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Defenseless Guarantees Our Happiness

We look past dreams today, and recognize that we need no defense because we are created unassailable, without all thought or wish or dream in which attack has any meaning. Now we cannot fear, for we have left all fearful thoughts behind. And in defenselessness we stand secure, serenely certain of our safety now, sure of salvation; sure we will fulfill our chosen purpose, as our ministry extends its holy blessing through the world.

Be still a moment, and in silence think how holy is your purpose, how secure you rest, untouchable within its light. God’s ministers have chosen that the truth be with them. …Who could be surer that his happiness is fully guaranteed? And who could be more mightily protected? (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 153, W-pI.153.9;10:1-2,4-5. See also ACIM Lesson 153 Insights.)

Today we willingly follow Holy Spirit’s lead. We are receptive and open to His inspiration through the day. We practice not deciding anything on our own, remembering we have a Teacher right in our mind, there to help us every step of the way. We don’t defend against this help, but welcome it with open arms.

We remember we are not on our own. For every apparent problem, His help is with us. We remember His strength is with us.

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The Blessing of Christ’s Vision

Christ’s vision has one law. It does not look upon a body, and mistake it for the Son whom God created. It beholds a light beyond the body; an idea beyond what can be touched, a purity undimmed by errors, pitiful mistakes, and fearful thoughts of guilt from dreams of sin. It sees no separation. And it looks on everyone, on every circumstance, all happenings and all events, without the slightest fading of the light it sees.

See no one as a body. Greet him as the Son of God he is, acknowledging that he is one with you in holiness.

We practice seeing with the eyes of Christ today. And by the holy gifts we give, Christ’s vision looks upon ourselves as well. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 158, W-pI.158.7;8:3-4;11:3-4. See also ACIM Lesson 158 Insights.)

We open to the vision of Christ by letting go of the past and setting aside our judgments. This is how we welcome Christ’s vision in our minds. Because Christ’s vision sees no one as a body, it gives no meaning to what the body does. Without meaning, the appearance of a body is easily dismissed from our attention so we can see the Light of Love’s creation beyond the empty image.

As we welcome this, what used to disturb our peace fades away and we become aware of the innocence and loveliness of our brother. Now we see with Holy Spirit’s vision and we realize we are seeing a reflection of our Self. We recognize that we share this one Self with everyone. A world that seemed to be fraught with danger and attack becomes a place of safety and of peace. We are blessed as Christ’s vision blesses through us.

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The Blessing of Placing the Future in the Hands of God.

What worry can beset the one who gives his future to the loving Hands of God? What can he suffer? What can cause him pain, or bring experience of loss to him? What can he fear? And what can he regard except with love? For he who has escaped all fear of future pain has found his way to present peace, and certainty of care the world can never threaten. He is sure that his perception may be faulty, but will never lack correction. He is free to choose again when he has been deceived; to change his mind when he has made mistakes.

Place, then, your future in the Hands of God. For thus you call the memory of Him to come again, replacing all your thoughts of sin and evil with the truth of love. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 194, W-pI.194.7:1-8:2. See also ACIM Lesson 194 Insights.)

Think of how you would feel if you knew that every moment is held for you in perfect, changeless Love and protected by the greatest strength there is.… Think how peaceful you would feel, how filled with joy.… Think how your heart would overflow with Love and extend the Love to all the world.… Think how you would feel as that Love rebounds back to you, multiplied a thousand fold and yet a thousand more.…

This in fact is our reality. We need only be willing to set aside our past and accept the gift our Creator has already given us without end. This is our natural state. We are not aware of it because, by aligning with the ego, we are actively denying it.

But we can change our allegiance. As we move toward letting the Holy Spirit guide all our thoughts, we take giant strides toward experiencing God’s initial, changeless, endless gift of all of Himself — His Love, His strength, His joy, His peace.

Today we dedicate to turning over all our thoughts to the Holy Spirit as we place the future in the Hands of God.

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Sharing One Identity

…what you need are intervals each day in which the learning of the world becomes a transitory phase; a prison house from which you go into the sunlight and forget the darkness. Here you understand the Word, the Name which God has given you; the one Identity which all things share; the one acknowledgment of what is true. And then step back to darkness, not because you think it real, but only to proclaim its unreality in terms which still have meaning in the world that darkness rules.

Use all the little names and symbols which delineate the world of darkness. Yet accept them not as your reality. The Holy Spirit uses all of them, but He does not forget creation has one Name, one meaning, and a single Source which unifies all things within Itself. Use all the names the world bestows on them but for convenience, yet do not forget they share the Name of God along with you.” (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 184, W-pI.184.10-11. See also ACIM Lesson 184 Insights.)

The truth is we share one Identity — the Identity of perfect, universal Love. In this world it appears that this is not so, but now we are willing to remember the truth. We open our minds to accept that we all are still as God created us, whole, perfect and complete in God’s one universal Mind of Love.

As we open our minds to the truth, we become aware and feel God’s peace and happiness. We remember there is nothing to fear and that we are safe, no matter what appearances show up in the dream of separate identities. Today we practice remembering we share one Identity with God, universal Love.

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Remembering Our Source of Real Life

The Thought of God created you. It left you not, nor have you ever been apart from it an instant. It belongs to you. By it you live. It is your Source of life, holding you one with It, and everything is one with you because It left you not. The Thought of God protects you, cares for you, makes soft your resting place and smooth your way, lighting your mind with happiness and love. Eternity and everlasting life shines in your mind, because the Thought of God has left you not, and still abides with you. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 165, W-pI.165.2. See also ACIM Lesson 165 Insights.)

It is helpful for us to remember that when we have thoughts of depression, limitation, sickness and death, we are obscuring the perfect happiness and eternal life our Father wills for us. Every fear, every apprehension, every condemnation of a brother, hides the truth from our awareness.

We have developed habits of thought that give the experience of limitation and lack, differences and death. We are now in the process of remembering the truth. We are now reinforcing the habit of consistently returning to peace when we recognize we are not in peace. We are now reinforcing the habit of letting the Holy Spirit guide our thoughts back to the Light of Truth. What can be more important than this? We let this be our top priority today.

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Accepting Freedom Through the Holy Instant

Start now to practice your little part in separating out the holy instant. You will receive very specific instructions as you go along. To learn to separate out this single second, and to experience it as timeless, is to begin to experience yourself as not separate. Fear not that you will not be given help in this. God’s Teacher and His lesson will support your strength. It is only your weakness that will depart from you in this practice, for it is the practice of the power of God in you. Use it but for one instant, and you will never deny it again. Who can deny the Presence of what the universe bows to, in appreciation and gladness? Before the recognition of the universe that witnesses to It, your doubts must disappear. (A Course in Miracles, T-15.II.6. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

The central purpose of A Course in Miracles is to help us experience the holy instant — the moment in time when the past is forgot and the Holy present is accepted. We have taught ourselves that illusions are true and truth is illusion, leaving us confused.

But we have a Guide to lead us safely and lovingly out of the maze the ego has made. We cannot find the way out alone. But as we practice offering all our thoughts to the Holy Spirit for His translation into truth, we rise above the maze and find our way out.

We learn to recognize that no matter what appearances we may perceive in the world, we remain Love as Love created us. We rest in the peace of God. We rejoice in the gift of God’s joy. This is the gift the holy instant brings us, needing only our acceptance to be free.

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Giving and Receiving the Gift of Forgiveness

Each unforgiving mind presents you with an opportunity to teach your own how to forgive itself. Each one awaits release from hell through you, and turns to you imploringly for Heaven here and now. It has no hope, but you become its hope. And as its hope, do you become your own. The unforgiving mind must learn through your forgiveness that it has been saved from hell. And as you teach salvation, you will learn. Yet all your teaching and your learning will be not of you, but of the Teacher Who was given you to show the way to you. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 121, W-pI.121.7. See also ACIM Lesson 121 Insights.)

Today we practice seeing past the body to the face of Christ in every brother. This is seeing the innocence, the pure Light of Love, in every brother. This practice reminds us of the Light of Love in ourselves. As we do this, we bless each brother and we are blessed. We heal and we are healed. Everyone needs to know they are loved and that, in truth, they are a loving child of God. Today practice, with Holy Spirit, rising above to see the Love that is everywhere to behold.

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