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Celebrate the Truth Today

God’s peace and joy are mine.

²Today I will accept God’s peace and joy, in glad exchange for all the substitutes that I have made for happiness and peace.

Let me be still and listen to the truth.

²Let my own feeble voice be still, and let me hear the mighty Voice for Truth Itself assure me that I am God’s perfect Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-118.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 118 Insights.)

Today can be a day of celebration. Today we can let ourselves hear God’s Voice tell us that we are His beloved Son. He has given us all His joy, peace and Love. There is no greater gift. It lasts forever.

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Everyday Opportunities

When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. ²As you see him you will see yourself. ³As you treat him you will treat yourself. ⁴As you think of him you will think of yourself. ⁵Never forget this, for in him you will find yourself or lose yourself. ⁶Whenever two Sons of God meet, they are given another chance at salvation. ⁷Do not leave anyone without giving salvation to him and receiving it yourself. ⁸For I am always there with you, in remembrance of you.

The goal of the curriculum, regardless of the teacher you choose, is “Know thyself.” ²There is nothing else to seek. ³Everyone is looking for himself and for the power and glory he thinks he has lost. ⁴Whenever you are with anyone, you have another opportunity to find them. ⁵Your power and glory are in him because they are yours. ⁶The ego tries to find them in yourself alone, because it does not know where to look. ⁷The Holy Spirit teaches you that if you look only at yourself you cannot find yourself, because that is not what you are. ⁸Whenever you are with a brother, you are learning what you are because you are teaching what you are. ⁹He will respond either with pain or with joy, depending on which teacher you are following. ¹⁰He will be imprisoned or released according to your decision, and so will you. ¹¹Never forget your responsibility to him, because it is your responsibility to yourself. ¹²Give him his place in the Kingdom and you will have yours. (A Course in Miracles, T-8.III.4–5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Today, like every day, is an opportunity to heal our mind and remember our true Self. Whether or not we accept the opportunity depends upon whom we choose to accept as our guide. The ego always seeks to imprison us in an image of separation — a body, a personality, status or any other form of specialness. The ego always leads to illusions and denial of Love.

But we can choose the Holy Spirit to be our Guide. He will help us overlook the images of the world, the forms we ascribe to our brothers, to the Light of Love everywhere, in anyone. What we see in our brother tells us which guide we are following.

When we join with our brother in Love’s oneness, our true Self is our Guide. What we see in our brother teaches us what we are. That lesson returns us to our true Identity. We remember we are God’s Son, created by Love as Love and nothing else. Today is a wonderful opportunity to return to the truth.

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Freedom from Conflict

I am one Self, united with my Creator.

²Serenity and perfect peace are mine, because I am one Self, completely whole, at one with all creation and with God.

Salvation comes from my one Self.

²From my one Self, Whose knowledge still remains within my mind, I see God’s perfect plan for my salvation perfectly fulfilled. (W-113)

In the oneness of our true Self there are no differences, nothing that can conflict with anything, for all is the same Love. Without conflict, we remain in perfect peace. This is our natural state. We can bring this state to our awareness when we are willing to forgive the wish for specialness.

We have not lost our true Self, but we have denied Reality and made a dream where peace of mind seems impossible. But in truth, only peace is possible. Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us look past the dream to the Reality of the one Love in which we live. In that recognition, the world is saved from conflict.

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The Practice That Leads Us Home

I will be still an instant and go home.

This world you seem to live in is not home to you. ²And somewhere in your mind you know that this is true.

We speak today for everyone who walks this world, for he is not at home. ²He goes uncertainly about in endless search, seeking in darkness what he cannot find; not recognizing what it is he seeks. ³A thousand homes he makes, yet none contents his restless mind. ⁴He does not understand he builds in vain. ⁵The home he seeks can not be made by him. ⁶There is no substitute for Heaven. ⁷All he ever made was hell.

When you are still an instant, when the world recedes from you, when valueless ideas cease to have value in your restless mind, then will you hear His Voice.

Take time today to lay aside your shield which profits nothing, and lay down the spear and sword you raised against an enemy without existence.

You have not lost your innocence. ²It is for this you yearn. ³This is your heart’s desire. ⁴This is the voice you hear, and this the call which cannot be denied. …⁸And now the way is open, and the journey has an end in sight at last. ⁹Be still an instant and go home with Him, and be at peace a while. (A Course in Miracles, W-182.1:1-2;3;8:1;11:1;12:1-4,8-9. See also ACIM Lesson 182 Insights.)

The reason we seem to be living in a world of separation and bodies is because we value illusions over truth; we value specialness over the oneness of Love. The key to awakening to our Home in God’s Love is to forgive our wish for specialness. Our Home cannot be found in this dream, where Love’s oneness is denied. But there is a path that leads to our Home.

The practice of pausing in our mind to step back from our involvement in the world and step into God’s peace opens our mind to the healing that will take us Home. This stepping back can be done in a brief mental pause in the midst of our doing. It is also beneficial to set aside a period of quiet in which we rest in God’s peace.

When we set the intent to let Love lead the way, we will be helped throughout the day. We support that intent each time we pause for a moment to let the truth of Love shine in our mind. Even a brief pause helps us let go of valueless illusions and remember our Home in Heaven.

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Fulfilling Our Function as God’s Son

³Let us turn to Him Who leads the way and makes our footsteps sure.

His is the only way to find the peace that God has given us. ²It is His way that everyone must travel in the end, because it is this ending God Himself appointed. ³In the dream of time it seems to be far off. ⁴And yet, in truth, it is already here; already serving us as gracious guidance in the way to go. ⁵Let us together follow in the way that truth points out to us. ⁶And let us be the leaders of our many brothers who are seeking for the way, but find it not.

And to this purpose let us dedicate our minds, directing all our thoughts to serve the function of salvation. ²Unto us the aim is given to forgive the world. ³It is the goal that God has given us. ⁴It is His ending to the dream we seek, and not our own. ⁵For all that we forgive we will not fail to recognize as part of God Himself. ⁶And thus His memory is given back, completely and complete. (A Course in Miracles, W-fl.in.1:3;2–3)

When we practice true forgiveness with the Holy Spirit’s help, we show the way to all our brothers that leads us Home to the Heaven of God’s Love. His Love is our only need. It is our Life. The dream in which we see ourselves as bodies, separate from all others, is dispelled as we let go of our mistaken beliefs.

The core belief is that we are separate, which could never be true. For we were created by Love, forever united with It. We ask for the Holy Spirit’s help to see, with Christ’s vision, the Love that is the truth of What we are. This is our only function as God’s Son.

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Accepting Love as Our Life

My home awaits me. I will hasten there.

If I so choose, I can depart this world entirely. ²It is not death which makes this possible, but it is change of mind about the purpose of the world. ³If I believe it has a value as I see it now, so will it still remain for me. ⁴But if I see no value in the world as I behold it, nothing that I want to keep as mine or search for as a goal, it will depart from me. ⁵For I have not sought for illusions to replace the truth.

Father, my home awaits my glad return. ²Your Arms are open and I hear Your Voice. ³What need have I to linger in a place of vain desires and of shattered dreams, when Heaven can so easily be mine? (A Course in Miracles, W-226. See also ACIM Lesson 226 Insights.)

We can leave the world of fear and guilt by no longer valuing holding anything for ourselves alone. The truth in us, the oneness of Love, cannot conceive of any value in keeping something for Itself. It sees nothing but the joy and peace of Love everywhere. It knows this Love as Home.

Today we ask the Voice of Love to guide all our seeing and all our actions. In the awareness of Love, Its only response to anything is Love. This is the Heaven Love created as our Home. Only in this Home do we truly live, for Love is Life and Life is Love.

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Accepting the Love in Which We Live

“I am spirit.

²I am the Son of God. ³No body can contain my spirit, nor impose on me a limitation God created not.

“I will accept my part in God’s plan for salvation.

²What can my function be but to accept the Word of God, Who has created me for what I am and will forever be? (A Course in Miracles, W-114.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 114 Insights.)

To accept our part in God’s plan for salvation is to accept a life of Love, happiness and peace. This is God’s Will for us. If we do not experience this, it is only because we have denied God’s Will.

But we can change our mind. With the Holy Spirit’s help, we can turn away from the ego’s wish for specialness and separation. We can let go of the insane wish to have more than everything. That wish has made us unaware us everything that is real.

Today we are willing to step back from this world and accept the Holy Spirit’s help to rise above and see that we live in God’s Love and nowhere else.

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