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Accepting Holy Spirit’s Loving Correction

I am affected only by my thoughts.

It needs but this to let salvation come to all the world. ²For in this single thought is everyone released at last from fear. ³Now has he learned that no one frightens him, and nothing can endanger him. ⁴He has no enemies, and he is safe from all external things. ⁵His thoughts can frighten him, but since these thoughts belong to him alone, he has the power to change them and exchange each fear thought for a happy thought of love. ⁶He crucified himself. ⁷Yet God has planned that His beloved Son will be redeemed.

Your plan is sure, my Father,—only Yours. ²All other plans will fail. ³And I will have thoughts that will frighten me, until I learn that You have given me the only Thought that leads me to salvation. ⁴Mine alone will fail, and lead me nowhere. ⁵But the Thought You gave me promises to lead me home, because it holds Your promise to Your Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-338. See also ACIM Lesson 338 Insights.)

The Holy Spirit is the Thought God gave us in our mind to lead us Home. This Thought is our best Friend, for Its purpose is to awaken us to God’s Love. The Holy Spirit is always present in our mind. It cannot leave us because It is our true Self at one with our Father.

All our distress and unhappiness in the world comes from believing we have separated from our Source. The Holy Spirit’s purpose is to help us undo our mistaken beliefs. As we are willing to accept His help, we learn to see the Love that surrounds us and is in us. As we open our minds to His loving correction, we find peace and happiness that is part of the Love we have always been. And we give thanks.

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Seeing with Forgiving Eyes

I choose to see my brother’s sinlessness.

Forgiveness is a choice. ²I never see my brother as he is, for that is far beyond perception. ³What I see in him is merely what I wish to see, because it stands for what I want to be the truth. ⁴It is to this alone that I respond, however much I seem to be impelled by outside happenings. ⁵I choose to see what I would look upon, and this I see, and only this. ⁶My brother’s sinlessness shows me that I would look upon my own. ⁷And I will see it, having chosen to behold my brother in its holy light.

What could restore Your memory to me, except to see my brother’s sinlessness? ²His holiness reminds me that he was created one with me, and like myself. ³In him I find my Self, and in Your Son I find the memory of You as well. (A Course in Miracles, W-335. See also ACIM Lesson 335 Insights.)

This world is a dream, and we are the dreamer of the dream. Everything we perceive is a reflection of what we believe we are. If we believe we are separate and different, we will see a world of separate images and differences.

When we forgive the wish to be separate, we will see the universe of Love in which we live. In this universe, all is one; there are no differences. We are united with all there is as the one Son of our Father.

Forgiveness is necessary in the dream because it releases the judgments that reflect our belief in separation. Today we choose to see our brother as the Love he is. With this vision, we see our brother forgiven and learn that we are released along with him. We remember the one Self God created eternally one with Himself.

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Using the Body to Awaken from the Dream

My body is a wholly neutral thing.

I am a Son of God. ²And can I be another thing as well? ³Did God create the mortal and corruptible? ⁴What use has God’s beloved Son for what must die? ⁵And yet a neutral thing does not see death, for thoughts of fear are not invested there, nor is a mockery of love bestowed upon it. ⁶Its neutrality protects it while it has a use. ⁷And afterwards, without a purpose, it is laid aside. ⁸It is not sick nor old nor hurt. ⁹It is but functionless, unneeded and cast off. ¹⁰Let me not see it more than this today; of service for a while and fit to serve, to keep its usefulness while it can serve, and then to be replaced for greater good.

My body, Father, cannot be Your Son. ²And what is not created cannot be sinful nor sinless; neither good nor bad. ³Let me, then, use this dream to help Your plan that we awaken from all dreams we made. (A Course in Miracles, W-294)

We are not a body, we are spirit—a Son of God. As God’s creation, we are His extension of Love, and nothing else.

The body has a purpose in the dream. It can be used to as a means to help remove the dream’s barriers to Love. It is a means for communication in the dream of separation. We need this means as a bridge to help us awaken from the dream.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us bring healing forgiveness to the world. As we use the body as a means to extend Love, the body serves a meaningful purpose. This is our vocation.

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Remembering Our Oneness as God’s One Son

Forgiveness is the only gift I give.

Forgiveness is the only gift I give, because it is the only gift I want. ²And everything I give I give myself. ³This is salvation’s simple formula. ⁴And I, who would be saved, would make it mine, to be the way I live within a world that needs salvation, and that will be saved as I accept Atonement for myself.

Father, how certain are Your ways; how sure their final outcome, and how faithfully is every step in my salvation set already, and accomplished by Your grace. ²Thanks be to You for Your eternal gifts, and thanks to You for my Identity. (A Course in Miracles, W-297. See also ACIM Lesson 297 Insights.)

It is important to the ego to see everything in the world as separate from ourselves. That is how it seems that we are without God’s Love and vulnerable to outside forces beyond our control. This separation also provides outside targets to project our guilt upon for denying out Identity as God’s Son.

But this dream of separation has no effect on the reality that remain one with God. He has shared all that He is with the one Self we share with everyone. The fact that our Identity is the one Son of God is why everything we give is given to our Self. We accept this fact by forgiving the wish for specialness and let go of all judgments. We practice this today.

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Remembering the Christ in Our Mind

The Christ in you is very still. ²He looks on what He loves, and knows it as Himself. ³And thus does He rejoice at what He sees, because He knows that it is one with Him and with His Father. ⁴Specialness, too, takes joy in what it sees, although it is not true. ⁵Yet what you seek for is a source of joy as you conceive it. ⁶What you wish is true for you. ⁷Nor is it possible that you can wish for something and lack faith that it is so. ⁸Wishing makes real, as surely as does will create. ⁹The power of a wish upholds illusions as strongly as does love extend itself. ¹⁰Except that one deludes; the other heals.

There is no dream of specialness, however hidden or disguised the form, however lovely it may seem to be, however much it delicately offers the hope of peace and the escape from pain, in which you suffer not your condemnation. ²In dreams effect and cause are interchanged, for here the maker of the dream believes that what he made is happening to him.

Where could your peace arise but from forgiveness? ²The Christ in you looks only on the truth, and sees no condemnation that could need forgiveness. ³He is at peace because He sees no sin. ⁴Identify with Him, and what has He that you have not? ⁵[Christ] is your eyes, your ears, your hands, your feet. ⁶How gentle are the sights He sees, the sounds He hears. ⁷How beautiful His hand that holds His brother’s, and how lovingly He walks beside him, showing him what can be seen and heard, and where he will see nothing and there is no sound to hear. (A Course in Miracles, T-24.V.1:1–2:2;3. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We experience a world of separation, of fear and guilt because we identify with the ego. This mistaken identification leads us to believe we are a body, vulnerable and weak.

Fortunately we can change our identification. We can change what we believe we are. Christ is in us, now and forever. When we identify with Christ, we identify with our reality as Love. Love sees no need to forgive anything because harm is impossible in its unity. It is always at peace.

Today we remind ourselves that Christ is in our mind. We follow Christ’s vision and let It show us the Christ in every brother. With His vision, we see a forgiven world. We see Love everywhere and recognize It in ourselves.

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We Welcome Christ’s Vision Today

I can be free of suffering today.

Father, I thank You for today, and for the freedom I am certain it will bring. ²This day is holy, for today Your Son will be redeemed. ³His suffering is done. ⁴For he will hear Your Voice directing him to find Christ’s vision through forgiveness, and be free forever from all suffering. ⁵Thanks for today, my Father. ⁶I was born into this world but to achieve this day, and what it holds in joy and freedom for Your holy Son and for the world he made, which is released along with him today.

Be glad today! ²Be glad! ³There is no room for anything but joy and thanks today. ⁴Our Father has redeemed His Son this day. ⁵Not one of us but will be saved today. ⁶Not one who will remain in fear, and none the Father will not gather to Himself, awake in Heaven in the Heart of Love. (A Course in Miracles, W-340. See also ACIM Lesson 340 Insights.)

Christ’s vision shows us a forgiven world. Our willingness to forgive, to let go of our judgments, is essential for us to be able to see with the eyes of Christ. To truly forgive, we need to let the Holy Spirit help us release our judgments. If we are willing, He will show us that what offended us, what caused us guilt or fear, is not real.

Though the ego proclaims loudly that the images of this world are real, the Holy Spirit shows us how to see beyond them. As we recognize the unreality of the appearances of differences, we recognize our unity with the universe of Love. We welcome this vision today.

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Accepting the Love in Which We Live

Fear binds the world. Forgiveness sets it free.

The ego makes illusions. ²Truth undoes its evil dreams by shining them away. ³Truth never makes attack. ⁴It merely is. ⁵And by its presence is the mind recalled from fantasies, awaking to the real. ⁶Forgiveness bids this presence enter in, and take its rightful place within the mind. ⁷Without forgiveness is the mind in chains, believing in its own futility. ⁸Yet with forgiveness does the light shine through the dream of darkness, offering it hope, and giving it the means to realize the freedom that is its inheritance.

We would not bind the world again today. ²Fear holds it prisoner. ³And yet Your Love has given us the means to set it free. ⁴Father, we would release it now. ⁵For as we offer freedom, it is given us. ⁶And we would not remain as prisoners, while You are holding freedom out to us. (A Course in Miracles, W-332. See also ACIM Lesson 332 Insights.)

Our release from a world of fear and pain depends upon forgiveness. It is held in place by our belief that we are a separate identity, distinct from everything and everyone. Yet this world is only a dream formed by this belief.

True forgiveness comes with the help of the Holy Spirit. When we are willing to accept His help, He will show us that the images of the world are illusions. These images have no effect on our true Self God created as His Son. When this fact is fully accepted, the mistaken beliefs are dispelled. We see the Love in our brothers that unites us as God’s one Son. In the changelessness of Love, we find peace and freedom from fear and guilt.

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