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Stepping Toward the Real World

The real world holds a counterpart for each unhappy thought reflected in your world; a sure correction for the sights of fear and sounds of battle which your world contains. The real world shows a world seen differently, through quiet eyes and with a mind at peace. Nothing but rest is there. There are no cries of pain and sorrow heard, for nothing there remains outside forgiveness. And the sights are gentle. Only happy sights and sounds can reach the mind that has forgiven itself.

What need has such a mind for thoughts of death, attack and murder? What can it perceive surrounding it but safety, love and joy? What is there it would choose to be condemned, and what is there that it would judge against? The world it sees arises from a mind at peace within itself. No danger lurks in anything it sees, for it is kind, and only kindness does it look upon. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 291, W-pII.8.2-3. See also ACIM Lesson 291 Insights.)

Do we want to perceive a world of safety and peace, of Love and joy? We need only use the means already given us to have this experience. The means is forgiveness. Not only do we have the means, but we have a Helper Who sees us truly and knows exactly what would help us forgive and let go of our erroneous thoughts. We are not alone, but we do need to be willing to accept the Help given us.

Our prayer for today: Holy Spirit, help me see all things as You see them. Help me overlook the false images of the ego and recognize them as the illusions they are. Help me rise above and see the Love that is everywhere, always. With Your help today, I will take another step closer to the experience of the real world, the forgiven world.

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Accepting Happiness

The world’s salvation awaits your forgiveness, because through it does the Son of God escape from all illusions, and thus from all temptation. The Son of God is you.

Only by fulfilling the function given you by God will you be happy. That is because your function is to be happy by using the means by which happiness becomes inevitable. There is no other way. Therefore, every time you choose whether or not to fulfill your function [of forgiveness], you are really choosing whether or not to be happy.

Today, then, let us practice with these thoughts:

Let me not forget my function.
Let me not try to substitute mine for God’s.
Let me forgive and be happy. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 64, W-pI.64.3:3-4:4;6:1-4. See also ACIM Lesson 64 Insights.)

In every moment we choose between judgment or forgiveness. It is the choice between depression or happiness, guilt or innocence, fear or Love, chaos or peace.

As we practice bringing all our decisions to the Holy Spirit in our mind with willingness to follow His guidance, we are choosing to be free. We are choosing to be happy. We are choosing the salvation of the Son of God, our one Self.

Today we have the opportunity to practice fulfilling the function given us by God through which we accept His joy, His peace, His Love as our own.

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We Are Free to Return to Love

This world will change through you. No other means can save it, for God’s plan is simply this: The Son of God is free to save himself, given the Word of God to be his Guide, forever in his mind and at his side to lead him surely to his Father’s house by his own will, forever free as God’s. He is not led by force, but only love. He is not judged, but only sanctified. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 125, W-pI.125.2. See also ACIM Lesson 125 Insights.)

God is only Love and Love does not condemn. Thus there is no reason to fear God because all He ever gives is Love, and He gives It without limit or judgment. As part of His gift of Love, He has given us a Guide, an Inner Teacher in our minds to teach us how to release ourselves from the mistaken belief that we are separate from God. We have already been given the means to forgive the past and welcome the Love that is ever present in the eternal now.

As we are willing to accept His help, our inner Teacher will help us see that our brother is also only Love, created the same as us and one with us. As we see this, we learn that we are also only Love and, together with our brother, one with our Creator and our Source. Today we are willing to be taught how to free ourselves from fear and guilt and return to Love.

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Our True Home Is in God’s Peace

You rest within the peace of God today, and call upon your brothers from your rest to draw them to their rest, along with you. You will be faithful to your trust today, forgetting no one, bringing everyone into the boundless circle of your peace, the holy sanctuary where you rest. Open the temple doors and let them come from far across the world, and near as well; your distant brothers and your closest friends; bid them all enter here and rest with you.

You rest within the peace of God today, quiet and unafraid. Each brother comes to take his rest, and offer it to you. We rest together here, for thus our rest is made complete, and what we give today we have received already. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 109, W-pI.109.8:1-9:3. See also ACIM Lesson 109 Insights.)

We are returning to our right mind, where we rest in God’s peace and joy… We are returning to our true nature — Love. We are remembering that we never left Love, even though we may dream of conflict, scarcity and death… As we remember the truth about ourselves and every brother, we call all to join with us in our rest… in our peace…

We remember that what is true about our one Identity is true for every brother… We remember that every brother is safe in God along with us… We remember that every brother is God’s pure Love and Light along with us… We remember that every dream story of imagining that we are different and alone is meaningless…

We free ourselves from the radical ups and downs that the ego thought system brings… We feel the stability and steadiness of God’s changeless Love… We remember we are safe eternally as pure Spirit in the Heart of God, our true Home.

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We Allow the Prison Doors to Be Opened

God’s answer is some form of peace. All pain
Is healed; all misery replaced with joy.
All prison doors are opened. And all sin
Is understood as merely a mistake.

Father, today we will forgive Your world, and let creation be Your Own. We have misunderstood all things. But we have not made sinners of the holy Sons of God. What You created sinless so abides forever and forever. Such are we. And we rejoice to learn that we have made mistakes which have no real effects on us. Sin is impossible, and on this fact forgiveness rests upon a certain base more solid than the shadow world we see. Help us forgive, for we would be redeemed. Help us forgive, for we would be at peace. (W-pII.359)

Today we let peace flow through our mind like a river… It gently washes away all guilt and fear… Today we let God in… For fear of God is done…

Today we place our trust in the strength of God and not our own. We remember that we are being carried… We step back and listen to Holy Spirit’s guidance as often as possible… We let ourselves be led… We remember that we know nothing on our own…

We are filled with gratitude as we receive Love’s blessings of peace an joy… And we give thanks as we allow the prison doors to be opened… The light of Truth comes streaming in and we share Love’s peace and joy with everyone equally…

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Deciding to Accept Our True Self

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.152.11:3-12:3. See also ACIM Lesson 152 Insights.)

All anxiety, sadness, depression, sense of unworthiness, anger, frustration, fear and guilt come from believing that we are not as God created us. It comes from the denial of God’s Will for us.

God’s Will for us is perfect happiness. He has given us all His Love. When we accept what God willed us to be, we are happy, know that we are loved and at peace.

We have the ability right now to make the decision to accept what God willed us to be. We can accept His gift of happiness. We can accept His gift of Love. We can accept His gift of peace. When we accept this, we accept God’s Will as our own, which it is in truth.

Today we can take a giant stride toward remembering we are at Home in God.

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Let Love Decide

“You have the right to all the universe; to perfect peace, complete deliverance from all effects of sin, and to the life eternal, joyous and complete in every way, as God appointed for His holy Son. This is the only justice Heaven knows, and all the Holy Spirit brings to earth. Your special function shows you nothing else but perfect justice can prevail for you. And you are safe from vengeance in all forms. The world deceives, but it cannot replace God’s justice with a version of its own. For only love is just, and can perceive what justice must accord the Son of God. Let love decide, and never fear that you, in your unfairness, will deprive yourself of what God’s justice has allotted you.” (T-25.VIII.14)

The practice of letting Love guide all decisions is the practice of deciding on the foundation of Truth. Love offers only Love. It recognizes fear and guilt as nothing more than a call for Love and answers with Love. When we are willing to let Love guide all our decisions, our actions in the world will always be truly helpful.

To follow this path, we must be willing to step back from the values we give things and beliefs in the world and turn to the Voice for God within. It is this Voice that will teach us Love’s truth and show us how to respond with Love through forms in the world that are helpful and bring peace that calms the fears of the ego.

Today we would let Love decide.

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