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Learning to Forgive Our Illusions

³The holy instant is the opposite of the ego’s fixed belief in salvation through vengeance for the past. ⁴In the holy instant it is understood that the past is gone, and with its passing the drive for vengeance has been uprooted and has disappeared. ⁵The stillness and the peace of now enfold you in perfect gentleness. ⁶Everything is gone except the truth.”

What God has given you is truly given, and will be truly received. ²For God’s gifts have no reality apart from your receiving them. ³Your receiving completes His giving. ⁴You will receive because it is His Will to give. ⁵He gave the holy instant to be given you, and it is impossible that you receive it not because He gave it. ⁶When He willed that His Son be free, His Son was free. ⁷In the holy instant is His reminder that His Son will always be exactly as he was created. ⁸And everything the Holy Spirit teaches is to remind you that you have received what God has given you.

There is nothing you can hold against reality. ²All that must be forgiven are the illusions you have held against your brothers. ³Their reality has no past, and only illusions can be forgiven. ⁴God holds nothing against anyone, for He is incapable of illusions of any kind. ⁵Release your brothers from the slavery of their illusions by forgiving them for the illusions you perceive in them.” (A Course in Miracles, T-16.VII.6:3-6;8:1–9:5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The ego is an attempt to “improve” on God’s Creation by providing a scheme that makes special status seem real. Thus it seems to provide a way for individuals to have something they can claim as theirs alone. This can only seem real in illusions, which are filled with fear and guilt: Fear of losing that special “something” and guilt from believing that “thing” was taken away from others.

The holy instant offers us release from dreams of attack and loss. In every now moment, only the oneness of God’s Love exists. There is no past. When we are willing to pause, quiet our mind, and welcome the Holy Spirit’s help, He will teach us to recognize we are free of the past. In that instant we forgive our illusions.

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Remembering Our Completion in God

I let forgiveness rest upon all things, for thus forgiveness will be given me.

I thank You, Father, for Your plan to save me from the hell I made. ²It is not real. ³And You have given me the means to prove its unreality to me. ⁴The key is in my hand, and I have reached the door beyond which lies the end of dreams. ⁵I stand before the gate of Heaven, wondering if I should enter in and be at home. ⁶Let me not wait again today. ⁷Let me forgive all things, and let creation be as You would have it be and as it is. ⁸Let me remember that I am Your Son, and opening the door at last, forget illusions in the blazing light of truth, as memory of You returns to me.

Brother, forgive me now. ²I come to you to take you home with me. ³And as we go, the world goes with us on our way to God. (A Course in Miracles, W-342. See also ACIM Lesson 342 Insights.)

Judgment keeps us in hell. Forgiveness us sets us free to walk through Heaven’s gate to the Home our Father keeps safe for us. His unconditional Love for us never wavers. Only our wish for specialness keeps us in the shadows of fear.

Today we accept the Holy Spirit’s help to recognize the unreality of dreams of conflict, loss and guilt. With this recognition, we remember we are God’s Son, forever whole and complete in His Love.

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Being a Channel for God’s Love

Love holds no grievances.

²Grievances are completely alien to love. ³Grievances attack love and keep its light obscure. ⁴If I hold grievances I am attacking love, and therefore attacking my Self. ⁵My Self thus becomes alien to me. ⁶I am determined not to attack my Self today, so that I can remember Who I am.

These specific forms for applying this idea would be helpful:

²This is no justification for denying my Self.
³I will not use this to attack love.
⁴Let this not tempt me to attack myself. (A Course in Miracles, W-84.3–4. See also ACIM Lesson 84 Insights.)

As an aspect of judgment, grievances are divisive. They are an attempt to maintain a false, separate identity, different from all others. Grievances deny our true Identity as Love.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us see the Love we are, forever united with the Love that is the truth in everyone. As we accept His vision, we will experience Love’s blessings. Our hearts will know the joy of being a channel for God’s Love.

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Letting Peace Encompass the World

The peace of God is shining in me now.

²I will be still, and let the earth be still along with me. ³And in that stillness we will find the peace of God. ⁴It is within my heart, which witnesses to God Himself.

⁵I am not a body. ⁶I am free.
⁷For I am still as God created me. (A Course in Miracles, W-208.1. See also ACIM Lesson 208 Insights.)

We do not need to wait for the peace of God. It is with us now. We only need to be willing to step back from our judgments that seem to make images of separation real. Peace is an attribute of the oneness of His Love where there are no differences to cause conflict.

Today we pause to allow our mind to be still and rise above the battleground of differences. This is how we make way for the eternal peace within us to reach out to encompass the world.

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Accepting Our Life in God’s Love

There is one life, and that I share with God.

In this world, there appears to be a state that is life’s opposite. ²You call it death. ³Yet we have learned that the idea of death takes many forms. ⁴It is the one idea which underlies all feelings that are not supremely happy. ⁵[Death] is the alarm to which you give response of any kind that is not perfect joy. ⁶All sorrow, loss, anxiety and suffering and pain, even a little sigh of weariness, a slight discomfort or the merest frown, acknowledge death. ⁷And thus deny you live.

Let us today be children of the truth, and not deny our holy heritage. ²Our life is not as we imagine it. ³Who changes life because he shuts his eyes, or makes himself what he is not because he sleeps, and sees in dreams an opposite to what he is? ⁴We will not ask for death in any form today. ⁵Nor will we let imagined opposites to life abide even an instant where the Thought of life eternal has been set by God Himself. (A Course in Miracles, W-167.2;10. See also ACIM Lesson 167 Insights.)

Perfect joy is our natural state of mind. It is the condition we share with our Creator, our Source of Life. All that God is He has given to His Son, our true Self. Nothing can change what God created One with Himself.

We are grateful that we can bring all perceptions that disturb our peace and joy to the Holy Spirit. He will help us see past our imaged images that disturb us to the certainty of changeless Love that is our true Identity. With this certainty, we let go of our illusions and accept the Life we live in God.

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Our Purpose Is to Bring Love’s Blessing to the World

My eyes, my tongue, my hands, my feet today have but one purpose; to be given Christ to use to bless the world with miracles.

Father, I give all that is mine today to Christ, to use in any way that best will serve the purpose that I share with Him. ²Nothing is mine alone, for He and I have joined in purpose. ³Thus has learning come almost to its appointed end. ⁴A while I work with Him to serve His purpose. ⁵Then I lose myself in my Identity, and recognize that Christ is but my Self. (A Course in Miracles, W-353. See also ACIM Lesson 353 Insights.)

We have only one meaningful purpose in the world: To share the unlimited Love given us by our Creator. There is nothing else to give. Love can only be known by sharing It.

The ego teaches us to deny Love in order to claim some special status it can call its own, different from all others. It is time to let our Inner Teacher help us unlearn the ego’s lesson to restore our awareness of our true Identity in the oneness of Love. Today we give ourselves to Christ to share His blessings with the world.

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Being a Messenger of God’s Love

I am God’s Son, complete and healed and whole, shining in the reflection of His Love. ²In me is His creation sanctified and guaranteed eternal life. ³In me is love perfected, fear impossible, and joy established without opposite. ⁴I am the holy home of God Himself. ⁵I am the Heaven where His Love resides. ⁶I am His holy Sinlessness Itself, for in my purity abides His Own.

Ours are the eyes through which Christ’s vision sees a world redeemed from every thought of sin. ²Ours are the ears that hear the Voice for God proclaim the world as sinless. ³Ours the minds that join together as we bless the world. ⁴And from the oneness that we have attained we call to all our brothers, asking them to share our peace and consummate our joy.

We are the holy messengers of God who speak for Him, and carrying His Word to everyone whom He has sent to us, we learn that it is written on our hearts. ²And thus our minds are changed about the aim for which we came, and which we seek to serve. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.14.1;4:1–5:2)

As God’s Son, we are one with the Universe of Love, along with our Father. When we forgive our mistaken wish for specialness, we see with the vision of Christ. Where once we saw division, we now see the unity of Love.

We become messengers of Love to bring its peace to troubled minds which mistook illusions of differences for reality. Our hearts are filled with joy as we carry Love’s Light to help free the world from illusions of separation.

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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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