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Accepting Help to Return Home to Love

²Your Friend goes with you. ³You are not alone. ⁴No one who calls on Him can call in vain. ⁵Whatever troubles you, be certain that He has the answer, and will gladly give it to you, if you simply turn to Him and ask it of Him. ⁶He will not withhold all answers that you need for anything that seems to trouble you. ⁷He knows the way to solve all problems, and resolve all doubts. ⁸His certainty is yours. ⁹You need but ask it of Him, and it will be given you.

³He will direct your efforts, telling you exactly what to do, how to direct your mind, and when to come to Him in silence, asking for His sure direction and His certain Word.

And now I place you in His hands, to be His faithful follower, with Him as Guide through every difficulty and all pain that you may think is real.

³You will be told exactly what God wills for you each time there is a choice to make. ⁴And He will speak for God and for your Self, thus making sure that hell will claim you not, and that each choice you make brings Heaven nearer to your reach. (A Course in Miracles, W-ep.1:2-9;3:3;4:1;5:3-4)

We always have Help. God cannot abandon His Son, because he was created one with His Father. God is our Origin and our Source of Life.

The ego abandoned God in favor of having a special identity, different and distinct from all of Reality. The price paid to have this distinction is loss of awareness of peace and happiness in the unity of God’s Love. His Love remains undisturbed, but it is hidden behind the ego’s veil of denial.

We are grateful that we have the Holy Spirit, our best Friend, to Whom we can turn for help to solve all our perceived problems. With His help, our certainty that we dwell in the safety and peace of the Home God created for us is restored.

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Forgiving Our Dreams of Differences

We stand together, Christ and I, in peace and certainty of purpose. And in Him is His Creator, as He is in me.

My oneness with the Christ establishes me as Your Son, beyond the reach of time, and wholly free of every law but Yours. ²I have no self except the Christ in me. ³I have no purpose but His Own. ⁴And He is like His Father. ⁵Thus must I be one with You [Father] as well as Him [Christ]. ⁶For who is Christ except Your Son as You created Him? ⁷And what am I except the Christ in me? (A Course in Miracles, W-354. See also ACIM Lesson 354 Insights.)

Christ is the truth in everyone. His is the one Self we share in unity with our Father. We are not limited to a body in a dream world of differences. But our belief in the dream makes our Reality as God’s one Son unknown to us.

Forgiveness of our mistaken beliefs opens our minds to the forgiving eyes of Christ. This is our only purpose in the dream. Through Christ’s vision we remember that we are God’s Son, forever safe in the peace and joy of His Love.

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Remembering Our Unity with God

Miracles mirror God’s eternal Love. To offer them is to remember Him, and through His memory to save the world.

What we forgive becomes a part of us, as we perceive ourselves. ²The Son of God incorporates all things within himself as You created him. ³Your memory depends on his forgiveness. ⁴What he is, is unaffected by his thoughts. ⁵But what he looks upon is their direct result. ⁶Therefore, my Father, I would turn to You. ⁷Only Your memory will set me free. ⁸And only my forgiveness teaches me to let Your memory return to me, and give it to the world in thankfulness.

And as we gather miracles from Him, we will indeed be grateful. ²For as we remember Him, His Son will be restored to us in the reality of Love. (A Course in Miracles, W-350. See also ACIM Lesson 350 Insights.)

We cannot change our true Identity. As God’s one Son, we remain eternally united with Him. But to experience the specialness we wish for, we had to make up a false identity. Because we made it, we believe it is true.

From this false identity, we project a false world that represents what we believe. It stands as a barrier that hides our true Identity. Forgiveness is the key that will dismantle the barrier we have built in our mind.

We have the Holy Spirit in our mind Who can see our mistaken perceptions and help us see past them to the eternal Reality of Love. With His help, we remember our true Self and know that we remain in the loving Arms of our Father.

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Letting the Holy Spirit Judge on Our Behalf

Anger must come from judgment.
Judgment is the weapon I would use against myself, to keep the miracle away from me.

Father, I want what goes against my will, and do not want what is my will to have. ²Straighten my mind, my Father. ³It is sick. ⁴But You have offered freedom, and I choose to claim Your gift today. ⁵And so I give all judgment to the One You gave to me to judge for me. ⁶He sees what I behold, and yet He knows the truth. ⁷He looks on pain, and yet He understands it is not real, and in His understanding it is healed. ⁸He gives the miracles my dreams would hide from my awareness. ⁹Let Him judge today. ¹⁰I do not know my will, but He is sure it is Your Own. ¹¹And He will speak for me, and call Your miracles to come to me.

Listen today. ²Be very still, and hear the gentle Voice for God assuring you that He has judged you as the Son He loves. (W-347)

In our dream of separation, our minds are preoccupied with judgments. We peer about in a world devoid of Love, judging the forms we see. Is what we see something that endangers us? Or does it seem to give the specialness we crave? Uncertainty is ever present.

We can free ourselves from this confusion by turning over all judgment to the Holy Spirit. He will judge on our behalf, sorting out the real from the unreal, truth from illusion. He will dismiss the false image of separation and show us the miracle of a forgiven world where all we see is Love’s Presence. Free from our mistaken judgments, the Light of Love fills our mind.

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Accepting the Gift of Christ’s Vision

I can be free of suffering today.

Father, I thank You for today, and for the freedom I am certain it will bring. ²This day is holy, for today Your Son will be redeemed. ³His suffering is done. ⁴For he will hear Your Voice directing him to find Christ’s vision through forgiveness, and be free forever from all suffering. ⁵Thanks for today, my Father. ⁶I was born into this world but to achieve this day, and what it holds in joy and freedom for Your holy Son and for the world he made, which is released along with him today.

Be glad today! ²Be glad! ³There is no room for anything but joy and thanks today. ⁴Our Father has redeemed His Son this day. ⁵Not one of us but will be saved today. ⁶Not one who will remain in fear, and none the Father will not gather to Himself, awake in Heaven in the Heart of Love. (A Course in Miracles, W-340. See also ACIM Lesson 340 Insights.)

Christ’s Vision sees a forgiven world. It opens our mind to accept that the Love is the only Reality. No one is left out. The appearance of ‘others’ in the world is just a projection of the ego’s wish for specialness.

When the desire for differences is forgiven, we realize there have never been any ‘others’. We see only the unity that has held us in the Heart of Love eternally. We are free to join in Love’s unending extension of joy and peace. Our hearts are filled with gratitude.

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Joining with Love in Happiness and Peace

I am affected only by my thoughts.

It needs but this to let salvation come to all the world. ²For in this single thought is everyone released at last from fear. ³Now has he learned that no one frightens him, and nothing can endanger him. ⁴He has no enemies, and he is safe from all external things. ⁵His thoughts can frighten him, but since these thoughts belong to him alone, he has the power to change them and exchange each fear thought for a happy thought of love. ⁶He crucified himself. ⁷Yet God has planned that His beloved Son will be redeemed.

Your plan is sure, my Father,—only Yours. ²All other plans will fail. ³And I will have thoughts that will frighten me, until I learn that You have given me the only Thought that leads me to salvation. ⁴Mine alone will fail, and lead me nowhere. ⁵But the Thought You gave me promises to lead me home, because it holds Your promise to Your Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-338. See also ACIM Lesson 338 Insights.)

As God’s Son, we are a Thought in His Mind of Love. Only His Thought of Love is real.  It is our true Identity. We claim our Identity by forgiving the mistaken wish for specialness. We claim our true Identity each time we let the Holy Spirit help us forgive and see with the forgiving eyes of Christ.

Everything we perceive in the world is a reflection of what we believe we are. If we believe we are separate, we see differences and conflict in the world. If we believe in our Identity as Love, we see Love everywhere and join with It in happiness and peace.

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Opening to the Eternal Flow of Universal Love

A miracle is a correction. ²It does not create, nor really change at all. ³It merely looks on devastation, and reminds the mind that what it sees is false. ⁴It undoes error, but does not attempt to go beyond perception, nor exceed the function of forgiveness. ⁵Thus it stays within time’s limits. ⁶Yet it paves the way for the return of timelessness and love’s awakening, for fear must slip away under the gentle remedy it brings.

³A miracle inverts perception which was upside down before, and thus it ends the strange distortions that were manifest. ⁴Now is perception open to the truth. ⁵Now is forgiveness seen as justified.

Forgiveness is the home of miracles. ²The eyes of Christ deliver them to all they look upon in mercy and in love. ³Perception stands corrected in His sight, and what was meant to curse has come to bless. ⁴Each lily of forgiveness offers all the world the silent miracle of love. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.13.1;2:3–3:4)

Throughout the Course we are told in many ways that what the body’s eyes see is false. Forgiveness opens our mind to correction of these mistaken perceptions. The forgiving vision of Christ opens our mind to the perception of Love’s Presence.

Today we practice offering all our perceptions to the Holy Spirit and ask for His loving correction of our misperceptions. As we accept His help, we will have a peaceful, joyous day of joining in Creations eternal giving and receiving universal Love.

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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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