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Our Opportunities to Bless the World

I can be hurt by nothing but my thoughts.

Father, Your Son is perfect. ²When I think that I am hurt in any way, it is because I have forgotten who I am, and that I am as You created me. ³Your Thoughts can only bring me happiness. ⁴If ever I am sad or hurt or ill, I have forgotten what You think, and put my little meaningless ideas in place of where Your Thoughts belong, and where they are. ⁵I can be hurt by nothing but my thoughts. ⁶The Thoughts I think with You can only bless. ⁷The Thoughts I think with You alone are true.

I will not hurt myself today. ²For I am far beyond all pain. ³My Father placed me safe in Heaven, watching over me. ⁴And I would not attack the Son He loves, for what He loves is also mine to love. (A Course in Miracles, W-281. See also ACIM Lesson 281 Insights.)

To see ourselves as a body is to place a limit on the Son of God. Our true Self shares God’s Love, strength and peace. His Will for us is perfect happiness. If we are not joyous, we are misperceiving the Self God created one with Him.

Today we choose to lay down our self-imposed limitations. They represent a false idea. With the Holy Spirit’s help, we can forgive these false ideas and remember that we are blessed as the Son of God. Each time we forgive a false idea, we bring blessing to the world. Today offers opportunities to forgive. We dedicate this day to recognizing opportunities to bless the world.

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How to Live in Happiness and Peace

If I accept that I am prisoner within a body, in a world in which all things that seem to live appear to die, then is my Father prisoner with me. ²And this do I believe, when I maintain the laws the world obeys must I obey; the frailties and the sins which I perceive are real, and cannot be escaped. ³If I am bound in any way, I do not know my Father nor my Self. ⁴And I am lost to all reality. ⁵For truth is free, and what is bound is not a part of truth.

Father, I ask for nothing but the truth. ²I have had many foolish thoughts about myself and my creation, and have brought a dream of fear into my mind. ³Today, I would not dream. ⁴I choose the way to You instead of madness and instead of fear. ⁵For truth is safe, and only love is sure. (A Course in Miracles, W-278.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 278 Insights.)

The ego does not want us to realize that all our pain and suffering, guilt and fear we bring upon ourselves. It is not God who condemns His Son to hell. It is our belief that we are separate, which aligns with the ego, that leads us to this experience. The truth that only Love is real is the release from hell.

Today we choose God’s plan for our release from the dream we have engaged in. He has given us the Holy Spirit in our mind to guide us through all our self-made stories to the certainty of Love’s safety. It is a journey of awakening to Love. With the Holy Spirit’s help we will live in peace and join in the joyous extension of eternal Love. We are grateful that we have this Guide to return to the awareness of our Home in Heaven.

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We Rest in the Certainty of God’s Love

Fear is not justified in any form.

Fear is deception. ²It attests that you have seen yourself as you could never be, and therefore look upon a world which is impossible. ³Not one thing in this world is true. ⁴It does not matter what the form in which it may appear. ⁵It witnesses but to your own illusions of yourself. ⁶Let us not be deceived today. ⁷We are the Sons of God. ⁸There is no fear in us, for we are each a part of Love Itself.

How foolish are our fears! ²Would You allow Your Son to suffer? ³Give us faith today to recognize Your Son, and set him free. ⁴Let us forgive him in Your Name, that we may understand his holiness, and feel the love for him which is Your Own as well. (A Course in Miracles, W-240. See also ACIM Lesson 240 Insights.)

God is eternal Love, and what He creates is like Himself. We are His Son, united as one in the Love we were created to be. What is eternal cannot be changed. This is why there is nothing to fear.

All our fears come from believing that we have successfully disconnected from eternal Love. We believe in an illusion. Illusions by definition are not real but our belief in them makes them seem real. We respond to illusions as if they were real.

The Course is helping us learn the difference between illusions and the truth; between self deceptions and reality. Today we remind ourselves that we remain Love as Love created us — eternal, invulnerable and radiant in Its Light. We re grateful that this is so.

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Today We Bless the World

Today belongs to love. Let me not fear.

Father, today I would let all things be as You created them, and give Your Son the honor due his sinlessness; the love of brother to his brother and his Friend. ²Through this I am redeemed. ³Through this as well the truth will enter where illusions were, light will replace all darkness, and Your Son will know he is as You created him.

A special blessing comes to us today, from Him Who is our Father. ²Give this day to Him, and there will be no fear today, because the day is given unto love. (A Course in Miracles, W-274. See also ACIM Lesson 274 Insights.)

To give today to Love, we must not judge anything on our own. If we turn over all judgments to the Holy Spirit, His judgment will be singular: It is Love or it is nothing. In the dream we may believe we are different, separate and vulnerable to change. The Holy Spirit sees this as a call for Love.

Love is universal and equal to all. Today we bless the world and ourselves by extending Love to all. We forgive our misperceptions and make way for the recognition of Love’s eternal presence. In happiness and peace we extend Love to every brother and join in celebration of our Creation by Love. We feel our unity as we acknowledge we are one Self, united with our Creator in His Love.

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Our Inner Guide to Love

How can illusions satisfy God’s Son?

Father, the truth belongs to me. ²My home is set in Heaven by Your Will and mine. ³Can dreams content me? ⁴Can illusions bring me happiness? ⁵What but Your memory can satisfy Your Son? ⁶I will accept no less than You have given me. ⁷I am surrounded by Your Love, forever still, forever gentle and forever safe. ⁸God’s Son must be as You created him.

Today we pass illusions by. ²And if we hear temptation call to us to stay and linger in a dream, we turn aside and ask ourselves if we, the Sons of God, could be content with dreams, when Heaven can be chosen just as easily as hell, and love will happily replace all fear. (A Course in Miracles, W-272. See also ACIM Lesson 272 Insights.)

Forgiveness is the means to choose Love in this world. The world was made in opposition to God’s Love. We cannot maintain a separate identity and know Love because Love cannot be divided. Forgiveness lets go of our barriers to Love’s presence.

We are so engrossed in the dream of specialness that we cannot find a way to awaken on our own. God is aware of our need to awaken. So He gave us a Helper, the Holy Spirit, to guide us on the path that leads to awakening to Love. The Holy Spirit recognizes our mistaken interpretations, but does not accept them as true. He is in our mind ready to offer His interpretation, which will help us recognize the Love behind the images.

We could call the Holy Spirit our inner Guide to Love. The Holy Spirit knows that only Love has meaning. He recognizes our false images as simply calls for Love. These images are calls for Love because they are barriers to Love’s presence. We are wholly immersed in Love without limit. We find happiness and peace when we forgive the barriers to Love.

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Accepting Holy Spirit’s Guidance Brings Peace

This day I choose to spend in perfect peace.

It does not seem to me that I can choose to have but peace today. ²And yet, my God assures me that His Son is like Himself. ³Let me this day have faith in Him Who says I am God’s Son. ⁴And let the peace I choose be mine today bear witness to the truth of what He says. ⁵God’s Son can have no cares, and must remain forever in the peace of Heaven. ⁶In His Name, I give today to finding what my Father wills for me, accepting it as mine, and giving it to all my Father’s Sons, along with me.

And so, my Father, would I pass this day with You. ²Your Son has not forgotten You. ³The peace You gave him still is in his mind, and it is there I choose to spend today. (A Course in Miracles, W-255. See also ACIM Lesson 255 Insights.)

Judgment is unavoidable in the world. But we always have a choice of which guide we choose to follow as our guide to judgment. The ego will always guide us to conflict and competition. The Holy Spirit will guide us to recognize that only Love is real. In that recognition we find peace, for Love is one. There is no conflict in what is one.

Today we remind ourselves to bring all our perceptions to the Holy Spirit to let Him replace our misperceptions with His true perception of Love’s reality. As we follow Him, we find peace.

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Willingness to Accept God’s Love

Be in my mind, my Father, through the day.

Be in my mind, my Father, when I wake, and shine on me throughout the day today. ²Let every minute be a time in which I dwell with You. ³And let me not forget my hourly thanksgiving that You have remained with me, and always will be there to hear my call to You and answer me. ⁴As evening comes, let all my thoughts be still of You and of Your Love. ⁵And let me sleep sure of my safety, certain of Your care, and happily aware I am Your Son.

This is as every day should be. ²Today, practice the end of fear. ³Have faith in Him Who is your Father. ⁴Trust all things to Him. ⁵Let Him reveal all things to you, and be you undismayed because you are His Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-232. See also ACIM Lesson 232 Insights.)

The ego is always in opposition to God. In order to fulfill its desire for specialness, it must keep the oneness of God’s Love out of mind. The cost for this wish is pain and suffering, fear and death.

In this lesson we are offered a prayer to reverse the ego’s opposition. We truly do want God in our mind. The Mind of our true Self is one with the Mind of God. The split mind of the ego is only a fantasy. It conjures myriad images that seem to make a world of differences. Yet our true Mind remains whole and complete in the Mind of God.

As we are willing to accept the thoughts of Love we share with God, the guilt and fear that comes into the ego split mind fades. We rest in perfect peace, knowing we are God’s Son, forever united with Him.

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