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Remembering We Are Love

Spirit makes use of mind as means to find its Self expression. ²And the mind which serves the spirit is at peace and filled with joy. ³Its power comes from spirit, and it is fulfilling happily its function here. ⁴Yet mind can also see itself divorced from spirit, and perceive itself within a body it confuses with itself. ⁵Without its function then it has no peace, and happiness is alien to its thoughts.

Yet mind apart from spirit cannot think. ²It has denied its Source of strength, and sees itself as helpless, limited and weak. ³Dissociated from its function now, it thinks it is alone and separate, attacked by armies massed against itself and hiding in the body’s frail support. ⁴Now must it reconcile unlike with like, for this is what it thinks that it is for.

Your Self retains Its Thoughts [of God’s Love], and they remain within your mind and in the Mind of God. ²The Holy Spirit holds salvation in your mind, and offers it the way to peace. ³Salvation is a thought you share with God, because His Voice accepted it for you and answered in your name that it was done.

²Salvation comes from my one Self. ³Its Thoughts are mine to use.

⁴Then seek Its Thoughts, and claim them as your own. ⁵These are your own real thoughts you have denied… (A Course in Miracles, W-96.4:1–5:4;7:1-3;9:2-5. See also ACIM Lesson 96 Insights.)

In the dream, the thoughts we are aware of are not real. They lack the extension of Love, which is all of Reality. The body is the ego’s means to offer its own mindless thoughts. Because the ego has denied Love, its thoughts cannot be real, yet our belief in them makes them real to us. It is this belief from which we must be saved.

God has given us the Holy Spirit in our mind to be a bridge between our unreal mindless thoughts and our real Thoughts, which extend only Love. When we accept His help, we find peace because we remember we are Love and nothing else. We learn to overlook the ego’s images and accept only Love’s presence in our mind. As we accept Love, we naturally give It, because that is Love’s function.

Today we choose to accept the Help we have been given and learn that we are Love.

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The Key to a Happy Life

This is the lesson God would have you learn: There is a way to look on everything that lets it be to you another step to Him, and to salvation of the world. ²To all that speaks of terror, answer thus:

³I will forgive, and this will disappear.

⁴To every apprehension, every care and every form of suffering, repeat these selfsame words. ⁵And then you hold the key that opens Heaven’s gate, and brings the Love of God the Father down to earth at last, to raise it up to Heaven. ⁶God will take this final step Himself. ⁷Do not deny the little steps He asks you take to Him. (A Course in Miracles, W-193.13. See also ACIM Lesson 193 Insights.)

A happy life is a forgiving life. Unhappiness is always the effect of judgment. Any judgments we make on our own are based upon the false premise that we have a true basis from which to judge.

Only the Holy Spirit judges truly. His judgment is very simple. He sees everything as true or false, real or unreal. What is unreal is completely overlooked and dismissed. The reality that remains is only God’s Love. It brings with it Love’s attributes of peace and happiness.

We turn over all our judgments to Him and let Him show us the truth beyond the dream, the Love beyond the images of the world. We are grateful that we have His help to awaken from the dream that has kept us unaware of the Love we are.

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Learning to Identify with the Thought of Love

I am forever an Effect of God.

Father, I was created in Your Mind, a holy Thought that never left its home. ²I am forever Your Effect, and You forever and forever are my Cause. ³As You created me I have remained. ⁴Where You established me I still abide. ⁵And all Your attributes abide in me, because it is Your Will to have a Son so like his Cause that Cause and Its Effect are indistinguishable. ⁶Let me know that I am an Effect of God, and so I have the power to create like You. ⁷And as it is in Heaven, so on earth. ⁸Your plan I follow here, and at the end I know that You will gather Your effects into the tranquil Heaven of Your Love, where earth will vanish, and all separate thoughts unite in glory as the Son of God.

Let us today behold earth disappear, at first transformed, and then, forgiven, fade entirely into God’s holy Will. (A Course in Miracles, W-326. See also ACIM Lesson 326 Insights.)

The ego’s thoughts are always about some form, something different and distinct in itself. It does not perceive these forms as connected in any way. Some forms may seem to join together while still maintaining their distinct identity. This is all part of the ego’s plan to convince us that we are separate and alone.

God knows all as one and the same — eternal changeless Love. His Thoughts are Thoughts of Love. He extends His Love with His Thought which remains eternally held in His Mind. Though the ego tries to encapsulate our identity in a body, it only succeeds in excluding the only Reality that is God’s Love. As God’s Son, we are His Thought of Love, held safely in His Mind. This cannot change, because God does not change.

As we learn to identify with Love, we forgive the ego’s divisive images and accept God’s gift of all His Love. We accept It by extending the Love as It was extended to us, His Son. Love Is our Being. We live by Love’s extension, eternally receiving and giving.

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How to See the Face of Christ in Our Brothers

The Holy Spirit reaches from the Christ in you to all your dreams, and bids them come to Him, to be translated into truth. ²He will exchange them for the final dream which God appointed as the end of dreams. ³For when forgiveness rests upon the world and peace has come to every Son of God, what could there be to keep things separate, for what remains to see except Christ’s face?

And how long will this holy face be seen, when it is but the symbol that the time for learning now is over, and the goal of the Atonement has been reached at last? ²So therefore let us seek to find Christ’s face and look on nothing else. ³As we behold His glory, will we know we have no need of learning or perception or of time, or anything except the holy Self, the Christ Whom God created as His Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.6.4–5)

Christ is God’s Son, the one Self we all share. Christ is the Home of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the bridge between our dream of separation and lack of love, and the eternal, changeless Love of God.

The Holy Spirit is called the Comforter because He leads us out of dreams of fear and guilt. He leads us back to the peace and joy of our true Self. All that stands between our awareness of peace and happiness and the dream is our mistaken belief in a separate identity. When we are willing to receive the Holy Spirit’s loving guidance, we receive help to forgive the wish for specialness.

Today we call to our Comforter, welcoming His help to free ourselves from fear and guilt and remember we are God’s Son, the Christ. With the Holy Spirit’s help we will see the face of Christ in our brothers, and know that we are one.

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We Seek Only Christ’s Vision

The gift of Christ is all I seek today.

What but Christ’s vision would I use today, when it can offer me a day in which I see a world so like to Heaven that an ancient memory returns to me? ²Today I can forget the world I made. ³Today I can go past all fear, and be restored to love and holiness and peace. ⁴Today I am redeemed, and born anew into a world of mercy and of care; of loving kindness and the peace of God.

And so, our Father, we return to You, remembering we never went away; remembering Your holy gifts to us. ²In gratitude and thankfulness we come, with empty hands and open hearts and minds, asking but what You give. ³We cannot make an offering sufficient for Your Son. ⁴But in Your Love the gift of Christ is his. (A Course in Miracles, W-306. See also ACIM Lesson 306 Insights.)

When we seek only Christ’s vision, we seek to see a forgiven world. When we forgive, or let go of, our wish for specialness and separation, we will see the world Love created as one.

When we come with open hands and heart to welcome Holy Spirit’s help, we learn to overlook the false images we have made. We see the oneness of Love. We recognize our Home. All our brothers are welcome in this Home, for they are part of the one Self we share.

We choose Christ’s vision today. With this choice, we remember the Life we live in God.

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How to Experience Love’s Blessing

My holiness blesses the world.

This idea contains the first glimmerings of your true function in the world, or why you are here. ²Your purpose is to see the world through your own holiness. ³Thus are you and the world blessed together. ⁴No one loses; nothing is taken away from anyone; everyone gains through your holy vision. ⁵It signifies the end of sacrifice because it offers everyone his full due. ⁶And he is entitled to everything because it is his birthright as a Son of God.”

“⁵Yet is his wholeness restored to his awareness through your vision. ⁶Your holiness blesses him by asking nothing of him. ⁷Those who see themselves as whole make no demands.

“Your holiness is the salvation of the world. ²It lets you teach the world that it is one with you, not by preaching to it, not by telling it anything, but merely by your quiet recognition that in your holiness are all things blessed along with you.”

“…close your eyes and apply the idea to any person who occurs to you, using his name and saying:

⁶My holiness blesses you, [name].”

“³It is essential to use the idea if anyone seems to cause an adverse reaction in you. ⁴Offer him the blessing of your holiness immediately, that you may learn to keep it in your own awareness.” (A Course in Miracles, W-37.1;2:5–3:2;4:5-6;6:3-4. See also ACIM Lesson 37 Insights.)

Our holiness sees only Love’s oneness. Our true Self is only Love and knows Its unity with all That is. As Love’s extension, our function is to extend Love.

As we practice seeing through the eyes of Love, we extend Love to every brother. Seeing this Love in our brother reminds us of the Love we are. Love heals mistaken beliefs in lack and loss of Love.

Today we practice bringing blessing to the world by extending the Love, given us by our Creator, to every brother. In this extension, we experience Love’s blessing.

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In Gratitude We Accept God’s Love

My holy brother, think of this awhile: The world you see does nothing. ²It has no effects at all. ³It merely represents your thoughts. ⁴And it will change entirely as you elect to change your mind, and choose the joy of God as what you really want. ⁵Your Self is radiant in this holy joy, unchanged, unchanging and unchangeable, forever and forever. ⁶And would you deny a little corner of your mind its own inheritance, and keep it as a hospital for pain; a sickly place where living things must come at last to die?

Pain is illusion; joy, reality. ⁵Pain is but sleep; joy is awakening. ⁶Pain is deception; joy alone is truth.

And so again we make the only choice that ever can be made; we choose between illusions and the truth, or pain and joy, or hell and Heaven. ²Let our gratitude unto our Teacher fill our hearts, as we are free to choose our joy instead of pain, our holiness in place of sin, the peace of God instead of conflict, and the light of Heaven for the darkness of the world. (A Course in Miracles, W-190.6;10:4–11:2. See also ACIM Lesson 190 Insights.)

We have a choice, today and every day while we believe we are a body in a world of separation. We are always free to change our mind about what we want.

With the help of the Holy Spirit, we can learn to recognize the thoughts that interfere with our awareness of joy. His role is to help us heal or forgive those mistaken thoughts. As we let them go, the joy of Love dawns upon our mind. The truth replaces illusions. We remember we live in joy. Peace and happiness are our natural state as God’s Son.

We choose to accept the Holy Spirit’s help to free ourselves from the false idea that we are separate. We are grateful that we remain in the oneness of God’s Love.

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