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Our Resurrection from Fear to Love

The resurrection is the denial of death, being the assertion of life. Thus is all the thinking of the world reversed entirely. Life [God/Love] is now recognized as salvation, and pain and misery of any kind perceived as hell. Love is no longer feared, but gladly welcomed. Idols have disappeared, and the remembrance of God shines unimpeded across the world. Christ’s face is seen in every living thing, and nothing is held in darkness, apart from the light of forgiveness. There is no sorrow still upon the earth. The joy of Heaven has come upon it.

These things await us all, but we are not prepared as yet to welcome them with joy. As long as any mind remains possessed of evil dreams, the thought of hell is [perceived as] real. God’s teachers have the goal of wakening the minds of those asleep, and seeing there the vision of Christ’s face to take the place of what they dream. The thought of murder [separation] is replaced with blessing. Judgment is laid by, and given Him Whose function judgment is. And in His Final Judgment is restored the truth about the holy Son of God. He is redeemed, for he has heard God’s Word and understood its meaning. He is free because he let God’s Voice proclaim the truth. And all he sought before to crucify are resurrected with him, by his side, as he prepares with them to meet his God. (A Course in Miracles, M-28.2;6)

The resurrection is available to everyone, but we have to be willing to give up our dreams of specialness and separation. We have to learn that all the images in our dream world have no value. Our wish to be special denies the resurrection; it denies our unity with our Creator.

As we learn to recognize that the images of the world have no meaning of their own, we make way for the Holy Spirit to use them on behalf of our awakening. Images of fear and guilt, attack and judgment, become recognized as calls for Love. As we accept Holy Spirit’s help we are able to answer calls for Love with Love. With Love, we see only innocence. With Love we see our unity with the Love that is in everyone.

Every thought that denies this unity must be brought to the Holy Spirit in our minds to be released. When we have released all our investment in the dream of separation, we have accepted our resurrection. We see every brother as one with us in Love. We remember that we remain one in the Heart of God.

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Awakening to Love’s Presence

The central lesson is always this; that what you use the body for it will become to you. Use it for sin or for attack [to reinforce separation], which is the same as sin, and you will see it as sinful. Because it is sinful [full of guilt] it is weak, and being weak, it suffers and it dies. Use [the body] to bring the Word of God to those who have it not, and the body becomes holy. Because it is holy it cannot be sick, nor can it die. When its usefulness is done it is laid by, and that is all.

Oneness and sickness cannot coexist. God’s teachers choose to look on dreams a while. It is a conscious choice. For they have learned that all choices are made consciously, with full awareness of their consequences. The dream says otherwise, but who would put his faith in dreams once they are recognized for what they are? Awareness of dreaming is the real function of God’s teachers. They watch the dream figures come and go, shift and change, suffer and die. Yet they are not deceived by what they see. They recognize that to behold a dream figure as sick and separate is no more real than to regard it as healthy and beautiful. Unity alone is not a thing of dreams. And it is this God’s teachers acknowledge as behind the dream, beyond all seeming and yet surely theirs. (A Course in Miracles, M-12.5:1-6;6:1-11)

Unity is of the mind. The part of the mind that believes separation is real is sick (insane). It is the sick mind that imagines a world of separation with separate bodies where harm and loss seems to be possible. It is the sickness of the mind that must be healed. The mechanism for this healing is true forgiveness — letting go of belief in separation.

The Word of God, the Holy Spirit, teaches us to see past the illusions of the sick mind. While we identify with the sick mind (ego), it seems that God’s Voice is asking us to sacrifice the valuable. So we need to be taught that we have mistakenly given value to nothing. God’s Voice teaches us to recognize that what we value in the world is meaningless and nothing.

As we accept His lessons, we naturally lay down false values and welcome God’s gifts which are already ours. We are able to overlook the figures in the dream because we know they are illusions. This process of letting go of false values is our journey of awakening to the awareness of Love’s presence.

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Choosing Lessons in Happiness

The ego cannot teach you anything as long as your will is free, because you will not listen to it. It is not your will to be imprisoned because your will is free. That is why the ego is the denial of free will. It is never God Who coerces you, because He shares His Will with you. His Voice teaches only in accordance with His Will, but that is not the Holy Spirit’s lesson because that is what you are. The lesson is that your will and God’s cannot be out of accord because they are one. This is the undoing of everything the ego tries to teach.

The ego tries to teach that you want to oppose God’s Will. This unnatural lesson cannot be learned, and the attempt to learn it is a violation of your own freedom, making you afraid of your will because it is free. The Holy Spirit opposes any imprisoning of the will of a Son of God, knowing that the Will of the Son is the Father’s. The Holy Spirit leads you steadily along the path of freedom, teaching you how to disregard or look beyond everything that would hold you back.

When you have learned that your will is God’s, you could no more will to be without Him than He could will to be without you. This is freedom and this is joy. (A Course in Miracles, T-8.II.3:1-7;4:1-4;6:4-5. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Everyone wants to be happy. But if we identify with the ego, we are seeking happiness where it cannot be found because the ego is dedicated to seeking and not finding. The ego is the denial of our true Will, where happiness can be found.

When we identify with the ego, we are afraid of our will, which is God’s Will. God seems to be demanding that we give up our happiness because the ego insists our happiness can be found in specialness and separation. The ego is a liar.

But we have another Teacher in our mind Who knows our true Will and will help us remember and accept it. The goal of this Teacher is to lead us to lasting happiness. The lessons of our inner Teacher help us learn to overlook the ego’s false images to see the truth of the Love and joy of God that is our natural condition. His lessons in forgiveness remove the ego’s imprisoning veil of separation and free us to be what our true Will wills us to be.

Today we choose lessons in forgiveness because we choose to be happy.

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Using the Holy Relationship to Awaken

You who hold your brother’s hand also hold mine, for when you joined [in a holy relationship with] each other you were not alone. Do you believe that I would leave you in the darkness that you agreed to leave with me? In your relationship is this world’s light. And fear must disappear before you now. Be tempted not to snatch away the gift of faith you offered to your brother. You will succeed only in frightening yourself. The gift is given forever, for God Himself received it. You cannot take it back. You have accepted God. The holiness of your relationship is established in Heaven. You do not understand what you accepted, but remember that your understanding is not necessary. All that was necessary was merely the wish to understand. That wish was the desire to be holy. The Will of God is granted you. For you desire the only thing you ever had, or ever were.

Each instant that we spend together will teach you that this goal is possible, and will strengthen your desire to reach it. And in your desire lies its accomplishment. Your desire is now in complete accord with all the power of the Holy Spirit’s Will. (T-18.III.4:1-5:3)

A relationship is made holy by the desire that it be holy. Being holy means knowing oneness. Heaven is the oneness of Love.

In this dream of separation we cannot comprehend oneness. But the desire to be holy (whole) opens the door to let our inner Teacher teach us of our oneness. The choice for a holy relationship becomes the Holy Spirit’s classroom. If we already knew all the lessons in a classroom, we wouldn’t need to be there. By choosing the classroom of the holy relationship, we have chosen the means to awaken from the dream of specialness.

The holy relationship may sometimes seem very unholy as the ego’s conflicting goals come to the surface. Our desire to have the relationship be holy opens the door for the Holy Spirit to use these times of conflict as teaching opportunities. Thus the relationship dedicated to holiness has the purpose of leading us out of the dream and back to the holiness of Heaven, our true Home.

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Choosing to Serve Love’s Purpose

The Father keeps what He created safe. You cannot touch it with the false ideas you made, because it was created not by you. Let not your foolish fancies frighten you. What is immortal cannot be attacked; what is but temporal has no effect. Only the purpose that you see in it has meaning, and if that [purpose] is true, its safety rests secure. If [that purpose is not true], it has no purpose, and is means for nothing. Whatever is perceived as means for truth shares in its holiness, and rests in light as safely as itself. Nor will that light go out when [the means] is gone. Its holy purpose gave it immortality, setting another light in Heaven, where your creations [extensions of Love] recognize a gift from you, a sign that you have not forgotten them.

The test of everything on earth is simply this; “What is it for?” The answer makes it what it is for you. It has no meaning of itself, yet you can give reality to it, according to the purpose that you serve. (A Course in Miracles, T-24.VII.5:1-6:3. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

When we identify with the body as what we are, we are serving the ego thought system. All the images of the world come with the ego. It doesn’t seem like we have anything to do with “natural” disasters, a terrorist attack or someone winning a lottery. Yet all these things are part of the ego’s imagery of separation and specialness. They seem real only because we believe we are the ego. Belief makes appearances seem real but has no effect whatsoever on Reality. Only the oneness of Love is real and Love is as changeless as God.

Love’s extension, God’s Son, is in us all as one. The purpose of His Son within us is to extend Love and nothing else. When we identify with this purpose, we see Love everywhere. Love joins with Love automatically. If we are uncertain about the answer to the question, “What is it for?” we can ask, “What is Love’s purpose for this?” Love’s purpose is always to show us Its unity, changelessness and safety in the Heart of Love.

When we choose to serve Love, we serve the Truth in us and Truth shines away the ego’s false images. Today we choose to serve Love’s purpose.

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Accepting the Vision of Our True Self

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;

Strength overlooks these things by seeing past appearances.

Truth is a savior and can only will for happiness and peace for everyone. It gives its strength to everyone who asks, in limitless supply. It sees that lack in anyone would be a lack in all. And so it gives its light that all may see and benefit as one. Its strength is shared, that it may bring to all the miracle in which they will unite in purpose and forgiveness and in love.

Weakness [ego], which looks in darkness, cannot see a purpose in forgiveness and in love. It sees all others different from itself, and nothing in the world that it would share.

The light of strength is constant, sure as love, forever glad to give itself away, because it cannot give but to itself. No one can ask in vain to share its sight, and none who enters its abode can leave without a miracle before his eyes, and strength and light abiding in his heart.

…the peace of God is where your Self, His Son, is waiting now to meet Itself again, and be as One. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 92, W-pI.92.3:1-3;4:1;5:3-6:2;8:1-2;9:3. See also ACIM Lesson 92 Insights.)

The news is filled with images of devastation and loss. When looked upon from the ego’s perspective, it reinforces our sense of weakness and vulnerability. Fear seems justified and loss seems real. All this is part of the ego’s defense system to keep itself in place in our minds. As long as we identify with the ego as what we are, fear will be our constant companion.

The Course is teaching us that no matter how real the images of separation we see seem to be, they are just the hallucinations of an insane thought system of being separate from Love, our Creator. To find release from the hell of these hallucinations, we must accept help from our true Self which does not believe the ego’s insanity.

As we are willing to question the reality of our perceptions, we open the door in our mind to the Light of Love that is always there. This Light is our strength, for it is the strength of God. The strength of this Light will dispel the ego’s dark thoughts of weakness.

As we practice joining with the strength of our true Self when we look upon the images in the dream, we will see beyond the appearance of loss to the certainty of Love ever present, everywhere. We cannot do it on our own, but we are not on our own. Our true Self is always with us, ready to bring Its strength and Light to all we look upon. We welcome our true Self today.

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Choosing Lessons in Love

The lessons to be learned are only two. Each has its outcome in a different world. And each world follows surely from its source. The certain outcome of the lesson that God’s Son is guilty is the world you see. …However much you may have overlearned your chosen task, the lesson that reflects the Love of God is stronger still. And you will learn God’s Son is innocent, and see another world.

The outcome of the lesson that God’s Son is guiltless is a world in which there is no fear, and everything is lit with hope and sparkles with a gentle friendliness. Nothing but calls to you in soft appeal to be your friend, and let it join with you. And never does a call remain unheard, misunderstood, nor left unanswered in the selfsame tongue in which the call was made. And you will understand it was this call that everyone and everything within the world has always made, but you had not perceived it as it was. And now you see you were mistaken. You had been deceived by forms the call was hidden in. And so you did not hear it, and had lost a friend who always wanted to be part of you. The soft eternal calling of each part of God’s creation to the whole is heard throughout the world this second lesson brings.

There is no living thing that does not share the universal Will that it be whole, and that you do not leave its call unheard.” (A Course in Miracles, T-31.I.7:1-5,10-11;8:1-9:1. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

The ego’s purpose for all the images of the world is to teach that God’s Son is guilty. The appearance of harm, devastation, attack and death all seem to justify the judgment of guilt. Yet all these forms are illusions because God and all His Creations are changeless Love and cannot harm nor be harmed. The purpose of the ego’s illusions is to hide the Truth behind its images of guilt.

The Holy Spirit has a different purpose for our self-made learning skill. His purpose is to teach us that God’s Son is guiltless. Gently and persistently He teaches us to recognize the falsity of the ego’s images. As we learn what is false, we easily overlook it. Forgiveness simply overlooks what could never be true. We learn these lessons when we are willing to bring our thoughts of fear and guilt to the Holy Spirit and welcome His lessons in Love to replace the ego’s lessons in guilt.

Today we choose the Holy Spirit’s lessons in Love.

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