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Accepting the Christ Within

This Christmas give the Holy Spirit everything that would hurt you. Let yourself be healed completely that you may join with Him in healing, and let us celebrate our release together by releasing everyone with us. Leave nothing behind, for release is total, and when you have accepted it with me you will give it with me. All pain and sacrifice and littleness will disappear in our relationship, which is as innocent as our relationship with our Father, and as powerful. Pain will be brought to us and disappear in our presence, and without pain there can be no sacrifice. And without sacrifice there love must be. (A Course in Miracles, T-15.XI.3)

To let ourselves be healed completely, we must be willing to let the Holy Spirit replace all the images we have made. His vision will show us the Love that is the one Self we share as God’s Creation. Every image we make up in the dream of separation “hurts” us by making us unaware of the joy and peace and Love that we are. No one is excluded from this Love. This is why release is complete only when we release all the interfering images that hide the face of Christ from our awareness. There can be no exceptions if we would know the Christ within.

Today is dedicated to the practice of giving every thought of separation to the Holy Spirit to be undone. With this practice, we make way for “peace on earth and goodwill toward all men.”

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Joining with Jesus to Let Love Be Extended

Your mind and mine can unite in shining your ego away, releasing the strength of God into everything you think and do. Do not settle for anything less than this, and refuse to accept anything but this as your goal. Watch your mind carefully for any beliefs that hinder its accomplishment, and step away from them. Judge how well you have done this by your own feelings, for this is the one right use of judgment. Judgment, like any other defense, can be used to attack or protect; to hurt or to heal. The ego should be brought to judgment and found wanting there. Without your own allegiance, protection and love, the ego cannot exist. Let it be judged truly and you must withdraw allegiance, protection and love from it.” (A Course in Miracles, T-4.IV.8:3-10)

Jesus is always in our minds, waiting to be accepted as one with us. As we open to this Light within, Jesus shines the ego away with the Light of Love. As the ego thoughts disappear, it becomes very clear that only Love is there. This is the greatest Christmas gift we could give to the whole Sonship — letting Jesus shine away the ego thoughts in our minds. And the gifts we give, we receive. This is the true meaning of Christmas — letting the Love of Jesus shine through us.

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Let Love Be

To let Love be we must set aside all perceptions of behavior, words and images in the world and let Holy Spirit show us the Love that shines eternally beyond them. Only Love is real. It is eternal, changeless and ever present. We cannot be without Love. But we do make ourselves unaware of Love when we believe in the dream of separation.

Every sense of fear or loss or guilt is an opportunity to step back, refocus on the peace of God within and let Holy Spirit show us the Love that shines beyond these perceptions. This is our special function — to release the false beliefs reflected in our perceptions. This is how we forgive the world for all we thought it was. This is how we let Love be.

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Accepting Our Limitlessness in God

You have no conception of the limits you have placed on your perception, and no idea of all the loveliness that you could see.

If you would but let the Holy Spirit tell you of the Love of God for you, and the need your creations have to be with you forever, you would experience the attraction of the eternal. No one can hear Him speak of this and long remain willing to linger here. For it is your will to be in Heaven, where you are complete and quiet, in such sure and loving relationships that any limit is impossible. Would you not exchange your little relationships for this? For the body is little and limited, and only those whom you would see without the limits the ego would impose on them can offer you the gift of freedom. (A Course in Miracles, T-15.IX.6:1;5:1-5)

We are being invited to see everyone without limits. Because we are one, everyone has and is all of God. We are not separate from our Source. We are not separate from all of Heaven.

Today is dedicated to allowing ourselves to remember that we are all the one continuous Light of God. We are one Light; there is no gap between us. We are unlimited because God is unlimited. We let this truth return to our minds today. We will to remember God as God is. We will to remember our Self as our Self is. We are willing to accept the peace of God and be happy today.

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Accepting the Time of Christ

Let no despair darken the joy of Christmas, for the time of Christ is meaningless apart from joy. Let us join in celebrating peace by demanding no sacrifice of anyone, for so you offer me the love I offer you. What can be more joyous than to perceive we are deprived of nothing? Such is the message of the time of Christ, which I give you that you may give it and return it to the Father, Who gave it to me. For in the time of Christ communication is restored, and He joins us in the celebration of His Son’s creation. (A Course in Miracles, T-15.XI.8)

To see others as bodies is to demand sacrifice by seeing them as limited and separate from the whole of Love. At the same time we are demanding the same sacrifice of ourselves because we could not see another as a body without seeing ourselves as limited to a body. The Love that is the truth in us is eternally complete and therefore needs nothing. Sacrifice and loss are inconceivable to Love. If we perceive death, which could only be of a body, we are demanding sacrifice because we are denying Love, which is Life.

In celebration of Christmas, the time of Christ, our practice today is to ask Holy Spirit to help us see past all images of bodies to the Love that is the truth in everyone. This is how we will see the face of Christ, the Light of Love that shines within the Heaven that joins us all in one. In this joyous unity we rest in perfect peace which cannot be disturbed. We accept ourselves as Love created us. And a merry Christmas it is indeed.

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In Peace, We Remember We Are Spirit

We state again the truth about your Self, the holy Son of God Who rests in you; whose mind has been restored to sanity. You are the spirit lovingly endowed with all your Father’s Love and peace and joy. You are the spirit which completes Himself, and shares His function as Creator. He is with you always, as you are with Him.

Spirit am I, a holy Son of God,
free of all limits, safe and healed and whole,
free to forgive, and free to save the world.
(A Course in Miracles, T-pI.97.2;7:2)

Our practice for today is to remember as frequently as possible that we are eternal Spirit, resting in God’s Love. With all the hustle, bustle of holiday preparations, we continue to return to this healing thought all through the day. We heal and are healed as we consistently practice returning to the truth about ourselves and our brothers today — we are Spirit.

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Letting Ourselves Be Guided

It is quite possible to listen to God’s Voice all through the day without interrupting your regular activities in any way. The part of your mind in which truth abides is in constant communication with God, whether you are aware of it or not.…

The part that is listening to the Voice for God is calm, always at rest and wholly certain. It is really the only part there is. The other part is a wild illusion, frantic and distraught, but without reality of any kind. Try today not to listen to it. Try to identify with the part of your mind where stillness and peace reign forever. Try to hear God’s Voice call to you lovingly, reminding you that your Creator has not forgotten His Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-pI.49.1:1-2;2)

As the bridge between our Creator and the dream we have made, the Holy Spirit sees the dream but does not believe it. We are told here that it is quite possible to function in the world but not believe it by paying attention to the Voice for God. We do this by focusing on the part of our mind that is always at peace and always certain. It is here that we hear God’s Voice.

We dedicate today to being vigilant for this place of peace within and receptive to the Holy Spirit’s guidance, which will always lead us with Love. This is how we will let God’s Voice speak to us all through the day.

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