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Letting Love Guide Our Thoughts

²My mind holds only what I think with God.

³That is a fact, and represents the truth of What you are and What your Father is. ⁴It is this thought by which the Father gave creation to the Son, establishing the Son as co-creator with Himself. ⁵It is this thought that fully guarantees salvation to the Son. ⁶For in his mind no thoughts can dwell but those his Father shares. ⁷Lack of forgiveness blocks this thought from his awareness. ⁸Yet it is forever true.

Because they are illusions, they are not perceived to be but what they are; defenses that protect your unforgiving thoughts from being seen and recognized. ³Their purpose is to show you something else, and hold correction off through self-deceptions made to take its place.

²Open your mind, and clear it of all thoughts that would deceive, and let this thought alone engage it fully, and remove the rest:

³My mind holds only what I think with God.

…place His Mind in charge of all the thoughts you will receive that day.

“They will not come from you alone, for they will all be shared with Him. ²And so each one will bring the message of His Love to you, returning messages of yours to Him. ³So will communion with the Lord of Hosts be yours, as He Himself has willed it be. (A Course in Miracles, W-rIV.in.2:2-8;3:2-3;5:2–6:3)

Our minds seem to be filled with a constant stream of thoughts about the world. They range from our planned activities for the day to events in the world. But these are private thoughts which we do not share with our Creator, and so they are not real. These thoughts are the ego’s distractions that keep us from recognizing that our choice for specialness denies the loving thoughts we share with God.

Today we remind ourselves that our mind holds only the thoughts we think with God. His thoughts are only extensions of Love and our real thoughts must be as well. As we put Love in charge of our mind, we become Love’s messengers to the world.

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Our Father’s Call to Return Home to Love

In fearlessness and love I spend today.

This day, my Father, would I spend with You, as You have chosen all my days should be. ²And what I will experience is not of time at all. ³The joy that comes to me is not of days nor hours, for it comes from Heaven to Your Son. ⁴This day will be Your sweet reminder to remember You, Your gracious calling to Your holy Son, the sign Your grace has come to me, and that it is Your Will I be set free today.

We spend this day together, you and I. ²And all the world joins with us in our song of thankfulness and joy to Him Who gave salvation to us, and Who set us free. ³We are restored to peace and holiness. ⁴There is no room in us for fear today, for we have welcomed love into our hearts. (A Course in Miracles, W-310. See also ACIM Lesson 310 Insights.)

Our true Home is in the Heaven of our Father’s timeless Love. Our choice to prefer specialness over the oneness of His Love has exiled us into a world of conflict and lovelessness. We are free to return Home to Love in every moment. We only need to forgive ourselves for our mistaken choice.

With our forgiveness, we accept our Father’s call to return home where we belong. Joy and peace await our acceptance. They are our birthright. We are grateful for the grace of our Creator Who holds our Home’s door open for our return.

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The Choice for Happiness and Peace

I will step back and let Him lead the way.

There is a way of living in the world that is not here, although it seems to be. ²You do not change appearance, though you smile more frequently. ³Your forehead is serene; your eyes are quiet. ⁴And the ones who walk the world as you do recognize their own. ⁵Yet those who have not yet perceived the way will recognize you also, and believe that you are like them, as you were before.

The world is an illusion. ²Those who choose to come to it are seeking for a place where they can be illusions, and avoid their own reality. ³Yet when they find their own reality is even here, then they step back and let it lead the way. ⁴What other choice is really theirs to make? ⁵To let illusions walk ahead of truth is madness. ⁶But to let illusion sink behind the truth and let the truth stand forth as what it is, is merely sanity.

This is the simple choice we make today. ²The mad illusion will remain awhile in evidence, for those to look upon who chose to come, and have not yet rejoiced to find they were mistaken in their choice. ³They cannot learn directly from the truth, because they have denied that it is so. ⁴And so they need a Teacher Who perceives their madness, but Who still can look beyond illusion to the simple truth in them.

…there is another road that leads away from loss of every kind, for sacrifice and deprivation both are quickly left behind. ²This is the way appointed for you now.” (A Course in Miracles, W-155.1-3;5:1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 155 Insights.)

The ego is a control freak. It is certain that it knows what we need, what will make us happy, and how to get it. It sees itself as alone, in constant conflict with a world that would deny it everything that it wants or needs. Yet it denies our only real need — to be the Love that our loving Father created us to be.

We do not need to accept the ego’s control. In every moment we have the option to step back and let the Holy Spirit lead the way. He will help us reinterpret our misperceptions to show us that we are the Love we seek. He will teach us how to forgive the ego’s denial of Love. Free from the ego, we will extend the Love we are to the world and find happiness and peace.

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Look Upon God’s World Today

Father, unless I judge I cannot weep. ²Nor can I suffer pain, or feel I am abandoned or unneeded in the world. ³This is my home because I judge it not, and therefore is it only what You will. ⁴Let me today behold it uncondemned, through happy eyes forgiveness has released from all distortion. ⁵Let me see Your world instead of mine. ⁶And all the tears I shed will be forgotten, for their source is gone. ⁷Father, I will not judge Your world today.

God’s world is happy. ²Those who look on it can only add their joy to it, and bless it as a cause of further joy in them. ³We wept because we did not understand. ⁴But we have learned the world we saw was false, and we will look upon God’s world today. (A Course in Miracles, W-301.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 301 Insights.)

We only feel sad, angry, fearful or guilty because we have judged the world. The body’s eyes distort the world by seeing only illusions. Forgiveness is the way to dispel illusions and allow the reality of Love to dawn upon our minds.

Our search for Love is fulfilled when we forgive our judgments. Today we ask the Holy Spirit to heal our mind of mistaken wishes. We want to see the Presence of Love that is our natural habitat. This is how we will know we are in God’s world where we are truly happy.

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Choose to Extend Only Love

Salvation is the recognition that the truth is true, and nothing else is true. …⁵Truth cannot have an opposite.

As God created you, you must remain unchangeable, with transitory states by definition false. ²And that includes all shifts in feeling, alterations in conditions of the body and the mind; in all awareness and in all response. ³This is the all-inclusiveness which sets the truth apart from falsehood, and the false kept separate from the truth, as what it is.

Let us today be truly humble, and accept what we have made as what it is. ²The power of decision is our own. ³Decide but to accept your rightful place as co-creator of the universe, and all you think you made will disappear. ⁴What rises to awareness then will be all that there ever was, eternally as it is now. ⁵And it will take the place of self-deceptions made but to usurp the altar to the Father and the Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-152.3:1,5;5;8. See also ACIM Lesson 152 Insights.)

God is changeless Love. All His creation is an unlimited extension of what He is. We, His one Son, share His Will to extend only Love.

The decision to seek specialness denies our true Identity. To make this decision seem to work, we join with the ego to make illusions of differences that seem to be real. It is time to make a different choice. It is time to join with our Father as co-creator of the universe of Love. This is the choice that will return us to the joy, peace and Love that is our natural state.

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Let Love Release Us from the Past

This instant is the only time there is.

I have conceived of time in such a way that I defeat my aim. ²If I elect to reach past time to timelessness, I must change my perception of what time is for. ³Time’s purpose cannot be to keep the past and future one. ⁴The only interval in which I can be saved from time is now. ⁵For in this instant has forgiveness come to set me free. ⁶The birth of Christ is now, without a past or future. ⁷He has come to give His present blessing to the world, restoring it to timelessness and love. ⁸And love is ever-present, here and now.

Thanks for this instant, Father. ²It is now I am redeemed. ³This instant is the time You have appointed for Your Son’s release, and for salvation of the world in him. (A Course in Miracles, W-308. See also ACIM Lesson 308 Insights.)

While we identify with a body, we interpret the present based on ‘memories’ of past experiences of our body. This past covers the present instant with a cloud of illusions that prevent us from recognizing the Light that is eternally shining in the now moment.

When we let go of our attachment to the past, we open our mind to receive Christ’s vision to see past the clouds. Our mind is lit with the Light of Love that shines away the past. We welcome the Love that keeps us eternally united with God and all His Creation.

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Bringing Heaven’s Light to the World

Let not my world obscure the sight of Christ.

I can obscure my holy sight, if I intrude my world upon it. ²Nor can I behold the holy sights Christ looks upon, unless it is His vision that I use. ³Perception is a mirror, not a fact. ⁴And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward. ⁵I would bless the world by looking on it through the eyes of Christ. ⁶And I will look upon the certain signs that all my sins have been forgiven me.

You lead me from the darkness to the light; from sin to holiness. ²Let me forgive, and thus receive salvation for the world. ³It is Your gift, my Father, given me to offer to Your holy Son, that he may find again the memory of You, and of Your Son as You created him. (A Course in Miracles, W-304. See also ACIM Lesson 304 Insights.)

Our perceptions give us direct feedback about our state of mind. Is our mind aligned with the ego thought system of separation? If so, we perceive conflict, lack, loss, depression, fear and guilt. Is our mind in its natural state of alignment with the Mind of God? Then we perceive holiness and innocence, changeless love, joy and peace that cannot be disturbed.

We are always free to turn on the Light of Love by forgiving ourselves for choosing specialness in place of the oneness of our Father’s Love. We have a Guide in our mind Whose sole purpose is to guide us out of the darkness into the Light of Heaven, our Home. Today we choose to accept His vision to release the world from our vain imaginings.

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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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