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Letting Our Light Shine in the World

Humility consists of accepting your role in salvation and in taking no other. It is not humility to insist you cannot be the light of the world if that is the function God assigned to you. It is only arrogance that would assert this function cannot be for you, and arrogance is always of the ego.

True humility requires that you accept today’s idea [that you are the light of the world] because it is God’s Voice which tells you it is true. This is a beginning step in accepting your real function on earth. It is a giant stride toward taking your rightful place in salvation. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 61, W-pI.61.2:3-3:3. See also ACIM Lesson 61 Insights.)

It is our function to let the Light of the Love we are shine on all that we perceive. Love sees only Love or a calls for Love. We let our Light shine by joining with the Love in everyone, and answering calls for Love with Love.

To recognize calls for we Love, we need to let our true Self, the Holy Spirit, guide our vision. This means we need to redirect our attention from the ego thought system, which is the denial of Love. Instead we need to direct our attention to the Love within Which will shine Its Light on all we look upon, showing us the reality of Love beyond the shadows of the ego’s illusions.

We dedicate today to following our true Self’s vision so that we let our Light shine in the world.

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Today I Would Be in Peace

I will be honest with myself today. I will not think that I already know what must remain beyond my present grasp. I will not think I understand the whole from bits of my perception, which are all that I can see. Today I recognize that this is so. And so I am relieved of judgments that I cannot make. Thus do I free myself and what I look upon, to be in peace as God created us. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 243, W-pII.243:1. See also ACIM Lesson 243 Insights.)

Today I would be in peace by not making any judgments on my own… Today I am willing to remember that I do not know what anything means on my own…

Today I would open to Holy Spirit’s healing Light… Today I would remember that I rest in God eternally… Today I follow Holy Spirit’s inspiration all through the day… I take every uncertainty to Him for a healed perspective… Today I would be in peace.

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Seeing with the Aid of God

You cannot give yourself your innocence, for you are too confused about yourself. But should one brother dawn upon your sight as wholly worthy of forgiveness, then your concept of yourself is wholly changed.

By focusing upon the good in him, the body grows decreasingly persistent in your sight, and will at length be seen as little more than just a shadow circling round the good. And this will be your concept of yourself, when you have reached the [real] world beyond the sight your eyes alone can offer you to see. For you will not interpret what you see without the Aid that God has given you. (A Course in Miracles, T-31.VII.2:4-5;3:3-5. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Believing what the body’s eyes show us is choosing to be blind to the truth. The body is an illusion, a false image, incapable of seeing truth. But we all have an inner vision in our minds that can see past images of bodies and other forms to the Light of Love, Which is all that is true. Because we have so identified with being a body, we need the Aid that God has given us to connect with the inner vision that shows us truth.

Today we practice bringing all we seem to see with the body’s eyes to God’s Aide Whose purpose is to guide us to see the truth of the innocence of Love that is everywhere and in everyone. As we accept this inner vision, we see that we are innocent, as we were created.

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Returning to Dwell in God’s Peace

The overlooking of the battleground is now your purpose.

Be lifted up, and from a higher place look down upon it. From there will your perspective be quite different. Here in the midst of it, it does seem real. Here you have chosen to be part of it. Here murder is your choice. Yet from above, the choice is miracles instead of murder. And the perspective coming from this choice shows you the battle is not real, and easily escaped. Bodies may battle, but the clash of forms is meaningless. And it is over when you realize it never was begun. How can a battle be perceived as nothingness when you engage in it? (A Course in Miracles, T-23.IV.4:7;5:1-10. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

A common practice for dealing with angry children is to have them take a time out. The perception of the world of form as real is an out picturing of the ego’s anger against God, Who would not respond to the ego’s demand for specialness. When we identify with the ego, we are joining with the ego’s temper tantrum. We need to take a time out.

This is why we need to frequently take time to rise above the battleground in our minds with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit will help us settle into peace. As we join with the Holy Spirit’s peace, we share His vision which shows us that nothing is really happening in the seeming battleground below. Empty images are recognized for what they are.

This recognition clears the way for the eternal Light of Love to shine through the dark shadows of the ego’s fear and anger. We make way for miracles to heal our minds so we can return to dwell in the peace of God.

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We Give the World a New Purpose

Those who would see the witnesses to truth instead of to illusion merely ask that they might see a purpose in the world that gives it sense and makes it meaningful. Without your special function [of being a witness to truth] has this world no meaning for you. Yet it can become a treasure house as rich and limitless as Heaven itself. No instant passes here in which your brother’s holiness cannot be seen, to add a limitless supply to every meager scrap and tiny crumb of happiness that you allot yourself. (A Course in Miracles, T-26.I.5. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

As we make it our one goal to witness to truth instead of to illusions, our time here becomes meaningful. We see our brother’s holiness, instead of the ego’s projection of guilt. We see the Love he is. We feel peace and happiness instead of fear and anger. All this comes to us as we give the world a new purpose. With this purpose we free ourselves and join the Holy Spirit’s bridge of return to the truth.

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Remembering the Love We Are

The memory of God comes to the quiet mind. It cannot come where there is conflict, for a mind at war against itself remembers not eternal gentleness. The means of war are not the means of peace, and what the warlike would remember is not love. War is impossible unless belief in victory is cherished. Conflict within you must imply that you believe the ego has the power to be victorious. Why else would you identify with it? Surely you realize the ego is at war with God.

The war against yourself was undertaken to teach the Son of God that he is not himself, and not his Father’s Son. For this, the memory of his Father must be forgotten. It is forgotten in the body’s life, and if you think you are a body, you will believe you have forgotten it. Yet truth can never be forgotten by itself, and you have not forgotten what you are. Only a strange illusion of yourself, a wish to triumph over what you are, remembers not. (A Course in Miracles, T-23.I.1:1-7;5:1-5. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

It is literally mind-altering to realize that the world we see through the body’s eyes was made as a barrier to prevent us from remembering our eternal unity with our Source, with Love. The ego thought system is the denial of the truth. Thus all the constructs of the ego are made to hide the truth from our awareness.

Yet the ego cannot change the truth. It can only hide the truth from us if we choose to identify with the ego as what we are. The Course says in many places we are not the ego. This recognition is essential to enable our release from the limitations imposed by the ego.

As we dis-identify with the ego it becomes easier to see that no one is the ego which appears to be acting out in a body. As we recognize this, forgiveness comes naturally. We look past the body of our brother or ourselves and Christ’s vision shows us the Light of innocence that is really there.

Today we will remind ourselves frequently: We are not a body, we are not the ego. We are Love as Love created us.

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Remembering Our Father

God offers thanks to the holy host who would receive Him, and lets Him enter and abide where He would be. And by your welcome does He welcome you into Himself, for what is contained in you who welcome Him is returned to Him. And we but celebrate His Wholeness as we welcome Him into ourselves. Those who receive the Father are one with Him, being host to Him Who created them. And by allowing Him to enter, the remembrance of the Father enters with Him, and with Him they remember the only relationship they ever had, and ever want to have. (A Course in Miracles, T-15.XI.9. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

In truth there is no division between ourselves and our Father. We are Love and Love is one, with no division or separation of any kind. Today our practice is to step back frequently and remember the truth about our oneness with our Father. As we remember this about ourselves, we easily see that this same truth applies to everyone. Remembering this brings us a feeling of peace, safety and joy.

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