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Gratitude for Our Unbreakable Link with God

A day devoted now to gratitude will add the benefit of some insight into the real extent of all the gains which you have made; the gifts you have received. Be glad today, in loving thankfulness, your Father has not left you to yourself, nor let you wander in the dark alone. Be grateful He has saved you from the self you thought you made to take the place of Him and His creation. Give Him thanks today.

Give thanks that He has not abandoned you, and that His Love forever will remain shining on you, forever without change. Give thanks as well that you are changeless, for the Son He loves is changeless as Himself. Be grateful you are saved. Be glad you have a function in salvation to fulfill.

Today we smile on everyone we see, and walk with lightened footsteps as we go to do what is appointed us to do.

Receive His thanks, and you will understand how lovingly He holds you in His Mind, how deep and limitless His care for you, how perfect is His gratitude to you. Remember hourly to think of Him, and give Him thanks for everything He gave His Son, that he might rise above the world, remembering his Father and his Self. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 123,W-pI.123.2:1-3:4;4:3;8. See also ACIM Lesson 123 Insights.)

Because we are as changeless as our Creator, we only need to be saved from the illusion of a separate self we have made up. We need only accept the truth to know that we are free of the limitations of the ego thought system.

While we believe we are a limited self, it is helpful to be assured that our Creator still Loves us without limit or condition. As we express gratitude for the certainty of God’s Love, it reinforces the truth of this in our troubled mind. Everything that disturbs our peace, seems to be cause for guilt or fear, comes solely from believing in a false identity.

We are grateful today that no matter what we may dream, the dream cannot change our Reality. Though we may seem to be alone in our dream, our Creator is still with us in our mind. The certainty of God’s Love in our mind guarantees our safety. We can rest assured that we are safe in the Heart of God.

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Seeing Love’s Light in Everyone

Grandeur is of God, and only of Him. Therefore it is in you. Whenever you become aware of it, however dimly, you abandon the ego automatically, because in the presence of the grandeur of God the meaninglessness of the ego becomes perfectly apparent. When this occurs, even though it does not understand it, the ego believes that its “enemy” has struck, and attempts to offer gifts to induce you to return to its “protection.” Self-inflation is the only offering it can make. The grandiosity of the ego is its alternative to the grandeur of God. Which will you choose?

Grandiosity is always a cover for despair. It is without hope because it is not real. It is an attempt to counteract your littleness, based on the belief that the littleness is real. Without this belief grandiosity is meaningless, and you could not possibly want it. The essence of grandiosity is competitiveness, because it always involves attack. It is a delusional attempt to outdo, but not to undo.

The ego is immobilized in the presence of God’s grandeur, because His grandeur establishes your freedom.

From your grandeur you can only bless, because your grandeur is your abundance. By blessing you hold it in your mind, protecting it from illusions and keeping yourself in the Mind of God. Remember always that you cannot be anywhere except in the Mind of God. When you forget this, you will despair and you will attack. (A Course in Miracles, T-9.VIII.1:-2:6;4:1;5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The grandeur of God is in us because our true Self remains united with Its Creator. Our sense of vulnerability, uncertainty and guilt comes from believing in the ego thought system of separation. In Reality, separation is impossible. But if we believe we are separate, this sense of vulnerability and isolation is automatic.

The ego is in competition with God for our attention. It has no substance and no strength of its own. It depends entirely on our belief and our identification with it to seem to have any effect at all. But the ego’s effects are meaningless because they are based on the false premise that separation is real. The moment we accept our unity with our Creator we accept our true grandeur, which shines away the dark beliefs of the ego.

It is helpful to realize that when we feel defensive, competitive, depressed or alone, we are denying our innate grandeur that comes from our oneness with God. We are believing in a false image of our self. By asking the Holy Spirit to be the interpreter of all our perceptions, we learn to overlook displays of grandiosity and see beyond them to the grandeur of the Light of Love that is in everyone. The more we welcome this vision, the more we will experience the peace and joy of God. We will bless everyone by seeing the truth in them.

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Choosing Perfect Happiness

It is perfectly obvious that if the Holy Spirit looks with love on all He perceives, He looks with love on you. His evaluation of you is based on His knowledge of what you are, and so He evaluates you truly. And this evaluation must be in your mind, because He is. The ego is also in your mind, because you have accepted it there. Its evaluation of you, however, is the exact opposite of the Holy Spirit’s, because the ego does not love you. It is unaware of what you are, and wholly mistrustful of everything it perceives because its perceptions are so shifting. The ego is therefore capable of suspiciousness at best and viciousness at worst. That is its range. It cannot exceed it because of its uncertainty. And it can never go beyond it because it can never be certain.

You, then, have two conflicting evaluations of yourself in your mind, and they cannot both be true. You do not yet realize how completely different these evaluations are, because you do not understand how lofty the Holy Spirit’s perception of you really is. He is not deceived by anything you do, because He never forgets what you are.

The Holy Spirit judges against the reality of the ego’s thought system merely because He knows its foundation is not true. Therefore, nothing that arises from it means anything. He judges every belief you hold in terms of where it comes from. If it comes from God, He knows it to be true. If it does not, He knows that it is meaningless. (A Course in Miracles, T-9.VII.3:1-4:3;7:6-10. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Our happiness, which is our salvation, comes with accepting our true Will — the Will of God. God’s Will for us is perfect happiness. When we align with the ego thought system in our mind, we are choosing against our true Will. We are choosing against happiness. To seek for happiness within the ego thought system is futile because the ego is the denial of what brings us true happiness.

If we let the Holy Spirit judge all things on our behalf, He will dismiss as meaningless what comes from the ego thought system and bring to Light the truth as He knows it. What the Holy Spirit knows is in perfect alignment with the Will of God. To choose the Holy Spirit to guide us in all things is to choose perfect happiness.

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A Practice to Awaken to Love

You are one Self, united and secure in light and joy and peace. You are God’s Son, one Self, with one Creator and one goal; to bring awareness of this oneness to all minds, that true creation may extend the allness and the unity of God. You are one Self, complete and healed and whole, with power to lift the veil of darkness from the world, and let the light in you come through to teach the world the truth about yourself.

You are one Self, in perfect harmony with all there is, and all that there will be. You are one Self, the holy Son of God, united with your brothers in that Self; united with your Father in His Will. Feel this one Self in you, and let It shine away all your illusions and your doubts. This is your Self, the Son of God Himself, sinless as Its Creator, with His strength within you and His Love forever yours. You are one Self, and it is given you to feel this Self within you, and to cast all your illusions out of the one Mind that is this Self, the holy truth in you.

To everyone you meet today, be sure to give the promise of today’s idea and tell him this:

You are one Self with me, united with our Creator in this Self. I honor you because of What I am, and What He is, Who loves us both as One. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 95,W-pI.95.12-13;15:2-4. See also ACIM Lesson 95 Insights.)

Our one Self is Love and nothing else, for It is the creation of Love. Our one Self remains united with our Creator and therefore shares all of Its attributes. What is one is the same everywhere, with no differences, shadows or forms that could distinguish one part from another.

To perceive a part is to perceive separation, which cannot be contained in oneness. This uniformity of Love is what makes us whole and complete, invulnerable and in perfect peace. Whenever we experience any disturbance to our peace, perceive anything as different from What we are, we are believing in a false self-image.

The practice, today, of acknowledging that our one Self encompasses every brother and keeps us whole and safe is the way to remember the truth of What we are. It helps us forgive our mistaken self-image and open our minds to the inclusiveness of our one Self, which unites us with every brother and our Creator. It is the path of return to our eternal Home in Love.

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Returning to Our True Home

Can you imagine how beautiful those you forgive will look to you? In no fantasy have you ever seen anything so lovely. Nothing you see here, sleeping or waking, comes near to such loveliness. And nothing will you value like unto this, nor hold so dear. Nothing that you remember that made your heart sing with joy has ever brought you even a little part of the happiness this sight will bring you. For you will see the Son of God. You will behold the beauty the Holy Spirit loves to look upon, and which He thanks the Father for. He was created to see this for you, until you learned to see it for yourself. And all His teaching leads to seeing it and giving thanks with Him.

The real world is attained simply by the complete forgiveness of the old, the world you see without forgiveness. The great Transformer of perception will undertake with you the careful searching of the mind that made this world, and uncover to you the seeming reasons for your making it. In the light of the real reason that He brings, as you follow Him, He will show you that there is no reason here at all. Each spot His reason touches grows alive with beauty, and what seemed ugly in the darkness of your lack of reason is suddenly released to loveliness. Not even what the Son of God made in insanity could be without a hidden spark of beauty that gentleness could release. (A Course in Miracles, T-17.II.1;5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

It is time to give up seeking happiness in the forms of the world. Happiness is an inside job because it is a gift already given us by our Creator. The world of separation made by the ego stands as a barrier that hides our happiness, peace and our limitless Love from our awareness.

The Holy Spirit, the great Transformer, is ever-present in our mind. If we choose His guidance, He will gently and lovingly guide us out of the chaotic world of images made by the ego as a substitute for the reality of changeless Love. He will help us ferret out the mistaken beliefs that hide the real world from our awareness and help us let them go.

Each time we forgive we take another step toward the bridge of return. At this bridge, where forgiveness is complete, we leave behind the fantasies of the world of separation and are drawn gently Home to the place where our joy and peace are complete and changeless. Today we welcome the Holy Spirit’s guidance, for we desire to return to our true Home.

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Freeing Ourselves to Be Love

In our remembrance of each other lies our remembrance of God. And in this remembrance lies your freedom because your freedom is in Him. Join, then, with me in praise of Him and you whom He created. This is our gift of gratitude to Him, which He will share with all His creations, to whom He gives equally whatever is acceptable to Him. Because it is acceptable to Him it is the gift of freedom, which is His Will for all His Sons. By offering freedom you will be free.

Freedom is the only gift you can offer to God’s Sons, being an acknowledgment of what they are and what He is. Freedom is creation, because it is love. Whom you seek to imprison you do not love. Therefore, when you seek to imprison anyone, including yourself, you do not love him and you cannot identify with him. When you imprison yourself you are losing sight of your true identification with me and with the Father. Your identification is with the Father and with the Son. It cannot be with One and not the Other. If you are part of One you must be part of the Other, because They are One. The Holy Trinity is holy because It is One. If you exclude yourself from this union, you are perceiving the Holy Trinity as separated. You must be included in It, because It is everything. Unless you take your place in It and fulfill your function as part of It, the Holy Trinity is as bereft as you are. No part of It can be imprisoned if Its truth is to be known. (A Course in Miracles, T-8.IV.7:6-8:13. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We imprison ourselves and our brothers by believing we are separate identities. What is one cannot encompass separate identities because if separate identities were true, oneness would no longer exist. The most repeated Workbook lesson (201-220) asks us to remind ourselves, “I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.” Disconnecting our identification from the body sets us free to accept our Identity in the oneness of Love. It is letting go of limitation and accepting the limitlessness of the eternal universe of Love.

The Holy Spirit is one with the universe of Love, which encompasses God and all of His Creation. It is also the bridge between God and the split mind that dreams of separation and limitation. It is this Bridge which we must call upon to help us see past our mistaken beliefs and let them go. The ego is the idea of limitation and is incapable of guiding us to the recognition of oneness.

Today we call upon the Holy Spirit in our minds to help us see past our mistaken beliefs and see the truth of Love that is eternally present beyond all forms.

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All We Really Want Is the Peace of God

The mind which means that all it wants is peace must join with other minds, for that is how peace is obtained. And when the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is given, in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.

Today devote your practice periods to careful searching of your mind, to find the dreams you cherish still. What do you ask for in your heart? Forget the words you use in making your requests. Consider but what you believe will comfort you, and bring you happiness. But be you not dismayed by lingering illusions, for their form is not what matters now. Let not some dreams be more acceptable, reserving shame and secrecy for others. They are one. And being one, one question should be asked of all of them, “Is this what I would have, in place of Heaven and the peace of God?”

This is the choice you make. Be not deceived that it is otherwise. No compromise is possible in this. You choose God’s peace, or you have asked for dreams. And dreams will come as you requested them. Yet will God’s peace come just as certainly, and to remain with you forever. It will not be gone with every twist and turning of the road, to reappear, unrecognized, in forms which shift and change with every step you take.

You want the peace of God. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 185,W-pI.185.6:1-2;8:1-10.1. See also ACIM Lesson 185 Insights.)

It is helpful to know that if we seek for any form in the dream with the belief that the form will bring us comfort, happiness or safety, we are choosing against the peace of God. We are choosing a substitute for God’s Love that will never bring us lasting peace. Peace is found in the changelessness of Love.

Everything in the dream of separation changes and therefore is not a substitute for God’s peace. Because of the unreliability of the dream, the peace of God cannot be found there. This is why it is important for us to search our minds to identify the ways that we seek for comfort or happiness in the world.

To find the peace of God, we need to set aside these mistaken wishes and choose only to follow the Holy Spirit’s lead in all things. His guidance will always direct us to the remembrance that only Love is real and in God’s Love we have His peace. This is why all we really want is the peace of God.

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