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Welcoming the Experience of Eternal Love

⁷What you think you are is a belief to be undone. ⁸But what you really are must be revealed to you. ⁹The belief you are a body calls for correction, being a mistake. ¹⁰The truth of what you are calls on the strength in you to bring to your awareness what the mistake conceals.

²You need to be aware of what the Holy Spirit uses to replace the image of a body in your mind. ³You need to feel something to put your faith in, as you lift it from the body. ⁴You need a real experience of something else, something more solid and more sure; more worthy of your faith, and really there.

…allow… your mistaken thoughts about your attributes to be corrected, and their opposites to take their place. ³Say, for example:

⁴I am not weak, but strong.
⁵I am not helpless, but all powerful.
⁶I am not limited, but unlimited. (A Course in Miracles, W-91.6:7-10;7:2-4;8:2-6. See also ACIM Lesson 91 Insights.)

When we are willing to accept the Holy Spirit’s help, He leads us to a feeling experience which teaches us that we are indeed strong. We experience the comfort and sense of safety that comes as Love guides our perceptions. With each experience brought by the Holy Spirit, our faith in our true Reality grows. Our self-image as a body fades.

Today we practice stepping back from our perceptions of the world. We relax into the peace within and ask the Holy Spirit to lead us to experience the eternal presence of God’s changeless Love.

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Stepping Back and Following Holy Spirit’s Lead

Forgiveness recognizes what you thought your brother did to you has not occurred. ²It does not pardon sins and make them real. ³It sees there was no sin. ⁴And in that view are all your sins forgiven. ⁵What is sin, except a false idea about God’s Son? ⁶Forgiveness merely sees its falsity, and therefore lets it go. ⁷What then is free to take its place is now the Will of God.

An unforgiving thought is one which makes a judgment that it will not raise to doubt, although it is not true. ²The mind is closed, and will not be released.

Forgiveness, on the other hand, is still, and quietly does nothing. ²It offends no aspect of reality, nor seeks to twist it to appearances it likes. ³It merely looks, and waits, and judges not.

Do nothing, then, and let forgiveness show you what to do, through Him Who is your Guide, your Savior and Protector, strong in hope, and certain of your ultimate success. ²He has forgiven you already, for such is His function, given Him by God. ³Now must you share His function, and forgive whom He has saved, whose sinlessness He sees, and whom He honors as the Son of God. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.1.1:1–2:2;4:1-3;5)

The ego always wants to be in charge. As long as we put it in charge, we remain trapped in the ego through judgment and attack. We can break out of its trap with true forgiveness. Our role in forgiveness is to step back and not judge. Then wait for the Holy Spirit’s guidance for what to do or say. He will show us the innocence that He sees in the Son of God, knowing he remains in union with God.

Today we choose to forgive and do nothing on our own. We let the Holy Spirit guide us in the way of Love.

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Remembering We Live in Love’s Presence

A happy outcome to all things is sure.

God’s promises make no exceptions. ²And He guarantees that only joy can be the final outcome found for everything. ³Yet it is up to us when this is reached; how long we let an alien will appear to be opposing His. ⁴And while we think this will is real, we will not find the end He has appointed as the outcome of all problems we perceive, all trials we see, and every situation that we meet. ⁵Yet is the ending certain. ⁶For God’s Will is done in earth and Heaven. ⁷We will seek and we will find according to His Will, which guarantees that our will is done.

We thank You, Father, for Your guarantee of only happy outcomes in the end. ²Help us not interfere, and so delay the happy endings You have promised us for every problem that we can perceive; for every trial we think we still must meet. (A Course in Miracles, W-292. See also ACIM Lesson 292 Insights.)

Everyone in this world is searching for happiness. But we will not find it as long as we accept where the ego tells us to look for it. It is not helpful to trust a guide whose singular goal is to avoid happiness. It masks its goal in images that seem to offer momentary pleasure. But since these images are not real, they will not bring us what we seek.

Fortunately we have been given a Guide Whose mission is to lead us to the only Source of true happiness — the Love of God. This Guide is always with us, but we need to be willing to step back from the world of images. We pause and ask for help to reach the peace of God within. It is always there for us. As we ask for help, we open our mind to receive the Holy Spirit’s guidance.

He will bring us His vision that shows us the permanence of Love beyond the impermanence of the images of the world. With His help we will overlook appearances and realize that we live in God’s Love, where we find joy without limit. God guarantees that this joy will never leave His Love. We are grateful He has given us a Guide to remember we live in Love’s presence.

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Accepting Our Reality in God

What makes this world seem real except your own denial of the truth that lies beyond? ²What but your thoughts of misery and death obscure the perfect happiness and the eternal life your Father wills for you? ³And what could hide what cannot be concealed except illusion? ⁴What could keep from you what you already have except your choice to see it not, denying it is there?

The Thought of God created you. ²It left you not, nor have you ever been apart from it an instant. ³It belongs to you. ⁴By it you live. ⁵It is your Source of life, holding you one with it, and everything is one with you because it left you not. ⁶The Thought of God protects you, cares for you, makes soft your resting place and smooth your way, lighting your mind with happiness and love. ⁷Eternity and everlasting life shine in your mind, because the Thought of God has left you not, and still abides with you.

Who would deny his safety and his peace, his joy, his healing and his peace of mind, his quiet rest, his calm awakening, if he but recognized where they abide?

We count on God, and not upon ourselves, to give us certainty. ²And in His Name we practice as His Word directs we do. ³His sureness lies beyond our every doubt. ⁴His Love remains beyond our every fear. ⁵The Thought of Him is still beyond all dreams and in our minds, according to His Will. (A Course in Miracles, W-165.1:1–3:1;8. See also ACIM Lesson 165 Insights.)

We have taught ourselves to believe we are separate. This belief is manifested in a dream where everything is different, nothing is permanent. It is a dream of uncertainty and fear. But we can wake up from this dream. We can learn to accept what we have always had — our Identity in God.

Our true Identity is one with God, held safely in His Love. Every brother is there with us, safe and certain of our oneness in Love.

Today we focus on the Thought of God that is our Reality. We accept His safety and certainty, His peace and joy. We accept the Life we live in Him.

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Helping Our Awakening to Our True Self

Why would you not be overjoyed to be assured that all the evil that you think you did was never done, that all your sins are nothing, that you are as pure and holy as you were created, and that light and joy and peace abide in you? ²Your image of yourself cannot withstand the Will of God. ³You think that this is death, but it is life. ⁴You think you are destroyed, but you are saved.

The self you made is not the Son of God. ²Therefore, this self does not exist at all. ³And anything it seems to do and think means nothing. ⁴It is neither bad nor good. ⁵It is unreal, and nothing more than that.

Your sinlessness is guaranteed by God. ²Over and over this must be repeated, until it is accepted. ³It is true. ⁴Your sinlessness is guaranteed by God. ⁵Nothing can touch it, or change what God created as eternal. ⁶The self you made, evil and full of sin, is meaningless. ⁷Your sinlessness is guaranteed by God, and light and joy and peace abide in you.

²Should you be tempted to become angry with someone, tell him silently:

³Light and joy and peace abide in you.
⁴Your sinlessness is guaranteed by God. (A Course in Miracles, W-93.4:1–5:5;6;11:2-4. See also ACIM Lesson 93 Insights.)

There is no real cause for guilt. Only a false image we have made of ourself can seem to do harm. As we see ourself, we see our brothers. If we believe we can do harm, we believe our brothers can do harm. This is the ego’s dream we seem to live in.

Today we are called to change our mind about what we are. We are not the self that seems to harm or be harmed. In truth, Light, joy and peace abide in us. This is our natural state, which we experience when we forgive the false self-image we have made.

With today’s affirmation, we remind ourselves of the attributes of our true Self. In truth, Light, joy and peace can never leave us. As we affirm this for ourselves and for others, we facilitate our journey of awakening to the Self God created one with Him.

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Learning from the Holy Instant

³The holy instant is the opposite of the ego’s fixed belief in salvation through vengeance for the past. ⁴In the holy instant it is understood that the past is gone, and with its passing the drive for vengeance has been uprooted and has disappeared. ⁵The stillness and the peace of _now_ enfold you in perfect gentleness. ⁶Everything is gone except the truth.

What God has given you is truly given, and will be truly received. ²For God’s gifts have no reality apart from your receiving them. ³Your receiving completes His giving. ⁴You will receive because it is His Will to give. ⁵He gave the holy instant to be given you, and it is impossible that you receive it not because He gave it. ⁶When He willed that His Son be free, His Son was free. ⁷In the holy instant is His reminder that His Son will always be exactly as he was created. ⁸And everything the Holy Spirit teaches is to remind you that you have received what God has given you.

There is nothing you can hold against reality. ²All that must be forgiven are the illusions you have held against your brothers. ³Their reality has no past, and only illusions can be forgiven. ⁴God holds nothing against anyone, for He is incapable of illusions of any kind. ⁵Release your brothers from the slavery of their illusions by forgiving them for the illusions you perceive in them. (A Course in Miracles, T-16.VII.6:3-6;8:1–9:5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Vengeance is the ego’s version of salvation. It can only be justified if we believe the past is real. This belief is essential to maintain the seeming existence of the ego. It is why the ego’s world is filled with conflict for which it sees no end. In the history of the ego’s world, there has never been a time when there was no conflict.

The only way out of the ego’s recurring cycles of conflict is to learn that the past is not real. God has given us the holy instant in which we can experience the reality of peace where the past is gone. It cannot touch us. In that holy instant, we have forgiven the past and let the eternal presence of Love return to our awareness.

Forgiveness is our salvation from the ego’s world. It opens our awareness to the real world, where Love is recognized as all that is real. Today we welcome the Holy Spirit’s help to lead us to the holy instant in which we have forgiven an illusion of a past and accept the Reality of Love.

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We Are Safe in God’s Hands

God holds your future as He holds your past and present. ²They are one to Him, and so they should be one to you. ³Yet in this world, the temporal progression still seems real. ⁴And so you are not asked to understand the lack of sequence really found in time. ⁵You are but asked to let the future go, and place it in God’s Hands. ⁶And you will see by your experience that you have laid the past and present in His Hands as well, because the past will punish you no more, and future dread will now be meaningless.

What worry can beset the one who gives his future to the loving Hands of God? ²What can he suffer? ³What can cause him pain, or bring experience of loss to him? ⁴What can he fear? ⁵And what can he regard except with love? ⁶For he who has escaped all fear of future pain has found his way to present peace, and certainty of care the world can never threaten.

Place, then, your future in the Hands of God. ²For thus you call the memory of Him to come again, replacing all your thoughts of sin and evil with the truth of love.

²For in God’s Hands we rest untroubled, sure that only good can come to us. (A Course in Miracles, W-194.4;7:1-6;8:1-2;9:2. See also ACIM Lesson 194 Insights.)

In this world it seems that our survival depends on planning for the future. But this planning is focused on survival of the body, which is not our true Self. Planning is an essential part of the ego’s scheme to distract us from remembering we are eternally safe in God’s Love.

We do not need to plan for our future. The future of our true Self is in the eternal now. We remain one with our Creator. In place of planning for the future we need to dedicate our time to taking the steps needed to awaken to the eternal present. The ego uses the past to plan for the future, completely overlooking the present.

The eternal present never changes. God is in the eternal present. There is no other moment in truth. When we forgive the past, our awareness of God’s Love now becomes clear. We rest in perfect safety when we trust ourselves to Him. He holds us safely in His Love. The changelessness of His Love is ours now. In gratitude we rest in His eternal peace.

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