Daily Inspiration for Living A Course in Miracles

Tweet

Subscribe

Click link to go to:

View all articles • Article index

Seeing Beyond Appearances to Truth

Your brother has a changelessness in him beyond appearance and deception, both. It is obscured by changing views of him that you perceive as his reality. The happy dream about him takes the form of the appearance of his perfect health, his perfect freedom from all forms of lack, and safety from disaster of all kinds. The miracle is proof he is not bound by loss or suffering in any form, because it can so easily be changed. This demonstrates that it was never real, and could not stem from his reality. For that is changeless, and has no effects that anything in Heaven or on earth could ever alter. But appearances are shown to be unreal because they change. (A Course in Miracles, T-30.VIII.2:3-9)

While we believe we are separate individuals, we cannot see beyond appearances. We need help from beyond the thought system of separation to see the Truth that is hidden by appearances. The Truth in everyone is the one Self that God created. If we are willing to open our minds to the Holy Spirit’s vision, He will show us the changeless Love that is the Truth in every brother and ourselves.

This vision shows us only innocence, wholeness and changeless Love. Because it is changeless and whole, the truth of perfect freedom, health and total abundance is seen clearly.

From this perspective, it is clearly recognized that no appearance has an effect on the Reality of our brothers and our self. Forgiveness comes naturally when we realize that no appearance has any effect, harm is impossible, there is no cause for guilt and we remain Love as Love created us.

Today we again practice letting the Holy Spirit be our Interpreter of all appearances throughout the day.

© 2013, Pathways of Light. http://www.pathwaysoflight.org
You may freely share copies of this with your friends, provided this copyright notice and website address are included.

Tell a friend about this article.

Printable Page

The Light of Truth Is with Us

Sit silently and wait upon your Father. He has willed to come to you when you have recognized it is your will He do so. And you could have never come this far unless you saw, however dimly, that it is your will.

I am so close to you we cannot fail. Father, we give these holy times to You, in gratitude to Him Who taught us how to leave the world of sorrow in exchange for its replacement, given us by You. We look not backward now. We look ahead, and fix our eyes upon the journey’s end. Accept these little gifts of thanks from us, as through Christ’s vision we behold a world beyond the one we made, and take that world to be the full replacement of our own.” (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.Intro.5:5-6:5)

The Light of Truth is with us. It remains within our minds, whether we are aware of it or not. Today we welcome the Light of Truth into every part of our minds. As we do so, the way becomes light and easy. Our trust expands and we see that we are being carried. We need nothing but the Light of Truth to guide our way. Peace and calm fill our minds as we continue to welcome the truth today. And we move through the day in gratitude.

© 2013, Pathways of Light. http://www.pathwaysoflight.org
You may freely share copies of this with your friends, provided this copyright notice and website address are included.

Tell a friend about this article.

Printable Page

Peace Is Ours Now

The Communication Link that God Himself placed within you, joining your mind with His, cannot be broken. You may believe you want It broken, and this belief does interfere with the deep peace in which the sweet and constant communication God would share with you is known. Yet His channels of reaching out cannot be wholly closed and separated from Him. Peace will be yours because His peace still flows to you from Him Whose Will is peace. You have it now. The Holy Spirit will teach you how to use it, and by extending it, to learn that it is in you. God willed you Heaven, and will always will you nothing else. The Holy Spirit knows only of His Will. There is no chance that Heaven will not be yours, for God is sure, and what He wills is as sure as He is. (A Course in Miracles, T-13.XI.8)

We don’t have to wait for peace. We need only be willing to accept the peace that God has already given us. He placed His Voice in our minds to help us clear away the self-made interference that blocks our awareness of His peace. Peace is ours now.

Our practice today is to be mindful of our awareness of peace. If we experience any sense of disturbance, we pause, take a breath and relax. We then ask the Holy Spirit to help us see as He sees, to look past the disturbing appearance to the certainty of Love and peace. We ask Him to add His strength our little willingness, that we may receive His vision and the peace that comes with it. We accept His help to offer this peace so that we may experience it as our own. This is how we will learn that peace is ours now.

© 2013, Pathways of Light. http://www.pathwaysoflight.org
You may freely share copies of this with your friends, provided this copyright notice and website address are included.

Tell a friend about this article.

Printable Page

How to Have a Happy Day

Today belongs to truth. Give truth its due, and it will give you yours. You were not meant to suffer and to die. Your Father wills these dreams be gone. Let truth correct them all.

Begin by asking Him Who goes with you upon this undertaking that He be in your awareness as you go with Him. …It is your Self you ask to go with you, and how could He be absent where you are?

Truth will correct all errors in your mind which tell you you could be apart from Him. You speak to Him today, and make your pledge to let His function be fulfilled through you. (A Course in Miracles, W-pI.107.6:5-9;8:1,4;9:1-2)

Truth is joy. We need only accept the truth to be happy. Insisting that we are separate individuals in a world of separation is the denial of joy. Yet truth remains in our minds. It is the Self we are, together as One.

We dedicate today to the practice of bringing peace to the forefront of our minds and welcoming our Self as our Guide in all our doing. As we walk with the awareness of our Self, all our doing is immersed in Love. And we experience the joy of joining with our brothers in this Self. There is no greater happiness than what we find in the Self that Love created. The way is open to have a happy day.

© 2013, Pathways of Light. http://www.pathwaysoflight.org
You may freely share copies of this with your friends, provided this copyright notice and website address are included.

Tell a friend about this article.

Printable Page

The Bridge of Peace

Peace is the bridge that everyone will cross, to leave this world behind. But peace begins within the world perceived as different, and leading from this fresh perception to the gate of Heaven and the way beyond. Peace is the answer to conflicting goals, to senseless journeys, frantic, vain pursuits, and meaningless endeavors. Now the way is easy, sloping gently toward the bridge where freedom lies within the peace of God. (A Course in Miracles, W-pI.200.8)

Being opposites, peace and conflict cannot coexist. The path to peace in the world is to let go of our judgments that are the foundation of conflict. This is why forgiveness is the path to peace. As we learn to see the world through forgiving eyes, we clear the way to experience the real world, free of judgment, where we recognize the innocence of all our brothers and ourselves. We cannot reach this place without help from outside the thought system of conflict, judgment, guilt and fear.

God gave us this help through the Holy Spirit, Who sees the illusions that seem to bind us, but does not believe them and knows they are nothing. Today we will take another step on the bridge of peace as we practice bringing all our thoughts to the Holy Spirit with willingness to receive His perception of the truth in place of our illusions. Thus we will have a day of peace.

© 2013, Pathways of Light. http://www.pathwaysoflight.org
You may freely share copies of this with your friends, provided this copyright notice and website address are included.

Tell a friend about this article.

Printable Page

Holding Holy Spirit’s Hand All Through the Day

Today is dedicated to allowing the Holy Spirit to enlighten our minds. In order to do this, we must step back frequently and welcome the Light of Truth into our minds… We give time to letting Holy Spirit’s gift of peace soften all the rough edges that we might not even be conscious of…

We let the strength of Holy Spirit’s peace heal the unhealed parts of our mind… We follow where peace leads… We let Holy Spirit’s peace lead us past illusions of separation to the one Love we all are in truth… We remember that there is never any conflict in Love… Mountains become mole hills when immersed in the truth of God’s Love… And we give thanks.

© 2013, Pathways of Light. http://www.pathwaysoflight.org
You may freely share copies of this with your friends, provided this copyright notice and website address are included.

Tell a friend about this article.

Printable Page

Accepting Our Special Function Brings Happiness

Everyone has a special part to play in the Atonement, but the message given to each one is always the same; God’s Son is guiltless. Each one teaches the message differently, and learns it differently. Yet until he teaches it and learns it, he will suffer the pain of dim awareness that his true function remains unfulfilled in him. The burden of guilt is heavy, but God would not have you bound by it. His plan for your awaking is as perfect as yours is fallible. You know not what you do, but He Who knows is with you. His gentleness is yours, and all the love you share with God He holds in trust for you. He would teach you nothing except how to be happy. (A Course in Miracles, T-14.V.2)

We all have a trust fund held in God’s Bank of Love. We access this trust fund through forgiveness. It is our judgments that block our awareness of the Love that is held is store for us. It is our judgments that bring the experience of lack, deprivation, guilt and fear. Yet this experience comes from a belief in what could never be true.

God’s will for us is that we have full access to His limitless trust fund of Love. Thus He has provided the means for us to access It — the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is our Guide, leading us through the self-made maze of conflict, to help us see that the conflict has no substance and can be let go. The Holy Spirit tailors our lessons to heal the mistaken beliefs that hide the Love that is already ours.

Our practice today is to let Love heal everything by letting Holy Spirit transform our mistaken thoughts so that we accept the Love that is ours, held in trust by God.

© 2013, Pathways of Light. http://www.pathwaysoflight.org
You may freely share copies of this with your friends, provided this copyright notice and website address are included.

Tell a friend about this article.

Printable Page

Page 573 of 795 pages ‹ First  < 571 572 573 574 575 >  Last ›

<< Back to main page of Daily Inspiration.

Has this page been helpful to you?
Your contribution to support this site is greatly appreciated. To make a tax deductible contribution with a credit/debit card, click here.
Click here to donate from your PayPal account.
Or send a check to Pathways of Light, 12530 Lions Chase Court, Huntley, IL 60142.