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Receiving and Extending Miracles

Behold the store of miracles set out for you to give. Are you not worth the gift, when God appointed it be given you? Judge not God’s Son, but follow in the way He has established. Christ has dreamed the dream of a forgiven world. It is His gift, whereby a sweet transition can be made from death to life; from hopelessness to hope. Let us an instant dream with Him. His dream awakens us to truth. His vision gives the means for a return to our unlost and everlasting sanctity in God. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 159, W-pI.159.10. See also ACIM Lesson 159 Insights.)

God has given us enlightenment, but it is our job to accept what has been given. We accept enlightenment as we allow ourselves to be open-minded by remembering we do not know what anything means. As we step back from thought patterns we have held in the past and open up to Holy Spirit’s thought reversal, we receive the miracles that are waiting for us.

Holy Spirit’s miracles show us the truth of every brother behind the dream of separation. Miracles show us that every brother is the pure Light of God in Eternity. Miracles show us the forgiven world. Today we would accept Holy Spirit’s transformed perception. We receive the vision of innocence and apply it to every brother we meet or even think of. This is how we return to our everlasting union in the one Mind of God.

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Accepting Holy Spirit’s Happy Dream

Salvation is a paradox indeed! What could it be except a happy dream? It asks you but that you forgive all things that no one ever did; to overlook what is not there, and not to look upon the unreal as reality. You are but asked to let your Will [God’s Will] be done, and seek no longer for the things you do not want. And you are asked to let yourself be free of all the dreams of what you never were, and seek no more to substitute the strength of idle wishes for the Will of God.

Be glad indeed salvation asks so little, not so much. It asks for nothing in reality. And even in illusions it but asks forgiveness be the substitute for fear. Such is the only rule for happy dreams. (A Course in Miracles, T-30.IV.7,8:4-7. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

The justification for forgiveness is the recognition that the harm we thought we experienced never really happened. To come to this recognition, we need Help — the Holy Spirit, the Voice for God. Reminding ourselves that what we experience is an illusion can be a helpful start. But unless we fully recognize that nothing really did happen, affirming that it is an illusion can be a denial of an unconscious belief that separation is real.

It is this false belief that separation is real that needs to be corrected with the help of Holy Spirit. It cannot be corrected from within the belief system of being a separate identity in a world of form. The practice of bringing all our upsets, our guilt, our sense of lack and loss, to the Holy Spirit, with willingness to receive His gentle correction, is how we learn to recognize illusions for what they are — nothing. 

Today we choose to let Holy Spirit be our Guide in all our doing so that we may learn to recognize illusion for what it is and accept the happy dream.

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You Are Changeless Peace

God does not change His Mind about you, for He is not uncertain of Himself. …When anything threatens your peace of mind, ask yourself, “Has God changed His Mind about me?” Then accept His decision, for it is indeed changeless, and refuse to change your mind about yourself. God will never decide against you, or He would be deciding against Himself. (A Course in Miracles, T-10.in.3:1,9-11. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

If our peace is disturbed in any way, it can only be because we are believing in a false image of what we are that is disconnected from God. The truth of what we are is eternally contained in God’s peace and Love.

A disturbance to our peace can be used as a signal that we need to bring our thoughts to our true Self, the Holy Spirit, to have them corrected. As we accept the Holy Spirit’s loving correction, the peace of God returns to our awareness.

We dedicate today to be mindful of our state of peace and bringing any perception of a disturbance to the Holy Spirit to be corrected. This is how we will learn that we are changeless peace.

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Choosing Happiness

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, 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.64.4,6:1-4. See also ACIM Lesson 64 Insights.)

We all have the means to be happy right now. We choose happiness by choosing to let go of believing that we are separate from God’s Love. We have convinced ourselves that we are a separate identity, housed in a body and separate from all other identities. This is a self deception, a lie. Yet belief in it makes a world of separate bodies seem very real.

Fortunately we have the Voice for God in our minds, available to us in every instant. We choose to accept our function when we choose to let go of our own interpretations and let Holy Spirit replace them with His vision. The Holy Spirit, our true Self, sees past appearances to the only thing that is real — Love.

As we accept His vision we choose happiness, for happiness is an attribute of Love. Because Love is changeless and eternal, this happiness is eternal. Changing appearances have no effect on the happiness that we experience when we accept the Love we are.

Today’s practice is to choose the Holy Spirit’s guidance moment by moment.

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Make Way for Holy Spirit’s Peace

His Voice awaits your silence, for His Word can not be heard until your mind is quiet for a while, and meaningless desires have been stilled. Await His Word in quiet. There is peace within you to be called upon today, to help make ready your most holy mind to hear the Voice for its Creator speak.

He speaks from nearer than your heart to you. His Voice is closer than your hand. His Love is everything you are and that He is; the same as you, and you the same as He. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 125, W-pI.125.6.2-4;7:2-4. See also ACIM Lesson 125 Insights.)

As making way to receive Holy Spirit’s peace becomes our highest priority, we receive all the help we need. Our path is make straight with no obstacles to bar our way. We follow in the way we are guided, feeling His gentleness and Love… All this comes to us make way for Holy Spirit’s peace.

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Accepting Our True Identity

We have a mission here. We did not come to reinforce the madness that we once believed in. Let us not forget the goal that we accepted. It is more than just our happiness alone we came to gain. What we accept as what we are proclaims what everyone must be, along with us. Fail not your brothers, or you fail yourself. Look lovingly on them, that they may know that they are part of you, and you of them.

This does Atonement teach, and demonstrates the Oneness of God’s Son is unassailed by his belief he knows not what he is. Today accept Atonement, not to change reality, but merely to accept the truth about yourself, and go your way rejoicing in the endless Love of God. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 139, W-pI.139.9:1-10:2. See also ACIM Lesson 139 Insights.)

To look lovingly is to see truly, for only Love is real. To see our brothers truly is to see only Love. Likewise, to know ourselves truly we must accept that we are only Love. It is this we accept when we accept Atonement for ourselves.

Think about what our daily experience would be like if all we see are expressions of Love. We would be filled with joy, for we would experience the glad, eternal exchange of Love. We would be at peace, for conflict would be unknown. Guilt would be inconceivable and fear would not enter our minds. We would know no lack, for we would live in God’s limitless flow of Love. All this comes as we accept Atonement for ourselves.

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Welcoming Holy Spirit’s Peace of Mind

Peace of mind is clearly an internal matter. It must begin with your own thoughts, and then extend outward. It is from your peace of mind that a peaceful perception of the world arises.

I could see peace in this situation instead of what I now see in it.

I can replace my feelings of depression, anxiety or worry [or my thoughts about this situation, personality or event] with peace. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 34, W-pI.34.1:2-4;5:4;6:4. See also ACIM Lesson 34 Insights.)

The thought system of separation brings with it images of separation — earthquakes, wars, political turmoil, competition, guilt and fear. It is the wish for separation, the wish to have specialness, that brings these images. Though it may not seem like it, we are wholly in control of everything we experience in the world. The perception that what happens in the world is independent of our thoughts is a self-deception.

To be free of this world and experience the peace of God, we need to let go of the wish for separation. As we let go of the wish to be separate, the images of the world become less important. The practice of choosing to see peace in every situation opens the door to the awareness that the oneness of Love is our true Home. The blessings of peace begin to be recognized as more valuable than the temporary morsels specialness offers. We move from the bondage of individuality to the freedom of living in the Wholeness of Love.

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