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Being a Beacon of Love for the World

Just as God’s Son completes his Father, so your part in it completes your Father’s plan. ²Salvation must reverse the mad belief in separate thoughts and separate bodies, which lead separate lives and go their separate ways. ³One function shared by separate minds unites them in one purpose, for each one of them is equally essential to them all.

God’s Will for you is perfect happiness. ²Why should you choose to go against His Will? ³The part that He has saved for you to take in working out His plan is given you that you might be restored to what He wills. ⁴This part is as essential to His plan as to your happiness. ⁵Your joy must be complete to let His plan be understood by those to whom He sends you. ⁶They will see their function in your shining face, and hear God calling to them in your happy laugh.

…your part is to be happy. ⁴Only this is asked of you or anyone who wants to take his place among God’s messengers.

⁵Look deep within you, undismayed by all the little thoughts and foolish goals you pass as you ascend to meet the Christ in you.

He will be there. ²You are essential to His plan. ³You are His messenger today. ⁴And you must find what He would have you give. (A Course in Miracles, W-100.1–2;7:3-4;8:5;10:1-4. See also ACIM Lesson 100 Insights.)

Happiness comes with accepting our true Self as God created It. This acceptance comes as we forgive the wish for specialness and separation, in all the many forms in which it appears in the world. Our true Self remains one with our Creator. Thus our happiness can only be found within, where we recognize the Self that lives in Love’s oneness.

To bring this Self to the forefront of our awareness, we must let ourselves settle past all the images of the world to the peace within. Here is where our happiness lies. From this center of happiness and peace, the Light we are radiates to the world. As we accept this Light for ourselves, we become beacons in the world that show the way to the Heaven of God’s Love.

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Letting Love Bring Light to Our World

Let me recognize the problem so it can be solved.

²Let me realize today that the problem is always some form of grievance that I would cherish. ³Let me also understand that the solution is always a miracle with which I let the grievance be replaced. ⁴Today I would remember the simplicity of salvation by reinforcing the lesson that there is one problem and one solution. ⁵The problem is a grievance; the solution is a miracle. ⁶And I invite the solution to come to me through my forgiveness of the grievance, and my welcome of the miracle that takes its place.

Specific applications of this idea might be in these forms:

²This presents a problem to me which I would have resolved.
³The miracle behind this grievance will resolve it for me.
⁴The answer to this problem is the miracle that it conceals. (A Course in Miracles, W-90.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 90 Insights.)

This dream world of separation is a defense against God’s Love. All the forms in the world are limits and do not permit the limitless extension of God’s Love that is God’s Will. Yet this limit only seems to real in the dream.

In truth, the Love we are remains eternally united with God’s Love and extends without limit. We try to disown our responsibility for the world we perceive by believing outside things can affect us. Thus they represent our grievance. But we can learn to see the presence of Love in which we live.

The events and forms in the world that seem to disturb us are recognized as having no effect on the Love we are. As we learn to let go of the meaning we have given forms, we make way for Love to shine through. We experience more peace and happiness, for we recognize the Love beyond the images in the world. We let the miracle of Love’s extension lighten our lives and joy fills our hearts.

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Remembering We Are Love and Nothing Else

I am under no laws but God’s.

²Here is the perfect statement of my freedom. ³I am under no laws but God’s. ⁴I am constantly tempted to make up other laws and give them power over me. ⁵I suffer only because of my belief in them. ⁶They have no real effect on me at all. ⁷I am perfectly free of the effects of all laws save God’s. ⁸And His are the laws of freedom.

For specific forms in applying this idea, these would be useful:

²My perception of this shows me I believe in laws that do not exist.
³I see only the laws of God at work in this.
⁴Let me allow God’s laws to work in this, and not my own. (A Course in Miracles, W-88.3–4. See also ACIM Lesson 88 Insights.)

Since God is only Love, His laws are the laws of Love. They are also our laws because we are one with our Creator.

We believe in a world with other laws that govern everything we experience in a body. But neither the body nor all of the world’s laws we made are real. They only seem to have effect in our dream of separation. We can return to our Life within the laws of God by forgiving our wish for specialness. This wish manifests in our dream in myriad ways, every day of the body’s seeming life.

With the Holy Spirit’s help, we can use these experiences as opportunities to forgive. This practice will free us from our identification with the body and the experience of being separate from God’s Love. It will return us to the full awareness that we are no laws but the laws of Love. We will remember that we are Love and nothing else.

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Accepting God’s Happiness as Ours

Father, Your Son is holy. ²I am he on whom You smile in love and tenderness so dear and deep and still the universe smiles back on You, and shares Your Holiness. ³How pure, how safe, how holy, then, are we, abiding in Your Smile, with all Your Love bestowed upon us, living one with You, in brotherhood and Fatherhood complete; in sinlessness so perfect that the Lord of Sinlessness conceives us as His Son, a universe of Thought completing Him.

Let us not, then, attack our sinlessness, for it contains the Word of God to us. ²And in its kind reflection we are saved. (A Course in Miracles, W-341.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 341 Insights.)

A smile represents a happy mind. God is eternally happy with all His Creation. We are one with Him as His Son, so we share His happy state of Mind.

But when we identify with the ego, we cannot be truly happy because we have denied the Mind of happiness. The ego believes in isolation, separateness. This must mean that the ego does not recognize the one Mind that is eternally happy and is our Source.

To let go of our allegiance to the ego, we need to forgive our mistaken beliefs that we are separate and alone. We cannot see ourselves as different from anything or anyone and know the happiness that comes with Love’s oneness.

Let us join in the goal to recognize our sameness in the Love that is the one Self we share with every brother. We call upon the Holy Spirit to help us learn this important lesson that will put a smile on our face. It represents our acceptance of our place in the Heart of Love.

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The Path That Sets Us Free to Be Love

I let forgiveness rest upon all things, for thus forgiveness will be given me.

I thank You, Father, for Your plan to save me from the hell I made. ²It is not real. ³And You have given me the means to prove its unreality to me. ⁴The key is in my hand, and I have reached the door beyond which lies the end of dreams. ⁵I stand before the gate of Heaven, wondering if I should enter in and be at home. ⁶Let me not wait again today. ⁷Let me forgive all things, and let creation be as You would have it be and as it is. ⁸Let me remember that I am Your Son, and opening the door at last, forget illusions in the blazing light of truth, as memory of You returns to me.

Brother, forgive me now. ²I come to you to take you home with me. ³And as we go, the world goes with us on our way to God. (A Course in Miracles, W-342. See also ACIM Lesson 342 Insights.)

Forgiveness is the key to happiness and peace. This is the core message of the Course. Forgiveness does not deny anything real in order to forgive. It simply recognizes illusions for what they are. Illusions recognized are set aside as not worthy of our belief. Illusions have no real consequences.

Our allegiance to the ego has left us confused about what is real and what is illusion. But we have a Helper in our mind Whose mission is to teach us to recognize illusion and see past it to the truth. We can trust this Helper, for He was given to us by God with the mission to set us free from our self-made hell of fear and guilt.

Today we ask for and accept the Holy Spirit’s help to recognize the unreality of illusions of separation. This is the path that sets us free to know that we, along with every brother, are one in Love eternally. Forgiveness the a gift we give ourselves.

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We Cannot Change God’s Creation

⁴If you remain as God created you fear has no meaning, evil is not real, and misery and death do not exist.

If you remain as God created you, appearances cannot replace the truth, health cannot turn to sickness, nor can death be substitute for life, or fear for love. ²All this has not occurred, if you remain as God created you. ³You need no thought but just this one, to let redemption come to light the world and free it from the past.

In this one thought is all the past undone; the present saved to quietly extend into a timeless future. ²If you are as God created you, then there has been no separation of your mind from His, no split between your mind and other minds, and only unity within your own.

The healing power of today’s idea is limitless. ²It is the birthplace of all miracles, the great restorer of the truth to the awareness of the world. ³Practice today’s idea with gratitude. ⁴This is the truth that comes to set you free. ⁵This is the truth that God has promised you. ⁶This is the Word [Thought] in which all sorrow ends. (A Course in Miracles, W-110.1:4;3-5. See also ACIM Lesson 110 Insights.)

We have accepted a mistaken thought that we are separate from all things. This thought has made a dream world of separate things. In this world we experience conflict, loss, guilt and fear. We seek for love here but it is nowhere to be found.

Here it is suggested that we accept a different Thought. This Thought tells us the truth of What we are. We need to pause and step back from the world and allow this Thought that we remain as God created us to fill our mind.

We will realize the truth in us is eternal. It shares the joy of giving Love with All That is. It is quiet and in need of nothing. The Love we are encompasses everyone. We see every brother as part of our Self. We rest in this Thought, assured that we remain as God created us.

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Letting Love Shine in Our World

Let us this day accept forgiveness as our only function. ²Why should we attack our minds, and give them images of pain? ³Why should we teach them they are powerless, when God holds out His power and His Love, and bids them take what is already theirs? ⁴The mind that is made willing to accept God’s gifts has been restored to spirit, and extends its freedom and its joy, as is the Will of God united with its own. ⁵The Self which God created cannot sin, and therefore cannot suffer. ⁶Let us choose today that He be our Identity, and thus escape forever from all things the dream of fear appears to offer us.

Father, Your Son can not be hurt. ²And if we think we suffer, we but fail to know our one Identity we share with You. ³We would return to It today, to be made free forever from all our mistakes, and to be saved from what we thought we were. (A Course in Miracles, W-330. See also ACIM Lesson 330 Insights.)

Love created us like Itself. Love can only bless. It cannot suffer pain or harm. The Love that is our true Self is always joyous and at peace. In the world, this state of mind of Love, joy and peace seems to be a dream.

But this world is the dream. We can awaken to our Reality through forgiveness. Whenever we perceive pain or fear, anger or sadness, it signals a belief that needs to be forgiven. Any disturbance to our peace of mind is a sign that we are believing in a false identity. It is time to call upon the Holy Spirit to help us let go of this false belief to see the truth of our Identity as Love.

We dedicate this day to open our inner windows and doors to let the Love in which we live shine through.

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