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Today Is Dedicated to Accepting the Truth

Today is a day of special dedication. We take a stand on but one side today. We side with truth and let illusions go. We will not vacillate between the two, but take a firm position with the One. We dedicate ourselves to truth today, and to salvation as God planned it be. We will not argue it is something else. We will not seek for it where it is not. In gladness we accept it as it is, and take the part assigned to us by God. (A Course in Miracles, W-pI.98.1)

We let the veil of illusions be lifted today. We walk hand in hand with the Holy Spirit, receiving a changed perception as we go through our day. We receive the Holy Spirit’s peace, and give as we receive. We receive the certainty that we are still as God created us, along with every brother. We let ourselves be carried by Holy Spirit through the day, knowing our safety and invulnerability are assured. We let ourselves feel the happiness and joy that come as we take the part assigned to us each moment of this day. We have a mighty purpose to fulfill — to accept the truth today.

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Seeking Happiness Where It Can Be Found

Everyone wants to be happy. Every day we search for happiness. Yet it seems to elude us. This is because we are following the direction of the ego, which will always tell us to search where it cannot be found. But there is another Guide Whose purpose is to lead us back to Heaven, where we will find the happiness we seek.

Forgiveness is the key to happiness. If we were as diligent about following the Holy Spirit’s guidance instead of the ego’s, our days would be filled with joy. We would be shown the Light of Love everywhere instead of the darkness of separation and fear. We would recognize our brothers as our dearest and trusted Friends. We would feel our oneness as we see the innocence in our brothers and ourselves.

Once again, our practice today is to hold our minds open to the Holy Spirit’s guidance and vision to let our vain imaginings be replaced by the Holy Spirit’s perception of the truth in us and all our brothers. Thus will we move forward on our quest to return to the happiness given us in our creation.

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Take Every Problem to Him

God offers you the means to see [your brother’s] innocence. Would it be fair to punish him because you will not look at what is there to see? Each time you keep a problem for yourself to solve, or judge that it is one that has no resolution, you have made it great, and past the hope of healing. (A Course in Miracles, T-26.II.5:5-7)

It is our insistence that the images of the world are real that stands in the way of our healing. These images were made to make it seem that we actually have separated from our Source, and are therefore weak and capable of loss. It makes problems seem real and unresolvable. This is a self deception that keeps us limited and fearful. It need not be.

We have the means within our minds to let this self deception be undone. Yet we must be willing to bring each of these deceiving images, these mistaken beliefs, to the Voice for Love in our minds with willingness to receive Its gentle correction of our misperception.

This practice is the key to happiness and peace. It is the means by which we exchange hell for Heaven, fear for Love. Today our practice is to interpret no image in the world on our own and to welcome the Holy Spirit’s interpretation instead.

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Willingness to See We Are One with Our Brother in Love

No one can look upon the fear of God unterrified, unless he has accepted the Atonement and learned illusions are not real.

To look upon the fear of God does need some preparation. Only the sane can look on stark insanity and raving madness with pity and compassion, but not with fear. For only if they share in [madness] does it seem fearful, and you do share in it until you look upon your brother with perfect faith and love and tenderness. Before complete forgiveness you still stand unforgiving. You are afraid of God because you fear your brother. Those you do not forgive you fear. And no one reaches love with fear beside him. (A Course in Miracles, T-19.IV.i.9:1;11:1-7)

The illusion of separation is the effect of rejecting our oneness in God’s Love. The desire for specialness is the rejection of oneness. This desire produces the illusion that we are separate and alone. Within this delusion, we think we are unique individuals with private thoughts we do not share. As long as we identify with this false image of ourselves, we will fear the oneness of Love, because it would mean the end of the false identity we have claimed as our own. Yet the only way out of fear is to let go of this false identity and claim our real Identity as Love in the one Mind of Love.

Within the framework of the illusion of separation, we cannot find our way back to Love’s oneness. We need our true Self, our inner Teacher, to lead us out. Our inner Teacher leads us out through forgiving, or letting go of, the dream of separation. Our brother becomes our savior as we are willing to let the veil be lifted to see the innocent face of Christ in place of our delusions of separation and guilt. Our inner Teacher shows us the face of Christ as we are willing to receive It. This is our practice for today.

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Returning to the Center of Peace Within

In silence, close your eyes upon the world that does not understand forgiveness, and seek sanctuary in the quiet place where thoughts are changed and false beliefs laid by. …Be glad to hear the Voice of truth and healing speak to you, and you will understand the words He speaks, and recognize He speaks your words to you. (A Course in Miracles, W-pI.126.10:1,3-4)

Our right mind is a place of peace that remains eternally joined with the Mind of Love. It is undisturbed by the chaos of the ego thought system of separation. Our right mind is a place of refuge that we can go to in any moment to be reminded of the truth and to be healed of the false ideas that bring us fear and guilt.

The practice of going to this center of peace within to let our minds be healed is how we let go of judgment and guilt. It is here that we are able to give and receive the gift of forgiveness. It is here that we are freed from the self imposed limits that come with the belief in separation. This is our practice for today.

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Today We Accept Love as Love Is

The body cannot know. And while you limit your awareness to its tiny senses, you will not see the grandeur that surrounds you. God cannot come into a body, nor can you join Him there. Limits on love will always seem to shut Him out, and keep you apart from Him. The body is a tiny fence around a little part of a glorious and complete idea.

It is only the awareness of the body that makes love seem limited. For the body is a limit on love. The belief in limited love was its origin, and it was made to limit the unlimited. Think not that this is merely allegorical, for it was made to limit you. Can you who see yourself within a body know yourself as an idea? (A Course in Miracles, T-18.VIII.2:1-5;1:1-5)

Our Self is the one Thought in the Mind of Love. This Thought is united with Love, encompassing all Love. There is nothing outside this universal Love, for there is nothing outside God. This is our reality. We are the one idea of Love in the one Mind of Love. This one idea is changeless and eternal. This one idea of Love is What we all are.

Returning to our Identity as Love is our one goal, whether we realize it or not. Today our practice is to let Love be. We hand over our belief in anything other than the oneness of Love to the Holy Spirit to be undone. We do this by frequently stepping back from our doing and going to the center of peace within, the quiet center of our being. There we are returned to the truth and accept Love as Love is.

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Joy Comes with Following Holy Spirit’s Lead

Our dedication today is to follow Holy Spirit’s lead. He will always lead us to a happy outcome because He will always lead us to Love. In Love we remember God and we remember that God created the Self we are. In the unity of that one Self, we know that we are perfectly safe and have everything we need. We welcome our brothers who are one with us in this Self. As the Holy Spirit leads us in Love to Love, we accept the blessing of being and extending Love. There is no greater joy than this.

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