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Rejoicing in Our Father’s Love

I am the holy Son of God Himself.

Here is your declaration of release from bondage of the world. ²And here as well is all the world released. ³You do not see what you have done by giving to the world the role of jailer to the Son of God.

Yet what is it except a game you play in which Identity can be denied? ²You are as God created you. ³All else but this one thing is folly to believe. ⁴In this one thought is everyone set free. ⁵In this one truth are all illusions gone. ⁶In this one fact is sinlessness proclaimed to be forever part of everything, the central core of its existence and its guarantee of immortality.

But let today’s idea find a place among your thoughts and you have risen far above the world, and all the worldly thoughts that hold it prisoner. ²And from this place of safety and escape you will return and set it free. ³For he who can accept his true Identity is truly saved. ⁴And his salvation is the gift he gives to everyone, in gratitude to Him Who pointed out the way to happiness that changed his whole perspective of the world. (A Course in Miracles, W-191.1:1-3;4-5. See also ACIM Lesson 191 Insights.)

There is a place in our mind where we know we are perfectly safe and free to extend Love without limit. It is the part of our mind that accepts our Identity as God’s Son. This part sees everyone as part of Itself. No adversary exists.

We are unaware of this part of our mind because we have accepted a false identity that sets us apart from all of God’s Creation. The antidote to this mistaken belief is to remind ourselves that we remain as God created us. We are His Son. We forgive our mistaken wish for specialness and rejoice in our oneness in the Love of our Father.

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Forgiveness Brings Unity

…be you rather grateful that you can be the means to serve His end. ³This is the only service that leads to freedom. ⁴To serve this end the body must be perceived as sinless, because the goal is sinlessness.

This holy relationship, lovely in its innocence, mighty in strength, and blazing with a light far brighter than the sun that lights the sky you see, is chosen of your Father as a means for His Own plan.

Child of peace, the light has come to you. ²The light you bring you do not recognize, and yet you will remember. ³Who can deny himself the vision that he brings to others? ⁴And who would fail to recognize a gift he let be laid in Heaven through himself? ⁵The gentle service that you give the Holy Spirit is service to yourself. ⁶You who are now His means must love all that He loves. ⁷And what you bring is your remembrance of everything that is eternal. ⁸No trace of anything in time can long remain in a mind that serves the timeless. ⁹And no illusion can disturb the peace of a relationship that has become the means of peace. (A Course in Miracles, T-22.VI.3:2-4;4:1;6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

When we forgive, we open our mind to receive Love’s innocence. The appearance of harm has been recognized as a misperception, and let go. Relationships are holy when judgment has been laid aside.

Where there was disunity, we join with our brothers because we accept our oneness in Love. The gift our forgiveness gives to a brother is returned, magnified many times over. Today is an opportunity to give and receive Love’s blessing through forgiveness.

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Receiving Holy Spirit’s Vision

³Spirit is the Thought of God which He created like Himself. ⁴The unified spirit is God’s one Son, or Christ.

In this world, because the mind is split, the Sons of God appear to be separate. ²Nor do their minds seem to be joined. ³In this illusory state, the concept of an “individual mind” seems to be meaningful. ⁴It is therefore described in the course as if it has two parts; spirit and ego.

Spirit is the part that is still in contact with God through the Holy Spirit, Who abides in this part but sees the other part [ego] as well.

The mind can be right or wrong, depending on the voice to which it listens. ²Right-mindedness listens to the Holy Spirit, forgives the world, and through Christ’s vision sees the real world in its place. ³This is the final vision, the last perception, the condition in which God takes the final step Himself. ⁴Here time and illusions end together. (A Course in Miracles, C-1.1:3–3:1;5)

The truth in all of us unites us in spirit as God’s one Son. Under the Holy Spirit’s direction, our right mind sees past appearances in the world to the unity of Love. Differences are dismissed as meaningless illusions which cannot divide God’s Son into separate parts.

Let us commit this day to the practice of letting our mind be quiet and receptive to the Holy Spirit’s vision. As we choose to see as He sees, the world is lit by the Light of Love. Peace is restored to our mind.

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Rise Above to See Only Love

Forget not that you came this far together, you and your brother. ²And it was surely not the ego that led you here. ³No obstacle to peace can be surmounted through its help. ⁴It does not open up its secrets, and bid you look on them and go beyond them. ⁵It would not have you see its weakness, and learn it has no power to keep you from the truth. ⁶The Guide Who brought you here remains with you, and when you raise your eyes you will be ready to look on terror with no fear at all. ⁷But first, lift up your eyes and look on your brother in innocence born of complete forgiveness of his illusions, and through the eyes of faith that sees them not.

No one can look upon the fear of God unterrified, unless he has accepted the Atonement and learned illusions are not real. ²No one can stand before this obstacle alone, for he could not have reached this far unless his brother walked beside him. ³And no one would dare to look on it without complete forgiveness of his brother in his heart. (A Course in Miracles, T-19.IV-D.8:1–9:3. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Our release from fear depends on our willingness to forgive our brothers for their illusions. What we see in others is a reflection of what we believe we are. When we can see the Love that is the truth in others, we learn that we are Love.

Vision that heals comes when we are willing to rise above what the body’s eyes see to let Christ’s vision show us Love’s innocence in a brother. No cause for fear is seen, for this vision sees only Reality. In Love, we join with our brothers to bring joy and peace to the world.

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Letting Love’s Light Be Our Guide

Where darkness was I look upon the light.

Father, our eyes are opening at last. ²Your holy world awaits us, as our sight is finally restored and we can see. ³We thought we suffered. ⁴But we had forgot the Son whom You created. ⁵Now we see that darkness is our own imagining, and light is there for us to look upon. ⁶Christ’s vision changes darkness into light, for fear must disappear when love has come. ⁷Let me forgive Your holy world today, that I may look upon its holiness and understand it but reflects my own.

Our Love awaits us as we go to Him, and walks beside us showing us the way. ²He fails in nothing. ³He the End we seek, and He the Means by which we go to Him. (A Course in Miracles, W-302. See also ACIM Lesson 302 Insights.)

Our true Self is eternally safe in Love’s universe. The uncertainty and fear we experience is because we have accepted an identity that denies reality. Only our belief in this imagined identity makes it seem real.

We need to forgive ourselves for choosing to believe in a false identity. Forgiveness opens our mind to Christ’s vision, which allows the Light of Love to show us the holy world we live in. Fear disappears in the presence of Love. Today we choose Love’s Light as our Guide to the recognition that we remain one with our Father in Love.

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Remembering God’s Love for Us All

When you made visible what is not true, what is true became invisible to you. ²Yet it cannot be invisible in itself, for the Holy Spirit sees it with perfect clarity. ³It is invisible to you because you are looking at something else. ⁴Yet it is no more up to you to decide what is visible and what is invisible, than it is up to you to decide what reality is. ⁵What can be seen is what the Holy Spirit sees. ⁶The definition of reality is God’s, not yours.

Because of your Father’s Love you can never forget Him, for no one can forget what God Himself placed in his memory. ²You can deny it, but you cannot lose it. ³A Voice will answer every question you ask, and a vision will correct the perception of everything you see. ⁴For what you have made invisible is the only truth, and what you have not heard is the only Answer. ⁵God would reunite you with yourself, and did not abandon you in your distress. ⁶You are waiting only for Him, and do not know it. ⁷Yet His memory shines in your mind and cannot be obliterated. ⁸It is no more past than future, being forever always.

…the memory of God can dawn only in a mind that chooses to remember, and that has relinquished the insane desire to control reality. (A Course in Miracles, T-12.VIII.3:1-6;4;5:3. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The ego’s wish for specialness is the wish to control reality. But Reality is defined by God; It is His Love, uniformly one eternally. Specialness cannot exist in what is all the same. To control reality it must be deny Love. It conjures an alternate ‘reality’ where differences conflict, fear is inevitable, and memory of our Father’s Love is unknown.

God wants us to remember His Love. We make the choice to remember when we are willing to forgive our judgments. Forgiveness welcomes the Light of Love into our mind. This Light reveals the Love that unites with Him and all His Creation. It restores our peace and happiness. It gives us vision to see everyone as part of our one Self.

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The Gift That Unites Us with All

Forgiveness is the only gift I give.

Forgiveness is the only gift I give, because it is the only gift I want. ²And everything I give I give myself. ³This is salvation’s simple formula. ⁴And I, who would be saved, would make it mine, to be the way I live within a world that needs salvation, and that will be saved as I accept Atonement for myself.

Father, how certain are Your ways; how sure their final outcome, and how faithfully is every step in my salvation set already, and accomplished by Your grace. ²Thanks be to You for Your eternal gifts, and thanks to You for my Identity. (A Course in Miracles, W-297. See also ACIM Lesson 297 Insights.)

The ego is the idea that there is value in differences. But the wish to have a unique identity can only seem to be fulfilled in a dream where fantasy replaces reality. The oneness of our Father’s Love is eternal and cannot be effected by fantasy, though It can be hidden behind a veil of illusions.

Forgiveness is the only meaningful gift we can give to anyone. It opens our awareness to the Love that is everyone’s Identity. Because Love is one, forgiveness is a gift that encompasses everyone, including ourselves. Forgiveness brings peace to the world, because there is no conflict within the Love that is one and the same for all.

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How to Read References for
Quotes from A Course in Miracles

Below are example references to specific sentences using the notation of the Second & Third Editions of A Course in Miracles published by the Foundation for Inner Peace:

T-26.IV.4:7 = Text, Chapt. 26, Section IV, paragraph 4, sentence 7.

W-169.5:2 = Workbook, Lesson 169, paragraph 5, sentence 2.

W-pII.1.1:1 = Workbook, Part II, Question 1, paragraph 1, sentence 1.

M-13.3:2 = Manual for Teachers, Question 13, paragraph 3, sentence 2.

C-6.4:6 = Clarification of Terms, Term 6, paragraph 4, sentence 6
The above numbering system of the Second & Third Editions published by The Foundation for A Course in Miracles

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