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God’s Gentle Plan to Heal Our Mind

The Atonement does not make holy. ²You were created holy. ³It merely brings unholiness to holiness; or what you made to what you are. ⁴Bringing illusion to truth, or the ego to God, is the Holy Spirit’s only function. ⁵Keep not your making from your Father, for hiding it has cost you knowledge of Him and of yourself. ⁶The knowledge is safe, but where is your safety apart from it? ⁷The making of time to take the place of timelessness lay in the decision to be not as you are. ⁸Thus truth was made past, and the present was dedicated to illusion.

Bringing the ego to God is but to bring error to truth, where it stands corrected because it is the opposite of what it meets [truth]. ²It is undone because the contradiction can no longer stand. ³How long can contradiction stand when its impossible nature is clearly revealed? ⁴What disappears in light is not attacked. ⁵It merely vanishes because it is not true. ⁶Different realities are meaningless, for reality must be one. ⁷It cannot change with time or mood or chance. ⁸Its changelessness is what makes it real.

²The Atonement is so gentle you need but whisper to it, and all its power will rush to your assistance and support. ³You are not frail with God beside you. ⁴Yet without Him you are nothing. ⁵The Atonement offers you God. (A Course in Miracles, T-14.IX.1:1-8;2:1-8;3:2-5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The belief in separation has split part of our mind apart from the Mind that remains eternally in God’s Mind. The purpose of the Atonement is to bring that split off part of our mind back into the oneness of God. God only knows His Son as one with Himself. But when we have accepted an error as our identity, we have lost our knowledge of God.

God has provided a gentle plan to heal the error in our mind. As we are willing to accept the Holy Spirit’s help we have been given, all the strength of God supports our reunification. God does not punish us for our error. He offers His blessing as He welcomes us Home when we let our error be corrected. In gratitude we accept His welcome.

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The Path from Turmoil to Peace of Mind

I could see peace instead of this.

Peace of mind is clearly an internal matter. ³It must begin with your own thoughts, and then extend outward. ⁴It is from your peace of mind that a peaceful perception of the world arises.

⁴It is your inner world to which the applications of today’s idea should be made.

²Search your mind for fear thoughts, anxiety-provoking situations, “offending” personalities or events, or anything else about which you are harboring unloving thoughts.

…whenever you feel your peace of mind is threatened in any way… the exercise should take this form:

⁴I could see peace in this situation instead of what I now see in it. (A Course in Miracles, W-34.1:2-4;2:4;3:2;5:1,3-4. See also ACIM Lesson 34 Insights.)

This is a valuable practice that can accelerate our release from the ego’s bondage. The ego is an attempt to limit the Son of God in order to achieve special status.

God gives all of Himself equally to all His Creation. Special status or differences are inconceivable to God. Peace is automatic in the oneness of His Love. When we remind ourselves in any moment we feel disturbed that we could see peace instead of this, we open our mind to welcome God’s gifts.

God has given us His Voice to guide us on the path that leads us Home to Him. But while our mind is preoccupied with judgments, we are not at peace and cannot hear His Voice. Today we choose peace by reminding ourselves that we can be aware of it in the midst of turmoil.

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Our Path of Return to Love

God is my Source. I cannot see apart from Him.

Perception is not an attribute of God. ²His is the realm of knowledge. ³Yet He has created the Holy Spirit as the Mediator between perception and knowledge. …⁵With this link with God, perception will become so changed and purified that it will lead to knowledge.

In God you cannot see. ²Perception has no function in God, and does not exist. ³Yet in salvation, which is the undoing of what never was, perception has a mighty purpose. ⁴Made by the Son of God for an unholy purpose, it must become the means for the restoration of his holiness to his awareness. ⁵Perception has no meaning. ⁶Yet does the Holy Spirit give it a meaning very close to God’s. ⁷Healed perception becomes the means by which the Son of God forgives his brother, and thus forgives himself.

“You cannot see apart from God because you cannot be apart from God. ²Whatever you do you do in Him, because whatever you think, you think with His Mind. ³If vision is real, and it is real to the extent to which it shares the Holy Spirit’s purpose, then you cannot see apart from God. (A Course in Miracles, W-43.1:1-3,5;2-3. See also ACIM Lesson 43 Insights.)

Perception is only needed where separation is believed to be real. But belief does not make real; it only makes illusions. God’s plan for our salvation saves us from our illusions. Illusions have no effect on Reality but if we believe they are true, Reality is unknown to us.

To provide a path of return to our Reality, God created the Holy Spirit as a bridge to lead us to true perception. This true perception shows us a forgiven world where we no longer hold illusions dear. Now our minds welcome our eternal unity in Love with our Creator. We return to the holiness we share with God.

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Our Unbreakable Connection with God

I am sustained by the Love of God.

Only the Love of God will protect you in all circumstances. ²It will lift you out of every trial, and raise you high above all the perceived dangers of this world into a climate of perfect peace and safety. ³It will transport you into a state of mind that nothing can threaten, nothing can disturb, and where nothing can intrude upon the eternal calm of the Son of God.

Put not your faith in illusions. ²They will fail you. ³Put all your faith in the Love of God within you; eternal, changeless and forever unfailing. ⁴This is the answer to whatever confronts you today. ⁵Through the Love of God within you, you can resolve all seeming difficulties without effort and in sure confidence. ⁶Tell yourself this often today. ⁷It is a declaration of release from the belief in idols. ⁸It is your acknowledgment of the truth about yourself. (A Course in Miracles, W-50.3–4. See also ACIM Lesson 50 Insights.)

Our mind is one with God’s Mind. It shares His holiness and Love. Our unbreakable connection with our Father sustains us in perfect safety and peace.

When we identify with the ego, we deny the presence of our unity with God. Thus we see a world with conflict and loss. But it is not real. Our true Self knows our connection with our Source can never be lost.

Whenever thoughts of lack or fear trouble our mind, we call upon the Holy Spirit to help us remember we are sustained by the Love of God. He is our foundation and our strength. He is with us always and we are grateful that this is so.

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Letting Forgiveness Bring Us Miracles

I offer only miracles today, for I would have them be returned to me.

Father, a miracle reflects Your gifts to me, Your Son. ²And every one I give returns to me, reminding me the law of love is universal. ³Even here, it takes a form which can be recognized and seen to work. ⁴The miracles I give are given back in just the form I need to help me with the problems I perceive. ⁵Father, in Heaven it is different, for there, there are no needs. ⁶But here on earth, the miracle is closer to Your gifts than any other gift that I can give. ⁷Then let me give this gift alone today, which, born of true forgiveness, lights the way that I must travel to remember You.

Peace to all seeking hearts today. ²The light has come to offer miracles to bless the tired world. ³It will find rest today, for we will offer what we have received. (A Course in Miracles, W-345. See also ACIM Lesson 345 Insights.)

A miracle is the effect of true forgiveness. Forgiveness takes away the veil of guilt to let the eternal presence of Love be revealed. Though it may appear to be given to an external person or situation, it is also a blessing we give to ourselves. It lifts the burden of guilt so we can rest in the peace of God.

Today we count on the Holy Spirit to help us let go our our judgments and welcome our unity with all in the Love of God.

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Seeing Past Grievances to Love’s Presence

Perhaps it is not yet quite clear to you that each decision that you make is one between a grievance and a miracle. ²Each grievance stands like a dark shield of hate before the miracle it would conceal. ³And as you raise it up before your eyes, you will not see the miracle beyond. ⁴Yet all the while it waits for you in light, but you behold your grievances instead.

Today we go beyond the grievances, to look upon the miracle instead.”

Then let us ask of Him Who knows this Son of God in his reality and truth, that we may look on him a different way, and see our savior shining in the light of true forgiveness, given unto us. ²We ask Him in the holy Name of God and of His Son, as holy as Himself:

³Let me behold my savior in this one You have appointed as the one for me to ask to lead me to the holy light in which he stands, that I may join with him.

⁴The body’s eyes are closed, and as you think of him who grieved you, let your mind be shown the light in him beyond your grievances.

God thanks you for these quiet times today in which you laid your images aside, and looked upon the miracle of love the Holy Spirit showed you in their place. (A Course in Miracles, W-78.1:1–2:1;7;9:1. See also ACIM Lesson 78 Insights.)

Grievances can only occur when we believe something or someone is different from ourselves. This appearance is the result of our belief that we are excluded from the oneness of God’s Love. This exclusion is of our own making by our belief that we have made ourselves separate from our Creator.

Grievances are an attempt to project the guilt we feel for what we believe we have done. The good news is that our beliefs can be undone. We can remember that we remain wholly within the oneness of God’s Love.

Today we have an opportunity to practice letting the Holy Spirit show us the radiant Light of Love that we have hidden behind our grievances. As we accept His help to forgive our misperceptions, the joy of recognizing our oneness with a brother replaces the fear and anger we have projected on him. We are grateful that we have the Holy Spirit to help us see past the grievance to the Love in which we live.

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Being a Bringer of Peace to the World

Your peace is with me, Father. I am safe.

Your peace surrounds me, Father. ²Where I go, Your peace goes there with me. ³It sheds its light on everyone I meet. ⁴I bring it to the desolate and lonely and afraid. ⁵I give Your peace to those who suffer pain, or grieve for loss, or think they are bereft of hope and happiness. ⁶Send them to me, my Father. ⁷Let me bring Your peace with me. ⁸For I would save Your Son, as is Your Will, that I may come to recognize my Self.

And so we go in peace. ²To all the world we give the message that we have received. ³And thus we come to hear the Voice for God, Who speaks to us as we relate His Word; Whose Love we recognize because we share the Word that He has given unto us. (A Course in Miracles, W-245. See also ACIM Lesson 245 Insights.)

Today let us be bringers of peace to the world. We do this by accepting the peace of God that is within us. We set aside all our judgments and ask His Voice to guide us in what to say and do. Our willingness to accept the Self God created one with Him is essential to being His messenger.

We remain in the oneness of God’s Love. Peace is an attribute of Love. As we let His loving Voice guide us, we bring peace with us.

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