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Celebrate the Opportunity to Awaken

There is no end to all the peace and joy, and all the miracles that I will give, when I accept God’s Word. Why not today?

Why should I wait, my Father, for the joy You promised me? ²For You will keep Your Word You gave Your Son in exile. ³I am sure my treasure waits for me, and I need but reach out my hand to find it. ⁴Even now my fingers touch it. ⁵It is very close. ⁶I need not wait an instant more to be at peace forever. ⁷It is You I choose, and my Identity along with You. ⁸Your Son would be Himself, and know You as his Father and Creator, and his Love. (A Course in Miracles, W-355. See also ACIM Lesson 355 Insights.)

In every moment we can choose the joy and peace of God as our own. We make this choice when we forgive our beliefs that deny the truth of What we are. God is indivisible and His Sons remain one with Him.

When we forgive the wish for specialness, the Love we are is revealed. Love never left us. It is hidden only in dreams in which Love and oneness are denied. We can make another choice.

Today we celebrate the opportunity to awaken to the fact that we remain Love as Love created us. As we accept this fact through forgiveness, we bring healing to the world.

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Forgiveness Heals Our Mistaken Beliefs

Forgiveness ends the dream of conflict here.

Conflict must be resolved. ²It cannot be evaded, set aside, denied, disguised, seen somewhere else, called by another name, or hidden by deceit of any kind, if it would be escaped. ³It must be seen exactly as it is, where it is thought to be, in the reality which has been given it, and with the purpose that the mind accorded it. ⁴For only then are its defenses lifted, and the truth can shine upon it as it disappears.

Father, forgiveness is the light You chose to shine away all conflict and all doubt, and light the way for our return to You. ²No light but this can end our evil dream. ³No light but this can save the world. ⁴For this alone will never fail in anything, being Your gift to Your beloved Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-333. See also ACIM Lesson 333 Insights.)

Dreams only occur in darkness. We fill the darkness with images that portray what we believe about ourselves. As projections, dreams change when we change our beliefs. The dream comes from the mind that harbors these beliefs.

When we welcome the Light of Love, beliefs are replaced by truth. The images are replaced by the certainty of Reality, the certainty of Love. Today we welcome the Holy Spirit’s help to look at our mistaken beliefs to recognize them for what they are. As we see the beliefs are based on false ideas, the Light the Holy Spirit brings dispels them. Our mind is healed and we awaken in our Home in God’s Love.

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Remembering We Are Love

The Word of God is given me to speak.

What is the Word of God? ²“My Son is pure and holy as Myself.” ³And thus did God become the Father of the Son He loves, for thus was he created. ⁴This the Word His Son did not create with Him, because in this His Son was born. ⁵Let us accept His Fatherhood, and all is given us. ⁶Deny we were created in His Love and we deny our Self, to be unsure of Who we are, of Who our Father is, and for what purpose we have come. ⁷And yet, we need but to acknowledge Him Who gave His Word to us in our creation, to remember Him and so recall our Self.

Father, Your Word is mine. ²And it is this that I would speak to all my brothers, who are given me to cherish as my own, as I am loved and blessed and saved by You. (A Course in Miracles, W-276. See also ACIM Lesson 276 Insights.)

God, our Father, is Love. As His Son, we extend His Love. Extending Love is how we speak the Word of God. This is our true and only function.

Love is eternal and unchanging, as It extends forever. But the world we see was made to limit Love, to contain It in forms. To complete our function given us by our Creator, we need to forgive our mistaken perceptions. The reality of Love is all there really is to see. As we let go of the images we perceive, the Light of Love shines forth.

Today is a good day to let go of judgments and let the Love we are radiate and join with the Love in every brother. This is how we remember we are God’s Love.

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The Single Purpose for Every Day

I have given what I see all the meaning it has for me.

²I have judged everything I look upon, and it is this and only this I see. ³This is not vision. ⁴It is merely an illusion of reality, because my judgments have been made quite apart from reality. ⁵I am willing to recognize the lack of validity in my judgments, because I want to see. ⁶My judgments have hurt me, and I do not want to see according to them.

³What I see is the projection of my own errors of thought.

³What I call “my” thoughts are not my real thoughts. ⁴My real thoughts are the thoughts I think with God. ⁵I am not aware of them because I have made my thoughts to take their place. ⁶I am willing to recognize that my thoughts do not mean anything, and to let them go. ⁷I choose to have them be replaced by what they were intended to replace. ⁸My thoughts are meaningless, but all creation lies in the thoughts I think with God. (A Course in Miracles, W-51.2:1-6;3:3;4:3-8. See also ACIM Lesson 51 Insights.)

The key to awakening to Love is to remember that everything we see in this world is a projection of our beliefs. We judge everything based on what we believe we are. But if we believe we are a body functioning in a world of form, we are dreaming. Dreams start in our mind and are projected outward. As long as we believe the dream is real, we are trapped by our beliefs.

We have been blessed by our Creator with a Guide to help us learn that what we see is not real. When we are willing to accept the Holy Spirit’s help, we can use His vision to see past the dream to the reality of Love.

The Holy Spirit recognizes our dream but knows that it is not real. He is not deceived by this deception. But He will use the images we believe in to help us let go of the dream. This is what every day is for if we want to awaken to Love. Today we choose to let the Holy Spirit help us think with Love.

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Peace of Mind Is Natural

Peace be to me, the holy Son of God. Peace to my brother, who is one with me. Let all the world be blessed with peace through us.

Father, it is Your peace that I would give, receiving it of You. ²I am Your Son, forever just as You created me, for the Great Rays remain forever still and undisturbed within me. ³I would reach to them in silence and in certainty, for nowhere else can certainty be found. ⁴Peace be to me, and peace to all the world. ⁵In holiness were we created, and in holiness do we remain. ⁶Your Son is like to You in perfect sinlessness. ⁷And with this thought we gladly say “Amen.” (A Course in Miracles, W-360. See also ACIM Lesson 360 Insights.)

Peace of mind is our natural state. If we are not peaceful, we are dreaming a dream that is not true. This is a signal to pause, step back and quiet our troubled mind. In quietness, all problems are quietly resolved.

Today we commit to being mindful of our thoughts. We ask the Holy Spirit to help us release the mistaken beliefs that are disturbing our peace. As we accept His help, we help bring peace to the world.

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Remembering the Eternal Presence of Love

No call to God can be unheard nor left unanswered. And of this I can be sure; His answer is the one I really want.

You Who remember what I really am alone remember what I really want. ²You speak for God, and so You speak for me. ³And what You give me comes from God Himself. ⁴Your Voice, my Father, then is mine as well, and all I want is what You offer me, in just the form You choose that it be mine. ⁵Let me remember all I do not know, and let my voice be still, remembering. ⁶But let me not forget Your Love and care, keeping Your promise to Your Son in my awareness always. ⁷Let me not forget myself is nothing, but my Self is all. (A Course in Miracles, W-358. See also ACIM Lesson 358 Insights.)

All of us in this world want to know that we are loved and know that we are Love. We seek for Love because we have identified with the ego thought of separation. It leaves us feeling that we have left God, the Source of Love.

Yet God created us one with Him, united with His Love. He gave us His Voice to help us remember the Love we are. As we listen to His Voice, we learn to look past the images of this world to recognize Love’s presence.

Love has no form. It extends to all eternally. Love is our true Self, God’s Son. Today we practice pausing to pay attention to God’s Answer. It teaches us the forms do not matter because the presence of formless Love is all that’s real. This is our focus for today.

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The Simplicity of Atonement

My sinlessness protects me from all harm.

My sinlessness ensures me perfect peace, eternal safety, everlasting love, freedom forever from all thought of loss; complete deliverance from suffering. ²And only happiness can be my state, for only happiness is given me. ³What must I do to know all this is mine? ⁴I must accept Atonement for myself, and nothing more. ⁵God has already done all things that need be done. ⁶And I must learn I need do nothing of myself, for I need but accept my Self, my sinlessness, created for me, now already mine, to feel God’s Love protecting me from harm, to understand my Father loves His Son; to know I am the Son my Father loves.

You Who created me in sinlessness are not mistaken about what I am. ²I was mistaken when I thought I sinned, but I accept Atonement for myself. ³Father, my dream is ended now. ⁴Amen. (A Course in Miracles, W-337. See also ACIM Lesson 337 Insights.)

Accepting the Atonement is simple, but it seems to be difficult. This is only because we have thoroughly invested our belief in a separate identity which suffers loss and pain, lacks Love and feels guilty for abandoning God.

We are assured that what we perceive is only a dream. This dream will disappear when we forgive our belief that we are separate and alone. Forgiveness is the key that awakens us to the fact that we remain Love as God created us.

The Holy Spirit was given us to teach us that our beliefs about being separate are not true. We never succeeded in separating from Love. In truth, we cannot harm nor be harmed. Our true Self continues to extend God’s Love as part of His Creation. Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us let go of our judgments to see the presence of Love and accept Atonement.

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