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Gratitude for God’s Gifts

God’s answer is some form of peace. All pain is healed; all misery replaced with joy. All prison doors are opened. And all sin is understood as merely a mistake.

Father, today we will forgive Your world, and let creation be Your Own. ²We have misunderstood all things. ³But we have not made sinners of the holy Sons of God. ⁴What You created sinless so abides forever and forever. ⁵Such are we. ⁶And we rejoice to learn that we have made mistakes which have no real effects on us. ⁷Sin is impossible, and on this fact forgiveness rests upon a certain base more solid than the shadow world we see. ⁸Help us forgive, for we would be redeemed. ⁹Help us forgive, for we would be at peace. (A Course in Miracles, W-359. See also ACIM Lesson 359 Insights.)

We are grateful that our dreams of fear and guilt have not changed our true Self, God’s Son. We remain held forever in His peace and joy. We welcome His gifts by forgiving the world for all we ever thought it was.

With the Holy Spirit’s help, we see the Love that is the reality of every brother. We gratefully join with him to remember that together we are God’s one Son. Here is our joy and our peace.

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Learning to Listen to the Voice of Love

The way to recognize your brother is by recognizing the Holy Spirit in him.

The Holy Spirit is the idea of healing. ²Being thought, the idea gains as it is shared. ³Being the Call for God, it is also the idea of God. ⁴Since you are part of God it is also the idea of yourself, as well as of all His creations. ⁵The idea of the Holy Spirit… is strengthened by being given away. ⁷It increases in you as you give it to your brother. ⁸Your brother does not have to be aware of the Holy Spirit in himself or in you for this miracle to occur. ⁹He may have dissociated the Call for God, just as you have. ¹⁰This dissociation is healed in both of you as you become aware of the Call for God in him, and thus acknowledge Its being.

⁴See him through the Holy Spirit in his mind, and you will recognize Him in yours. ⁵What you acknowledge in your brother you are acknowledging in yourself, and what you share you strengthen.

⁵The Holy Spirit has the task of undoing what the ego has made. ⁶He undoes it at the same level on which the ego operates, or the mind would be unable to understand the change. (A Course in Miracles, T-5.III.1:1;2;3:4-5;5:5-6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The Holy Spirit calls to us incessantly every moment of the day, through every brother. He represents the Thought of Love, our Creator. As we answer His call, we recognize our unity with every brother and our Creator.

His call goes unheard while we choose the ego’s thought system as our own. The ego is the thought of denying Love’s presence. Its divisive wish for specialness blocks awareness of Love’s oneness.

But His Call remains available to us. It needs only our choice to listen in quietness. As we learn to step back from the ego’s chaos to the quietness within our mind, we will learn of Love’s presence everywhere. We will see the Love in our brother and join with It in perfect harmony. This is our calling today and every day.

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Teaching That Only Love Is Real

To teach is to demonstrate. ²There are only two thought systems, and you demonstrate that you believe one or the other is true all the time. ³From your demonstration others learn, and so do you.… ¹⁰Any situation must be to you a chance to teach others what you are, and what they are to you. ¹¹No more than that, but also never less.

⁷Teaching but reinforces what you believe about yourself. ⁸Its fundamental purpose is to diminish self-doubt. ⁹This does not mean that the self you are trying to protect is real. ¹⁰But it does mean that the self you think is real is what you teach.

Except for God’s teachers there would be little hope of salvation, for the world of sin would seem forever real.… ⁴This is a manual for the teachers of God. ⁵They are not perfect, or they would not be here. ⁶Yet it is their mission to become perfect here, and so they teach perfection over and over, in many, many ways, until they have learned it. (A Course in Miracles, M-in.2:1-3,10-11;3:7-10;5:1,4-6)

In every moment we demonstrate what we believe we are. If what we do is based on our judgments about the world, we teach that separation is real. But if we let the Holy Spirit in our mind judge all things on our behalf, our doing will be directed by His Love. We will teach that only Love is real.

This is our calling. To teach Love’s reality requires a change of mind; a willingness to forgive our judgments, our misperceptions. This is a practice. We have long relied on our own judgments as our source of direction. We need to retrain our mind to respond with Love.

We dedicate today to this practice, for we would teach as God would have us teach. We will learn the single lesson that only Love is real.

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Choosing to Accept Our Unity with God

³You always choose between your weakness and the strength of Christ in you. ⁴And what you choose is what you think is real. ⁵Simply by never using weakness to direct your actions, you have given it no power. ⁶And the light of Christ in you is given charge of everything you do. ⁷For you have brought your weakness unto Him, and He has given you His strength instead.

Trials are but lessons that you failed to learn presented once again, so where you made a faulty choice before you now can make a better one, and thus escape all pain that what you chose before has brought to you. ²In every difficulty, all distress, and each perplexity Christ calls to you and gently says, “My brother, choose again.” ³He would not leave one source of pain unhealed, nor any image left to veil the truth. ⁴He would remove all misery from you whom God created altar unto joy. ⁵He would not leave you comfortless, alone in dreams of hell, but would release your mind from everything that hides His face from you. ⁶His Holiness is yours because He is the only power that is real in you. ⁷His strength is yours because He is the Self that God created as His only Son.

The images you make cannot prevail against what God Himself would have you be. ²Be never fearful of temptation, then, but see it as it is; another chance to choose again, and let Christ’s strength prevail in every circumstance and every place you raised an image of yourself before. (A Course in Miracles, T-31.VIII.2:3–4:2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Today we are grateful that we have the means to awaken to our Reality in the safety of God’s Love. We are grateful that no matter how embedded we have become in the ego thought system, we can always choose again.

The Love of God is always with us. As we are willing to welcome the Christ Mind within, our view of the world is transformed. All distress, unhappiness and guilt can be released as we accept the Love that is our true Reality. No matter how far we wander, God holds us in His Heart as His one Son.

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Accepting That Only Love Is Real

⁴[God’s] Word has promised peace. ⁵It has also promised that there is no death, that resurrection must occur, and that rebirth is man’s inheritance. ⁶The world you see cannot be the world God loves, and yet His Word assures us that He loves the world. ⁷God’s Word has promised that peace is possible here, and what He promises can hardly be impossible. ⁸But it is true that the world must be looked at differently, if His promises are to be accepted. ⁹What the world is, is but a fact. ¹⁰You cannot choose what this should be. ¹¹But you can choose how you would see it. ¹²Indeed, you must choose this.

The text explains that the Holy Spirit is the Answer to all problems you have made. ²These problems are not real, but that is meaningless to those who believe in them. ³And everyone believes in what he made, for it was made by his believing it. ⁴Into this strange and paradoxical situation,—one without meaning and devoid of sense, yet out of which no way seems possible,—God has sent His Judgment to answer yours. ⁵Gently His Judgment substitutes for yours. ⁶And through this substitution is the un-understandable made understandable. ⁷How is peace possible in this world? ⁸In your judgment it is not possible, and can never be possible. ⁹But in the Judgment of God what is reflected here is only peace.

Peace is impossible to those who look on war. ²Peace is inevitable to those who offer peace. ³How easily, then, is your judgment of the world escaped! ⁴It is not the world that makes peace seem impossible. ⁵It is the world you see that is impossible. ⁶Yet has God’s Judgment on this distorted world redeemed it and made it fit to welcome peace. ⁷And peace descends on it in joyous answer. ⁸Peace now belongs here, because a Thought of God has entered. (A Course in Miracles, M-11.1:4-12;3:1–4:8)

When we perceive conflict and war, it is because we are using the ego thought system for our judgments. The Holy Spirit in our mind offers His judgment to replace ours. His judgment is based on God’s Thought of Love, where no conflict exists.

As we are vigilant to let the Holy Spirit’s judgment replace ours, our outlook on the world is increasingly peaceful. Today let us accept the Holy Spirit’s mission to apply God’s judgment as our own. His judgment is that only Love is real. Conflict does not exist in Reality. The real world is recognized as the world of Love’s Reality.

Today we practice being messengers of Love and peace as we let the Holy Spirit’s judgment replace our mistaken perceptions.

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Following the Voice for Love

The mind that serves the Holy Spirit is unlimited forever, in all ways, beyond the laws of time and space, unbound by any preconceptions, and with strength and power to do whatever it is asked. ²Attack thoughts cannot enter such a mind, because it has been given to the Source of love, and fear can never enter in a mind that has attached itself to love. ³It rests in God. ⁴And who can be afraid who lives in Innocence, and only loves?

²Declare your innocence and you are free. ³The body disappears, because you have no need of it except the need the Holy Spirit sees. ⁴For this, the body will appear as useful form for what the mind must do. ⁵It thus becomes a vehicle which helps forgiveness be extended to the all-inclusive goal that it must reach, according to God’s plan.

You are God’s Son. ²In immortality you live forever. ³Would you not return your mind to this? ⁴Then practice well the thought the Holy Spirit gives you for today. ⁵Your brothers stand released with you in [this thought]; the world is blessed along with you, God’s Son will weep no more, and Heaven offers thanks for the increase of joy your practice brings even to it. ⁶And God Himself extends His Love and happiness each time you say:

⁷I am not a body. ⁸I am free. ⁹I hear the Voice that God has given me, and it is only this my mind obeys. (A Course in Miracles, W-199.2;4:2-5;8. See also ACIM Lesson 199 Insights.)

We have the Thought within our mind to be free of fear and guilt, anger and hate. This Thought is given us through God’s Voice, the Holy Spirit. This Voice, when followed consistently, sets us free to be the Love you were created to be. It is the Voice for Love.

When we give our allegiance to this Voice, all our doing serves Love’s purpose. We become God’s messengers in a world that has denied Love, yet seeks for It constantly.

Today we welcome Love as our Guide. As we follow Its lead, we bring joy and peace to the world.

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Bringing Blessing to the World

The world must thank you when you offer it release from your illusions. ²Yet your thanks belong to you as well, for its release can only mirror yours. ³Your gratitude is all your gifts require, that they be a lasting offering of a thankful heart, released from hell forever. ⁴Is it this you would undo by taking back your gifts, because they were not honored? ⁵It is you who honor them and give them fitting thanks, for it is you who have received the gifts.

It does not matter if another thinks your gifts unworthy. ²In his mind there is a part that joins with yours in thanking you. ³It does not matter if your gifts seem lost and ineffectual. ⁴They are received where they are given. ⁵In your gratitude are they accepted universally, and thankfully acknowledged by the Heart of God Himself. (A Course in Miracles, W-197.3:1–4:5. See also ACIM Lesson 197 Insights.)

Gratitude always invites more of what we are grateful for. Gratitude uplifts our spirit by showing us where we are truly helpful. The most important gift we can give is Love. When we have cleared away the barriers to Love’s extension, our hearts are filled with joy and gratitude. The Love we let flow through us blesses us as it blesses those to whom It is extended.

As we bless a brother, we bless ourselves. Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us clear away our barriers to Love and bring blessing to the world.

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