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Remembering Our True Identity

Love, which created me, is what I am.

I seek my own Identity, and find It in these words: “Love, which created me, is what I am.” ²Now need I seek no more. ³Love has prevailed. ⁴So still It waited for my coming home, that I will turn away no longer from the holy face of Christ. ⁵And what I look upon attests the truth of the Identity I sought to lose, but which my Father has kept safe for me.

Father, my thanks to You for what I am; for keeping my Identity untouched and sinless, in the midst of all the thoughts of sin my foolish mind made up. ²And thanks to You for saving me from them. ³Amen. (A Course in Miracles, W-229. See also ACIM Lesson 229 Insights.)

The changelessness of God has kept our true Self unchanged throughout our dream of time. Time changes but what is eternal is changeless. The grace of God maintained an unbreakable connection with His Son as an extension of Himself.

Our unchangeable Identity keeps us safe in the Love of God. As His extension, our function is to extend That Love. We know we have It by giving the Love we have received.

In the dream of separation, our function is to forgive the mistaken thoughts that interfer with the continuous flow of Love. This is how we will remember our Identity as Love.

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Finding Our Completion

To forgive is merely to remember only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you. ²All the rest must be forgotten. ³Forgiveness is a selective remembering, based not on your selection. ⁴For the shadow figures you would make immortal are “enemies” of reality. ⁵Be willing to forgive the Son of God for what he did not do.

How can the Holy Spirit bring His interpretation of the body as a means of communication into relationships whose only purpose is separation from reality? ²What forgiveness is enables Him to do so. ³If all but loving thoughts have been forgotten, what remains is eternal. ⁴And the transformed past is made like the present. …⁸That is why Atonement centers on the past, which is the source of separation, and where it must be undone. ⁹For separation must be corrected where it was made. (A Course in Miracles, T-17.III.1:1-5;5:1-4,8-9. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The only function of the Son of God is the extend the Love his Father gives. There is nothing else to receive or to give, for only Love is real.

If we perceive a brother doing something else, we are seeing a false image made to make separation seem real. It is a projection representing what we believe we are. It is this false image that must be forgiven.

With the Holy Spirit’s help, we can recognize that what the image portrayed is not real and never happened. This is the selective remembering that will reveal the Love that every brother offers in truth. As we recognize that, we see the Love that is our true Self. Where there was conflict, we find peace. Where there was a sense of loss, we experience our completion in the Love of our Creator. We join in the joy of extending Love.

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Becoming Aware of Our True Identity

I am one Self, united with my Creator.

Today’s idea accurately describes you as God created you. ²You are one within yourself, and one with Him. ³Yours is the unity of all creation. ⁴Your perfect unity makes change in you impossible. ⁵You do not accept this, and you fail to realize it must be so, only because you believe that you have changed yourself already.

You see yourself as a ridiculous parody on God’s creation; weak, vicious, ugly and sinful, miserable and beset with pain. ²Such is your version of yourself; a self divided into many warring parts, separate from God, and tenuously held together by its erratic and capricious maker, to which you pray.

⁴You have seen the extent of your lack of mental discipline, and of your need for mind training. ⁵It is necessary that you be aware of this, for it is indeed a hindrance to your advance.

…unless you are reminded of your purpose frequently, you tend to forget about it for long periods of time. ³You often fail to remember the short applications of the idea for the day, and you have not yet formed the habit of using the idea as an automatic response to temptation.

…with all the certainty that you can give [affirm]:

²I am one Self, united with my Creator, at one with every aspect of creation, and limitless in power and in peace. (A Course in Miracles, W-95.1:1–2:2;4:4-5;5:2-3;11:1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 95 Insights.)

We have convinced ourselves that we are a separate identity, housed in body that is subject to the whims of an external world. We do not feel safe. This identity is not real, but it seems real because of our belief in it.

We are being given a “new” vision of ourselves. We are being reminded of our original Self that God created one with Himself. This Self is Love and nothing else. It cannot change nor be subject to change because this Self remains eternally united with our Creator.

This reminder needs to be repeated often to help us let go of our misidentification with a false self. As we learn to accept the Self God created as our Identity, we experience greater peace of mind, happiness and Love. We awaken to our true Self.

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We Have Help to Find Perfect Happiness

²God’s Will is perfect happiness for me. ³And I can suffer but from the belief there is another will apart from His.

²I share my Father’s Will for me, His Son. ³What He has given me is all I want. ⁴What He has given me is all there is. (A Course in Miracles, W-116.1:2-3;2:2-4. See also ACIM Lesson 116 Insights.)

All our suffering, our discontent, fear and guilt, comes from our belief in an identity separate from God. This separate identity cannot know the happiness and peace that our true Self lives in. Our choice to believe in this false identity can be undone. The interference cause by this choice is a veil that hides the life we live in God.

Today we are reminded that our true Life is still available to us because it is God’s Will. The experience of anything but perfect happiness, peace of mind and changeless Love is a sure sign that we re believing in a false identity. As we recognize this, we can call upon God’s Voice to help us forgive the mistaken belief. As we accept His help, the Love we are dawns upon our mind.

Today we practice accepting the help to remember we share God’s Will for us.

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Remembering the Life We Live in Love

⁷The overlooking of the battleground is now your purpose.

Be lifted up, and from a higher place look down upon it. ²From there will your perspective be quite different. ³Here in the midst of it, it does seem real. ⁴Here you have chosen to be part of it. ⁵Here murder is your choice. ⁶Yet from above, the choice is miracles instead of murder. ⁷And the perspective coming from this choice shows you the battle is not real, and easily escaped. ⁸Bodies may battle, but the clash of forms is meaningless. ⁹And it is over when you realize it never was begun. ¹⁰How can a battle be perceived as nothingness when you engage in it?

Think what is given those who share their Father’s purpose, and who know that it is theirs. ²They want for nothing. ³Sorrow of any kind is inconceivable. ⁴Only the light they love is in awareness, and only love shines upon them forever. ⁵It is their past, their present and their future; always the same, eternally complete and wholly shared. ⁶They know it is impossible their happiness could ever suffer change of any kind. ⁷Perhaps you think the battleground can offer something you can win. ⁸Can it be anything that offers you a perfect calmness, and a sense of love so deep and quiet that no touch of doubt can ever mar your certainty? ⁹And that will last forever? (A Course in Miracles, T-23.IV.4:7–5:10;8:1-9. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The wish for specialness is the wish to sever our connection with the eternal changeless Source of life. Fortunately, we can deny our connection but we cannot obliterate entirely. Our true Self remains eternally one with the unity of Love that created us.

When we let the Holy Spirit lift our perspective above the battleground of this world, we can see the reality of Love. We see our unity with every brother. Instead of conflict we see the joyous flow of Love without limit. We experience peace and a sense of safety knowing that we live in the Love of God.

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Welcoming the Light of the World

The light of the world brings peace to every mind through my forgiveness.

How holy are you who have the power to bring peace to every mind! ²How blessed are you who can learn to recognize the means for letting this be done through you! ³What purpose could you have that would bring you greater happiness?

You are indeed the light of the world with such a function. ²The Son of God looks to you for his redemption. ³It is yours to give him, for it belongs to you. ⁴Accept no trivial purpose or meaningless desire in its place, or you will forget your function and leave the Son of God in hell. ⁵This is no idle request that is being asked of you. ⁶You are being asked to accept salvation that it may be yours to give.

⁴The light of the world brings peace to every mind through my forgiveness. ⁵I am the means God has appointed for the salvation of the world. (A Course in Miracles, W-63.1–2;3:4-5. See also ACIM Lesson 63 Insights.)

Our true Self is God’s Love. It is the same Light that shines in God’s Heaven, our Home. The ego’s dream of the world denies Love, thus it denies God’s Light. The world we see is dark in Love’s absence.

When we forgive our belief in the ego thought system, we make openings in the barriers to Love’s Light. Thus our forgiveness brings Light to the world. Instead of the darkness of fear and guilt, Love’s Light brings joy and peace.

Forgiveness is a gift we can give to ourselves and the world. We welcome peace because conflict is no longer accepted. As we let Love in, we experience Its unity with all of Reality. We become the Light of the world through our forgiveness.

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How to Have a Happy Day

Projection makes perception. ²The world you see is what you gave it, nothing more than that. ³But though it is no more than that, it is not less. ⁴Therefore, to you it is important. ⁵It is the witness to your state of mind, the outside picture of an inward condition. ⁶As a man thinketh, so does he perceive. ⁷Therefore, seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. ⁸Perception is a result and not a cause. ⁹And that is why order of difficulty in miracles is meaningless. ¹⁰Everything looked upon with vision is healed and holy. ¹¹Nothing perceived without it means anything. ¹²And where there is no meaning, there is chaos.

⁴If you see holiness and hope, you joined the Will of God to set [the Son of God] free. ⁵There is no choice that lies between these two decisions. ⁶And you will see the witness to the choice you made, and learn from this to recognize which one you chose. ⁷The world you see but shows you how much joy you have allowed yourself to see in you, and to accept as yours. ⁸And, if this is its meaning, then the power to give it joy must lie within you. (A Course in Miracles, T-21.in.1;2:4-8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The source of our happiness is in our mind. It is in the one Mind we share with God. As we forgive the beliefs that separate us from our Source and every brother, we see a world of Love. We experience the joy that is inherent in the Love that is our Source.

Today we practice keeping our mind open to the loving thoughts we share with God. This is how we will have a happy day.

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