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God’s Way Is Sure

Whatever I see reflects my thoughts. It is my thoughts that tell me where I am and what I am. The fact that I see a world in which there is suffering and loss and death shows me that I am seeing only the representation of my insane thoughts, and am not allowing my real thoughts to cast their beneficent light on what I see. Yet God’s way is sure. The images I have made cannot prevail against Him because it is not my will that they do so. My will is His, and I will place no other gods before Him. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 53, W-pI.53.5:2-7. See also ACIM Lesson 53 Insights.)

We are always getting instant feedback about what we think we are. When we see a world of suffering, loss and death, it is showing us that we are believing we are separate from God. We are denying that He is our Source and our very Being.

This denial does not change the Truth of what we are, but makes us unaware of It. In fact, this denial makes God our enemy because the acceptance of our Source would mean the end of the appearances that we value in the world. It would mean the end of the special individual identity we call our own.

When we believe in this identity, the loss of it is perceived as death. Yet we are reminded again and again that we remain as God created us. We remain in His Mind at one with It and share all His attributes. Our real Identity shares God’s Will and our only purpose is to let the Love of God extend through us. As we extend Love, we acknowledge that we have Love and are Love. This is how we share God’s way and experience the certainty of God’s changeless Love.

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Letting Love Guide Our Way

“The teachers of God rest content in the readiness to receive the gifts God has given them. Their trust allows the Holy Spirit to guide them in all they do and say. Their thoughts are given over to Love; what is not Love is given over to correction. The teachers of God know that everything that happens, whether within or without, is either Love or a call for Love. Their function is therefore very simple. They give Love to all and everyone and everything without exception. To what is Love they join, to the call for Love they respond with Love. Always do they answer the call for Love, and always do they let their answer be guided. A smile, a kind word, a helping hand, the form changes to fit the need but always is the content the same. A call for Love is recognized, and Love is given in the form most helpful.  (From the Christ Mind Book II, p. 141)

Holy Spirit, guide my thoughts, my words, my hands, my feet today. Help me be a messenger of God’s Love. Show me calls for Love so that I may answer with Love. Help me to see the Truth as you see It. I would recognize my brother as He is and learn What I am as well. With Your help, I will remember I remain as Love created me, along with all my brothers.

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Shifting from False Identity to Our True Identity as Love

The ego’s fundamental wish is to replace God. In fact, the ego is the physical embodiment of that wish. For it is that wish that seems to surround the mind with a body, keeping it separate and alone, and unable to reach other minds except through the body that was made to imprison it. The limit on communication cannot be the best means to expand communication. Yet the ego would have you believe that it is.

We will try today to stop these senseless attacks on salvation. We will try to welcome it instead. Your upside-down perception has been ruinous to your peace of mind. You have seen yourself in a body and the truth outside you, locked away from your awareness by the body’s limitations. Now we are going to try to see this differently.

The light of truth is in us, where it was placed by God. It is the body that is outside us, and is not our concern. To be without a body is to be in our natural state. To recognize the light of truth in us is to recognize ourselves as we are. To see our Self as separate from the body is to end the attack on God’s plan for salvation, and to accept it instead. And wherever His plan is accepted, it is accomplished already. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 72, W-pI.72.2,8,9. See also ACIM Lesson 72 Insights.)

One of the fundamental messages in A Course in Miracles is that we are not a body. The body is wholly unlike God in every way; thus it is impossible that the body could be created by God. This idea frees us from all guilt, fear pain, suffering and sense of loss. Only if we think we are a body do we experience any of these symptoms.

We can free ourselves in any moment by dis-identifying with the body as what we are and accepting the Self that God created as His Son. This Self we are is wholly loving, eternally at peace and overflowing with joy. This is our natural state.

Because we have identified with the body so completely, it takes time to peal away the layers of attachment to this false identity. We do this through forgiveness, but we do not do it alone. Thinking we are alone is the cause of the problem. We must let the Holy Spirit help us see past the loneliness and isolation to our unity with the Love that is eternally present. This is God’s plan for our salvation.

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Joining with Peace

Peace is the bridge that everyone will cross, to leave this world behind. But peace begins within the world perceived as different, and leading from this fresh perception to the gate of Heaven and the way beyond. Peace is the answer to conflicting goals, to senseless journeys, frantic, vain pursuits, and meaningless endeavors. Now the way is easy, sloping gently toward the bridge where freedom lies within the peace of God. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 200. See also ACIM Lesson 200 Insights., W-pI.200.8)

Today we practice tuning in to the Source of peace in everyone… Today we practice seeing passed ego’s thoughts to the eternal Love and peace of God that is everyone’s reality… Today we practice stepping back and opening to the Truth within our minds…

We are led in gentleness and sure protection. Fear disappears while we remember we are safe in the Home of God, along with every brother. We are all equal in God’s Love. Peace is the means by which we all return to the Home which we never left in Truth.

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Acknowledging the Unity Beyond the Dream

Oneness and sickness [separation] 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-12.6)

Acknowledging the unity beyond the dream is our function as we open our minds to Holy Spirit’s way of seeing. The truth is we are one united Spirit of Love. And dreams of separate bodies just reflect the sick mind of the ego that believes in separate bodies and differences.

As we open to the truth, we still see the dream but we see it lightly, like a thin veil hides the one Light of Love behind it. We are reinforcing the fact that we really are the same Light of Love, united as One. Our faith in dreams is dissolving as we become more and more aware that the world is just a dream of being separate and alone. Fear thoughts are shaken off. As they drop away, we see our brothers truly. Fearful behavior is recognized as a call for Love.

We are in deep gratitude as we see that we are here to help every brother awaken to the truth along with us. As we see the truth in every brother, we are indeed being truly helpful.

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Our Identity Is in God

Today we will again give thanks for our Identity in God. Our home is safe, protection guaranteed in all we do, power and strength available to us in all our undertakings.

Today we will not doubt His Love for us, nor question His protection and His care. No meaningless anxieties can come between our faith and our awareness of His Presence. We are one with Him today in recognition and remembrance. We feel Him in our hearts. Our minds contain His Thoughts; our eyes behold His loveliness in all we look upon. Today we see only the loving and the lovable.

Peace be to you today. Secure your peace by practicing awareness you are one with your Creator, as He is with you.” (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 124, W-pI.124.1:1-2;4:1-6;8:1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 124 Insights.)

If our Identity is in God, we must share all His attributes. We must be as loving as He is. We must be changeless and sinless. We must be full of joy and in peace that cannot be disturbed. We must have all of God’s strength and all His Love, for What God is, we are. There can be nothing to fear. Loss and lack are impossible because our Identity is in God.

Because God is all that is, our Identity is all that is. Every brother is part of our Identity. Nothing exists outside of God. To see a brother truly is to see him with all the attributes of God, and nothing else.

We would hold these thoughts in our mind today that everything we see would remind us of our Identity in God.

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Choosing the Peace and Love of God

…let Him [the Teacher Who instructs in quiet] teach you what to do and say and think, each time you turn to Him. He will not fail to be available to you, each time you call to Him to help you. A Course in Miracles Workbook Review VI, (W-pI.VI.7:2-3. See also ACIM Lesson 201 Insights.)

No matter how confusing, frightening, depressing or lonely our life seems to be, we always have Help. Our Creator has not forgotten us and has given us a Guide Whose only purpose is to lead us back to our natural place in the Heart of Love. With gentleness and patience this Guide is always offering us help. We need only be willing to pause for a moment, turn away from the ego’s misdirection and open to the Guidance of our Inner Teacher.

Today, whenever a thought disturbs our peace, we will remind ourselves:
This thought I do not want.
I choose instead the peace and Love of God.

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