Insights.)

When we let Love direct our seeing, we see only happiness. Joy is an attribute of Love, and Love sees only Itself everywhere. We were created by Love as Love. We are innately joyous.

If we are not joyous, we are letting the ego’s denial of Love cloud our vision. This need not be. God offers us all His strength and His Love to support our seeing. We need only accept His help to let our innate joy shine forth. This happiness is always present and cannot be seen while we cover the present with memories of the past.

Today we accept the Holy Spirit’s help to overlook the past and welcome the happy present.

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Accepting the Attributes We Share with God

⁷What you think you are is a belief to be undone. ⁸But what you really are must be revealed to you. ⁹The belief you are a body calls for correction, being a mistake. ¹⁰The truth of what you are calls on the strength in you to bring to your awareness what the mistake conceals.

²You need to be aware of what the Holy Spirit uses to replace the image of a body in your mind. ³You need to feel something to put your faith in, as you lift it from the body. ⁴You need a real experience of something else, something more solid and more sure; more worthy of your faith, and really there.

…allow your mistaken thoughts about your attributes to be corrected, and their opposites to take their place. ³Say, for example:

⁴I am not weak, but strong.
⁵I am not helpless, but all powerful.
⁶I am not limited, but unlimited. (A Course in Miracles, W-91.6:7-10;7:2-4;8:2-6. See also ACIM Lesson 91 Insights.)

Misplaced belief has the power to obliterate our awareness of reality. But by the grace of God, belief cannot make real. We can undo our belief that we are body with a separate identity, and let reality take the place of belief.

Aș we practice letting the Holy Spirit reinterpret our perceptions, which reflect our beliefs, our beliefs are undone. We learn that we have all of God’s attributes. We are loving, strong, certain, peaceful, happy and eternal.

Today we are willing to let our mistaken beliefs be corrected. We are willing to accept the Self God created one with Himself.

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The Choice for Love

This holy instant would I give to You. Be You in charge. For I would follow You, certain that Your direction gives me peace.

And if I need a word to help me, He will give it to me. ²If I need a thought, that will He also give. ³And if I need but stillness and a tranquil, open mind, these are the gifts I will receive of Him. ⁴He is in charge by my request. ⁵And He will hear and answer me, because He speaks for God my Father and His holy Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-361-365. See also ACIM Lesson 361 Insights.)

The Holy Spirit is the part of our mind that always knows our best interests. He speaks for God. The other voice in our mind speaks for the ego, which always leads to death. This voice does not know our best interests.

In every moment we choose between these two voices. The ego’s voice speaks only of illusions that deny the Source of true happiness and peace. But we can choose the Voice for God, which always teaches us that we remain united with our Creator. He leads us gently on the path of awakening from the ego’s lies to the truth that we are Love and nothing else.

This is our choice today. It is the choice for Love.

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Letting Our Mind Rest in Love

Peace to my mind. Let all my thoughts be still.

Father, I come to You today to seek the peace that You alone can give. ²I come in silence. ³In the quiet of my heart, the deep recesses of my mind, I wait and listen for Your Voice. ⁴My Father, speak to me today. ⁵I come to hear Your Voice in silence and in certainty and love, sure You will hear my call and answer me.

Now do we wait in quiet. ²God is here, because we wait together. ³I am sure that He will speak to you, and you will hear. ⁴Accept my confidence, for it is yours. ⁵Our minds are joined. ⁶We wait with one intent; to hear our Father’s answer to our call, to let our thoughts be still and find His peace, to hear Him speak to us of what we are, and to reveal Himself unto His Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-221. See also ACIM Lesson 221 Insights.)

We give ourselves a great gift when we welcome God’s peace as ours. This gift was given long ago, but denied when time began and belief in separation ruled our mind. We are not separate from the Love that created us. Love gave us all of Itself, with all Its peace and happiness.

Today we have the opportunity to let our mind open to the peace that is our Home. We pause to start the day by choosing God’s peace and accepting it as our Home. We set aside the ego’s chaotic thoughts and let our mind rest in Love.

Love shines away thoughts of fear and guilt. This Light reveals the truth that we are Love, forever united in Its oneness. This Light shines on our world and shows us the presence of Love in every brother. From a mind at peace, we see our unity. We are grateful that we remain unchanged by dreams of separation and specialness. We are Love and nothing else.

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The Value of the Wish to Forgive

All things I think I see reflect ideas.

This is salvation’s keynote: What I see reflects a process in my mind, which starts with my idea of what I want. ²From there, the mind makes up an image of the thing the mind desires, judges valuable, and therefore seeks to find. ³These images are then projected outward, looked upon, esteemed as real and guarded as one’s own. ⁴From insane wishes comes an insane world. ⁵From judgment comes a world condemned. ⁶And from forgiving thoughts a gentle world comes forth, with mercy for the holy Son of God, to offer him a kindly home where he can rest a while before he journeys on, and help his brothers walk ahead with him, and find the way to Heaven and to God.

Our Father, Your ideas reflect the truth, and mine apart from Yours but make up dreams. ²Let me behold what only Yours reflect, for Yours and Yours alone establish truth. (A Course in Miracles, W-325. See also ACIM Lesson 325 Insights.)

This lesson explains clearly how the world we see is a projection from our mind. What we see reflects what we believe we are. We believe we are a separate individual in a separate body because of our wish to be special. The world reflects that wish.

This is good news because the world gives us continuous feedback of what we are wanting. When we see conflict, it doesn’t seem that we want conflict. But the conflict comes with the wish to be separate and different. When there are any differences, conflict is inevitable.

If we let go of the wish for specialness by forgiving it, the world we see changes. Kindness reins. Love shines forth. Peace returns to our troubled mind. We have the choice to forgive. And we have Help to let go of our mistaken wishes that cause guilt and fear.

Today we call upon the Holy Spirit to help us forgive our insane wishes and return to the eternal oneness of Love given us by our Creator.

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We Were Created in Love’s Sinlessness

God’s answer is some form of peace. All pain is healed; all misery replaced with joy. All prison doors are opened. And all sin is understood as merely a mistake.

Father, today we will forgive Your world, and let creation be Your Own. ²We have misunderstood all things. ³But we have not made sinners of the holy Sons of God. ⁴What You created sinless so abides forever and forever. ⁵Such are we. ⁶And we rejoice to learn that we have made mistakes which have no real effects on us. ⁷Sin is impossible, and on this fact forgiveness rests upon a certain base more solid than the shadow world we see. ⁸Help us forgive, for we would be redeemed. ⁹Help us forgive, for we would be at peace. (A Course in Miracles, W-359. See also ACIM Lesson 359 Insights.)

Forgiveness is the key to peace of mind. Our judgments are the cause of all our pain and suffering, fear and guilt. As we let the Holy Spirit help us let go of our mistaken beliefs that are the basis for all our judgments, we find peace. It has been there forever, given us by our Creator. Only the shadows of our wish for separation have hidden the presence of God’s Love and peace in us.

We accept the Holy Spirit’s help today because we want to awaken to the Love we are.

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Claiming Our Home in God’s Love

⁵You are but asked to let the future go, and place it in God’s Hands. ⁶And you will see by your experience that you have laid the past and present in His Hands as well, because the past will punish you no more, and future dread will now be meaningless.

²As it becomes a thought that rules your mind, a habit in your problem-solving repertoire, a way of quick reaction to temptation, you extend your learning to the world. ³And as you learn to see salvation in all things, so will the world perceive that it is saved.

What worry can beset the one who gives his future to the loving Hands of God? ²What can he suffer? ³What can cause him pain, or bring experience of loss to him? ⁴What can he fear? ⁵And what can he regard except with love? ⁶For he who has escaped all fear of future pain has found his way to present peace, and certainty of care the world can never threaten. ⁷He is sure that his perception may be faulty, but will never lack correction. ⁸He is free to choose again when he has been deceived; to change his mind when he has made mistakes.

Place, then, your future in the Hands of God. ²For thus you call the memory of Him to come again, replacing all your thoughts of sin and evil with the truth of love.

²For in God’s Hands we rest untroubled, sure that only good can come to us. (A Course in Miracles, W-194.4:5-6;6:2–8:2;9:2. See also ACIM Lesson 194 Insights.)

The ego is afraid of the future because it hangs on to a fearful memory of the past. It sees only uncertainty, so it makes plans for the future to try to control what happens and be safe. Because the ego itself is an illusion, all its plans are illusions with inherent uncertainty. As long as we identify with the ego, this is our state of mind.

But we have an alternative that brings us certainty and peace. If we are willing to place the future in God’s hands, we accept His peace as ours. God is certain because He is changeless Love. We can relax into His certainty, knowing that His plan for us is to keep us forever safe within His eternal Love. This is the Home He holds for us. We need only place our future in His Hands to claim our Home as our own. We are grateful that His plan for us is perfect peace, joy and Love.

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