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Using the Body as an Aid to Lead Us Home

…[the body] can be seen as not your home, but merely as an aid to help you reach the home where God abides.

With this as purpose is the body healed. It is not used to witness to the dream of separation and disease. Nor is it idly blamed for what it did not do. It serves to help the healing of God’s Son, and for this purpose it cannot be sick. It will not join a purpose not your own, and you have chosen that it not be sick. All miracles are based upon this choice, and given you the instant it is made. (A Course in Miracles, T-28.VII.3:6-4:6. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

The most often repeated statement in the Course is, “I am not a body, I am free. I am still as God created me.” Learning to let go of our identification with the body is how we let the body be an aid to help us return to our Home in God. This seems to be a radical reversal of the belief that our identity is defined by the body and personality in the world.

If we look honestly at what identifying with the body brings us in this world, it is clear that it brings us a sense of vulnerability, lack, guilt and fear. Letting go of this identity promises to return us to the perfect safety, changeless peace, limitless joy and perfect Love of God, our only Home. This is an exchange that is truly worth the effort. It offers us what we truly want. And it is guaranteed that it is ours because God Himself has given it.

Today we practice remembering the center of peace within and letting that peace lead the way. This is how we are guided to use the body as an aid to lead us Home.

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Accepting the Power of Forgiveness

Remember that in every attack [perception of separation] you call upon your own weakness, while each time you forgive [recognize oneness] you call upon the strength of Christ in you. Do you not then begin to understand what forgiveness will do for you? It will remove all sense of weakness, strain and fatigue from your mind. It will take away all fear and guilt and pain. It will restore the invulnerability and power God gave His Son to your awareness. (A Course in Miracles, W-pI.62.3. See also ACIM Lesson 62 Insights.)

It is helpful to be reminded that when we see a brother as separate from us, that we are calling upon our own weakness. It is also helpful to truly recognize the strength and power that come with being willing to see past separation to the truth of our oneness in the Love of God.

As we open to a better way through the Holy Spirit in our mind, we are brought to the Light of God in us. We are brought to our true strength and power — the eternal power of God’s Love. As we practice this consistently, we begin to experience that Love is the answer to every situation we encounter in the dream world of separation. All this comes as we accept the power of forgiveness and practice it consistently in our daily lives.

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Choosing Our True Identity

My Self is God’s Son. My Self is the one Self we all share. It is this Self, Which is Love, that unites us all as one and unites us with God. Being Love, this Self shares God’s holiness. My only decision is whether to accept this Self as my Identity or to choose a fake identity. 



This fake identity is made up and therefore cannot be united with the Self that is my reality. This fake identity is limited and weak, fearful and riddled with guilt. It sees attack and destruction everywhere and never feels safe. Its existence depends upon attack to protect itself from attack. Peace is impossible to this fake identity, for it sees itself as alone and separate from the many other identities that seem to populate its world. Belief in this identity makes it seem to be real and the Identity created by God seems unreal. 



Yet believing in this fake identity is a decision, but it is a decision that can be reversed. This fake identity ceases to appear to exist the moment it is no longer supported by belief. This is salvation. The moment I release all belief in separate identities, the world is free and I remember the Self God created as His Son. The extension of Love replaces the projection of guilt. Peace replaces conflict. And God’s glory replaces a sense of unworthiness. One decision made without reservation changes it all. 



Belief in a separate identity has been reinforced, layer upon layer. And so the undoing of this belief seems to come layer by layer. There still seems to be reservations in choosing against the false identity. Some aspects of this false identity still seem to be attractive. Gratefully, as I let go of believing I am separate and alone, the false identity is less and less attractive. More and more I realize and accept that my happiness lies in accepting that I am Love and nothing else. And so is everyone. 



Holy Spirit, guide my vision today to see the Love in everyone that I may recognize my Self. Thus will I contribute to the salvation of the world, which cannot be complete while I believe there could be anything but Love. Holy Spirit help me to see that only Love is real. (Excerpt from ACIM Lesson 238 Insight. Click here to read the full ACIM Lesson 238 Insights.)

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We Rest in God

Let us remember through the day that we all rest in God, no matter what dreams may come…
Let us remember today that we are safe in God and have never left…
Let us remember that this is true about everyone…

The fact that we rest in God means that we are resting in Heaven eternally…
In truth, we are all that God is… This is God’s Will for us… And what God wills… IS.

As we let ourselves return to the truth, that we are still Love and nothing else, we feel safe and comforted…
and we know that this is true about everyone,
no matter what fearful thoughts are dreamed up in a world of separation.

Today we would remember that we rest in God.

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God Gave Himself to Us All in Equal Love

You are alike to God as God is to Himself. He is not special, for He would not keep one part of what He is unto Himself, not given to His Son but kept for Him alone. And it is this you fear, for if He is not special, then He willed His Son to be like Him, and your brother is like you. Not special, but possessed of everything, including you. Give him but what he has, remembering God gave Himself to you and your brother in equal love, that both might share the universe with Him Who chose that love could never be divided, and kept separate from what it is and must forever be. (A Course in Miracles, T-24.II.10:3-7. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Specialness is divisive. What is one can have no differences. The wish for specialness attempts to divide oneness into different pieces. This could only be “accomplished” in illusions, for the reality of Oneness is unchangeable.

The thought system of separation (the ego) made a world that appears to make differences real. It is a deception that hides the gift of Love which God has given to all equally. When we identify with the body and believe what the body seems to show us, we see images that seem to confirm that separation is real.

The way back to the experience of God’s limitless Love is to lay aside our belief that specialness offers us anything of value. Specialness brings conflict, fear and guilt with it. All we really want is to remember our innocence and the Love that is given us eternally.

Everyone in this world is searching for Love, but it cannot be found in this world. The Love we search for is already in us. It is What we are. Today we practice letting Holy Spirit show us the Love that is the truth in everyone we meet or think of. This is how we will learn to recognize that God has already given us all of His Love.

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Seeing Your Relationships with Holy Spirit

All [the Holy Spirit] perceives in separation is that it must be undone. Let Him uncover the hidden spark of beauty in your relationships, and show it to you. Its loveliness will so attract you that you will be unwilling ever to lose the sight of it again. And you will let this spark transform the relationship so you can see it more and more. For you will want it more and more, and become increasingly unwilling to let it be hidden from you.

My holy brother, I would enter into all your relationships, and step between you and your fantasies. Let my relationship to you be real to you, and let me bring reality to your perception of your brothers. (A Course in Miracles, T-17.III.6:6-10;10:1-2. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

We want to wake up from the dream of separation from God.… We want to return to God’s peace and happiness and joy… We do this by letting the Voice for God return us to the truth…

Today we give time to quiet listening to our inner Teacher… We would see as He sees… We gladly welcome seeing the innocence and Love behind every veil of separation… We want to see every brother as he truly is… We want to see that he is still as God created him and that nothing has happened to change God’s one Son… We want to return to the truth and be happy… We gladly see all our relationships through the eyes of the Holy Spirit today.

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Setting a New Direction

Father, I wake today with miracles correcting my perception of all things. And so begins the day I share with You as I will share eternity, for time has stepped aside today. I do not seek the things of time, and so I will not look upon them. What I seek today transcends all laws of time and things perceived in time. I would forget all things except Your Love. I would abide in You, and know no laws except Your law of love. And I would find the peace which You created for Your Son, forgetting all the foolish toys I made as I behold Your glory and my own. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.346.1. See also ACIM Lesson 346 Insights.)

Today we practice remembering that God’s law of Love is all inclusive. As we join with God’s all-encompassing law of Love, we see that God knows no differences… He sees only the truth of What we are… He sees us as Love and nothing else… He sees us as wholly innocent…

Our inner Teacher, the Voice for Love, has infinite patience because It knows that in truth we never left Love and remain as Love created us. Our inner Teacher remembers for us that only Love is real and helps us apply this to everyone we meet or even think of. We commit to reinforcing this new direction today and every day this coming year.

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