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Recognizing the Gift Every Moment Offers

²Neutral thoughts are impossible because all thoughts have power. ³They will either make a false world or lead me to the real one. ⁴But thoughts cannot be without effects. ⁵As the world I see arises from my thinking errors, so will the real world rise before my eyes as I let my errors be corrected. ⁶My thoughts cannot be neither true nor false. ⁷They must be one or the other. ⁸What I see shows me which they are.

²What I see witnesses to what I think. ³If I did not think I would not exist, because life is thought. ⁴Let me look on the world I see as the representation of my own state of mind. ⁵I know that my state of mind can change. ⁶And so I also know the world I see can change as well.

³I would look upon the witnesses that show me the thinking of the world has been changed. ⁴I would behold the proof that what has been done through me has enabled love to replace fear, laughter to replace tears, and abundance to replace loss. ⁵I would look upon the real world, and let it teach me that my will and the Will of God are one. (A Course in Miracles, W-54.1:2-8;2:2-6;5:3-5. See also ACIM Lesson 54 Insights.)

The world we experience gives us constant feedback of our state of mind. If we see a world of lack and loss, fear and guilt, we are in a mental state of believing separation is real. The thought of separation needs to be forgiven. It appears in myriad forms. The Holy Spirit will help us forgive those forms and see past them to the Love that is the truth.

As we practice this forgiveness, we begin to recognize that all the forms have the same thing in common: They are not real.

The constant feedback we receive is increasingly recognized as a gift. It shows us where forgiveness is needed. As we accept help to forgive our mistaken thoughts, our minds are healed. We increasingly recognize Love in the world. Our joy increases and we rest in quietness, remembering we are safe in the Love of God.

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Our Pilgrimage Back to God

We walk to God. ²Pause and reflect on this. ³Could any way be holier, or more deserving of your effort, of your love and of your full intent? ⁴What way could give you more than everything, or offer less and still content the holy Son of God? ⁵We walk to God. ⁶The truth that walks before us now is one with Him, and leads us to where He has always been. ⁷What way but this could be a path that you would choose instead?

Your feet are safely set upon the road that leads the world to God. ²Look not to ways that seem to lead you elsewhere. ³Dreams are not a worthy guide for you who are God’s Son. ⁴Forget not He has placed His Hand in yours, and given you your brothers in His trust that you are worthy of His trust in you. ⁵He cannot be deceived. ⁶His trust has made your pathway certain and your goal secure. ⁷You will not fail your brothers nor your Self.

And now He asks but that you think of Him a while each day, that He may speak to you and tell you of His Love, reminding you how great His trust; how limitless His Love. ²In your Name and His Own, which are the same, we practice gladly with this thought today:

³I will step back and let Him lead the way, for I would walk along the road to Him. (A Course in Miracles, W-155.12–14). See also ACIM Lesson 155 Insights.

Everyone in this world is seeking for Love. If we follow the ego as our guide, we wander in the wilderness where love cannot be found. But if we take the Hand of God to lead us, we are led Home to eternal Love.

We have been dreaming of a loveless world. But we have been given the means to awaken from the dream. Now we are on a pilgrimage that will return us home to Love. When we let Him lead the way, He speaks to us through the Truth in our brothers. As we see them truly, we see our one Self, united in the Love that created us. We are no longer deceived by appearances in the dream. We see the path ahead that leads us, together, to our Home in Love.

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Clearing the Barriers to Love’s Light

…[God] wills the happiness His Son inherited of Him be undisturbed; eternal and forever gaining scope, eternally expanding in the joy of full creation, and eternally open and wholly limitless in Him.

⁴God does not perceive at all. ⁵Yet it is He Who gives the means by which perception is made true and beautiful enough to let the light of Heaven shine upon it.

These are the lessons God would have you learn. …They are the same in fundamental content. ⁶It is this:

⁷Forgive, and you will see this differently.

Certain it is that all distress does not appear to be but unforgiveness. ²Yet that is the content underneath the form. (A Course in Miracles, W-193.1:2;2:4-5;3:1,5-7;4:1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 193 Insights.)

The ego always emphasizes form and disregards its true content. In truth there is no content in form, so the ego gives the form meaning through its interpretation of perception. This process keeps us locked into the ego dream unless we accept the Holy Spirit’s help to forgive the ego’s interpretations of form.

When we forgive our interpretations in the world, what remains is the Light of Love, seen clearly as It Lights the world. This Light shows us that in fact we dwell in the eternal joy and peace of God’s Love. With forgiveness, forms are recognized as meaningless and nothing. As forms fade from our awareness, we recognize our unbreakable unity with our Creator.

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Recognizing We Live in Love

[Trust] is the foundation on which [God’s teachers’] ability to fulfill their function rests. ²Perception is the result of learning. ³In fact, perception is learning, because cause and effect are never separated. ⁴The teachers of God have trust in the world, because they have learned it is not governed by the laws the world made up. ⁵It is governed by a power that is in them but not of them. ⁶It is this power that keeps all things safe. ⁷It is through this power that the teachers of God look on a forgiven world.

When this power has once been experienced, it is impossible to trust one’s own petty strength again. ²Who would attempt to fly with the tiny wings of a sparrow when the mighty power of an eagle has been given him? ³And who would place his faith in the shabby offerings of the ego when the gifts of God are laid before him? (A Course in Miracles, M-4.I.1:1–2:3)

The real world is governed by the laws of Love. It is the power of Love that keeps us safe because harm is impossible in Love’s oneness. This is the world we see when we forgive our wish for specialness.

As long as we perceive ourselves as an individual, different from others, we are unaware of the the real world. But we have the Holy Spirit in our mind to teach us how to transform this perception into the recognition of the Love in which we live. As we accept the Love we are, we release Its power to know our unity with all in Love. We see past forms to see everyone as one with our one Self.

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Remembering We Live in God’s Love

²How can a meaningless world exist if God did not create it? ³He is the Source of all meaning, and everything that is real is in His Mind. ⁴It is in my mind too, because He created it with me. ⁵Why should I continue to suffer from the effects of my own insane thoughts, when the perfection of creation is my home? ⁶Let me remember the power of my decision, and recognize where I really abide.”

“²Whatever I see reflects my thoughts. ³It is my thoughts that tell me where I am and what I am. ⁴The fact that I see a world in which there is suffering and loss and death shows me that I am seeing only the representation of my insane thoughts, and am not allowing my real thoughts to cast their beneficent light on what I see. ⁵Yet God’s way is sure. ⁶The images I have made cannot prevail against Him because it is not my will that they do so. ⁷My will is His, and I will place no other gods before Him.” (A Course in Miracles, W-53.4:2-6;5:2-7. See also ACIM Lesson 53 Insights.)

We have constant feedback in what we believe. When we believe we are separate, we rely on what the body’s eyes see. We interpret what the body’s eyes show us in keeping with the ego thought system.

But when we believe we are as God created us, the thoughts in our mind are based on the oneness of Love. We see only Love and extend only Love. We experience the peace and joy that are Love’s attributes.

In every moment we have a choice about what we believe we are. Do we want to continue to see death and destruction? Or do we want to experience the Love, peace and joy of our true Self which dwells in the Love of God.

Today we join with the Holy Spirit and accept His help to see with Love’s vision. We will recognize that we share God’s Will for us. We Live with Him in Love.

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Forgiveness Set Us Free form Fear

¹⁰Forgiveness is illusion that is answer to the rest.

Forgiveness sweeps all other dreams away, and though it is itself a dream, it breeds no others. ²All illusions save this one must multiply a thousandfold. ³But this is where illusions end. ⁴Forgiveness is the end of dreams, because it is a dream of waking. ⁵It is not itself the truth. ⁶Yet does it point to where the truth must be, and gives direction with the certainty of God Himself. ⁷It is a dream in which the Son of God awakens to his Self and to his Father, knowing They are one.

Forgiveness is the only road that leads out of disaster, past all suffering, and finally away from death. ²How could there be another way, when this one is the plan of God Himself? (A Course in Miracles, W-198.2:10–4:2. See also ACIM Lesson 198 Insights.)

Perceptions always see differences. This is why perception does not exist in the oneness of Love, where all is equal and no differences exist. Our perceptions of differences are healed through forgiveness.

The Holy Spirit offers us true perception, which always shows us the unity of Love beyond perceived differences. As we welcome the Holy Spirit’s true perception, we learn that what we thought needed forgiveness did not really happen.

Nothing can occur to change God’s one Son. In this recognition we learn we are safe and we are loved. Where conflict was perceived, our mind rests in peace through forgiveness. We are grateful for the Holy Spirit’s lessons in forgiveness, for they set us free from fear.

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A Way to Remember We Are Love

³To give is to receive. ⁴Today we will attempt to offer peace to everyone, and see how quickly peace returns to us. ⁵Light is tranquility, and in that peace is vision given us, and we can see.

So we begin the practice periods with the instruction for today, and say:

²To give and to receive are one in truth.
³I will receive what I am giving now.

⁴Then close your eyes, and for five minutes think of what you would hold out to everyone, to have it yours. ⁵You might, for instance, say:

⁶To everyone I offer quietness.
⁷To everyone I offer peace of mind.
⁸To everyone I offer gentleness.

Say each one slowly and then pause a while, expecting to receive the gift you gave. ²And it will come to you in the amount in which you gave it. (A Course in Miracles, W-108.7:3–9:3. See also ACIM Lesson 108 Insights.)

It is depressing to believe we are alone and unloved. But this is the inevitable result of identifying the ego, which is the denial of Love. But we are not the ego.

It can be helpful to think of all the attributes we associate with Love. We can remind ourselves that Love is kind, helpful, happy and peaceful. Love always blesses by giving of Itself.

We can practice this recognition with today’s exercise. In our mind we can focus our attention on someone we think of as a friend. We think of what we would like to give them mentally. As we give them kindness, we will experience it. As we offer them peace, we experience peace.

As we strengthen this giving and receiving, we can think of someone with whom we are not comfortable and offer them these loving gifts. Again we will experience the gifts coming back to us. This practice will take us out of depression and return us to the joy that comes with recognizing we are Love and nothing else.

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