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God’s Will Is Our Will

Who uses but Christ’s vision finds a peace so deep and quiet, undisturbable and wholly changeless, that the world contains no counterpart. Comparisons are still before this peace. And all the world departs in silence as this peace envelops it, and gently carries it to truth, no more to be the home of fear. For love has come, and healed the world by giving it Christ’s peace.

Father, the peace of Christ is given us, because it is Your Will that we be saved. Help us today but to accept Your gift, and judge it not. For it has come to us to save us from our judgment on ourselves. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 305, W-pII.305. See also ACIM Lesson 305 Insights.)

Incomparable peace… a sense of safety… compassion that extends Love eternally… these are what we experience when we let Christ’s vision guide all our seeing. Loss is inconceivable. Judgment is unthinkable and nothing is seen as external to our holy Mind, unified in the Mind of Love.

All this is ours already. We reclaim them and leave the shadows of the mind of separation as we accept that God’s Will is our will because we remain one with Him as we were created. Today we accept God’s happiness as we remember His Will and ours are one and the same.

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We Give Our Life to God to Guide Today

Father, I give You all my thoughts today. I would have none of mine. In place of them, give me Your Own. I give You all my acts as well, that I may do Your Will instead of seeking goals which cannot be obtained, and wasting time in vain imaginings. Today I come to You. I will step back and merely follow You. Be You the Guide, and I the follower who questions not the wisdom of the Infinite, nor Love whose tenderness I cannot comprehend, but which is yet Your perfect gift to me.

Today we have one Guide to lead us on. And as we walk together, we will give this day to Him with no reserve at all. This is His day. And so it is a day of countless gifts and mercies unto us. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 233, W-pII.233. See also ACIM Lesson 233 Insights.)

The ego is a control freak. It is dedicated to wresting control from our Creator and making a world that will keep God out. Its strategy is to flood our thoughts with images of judgment, fear and guilt. It seems we must be constantly building walls to protect ourselves from immediate or future danger. Our preoccupation with defense makes the Thoughts of Love we share with God unwelcome. We have given our “life” to the ego whose final wish is our death as proof of its successful plan to make a world it controls.

It is time to give our thoughts to God today. He will guide us to remember that all we really want is God’s gifts of perfect peace, limitless Love and joy beyond this world. As we step back and follow we will remember Love whose tenderness we cannot comprehend. This is our practice for today.

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Remembering We Are at Home in Love

Be very still an instant. Come without all thought of what you ever learned before, and put aside all images you made. The old will fall away before the new without your opposition or intent.

Forgive your brother all appearances, which are but ancient lessons that you taught yourself about the sinfulness in you. Hear but his call for mercy and release from all the fearful images he holds of what he is and of what you must be. …The journey’s goal… is but to decide to walk with him, so neither leads nor follows. Thus it is a way you go together, not alone. And in this choice is learning’s outcome changed, for Christ has been reborn to both of you. (A Course in Miracles, T-31.II.8:1-3;9:1-2,5-7. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

A very important lesson to learn is that what we believe about a brother is what we believe about ourselves. If we believe another can harm us in any way, we believe we can harm. This can only be a false image because Love created us as Love and Love cannot harm.

Thus if we perceive attack from another, we must let the Holy Spirit’s vision show us what is true beyond the appearance. Only Love is true and It cannot attack. And so the appearance of attack is a false image. If we feel threatened by perceived attack, we are believing in a false image of ourselves that we believe can be harmed. This is our own call for Love.

In that moment it is time to be still with willingness to set aside our beliefs about our brother and ourself. Thus do we open to the vision of Christ to show us the truth beyond appearances. With the vision of Christ as our Guide, we are led to respond with Love in a form that is truly helpful for both our brother and ourself. This is the path that will lead us Home to the full remembrance that we are at Home in Love.

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There Is Nothing to Fear. Love is here.

In this world, as you open to the Light in you, It is used to communicate Truth by joining with the Light in your brothers, and used to make a unified vision possible that perception be corrected and brought close to knowledge. God is the Light in which you see. Without the Light of God within you, you would not see. Your present way of seeing is through the body’s eyes. Seeing through the eyes of an image you have made to take the place of the Self God created, is not seeing, it is but imagination. You are literally seeing what is not really there. There is no difference between hallucinations and the way you see now. The seeming stability and continuance of the world you see prevents you from seeing it as the projected illusion it is.

To see beyond the illusions of perception in which you are trapped, help is needed from beyond the illusion. The Holy Spirit sees truly. He is not fooled by appearances, by form, for He sees beyond the form to content. He responds only to content, not form, for He recognizes form as illusion and always will. He looks past what is meaningless in itself, and the vision He gives you allows you to look past the form and see what it conceals. (From the Christ Mind Book II, pages 244,245)

There is nothing to fear; only Love is here. We think we see a world of form through the body’s eyes. But what we are really seeing are self-made images that hide the eternal presence of Love. Only our belief in images stands in the way of our experience of the certainty of changeless Love. But beliefs can and do change. We have all experienced the changeability of belief. We can change our mind in an instant.

This ability can be used on behalf of our healing and awakening. But our choice for what to believe must be guided by Truth instead of the denial of Truth, the ego. All we really want is to know that we are loved and to be happy. The practice of taking all decisions to the Holy Spirit with willingness to follow His guidance is the path to freedom. His guidance will always lead us to remembering that only Love is real. There is nothing to fear. Love is here.

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The Consistent Choice of Truth

It is extremely important to be conscious of the activity of your mind as it takes place in your life in the form of a continuous or near continuous stream of thoughts, images, feelings, emotions and responses to outward conditions. Without this awareness, the willingness to choose Truth over illusion cannot be brought into play consistently. Through the consistent choice of Truth, the mind is quickly and skillfully undone. In fact, the willingness to be vigilant even every moment, to be consistently present in your mind, is necessary for your willingness to choose Truth to have a chance to do so.

Willingness itself will grow under the Holy Spirit’s tutelage until it includes your entire life and all that you think, feel and do. Willingness is the single requirement you must supply to the undertaking of the process of awakening to and as the Self. The Holy Spirit will provide everything else that is needed, and will supplement your little willingness with His. (From the Christ Mind Book II, p. 125)

What do we really want? Do we want peace of mind, certainty of purpose, limitless Love, and perfect happiness? All this is ours when we accept the Truth of our Self. We have made up a false image that we experience in the world which hides the awareness of our Self from our awareness. Yet the gifts of our one Self remain ours.

Willingness to consistently monitor our thoughts and bring all thoughts of fear and guilt, lack and loss, to the Holy Spirit is the key to remembering our True Self. We need only be willing to lay aside the false images and be taught to recognize the Truth that we remain as Love created us.

We have taught ourselves to see a world of images that is not there. We can be taught to recognize them as false and see past them to the truth of our Self, Which has already accepted God’s gifts and shares them with every brother. Today we are willing to accept Holy Spirit’s lessons in truth and share them with every brother. We are ready to consistently choose Truth with Holy Spirit’s help.

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Remembering the Love We Are

Steady our feet, our Father. Let our doubts be quiet and our holy minds be still, and speak to us. We have no words to give to You. We would but listen to Your Word, and make it ours. Lead our practicing as does a father lead a little child along a way he does not understand. Yet does he follow, sure that he is safe because his father leads the way for him.

So do we bring our practicing to You. And if we stumble, You will raise us up. If we forget the way, we count upon Your sure remembering. We wander off, but You will not forget to call us back. Quicken our footsteps now, that we may walk more certainly and quickly unto You. And we accept the Word You offer us to unify our practicing, as we review the thoughts that You have given us. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Review V, W-pI.V.2-3. See also ACIM Lesson 171 Insights.)

The way out of the world of fear and guilt is to quiet our minds… As we let our minds be still… we open our minds to the Holy Spirit’s Word that we are only Love… held safely in the Love of God.

We begin the day with quiet listening, letting thoughts of the world pass by, giving them no attention. Our attention now is focused on remembering and accepting God’s gift of changeless Love. Certainty of our safety comes as we accept this truth… We bring our brothers with us into the circle of Love for no one is excluded. Today we embrace the Love in all our brothers.

The circumstances and situations of the world lose their effect on our peace of mind. We are steady now, anchored in the certainty of the truth that we are Love. The Love we are reaches out to everyone and everything. it blesses us as we bless the world. We remember we are safe. We are innocent. We are loved… and we are Home.

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Freeing Ourselves from Fear

There is never any reason to complain or be afraid. You cannot be unfairly treated or threatened in any way. To believe you can is to live in fear and a constant sense of grievance. Let the Holy Spirit teach you there is no reason to fear; no one is attacking you. Your belief in the reality of attack is the source of the fear and guilt that dominates your mind. The Holy Spirit will teach you that you are not guilty and fear is never justified.  And He will demonstrate, if you follow His guidance, that you can live from the perspective of Love and forgiveness which will heal the guilt in your mind and free you from fear. Do not let unconscious resistance prevent you from asking for help and gladly receiving it that you may be free.

Whenever you think you are alone and in danger, remember Who walks with you. The only limits on the help He can give are established by you. The Holy Spirit’s ability to help is unlimited and available for the asking. You must ask and listen with an open mind, receive what is given, and respond as guided.” (From the Christ Mind Book II, p.119)

We do not need to live in a constant state of concern, worry, anxiety or fear. We do not need to be on constant alert, wary of potential danger. The help we need to learn that we are eternally safe is available to us now. To know that we have it, we need to ask for help with an open mind, without a predisposition of how the help should come or what it should look like.

As we receive the help, we need to accept it and act upon it. It does not serve us to receive help but not act upon it. If we follow through by acting on the help we receive, we will demonstrate to ourselves that the help works. We will gain confidence that we have help. We will be less willing to wallow in fear because we know there is a better way.

Today is a day to practice asking for help, accepting it and acting upon it. Thus will we free ourselves from fear.

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