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The Transformative Vision of Our True Self

I am God’s Son, complete and healed and whole, shining in the reflection of His Love. ²In me is His creation sanctified and guaranteed eternal life. ³In me is love perfected, fear impossible, and joy established without opposite. ⁴I am the holy home of God Himself. ⁵I am the Heaven where His Love resides. ⁶I am His holy Sinlessness Itself, for in my purity abides His Own.

Ours are the eyes through which Christ’s vision sees a world redeemed from every thought of sin. ²Ours are the ears that hear the Voice for God proclaim the world as sinless. ³Ours the minds that join together as we bless the world. ⁴And from the oneness that we have attained we call to all our brothers, asking them to share our peace and consummate our joy.

We are the holy messengers of God who speak for Him, and carrying His Word to everyone whom He has sent to us, we learn that it is written on our hearts. ²And thus our minds are changed about the aim for which we came, and which we seek to serve. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.14.1;4:1–5:2)

This does not describe how most of us would describe ourselves. But it does give us an idea of what we are in truth. The purpose of the Course is to teach us how to accept the truth of What we are. It tells us again and again that we are God’s extension of His Love, forever united with Him. It also tells us what we need to do to accept this fact. It all starts with forgiving our mistaken wish for specialness.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us let go of our mistaken idea that we lack Love and are separate, alone and need to protect our little, separate identity. The image of our true Self the Course describes helps us see the blessing we will experience when we accept the truth of What we are. It is a transformative vision that we can aspire to and experience. It assures us that we are worthy of vigilance to change our mind and let Christ’s vision show us the Love we are, united with every brother in the Heaven of God’s Love.

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Taking Control of Our World

⁵When the ego tempts you to sickness do not ask the Holy Spirit to heal the body, for this would merely be to accept the ego’s belief that the body is the proper aim of healing. ⁶Ask, rather, that the Holy Spirit teach you the right _perception_ of the body, for perception alone can be distorted. ⁷Only perception can be sick, because only perception can be wrong.

Wholeness heals because it is of the mind. ²All forms of sickness, even unto death, are physical expressions of the fear of awakening. ³They are attempts to reinforce sleeping out of fear of waking.

Healing is release from the fear of waking and the substitution of the decision to wake. ²The decision to wake is the reflection of the will to love, since all healing involves replacing fear with love. ³The Holy Spirit cannot distinguish among degrees of error, for if He taught that one form of sickness is more serious than another, He would be teaching that one error can be more real than another. ⁴His function is to distinguish only between the false and the true, replacing the false with the true.

⁶Yet sickness is not of the body, but of the mind. ⁷All forms of sickness are signs that the mind is split, and does not accept a unified purpose. (A Course in Miracles, T-8.IX.1:5-7;3:1-3;5;8:6-7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The body is a key tool the ego uses to convince us that we are separate, alone and vulnerable to outside forces we cannot control. Here we are being told that the body is absolutely controlled by the mind. If we had not chosen specialness over Love’s oneness in our mind, the body would not seem to exist al all. That is why forgiveness of the wish for specialness in its many different forms is the way out of sickness and return to sanity. It is the way from fear to Love.

The key to correction of our perception of this world is offered us in every moment by the Holy Spirit. With His help, we can change our mind and change our world. Because we have invested heavily in the belief in separation, there is much resistance to changing our mind.

In any moment when there is willingness to let our perception be corrected, He will help us heal the misperception. We take another step closer to accepting the Life we live in God. The Holy Spirit does not ask anything of us that will increase our fear. But He will gently and lovingly guide us to a new way of seeing. He leads us past our misperceptions to the true perception that we are Love and nothing else.

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Letting Ourselves Be Restored to Heaven

Only an instant does this world endure.

This is a thought which can be used to say that death and sorrow are the certain lot of all who come here, for their joys are gone before they are possessed, or even grasped. ²Yet this is also the idea that lets no false perception keep us in its hold, nor represent more than a passing cloud upon a sky eternally serene. ³And it is this serenity we seek, unclouded, obvious and sure, today.

We seek Your holy world today. ²For we, Your loving Sons, have lost our way a while. ³But we have listened to Your Voice, and learned exactly what to do to be restored to Heaven and our true Identity. ⁴And we give thanks today the world endures but for an instant. ⁵We would go beyond that tiny instant to eternity. (A Course in Miracles, W-300. See also ACIM Lesson 300 Insights.)

Happiness and serenity are only an instant away. They will return the instant that we are willing to let the past go. Joy and peace are ever present in the now moment. Without the wish for specialness and separation from God, we return to awareness that we live eternally in His Love, forever united in Him.

Today offers opportunities to let His Voice help us let the past go. In forgiving the past we clear the way to the eternal now of happiness, peace and Love.

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Greeting the World with Kindness

Sin [separation from Love] is the only thought that makes the goal of God seem unattainable. ²What else could blind us to the obvious, and make the strange and the distorted seem more clear? ³What else but sin [lack of Love] engenders our attacks? ⁴What else but sin could be the source of guilt, demanding punishment and suffering? ⁵And what but sin could be the source of fear, obscuring God’s creation; giving love the attributes of fear and of attack?

Father, I would not be insane today. ²I would not be afraid of love, nor seek for refuge in its opposite. ³For love can have no opposite. ⁴You are the Source of everything there is. ⁵And everything that is remains with You, and You with it. (A Course in Miracles, W-259.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 259 Insights.)

With belief in separation comes the need to project. Projection is necessary to assuage the guilt that comes with believing we have separated from the Love of our Source. These projections make the world we see. But what we perceive is frightening because in some way it represents the thought of attack that made a loveless world.

Fortunately the belief in separation can only seem real in a dream. And we can wake up from this dream that denies Love. We can choose Love all the time. Today we practice choosing Love whenever our peace is disturbed. With Love, we will see that we remain held safely within Its Arms, along with every brother.

Today we choose Love as our Guide. With this Guide, we let go of fear and greet the world with kindness and joy.

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The Joy of Joining in Love

Christ’s vision has one law. ²It does not look upon a body, and mistake it for the Son whom God created. ³It beholds a light beyond the body; an idea beyond what can be touched, a purity undimmed by errors, pitiful mistakes, and fearful thoughts of guilt from dreams of sin. ⁴It sees no separation. ⁵And [Christ’s vision] looks on everyone, on every circumstance, all happenings and all events, without the slightest fading of the light it sees.

This can be taught; and must be taught by all who would achieve it. ²[Christ’s vision] requires but the recognition that the world can not give anything that faintly can compare with this in value; nor set up a goal that does not merely disappear when this has been perceived. ³And this you give today: See no one as a body. ⁴Greet him as the Son of God he is, acknowledging that he is one with you in holiness.

Thus are his sins forgiven him, for Christ has vision that has power to overlook them all.

…in your brother you but see yourself. ⁴If he be lost in sin, so must you be; if you see light in him, your sins have been forgiven by yourself. ⁵Each brother whom you meet today provides another chance to let Christ’s vision shine on you, and offer you the peace of God. (A Course in Miracles, W-158.7:1–9:1;10:3-5. See also ACIM Lesson 158 Insights.)

It sees only the reality of Love. Today we practice pausing to welcome peace in our mind. It is from a mind at peace that the Light of Love shines brightly, allowing Christ’s vision to look beyond worldly appearances.

As we let Love Light our way, we see our unity with every brother. Seeming conflicts fade, for Christ’s vision shows us we are all united in the oneness of God’s Love. With Christ’s vision, we see Love reflected back to us by every brother. The value of individuality is let go and the joy of joining in Love takes its place.

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The Answer to Every Problem

The real world holds a counterpart for each unhappy thought reflected in your world; a sure correction for the sights of fear and sounds of battle which your world contains. ²The real world shows a world seen differently, through quiet eyes and with a mind at peace. ³Nothing but rest is there. ⁴There are no cries of pain and sorrow heard, for nothing there remains outside forgiveness. ⁵And the sights are gentle. ⁶Only happy sights and sounds can reach the mind that has forgiven itself.

The real world is the symbol that the dream of sin and guilt is over, and God’s Son no longer sleeps. ²His waking eyes perceive the sure reflection of his Father’s Love; the certain promise that he is redeemed. ³The real world signifies the end of time, for its perception makes time purposeless.

…as we look upon a world forgiven, it is He Who calls to us and comes to take us home, reminding us of our Identity which our forgiveness has restored to us. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.8.2;4;5:4)

Forgiveness is the answer to every problem we perceive in the world. The payoff is spectacular. It brings us perfect peace, freedom from all pain and sorrow and joy beyond description. Perhaps the greatest benefit of all is the realization that we live and have our being in Love.

Forgiveness seems difficult only because we have convinced ourselves that there is something else we can have than the real world, which we value more. But only in a dream can this seem to be true.

We have help to forgive, given us by our Creator, Who holds a place in Heaven for us, His beloved Son. Today we are vigilant for thoughts of lack of Love and we ask the Holy Spirit to help us heal these fear-based thoughts. With our open mind, we welcome His vision to help us see with forgiving eyes.

With His help, we will see the presence of Love. Where Love seems absent, we will recognize it as our call for Love, and let Him answer the call with Love. With this practice, this day can be a beautiful day of extending and being Love.

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We Have the Means to Remember We Are Love

My holiness shines bright and clear today.

Today I wake with joy, expecting but the happy things of God to come to me. ²I ask but them to come, and realize my invitation will be answered by the thoughts to which it has been sent by me. ³And I will ask for only joyous things the instant I accept my holiness. ⁴For what would be the use of pain to me, what purpose would my suffering fulfill, and how would grief and loss avail me if insanity departs from me today, and I accept my holiness instead?

Father, my holiness is Yours. ²Let me rejoice in it, and through forgiveness be restored to sanity. ³Your Son is still as You created him. ⁴My holiness is part of me, and also part of You. ⁵And what can alter Holiness Itself? (A Course in Miracles, W-285. See also ACIM Lesson 285 Insights.)

It is up to us to let our holiness shine bright and clear. We do this by forgiving the beliefs that identify us with the ego. We have a sense of loss when we deny our unity with God’s Love. This loss is manifested in our experience as sadness, grief, fear, irritation and anger. All these emotions are signs that we are not letting our holiness shine through. We are not letting the Light our true Self shine through.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit, our Mighty Companion, to help us recognize our moments of denying Love. We want His help to let those mistaken thoughts go. We want to see the Love in our brothers. We want to see the Love we are. We are grateful that we have been given the means to let go of our beliefs and experience the knowing that we are Love and nothing else.

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