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Accepting the Holy Spirit’s Judgment

³You cannot judge. ⁴You merely can believe the ego’s judgments, all of which are false. ⁵It guides your senses carefully, to prove how weak you are; how helpless and afraid, how apprehensive of just punishment, how black with sin, how wretched in your guilt.

⁶Let Him be Judge… of everything that seems to happen to you in this world. ⁷His lessons will enable you to bridge the gap between illusions and the truth.

He will remove all faith that you have placed in pain, disaster, suffering and loss. ²He gives you vision which can look beyond these grim appearances, and can behold the gentle face of Christ in all of them. ³You will no longer doubt that only good can come to you who are beloved of God, for He will judge all happenings, and teach the single lesson that they all contain.

He will select the elements in them which represent the truth, and disregard those aspects which reflect but idle dreams. ²And He will reinterpret all you see, and all occurrences, each circumstance, and every happening that seems to touch on you in any way from His one frame of reference, wholly unified and sure. ³And you will see the love beyond the hate, the constancy in change, the pure in sin, and only Heaven’s blessing on the world. (A Course in Miracles, W-151.4:3-5;9:6–11:3. See also ACIM Lesson 151 Insights.)

We live in the oneness of Love. That is the frame of reference on which the Holy Spirit judges all things. Being the only Reality, nothing exists outside of Love.

When we identify with the ego and its central figure the body, the Holy Spirit’s reference is invisible. We do not realize where we live in truth. And so, every day seems to be one of struggling to survive. Our identity seems to be vulnerable to change. We need to defend it against external forces which we cannot control. This is not a peaceful existence.

While we seem to struggle, the Holy Spirit knows we remain safe in the changelessness of God’s Love. He speaks to us of Love. If we are willing to quiet our minds and welcome His judgment that only Love is real, we free ourselves from the dream of vulnerability and weakness. We see past the images to the presence of Love. We feel the safety and strength of God’s Love in us and all around. Today we practice keeping our mind open to the Holy Spirit’s judgment.

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In Quiet We Recognize We Are Only Love

All fear is past and only love is here.

All fear is past, because its source is gone, and all its thoughts gone with it. ²Love remains the only present state, whose Source is here forever and forever. ³Can the world seem bright and clear and safe and welcoming, with all my past mistakes oppressing it, and showing me distorted forms of fear? ⁴Yet in the present love is obvious, and its effects apparent. ⁵All the world shines in reflection of its holy light, and I perceive a world forgiven at last.

Father, let not Your holy world escape my sight today. ²Nor let my ears be deaf to all the hymns of gratitude the world is singing underneath the sounds of fear. ³There is a real world which the present holds safe from all past mistakes. ⁴And I would see only this world before my eyes today. (A Course in Miracles, W-293. See also ACIM Lesson 293 Insights.)

The ego dwells entirely in the past. It makes up stories of things to come based on past experiences. All judgments are based upon these past memories. It knows nothing of the present moment, and diligently avoids it. But awareness of the present moment is still available to us. Because the present is always peaceful, we access it by relaxing and letting our minds be quiet. In quietness, all seeming problems are resolved. Love is accepted.

When we accept Love, we see only Love. Fear is impossible in the power of Love’s presence. Today we remember to step back whenever our peace is disturbed to pause and quiet our minds. In quiet the presence of Love is recognized.

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Choosing to See with Love

Creation’s gentleness is all I see.

I have indeed misunderstood the world, because I laid my sins on it and saw them looking back at me. ²How fierce they seemed! ³And how deceived was I to think that what I feared was in the world, instead of in my mind alone. ⁴Today I see the world in the celestial gentleness with which creation shines. ⁵There is no fear in it. ⁶Let no appearance of my sins obscure the light of Heaven shining on the world. ⁷What is reflected there is in God’s Mind. ⁸The images I see reflect my thoughts. ⁹Yet is my mind at one with God’s. ¹⁰And so I can perceive creation’s gentleness.

In quiet would I look upon the world, which but reflects Your Thoughts, and mine as well. ²Let me remember that they are the same, and I will see creation’s gentleness. (A Course in Miracles, W-265. See also ACIM Lesson 265 Insights.)

Our real Thoughts are the Thoughts we share with God. Because only Love is real, these are Thoughts that extend Love. To see Creation’s gentleness is to see Love.

A dream represents thoughts that are not real, and have no effect on reality. To choose to see Creation’s gentleness is to awaken to the loving Thoughts in our mind that come from our true Self. These Thoughts are reflected back to us in the world when we have forgiven it for all we dreamed it was.

Today we choose to see with Love.

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The Vision That Brings Peace and Happiness

It is important to remember that miracles and vision necessarily go together. ²This needs repeating, and frequent repeating. ³It is a central idea in your new thought system, and the perception that it produces. ⁴The miracle is always there. ⁵Its presence is not caused by your vision; its absence is not the result of your failure to see. ⁶It is only your awareness of miracles that is affected. ⁷You will see them in the light; you will not see them in the dark.

³You do not doubt that the body’s eyes can see. ⁴You do not doubt the images they show you are reality. ⁵Your faith lies in the darkness, not the light. ⁶How can this be reversed?

…instruct yourself that you are not a body. ³Faith goes to what you want, and you instruct your mind accordingly. ⁴Your will remains your teacher, and your will has all the strength to do what it desires. ⁵You can escape the body if you choose. ⁶You can experience the strength in you.

³Remember that all sense of weakness is associated with the belief you are a body, a belief that is mistaken and deserves no faith.

…your efforts, however meager, are fully supported by the strength of God and all His Thoughts. (A Course in Miracles, W-91.1;3:3-6;5:2-6;9:3;10:1. See also ACIM Lesson 91 Insights.)

Throughout the Course we are encouraged to let go of our attachment to the body. It is a limitation. It was made by the ego to support our belief that we are separate, alone and unique. The body is not what we are in truth.

God is Love and everything He creates is an extension of His Love. True vision comes with acceptance of His Love; with acceptance of the Love we are. Love is the Light that enlightens our world. In Love’s Light, we see the Love our brothers are and recognize It as our own.

We ask the Holy Spirit to help us free ourselves from our mistaken identification with the body. We ask His help to see as He sees, to know only Love is real. With this vision, we will find peace and happiness.

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Christ’s Vision Heals Our Thoughts

My holy vision sees all things as pure.

Father, Your Mind created all that is, Your Spirit entered into it, Your Love gave life to it. ²And would I look upon what You created as if it could be made sinful? ³I would not perceive such dark and fearful images. ⁴A madman’s dream is hardly fit to be my choice, instead of all the loveliness with which You blessed creation; all its purity, its joy, and its eternal, quiet home in You.

And while we still remain outside the gate of Heaven, let us look on all we see through holy vision and the eyes of Christ. ²Let all appearances seem pure to us, that we may pass them by in innocence, and walk together to our Father’s house as brothers and the holy Sons of God. (A Course in Miracles, W-263. See also ACIM Lesson 263 Insights.)

Christ’s vision is the means to release ourselves from this world of separation. Christ’s vision is seen with forgiving eyes. When we let go of our judgments, the forms of this world do not drag us into the dark shadows of fear and guilt. Forgiving eyes recognize the presence of Love in all things, everywhere. The world Christ’s vision sees is bright with Love. It brings us to Heaven’s gate, where we are welcomed in Love.

Today we bring all our judgments, our opinions, to the Holy Spirit. We ask His help to let them go so that Christ’s vision can replace the ego’s condemning thoughts.

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Awakening to Our Home in Love

I am surrounded by the Love of God.

Father, You stand before me and behind, beside me, in the place I see myself, and everywhere I go. ²You are in all the things I look upon, the sounds I hear, and every hand that reaches for my own. ³In You time disappears, and place becomes a meaningless belief. ⁴For what surrounds Your Son and keeps him safe is Love itself. ⁵There is no source but this, and nothing is that does not share its holiness; that stands beyond Your one creation, or without the Love which holds all things within itself. ⁶Father, Your Son is like Yourself. ⁷We come to You in Your Own Name today, to be at peace within Your everlasting Love.

My brothers, join with me in this today. ²This is salvation’s prayer. ³Must we not join in what will save the world, along with us? (A Course in Miracles, W-264. See also ACIM Lesson 264 Insights.)

We dwell in the Love of God. It is our Home. Nothing else exists. Only in dreams can we seem to lack Love and be vulnerable to loss. This prayer is a call to awaken to our true Self, God’s Son. It reflects a never ceasing call, which draws us Home to where our true Life remains.

As we awaken to our eternal Home in Love, we remember we are God’s Son. We remain eternally safe in God’s Love. He is our Sanctuary where nothing can touch the truth that we are Love, united with every brother in the Love of God.

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Remembering We Live in Love and Peace

God is my refuge and security.

“\I will identify with what I think is refuge and security. ²I will behold myself where I perceive my strength, and think I live within the citadel where I am safe and cannot be attacked. ³Let me today seek not security in danger, nor attempt to find my peace in murderous attack. ⁴I live in God. ⁵In Him I find my refuge and my strength. ⁶In Him is my Identity. ⁷In Him is everlasting peace. ⁸And only there will I remember Who I really am.

Let me not seek for idols. ²I would come, my Father, home to You today. ³I choose to be as You created me, and find the Son whom You created as my Self. (A Course in Miracles, W-261. See also ACIM Lesson 261 Insights.)

The body is a barrier made to wall us off from the Love of God. It keeps us separated from Reality and only provides confirmation that we live in an imaginary world. In this world we are not safe and must constantly plan for our protection. This is all a nightmare that could never be true.

Our real Life is in God. He is our Source and our strength. God does not change the Love He is. In this we can trust that we remain eternally united with Him. In God we trust because He is all that is Real. There is no conflict in Love and no harm can come because Love is changeless. We live in God. We affirm this fact today to remember that we live in perfect safety. We live in peace.

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