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Becoming Willing to Accept God’s Love

Deny not Heaven. ²It is yours today, but for the asking.

Ask with desire. ²You need not be sure that you request the only thing you want. ³But when you have received, you will be sure you have the treasure you have always sought.

Now is all doubting past, the journey’s end made certain, and salvation given you. ²Now is Christ’s power in your mind, to heal as you were healed. ³For now you are among the saviors of the world. ⁴Your destiny lies there and nowhere else. ⁵Would God consent to let His Son remain forever starved by his denial of the nourishment he needs to live? ⁶Abundance dwells in him, and deprivation cannot cut him off from God’s sustaining Love and from his home. (A Course in Miracles, W-165.4:1-2;5:1-3;6. See also ACIM Lesson 165 Insights.)

Our true Self lives in God’s Love. It is nourished by the unending flow of His Love. While we dream of separation and lack of Love, our true Self’s only desire is to be the Love It was created to be.

In the dream we search for the Love that seems to be missing. This search is driven by our true Self that desires to be remembered as our true Identity. In the dream we can ask for help to remember God’s Love. Our request will be answered to the degree we are willing to accept God’s Love.

Today we are willing to let the Holy Spirit heal our fear-based thoughts. Thus will we welcome God’s answer and awaken to our true Self.

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The Path for Awakening to Love

³The holy instant is this instant and every instant. ⁴The one you want it to be it is. ⁵The one you would not have it be is lost to you. ⁶You must decide when it is. ⁷Delay it not. ⁸For beyond the past and future, where you will not find it, it stands in shimmering readiness for your acceptance. ⁹Yet you cannot bring it into glad awareness while you do not want it, for it holds the whole release from littleness.

Your practice must therefore rest upon your willingness to let all littleness go. ²The instant in which magnitude dawns upon you is but as far away as your desire for it. ³As long as you desire it not and cherish littleness instead, by so much is it far from you. ⁴By so much as you want it will you bring it nearer. ⁵Think not that you can find salvation in your own way and have it. ⁶Give over every plan you have made for your salvation in exchange for God’s. ⁷His will content you, and nothing else can bring you peace. ⁸For peace is of God, and no one beside Him.

The necessary condition for the holy instant does not require that you have no thoughts that are not pure. ²But it does require that you have none that you would keep. (A Course in Miracles, T-15.IV.1:3–9;2;9:1-2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

While we identify with the body and the ego thought system, we are choosing limitation and littleness. Our true Self remains one with God, our Creator. We share His magnitude, His limitless Love, His peace and joy.

The price we pay for the wish for littleness is a dream filled with fear and guilt. It is a dream of suffering and loss. Within the dream, safety, happiness and Love only seemingly occur in fleeting moments. Circumstances can change in an instant. By the grace of God, we are not locked into this dream. We awaken from the dream when we let go of our own plans for our safety and happiness.

We have the means to awaken from the dream. The first step is to be willing to turn over all our perceptions to the Holy Spirit for His interpretation. He will show us the Love and the calls for Love. He will help us answer the calls for Love with Love. As we accept His help, we will learn that we are the Love we seek. We will experience the peace and happiness that Love brings.

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Welcoming Our Reality as Love

You are entitled to miracles because of what you are. ²You will receive miracles because of what God is. ³And you will offer miracles because you are one with God. ⁴Again, how simple is salvation! ⁵It is merely a statement of your true Identity. ⁶It is this that we will celebrate today.

Today we will claim the miracles which are your right, since they belong to you. ²You have been promised full release from the world you made. ³You have been assured that the Kingdom of God is within you, and can never be lost.

…remind yourself that you are asking only for what is rightfully yours. ³Remind yourself also that miracles are never taken from one and given to another, and that in asking for your rights, you are upholding the rights of everyone. ⁴Miracles do not obey the laws of this world. ⁵They merely follow from the laws of God.

²Tell yourself often today:

³I am entitled to miracles.

²Be quick to tell yourself, should you be tempted:

³I will not trade miracles for grievances. ⁴I want only what belongs to me. ⁵God has established miracles as my right. (A Course in Miracles, W-77.1;3:1-3;4:2-5;7:2-3;8:2-5. See also ACIM Lesson 77 Insights.)

A miracle could be described as a transformation of our perception from seeing differences to seeing the oneness of Love. In this dream we need miracles because we have taught ourselves that separation and differences are real. But we are entitled to have this perception transformed.

As an extension of God’s Love, our very existence is Love and nothing else. Any judgments we make on our own deny our Reality; deny the Love we are.

As we accept the Holy Spirit’s help to let go of our grievances, we welcome the miracle. We welcome Love in place of fear and guilt.

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The Practice That Brings Us Joy

A dream of judgment came into the mind that God created perfect as Himself. …⁴It is a dream of judgment. ⁵So must he judge not, and he will waken.

The real world still is but a dream. …what was once a dream of judgment now has changed into a dream where all is joy, because that is the purpose that it has. ⁷Only forgiving dreams can enter here, for time is almost over.

³Your self-betrayal must result in fear, for fear is judgment, leading surely to the frantic search for idols and for death.

Forgiving dreams remind you that you live in safety and have not attacked yourself.… ³Forgiving dreams are kind to everyone who figures in the dream. ⁴And so they bring the dreamer full release from dreams of fear. (A Course in Miracles, T-29.IX.2:1,4-5;7:1,6-7;9:3–10:1,3-4. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Judgment is the glue that binds the ego dream of separation in our mind. It permeates every aspect of the life we experience in this dream. We have opinions about right and wrong, good and bad, myriad differences that distinguish one form from another. All these are judgments which have no place in the unity of God’s Love.

As we learn to relinquish our judgments, the Light of Love dawns upon our mind. We begin to see the Love that is common to all of us. This Love binds us together as one in all of Reality. Only Love is real. This fact awakens in our mind as we learn to forgive, to let go of our judgments.

Today, again, we practice letting Love decide on our behalf. Love sees only Itself everywhere, for It sees only Reality. As we accept Love’s decisions, we experience the joy that is part of Love’s oneness. With this practice, our day will be filled with joy.

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Learning to Let Love Decide

You have the right to all the universe; to perfect peace, complete deliverance from all effects of sin, and to the life eternal, joyous and complete in every way, as God appointed for His holy Son. ²This is the only justice Heaven knows, and all the Holy Spirit brings to earth. ³Your special function shows you nothing else but perfect justice can prevail for you. ⁴And you are safe from vengeance in all forms. ⁵The world deceives, but it cannot replace God’s justice with a version of its own. ⁶For only love is just, and can perceive what justice must accord the Son of God. ⁷Let love decide, and never fear that you, in your unfairness, will deprive yourself of what God’s justice has allotted you. (A Course in Miracles, T-25.VIII.14. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

When we believe perceptions of differences are real, we have put the ego in charge of our mind. The ego is the denial of Love. With it in charge of our mind, our decisions will always bring with them fear and guilt and a sense of loss. This is not God’s Will for us.

If we let Love decide instead of Its denial, we experience the holiness that God gave His one Son. Love sees only Love, for only Love is real. Love is universal, all encompassing and changeless. There are no differences in the oneness of Love. When we let Love decide, the peace and joy of God fill our mind. We know the oneness of Heaven.

While we still accept mistaken beliefs that deny the Love in which we live, we need to accept the Holy Spirit’s help. He will teach us to see the truth beyond the illusions of lovelessness. With the Holy Spirit in our mind and beside us, we journey on the path to awaken to Love.

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Being Willing to Accept the Love We Are

You who hold your brother’s hand also hold mine, for when you joined each other you were not alone. ²Do you believe that I would leave you in the darkness that you agreed to leave with me? ³In your relationship is this world’s light. ⁴And fear must disappear before you now. ⁵Be tempted not to snatch away the gift of faith you offered to your brother. ⁶You will succeed only in frightening yourself. ⁷The gift is given forever, for God Himself received it. ⁸You cannot take it back. ⁹You have accepted God. ¹⁰The holiness of your relationship is established in Heaven. ¹¹You do not understand what you accepted, but remember that your understanding is not necessary. ¹²All that was necessary was merely the wish to understand. ¹³That wish was the desire to be holy. ¹⁴The Will of God is granted you. ¹⁵For you desire the only thing you ever had, or ever were.

Each instant that we spend together will teach you that this goal is possible, and will strengthen your desire to reach it. ²And in your desire lies its accomplishment. ³Your desire is now in complete accord with all the power of the Holy Spirit’s Will. ⁴No little, faltering footsteps that you may take can separate your desire from His Will and from His strength. ⁵I hold your hand as surely as you agreed to take your brother’s. ⁶You will not separate, for I stand with you and walk with you in your advance to truth. ⁷And where we go we carry God with us. (A Course in Miracles, T-18.III.4–5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Our innate desire is to be as God created us — to be Love and nothing else. The ego’s goal is to deny Love. It is afraid of Love because in the oneness of Love, there is no place for specialness.

Today let us join together in the willingness to be the Love we were created to be. The Will of God supports this willingness with all God’s strength. This support is ever present in our mind. The Holy Spirit walks with us, leading us into the Light in which we awaken to the Self God created as His Son.

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Giving Allegiance to the Love of God

Now do we come to Him with but His Word upon our minds and hearts, and wait for Him to take the step to us that He has told us, through His Voice, He would not fail to take when we invited Him.

⁵Sit silently and wait upon your Father. ⁶He has willed to come to you when you have recognized it is your will He do so.

²We have found the way He chose for us, and made the choice to follow it as He would have us go. ³His Hand has held us up. ⁴His Thoughts have lit the darkness of our minds. ⁵His Love has called to us unceasingly since time began.

…we need only call to God, and all temptations disappear. ³Instead of words, we need but feel His Love. ⁴Instead of prayers, we need but call His Name. ⁵Instead of judging, we need but be still and let all things be healed. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.in.4:1;5:5-6;8:2-5;)

The world we experience as a body is the effect of choosing to give our allegiance to the ego — the thought of separation. We can change our allegiance. Our call to God is the choice to give our allegiance to our Creator. It is the choice to accept His Will is ours, His Love is ours.

Because the Mind of God is singular in Its focus on Love and nothing else, we open to God’s Will with a quiet mind. Peace is an attribute of Love. As we are willing to quiet our mind, we open to His Voice to guide us in the way of Love. We choose to welcome God today with a quiet mind and an open heart. Thus we will open to the one Self we are as created by God.

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