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The Joy of Being Love

I share God’s Will for happiness for me.

You do not want to suffer. ²You may think it buys you something, and may still believe a little that it buys you what you want.

⁶Be you free today to join the happy Will of God.

³Here is your peace, and here there is no fear. ⁴Here is salvation. ⁵Here is rest at last.

Begin …with this acceptance of God’s Will for you:

²I share God’s Will for happiness for me, and I accept it as my function now.

Be happy, for your only function here is happiness. …pause frequently today, to tell yourself that you have now accepted happiness as your one function. ⁴And be sure that you are joining with God’s Will in doing this. (A Course in Miracles, W-102.1:1-2;2:6;3:3–4:2;5:1,3-4. See also ACIM Lesson 102 Insights.)

God is only Love, and therefore His Creation is only Love. Happiness is an attribute of His Love.

As His Creation, our true Self is Love and therefore shares God’s happiness. To accept His happiness, we must accept His Love. We cannot identify with a body and the ego dedication to separation and know the Love of our true Self. As long as we accept a false identity, we cannot be truly happy.

We accept the Love we are by extending that Love. Giving and receiving are the same. Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us recognize our opportunities to extend Love and join with Him in Love’s extension. As we extend Love, we share the joy of Love’s oneness.

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Claiming Love’s Blessings

What could you want forgiveness cannot give? ²Do you want peace? ³Forgiveness offers it. ⁴Do you want happiness, a quiet mind, a certainty of purpose, and a sense of worth and beauty that transcends the world? ⁵Do you want care and safety, and the warmth of sure protection always? ⁶Do you want a quietness that cannot be disturbed, a gentleness that never can be hurt, a deep abiding comfort, and a rest so perfect it can never be upset?

All this forgiveness offers you, and more. ²It sparkles on your eyes as you awake, and gives you joy with which to meet the day. ³It soothes your forehead while you sleep, and rests upon your eyelids so you see no dreams of fear and evil, malice and attack. ⁴And when you wake again, it offers you another day of happiness and peace. ⁵All this forgiveness offers you, and more. (A Course in Miracles, W-122.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 122 Insights.)

Forgiveness is a blessing we give ourselves. Sometimes it seems that we are forgiving another, but if it is true forgiveness, we are really forgiving ourselves for beliefs we have held that lead us to judge another.

Only our judgments keep us unaware of all the blessings that are ours now. Sometimes we judge ourselves and feel guilty. More often, it seems, we judge others and we feel upset. But all judgments have the same source — the mistaken belief that we have succeeded in denying Love and separating from our Creator.

Today we choose to welcome Love’s blessing. We bring all of our judgments and our fears to the Holy Spirit with willingness to accept His help. He will help us to see that only Love is real. He will help us know that anything that seems to disturb our peace has no basis in reality. With this practice, we will reclaim the blessings Love always offers.

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Our Mission as God’s Son

Hear, holy Son of God, your Father speak. ²His Voice would give to you His holy Word, to spread across the world the tidings of salvation and the holy time of peace. ³We gather at the throne of God today, the quiet place within the mind where He abides forever, in the holiness that He created and will never leave.

He has not waited until you return your mind to Him to give His Word to you. ²He has not hid Himself from you, while you have wandered off a little while from Him. ³He does not cherish the illusions which you hold about yourself. ⁴He knows His Son, and wills that he remain as part of Him regardless of his dreams; regardless of his madness that his will is not his own.

Today He speaks to you. ²His Voice awaits your silence, for His Word can not be heard until your mind is quiet for a while, and meaningless desires have been stilled. ³Await His Word in quiet. ⁴There is peace within you to be called upon today, to help make ready your most holy mind to hear the Voice for its Creator speak.

²He speaks from nearer than your heart to you. ³His Voice is closer than your hand. ⁴His Love is everything you are and that He is; the same as you, and you the same as He. (A Course in Miracles, W-125.4:1–6:4;7:2-4. See also ACIM Lesson 125 Insights.)

God is ever-present in our mind. His Voice speaks to us continuously of His Love for His beloved Son. But He cannot be heard while we attend to the ego’s meaningless chatter and artificial values. We need to pause from the ego thoughts and quiet our mind.

In quiet, His Voice speaks to us of our perfect safety in His Love. It offers us the vision of Christ to see the unity of our one Self that joins us with every brother. As we let His Voice become our primary choice to hear, the conflicts of the world fade away.

We let the Love He gives flow through as we offer It to every brother. We accept our role as God’s Son and extend the Love that created us. This is our mission.

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Accepting the Lessons That Set Us Free

God’s peace and joy are mine.

²Today I will accept God’s peace and joy, in glad exchange for all the substitutes that I have made for happiness and peace.

Let me be still and listen to the truth.

²Let my own feeble voice be still, and let me hear the mighty Voice for Truth Itself assure me that I am God’s perfect Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-118. See also ACIM Lesson 118 Insights.)

Love created us like Itself. Thus we were created worthy and deserving of Love’s peace and joy. If we are not experiencing this, we are believing in a false identity. We have chosen separation instead of Love’s oneness.

All the appearances of lack and loss, attack and harm are just reflections of the choice for separation. We need to forgive that choice. We have been given the Holy Spirit to help us learn to let go of the false and welcome Love’s reality.

Today we practice pausing to still our mind. In stillness we welcome the truth. We welcome the lessons in forgiveness that set us free to be the Son God created one with Himself.

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Accepting the Self God Created

The power of decision is our own. ²And we accept of Him that which we are, and humbly recognize the Son of God. ³To recognize God’s Son implies as well that all self-concepts have been laid aside, and recognized as false. ⁴Their arrogance has been perceived. ⁵And in humility the radiance of God’s Son, his gentleness, his perfect sinlessness, his Father’s Love, his right to Heaven and release from hell, are joyously accepted as our own.

Now do we join in glad acknowledgment that lies are false, and only truth is true. ²We think of truth alone as we arise, and spend five minutes practicing its ways, encouraging our frightened minds with this:

³The power of decision is my own. ⁴This day I will accept myself as what my Father’s Will created me to be.

⁵Then will we wait in silence, giving up all self-deceptions, as we humbly ask our Self that He reveal Himself to us. ⁶And He Who never left will come again to our awareness, grateful to restore His home to God, as it was meant to be.

In patience wait for Him throughout the day, and hourly invite Him with the words with which the day began, concluding it with this same invitation to your Self. ²God’s Voice will answer, for He speaks for you and for your Father. ³He will substitute the peace of God for all your frantic thoughts, the truth of God for self-deceptions, and God’s Son for your illusions of yourself. (A Course in Miracles, W-152.10:1–12:3. See also ACIM Lesson 152 Insights.)

Our true Self has all the attributes of God, being eternally one with our Father. This is not a concept, but a fact.

In dreaming of a world of separation, we have made up a concept of our self. This concept hides the changeless Self that God created from our awareness. We have not lost our true Self. But as long as we identify with a separate self, we cannot know the glory that God shares with our Self. But we have a choice. We can choose to let go of a self concept we made and accept our Self as It is.

We need to accept the Holy Spirit’s help Who always speaks for our Self and our Father. By declaring that the power of decision is our own, we are reminding ourselves that we can choose once again. We can choose to let go of our self concept and accept that we are Love and nothing else. In this acceptance we awaken to the Heaven of God’s Love.

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The Reminder That Leads Us Back to God

³God is but Love, and therefore so am I.

⁴This Self alone knows Love. ⁵This Self alone is perfectly consistent in Its Thoughts; knows Its Creator, understands Itself, is perfect in Its knowledge and Its Love, and never changes from Its constant state of union with Its Father and Itself.

⁴Let us raise our hearts from dust to life, as we remember this [Self] is promised us, and that this course was sent to open up the path of light to us, and teach us, step by step, how to return to the eternal Self we thought we lost.

I take the journey with you. ²For I share your doubts and fears a little while, that you may come to me who recognize the road by which all fears and doubts are overcome. ³We walk together. ⁴I must understand uncertainty and pain, although I know they have no meaning. ⁵Yet a savior must remain with those he teaches, seeing what they see, but still retaining in his mind the way that led him out, and now will lead you out with him. ⁶God’s Son is crucified until you walk along the road with me.

My resurrection comes again each time I lead a brother safely to the place at which the journey ends and is forgot. ²I am renewed each time a brother learns there is a way from misery and pain. ³I am reborn each time a brother’s mind turns to the light in him and looks for me. ⁴I have forgotten no one. ⁵Help me now to lead you back to where the journey was begun, to make another choice with me. (A Course in Miracles, W-rV.in.4:3-5;5:4–7:5)

Jesus is our savior because he represents our true Self. He is our elder brother who can see what we see but knows it has no meaning. He walks with us because we are joined in the Self that God created as His Son.

Our purpose now is to awaken to the oneness of Love that is our true Self. Each time we let go of a barrier to Love, we help a brother remember the unified Love he is. This is why we must remind ourselves frequently “God is but love, and therefore so am I.”

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Letting True Perception Heal Our Minds

Trusting [the truth in] your brothers is essential to establishing and holding up your faith in your ability to transcend doubt and lack of sure conviction in yourself. ²When you attack a brother, you proclaim that he is limited by what you have perceived in him. ³You do not look beyond his errors. ⁴Rather, they are magnified, becoming blocks to your awareness of the Self that lies beyond your own mistakes, and past his seeming sins as well as yours.

…if a brother’s sins occur to us, our narrowed focus will restrict our sight, and turn our eyes upon our own mistakes, which we will magnify and call our “sins.” ³So, for a little while, without regard to past or future, should such blocks arise we will transcend them with instructions to our minds to change their focus, as we say:

⁴It is not this that I would look upon.
⁵I trust my brothers, who are one with me.

…as our focus goes beyond mistakes, we will behold a wholly sinless world. ⁴When seeing this is all we want to see, when this is all we seek for in the name of true perception, are the eyes of Christ inevitably ours. ⁵And the Love He feels for us becomes our own as well. ⁶This will become the only thing we see reflected in the world and in ourselves. (A Course in Miracles, W-181.1;6:2-5;8:3-6. See also ACIM Lesson 181 Insights.)

The ego is a lie and cannot be trusted. If our perceptions are directed by the ego, they cannot be trusted. We are accustomed to assuming our perceptions are correct because we have identified with the ego. But the ego is not our identity; neither is it our brother’s identity.

We are called to trust the truth in our brother — the one Self that unites us with every brother and our Father. When we use the affirmation suggested in this lesson, we are reminding ourselves not to trust the ego’s perception. We are affirming that we want to see the one Self that unites us with our brother. This Self extends only Love, being an extension of God’s Love.

This is a practice that leads to remembering the Love we are.

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