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Acknowledging Our Desire to Live in Love

Now will I seek and find the peace of God.

In peace I was created. ²And in peace do I remain. ³It is not given me to change my Self. ⁴How merciful is God my Father, that when He created me He gave me peace forever. ⁵Now I ask but to be what I am. ⁶And can this be denied me, when it is forever true?

Father, I seek the peace You gave as mine in my creation. ²What was given then must be here now, for my creation was apart from time, and still remains beyond all change. ³The peace in which Your Son was born into Your Mind is shining there unchanged. ⁴I am as You created me. ⁵I need but call on You to find the peace You gave. ⁶It is Your Will that gave it to Your Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-230. See also ACIM Lesson 230 Insights.)

Peace of mind is our natural state. Only our wish for specialness has given us a dream of chaos and conflict. That wish denies the reality of the Love that is our true Nature. Fortunately dreams do not change Reality. We remain united with our Creator and His Love and peace.

The way to find the peace of God within is to accept the Holy Spirit’s help to reinterpret our perceptions. With His help, we can see the dream as having no effect. They only serve a mistaken goal that could never be real.

The desire of our true Self is only to live in Love. That means we accept God’s gift and offer Love to all. We acknowledge that we are eternally united in the oneness of Love. And thus we live in peace.

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Remembering Our True Self Is Love

You live by symbols. ²You have made up names for everything you see. ³Each one becomes a separate entity, identified by its own name.

²You have need to use the symbols of the world a while. ³But be you not deceived by them as well. ⁴They do not stand for anything at all, and in your practicing it is this thought that will release you from them. ⁵They become but means by which you can communicate in ways the world can understand, but which you recognize is not the unity where true communication can be found.

Thus what you need are intervals each day in which the learning of the world becomes a transitory phase; a prison house from which you go into the sunlight and forget the darkness. ²Here you understand the Word, the Name which God has given you; the one Identity which all things share; the one acknowledgment of what is true. ³And then step back to darkness, not because you think it real, but only to proclaim its unreality in terms which still have meaning in the world that darkness rules.

God has no name. ²And yet His Name becomes the final lesson that all things are one, and at this lesson does all learning end. ³All names are unified; all space is filled with truth’s reflection. ⁴Every gap is closed, and separation healed. ⁵The Name [Identity] of God is the inheritance He gave to those who chose the teaching of the world to take the place of Heaven. ⁶In our practicing, our purpose is to let our minds accept what God has given as the answer to the pitiful inheritance you made as fitting tribute to the Son He loves. (A Course in Miracles, W-184.1:1-3;9:2–10:3;12. See also ACIM Lesson 184 Insights.)

All of God’s Creation is one with His Identity. As His Son, we are included in God’s one Identity. This cannot change, for what is eternal is changeless by definition. This is the fact we are being called to remember.

Our true Self is Love, wholly included in the oneness of God’s Love. The ego has made a substitute world of empty, meaningless images. Our belief in this world blinds us, making us unaware of our true Self and the Love we are. God has given us the Answer in our mind that we can call upon for help to see past the barriers made by the ego. We are grateful that we have the means to remember we are Love and nothing else.

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Welcoming the Light of Love in Our Mind

Truth will correct all errors in my mind.

²I am mistaken when I think I can be hurt in any way. ³I am God’s Son, whose Self rests safely in the Mind of God.

To give and to receive are one in truth.

²I will forgive all things today, that I may learn how to accept the truth in me, and come to recognize my sinlessness. (A Course in Miracles, W-119.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 119 Insights.)

Separation demands judgment. If we are willing to suspend our judgments, we make way for the Holy Spirit to lead us to the truth of our oneness in Love. This is why forgiveness is key to the healing of our split mind. It is the way out of fear and guilt.

Our natural state is our unity with our Creator in His Love. Here is where we are eternally at peace, joyful and continually extending the Love that blesses us.

Today we practice suspending our judgments and asking the Holy Spirit to judge on our behalf. His judgment dismisses illusions and brings the Light of Love into our mind. We are grateful for His help.

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A Habit That Will Set Us Free

Now are we one with Him Who is our Source.

What time but now can truth be recognized? ²The present is the only time there is. ³And so today, this instant, now, we come to look upon what is forever there; not in our sight, but in the eyes of Christ. ⁴He looks past time, and sees eternity as represented there. ⁵He hears the sounds the senseless, busy world engenders, yet He hears them faintly. ⁶For beyond them all He hears the song of Heaven, and the Voice for God more clear, more meaningful, more near.

There is a silence into which the world can not intrude. ²There is an ancient peace you carry in your heart and have not lost. ³There is a sense of holiness in you the thought of sin has never touched. ⁴All this today you will remember.

³Now is the balance righted, and the scale of judgment left to Him Who judges true. ⁴And in His judgment will a world unfold in perfect innocence before your eyes. ⁵Now will you see it with the eyes of Christ.

We will not judge today. ²We will receive but what is given us from judgment made beyond the world. ³Our practicing today becomes our gift of thankfulness for our release from blindness and from misery. ⁴All that we see will but increase our joy, because its holiness reflects our own. ⁵We stand forgiven in the sight of Christ, with all the world forgiven in our own. ⁶We bless the world, as we behold it in the light in which our Savior looks on us, and offer it the freedom given us through His forgiving vision, not our own. (A Course in Miracles, W-164.1;4:1-4;5:3-5;7. See also ACIM Lesson 164 Insights.)

Relinquishment of all our judgments to the Holy Spirit to judge on our behalf is the path to peace and happiness. As long as we insist that we know what anything in this world means on our own, we remain lost in illusions that are never true.

But we are not left without Help. We need to develop a new habit that will set us free from the fear and guilt we experience in this world. Each moment that we are willing to exchange our judgment for the Holy Spirit’s, we take a step down the path that leads us Home to the Love of God. Now is the time to practice.

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The Vision That Brings True Perception

Now would I be as God created me.

Today I will accept the truth about myself. ²I will arise in glory, and allow the light in me to shine upon the world throughout the day. ³I bring the world the tidings of salvation which I hear as God my Father speaks to me. ⁴And I behold the world that Christ would have me see, aware it ends the bitter dream of death; aware it is my Father’s Call to me.

Christ is my eyes today, and He the ears that listen to the Voice for God today. ²Father, I come to You through Him Who is Your Son, and my true Self as well. ³Amen. (A Course in Miracles, W-237. See also ACIM Lesson 237 Insights.)

The Light of Love is in everyone. But if we believe we have separated from our Creator, we are unaware of Love in anyone, including ourselves. We have made ourselves blind, yet Love’s Light remains within us, unchanged.

Today we welcome Christ’s vision, which sees the Love that is real in everyone and every thing. It overlooks all form, for Love has no form. It is everywhere without limit. We are willing to offer all our perceptions and our judgments to the Holy Spirit to be exchanged for His true perception. As we accept Christ’s vision, we will remember we are as God created us — Love and nothing else.

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Releasing the Past to Return to Love

⁴Always has no direction. ⁵Time seems to go in one direction, but when you reach its end it will roll up like a long carpet spread along the past behind you, and will disappear. ⁶As long as you believe the Son of God is guilty you will walk along this carpet, believing that it leads to death. ⁷And the journey will seem long and cruel and senseless, for so it is.

⁴The Holy Spirit stands at the end of time, where you must be because He is with you. ⁵He has already undone everything unworthy of the Son of God, for such was His mission, given Him by God. ⁶And what God gives has always been.

You will see me as you learn the Son of God is guiltless. ²He has always sought his guiltlessness, and he has found it. ³For everyone is seeking to escape from the prison he has made, and the way to find release is not denied him. ⁴Being in him, he has found it. ⁵When he finds it is only a matter of time, and time is but an illusion. ⁶For the Son of God is guiltless now, and the brightness of his purity shines untouched forever in God’s Mind. ⁷God’s Son will always be as he was created. ⁸Deny your world and judge him not, for his eternal guiltlessness is in the Mind of his Father, and protects him forever. (A Course in Miracles, T-13.I.3:4-7;4:4–6;5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The ego uses time to make guilt seem eternal, and death inevitable. Yet guilt seems justified only while we hang on to memories of the “past.” Yet our true Self, the Son of God, was created as an extension of His Love.

His Love is changeless and His creations are equally changeless. What is one always, cannot be subject to time. Our only barrier against remembering Love’s timelessness is the belief that we have separated from timeless Love. What God created has never changed.

Guilt can never be true. We release ourselves from the past when we forgive illusions of loss and harm. Without these illusions, guilt has no basis and we awaken in the eternal oneness of God’s Love.

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Willingness to Accept Help to Awaken to Love

The plan [for your salvation] is not of you, nor need you be concerned with anything except the part that has been given you to learn. ²For He Who knows the rest will see to it without your help. ³But think not that He does not need your part to help Him with the rest. ⁴For in your part lies all of it, without which is no part complete, nor is the whole completed without your part.

You may wonder how you can be at peace when, while you are in time, there is so much that must be done before the way to peace is open. ²Perhaps this seems impossible to you. ³But ask yourself if it is possible that God would have a plan for your salvation that does not work. ⁴Once you accept His plan as the one function that you would fulfill, there will be nothing else the Holy Spirit will not arrange for you without your effort. ⁵He will go before you making straight your path, and leaving in your way no stones to trip on, and no obstacles to bar your way. ⁶Nothing you need will be denied you. ⁷Not one seeming difficulty but will melt away before you reach it. ⁸You need take thought for nothing, careless of everything except the only purpose that you would fulfill. ⁹As that was given you, so will its fulfillment be. ¹⁰God’s guarantee will hold against all obstacles, for it rests on certainty and not contingency. ¹¹It rests on you. ¹²And what can be more certain than a Son of God? (A Course in Miracles, T-20.IV.6:1-4;8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The plan for our awakening is for us to see the innocence of Love in everyone. In the dream we do not see innocence while we see ourselves as separate individuals. The oneness of Love has no differences nor distinctions. God’s plan requires only our willingness to see the innocence of Love in everyone, including ourselves.

Willingness to forgive our wish for individuality and distinctions is all that is required to open the door to the Holy Spirit’s unlimited help. This willingness may be only partial at first. But every moment of willingness allows the Holy Spirit to bring more of the Light of Love to our troubled mind. This Light shines away the dark illusions of separation. As we let this Light in, we become increasingly aware of the Love that is in every heart, everywhere, always.

It is the Holy Spirit’s purpose to assist us on this journey of awakening. It is the journey out of illusions that returns us to the oneness of Love. Today we are willing to accept His help to see with the eyes of Love.

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