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Letting Love Correct Our Mind

Miracle-minded forgiveness is only correction. It has no element of judgment at all. The statement “Father forgive them for they know not what they do” in no way evaluates what they do. It is an appeal to God to heal their minds. There is no reference to the outcome of the error. That does not matter.

Time is under my direction, but timelessness belongs to God. In time we exist for and with each other. In timelessness we coexist with God.

You can do much on behalf of your own healing and that of others if, in a situation calling for help, you think of it this way:

I am here only to be truly helpful.
I am here to represent Him Who sent me.
I do not have to worry about what to say or what to do, because He Who sent me will direct me.
I am content to be wherever He wishes, knowing He goes there with me.
I will be healed as I let Him teach me to heal. (T-2.III.16;17:5-18:6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

What expresses God’s Love is truly helpful. When we let love direct us, we serve as Love’s expression in the world of form. Only our wish for specialness, to be separate and unique, interferes with the flow of God’s Love through us to the world. As we forgive this wish, our mind is corrected and the flow of Love is unblocked.

When we perceive an unloving thought or situation, we need to recognize that it is a call for Love. A mistaken belief in lack of Love needs to be corrected, not judged. The Voice for God will teach us how to answer the call for Love with Love.

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Letting Love Be Expressed Through Us

If you cannot hear the Voice for God, it is because you do not choose to listen. ²That you

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listen to the voice of your ego is demonstrated by your attitudes, your feelings and your behavior.

²When your mood tells you that you have chosen wrongly, and this is so whenever you are not joyous, then know this need not be. ³In every case you have thought wrongly about some brother God created, and are perceiving images your ego makes in a darkened glass. ⁴Think honestly what you have thought that God would not have thought, and what you have not thought that God would have you think.

The habit of engaging with God and His creations is easily made if you actively refuse to let your mind slip away.

²There is no limit to the power of a Son of God, but he can limit the expression of his power as much as he chooses. ³Your mind and mine can unite in shining your ego away, releasing the strength of God into everything you think and do.

⁴His Mind shone on you in your creation and brought your mind into being. ⁵His Mind still shines on you and must shine through you. ⁶Your ego cannot prevent Him from shining on you, but it can prevent you from letting Him shine through you.

⁵Your mind will elect to join with mine, and together we are invincible. (A Course in Miracles, T-4.IV.1:1-2:2;2-4;7:1;8:2-3;9:4-6;11:5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

God is Love and everything He creates is Love. Only Love is real so there is no other force that can disturb the peace of Love. God’s Creations are His Thoughts of Love. His Thoughts never leave His Mind, but extend without limit.

To join with God is to join with His Thoughts of Love. As we go through our experience each day, we can ask ourselves, “How would Love see this? What would Love do or say in this situation?” As we focus on letting Love guide our thoughts and actions, we bring Love to the world. We join with the Love in all God’s Creations. We recognize every brother as one with us in Love. As we let the day be Love’s expression through us, it will be a day of joy and peace.

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True Perception Brings Healing

⁵To be one is to be of one mind or will. ⁶When the Will of the Sonship and the Father are one, their perfect accord is Heaven.

Nothing can prevail against a Son of God who commends his spirit into the Hands of his Father. ²By doing this the mind awakens from its sleep and remembers its Creator. ³All sense of separation disappears. ⁴The Son of God is part of the Holy Trinity, but the Trinity Itself is One. ⁵There is no confusion within Its Levels, because They are of one Mind and one Will. ⁶This single purpose creates perfect integration and establishes the peace of God.

The way to correct distortions is to withdraw your faith in them and invest it only in what is true. ²You cannot make untruth true. ³If you are willing to accept what is true in everything you perceive, you let it be true for you. ⁴Truth overcomes all error, and those who live in error and emptiness can never find lasting solace. ⁵If you perceive truly you are cancelling out misperceptions in yourself and in others simultaneously. ⁶Because you see them as they are, you offer them your acceptance of their truth so they can accept it for themselves. ⁷This is the healing that the miracle induces. (A Course in Miracles, T-3.II.4:5–5:6;6:1-7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Our true Self is one with the Holy Spirit and our Creator. There is no difference because what is one has no difference within it. But in the dream we act as if we are not our Self. We have taken on a false identity. And that identity reports false perceptions.

The Holy Spirit is the part of our Mind that can communicate with the false identity. We can call upon It to help us heal the misperceptions and see truly as our true Self.

We want to awaken to the peace of God. We want to know that we are Love and loving. The Holy Spirit is our Guide to awaken. We ask Him today to help us see true perception. As we accept His help, we will see the truth in our brothers. As we see the Love they are, we awaken to the Love we are.

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We Are Loved Beyond Description

God speaks to us. ²Shall we not speak to Him? ³He is not distant. ⁴He makes no attempt to hide from us. ⁵We try to hide from Him, and suffer from deception. ⁶He remains entirely accessible.

God loves His Son. ²Request Him now to give the means by which this world will disappear, and vision first will come, with knowledge but an instant later. ³For in grace you see a light that covers all the world in love, and watch fear disappear from every face as hearts rise up and claim the light as theirs. ⁴What now remains that Heaven be delayed an instant longer? ⁵What is still undone when your forgiveness rests on everything?

³We acknowledge our mistakes, but He to Whom all error is unknown is yet the One Who answers our mistakes by giving us the means to lay them down, and rise to Him in gratitude and love. (A Course in Miracles, W-168.1:1-6;4;5:3. See also ACIM Lesson 168 Insights.)

We seem to live in a dream dark with fear. Fear casts its shadow throughout our experience. It stems from the guilt that comes with believing we have denied God and fear His retribution for our denial of His Love. We are unaware of all these emotions that lie beneath the surface of our awareness. But they are behind all the perceived need to protect ourselves and search for Love and acceptance.

There is a Light that will dispel the dark shadows of fear. It is the Light of Love given us in our Creation to be forever ours. We have been given a Guide in the dream to help us see past the shadows of fear. We can welcome this Guide by pausing to go within to the peace of God that is there waiting for us to be open to it.

The Light of Love surrounds us and protects us so that nothing we dream can change the fact that Love created us like Itself. In peace we welcome Love’s vision which shows us Its Presence everywhere. In gratitude we welcome this vision which shows us the way to our Home in Heaven.

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The Benefit of Welcoming God’s Peace

This is a day of stillness and of peace.

Christ’s vision looks through me today. ²His sight shows me all things forgiven and at peace, and offers this same vision to the world. ³And I accept this vision in its name, both for myself and for the world as well. ⁴What loveliness we look upon today! ⁵What holiness we see surrounding us! ⁶And it is given us to recognize it is a holiness in which we share; it is the Holiness of God Himself.

This day my mind is quiet, to receive the Thoughts You offer me. ²And I accept what comes from You, instead of from myself. ³I do not know the way to You. ⁴But You are wholly certain. ⁵Father, guide Your Son along the quiet path that leads to You. ⁶Let my forgiveness be complete, and let the memory of You return to me. (A Course in Miracles, W-291. See also ACIM Lesson 291 Insights.)

The ego constantly defends against stillness and peace. It clutters our mind with myriad forms of conflict. Some of these conflicts we seem to win, and others we lose. Some seem to threaten our life, which the ego welcomes because it reinforces its belief in the reality of death. All this clutter the ego fosters shows that the ego is not our friend.

We are not controlled by the ego. It is only our wish for specialness that puts it in charge of the dream. We have a choice. We can choose to welcome stillness and peace. But because we have been enamored with the ego’s goal for so long, it takes time, vigilance and practice to quiet our mind and welcome God’s peace in place of the ego’s chaos.

The willingness to pause and welcome God’s peace in our mind opens the door to freedom from the ego. It opens our mind to Christ’s vision, which sees the presence of Love and peace everywhere. Every effort to welcome the peace of God brings us closer to awakening to the Love of God within us.

The blessing that God offers us becomes clearer as we let go of our mistaken beliefs in separation through forgiveness. In peace we remember the Self God created eternally one with Him. We practice welcoming God’s peace today.

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Awaken to Love with Christ’s Vision

Father, Christ’s vision is Your gift to me, and it has power to translate all that the body’s eyes behold into the sight of a forgiven world. ²How glorious and gracious is this world! ³Yet how much more will I perceive in it than sight can give. ⁴The world forgiven signifies Your Son acknowledges his Father, lets his dreams be brought to truth, and waits expectantly the one remaining instant more of time which ends forever, as Your memory returns to him. ⁵And now his will is one with Yours. ⁶His function now is but Your Own, and every thought except Your Own is gone.

The quiet of today will bless our hearts, and through them peace will come to everyone. ²Christ is our eyes today. ³And through His sight we offer healing to the world through Him, the holy Son whom God created whole; the holy Son whom God created one. (A Course in Miracles, W-270.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 270 Insights.)

We believe what the body’s senses tell us because we want separation to be real. Only if separation were real could we be special and unique. But this wish denies the oneness of Love. It is through Christ’s vision that we forgive the wish that denies the Love we are.

We want to remember Love. In fact, everyone in this world is searching for Love. But the body cannot show us Love, nor lead us to It. Love has no form and cannot be seen with the body’s eyes. But Love can be expressed in this world in forms through which it can be received. Through Christ’s vision, we can see the Love that is in everyone. This vision of Love guides us to express Love in the dream.

Today we are willing to receive Christ’s vision to bring healing to the dream. This is how we awaken to the Love we are.

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Letting Love Be Our Guide

The Holy Spirit needs my voice today, that all the world may listen to Your Voice, and hear Your Word through me. ²I am resolved to let You speak through me, for I would use no words but Yours, and have no thoughts which are apart from Yours, for only Yours are true. ³I would be savior to the world I made. ⁴For having damned it I would set it free, that I may find escape, and hear the Word Your holy Voice will speak to me today.

We teach today what we would learn, and that alone. ²And so our learning goal becomes an unconflicted one, and possible of easy reach and quick accomplishment. ³How gladly does the Holy Spirit come to rescue us from hell, when we allow His teaching to persuade the world, through us, to seek and find the easy path to God. (A Course in Miracles, W-296.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 296 Insights.)

As we learn the Holy Spirit’s lessons in Love, we become messengers of Love in the world. We heal the world by our own healing, demonstrated in the way we live as followers of the Holy Spirit.

We dedicate today to keeping our mind quiet and open to the Holy Spirit’s lessons. With His help, we will see past appearances in the world to the Love that is everywhere, always. We will be His voice as we let Love guide our perceptions, words and actions. It will be a day full of blessings.

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