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Be Still and Listen to the Truth

Let me be still and listen to the truth. Let my own feeble voice be still, and let me hear the mighty Voice for Truth Itself assure me that I am God’s perfect Son. (A Course in Miracles W-pI.118.2)

The truth is that the whole Sonship is still as God created it. Nothing has happened to change God’s one Son. Love is. God is. And then we cease to speak.

Today our practice is to be still and listen to the truth. The truth returns as we give it welcome. We welcome the truth with willingness to receive Holy Spirit’s vision. He shows us the changeless Love behind all the changing appearances of the world. In this changeless Love we recognize our Self as God’s perfect Son.

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Healing Our Misperceptions

When you limit yourself we are not of one mind, and that is sickness. Yet sickness is not of the body, but of the mind. All forms of sickness are signs that the mind is split, and does not accept a unified purpose. (A Course in Miracles T-8.IX.8:5-7)

Thinking we are a body is a limit. Mind is formless and cannot be contained. Mind is one, whole and cannot be separated. The unified purpose of our one Self is to be Love and extend Love eternally, without limit. Believing in Love’s opposite, the ego thought of separation, the mind is sick and needs healing.

We free ourselves to Love and be Love through forgiveness, which means letting go of believing that we are separate from our brother, our Self and our Creator. Separation is a misperception. As we practice taking all our perceptions to the Holy Spirit, He will exchange them for the true unified perception that shows us we are one with All. This is how our minds are healed. This is how we join in the oneness of Love.

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Release from Fear

Death is the central dream from which all illusions stem.

What seems to die has but been misperceived and carried to illusion. Now it becomes your task to let the illusion be carried to the truth. Be steadfast but in this; be not deceived by the “reality” of any changing form. Truth neither moves nor wavers nor sinks down to death and dissolution. And what is the end of death? Nothing but this; the realization that the Son of God is guiltless now and forever. Nothing but this. But do not let yourself forget it is not less than this. (A Course in Miracles M-27.1:1;7:3-10)

If the end of death is the realization that the Son of God is guiltless, then forgiveness is the means by which we accept our eternal Life in God. Forgiveness brings release from fear and welcomes God’s gift of peace. Forgiveness comes effortlessly when we bring our illusions to the truth, when we let the Holy Spirit correct our misperceptions. This is our practice for today.

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Let Love Decide

You have the right to all the universe; to perfect peace, complete deliverance from all effects of sin, and to the life eternal, joyous and complete in every way, as God appointed for His holy Son. This is the only justice Heaven knows, and all the Holy Spirit brings to earth. Your special function shows you nothing else but perfect justice can prevail for you. And you are safe from vengeance in all forms. The world deceives, but it cannot replace God’s justice with a version of its own. For only love is just, and can perceive what justice must accord the Son of God. Let love decide, and never fear that you, in your unfairness, will deprive yourself of what God’s justice has allotted you. (A Course in Miracles T-25.VIII.14)

To let Love decide we must let Holy Spirit guide our decisions. The ego thought system has no clue what Love is and can offer only specialness as a substitute. Yet specialness always brings with it guilt and belief in sin. But if we allow Holy Spirit to guide all our decisions, all guilt will disappear. We are relieved of the responsibility of trying to grasp all the effects of a decision on everyone, everywhere and in all of time. This is beyond our grasp but wholly within the Holy Spirit’s wisdom.

We can relax into the Holy Spirit’s guidance in all our decisions. Relieved of the weight of making decisions based on incomplete information, we can accept the grace of Love’s gifts of peace and happiness. When we let Love decide, we learn of our innocence and our safety. We learn of the certainty of Love’s care for us. And we experience the joy of joining with all our brothers in the peace of Heaven. All this is given us when we let Love decide.

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Reconnecting with Our One Self

Our hourly five-minute practicing will be a search for Him within your mind. Salvation comes from this one Self through Him Who is the Bridge between your mind and It. Wait patiently, and let Him speak to you about your Self, and what your mind can do, restored to It and free to serve Its Will.

…Restored in strength, it will again flow out from spirit to the spirit in all things created by the Spirit as Itself. Your mind will bless all things. Confusion done, you are restored, for you have found your Self. (A Course in Miracles W-pI.96.8:2-4;10:3-5)

Our one Self is always there, waiting for our return. Our practice for today is to give time hourly to reconnecting with our Self through “Him Who is the Bridge.” We open our minds by pausing for peace. We wait patiently, open to receive His gifts of Love and joy. We want only to receive and extend His Will. We want only to serve God’s Will and let His blessing be extended through us.

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Forgiveness Is Our Only Purpose

The real world is the state of mind in which the only purpose of the world is seen to be forgiveness. Fear is not its goal, for the escape from guilt becomes its aim. The value of forgiveness is perceived and takes the place of idols, which are sought no longer, for their “gifts” are not held dear. No rules are idly set, and no demands are made of anyone or anything to twist and fit into the dream of fear. Instead, there is a wish to understand all things created as they really are. And it is recognized that all things must be first forgiven, and then understood. (A Course in Miracles T-30.V.1)

We forgive when we recognize that the object of our judgment is meaningless and purposeless. In truth, no form in the world has any purpose or meaning. The ego gives forms the purpose of being a shield to “protect” against the oneness of Love. But we are not the ego and we do not need to accept the ego’s purpose as our own. We have deceived ourselves by accepting the ego’s purpose, but we can learn to recognize that purpose is not our will and that our real purpose is to let go of the ego to make way for our return to Love.

Only Love is understandable because only Love is real. As we let the Holy Spirit help us recognize the mistaken purpose we have given the forms of the world, we can easily let them go. As those barriers of self-deception are laid down, we recognize that our will is one with God’s Will. Our will is to be Love and extend Love. Forgiveness returns this to our awareness and we give thanks.

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From Conflict to Peace

Peace is the state where love abides, and seeks to share itself. Conflict and peace are opposites. Where one abides the other cannot be; where either goes the other disappears. So is the memory of God obscured in minds that have become illusions’ battleground. Yet far beyond this senseless war it shines, ready to be remembered when you side with peace. (A Course in Miracles T-23.I.12:5-9)

To remember God we must be willing to accept peace. Because God is peace, conflict interferes with our awareness that we remain in God, safely in His peace. But here we are told that conflict is illusion. Because God is one, two “entities” that conflict with each other cannot exist.

Yet it seems that the world we perceive through the body’s eyes is in constant conflict. This can mean only one thing: The world is an illusion, and all the conflicts it seems to contain are illusions. Illusions are maintained through belief. This is good news because we can always change what we believe. The moment we withdraw belief in an illusion, it disappears.

We are blessed with an inner Teacher Who can teach us to recognize illusions for what they are. The moment we recognize an illusion as illusion, it fades away. Our practice today is to open our minds to the Holy Spirit’s loving lessons in truth so we can to let go of the illusions that obscure God’s gift of peace that is our own. With His help, we will experience increasing peace today.

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