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Dispelling Barriers to Love’s Presence

Let this day be a day of stillness and of quiet listening. ²Your Father wills you hear His Word today. ³He calls to you from deep within your mind where He abides. ⁴Hear Him today. ⁵No peace is possible until His Word is heard around the world; until your mind, in quiet listening, accepts the message that the world must hear to usher in the quiet time of peace.

This world will change through you. ²No other means can save it, for God’s plan is simply this: The Son of God is free to save himself, given the Word of God to be his Guide, forever in his mind and at his side to lead him surely to his Father’s house by his own will, forever free as God’s. ³He is not led by force, but only love. ⁴He is not judged, but only sanctified.

In stillness we will hear God’s Voice today without intrusion of our petty thoughts, without our personal desires, and without all judgment of His holy Word. ²We will not judge ourselves today, for what we are can not be judged. ³We stand apart from all the judgments which the world has laid upon the Son of God. ⁴It knows him not. ⁵Today we will not listen to the world, but wait in silence for the Word of God. (A Course in Miracles, W-125.1–3. See also ACIM Lesson 125 Insights.)

Quiet listening is the key to receiving the Holy Spirit’s lessons which will help us remember we are God’s Son. These lessons teach us how to look past appearances in the world. Appearances only appear in illusions of form. Beyond appearances, the oneness of Love is seen everywhere.

Love is changeless. Because we were created as Love by Love, our true Self is equally changeless. Our true Self remains united with the true Self of every brother. Nothing else exists. As we learn to let go of the meaning we have given appearances, we clear away the barriers to Love’s Presence. We recognize we are one Self. There is no distance between us. In the stillness we are at peace.

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Claiming Our Safety

Deep within you is everything that is perfect, ready to radiate through you and out into the world. ²It will cure all sorrow and pain and fear and loss because it will heal the mind that thought these things were real, and suffered out of its allegiance to them.

You can never be deprived of your perfect holiness because its Source goes with you wherever you go. ²You can never suffer because the Source of all joy goes with you wherever you go. ³You can never be alone because the Source of all life goes with you wherever you go. ⁴Nothing can destroy your peace of mind because God goes with you wherever you go.

It is quite possible to reach God. ²In fact it is very easy, because it is the most natural thing in the world. ³You might even say it is the only natural thing in the world. ⁴The way will open, if you believe that it is possible. ⁵This exercise can bring very startling results even the first time it is attempted, and sooner or later it is always successful.

You can indeed afford to laugh at fear thoughts, remembering that God goes with you wherever you go. (A Course in Miracles, W-41.3–4;8:1-5;10:1. See also ACIM Lesson 41 Insights.)

Sadness, depression, fear and guilt are symptoms which tell us that we have put the ego in charge of our mind. The thought of separation, which we experience as the ego, is not real. It is not our identity. But our belief and allegiance to the ego make it seem like our identity.

But we can change our choice. We can choose to accept our Identity as Love as God created It. This true Identity is all that is real. This Identity remains eternal united with our Creator. It is why God goes with us wherever we go. Because Love is the only power, we have nothing to fear. God’s strength is our strength. Love’s changeless oneness is invulnerable. As His Son, we share this invulnerability.

As we remind ourselves today that God goes with us wherever we go, we are claiming our true strength and perfect safety.

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Being a Messenger of Light

I will there be light.

³The will you share with God has all the power of creation in it. ⁴The ego’s idle wishes are unshared, and therefore have no power at all. ⁵Its wishes are not idle in the sense that they can make a world of illusions in which your belief can be very strong. ⁶But they are idle indeed in terms of creation. ⁷They make nothing that is real.

Idle wishes and grievances are partners or co-makers in picturing the world you see. ²The wishes of the ego gave rise to it, and the ego’s need for grievances, which are necessary to maintain [the world], peoples it with figures that seem to attack you and call for “righteous” judgment. ³These figures become the middlemen the ego employs to traffic in grievances. ⁴[Grievances] stand between your awareness and your brothers’ reality. ⁵Beholding them, you do not know your brothers or your Self.

Your picture of the world can only mirror what is within. ²The source of neither light nor darkness can be found without. ³Grievances darken your mind, and you look out on a darkened world. ⁴Forgiveness lifts the darkness, reasserts your will, and lets you look upon a world of light. (A Course in Miracles, W-73.1:3–2:5;5:1-4. See also ACIM Lesson 73 Insights.)

The greatest gift we can give our brother or our self is true forgiveness. Our self and our brother’s self are one and the same. True forgiveness dismisses the meaning we have given the forms in the world, revealing the Light of Love that joins us all in oneness.

Our inner Teacher is always ready to show us the truth in our brother. With His help, we learn to see past our interpretations of the world. As we accept His lessons, we become messengers of Light in the world.

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Learning to See Love’s Presence Everywhere

Perhaps it is not yet quite clear to you that each decision that you make is one between a grievance and a miracle. ²Each grievance stands like a dark shield of hate before the miracle it would conceal. ³And as you raise it up before your eyes, you will not see the miracle beyond. ⁴Yet all the while [the miracle] waits for you in light, but you behold your grievances instead.

²For every grievance is a block to sight, and as it lifts you see the Son of God where he has always been. ³He stands in light, but you were in the dark. ⁴Each grievance made the darkness deeper, and you could not see.

²We ask Him in the holy Name of God and of His Son, as holy as Himself:

³Let me behold my savior in this one You have appointed as the one for me to ask to lead me to the holy light in which he stands, that I may join with him.

What you have asked for cannot be denied. …⁴The Holy Spirit leans from him to you, seeing no separation in God’s Son. ⁵And what you see through Him will free you both. (A Course in Miracles, W-78.1;3:2-4;7:2-3;8:1,4-5. See also ACIM Lesson 78 Insights.)

To the ego, grievances rule. They are the means the ego uses to reinforce the belief that separation is real. Grievances can only occur when we perceive ourselves as different from what we perceive. Grievances take many forms in the ego dream. Some seem to be positive and make us happy. We may pick one person to be a special friend while deciding others are not to our standards. This sense of duality underlies every grievance.

The Holy Spirit sees no differences. No form can deceive Him from seeing the oneness of Love that is the only Reality. As we let the Holy Spirit show us the Love that is every brother along with ourself, grievances are dispelled in Love’s Light.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to show us the Love that joins us with every brother as God’s one Son.

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Opening Our Mind to Love

There are no laws but God’s. ²Dismiss all foolish magical beliefs today, and hold your mind in silent readiness to hear the Voice that speaks the truth to you. ³You will be listening to One Who says there is no loss under the laws of God. ⁴Payment is neither given nor received. ⁵Exchange cannot be made; there are no substitutes; and nothing is replaced by something else. ⁶God’s laws forever give and never take.

Hear Him Who tells you this, and realize how foolish are the “laws” you thought upheld the world you thought you saw. ²Then listen further. ³He will tell you more. ⁴About the Love your Father has for you. ⁵About the endless joy He offers you. ⁶About His yearning for His only Son, created as His channel for creation; denied to Him by his belief in hell.

Let us today open God’s channels to Him, and let His Will extend through us to Him. ²Thus is creation endlessly increased. ³His Voice will speak of this to us, as well as of the joys of Heaven which His laws keep limitless forever. (A Course in Miracles, W-76.9:1–11:3. See also ACIM Lesson 76 Insights.)

The body is a construct of the ego split mind. It is subject to the ego’s laws, which ultimately lead to death, the final “proof” that separation is real.

But the Mind of our true Self is under God’s Laws. As God’s Creation, our true Self lives according to the Law of Love. Love is eternal and changeless. It creates by extension without limit. This is the truth of What we are.

Today we open our mind to welcome the Holy Spirit’s message to His Son. As we accept His message, we become messengers of Love to the world. In this acceptance we find perfect peace and joy.

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Learning to Let Love Flow Freely

…in the holy instant, free of the past, you see that love is in you, and you have no need to look without and snatch love guiltily from where you thought it was.

All your relationships are blessed in the holy instant, because the blessing is not limited. ²In the holy instant the Sonship gains as one, and united in your blessing it becomes one to you. ³The meaning of love is the meaning God gave to it. ⁴Give to [love] any meaning apart from His, and it is impossible to understand it. ⁵God loves every brother as He loves you; neither less nor more. ⁶He needs them all equally, and so do you. ⁷In time, you have been told to offer miracles as I direct, and let the Holy Spirit bring to you those who are seeking you. ⁸Yet in the holy instant you unite directly with God, and all your brothers join in Christ. ⁹Those who are joined in Christ are in no way separate. ¹⁰For Christ is the Self the Sonship shares, as God shares His Self with Christ.

³With love in you, you have no need except to extend it. (A Course in Miracles, T-15.V.9:7–10:10;11:3. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The central teaching of the Course is that only Love is real. In the world, we dream of many types of love. We seek for it in many forms but these forms never satisfy. The forms are only empty substitutes for Love.

Because Love is one, there are no differences in It. Love has only one need: To extend Itself without limit. God is the Source of all Love. We are His extension of Love, remaining eternally one with our Creator, the Source of Love. Because Love always extends, to know the Love we are, we must extend Love. There is nothing else but Love to give or extend.

Today we let our mind rest in God’s Love. We accept the Holy Spirit’s guidance to offer Love to the world. The opportunity to give Love is everywhere. The Holy Spirit will guide us with forms to offer It in ways that can be accepted in the dream. With His help, we will be guided to let go of our barriers to Love. As we let them go, the Love flows freely, joining with the Love in everyone and everything.

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Welcoming the Light of Love in Our Mind

Dwell not upon the past today. ²Keep a completely open mind, washed of all past ideas and clean of every concept you have made. ³You have forgiven the world today. ⁴You can look upon it now as if you never saw it before. ⁵You do not know yet what it looks like. ⁶You merely wait to have it shown to you. ⁷While you wait, repeat several times, slowly and in complete patience:

⁸The light has come. ⁹I have forgiven the world.

Realize that your forgiveness entitles you to vision. ²Understand that the Holy Spirit never fails to give the gift of sight to the forgiving. ³Believe He will not fail you now. ⁴You have forgiven the world. ⁵He will be with you as you watch and wait. ⁶He will show you what true vision sees. ⁷It is His Will, and you have joined with Him. ⁸Wait patiently for Him. ⁹He will be there. ¹⁰The light has come. ¹¹You have forgiven the world. (A Course in Miracles, W-75.6-7. See also ACIM Lesson 75 Insights.)

Our true Self knows that nothing has changed the Son God created one with Himself. This is the part of us that knows there is nothing that really needs forgiveness. We remain whole, complete and healed as God’s Son.

The part of our mind that has chosen the thought system of specialness and separation believes we have succeeded in changing our Self. It is this mistaken thought that must be forgiven. The Holy Spirit has been given us in our mind to help us heal this false idea and return us to awareness of the Love we are.

The Holy Spirit brings the Light to shine away the dark thoughts of separation. This Light shows us that separation is not real, fear and guilt have no basis and you remain Love as God created us. Today we choose to let the Holy Spirit be our Guide. With His help we become aware of the Light that has already come into our mind.

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