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Welcoming God’s Limitless Love

Grace is acceptance of the Love of God within a world of seeming hate and fear. ²By grace alone the hate and fear are gone, for grace presents a state so opposite to everything the world contains, that those whose minds are lighted by the gift of grace can not believe the world of fear is real.

Oneness is simply the idea God is. ²And in His Being, He encompasses all things. ³No mind holds anything but Him. ⁴We say “God is,” and then we cease to speak, for in that knowledge words are meaningless. ⁵There are no lips to speak them, and no part of mind sufficiently distinct to feel that it is now aware of something not itself. ⁶It has united with its Source. ⁷And like its Source Itself, it merely is.

³What is the face of Christ but his who went a moment into timelessness, and brought a clear reflection of the unity he felt an instant back to bless the world?

Be grateful to return, as you were glad to go an instant, and accept the gifts that grace provided you.

³By grace I live. ⁴By grace I am released.
⁵By grace I give. ⁶By grace I will release. (A Course in Miracles, W-169.2;5;13:3;14:1;15:3-6. See also ACIM Lesson 169 Insights.)

God’s Love is one and changeless. When we are willing to accept His Love without limits, we experience the timelessness that comes with the changelessness of Love’s unity.

When we forgive any belief in limitation, we open our mind to receiving God’s limitless gift, His grace. Forgiveness welcomes the holy instant in which we allow ourselves to experience the unlimited Love we are.

It is God’s grace that keeps Love changeless. As we welcome our true Reality as Love, we represent God’s grace in the dream of lovelessness. We become a conduit for Love that dispels all hate, fear and guilt. We give the gift of Love with joy. There is no greater joy than to join in the eternal giving and receiving of Love that is our Home.

Today we are willing to accept the Holy Spirit’s help to lay down our limiting beliefs and welcome the Love God gives without limit.

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Awakening from the Vast Illusion

What has been given you? ²The knowledge that you are a mind, in Mind and purely mind, sinless forever, wholly unafraid, because you were created out of love. ³Nor have you left your Source, remaining as you were created. ⁴This was given you as knowledge which you cannot lose. ⁵It was given as well to every living thing, for by that knowledge only does it live.

You have received all this. ²No one who walks the world but has received it.… ⁷Experience cannot be shared directly, in the way that vision can. ⁸The revelation that the Father and the Son are one will come in time to every mind.

The time is set already. ²It appears to be quite arbitrary. ³Yet there is no step along the road that anyone takes but by chance.… ⁶We but undertake a journey that is over. ⁷Yet it seems to have a future still unknown to us.

Time is a trick, a sleight of hand, a vast illusion in which figures come and go as if by magic. ²Yet there is a plan behind appearances that does not change. ³The script is written. ⁴When experience will come to end your doubting has been set. ⁵For we but see the journey from the point at which it ended, looking back on it, imagining we make it once again; reviewing mentally what has gone by. (A Course in Miracles, W-158.1;2:1-2,7-8;3:1-3,6-7;4. See also ACIM Lesson 158 Insights.)

The thought of timelessness is inconceivable in the dream of individuality and separation. This dream seems to have no escape. At best its end is oblivion which is labeled death. Yet this dream of separation and time is a vast illusion.

The truth of What we are is mind in the Mind of God. His Mind is eternal and changeless. Because our mind is in His Mind, our true Self is eternal and changeless. This means we are eternally Love and nothing else.

Outside of the dream, we know this to be true. But we have given credence to a dream that denies truth. We need to be taught to recognize the unreality of the dream. We have a Teacher given us by our Creator to teach us how to let go of the dream and awaken to eternal Life. This Teacher recognizes our beliefs and gently guides us to let them go, as we are willing.

With His help we learn there is no cause for fear or guilt. We let go of the beliefs that deny Love’s presence. We join in the joy of extending the Love given us by our Creator as we join Him in Love’s extension. Thus do we awaken to timelessness and eternal Life.

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Welcoming the Self That Lives in Love

When you are still an instant, when the world recedes from you, when valueless ideas cease to have value in your restless mind, then will you hear His Voice.

Take time today to lay aside your shield which profits nothing, and lay down the spear and sword you raised against an enemy without existence. ²Christ has called you friend and brother.

You have not lost your innocence. ²It is for this you yearn. ³This is your heart’s desire. ⁴This is the voice you hear, and this the call which cannot be denied.…⁸And now the way is open, and the journey has an end in sight at last. ⁹Be still an instant and go home with Him, and be at peace a while. (A Course in Miracles, W-182.8:1;11:1-2;12:1-4,8-9. See also ACIM Lesson 182 Insights.)

The value we have given to specialness has led to a dream of separation, isolation and a sense of loss that results in yearning to return to the place where we are at Home. This return will happen when we lay aside the value we have given specialness.

Christ remains with us in our hearts, forever joined with our true Self. Today we are willing to set aside the value we have given to illusions and welcome this Self that dwells eternally at Home in the Love of God.

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Becoming Love’s Messenger

Why wait for Heaven? ²Those who seek the light are merely covering their eyes. ³The light is in them now. ⁴Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all. ⁵Light is not of the world, yet you who bear the light in you are alien here as well. ⁶The light came with you from your native home, and stayed with you because it is your own. ⁷It is the only thing you bring with you from Him Who is your Source. ⁸It shines in you because it lights your home, and leads you back to where it came from and you are at home.

⁵It is not difficult to look within, for there all vision starts. ⁶There is no sight, be it of dreams or from a truer Source, that is not but the shadow of the seen through inward vision. ⁷There perception starts, and there it ends. ⁸It has no source but this.

The peace of God is shining in you now, and from your heart extends around the world. ²It pauses to caress each living thing, and leaves a blessing with it that remains forever and forever. (A Course in Miracles, W-188.1;2:5–3:2. See also ACIM Lesson 188 Insights.)

The Light of Love is our true Self. It is forever joyous and at peace. It goes with us wherever we go because It is everything that is real. Whether we are aware of It or not, the Light of Love in us continuously blesses the world with kindness and peace.

We call upon this Light within each time we accept It’s offering of peace. In that peace we welcome the Holy Spirit’s interpretation of all our perceptions. As we accept the Light within, we become Love’s messengers in the world. We forgive the world for all we thought it was.

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Forgiveness Returns Us to Our True Self

It is your Father’s holy Will that you complete Himself, and that your Self shall be His sacred Son, forever pure as He, of love created and in love preserved, extending love, creating in its name, forever one with God and with your Self.

³Forgiveness represents your function here.

…God created One Who has the power to translate in form the wholly formless. ⁶What He makes are dreams, but of a kind so close to waking that the light of day already shines in them, and eyes already opening behold the joyful sights their offerings contain.

Forgiveness gently looks upon all things unknown in Heaven, sees them disappear, and leaves the world a clean and unmarked slate on which the Word of God can now replace the senseless symbols written there before. ²Forgiveness is the means by which the fear of death is overcome, because it holds no fierce attraction now and guilt is gone. ³Forgiveness lets the body be perceived as what it is; a simple teaching aid, to be laid by when learning is complete, but hardly changing him who learns at all. (A Course in Miracles, W-192.1:1;2:3;3:5–4:3. See also ACIM Lesson 192 Insights.)

This lesson begins with a clear statement about the Self we were created to be. If we had not convinced ourselves that we successfully separated from the oneness of God’s Love, there were would be no need for forgiveness. But it is needed in the dream we think is real.

Forgiveness is the way to release our mistaken beliefs that are the cause of our dream of separation. We cannot use our own thinking to forgive. Our engagement with the ego keeps us locked within its thought system.

We must open to the Holy Spirit’s guidance. With His help, we will learn to recognize the ego’s false images as illusions and meaningless. With this recognition the illusions are dispelled and the truth is returned to our mind. Forgiveness dispels the ego’s barriers to Love’s presence and we awaken to the Self God created as His Son.

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Learning to Change Our Mind About the World

²There is no world! ³This is the central thought the course attempts to teach.

But healing is the gift of those who are prepared to learn there is no world, and can accept the lesson now. ²Their readiness will bring the lesson to them in some form which they can understand and recognize.

²You are as God created you. ³There is no place where you can suffer, and no time that can bring change to your eternal state. ⁴How can a world of time and place exist, if you remain as God created you?

What is the lesson for today except another way of saying that to know your Self is the salvation of the world? ²To free the world from every kind of pain is but to change your mind about yourself. ³There is no world apart from your ideas because ideas leave not their source, and you maintain the world within your mind in thought. (A Course in Miracles, W-132.6:2-3;7:1-2;9:2–10:3. See also ACIM Lesson 132 Insights.)

This world we experience with the body is not real. It does not exist in truth. What we experience is the effect of our beliefs. We have all experienced changing our beliefs in our lives. Something occurred, a word or sentence was given us or an experience led us to recognize that our belief was mistaken. We changed our belief and our perception of the world changed. This demonstrates that our world is the effect of the thoughts we hold in our mind.

The Course is guiding us to learn a new way of perceiving the world. We have been given a Teacher Whose mission is to guide us to the truth. He will help us use our ability to change our mind about the world. He has a lesson plan carefully prepared to help us learn to let go of our specific self-imposed limitations. As we accept His lessons, we experience increasing peace of mind and recognize the presence of Love in which we live.

Today we practice opening our mind to the Holy Spirit’s lessons. By pausing frequently to let our mind return to peace, this is how we welcome His lessons and continue remembering our true Self, which remains eternally at one with God.

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Remembering God’s Love and Strength Are Ours

I am spirit.

²I am the Son of God. ³No body can contain my spirit, nor impose on me a limitation God created not.

I will accept my part in God’s plan for salvation.

²What can my function be but to accept the Word of God, Who has created me for what I am and will forever be? (A Course in Miracles, W-114.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 114 Insights.)

As God’s Son, our function is to be the Love that created us. Love is indivisible and unlimited. Our function within the dream is to let go of the beliefs that limit our awareness of the Love we are.

We need the help of the Holy Spirit to do this. He will help us see past our limited seeing to recognize the presence of Love in which we live. The Holy Spirit knows we share God’s Love and strength.

We need only be willing to accept His guidance all through the day. With His help we will see past the limitations imposed by our beliefs. We will recognize the opportunities to extend Love where it is needed and we will also see the Love that is in everyone and in everything. This is what God intended for His Son when He created His Son one with Himself.

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