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Love Is Our True Identity

In me, God’s holy Son, are reconciled all parts of Heaven’s plan to save the world. ²What could conflict, when all the parts have but one purpose and one aim? ³How could there be a single part that stands alone, or one of more or less importance than the rest? ⁴I am the means by which God’s Son is saved, because salvation’s purpose is to find the sinlessness that God has placed in me. ⁵I was created as the thing I seek. ⁶I am the goal the world is searching for. ⁷I am God’s Son, His one eternal Love. ⁸I am salvation’s means and end as well.

Let me today, my Father, take the role You offer me in Your request that I accept Atonement for myself. ²For thus does what is thereby reconciled in me become as surely reconciled to You. (A Course in Miracles, W-318. See also ACIM Lesson 318 Insights.)

Everyone in this dream world is seeking for Love. The ego directs this search in the world of form, where Love cannot be found. Love cannot be limited to a form; Love is one, changeless and the same throughout, eternally.

This search for Love is actually a search to find our true Self, Which is Love united with the Love of our Creator. As extensions of God’s Love, our function is to extend His Love without limit.

We accept Atonement by forgiving the wish for a separate identity. Forgiveness opens our mind to accept Love as our true Identity. The Love we are sees only the Love that is the truth in everyone.

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Remembering Love Is Our Identity

If I accept that I am prisoner within a body, in a world in which all things that seem to live appear to die, then is my Father prisoner with me. ²And this do I believe, when I maintain the laws the world obeys must I obey; the frailties and the sins which I perceive are real, and cannot be escaped. ³If I am bound in any way, I do not know my Father nor my Self. ⁴And I am lost to all reality. ⁵For truth is free, and what is bound is not a part of truth.

Father, I ask for nothing but the truth. ²I have had many foolish thoughts about myself and my creation, and have brought a dream of fear into my mind. ³Today, I would not dream. ⁴I choose the way to You instead of madness and instead of fear. ⁵For truth is safe, and only love is sure. (A Course in Miracles, W-278. See also ACIM Lesson 278 Insights.)

In order to have a unique, special identity, we have imprisoned ourselves in a body in a world where fear and guilt are justified and death seems real. This is not our true Home.

We can unlock our self-made prison doors by choosing to let the Holy Spirit lead us to the truth. Our willingness to accept His help will let the veil of false beliefs be lifted. Peace will return to our troubled mind. We will remember our true Self, which is eternally united in Love with our Father and every brother.

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We Are Free to Accept God’s Love Now

Creation’s freedom promises my own.

The end of dreams is promised me, because God’s Son is not abandoned by His Love. ²Only in dreams is there a time when he appears to be in prison, and awaits a future freedom, if it be at all. ³Yet in reality his dreams are gone, with truth established in their place. ⁴And now is freedom his already. ⁵Should I wait in chains which have been severed for release, when God is offering me freedom now?

I will accept Your promises today, and give my faith to them. ²My Father loves the Son Whom He created as His Own. ³Would You withhold the gifts You gave to me? (A Course in Miracles, W-279. See also ACIM Lesson 279 Insights.)

The nature of God’s Love is to give It to all without limit. The wish for specialness is a wish for limits. Differences are established by limits. Limits can only be experienced in dreams that deny God’s gift of all of Himself to His Son.

The Holy Spirit calls us to accept God’s promise of all of His Love. To allow this to happen, the Holy Spirit helps us forgive our mistaken wishes. Forgiveness opens our mind to receive the Love that has been given us since before the dream of time occupied our mind. Love is our true Identity, now and forever.

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Awakening from Fear to Love

The Holy Spirit mediates between illusions and the truth. ²Since He must bridge the gap between reality and dreams, perception leads to knowledge through the grace that God has given Him, to be His gift to everyone who turns to Him for truth.

²The Holy Spirit understands the means you made, by which you would attain what is forever unattainable. ³And if you offer them to Him, He will employ the means you made for exile to restore your mind to where it truly is at home.

From knowledge, where He has been placed by God, the Holy Spirit calls to you, to let forgiveness rest upon your dreams, and be restored to sanity and peace of mind. ²Without forgiveness will your dreams remain to terrify you. ³And the memory of all your Father’s Love will not return to signify the end of dreams has come.

Accept your Father’s gift. ²It is a Call from Love to Love, that It be but Itself. ³The Holy Spirit is His gift, by which the quietness of Heaven is restored to God’s beloved Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.7.1:1-2;3:2–5:3.)

To experience the specialness we sought, we made a dream filled with false images that made all things appear to be separate and distinct from each other. In this dream we are unaware of our true Identity as Love, united with our Creator.

The Holy Spirit understands the dream we made, but knows it is unreal. He calls to us in our dreams of conflict to forgive our wish for specialness and awaken to the quietness of Heaven. With forgiveness, the memory of our Father’s Love replaces the fearful dream.

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Learning to Accept God’s Love as Our Identity.

I need but call and You will answer me.

I am not asked to take salvation on the basis of an unsupported faith. ²For God has promised He will hear my call, and answer me Himself. ³Let me but learn from my experience that this is true, and faith in Him must surely come to me. ⁴This is the faith that will endure, and take me farther and still farther on the road that leads to Him. ⁵For thus I will be sure that He has not abandoned me and loves me still, awaiting but my call to give me all the help I need to come to Him.

Father, I thank You that Your promises will never fail in my experience, if I but test them out. ²Let me attempt therefore to try them, and to judge them not. ³Your Word is one with You. ⁴You give the means whereby conviction comes, and surety of Your abiding Love is gained at last. (A Course in Miracles, W-327. See also ACIM Lesson 327 Insights.)

When we ask the Holy Spirit for help, it is important that we not put limits on His answer. The ego only understands form and wants any question to be answered in a form it can accept. This is how the ego protects itself from the one Answer that would dispel the ego entirely.

At its core, the Holy Spirit’s singular answer is the oneness of God’s Love, which can contain no differences or form. The Holy Spirit’s function is to interpret Love’s oneness in ways that help us forgive our misinterpretations and open our minds to accept our Father’s gift of all His Love.

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The Decision to Accept God’s Love

Let us this day accept forgiveness as our only function. ²Why should we attack our minds, and give them images of pain? ³Why should we teach them they are powerless, when God holds out His power and His Love, and bids them [our minds] take what is already theirs? ⁴The mind that is made willing to accept God’s gifts has been restored to spirit, and extends its freedom and its joy, as is the Will of God united with its own. ⁵The Self which God created cannot sin, and therefore cannot suffer. ⁶Let us choose today that He be our Identity, and thus escape forever from all things the dream of fear appears to offer us.

Father, Your Son can not be hurt. ²And if we think we suffer, we but fail to know our one Identity we share with You. ³We would return to It today, to be made free forever from all our mistakes, and to be saved from what we thought we were. (A Course in Miracles, W-330. See also ACIM Lesson 330 Insights.)

Our only function is to forgive our mistaken wish to be a separate individual, housed in a body, and disconnected from the reality of God’s Love. Forgiveness opens our mind to accept God’s gift of all of Himself.

God is our true Identity. His Love created His Son one with Himself. Today we welcome the Holy Spirit’s help to recognize our illusions for what they are, and let them go. This is how we free our minds from our mistaken wishes. The veil of self-deception is dispelled and we awaken to the Love our Father has always shared with us.

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Willingness to See Love’s Reflection in the World

All things I think I see reflect ideas.

This is salvation’s keynote: What I see reflects a process in my mind, which starts with my idea of what I want. ²From there, the mind makes up an image of the thing the mind desires, judges valuable, and therefore seeks to find. ³These images are then projected outward, looked upon, esteemed as real and guarded as one’s own. ⁴From insane wishes comes an insane world. ⁵From judgment comes a world condemned. ⁶And from forgiving thoughts a gentle world comes forth, with mercy for the holy Son of God, to offer him a kindly home where he can rest a while before he journeys on, and help his brothers walk ahead with him, and find the way to Heaven and to God.

Our Father, Your ideas reflect the truth, and mine apart from Yours but make up dreams. ²Let me behold what only Yours [ideas] reflect, for Yours and Yours alone establish truth. (A Course in Miracles,W-325. See also ACIM Lesson 325 Insights.)

The world we see reflects our wishes, projections of what we believe we want. The body and what it sees are reflections of the wish for specialness, to be different. Judgment is a constant activity, need to maintain the illusion of differences.

Our Father’s singular idea is that we remain eternally one with Him in His Love. Love is one and the same, always and forever. Love does no judge because It sees only Itself.

When we are willing to see with forgiving eyes, we welcome Love. We see only the Love we are reflected back to us. Today we join with our brothers in the practice of seeing only Love. That is how we will remember that we are Love, and nothing else.

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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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