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We Desire to Remember Our True Reality

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 shine in your mind, because the Thought of God has left you not, and still abides with you.

Would God consent to let His Son remain forever starved by his denial of the nourishment he needs to live? Abundance dwells in him, and deprivation cannot cut him off from God’s sustaining Love and from his home.

We count on God, and not upon ourselves, to give us certainty. …His sureness lies beyond our every doubt. His Love remains beyond our every fear. The Thought of Him is still beyond all dreams and in our minds, according to His Will. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 165, W-pI.165.2:1-7;6:5-6;8:1,3-5. See also ACIM Lesson 165 Insights.)

Because we are one with God, we are one with the Thought of God. Oneness means there are no differences — we are one and the same. We are the Thought of Love in the Mind of Love. Love shares all of Itself with all that is, and all that is is Love. This is the truth of our Reality.

As we desire to remember our true Reality, we open our inner windows and doors to the Light and peace and joy that is ours eternally. We practice this today.

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Going Within to Our Inner Refuge of Peace

When you are still an instant, when the world recedes from you, when valueless ideas cease to have value in your restless mind, then will you hear His Voice. So poignantly He calls to you that you will not resist Him longer. In that instant He will take you to His home, and you will stay with Him in perfect stillness, silent and at peace, beyond all words, untouched by fear and doubt, sublimely certain that you are at home.

He has come as does a little child, who must beseech his father for protection and for love. He rules the universe, and yet He asks unceasingly that you return with Him, and take illusions as your gods no more.

You have not lost your innocence. It is for this you yearn. This is your heart’s desire. …Be still an instant and go home with Him, and be at peace a while. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 182, W-pI.182.8:1-3;11:4-5;12:1-3,9. See also ACIM Lesson 182 Insights.)

We have a place of refuge in our mind. It is a place of safety, peace and Love. It is the part of us that remembers our true Home. To go to this place of refuge we must step back from the frenzy of the world we experience through the body. This refuge cannot be found in the world. It is found instead by setting aside the world’s values and giving our attention to the stillness, peace and happiness of Love’s oneness.

We let the thoughts of the world pass by without engaging them… As we let them fade into the distance, the quiet strength and certainty of the Love within grows stronger in our awareness… Our mind becomes still… and we rest in deep peace… revitalized by Love’s strength… We remember our innocence… and see it in all our brothers… We return to our doing in the world with a new vision that lets our doing extend Love in gentleness and kindness.

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God Is the Strength in Which I Trust

God is your safety in every circumstance. His Voice speaks for Him in all situations and in every aspect of all situations, telling you exactly what to do to call upon His strength and His protection.

You must also gain an awareness that confidence in your real strength is fully justified in every respect and in all circumstances.

…reach down into your mind to a place of real safety. You will recognize that you have reached it if you feel a sense of deep peace, however briefly. Let go all the trivial things that churn and bubble on the surface of your mind, and reach down and below them to the Kingdom of Heaven. There is a place in you where there is perfect peace. There is a place in you where nothing is impossible.

Remember that peace is your right, because you are giving your trust to the strength of God. (A Course in Miracles, W-pI.47.3:1-2;6:2;7:1-6;8:3. See also ACIM Lesson 47 Insights.)

The Course gives us clear direction to follow if we want the peace of God: Put all our trust in the strength of God. God has already given us all His strength. It is only our belief and trust in the ego thought system of isolation and vulnerability that blocks our awareness of God’s strength and peace.

Our assignment for ourselves today is to step aside from attempting to decide anything on our own. As we let Holy Spirit decide for us “in all situations and every aspect of all situations,” we are led gently and lovingly to God’s peace. This is our practice today.

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We Are One Self, United with Our Creator

I am one Self, united with my Creator.

Serenity and perfect peace are mine, because I am one Self, completely whole, at one with all creation and with God.

From my one Self, Whose knowledge still remains within my mind, I see God’s perfect plan for my salvation perfectly fulfilled. (A Course in Miracles, W-pI.113.1:1-2;2:2. See also ACIM Lesson 113 Insights.)

The fact that we are one Self, united with our Creator, is the foundation for forgiveness. Because of this fact, we share God’s invulnerability and changelessness. We cannot be harmed. Because we are one with God’s Love, neither can we harm. Thus in truth, we are perfectly safe and perfectly innocent. There is no real cause for fear or guilt.

Any time we experience fear or guilt, it can only be because we are believing in a false image of what we are. It is this we need to take to the Holy Spirit with willingness to let Him show us the falsity of the image. As soon as we recognize the false as false, forgiveness is automatic.

As we remind ourselves today that we are one Self, united with our Creator, we strengthen our foundation to forgive all seeming causes for guilt and all appearances of harm or loss. We take another step closer to true forgiveness and the experience of the real world.

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We Invite Christ’s Vision Today

Today I choose to look upon what Christ would have me see, to listen to God’s Voice, and seek the witnesses to what is true in God’s creation.

Father, Christ’s vision is the way to You. What He beholds invites Your memory to be restored to me. And this I choose, to be what I would look upon today. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.271.1:2;2:1-3. See also ACIM Lesson 271 Insights.)

When we invite Christ’s vision, peace and inspiration come with it… We are lifted up to see the Love behind the present circumstance… We feel Love’s certainty beyond the doubt and complexity the ego thought system brings…

We open to the awareness of Love’s Presence and extend it freely to everyone equally… We are filled with gratitude and peace, knowing we are receiving the perfect lessons at the perfect time… We receive insight into how to be truly helpful in each present moment… And we give thanks for all that comes as we invite Christ’s vision today.

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Learn of the of the Son of God’s Happiness

You who have not yet brought all of the darkness you have taught yourself into the light in you, can hardly judge the truth and value of this course. Yet God did not abandon you. And so you have another lesson sent from Him, already learned for every child of light by Him to Whom God gave it. This lesson shines with God’s glory, for in it lies His power, which He shares so gladly with His Son. Learn of His happiness, which is yours. But to accomplish this, all your dark lessons must be brought willingly to truth, and joyously laid down by hands open to receive, not closed to take. Every dark lesson that you bring to Him Who teaches light He will accept from you, because you do not want it. And He will gladly exchange each one for the bright lesson He has learned for you. Never believe that any lesson you have learned apart from Him means anything. (A Course in Miracles, T-14.XI.4. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

We want to learn of the happiness of our true nature. We want to return to our true Identity as God’s one Son. Here it is very clear that the way to do this is to take everything we have learned from the past — all our assumptions of what we think is true — to the Holy Spirit, Who will lead us through a complete thought reversal.

As we go through our day, there can be a tendency to forget that our assumptions are not true. We forget we are merely dreaming a dream of separation. We forget that we are still one with the Mind of God, where our true happiness abides.

The way to go past this tendency to forget the truth is to step back frequently from our busy doing, and welcome the Light of truth… As we welcome the Light of truth, our minds are filled with peace and a sense of well being… We feel safe and nurtured by the Light of our true Nature…

As we do this consistently, our happiness increases… We develop a pattern of accepting happiness… We feel Holy Spirit’s inspiration… We can feel that we are being carried… We recognize our judgements and hand them over quickly for Holy Spirit’s thought reversal… We receive and extend Love more frequently… We feel all the help our inner Teacher has been giving us… We feel the joy that comes as we accept Holy Spirit’s help… We are in great gratitude… We are so thankful that we have such constant Help from the Holy Spirit… We are so grateful that we have the willingness to accept this Help… This is how we learn of the Son of God’s happiness.

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Seeing Past Dreams to Truth

You cannot wake yourself. Yet you can let yourself be wakened. You can overlook your brother’s dreams. So perfectly can you forgive him his illusions he becomes your savior from your dreams.… Whom you forgive is given power to forgive you your illusions. By your gift of freedom is it given unto you.

Make way for love, which you did not create, but which you can extend. On earth this means forgive your brother, that the darkness may be lifted from your mind. (A Course in Miracles, T-29.III.3:2-5;4:1-2. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Our practice for today is to let Holy Spirit help us see past everyone’s dream to the truth of their oneness in God. As we practice seeing the Light of truth in every brother, our mind is healed. Our continuing practice helps us see past bodies to the eternal strength in everyone. Where we once saw separation, we now see Love’s oneness.

Because we no longer want to see separation, our true Self shows us only oneness. This is the way we make way for Love. As we make way for Love, the darkness of separation is lifted from our mind. We wake up by seeing each brother as he truly is. We see the dream of separation never occurred in truth.

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