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Welcoming Our Inheritance

Today we would remove all meaningless and self-made gifts which we have placed upon the holy altar where God’s gifts belong. His [joy and peace] are the gifts that are our own in truth. His are the gifts that we inherited before time was, and that will still be ours when time has passed into eternity. His are the gifts that are within us now, for they are timeless. And we need not wait to have them. [Peace and joy] belong to us today.

Therefore, we choose to have them now, and know, in choosing them in place of what we made, we but unite our will with what God wills, and recognize the same as being one.

I seek but what belongs to me in truth,
And joy and peace are my inheritance.

We clear a holy place within our minds before His altar, where His gifts of peace and joy are welcome, and to which we come to find what has been given us by Him.

I seek but what belongs to me in truth.
God’s gifts of joy and peace are all I want. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 104, W-pI.104.2;3;1,3;4:2;5:4. See also ACIM Lesson 104 Insights.)

Our sense of unhappiness, guilt and fear in this world comes from seeking for our inheritance where it cannot be found. The ego dream is the denial of our inheritance of God’s gifts of joy and peace. The best the ego can offer are illusionary substitutes which can never satisfy because they are not real.

God’s gifts are ours now. To know we have them, we need to let go of our identification and belief in the ego thought system of separation. We need to let go of all judgment on our own. When we choose to follow the ego’s lead, we choose to seek truth where it cannot be found, for the ego thought system is a lie.

Choosing to use the Holy Spirit as our Guide in all we think and do clears the way for us to welcome God’s gifts as ours. We are choosing Love instead of fear. And joy and peace are attributes of Love. As we recognize our unity in Love with all that is real, we welcome our inheritance.

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Becoming Love’s Reflection in the World

In this world you can become a spotless mirror, in which the Holiness of your Creator shines forth from you to all around you. You can reflect Heaven here. Yet no reflections of the images of other gods must dim the mirror that would hold God’s reflection in it. Earth can reflect Heaven or hell; God or the ego. You need but leave the mirror clean and clear of all the images of hidden darkness you have drawn upon it. God will shine upon it of Himself. Only the clear reflection of Himself can be perceived upon it.

Could you but realize for a single instant the power of healing that the reflection of God, shining in you, can bring to all the world, you could not wait to make the mirror of your mind clean to receive the image of the holiness that heals the world.

The response of holiness to any form of error is always the same. There is no contradiction in what holiness calls forth. Its one response is healing, without regard for what is brought to it. Those who have learned to offer only healing, because of the reflection of holiness in them, are ready at last for Heaven. (A Course in Miracles, T-14.IX.5;7:1;8:1-4. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We become a spotless mirror of holiness by removing our projections of belief in separation (ego). We need to forgive our judgments, which maintain separation. Judgments respond to error (misperceptions) with attack. Holiness recognizes error as a call for Love and responds with Love. Thus the holiness of Love is reflected.

When we respond to all error with the holiness of God’s Love, we become His perfect reflection in the dream of separation. With the strength of God in us, we become a powerful instrument for healing in the world. There is no real opposite to God’s Love. The Light of Love dispels the dark images of separation. Fear disappears and Love shines everywhere. Guilt is recognized as meaningless in the Reality of Love’s Oneness.

Today we practice bringing all our perceptions in the world to the Holy Spirit in our mind for His help to clear our mirror of false images. Thus will we see our brothers truly as one with us in God’s Love.

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Choosing Christ’s Vision as Our Guide

What makes this world seem real except your own denial of the truth that lies beyond? What but your thoughts of misery and death obscure the perfect happiness and the eternal life your Father wills for you? And what could hide what cannot be concealed except illusion? What could keep from you what you already have except your choice to see it not, denying it is there?

The Thought of God created you.

Deny not Heaven. It is yours today, but for the asking.

Ask with desire. You need not be sure that you request the only thing you want. But when you have received, you will be sure you have the treasure you have always sought. What would you then exchange for [Heaven]? What would induce you now to let it fade away from your ecstatic vision? For this sight proves that you have exchanged your blindness for the seeing eyes of Christ; your mind has come to lay aside denial, and accept the Thought of God as your inheritance.

We count on God, and not upon ourselves, to give us certainty. And in His Name we practice as His Word directs we do. His sureness lies beyond our every doubt. His Love remains beyond our every fear. The Thought of Him is still beyond all dreams and in our minds, according to His Will. (, A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 165, W-pI.165.1:1-2:1;4:1-2;5;8. See also ACIM Lesson 165 Insights.)

Just as a seeing eye dog guides someone who is blind in the world, the eyes of Christ guide us back to Heaven when we have blinded ourself to the Reality of God’s Thought of Love. The seeing eyes of Christ are ever-present in our mind, but we must be willing to follow Christ’s vision. This is why it is important that we realize what we see with the body’s eyes hides the gift of Heaven from our sight.

Nothing we see in the world has any value or meaning of its own. It’s only the meaning that we give it that makes it fearful. But the practice of stepping back and asking to see Heaven, to see with Christ’s vision, will return us to the awareness that we are in Heaven now.

Today we choose Christ’s vision as our guide. This will lead us out of the darkness of the denial of Heaven and return us to the Thought of God that is our Home.

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The End of Fear

Be in my mind, my Father, when I wake, and shine on me throughout the day today. Let every minute be a time in which I dwell with You. And let me not forget my hourly thanksgiving that You have remained with me, and always will be there to hear my call to You and answer me. As evening comes, let all my thoughts be still of You and of Your Love. And let me sleep sure of my safety, certain of Your care, and happily aware I am Your Son.

This is as every day should be. Today, practice the end of fear. Have faith in Him Who is your Father. Trust all things to Him. Let Him reveal all things to you, and be you undismayed because you are His Son. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 232, W-pII.232. See also ACIM Lesson 232 Insights.)

The acceptance of God’s Love is the end of fear. Every apprehension, feeling of sadness or anger, every thought of guilt, comes from a belief in lack of Love. It is a call for Love. God is ever present to hear and answer our call. The practice of bringing all our thoughts of lack of Love and accepting His answer takes us closer to the end of fear. Repeating this prayer throughout the day helps us accept the Love of God that is already ours.

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The Joy of Being Love

The ego is the part of the mind that believes your existence is defined by separation.

Existence [a separate ego identity] as well as being [oneness] rests on communication. Existence [separation], however, is specific in how, what and with whom communication is judged to be worth undertaking. Being is completely without these distinctions. It is a state in which the mind is in communication with everything that is real [Love]. To whatever extent you permit this state [of being Love] to be curtailed you are limiting your sense of your own reality [Love], which becomes total only by recognizing all reality in the glorious context of its real relationship to you. [Love] is your reality. Do not desecrate it or recoil from it. [Love] is your real home, your real temple and your real Self. (A Course in Miracles,T-4.VII.1:5;4. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Because only Love is real, nothing exists outside Its all-encompassing oneness. Believing in separation is believing in what could never be real. A defining characteristic of the ego belief in separation is having distinctions between perceived parts. There can be no distinctions in oneness. Believing distinctions are real limits our experience of the Reality of Love. What we deny, we are not aware of. This denial makes a loveless world and leaves us feeling vulnerable because we are denying the power of Love in us.

Our true Self sees Love everywhere and joins with all in that Love. The nature of Love is to extend Itself. When we join with the Love in everyone, we join with the joyous, eternal extension of Love. As we become aware of our limiting thoughts, our perceptions of distinctions, we can release them by letting Holy Spirit in our mind shine the Light of Love on them. In this Light we see beyond the illusion of separation to the one Self we share with all. Our mind is healed.

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Gratitude for the Truth in Our Brother

Your gratitude to your brother is the only gift I want. I will bring it to God for you, knowing that to know your brother is to know God. If you are grateful to your brother, you are grateful to God for what He created. Through your gratitude you come to know your brother, and one moment of real recognition makes everyone your brother [equally] because each of them is of your Father.

As you come closer to a brother you approach me, and as you withdraw from him I become distant to you. Salvation is a collaborative venture. It cannot be undertaken successfully by those who disengage themselves from the Sonship, because they are disengaging themselves from me. God will come to you only as you will give Him [perfect Love] to your brothers. Learn first of [perfect Love in] them and you will be ready to hear God. That is because the function of love is one. (A Course in Miracles,T-4.VI.7:2-5;8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The body, which represents separation, is not what we are nor is it any brother. Being an illusion with no meaning of its own, it is not worthy of gratitude unless it is used in the service of Holy Spirit. To be grateful to our brother is to be grateful for the Truth in him, which is that he is God’s Love and nothing else. That is why gratitude for our brother is gratitude to God.

What we appreciate or value opens our mind to receive more of what we value. If we value illusions of separation, we seek more illusions. What we give value to seems to be real. Yet only God’s Creations are real. The illusions we make with the ego can never be real. This recognition is the key to remembering God. As we let the Holy Spirit teach us to see the Truth in our brother, our gratitude opens our hearts to receive God’s gifts. We remember Who we are in Truth.

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Accepting God’s World as Our Own

Father, unless I judge I cannot weep. Nor can I suffer pain, or feel I am abandoned or unneeded in the world. This is my home because I judge it not, and therefore is it only what You will. Let me today behold it uncondemned, through happy eyes forgiveness has released from all distortion. Let me see Your world instead of mine. And all the tears I shed will be forgotten, for their source is gone. Father, I will not judge Your world today.

God’s world is happy. Those who look on it can only add their joy to it, and bless it as a cause of further joy in them. We wept because we did not understand. But we have learned the world we saw was false, and we will look upon God’s world today.

Father, our eyes are opening at last. Your holy world awaits us, as our sight is finally restored and we can see. We thought we suffered. But we had forgot the Son whom You created. Now we see that darkness is our own imagining, and light is there for us to look upon. Christ’s vision changes darkness into light, for fear must disappear when love has come. Let me forgive Your holy world today, that I may look upon its holiness and understand it but reflects my own. (, A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 301,W-pII.301.1-2 302.1. See also ACIM Lesson 301 Insights.)

God’s world cannot be seen with the body’s eyes. It is seen through Christ’s vision, which is the vision of Love. Christ’s vision in our mind sees the innocence of Love’s oneness. Our eyes open to seeing God’s world as we accept Christ’s vision in place of what the body sees.

The ego’s world of separation depends upon judgment in all its perceptions. This is why forgiveness is needed to receive Christ’s vision, which will reveal God’s gifts of joy and peace. By letting Christ’s vision in our mind look past the images of the world, we see the real world, the world forgiveness sees. With this vision, we extend God’s Love in place of the ego’s denial of Love. With Christ’s vision, there is no cause for sadness, guilt or fear. We see only Love’s reflection everywhere.

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