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Letting Go of Belief in Differences Brings Happiness

The key to forgiveness is the recognition that we are one with all our brothers in the one Self that Love created in Love and as Love. There is no need to defend against Love. There is no need to defend against what is the same.

When our peace is disturbed, it is an indication that in some way we are perceiving ourselves as different. This could only seem to be because we believe we are separate. It is this belief that must be undone. We were given the Holy Spirit in our minds to help us let go of the mistaken belief that we could in any way be different from the Love of God.

Today our practice is to bring every seeming disturbance to the Holy Spirit in our minds with willingness to be taught the truth beyond the mistaken belief that caused the disturbance. This is how we forgive the world for all we thought it was. This is how we accept the perfect happiness that is God’s Will for us.

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Returning to the Awareness of God’s Peace

When we see ourselves as separate, we are unaware of the strength of God in us. Feeling weak, we believe we need to protect ourselves. So we become alert for danger and quickly respond with defense against perceived threats to our safety or against potential loss. This is not a peaceful way of being.

The strength of God is always in us, whether or not we are aware of it. The Holy Spirit is in our minds to help us awaken to the strength of God in us. We access the Holy Spirit’s help by allowing peace into our minds. We can use recognition of tension and lack of peace as a reminder to pause, withdraw our attention from seeming problems in the world and focus instead on welcoming the peace that is in us.

Time given to returning to the awareness of God’s peace is a very fruitful investment. It opens the door to miracles. It brings us into the state of mind in which we can receive Holy Spirit’s inspiration and perception. With His help, what was perceived as a problem is transformed into a miracle. When given to the Holy Spirit, problems become the means to awaken to full remembrance that we are one Self, in the Heart of Love.

Today we practice focusing on the peace within and welcome Holy Spirit’s guidance through the day.

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Let Holy Spirit Interpret Everything

Interpret anything apart from the Holy Spirit and you will mistrust it. This will lead you to hatred and attack and loss of peace.

Yet all loss comes only from your own misunderstanding. Loss of any kind is impossible. But when you look upon a brother as a physical entity, his power and glory are “lost” to you and so are yours. You have attacked him, but you must have attacked yourself first. Do not see him this way for your own salvation, which must bring him his. Do not allow him to belittle himself in your mind, but give him freedom from his belief in littleness, and thus escape from yours. As part of you, he is holy. As part of me, you are. (A Course in Miracles, T-8.VII.4:8-5:8)

Today we would follow; we would not lead. Today we step back and listen in quiet… We join with the Holy Spirit to let Him be our Interpreter of everything… We welcome the Holy Spirit’s gift of peace and quiet inner joy… We remember we are being carried… We let the Holy Spirit be the Conductor of Love’s Song in our minds today… And we give thanks.

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Forgiveness — the Path to Happiness

Only by fulfilling the function [to forgive] given you by God will you be happy. That is because your function is to be happy by using the means by which happiness becomes inevitable. There is no other way. Therefore, every time you choose whether or not to fulfill your function, you are really choosing whether or not to be happy.” (A Course in Miracles, W-pI.64.4)

We are happy only when we step back and allow the Holy Spirit’s perception of the world into our minds. As we continue the practice of opening to the Light within, the Holy Spirit, we are able to see past the world’s laments to the constant peace and Love that is our true Inheritance. We return to the truth that everyone remains safe in the Mind of God. We remember that we cannot harm or be harmed because we all share God’s invulnerability.

As we forgive the world for all we thought it was, our innate sense of happiness and joy returns. We accept and extend God’s peace and Love. As we remember our function, our sense of vulnerability and loss is replaced by a new purpose that is given us by God. As we forgive, our minds are returned to our innate happiness.

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Accepting the Holy Spirit’s Perspective

Healing might thus be called a counter-dream, which cancels out the dream of sickness in the name of truth, but not in truth itself. Just as forgiveness overlooks all sins that never were accomplished, healing but removes illusions that have not occurred. Just as the real world will arise to take the place of what has never been at all, healing but offers restitution for imagined states and false ideas which dreams embroider into pictures of the truth.

And as you let yourself be healed, you see all those around you, or who cross your mind, or whom you touch or those who seem to have no contact with you, healed along with you. Perhaps you will not recognize them all, nor realize how great your offering to all the world, when you let healing come to you. But you are never healed alone. And legions upon legions will receive the gift that you receive when you are healed. (A Course in Miracles, W-pI.137.5,10)

Today we practice keeping our minds open to receive the healing perspective of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit brings us to the real world where we see that nothing has truly happened to change God’s one Son. The Holy Spirit brings us visions of innocence that cancel out the false images of guilt and sin. We see that we cannot harm or be harmed. We are returned to the truth that we are safe in God and that we have never left. As we accept the Holy Spirit’s perspective, we welcome everyone as part of our one Self.

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Taking All Perception to Truth

Guilt asks for punishment, and its request is granted. Not in truth, but in the world of shadows and illusions built on sin. The Son of God perceived what he would see because perception is a wish fulfilled. Perception changes, made to take the place of changeless knowledge. Yet is truth unchanged. It cannot be perceived, but only known. What is perceived takes many forms, but none has meaning. Brought to truth, its senselessness is quite apparent. Kept apart from truth, it seems to have a meaning and be real.

Ideas leave not their source, and their effects but seem to be apart from them. Ideas are of the mind. What is projected out, and seems to be external to the mind, is not outside at all, but an effect of what is in, and has not left its source. (A Course in Miracles, T-26.VII.3:1-9;4:7-9)

We are responsible for everything we perceive because there is nothing external to the mind. The ego would use the fact that perception is a wish fulfilled as justification for guilt. It would claim that if we see death and destruction and it is coming from our minds, we must be guilty for all the pain and destruction we see. But the Holy Spirit knows that we can change our minds and thus these mistaken perceptions are correctable. We can let them go, and the Holy Spirit is in our minds to help us do just that.

Today our practice is to let ourselves be in peace and join with the Holy Spirit’s vision. With His vision, our perceptions are transformed so that we recognize the Love beyond all appearances. With His help, where there is an appearance of lack of Love, we will join with the Holy Spirit to extend Love. In this joining, we will more clearly recognize that the forms in themselves have no substance and can neither harm nor be harmed. With each recognition we take another step toward the full awareness that we remain in Heaven, at one with God’s Love.

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Accepting What Forgiveness Offers

Forgiveness lets the veil be lifted up that hides the face of Christ from those who look with unforgiving eyes upon the world. It lets you recognize the Son of God, and clears your memory of all dead thoughts so that remembrance of your Father can arise across the threshold of your mind. (A Course in Miracles, W-pI.122.3:1-2)

Judgment clouds our vision so that we don’t recognize a call for Love, but misinterpret it as something to defend against. Thus, instead of responding with Love to a call for Love, we respond with a counter attack. Judgment feeds this spiral, taking us deeper and deeper into fear and guilt. Thankfully, there is a way out. Forgiveness, letting go of judgment, clears away the veil of fear and guilt so that the call for Love is recognized for what it is. And we naturally respond with Love. This Love is a gift we give ourselves because we are blessed as we extend Love’s blessing.

Today we again practice keeping our minds open to let Holy Spirit’s vision help us see past all appearances to the truth that only Love is real. With His help, calls for Love will be recognized and we will be blessed as we answer with Love. We will experience the joy of accepting our brothers as one with us. We will recognize them as God’s gift to us as they are indeed God’s extension. His Love is all we need. His Love is all we are. Forgiveness lets us remember what has always been.

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