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Accepting Holy Spirit’s Purity

The reason why this course is simple, is that truth is simple. Complexity is of the ego, and is nothing more than the ego’s attempt to obscure the obvious. …The holy instant is a time in which you receive and give perfect communication. This means, however, that it is a time in which your mind is open, both to receive and give. It is the recognition that all minds are in communication. It therefore seeks to change nothing, but merely to accept everything.

Every thought you would keep hidden shuts communication off, because you would have it so.

The necessary condition for the holy instant does not require that you have no thoughts that are not pure. But it does require that you have none that you would keep. Innocence is not of your making. It is given you the instant you would have it. Atonement would not be if there were no need for it. You will not be able to accept perfect communication as long as you would hide it from yourself. For what you would hide is hidden. In your practice, then, try only to be vigilant against deception, and seek not to protect the thoughts you would keep to yourself. Let the Holy Spirit’s purity shine them away, and bring all your awareness to the readiness for purity He offers you. Thus will He make you ready to acknowledge that you are host to God, and hostage to no one and to nothing. (A Course in Miracles, T-15.IV.6:1-2,5-8;8:1;9:1-10. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

The Holy Spirit is always there in our minds to help us undo our belief in separation. Belief in separation is the barrier that denies we are one with our Father.

As we are willing to forgive, or let go of the false belief in separation from our Father, we see that every brother is one with us in truth. We see that all differences are inherently false. We see that we are perfect Love and nothing else.

We are gently being freed from all thoughts of littleness and differences as we let the Holy Spirit shine away these false thoughts minute by minute, day by day. In truth every brother is host to God as we are. In truth we are one Light and we have one Life, the Life we live in God. All this comes with opening to Holy Spirit’s healing Light.

This is our practice for today.

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We Remain Love and Joy as We Were Created

…pain is purposeless, without a cause and with no power to accomplish anything. It cannot purchase anything at all. It offers nothing, and does not exist. And everything you think it offers you is lacking in existence, like itself. You have been slave to nothing. Be you free today to join the happy Will of God.

Here is your home, and here your safety is. Here is your peace, and here there is no fear. Here is salvation. Here is rest at last.

I share God’s Will for happiness for me, and
I accept it as my function now.

Then seek this function deep within your mind, for it is there, awaiting but your choice. You cannot fail to find it when you learn it is your choice, and that you share God’s Will.

Be happy, for your only function here is happiness. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 102, W-pI.102.2:1-5;3:2-5;4:2-4;5:1. See also ACIM Lesson 102 Insights.)

It could be said that to be happy is to be Love, for joy is an attribute of Love. Of course God’s Will for us is perfect happiness because God is Love and joy is part of Love. God gave all of Himself to His Creation and so His Creation shares all of His joy. Being His Creation, our function must be to be happy as our Creator is.

If we are not experiencing perfect happiness, we are suffering under a misunderstanding of What we are. We need a correction in our mind to return understanding to our awareness that we are only Love as our Creator is. To fulfill our function of sharing God’s joy, we need to remind ourselves frequently to accept God’s Will for us and be willing to have our misunderstanding corrected. This is another way of saying that we need to accept the Holy Spirit’s help to forgive ourselves for believing we disconnected from God’s Love. In truth, we remain Love and joy as we were created.

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2017 — A Year of Lessons in Love

To teach is to demonstrate. There are only two thought systems, and you demonstrate that you believe one or the other is true all the time. From your demonstration others learn, and so do you. The question is not whether you will teach, for in that there is no choice. The purpose of the course might be said to provide you with a means of choosing what you want to teach on the basis of what you want to learn. You cannot give to someone else, but only to yourself, and this you learn through teaching. Teaching is but a call to witnesses to attest to what you believe. It is a method of conversion. This is not done by words alone. Any situation must be to you a chance to teach others what you are, and what they are to you. No more than that, but also never less.

The self-deceiving must deceive, for they must teach deception. And what else is hell? This is a manual for the teachers of God. They are not perfect, or they would not be here. Yet it is their mission to become perfect here, and so they teach perfection over and over, in many, many ways, until they have learned it. And then they are seen no more, although their thoughts remain a source of strength and truth forever. (A Course in Miracles, M-In.2;5:2-7)

In every moment we demonstrate what we believe we are by our thoughts, words and actions. If we believe we are a separate individual, identified with a body, we will think of ourselves as disconnected from everyone and everything. We perceive and judge others as separate from us. We respond to relationships and situations based upon our judgments which reflect our belief in what we are. All this teaches others and ourselves, reinforcing our belief that we are separate.

Yet every moment can be used to teach a different lesson. As we practice letting the Holy Spirit guide our thoughts and interpret all our perceptions, our lessons teach us and the world that we are Love, united in Its Oneness. Our response to appearances that seem unloving is to extend Love in answer to the call for Love, thus teaching ourselves that we are Love. In every moment we choose between the ego’s lessons of separation and fear, or the Holy Spirit’s lessons of Oneness and Love. One choice makes hell; the other choice leads us back to our Home in Heaven.

Let this year be a year to practice following the Holy Spirit’s lessons in Love.

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Accepting Our One Self

Decide but to accept your rightful place as co-creator of the universe, and all you think you made will disappear. What rises to awareness then will be all that there ever was, eternally as it is now. And it will take the place of self-deceptions made but to usurp the altar to the Father and the Son.

Now do we join in glad acknowledgment that lies are false, and only truth is true. We think of truth alone as we arise, and spend five minutes practicing its ways, encouraging our frightened minds with this:

The power of decision is my own.
This day I will accept myself as what
my Father’s Will created me to be.

Then will we wait in silence, giving up all self-deceptions, as we humbly ask our Self that He reveal Himself to us. And He Who never left will come again to our awareness, grateful to restore His home to God, as it was meant to be.

In patience wait for Him throughout the day, and hourly invite Him with the words with which the day began, concluding it with this same invitation to your Self. God’s Voice will answer, for He speaks for you and for your Father. He will substitute the peace of God for all your frantic thoughts, the truth of God for self-deceptions, and God’s Son for your illusions of yourself. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 152, W-pI.152.8:-5;11-12. See also ACIM Lesson 152 Insights.)

To accept our Self as God created It to be is to accept that we are Love with all Its attributes. We must be loving, joyful, peaceful, innocent and kind. Since this is the reality of everyone, then the appearance of anything else — fear, guilt, anger or unworthiness — is false. This false appearance simply reflects a belief in being without Love, a belief in what is false.

As we let the Holy Spirit help us lay aside our false beliefs and mistaken self-image, we free ourselves to be as God created us.

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Forgiveness Is the End of Death

Teacher of God, your one assignment could be stated thus: Accept no compromise in which death plays a part.  Do not believe in cruelty, nor let attack conceal the truth from you. What seems to die has but been misperceived and carried to illusion. Now it becomes your task to let the illusion be carried to the truth. Be steadfast but in this; be not deceived by the “reality” of any changing form. Truth neither moves nor wavers nor sinks down to death and dissolution. And what is the end of death? Nothing but this; the realization that the Son of God is guiltless now and forever. Nothing but this. But do not let yourself forget it is not less than this. (A Course in Miracles, M-27.7)

Forgiveness is the core teaching of A Course in Miracles because total forgiveness is the end of the idea of death. All guilt is dependent upon belief in the reality of bodies and what they seem to do. The Course says in many ways that the Son of God is not a body. Our attachment to our identity as a body is an attachment to guilt. If we want to be free of fear and guilt, we must forgive, but not in the way ego directs.

True forgiveness can only be guided by the Holy Spirit from outside the thought system that makes the body real. The Holy Spirit sees us as Love created us — innocent and wholly loving. The Holy Spirit knows that we are not a body, for we remain as God created us. As we let the Holy Spirit show us the justification for forgiveness moment by moment, we learn to see past what bodies appear to do and see that only Love is real.

Today we practice letting Holy Spirit guide our perception all through the day that we may return to Love.

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Following God’s Messenger of Love

The Holy Spirit mediates between illusions and the truth. Since He must bridge the gap between reality and dreams, perception leads to knowledge through the grace that God has given Him, to be His gift to everyone who turns to Him for truth. Across the bridge that He provides are dreams all carried to the truth, to be dispelled before the light of knowledge. There are sights and sounds forever laid aside. And where they were perceived before, forgiveness has made possible perception’s tranquil end.

Accept your Father’s gift. It is a Call from Love to Love, that It be but Itself. The Holy Spirit is His gift, by which the quietness of Heaven is restored to God’s beloved Son. Would you refuse to take the function of completing God, when all He wills is that you be complete? (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 281, W-pII.7.1&5. See also ACIM Lesson 291 Insights.)

We already have the key to release from the hell of separation from Love. We have been letting the denial of Love be our guide. This has led to the experience of fear and guilt, conflict and loss.

But we can choose another Guide Whose function it is to teach us the truth that we remain unchanged in the Love of God, safe and whole. We need only consistently practice choosing the Guide to Truth as our Teacher, moment by moment. With this practice we will learn that we are eternally free and without limit. We are still Love and nothing else.

Today we practice letting the Messenger of Love guide all our doing through the day. This will be a giant step on the journey Home to Love.

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Remembering God’s Love Is Ours

Today’s idea [“I am spirit”] identifies you with your one Self. It accepts no split identity, nor tries to weave opposing factors into unity. It simply states the truth. Practice this truth today as often as you can, for it will bring your mind from conflict to the quiet fields of peace. No chill of fear can enter, for your mind has been absolved from madness, letting go illusions of a split identity.

We state again the truth about your Self [we are spirit], the holy Son of God Who rests in you; whose mind has been restored to sanity. You are the spirit lovingly endowed with all your Father’s Love and peace and joy. You are the spirit which completes Himself, and shares His function as Creator. He is with you always, as you are with Him. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 97, W-pI.97.1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 97 Insights.)

It is impossible to be without God’s Love except in fantasies of separation. Even when we seem to be lost in dreams of isolation and lovelessness, God’s Love remains in us and around us. Only a false belief stands as a fragile veil between us and the certainty of God’s Love.

This veil is brushed aside as we accept our reality as Spirit. Spirit is one; it cannot be attacked nor divided. The Spirit we are is united with all our brothers. We are never alone; we are never without Love. As we remind ourselves often today that we are Spirit, we part the veil and remember God’s Love is ours.

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