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Opening Our Mind to Our True Identity

⁴Deep in your mind the holy Christ in you is waiting your acknowledgment as you. ⁵And you are lost and do not know yourself while He is unacknowledged and unknown.

⁴Today we make a great advance to truth by letting idols go, and opening our hands and hearts and minds to God today.

We will remember Him throughout the day with thankful hearts and loving thoughts for all who meet with us today. ²For it is thus that we remember Him. ³And we will say, that we may be reminded of His Son, our holy Self, the Christ in each of us:

⁴I am as God created me.

⁵Let us declare this truth as often as we can. ⁶This is the Word of God that sets you free. ⁷This is the key that opens up the gate of Heaven, and that lets you enter in the peace of God and His eternity. (A Course in Miracles, W-110.9:4-5;10:4–11:7. See also ACIM Lesson 110 Insights.)

The peace of God is already ours. If we want to experience His peace, we must open our hearts and minds to accept the gifts He gave when He created us, His Son. Our minds have been closed to God’s gifts by our allegiance to the ego’s demand to have a unique identity.

The practice of affirming, “I am as God created me,” opens our mind to accept the truth of our Identity as an extension of God’s Love. It lets the vision of Christ in our mind see past the ego’s false images to the Reality of Love in everyone.

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Being a Channel of God’s Love

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. (A Course in Miracles, W-184.9:2–10:3. See also ACIM Lesson 184 Insights.)

To let our mind be healed, we need to practice stepping back from the busyness of the world to rise above it into the quiet peace of God. In peace we can receive God’s Word Which tells us that our true Identity is one with Him.

In quietness we feel His blessing flow through us as we become His messenger of Love to the world. Frequent brief pauses throughout the day help us maintain our clear channel of Love in the dream where Love has been unwelcome.

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How to Welcome Christ’s Vision

The real world holds a counterpart for each unhappy thought reflected in your world; a sure correction for the sights of fear and sounds of battle which your world contains. ²The real world shows a world seen differently, through quiet eyes and with a mind at peace. ³Nothing but rest is there. ⁴There are no cries of pain and sorrow heard, for nothing there remains outside forgiveness. ⁵And the sights are gentle. ⁶Only happy sights and sounds can reach the mind that has forgiven itself.

The real world is the symbol that the dream of sin and guilt is over, and God’s Son no longer sleeps. ²His waking eyes perceive the sure reflection of his Father’s Love; the certain promise that he is redeemed. ³The real world signifies the end of time, for its perception makes time purposeless.

…as we look upon a world forgiven, it is He [God] Who calls to us and comes to take us home, reminding us of our Identity which our forgiveness has restored to us. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.8.2;4;5:4.)

The ego is always angry. It is upset with God because He could not give it more than everything. The world we experience with the ego is a manifestation of its temper tantrum. It does not like the Home God created for His Son so it’s trying to run away from Home. But there is no other place that is real. So the ego has had to make a dream world to satisfy its wish for specialness.

We can leave this dream behind by forgiving—letting go of—the insane wish to have more than everything. Because we have identified with the ego, we need the help of the Holy Spirit to wake up from the dream. Our part of waking up is to offer all our perceptions to Him to be exchanged for Christ’s vision. With this happy exchange the shadows of the ego’s denial are dispelled and we see past its meaningless images to the eternal presence of Love.

Today we happily welcome Christ’s vision.

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Opening Our Mind to Receive God’s Love

The Thought of peace was given to God’s Son the instant that his mind had thought of war. ²There was no need for such a Thought before, for peace was given without opposite, and merely was. ³But when the mind is split there is a need of healing. ⁴So the Thought that has the power to heal the split became a part of every fragment of the mind that still was one, but failed to recognize its oneness. ⁵Now it did not know itself, and thought its own Identity was lost.

Salvation is undoing in the sense that it does nothing, failing to support the world of dreams and malice. ²Thus it lets illusions go. ³By not supporting them, it merely lets them quietly go down to dust. ⁴And what they hid is now revealed; an altar to the holy Name of God whereon His Word is written, with the gifts of your forgiveness laid before it, and the memory of God not far behind. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.2.2–3)

There is no form in the universe of Love. Forms in the dream of specialness stand as a barrier to Love, held in place by our belief that forms are real. Only our beliefs stand in the way of our certainty that we remain one with the Love that created us like Itself.

Forgiveness opens our mind to receive the Light of Love. This Light dispels the shadows of our beliefs in differences and isolation. In gratitude we accept the Holy Spirit’s help to forgive our mistaken beliefs and accept our Father’s gift of all of His Love.

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Remembering Our True Identity Is Love

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.)

Everyone’s true Identity is Love. If we perceive anything that disturbs our peace, we are misperceiving. We are believing illusions are real. Fear and Love are opposites and cannot coexist. But belief can make illusions seem real.

Today we claim our true Identity by acknowledging that we are Love, created by Love. We accept the Holy Spirit’s help to heal our misperceptions so that we can recognize the Christ that is our true Self, united with everyone as God’s one Son.

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Awakening to Our Home in God’s Love

God is the only goal I have today.

The way to God is through forgiveness here. There is no other way. If sin [separation] had not been cherished by the mind, what need would there have been to find the way to where you are? Who would still be uncertain? Who could be unsure of who he is? And who would yet remain asleep, in heavy clouds of doubt about the holiness of him whom God created sinless? Here we can but dream. But we can dream we have forgiven him in whom all sin remains impossible, and it is this we choose to dream today. God is our goal; forgiveness is the means by which our minds return to Him at last.

And so, our Father, would we come to You in Your appointed way. We have no goal except to hear Your Voice, and find the way Your sacred Word has pointed out to us. (A Course in Miracles, W-256. See also ACIM Lesson 256 Insights.)

Our true Self remains eternally united with God in Love. But the dream of a world of bodies and separation hides our true Self from our awareness. The means to return Home to oneness is forgiveness. True forgiveness requires the help of the Holy Spirit to show us that what we thought happened in the dream never occurred in truth.

The Holy Spirit will show us the truth behind our misperceptions. As we learn His lessons, the world’s images of separation, fear and guilt fade and lose their seeming importance. As the dream becomes increasingly a dream of forgiveness, we live with a happy heart, free to Love and free to be our true Self. We lay down the dream of separation and awaken to our Home in God. Today we ask the Holy Spirit for help to heal our misperceptions.

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Celebrating Our Unity in God’s Love

This holy instant is salvation come.

What joy there is today! ²It is a time of special celebration. ³For today holds out the instant to the darkened world where its release is set. ⁴The day has come when sorrows pass away and pain is gone. ⁵The glory of salvation dawns today upon a world set free. ⁶This is the time of hope for countless millions. ⁷They will be united now, as you forgive them all. ⁸For I will be forgiven by you today.

We have forgiven one another now, and so we come at last to You again. ²Father, Your Son, who never left, returns to Heaven and his home. ³How glad are we to have our sanity restored to us, and to remember that we all are one. (A Course in Miracles, W-241. See also ACIM Lesson 241 Insights.)

The holy instant comes when we forgive our illusions of differences. Nothing but Love exists in Reality. Love is universally the same everywhere and always. No conflict can exist in Love, which is why Love does not condemn.

Illusions of differences cast a dark shadow on our world. But forgiveness allows the Light of Love to shine away the shadows to reveal that we remain at home in Heaven now. Today we celebrate the Love that unites us with our Father and all His Creation.

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How to Read References for
Quotes from A Course in Miracles

Below are example references to specific sentences using the notation of the Second & Third Editions of A Course in Miracles published by the Foundation for Inner Peace:

T-26.IV.4:7 = Text, Chapt. 26, Section IV, paragraph 4, sentence 7.

W-169.5:2 = Workbook, Lesson 169, paragraph 5, sentence 2.

W-pII.1.1:1 = Workbook, Part II, Question 1, paragraph 1, sentence 1.

M-13.3:2 = Manual for Teachers, Question 13, paragraph 3, sentence 2.

C-6.4:6 = Clarification of Terms, Term 6, paragraph 4, sentence 6
The above numbering system of the Second & Third Editions published by The Foundation for A Course in Miracles

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