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Becoming Aware of Our Home in Heaven

God is my life. I have no life but His.

I was mistaken when I thought I lived apart from God, a separate entity that moved in isolation, unattached, and housed within a body. ²Now I know my life is God’s, I have no other home, and I do not exist apart from Him. ³He has no Thoughts that are not part of me, and I have none but those which are of Him.

Our Father, let us see the face of Christ instead of our mistakes. ²For we who are Your holy Son are sinless. ³We would look upon our sinlessness, for guilt proclaims that we are not Your Son. ⁴And we would not forget You longer. ⁵We are lonely here, and long for Heaven, where we are at home. ⁶Today we would return. ⁷Our Name is Yours, and we acknowledge that we are Your Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-223. See also ACIM Lesson 223 Insights.)

The dream we seem to live in is not real. Every dream is characteristically unaware of anything outside the dream. Anything beyond the dream is unknown and we are naturally afraid of it. This lesson is helping us to consider that there is something beyond our awareness in the dream that has greater than anything we can conceive of within the dream.

The Course is teaching us that there is nothing of value in the dream of space, time and separate bodies. This idea alone would be frightening. But we are being shown that beyond this dream world is everything we really want.

Acceptance of it will reward us with deep peace, unlimited joy and eternal extension of Love’s oneness. As we learn to accept the one Life with share with God, the dream is dispelled and we become aware of our Home in Heaven.

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Awakening from the Dream of Fear

³There is no relationship between what is real and what you think is real. ⁴Nothing that you think are your real thoughts resemble your real thoughts in any respect. ⁵Nothing that you think you see bears any resemblance to what vision will show you.

You think with the Mind of God. ²Therefore you share your thoughts with Him, as He shares His with you. ³They are the same thoughts, because they are thought by the same Mind. ⁴To share is to make alike, or to make one. ⁵Nor do the thoughts you think with the Mind of God leave your mind, because thoughts do not leave their source. ⁶Therefore, your thoughts are in the Mind of God, as you are. ⁷They are in your mind as well, where He is. ⁸As you are part of His Mind, so are your thoughts part of His Mind.

⁵We will not let the beliefs of the world tell us that what God would have us do is impossible. ⁶Instead, we will try to recognize that only what God would have us do is possible.

…tell yourself gently:

⁴My real thoughts are in my mind. ⁵I would like to find them.

⁶Then try to go past all the unreal thoughts that cover the truth in your mind, and reach to the eternal.

…this is no idle game, but an exercise in holiness and an attempt to reach the Kingdom of Heaven. (A Course in Miracles, W-45.1:3–2:8;4:5-6;6:3-6;8:7. See also ACIM Lesson 45 Insights.)

In the dream, we believe in a mistaken separate identity. The thoughts of which we are aware stem from this mistaken identity. Our existence in the dream is not real. But like every dream, we are not aware of anything beyond the limits of the dream. We need help to see beyond the dream’s limitations.

Today’s exercise will help us open our mind to the truth beyond the dream. We are Love and nothing else, as God Is. We remain safe in His Love, and share His Thoughts of Love. As we let our minds receive the Thoughts we share with God, we let His Love guide our thoughts away from fear and back to the Thoughts of Love we share with God.

With this practice we will become aware of the Love we are and see that Love in everyone. The realization that Love is the only reality will return us to our Home in the Heaven of Love.

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