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Making Way for Truth to Enter Our Minds

The process of Atonement is an undoing or correction of all the falsity, the illusion, that clouds your holy mind. The Holy Spirit guides this process in time; through your willingness and your surrender, your mind is made empty and free of all that has inspired it for so long. Into this empty and purified mind, the Truth will come and claim Its own.

Your one responsibility is to accept Atonement for yourself. In this one act of acceptance, the acceptance of your one responsibility, is awakening assured; everything necessary for it to occur is included in that single declaration of allegiance. This acceptance, which is all inclusive, is repeated again and again throughout the day, day after day, as you learn to choose Truth over illusion. Your task and your constant focus is to remember this responsibility; the continuous false activity of your mind requires a constant vigilance and a consistent response to be undone. (From the Christ Mind, p. 177-178)

Do we want our inspiration to come from the thought system of limitation, separation, guilt and fear, or do we want our inspiration to come from unlimited Love, recognition of innocence and knowing oneness? We make this choice in every moment; it is the choice between the illusion of separation and the Reality of the Self that Love created us to be. We have identified with the ego thought system for so long that we believe it is ours and that it is true.

We must be willing to relinquish all that we have believed to be true to make way for the inspiration of our true Self to show us the way to forgiveness and Truth. This is why the early lessons of A Course in Miracles teach us that we do not know what anything means. Remembering this opens our mind to our true Self’s lessons in Love. This is our focus today.

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Remembering Who We Are

Today we offer thanks that Christ has come to search the world for what belongs to Him. His vision sees no strangers, but beholds His Own and joyously unites with them. They see Him as a stranger, for they do not recognize themselves. Yet as they give Him welcome, they remember. And He leads them gently home again, where they belong.

Not one does Christ forget. Not one He fails to give you to remember, that your home may be complete and perfect as it was established. He has not forgotten you. But you will not remember Him until you look on all as He does. Who denies his brother is denying Him, and thus refusing to accept the gift of sight by which his Self is clearly recognized, his home remembered and salvation come. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 160, W-pI.160.9-10. See also ACIM Lesson 160 Insights.)

I Remember Who I Am

I accept that I am Love.

I release all judgments of others and know that they are doing the best they can.

I keep my life simple and follow my highest path.

I stay in tune with the Highest Source within me and let It guide my way.

I am gentle and kind with myself and others.

I pace myself with one step at a time.

I know the perfect circumstances present themselves for my perfect continued growth.

I am Love.
I am Joy.
I am Peace. ©1993, Pathways of Light.

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Choose Peace First

Peace of mind is clearly an internal matter. It must begin with your own thoughts, and then extend outward. It is from your peace of mind that a peaceful perception of the world arises. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 34, W-pI.34.1:2-4A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 34, )

No matter what chaos appears to be happening in the world we see, the most important thing we can do is maintain a peaceful state of mind. Our state of mind is always our choice. We are in complete control.

If we are anxious, it is only because we have chosen to believe that false images are real. We have another choice. It does not seem to be a logical choice, but this is only because we have given reality in our minds to what is illogical. We cannot find peace in the thought system of chaos. But we can find peace in our right mind, our true Self. Our true Self is always accessible to us. We need only be willing to accept Its vision in place of our imagined perceptions.

The practice of stepping back from our perceptions and opening to our right Mind will bring us to the peace that will guide us through the seeming chaos of the world. Our true Self will inspire us with right action that quiets fear, heals our mind and blesses our world. We can offer no greater gift to the world than to choose peace first, moment by moment.

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Claiming the Strength of God in Us

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 small, the weak, the sickly and the dying, those in need, the helpless and afraid, the sad, the poor, the starving and the joyless. These are seen through eyes that cannot see and cannot bless.

Strength overlooks these things by seeing past appearances. It keeps its steady gaze upon the light that lies beyond them. It unites with light, of which it is a part. It sees itself. It brings the light in which your Self appears. In darkness you perceive a self that is not there. Strength is the truth about you; weakness is an idol falsely worshipped and adored that strength may be dispelled, and darkness rule where God appointed that there should be light.

Strength comes from truth, and shines with light its Source has given it; weakness reflects the darkness of its maker. It is sick and looks on sickness, which is like itself. 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.

The light of strength is constant, sure as love, forever glad to give itself away, because it cannot give but to itself. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 92, W-pI.92.3-5;8:1. See also ACIM Lesson 92 Insights.)

Today we choose the strength of God in us. His strength overlooks the appearances of devastation and death. God’s strength is Love, which knows no fear, seeing only Itself everywhere. Nothing but God’s Love is real. The invulnerability of God’s strength is ours, for we were created by Love like Itself.

By choosing the strength of God in us today, we accept His promise that we remain the one Self God created, safe and healed and whole. In God’s strength we walk in certainty and peace. We claim it now.

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We Are Love as Love Created Us

We are trying today to undo your definition of God and replace it with His Own. We are also trying to emphasize that you are part of His definition of Himself.

…try to reach past all your images and preconceptions about yourself to the truth in you. If love created you like itself, this Self must be in you. And somewhere in your mind It is there for you to find.

You need to hear the truth about yourself as frequently as possible, because your mind is so preoccupied with false self-images. Four or five times an hour, and perhaps even more, it would be most beneficial to remind yourself that love created you like itself. Hear the truth about yourself in this.

Try to realize in the shorter practice periods that this is not your tiny, solitary voice that tells you this. This is the Voice for God, reminding you of your Father and of your Self. This is the Voice of truth, replacing everything that the ego tells you about yourself with the simple truth about the Son of God. You were created by love like itself. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 67, W-pI.67.2:8-9;3:1-3;5:2-6:4. See also ACIM Lesson 67 Insights.)

In the dream of separation, we are preoccupied with the body — feeding it, protecting it and giving it status. This preoccupation hides the reality that beyond appearances is the Self that Love created like Itself. We are all united in one Love, despite appearances in the world of separate bodies in time and space.

From the perspective of being a body, it is impossible to conceive of our oneness in Love. But God’s Voice is telling us that Love created us like Itself. Repeating this thought again and again and again helps loosen our mistaken obsession with being a separate body. It opens a crack in our hardened shell of defense to maintain the body as our identity.

As we open our minds to the thought of being Love and nothing else, we can be taught to recognize that we are still as Love created us. All that seemed to happen with bodies was no more than a dream and had no effect on our true Self. We are still Love as Love created us.

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Problem Solving with the Holy Instant

In quietness are all things answered, and is every problem quietly resolved. In conflict there can be no answer and no resolution, for its purpose is to make no resolution possible, and to ensure no answer will be plain. A problem set in conflict has no answer, for it is seen in different ways. And what would be an answer from one point of view is not an answer in another light. You are in conflict. Thus it must be clear you cannot answer anything at all, for conflict has no limited effects. Yet if God gave an answer there must be a way in which your problems are resolved, for what He wills already has been done.

Thus it must be that time is not involved and every problem can be answered now. Yet it must also be that, in your state of mind, solution is impossible. Therefore, God must have given you a way of reaching to another state of mind in which the answer is already there. Such is the holy instant. It is here that all your problems should be brought and left. Here they belong, for here their answer is. And where its answer is, a problem must be simple and be easily resolved. It must be pointless to attempt to solve a problem where the answer cannot be. Yet just as surely it must be resolved, if it is brought to where the answer is.

Attempt to solve no problems but within the holy instant’s surety. For there the problem will be answered and resolved. (A Course in Miracles, T-27.IV.1:1-3:2. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

The holy instant is God’s gift to help us reach a quiet mind where we can receive His answer to every perceived problem. Whenever we are conflicted or uncertain about what to do or what to think, we are engaged with the ego. The ego has one primary goal: to maintain the belief in separation. Thus it will never provide a true resolution to any perceived problem. It will only offer a substitute illusion that we may like better than our current perceived problem. But the ego’s “solutions” will always maintain the illusion of separation in keeping with its motto, “seek and do not find.”

The practice of pausing and going to a peaceful state opens the door to inspiration that will truly solve our perceived problem. We reach this quiet state by at least temporarily setting aside our ideas of what the problem is or how we think it might be solved. These ideas come from the ego and can never truly solve the problem.

When we let our minds be quiet, the Holy Spirit can give us an answer that is truly freeing. It will bring with it a sense of peace and comfort. It may also include actions to take in the dream of form. This form reflects the state of peace and Love of our true Self in the world. This is how our acceptance of the holy instant and peace can resolve problems perceived in the dream.

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The Key to Peace and Happiness

If all but loving thoughts have been forgotten, what remains is eternal. And the transformed past is made like the present. No longer does the past conflict with now. This continuity extends the present by increasing its reality and its value in your perception of it. In these loving thoughts is the spark of beauty hidden in the ugliness of the unholy relationship where hatred is remembered; yet [the loving thoughts are] there to come alive as the relationship is given to Him Who gives it life and beauty. That is why Atonement centers on the past, which is the source of separation, and where it must be undone. For separation must be corrected where it was made.

It is still up to you to choose to join with truth or with illusion. But remember that to choose one is to let the other go. Which one you choose you will endow with beauty and reality, because the choice depends on which you value more. The spark of beauty or the veil of ugliness, the real world or the world of guilt and fear, truth or illusion, freedom or slavery — it is all the same. For you can never choose except between God and the ego. Thought systems are but true or false, and all their attributes come simply from what they are. Only the Thoughts of God are true. And all that follows from them comes from what they are, and is as true as is the holy Source from which they came. (A Course in Miracles, T-17.III.5:3-9;9. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Time is one of the key concepts the ego uses to make separation seem real. Memories of the past seem to be permanent because the past is not here and cannot be changed. Yet hanging on to memories keeps the past alive in our perception of the present. The past is also used as the basis for our made up stories about what the future may bring. With the past held firmly in our minds, the loving, radiant present is blocked from our awareness. This is why undoing our grip on the past is essential to free us to live in God’s present moment of Love.

Forgiveness is the Holy Spirit’s lesson that helps us loosen our attachment to our memories. As the past is forgotten we experience increasing peace and happiness, which are God’s Will for us. In each moment we choose between opposing God’s Will or accepting It; between the hell of lack of Love or the joy of living in God’s Love.

Today we welcome the Holy Spirit’s lessons in forgiveness to release the past and to accept God’s present Love now.

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