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The Prince of Peace Is Born in You

In this season (Christmas) which celebrates the birth of holiness into this world, join with me who decided for holiness for you. It is our task together to restore the awareness of magnitude to the host whom God appointed for Himself. It is beyond all your littleness to give the gift of God, but not beyond you. For God would give Himself through you. He reaches from you to everyone and beyond everyone to His Son’s creations, but without leaving you. Far beyond your little world but still in you, He extends forever.

My birth in you is your awakening to grandeur. Welcome me not into a manger, but into the altar to holiness, where holiness abides in perfect peace. My Kingdom is not of this world because it is in you. And you are of your Father. (A Course in Miracles, T-15.III.7:1-6;9:5-8. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Today we honor the birth of the Prince of Peace in us… As we accept His Kingdom instead of the little one we made, we open to the magnitude given us by God… As we receive His gifts of Love and peace and joy, we give them freely to everyone… We know our purpose is to give His gifts freely and equally to all… We remember His gifts are ours as we give them away… What better way to celebrate Christmas?

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God’s Will for Us Is Perfect Happiness

God’s Will for you is perfect happiness because there is no sin, and suffering is causeless. Joy is just, and pain is but the sign you have misunderstood yourself. Fear not the Will of God. But turn to it in confidence that it will set you free from all the consequences sin has wrought in feverish imagination. Say:

God’s Will for me is perfect happiness.
There is no sin; it has no consequence. (A Course in Miracles, W-pI.101.6:1-7. See also ACIM Lesson 101 Insights.)

Any discomfort or uneasiness to any degree is a sure sign that we have misunderstood What we are. Misunderstanding simply needs correction by One Who does understand What we truly are. The ego does not. Thus we must turn to the Voice for God within to receive His kind and gentle correction.

He will teach us that it is impossible to harm God’s Son, Who remains eternally held within the strength of God’s Love. This is the lesson the Holy Spirit would have us learn. But we cannot learn it if we insist on following the ego’s lessons, which are wholly in opposition to the Truth.

The daily, moment by moment practice of being mindful of our level of peace and bringing all disturbing thoughts and perceptions to the Holy Spirit is the way out of the pain and suffering the ego offers.

We are grateful that we have been given the means to receive the understanding we need to remember the truth that God’s gift to us is perfect happiness.

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We Follow God’s Example of Gift Giving

When a mind has only light, it knows only light. Its own radiance shines all around it, and extends out into the darkness of other minds, transforming them into majesty. The Majesty of God is there, for you to recognize and appreciate and know. Recognizing the Majesty of God as your brother is to accept your own inheritance. God gives only equally. If you recognize His gift in anyone, you have acknowledged what He has given you. (A Course in Miracles, T-7.XI.5:1-6. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

God gives all of Himself, Which is Love, to all. Today we practice acknowledging God’s gift of Love in every brother. It is there for us to see, when we are willing and open to seeing it. When see and acknowledge God’s gift in every brother, we are accepting God’s gift for ourselves because God gives only equally. This remembering brings us into God’s state of grace.

When we see our brother as Love, we feel Love’s blessing. We feel safe because there is no conflict in Love. We feel peaceful and joyous because peace and joy are attributes of Love. This is our natural state because that is God’s gift to all of Creation. We let ourselves experience this state of grace as we forgive or let go of the false images that show us a world of separate bodies, separate minds and separate forms. As we forgive, we welcome and accept God’s gift of Love.

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Let Heaven’s Peace and Joy Intensify

Accept God’s peace and joy, and you will learn a different way of looking at a gift. God’s gifts will never lessen when they are given away. They but increase thereby.

As Heaven’s peace and joy intensify when you accept them as God’s gift to you, so does the joy of your Creator grow when you accept His joy and peace as yours. True giving is creation. It extends the limitless to the unlimited, eternity to timelessness, and love unto itself. It adds to all that is complete already, not in simple terms of adding more, for that implies that it was less before. It adds by letting what cannot contain itself fulfill its aim of giving everything it has away, securing it forever for itself.

Receive His gift of joy and peace today, and He will thank you for your gift to Him. (A Course in Miracles, W-pI.105.3:3-5;4:1-5;5:6. See also ACIM Lesson 105 Insights.)

Let us thank our Father for His eternal gifts of peace and joy… As we increase our willingness to receive peace and joy, it becomes our gift to everyone… There is no efforting because we remember that God’s gifts are always there for us…

We just need to accept… We let peace in… We let peace light up our mind… We let ourselves receive the truth that peace is everywhere… Joy is everywhere… We let ourselves be carried by God’s continuous and everlasting gifts of peace and joy… We let go and let God’s gifts extend and intensify… We are grateful that this is so.

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Heaven’s Justice

You have the right to all the universe; to perfect peace, complete deliverance from all effects of sin, and to the life eternal, joyous and complete in every way, as God appointed for His holy Son. This is the only justice Heaven knows, and all the Holy Spirit brings to earth. Your special function shows you nothing else but perfect justice can prevail for you. And you are safe from vengeance in all forms. The world deceives, but it cannot replace God’s justice with a version of its own. For only love is just, and can perceive what justice must accord the Son of God. Let love decide, and never fear that you, in your unfairness, will deprive yourself of what God’s justice has allotted you. (A Course in Miracles, T-25.VIII.14. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

We all have been given all of Heaven. We all have Heaven in our right mind. We experience Heaven as we are willing to release all the false ideas and beliefs that something else could be real.

The Course tells us that we not only have Heaven, but that we are Heaven. In our confused state of mind, we have lost awareness that we are God’s perfect Love. We are now willing to return to this truth. Our true Self will lead us to the truth as we are willing to step back, be quiet and listen.

Receptivity to the Holy Spirit’s mind healing training brings the experience of true Love, joy and peace… This experience is beyond words… The experience of Love carries with it the awareness that we are the very beingness of Love… Being Love, we automatically extend Love equally to all… We feel and know that this is Heaven’s Justice for us all… We happily choose nothing else…

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We Are at Home in God

I was mistaken when I thought I lived apart from God, a separate entity that moved in isolation, unattached, and housed within a body. Now I know my life is God’s, I have no other home, and I do not exist apart from Him. He has no Thoughts that are not part of me, and I have none but those which are of Him.

Our Father, let us see the face of Christ instead of our mistakes. For we who are Your holy Son are sinless. We would look upon our sinlessness, for guilt proclaims that we are not Your Son. And we would not forget You longer. We are lonely here, and long for Heaven, where we are at home. Today we would return. Our Name is Yours, and we acknowledge that we are Your Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.223.1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 223 Insights.)

Today our practice is to let ourselves remember What we are and Where we are in truth. We practice letting ourselves remember that we are at Home and safe in God’s holy Mind. We may dream that we are separate, but we cannot make it the truth.

We are safe in Love and we let go of trying to distract ourselves with false image-making of conflict and separation. We would let ourselves become aware of our real Home — our eternal Home. We are Love in the Mind of Love. We rest with God in Love today.

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Awakening to Love

We state again the truth about your Self, the holy Son of God Who rests in you; whose mind has been restored to sanity. You are the Spirit lovingly endowed with all your Father’s Love and peace and joy. You are the Spirit which completes Himself, and shares His function as Creator. He is with you always, as you are with Him. (A Course in Miracles, W-pI.97.2. See also ACIM Lesson 97 Insights.)

Identifying with the ego and the body as what we are leaves us in a crisis of identity. It leaves us feeling like we are adrift in an open ocean with no sight of land and no way to find solid ground. Yet certainty and safety are available to us right now. We need only identify instead with the truth of What we are — Spirit held safely in the peace of God.

The solution to this identity crisis is simple and radical: Set aside identifying with an image in the world and accept the Truth that we are Spirit and nothing else. This is how we free ourselves from fear and guilt and open to receive God’s loving gifts of peace and joy.

Today we will remind ourselves often that we are Spirit. When we meet or even think of a brother, we will remind ourselves that he is Spirit and one with us in that Spirit. Each time we remember, we take a giant stride forward in our awakening to Love.

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