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Let Yourself Be Carried by Love

It is, perhaps, not easy to perceive that self-initiated plans are but defenses…

The mind engaged in planning for itself is occupied in setting up control of future happenings. It does not think that it will be provided for, unless it makes its own provisions. Time becomes a future emphasis, to be controlled by learning and experience obtained from past events and previous beliefs. It overlooks the present, for it rests on the idea the past has taught enough to let the mind direct its future course.

Without defenses, you become a light which Heaven gratefully acknowledges to be its own. And it will lead you on in ways appointed for your happiness according to the ancient plan, begun when time was born. Your followers will join their light with yours, and it will be increased until the world is lighted up with joy. And gladly will our brothers lay aside their cumbersome defenses, which availed them nothing and could only terrify. (A Course in Miracles, W-pI.135.14:1;15:1-4;20:1-4. See also ACIM Lesson 135 Insights.)

In the dream of time there is a need to plan. But if we plan with the ego as our guide, we will only perpetuate the past, extending the beliefs and memories of the past into the future. If instead we let the Holy Spirit, the Voice for Love, give us His plans, we will be gently and lovingly guided out of the past into Love’s present joy.

As we follow Love’s plans, we are freed from the past and brought to the gates of Heaven, where Love welcomes us Home. All that we need for this journey of return is provided without effort. We need only let ourselves be carried by making no plans on our own.

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The Path to Love

My holy brother, think of this awhile: The world you see does nothing. It has no effects at all. It merely represents your thoughts. And it will change entirely as you elect to change your mind, and choose the joy of God as what you really want. Your Self is radiant in this holy joy, unchanged, unchanging and unchangeable, forever and forever.

Lay down your arms, and come without defense into the quiet place where Heaven’s peace holds all things still at last. Lay down all thoughts of danger and of fear. Let no attack enter with you. Lay down the cruel sword of judgment that you hold against your throat, and put aside the withering assaults with which you seek to hide your holiness. (A Course in Miracles, W-pI.190.6:1-5;9:1-4. See also ACIM Lesson 190 Insights.)

We can only judge if we first believe that we are separate from what we judge. Thus all judgment carries a built-in self-condemnation that we are separate, alone and lack God’s Love and joy and peace. This is why letting go of judgment is the key to happiness. It is the key to release from the hell of a world made to deny Love.

To look on the world with forgiving eyes, we must align with the Holy Spirit’s vision instead of seeing with the ego thought system of separation. Today we ask the Holy Spirit for His help to see all things as He sees them. As we accept His vision, we see the Love beyond all form. We see the peace beyond conflicting images. We feel the joy beyond the depressing appearances of being alone and incomplete. As we join with Holy Spirit, we take the path that leads us Home to Love.

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The Source of Healing Is in Our Minds

Today we seek to change our minds about the source of sickness, for we seek a cure for all illusions, not another shift among them. We will try today to find the source of healing, which is in our minds because our Father placed it there for us. It is not farther from us than ourselves. It is as near to us as our own thoughts; so close it is impossible to lose. We need but seek it and it must be found.

We will be still and listen for the Voice of healing, which will cure all ills as one, restoring saneness to the Son of God. No voice but this can cure. Today we hear a single Voice which speaks to us of truth, where all illusions end, and peace returns to the eternal, quiet home of God. (A Course in Miracles, W-pI.140.8:1-5;10:2-4)

The Holy Spirit in our minds sees our dreams of separation, but does not believe in them. As we are willing, He gently leads us out of our belief that separation could ever be real. He remembers for us that we are still God’s pure Love. He reminds us that distinctions of any kind are part of the dream and equally unreal. He brings us to the experience of peace, Love and joy, which is beyond this dream world of separation.

He leads us to see past differences to the truth that only Love is real. He helps us feel our immersion in the total Love of God, as is everyone in the dream of separation. He shows us how to be truly helpful and see past guilt to innocence everywhere. We accept the source of healing the Holy Spirit brings us today. We let our minds be healed of all belief in separation. And for this we give thanks.

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The Whole Sonship Is Safe in God’s Arms

I need but look upon all things that seem to hurt me, and with perfect certainty assure myself, “God wills that I be saved from this,” and merely watch them disappear. I need but keep in mind my Father’s Will for me is only happiness, to find that only happiness has come to me. And I need but remember that God’s Love surrounds His Son and keeps his sinlessness forever perfect, to be sure that I am saved and safe forever in His Arms. I am the Son He loves. And I am saved because God in His mercy wills it so.

Father, Your Holiness is mine. Your Love created me, and made my sinlessness forever part of You. I have no guilt nor sin in me, for there is none in You. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.235. See also ACIM Lesson 235 Insights.)

In the world it appears that we are constantly vulnerable to harm in some form. This appearance is just the out picturing of the inevitable fear that comes with belief that we have separated from our Creator, our Source of strength and peace and happiness. The belief in separation is the belief in a false image of ourselves that is weak, alone and incomplete. This false image must constantly be alert to protect itself. The sense of loneliness leads to a constant search for companionship and completion.

All this will disappear as we accept that we remain as Love created us. There is no loss in eternal Love. Having been created by Love, we have all Love, now and forever. We need not seek for Love, but only accept what Is. Forgiveness, letting go of the false idea of being separate, is how we remember that all Love is already ours. Through forgiveness, we see the Love and innocence in our brothers and recognize It in ourselves. We see the whole Sonship is safe in God’s loving arms.

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There Is Nothing to Fear

Deep within you is everything that is perfect, ready to radiate through you and out into the world. It will cure all sorrow and pain and fear and loss because it will heal the mind that thought these things were real, and suffered out of its allegiance to them.

You can never be deprived of your perfect holiness because its Source goes with you wherever you go. You can never suffer because the Source of all joy goes with you wherever you go. You can never be alone because the Source of all life goes with you wherever you go. Nothing can destroy your peace of mind because God goes with you wherever you go. (A Course in Miracles, W-pI.41.3-4. See also ACIM Lesson 41 Insights.)

It is helpful to remember that we are completely protected by God. God is always there in our mind, waiting to shine a light on all our fears. The truth is God has given us all of Himself and there is no division between ourselves and God.

As we open up to the Love within us, we naturally radiate God’s Love out into the world. We feel calm and serene because we can see past the ego projections of fear and guilt to the loving Presence that is always there, behind the forms of separation we see in the world. We feel secure and at peace as we accept the fact that God goes with us wherever we go. There is nothing to fear.

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God Dwells Within

All idols of this world were made to keep the truth within from being known to you, and to maintain allegiance to the dream that you must find what is outside yourself to be complete and happy. It is vain to worship idols in the hope of peace. God dwells within, and your completion lies in Him. No idol takes His place. Look not to idols. Do not seek outside yourself. (A Course in Miracles, T-29.VII.6. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

The ego will always direct us to look for some situation or relationship with images in the world to find our happiness, our safety, our value or completion. This is completely in keeping with the ego’s motto, “Seek and do not find.”

Our completion can only be found in our Creator. Our Creator remains eternally within us, at one with us. It is only within where we find our completion, our value, our safety and our happiness. It is there because it was given us in our creation. It is because God dwells within that our Self, our wholeness, our happiness and peace is certain to be found within.

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Accepting the Love of God

The Love of God is what created me. The Love of God is everything I am. The Love of God proclaimed me as His Son. The Love of God within me sets me free. (A Course in Miracles, W-pI.209.1:2-5. See also ACIM Lesson 209 Insights.)

Today our practice is to open up to the Love of God within us… Today our practice is to return to the truth that we are the Love of God…

As we accept our true Identity we naturally give It away, because accepting Love is the same as giving Love. The Course reminds us that giving and receiving are the same. As we extend Love we are receiving Love. This is how we feel the Love of God within us, which is there eternally. To experience the Love of God we need to offer It to everyone.

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