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Our Journey of Awakening to Love

You are a stranger here. But you belong to Him Who loves you as He loves Himself. Ask but my help to roll the stone away, and it is done according to His Will. We have begun the journey. Long ago the end was written in the stars and set into the Heavens with a shining Ray that held it safe within eternity and through all time as well. And holds it still; unchanged, unchanging and unchangeable.

What is here begun will grow in life and strength and hope, until the world is still an instant and forgets all that the dream of sin had made of it.

Let us go out and meet the newborn world, knowing that Christ has been reborn in it, and that the holiness of this rebirth will last forever. We had lost our way but He has found it for us. Let us go and bid Him welcome Who returns to us to celebrate salvation and the end of all we thought we made. The morning star of this new day looks on a different world where God is welcomed and His Son with Him. We who complete Him offer thanks to Him, as He gives thanks to us. The Son is still, and in the quiet God has given him enters his home and is at peace at last. (A Course in Miracles,C-ep.2;4:7-5:6)

Christ is the one Self we share with all our brothers. Christ is the symbol of our sinlessness and changeless Love. To accept our true Self as our Identity is to accept Christ. It is our acceptance as our true Self that acknowledges our oneness with our Creator and with every brother. In oneness, there is no conflict. There is perfect stillness in the peace of God. This is our true Home, which we have never left in truth.

We have dreamt of another world of limitation and conflict. Here guilt and fear are our constant companion. There is a sense of being incomplete because the dream denies our completion in our Creator. We are on a constant quest to find what is “missing.” Yet it always seems to be beyond our reach.

We are now on a journey of awakening to leave this fearful dream behind. We have heard the call of our true Self, the Christ within. It calls us Home to remember that we remain Love as Love created us. We remain whole and complete in this Love. Illusions of incompletion and separation are fading now, for we are learning that we are indeed at Home now, in the loving embrace of God’s Love.

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Accepting Our Limitlessness

Everyone has experienced what he would call a sense of being transported beyond himself. …It is a sense of actual escape from limitations. …it is a sudden unawareness of the body, and a joining of yourself and something else in which your mind enlarges to encompass it. …you have given up the illusion of a limited awareness, and lost your fear of union. …You have escaped from fear to peace, asking no questions of reality, but merely accepting it. You have accepted this instead of the body, and have let yourself be one with something beyond it, simply by not letting your mind be limited by it.

In these instants of release from physical restrictions, you experience much of what happens in the holy instant; the lifting of the barriers of time and space, the sudden experience of peace and joy, and, above all, the lack of awareness of the body, and of the questioning whether or not all this is possible.

Come to this place of refuge, where you can be yourself in peace. Not through destruction, not through a breaking out, but merely by a quiet melting in. For peace will join you there, simply because you have been willing to let go the limits you have placed upon love, and joined it where it is and where it led you, in answer to its gentle call to be at peace. (A Course in Miracles, T-18.VI.11:1,3-4,7,10-11;13:6;14:5-7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The only reason we do not experience being Love, in perfect peace and indescribable joy, is that we have chosen to believe in an identity of limitation. When we believe we are a body, we deny the truth of the Self that Love created. That Self is ever-present but unknown to us by our denial. This is why the Course asks us to affirm repeatedly for 20 days, “I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.”

This affirmation is a denial of our denial of our true Self. It is reminding us that we are as unlimited as our Creator, timeless and infinite. We are free, right now, to be our Self. The practice of asking Holy Spirit to be our Interpreter of all our perceptions will teach us to free ourselves from our self-imposed limitations and remember that we are Love.

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Accepting the Flow of God’s Love

The body is a limit imposed on the universal communication that is an eternal property of mind. But the communication is internal. Mind reaches to itself. It is not made up of different parts, which reach each other. It does not go out. Within itself it has no limits, and there is nothing outside it. It encompasses everything. It encompasses you entirely; you within it and it within you. There is nothing else, anywhere or ever.

The body is outside you, and but seems to surround you, shutting you off from others and keeping you apart from them, and them from you. It is not there. There is no barrier between God and His Son, nor can His Son be separated from Himself except in illusions.

You can stretch out your hand and reach to Heaven. You whose hand is joined with your brother’s have begun to reach beyond the body, but not outside yourself, to reach your shared Identity together. …You are surrounded only by [God]. What limits can there be on you whom He encompasses? (A Course in Miracles, T-18.VI.8:3-9:3;10:1-2,6-7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Do we want to be supremely happy? Do we want to experience peace that cannot be disturbed? Do we want to experience perfect Love, without interruption? All this was given us in our Creation by the Source of all Love.

We don’t experience this because we have identified with the body, a limit on our communication with our Source. God is in constant communication with His Creation, His Son, our true Self. Our identification with the body makes us unaware of God’s constant flow of Love to us.

Identification with the body makes it appear that there are things outside us that can harm us or seem to give us pleasure. But these appearances are illusions, along with the body. Illusions have no substance of their own. Only the meaning we give them seems to give them value. But meanings can change. Who seemed to be a friend can become an enemy on a whim.

The world of illusions is out of our control, though we spend most of our time trying to control our circumstances to be happy and safe. But God’s Universe, our real Home, is changeless. What is changeless needs no control. It is eternally safe and extends forever. The Changeless is our eternal Home as God’s one Son. Here we are united with every brother, who shares our one Self.

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Seeing Our Unity in Love’s Innocence

Think of the loveliness that you will see, who walk with Him [Christ]! And think how beautiful will you and your brother look to the other! How happy you will be to be together, after such a long and lonely journey where you walked alone. The gates of Heaven, open now for you, will you now open to the sorrowful. And none who looks upon the Christ in you but will rejoice. How beautiful the sight you saw beyond the veil, which you will bring to light the tired eyes of those as weary now as once you were. How thankful will they be to see you come among them, offering Christ’s forgiveness to dispel their faith in sin.

To all who share the Love of God the grace is given to be the givers of what they have received. And so they learn that [God’s Love] is theirs forever. …Those who would let illusions be lifted from their minds are this world’s saviors, walking the world with their Redeemer [Christ], and carrying His message of hope and freedom and release from suffering to everyone who needs a miracle to save him. (A Course in Miracles, T-22.IV.4;5:1-2,5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Christ is the symbol of Love’s innocence. We see the face of Christ in our brother when we look past the image of a separate self and the belief in separation to see the one Self we share. This Self is united in God’s Love. This Self accepted God’s Love and gives God’s Love eternally.

As we learn to see our one Self in every brother, the veil of belief in separation dissolves and we recognize the Christ in our brother as our Self. We walk together in the safety, peace and joy that is God’s eternal gift to us. We help the world as we practice, with Holy Spirit’s help, seeing the face of Christ in every brother — seeing our unity in Love’s innocence.

Let us join together today in the practice of accepting Christ’s vision and using it to see the world as wholly Love and nothing else.

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Cleansing Our Minds of Fear

Everything you see is the result of your thoughts. There is no exception to this fact. Thoughts are not big or little; powerful or weak. They are merely true or false. Those that are true create their own likeness. Those that are false make theirs.

There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of “idle thoughts.” What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can hardly be called idle. Every thought you have contributes to truth or to illusion; either it extends the truth or it multiplies illusions. You can indeed multiply nothing, but you will not extend it by doing so.

Besides your recognizing that thoughts are never idle, salvation requires that you also recognize that every thought you have brings either peace or war; either love or fear. A neutral result is impossible because a neutral thought is impossible. There is such a temptation to dismiss fear thoughts as unimportant, trivial and not worth bothering about that it is essential you recognize [all fear thoughts] as equally destructive, but equally unreal. We will practice this idea in many forms before you really understand it. (, A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 16, W-pI.16.1:2-3:4. See also ACIM Lesson 16 Insights.)

The ego is the idea of being separate from Love. The opposite of Love is fear. Therefore any thought of separation denies Love, so fear is the inevitable effect. This effect comes from belief in a false idea, but the belief makes the effect seem real. We are learning that belief cannot make the false true but it can make the false seem real. This is why we need to ask of everything, “What does this mean, what is this for?”

To get a true answer, we need to ask this question of the Holy Spirit, for He knows what is True. The ego literally makes-believe that it knows what is true. Without belief, the ego is nothing. We need to let the Holy Spirit teach us what is true and what is false, what is real or unreal. His lessons will lead us out of fear and back to our Home in Love. He will help us cleanse our mind of the ego’s fearful thoughts and accept the thoughts of our true Self, which extend only Love.

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Release the Past to Remember Heaven

The holy instant is the opposite of the ego’s fixed belief in salvation through vengeance for the past. In 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. The stillness and the peace of now enfold you in perfect gentleness. Everything is gone except the truth.

There is nothing you can hold against reality. All that must be forgiven are the illusions you have held against your brothers. Their reality has no past, and only illusions can be forgiven. God holds nothing against anyone, for He is incapable of illusions of any kind. Release your brothers from the slavery of their illusions by forgiving them for the illusions you perceive in them. Thus will you learn that you have been forgiven, for it is you who offered [your brothers] illusions. In the holy instant this is done for you in time, to bring you the true condition of Heaven.

Remember that you always choose between truth and illusion; between the real Atonement that would heal and the ego’s “atonement” that would destroy. The power of God and all His Love, without limit, will support you as you seek only your place in the plan of Atonement arising from His Love. Be an ally of God and not the ego in seeking how Atonement can come to you. His help suffices, for His Messenger understands how to restore the Kingdom to you, and to place all your investment in salvation in your relationship with [God]. (A Course in Miracles, T-16.VII.6:3-5;9-10. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

An instant is made holy when we let go of illusions of the past. The eternal present is eternally holy because only Love is real. Only Love is now. Do we see our brother as Love and nothing else, incapable of harm and united in God’s Love? This is the vision the Holy Spirit offers us because illusions of separation and differences have been released.

Our attachment to a bodily identification binds us to the past. Bodies seem to have had effects in the past. We hold on to memories of these effects and use them as the basis for our interpretation of our present experience. Thus we hide the present with a veil built upon the past. We see our brothers as bodies, which reinforces our belief in the reality of separation. To free ourselves from the imprisonment of this belief we need the help of the Holy Spirit to show us how to look past our mistaken beliefs to see the reality of eternal Love now.

Each time we bring a judgment or sense of fear to the Holy Spirit with willingness to receive and accept the Holy Spirit’s correction, we welcome the holy instant. We experience a taste of the peace and happiness that are our natural state, free of the past. We may reserve some aspects of the past that we are unwilling to release, which limits the depth of our experience of the holy instant. But as we practice accepting the Holy Spirit’s help to release more and more of the past, our experience of the Love, peace and joy of God becomes stronger. When we have released all illusions, we remember Heaven.

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Accepting the Strength of God in Our Mind

It is God’s strength in you that is the light in which you see, as it is His Mind with which you think. His strength denies your weakness. It is your weakness that sees through the body’s eyes, peering about in darkness to behold the likeness of itself;

The light of strength is constant, sure as love, forever glad to give itself away, because [it knows] it cannot give but to itself.

The strength in you will offer you the light, and guide your seeing so you do not dwell on idle shadows that the body’s eyes provide for self-deception. Strength and light unite in you, and where they meet, your Self stands ready to embrace you as Its Own. Such is the meeting place we try today to find and rest in, for the peace of God is where your Self, His Son, is waiting now to meet Itself again, and be as One.

Let yourself be brought unto your Self. Its strength will be the light in which the gift of sight is given you. Leave, then, the dark a little while today, and we will practice seeing in the light, closing the body’s eyes and asking truth to show us how to find the meeting place of self and Self, where light and strength are one. (, A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 92, W-pI.92.3:1-3;8:1;9;10:2-4. See also ACIM Lesson 92 Insights.)

The Course emphasizes that we are not a body. If we believe what we see through the body’s eyes, we are deceiving ourselves. The truth is seen through inner vision — the vision of our true Self. To heal our minds and release ourselves from identification with the limitations of the body, we need to direct our attention to our inner vision.

This inner vision brings the experience that Light and strength are one. It is in the Light of Love that we see our unity with the Self that we share with everyone. This Self has the strength of God, for It is one with God, Its Creator. Any perception of limitation, weakness, guilt or fear is a deception. It comes from identifying with the body instead of the one Self that is God’s Creation.

Today we ask our true Self for help to share Its vision and remember the strength of God in us. With this practice, the seeming weakness and fear we experience in the world will fade as we remember we are one in God’s strength.

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