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Letting Our Love Shine

My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.

This idea is, of course, the reason why you see only the past. ²No one really sees anything. ³He sees only his thoughts projected outward. ⁴The mind’s preoccupation with the past is the cause of the misconception about time from which your seeing suffers. ⁵Your [ego] mind cannot grasp the present, which is the only time there is. ⁶It therefore cannot understand time, and cannot, in fact, understand anything.

The one wholly true thought one can hold about the past is that it is not here. ²To think about it at all is therefore to think about illusions. ³Very few have realized what is actually entailed in picturing the past or in anticipating the future. ⁴The mind is actually blank when it does this, because it is not really thinking about anything.

The purpose of the exercises for today is to begin to train your mind to recognize when it is not really thinking at all. ²While thoughtless ideas preoccupy your mind, the truth is blocked. ³Recognizing that your mind has been merely blank, rather than believing that it is filled with real ideas, is the first step to opening the way to vision. (A Course in Miracles, W-8.1–3. See also ACIM Lesson 8 Insights.)

It is helpful to recognize that what we perceive with the body is a projection. We see what confirms our beliefs about what we are. The purpose of projection is to make it appear to be happening to us instead of coming from our own mind.

This self deception makes it seem that our thoughts are based on reality. But they are really based on our thoughts about the past. These thoughts all stem from the belief that we have successfully made ourselves separate individuals. That belief is repeated over and over, in different forms. This deception is reinforced by perceiving an external world with forms we think we had nothing to do with making.

Now we are being asked to open our mind to the possibility that our thoughts are based on illusions; thus they are not really thoughts at all. Our only real thoughts are the thoughts we share with God. God’s Thoughts are always extensions of His Love. They create Reality in the present moment.

Today we practice observing our thoughts. We ask ourselves, “Are these thoughts expressions of Love? Or are these thoughts judgments based on a belief in differences?” We ask Holy Spirit to help us forgive our judgments and let the Love we are shine through.

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Letting Christ’s Vision Lead Us Home

am at home [in Love]. Fear is the stranger here.

Fear is a stranger to the ways of love. ²Identify with fear, and you will be a stranger to yourself. ³And thus you are unknown to you. ⁴What is your Self remains an alien to the part of you which thinks that it is real, but different from yourself. ⁵Who could be sane in such a circumstance? ⁶Who but a madman could believe he is what he is not, and judge against himself?

Today we offer thanks that Christ has come to search the world for what belongs to Him. ²His vision sees no strangers [fear], but beholds His Own and joyously unites with them. ³They see Him as a stranger, for they do not recognize themselves. ⁴Yet as they give Him welcome, they remember. ⁵And He leads them gently home again, where they belong. (A Course in Miracles, W-160.1;9. See also ACIM Lesson 160 Insights.)

We are at home in Love because Love created us united with Itself. Fear can only occur if we believe illusions of separation are real. Bodies are symbols of fear because they represent the vulnerability that comes with belief that separation is real.

Christ is us is the Love we are. It sees only Love. Love always joins with Love, for that is Its nature. As we welcome Christ in our mind, we receive His vision of Love. Christ’s vision shows us the Love that is every brother. It sees no cause for fear or hate.

Today we ask for Christ’s vision in our mind to help us recognize the truth in every brother. In this recognition we learn we are all Love and nothing else.

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Learning to See Only the Loving and Lovable

Today we will again give thanks for our Identity in God. ²Our home is safe, protection guaranteed in all we do, power and strength available to us in all our undertakings. ³We can fail in nothing. ⁴Everything we touch takes on a shining light that blesses and that heals. ⁵At one with God and with the universe we go our way rejoicing, with the thought that God Himself goes everywhere with us.

…God is our Companion as we walk the world a little while. ⁵And those who come to follow us will recognize the way because the light we carry stays behind, yet still remains with us as we walk on.

²And God, Who loves us with the equal love in which we were created, smiles on us and offers us the happiness we gave.

Today we will not doubt His Love for us, nor question His protection and His care. ²No meaningless anxieties can come between our faith and our awareness of His Presence. ³We are one with Him today in recognition and rememberance. ⁴We feel Him in our hearts. ⁵Our minds contain His Thoughts; our eyes behold His loveliness in all we look upon. ⁶Today we see only the loving and the lovable. (A Course in Miracles, W-124.1;2:4-5;3:2–4:6. See also ACIM Lesson 124 Insights.)

God sees only the loving and the lovable, because that is what He created. When we accept our Identity as God created It, we see what He sees. Nothing else is real.

When we forgive our misperceptions, caused by the wish for specialness, we see only the loving and the lovable. When we forgive, we accept God as our companion. We share His knowing that only Love is real.

We are grateful that God goes with us wherever we go. He is our Companion in the oneness of Love. With this acceptance, appearances of hate are transformed into awareness of Love’s oneness.

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Accepting Our Calling

When you have looked upon your brother with complete forgiveness, from which no error is excluded and nothing kept hidden, what mistake can there be anywhere you cannot overlook? ²What form of suffering could block your sight, preventing you from seeing past it? ³And what illusion could there be you will not recognize as a mistake; a shadow through which you walk completely undismayed? ⁴God would let nothing interfere with those whose wills are His, and they will recognize their wills are His, because they serve His Will. ⁵And serve it willingly. ⁶And could remembrance of what they are be long delayed?

You will see your value through your brother’s eyes, and each one is released as he beholds his savior in place of the attacker who he thought was there. ²Through this releasing is the world released. ³This is your part in bringing peace. (A Course in Miracles, T-22.VI.7:1–8:3. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

If we are walking and see a shadow across our path, we don’t hesitate to keep walking through the shadow. We know the shadow can have no effect on us. This sense of safety comes with our perception of the world when we have completely forgiven it for all we thought it was. Our brothers become our saviors because we see the Light of Love in them.

Whenever attack seems real, we are called to ask the Holy Spirit to help us perceive it as nothing more than a shadow of an illusion. This is our function in the world. As we forgive our illusions, we see the present moment as an opportunity to answer calls for Love with Love.

The more we let forgiveness clear our vision, the greater is our peace of mind. We see the gift every brother offers us, for he is, in truth, Love and nothing else. We can overlook appearances of what bodies do and join with the reality of Love that is everywhere. This is our calling in the world.

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Remembering God’s Identity Is Our Own

God’s Name is holy, but no holier than yours. ²To call upon His Name is but to call upon your own.

²Say His Name, and you invite the angels to surround the ground on which you stand, and sing to you as they spread out their wings to keep you safe, and shelter you from every worldly thought that would intrude upon your holiness.

Repeat God’s Name, and all the world responds by laying down illusions. ²Every dream the world holds dear has suddenly gone by, and where it seemed to stand you find a star; a miracle of grace.

Repeat God’s Name, and you acknowledge Him as sole Creator of reality. ²And you acknowledge also that His Son is part of Him, creating in His Name. ³Sit silently, and let His Name become the all-encompassing idea that holds your mind completely. ⁴Let all thoughts be still except this one. ⁵And to all other thoughts respond with this, and see God’s Name replace the thousand little names you gave your thoughts, not realizing that there is one Name for all there is, and all that there will be. (A Course in Miracles, W-183.1:1-2;2:2–3:2;8. See also ACIM Lesson 183 Insights.)

A name is used to establish and refer to an identity. When we call upon God’s Name, we are calling upon His Identity. As God’s Son, we share His Identity. When we call upon God’s Identity, we are acknowledging our own. The more we identity with God as our Identity, the more we will see Love everywhere. Love is all that is real.

Today we will keep in our thoughts that Love is our Identity, and the Identity of all that we look upon in truth. In Love we see only oneness. Conflict and differences do not exist. We are perfectly safe in the changelessness of Love. The Love we are automatically joins with the Love that is the Reality of everyone. We are at peace when we recognize God’s Identity as our own.

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Letting the Light Within Enlighten Our World

The Holy Spirit is described as the remaining Communication Link between God and His separated Sons. ²In order to fulfill this special function the Holy Spirit has assumed a dual function. ³He knows because He is part of God; He perceives because He was sent to save humanity. ⁴He is the great correction principle; the bringer of true perception, the inherent power of the vision of Christ. ⁵He is the light in which the forgiven world is perceived; in which the face of Christ alone is seen. ⁶He never forgets the Creator or His creation. ⁷He never forgets the Son of God. ⁸He never forgets you. ⁹And He brings the Love of your Father to you in an eternal shining that will never be obliterated because God has put it there.

The Holy Spirit abides in the part of your mind that is part of the Christ Mind. ²He represents your Self and your Creator, Who are One. ³He speaks for God and also for you, being joined with Both. ⁴And therefore it is He Who proves Them One. ⁵He seems to be a Voice, for in that form He speaks God’s Word to you. ⁶He seems to be a Guide through a far country, for you need that form of help. ⁷He seems to be whatever meets the needs you think you have. ⁸But He is not deceived when you perceive your self entrapped in needs you do not have. ⁹It is from these He would deliver you. ¹⁰It is from these that He would make you safe. (A Course in Miracles, C-6.3–4)

God has placed in us, His Son, the Light of His eternal Love. His Light can never be extinguished because It is all of Reality. In every moment this Light is available to us to enlighten our world with true perception.

When we engage in the ego thought system of separation, we hide from this Light. By hiding from the Light, we perceive the images that represent our wish for specialness and differences. They are not real. But in any moment we can call upon the Light to shine in our mind and reveal true perception.

We do this by pausing and letting ourselves sink into the quiet peace within. In that peace the presence of changeless Love is revealed. That Light shows us that appearances in the world have no effect on our true Self. We are still God’s Son as He created us. The Light in us shines equally on our brothers. In this Light we see our unity with all. We are safe in God’s Love, along with every brother. And we give thanks.

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Welcoming Christ’s Dream of Forgiveness

This is the Holy Spirit’s single gift; the treasure house to which you can appeal with perfect certainty for all the things that can contribute to your happiness. ²All are laid here already. ³All can be received but for the asking. ⁴Here the door is never locked, and no one is denied his least request or his most urgent need. ⁵There is no sickness not already healed, no lack unsatisfied, no need unmet within this golden treasury of Christ.

⁴No one will be turned away from this new home, where his salvation waits. ⁵No one is stranger to him. ⁶No one asks for anything of him except the gift of his acceptance of his welcoming.

Behold the store of miracles set out for you to give. ²Are you not worth the gift, when God appointed it be given you? ³Judge not God’s Son, but follow in the way He has established. ⁴Christ has dreamed the dream of a forgiven world. ⁵It is His gift, whereby a sweet transition can be made from death to life; from hopelessness to hope. ⁶Let us an instant dream with Him. ⁷His dream awakens us to truth. ⁸His vision gives the means for a return to our unlost and everlasting sanctity in God. (A Course in Miracles, W-159.6;7:4-6;10. See also ACIM Lesson 159 Insights.)

To dream with Christ is to dream the forgiven dream. Forgiveness clears away our barriers to Love’s presence. It welcomes the gift of Love that has been given us for eternity. This Love was never withdrawn, but only hidden by our wish for specialness. The wish for specialness leads to thoughts of fear and guilt. The oneness of Love cannot be experienced when differences are cherished.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit’s help to heal our fear-based thoughts. For we would welcome Christ’s vision which shows us a forgiven world. In this world we accept the gifts of peace and joy that Love has always offered us. As we accept these gifts, we extend them to our brothers, knowing we are one with them in Love.

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