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Finding Our Safety and Happiness

All that is ever cherished as a hidden belief, to be defended though unrecognized, is faith in specialness. ²This takes many forms, but always clashes with the reality of God’s creation and with the grandeur that He gave His Son. ³What else could justify attack? ⁴For who could hate someone whose Self is his, and Whom he knows? ⁵Only the special could have enemies, for they are different and not the same. ⁶And difference of any kind imposes orders of reality, and a need to judge that cannot be escaped.

Specialness is the great dictator of the wrong decisions. ²Here is the grand illusion of what you are and what your brother is. ³And here is what must make the body dear and worth preserving.

Your brother is your friend because his Father created him like you. ²There is no difference. ³You have been given to your brother that love might be extended, not cut off from him. ⁴What you keep is lost to you. ⁵God gave you and your brother Himself, and to remember this is now the only purpose that you share. ⁶And so it is the only one you have.

Your brother is your friend because his Father created him like you. ²There is no difference. ³You have been given to your brother that love might be extended, not cut off from him. ⁴What you keep is lost to you. ⁵God gave you and your brother Himself, and to remember this is now the only purpose that you share. ⁶And so it is the only one you have. (A Course in Miracles, T-24.I.3;5:1-3;7:1-6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Our faith in specialness is what makes appearances appear different and real. In the oneness of Love, there can be no differences. Thus our faith in specialness makes us unaware of the Love that is our true Identity. Awareness of differences demands judgment.

When we believe we are a body we appear to be in a world of differences. The survival of the body depends on learning to judge. Every day is spent making decisions about what is safe and good, or dangerous or evil. This maintains the seeming reality of our world.

The means to return to awareness of Love as our Home is to relinquish all our judgments. When we offer them to the Holy Spirit, He will help us see beyond appearances to the eternal Presence of Love. In this Love we find our Self and every brother at one. We will find our safety and happiness. United in Love, we are God’s one Son.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to judge all things on our behalf, for we would remember Love as our Reality.

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Accepting the Love We Are

“I rest in God.” ²Completely undismayed, this thought will carry you through storms and strife, past misery and pain, past loss and death, and onward to the certainty of God. ³There is no suffering it cannot heal. ⁴There is no problem that it cannot solve. ⁵And no appearance but will turn to truth before the eyes of you who rest in God.

This is the day of peace. ²You rest in God, and while the world is torn by winds of hate your rest remains completely undisturbed. ³Yours is the rest of truth. ⁴Appearances cannot intrude on you. ⁵You call to all to join you in your rest, and they will hear and come to you because you rest in God. ⁶They will not hear another voice than yours because you gave your voice to God, and now you rest in Him and let Him speak through you.

In Him you have no cares and no concerns, no burdens, no anxiety, no pain, no fear of future and no past regrets. ²In timelessness you rest, while time goes by without its touch upon you, for your rest can never change in any way at all. (A Course in Miracles, W-109.3:1–5:2. See also ACIM Lesson 109 Insights.)

Our true Self rests in God, for It has never left the Home we share in God. As we affirm this thought, our awareness of the peace and happiness of our true Home is strengthened.

Allow this thought to settle in your mind. It brings with it the certainty of God. The outside world steps back in your awareness. God’s Love brightens your world as you release the dead thoughts that have denied the eternal Love we are.

In truth, we have never left our Home in Love. This thought bears repeating many times throughout the day. It reminds us of an eternal fact. With this thought, we accept the Self God created as His Son.

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Following the Advisor Who Leads to Love

You see what you expect, and you expect what you invite. ²Your perception is the result of your invitation, coming to you as you sent for it. …⁶Two ways of looking at the world are in your mind, and your perception will reflect the guidance you have chosen.

When you want only love you will see nothing else. ²The contradictory nature of the witnesses you perceive is merely the reflection of your conflicting invitations. ³You have looked upon your mind and accepted opposition there, having sought it there. ⁴But do not then believe that the witnesses for opposition are true, for they attest only to your decision about reality, returning to you the messages you gave them. ⁵Love, too, is recognized by its messengers. ⁶If you make love manifest, its messengers will come to you because you invited them.

⁴You cannot really give anything but love to anyone or anything, nor can you really receive anything but love from them. (A Course in Miracles, T-12.VII.5:1-2,6;8;9:4. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Everyone in this world is seeking for Love. We are seeking for our true Identity. If we look to the ego to guide us to Love, it will only lead us to empty substitutes which do not satisfy.

We have another Advisor in our mind Who will lead us to our true Identity. It always shows us the Reality of Love. In the radiance of that Love, the ego’s substitutes fade in their appeal. We want the Love of God because we want to remember our Identity. They are one and the same.

As we choose the Holy Spirit as our Interpreter for all our perceptions, we will awaken to the Love we seek. We choose this Interpreter today, for we would be happy and at peace.

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Releasing the Wish for Separation

The happy dreams the Holy Spirit brings are different from the dreaming of the world, where one can merely dream he is awake. ²The dreams forgiveness lets the mind perceive do not induce another form of sleep, so that the dreamer dreams another dream. ³His happy dreams are heralds of the dawn of truth upon the mind. ⁴They lead from sleep to gentle waking, so that dreams are gone. ⁵And thus they cure for all eternity.

Atonement heals with certainty, and cures all sickness. ²For the mind which understands that sickness can be nothing but a dream is not deceived by forms the dream may take. ³Sickness where guilt is absent cannot come, for it is but another form of guilt. ⁴Atonement does not heal the sick, for that is not a cure. ⁵It takes away the guilt that makes the sickness possible. ⁶And that is cure indeed. ⁷For sickness now is gone, with nothing left to which it can return.

²We will be still and listen for the Voice of healing, which will cure all ills as one, restoring saneness to the Son of God. ³No voice but this can cure. ⁴Today we hear a single Voice which speaks to us of truth, where all illusions end, and peace returns to the eternal, quiet home of God. (A Course in Miracles, W-140.3–4;10:2-4. See also ACIM Lesson 140 Insights.)

The Holy Spirit sees all forms of sickness as the same. They are just different forms of the ego thought of separation. They are equally unreal, for only Love is real. Love has no form.

When we listen to the Voice for God, It will always guide us to recognition of Love’s Reality, beyond the ego dreams of form. The Holy Spirit leads us to forgiving dreams in which we have released our loyalty to the wish for separation.

As we accept His lead, we find the peace and joy of God restored to our holy mind. We awaken to the Love we are.

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Willingness to Return to Love

You do not know the meaning of love, and that is your handicap. ²Do not attempt to teach yourself what you do not understand, and do not try to set up curriculum goals where yours have clearly failed.

³Resign now as your own teacher. ⁴This resignation will not lead to depression. ⁵It is merely the result of an honest appraisal of what you have taught yourself, and of the learning outcomes that have resulted. ⁶Under the proper learning conditions, which you can neither provide nor understand, you will become an excellent learner and an excellent teacher. ⁷But it is not so yet, and will not be so until the whole learning situation as you have set it up is reversed.

Your learning potential, properly understood, is limitless because it will lead you to God. ²You can teach the way to Him and learn it, if you follow the Teacher Who knows the way to Him and understands His curriculum for learning it. ³The curriculum is totally unambiguous, because the goal is not divided and the means and the end are in complete accord. ⁴You need offer only undivided attention. ⁵Everything else will be given you. ⁶For you really want to learn aright, and nothing can oppose the decision of God’s Son. ⁷His learning is as unlimited as he is. (A Course in Miracles, T-12.V.6:1-2;8:3–9:7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We have unlimited potential to learn what God would have us learn. The key to learning these lessons is to follow the Teacher Who knows what would work for us as seeming individuals. We have followed an ignorant teacher and accepted beliefs that have convinced us that we are limited and vulnerable to an outside world. This is the identity we have accepted with this teacher. This is why we must resign as our own teacher.

In truth we are the Love of God. As we are willing to follow God’s Teacher instead of our own, we will find the way back Home to Love. The key to learning these lessons is willingness to pay attention to His Teacher.

An early lesson in the Course teaches us that we do not know what anything means. Accepting this important fact helps us resign as our own teacher and be willing to accept the lessons God’s Teacher offers us. Today we are willing to open our mind to the lessons in Love that will return us to Love.

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A Practice That Resolves Our Problems

³When the Holy Spirit has at last led you to Christ at the altar to His Father, perception fuses into knowledge because perception has become so holy that its transfer to holiness is merely its natural extension. ⁴Love transfers to love without any interference, for the two are one. ⁵As you perceive more and more common elements in all situations, the transfer of training under the Holy Spirit’s guidance increases and becomes generalized. ⁶Gradually you learn to apply it to everyone and everything, for its applicability is universal. ⁷When this has been accomplished, perception and knowledge have become so similar that they share the unification of the laws of God.

What is one cannot be perceived as separate, and the denial of the separation is the reinstatement of knowledge. …³Very gently does God shine upon Himself, loving the extension of Himself that is His Son. ⁴The world has no purpose as it blends into the purpose of God. ⁵For the real world has slipped quietly into Heaven, where everything eternal in it has always been. ⁶There the Redeemer and the redeemed join in perfect love of God and of each other. ⁷Heaven is your home, and being in God it must also be in you. (A Course in Miracles, T-12.VI.6:3-7;7:1,3-7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The ego sees problems in myriad forms. It tells us each problem needs to be solved in a different way. It does not tell us that the underlying source of the problem is belief in separation. With this belief removed, all problems disappear. What remains is the eternal, changeless Love of God.

While we seem to exist in the dream of separation, we need to call upon the Holy Spirit for His perception of every problem. His perception will always lead us toward the recognition that only Love is real. His lessons are specific to our perceived problems. They teach us to see beyond the appearance to the Reality of Love.

As we learn these valuable lessons, we begin to see what we’ve learned generalize. Increasingly we recognize the reality of Love beyond the appearance. The perception of a problem is generalized as meaningless. As we let our lessons generalize, we feel the blessing of God’s Love strengthen. We feel His support.

Today we continue the practice of asking the Holy Spirit for His perception to replace our own. It’s worth the effort, for It will bring us Home to Love.

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Letting Holy Spirit Lead Us Home

This day is God’s. It is my gift to Him.

I will not lead my life alone today. ²I do not understand the world, and so to try to lead my life alone must be but foolishness. ³But there is One Who knows all that is best for me. ⁴And He is glad to make no choices for me but the ones that lead to God. ⁵I give this day to Him, for I would not delay my coming home, and it is He Who knows the way to God.

And so we give today to You. ²We come with wholly open minds. ³We do not ask for anything that we may think we want. ⁴Give us what You would have received by us. ⁵You know all our desires and our wants. ⁶And You will give us everything we need in helping us to find the way to You. (A Course in Miracles, W-242. See also ACIM Lesson 242 Insights.)

The Holy Spirit is our best Friend. We can count on Him to lead our disordered mind to awaking to its unity with the Mind of God. We need only be willing to follow His lead.

We start by acknowledging that on our own, we do not know what is in our best interests. Our choice to believe we are a body in this dream has led to unhappiness, fleeting moments of comfort yet fear of what lies ahead. This choice has denied our unity with God.

Today we choose to let the Holy Spirit decide everything on our behalf. We are assured that the Holy Spirit will lead us Home, where our true Self has always rested in the Heart of Love.

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