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Love Sees No Differences

Your brother is your friend because his Father created him like you. There is no difference. You have been given to your brother that love might be extended, not cut off from him. What you keep is lost to you. God gave you and your brother Himself, and to remember this is now the only purpose that you share. And so it is the only one you have. (A Course in Miracles T-24.I.7:1-6)

Our only purpose is to remember that we, including all our brothers, have all of God’s Love. There is nothing else. The only reason we do not experience this is because we are trying to substitute specialness for God’s Love. It is our belief that it is possible to make anything that could substitute for God’s Love that we must let go or forgive. This belief underlies the entire world of images. It is why we feel vulnerable because we believe we are different. Others who are different from us could potentially harm us. This is a made up story that we believe in and so it seems real.

We need Help from a Source that does not buy into our beliefs to help us get out of the sense of lack, loneliness and loss that comes with this belief. God gave us this Help, which we call the Holy Spirit. To let go of the mistaken belief that keeps God’s Love unknown to us, we need to be vigilant and bring all our thoughts of fear and guilt, weakness and vulnerability to the Holy Spirit. If we are willing, He will show us that they are based on nothing and help us see that we already have all that is real.

We have all of God’s Love, which is all that we need and all that we are. As this reality dawns upon our minds, peace flows through us like a river, sweeping us into the eternal calm of Heaven. This is our practice today.

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Let in the Light

Your Father loves you. All the world of pain is not His Will. Forgive yourself the thought He wanted this for you. Then let the Thought with which He has replaced all your mistakes enter the darkened places of your mind that thought the thoughts that never were His Will.

This part belongs to God, as does the rest. It does not think its solitary thoughts, and make them real by hiding them from Him. Let in the light, and you will look upon no obstacle to what He wills for you. Open your secrets to His kindly light, and see how bright this light still shines in you.” (A Course in Miracles W-pI.99.7:3-8:4)

This world of separate bodies is not God’s Will. In truth we all live in the one Mind of Love. In truth there is no past and future, where separate things are in a constant state of change. In truth there are no differences, no forms that are born as separate entities and then die. All these are just mistaken ideas.

Our practice today is return to the Light of truth. Today we bring all these false ideas to the Holy Spirit to be undone. Today we let the Holy Spirit shine His Light on all our fearful thoughts. We let the Holy Spirit return our minds to the truth that we are still as God created us. We are still one in God’s Love. Nothing has really happened to change God’s one Son. Today we let in the Light of truth and rest in God’s peace.

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A Prayer of Willingness

Holy Spirit, today we would step back frequently and give time to receiving Your peace, Love and understanding. We recognize that we do not know what anything is for on our own. We recognize that we do not perceive our own best interests. We have forgotten What we are and Where we are. Today we would open our minds to receive Your inspiration and peace of mind. We would let in the truth. That is our highest priority for today. And as we receive, we gratefully share with the whole Sonship. Amen.

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Seeing Beyond Appearances to the Light

It is God’s strength in you that is the light in which you see, as it is His Mind with which you think. His strength denies your weakness. It is your weakness that sees through the body’s eyes, peering about in darkness to behold the likeness of itself; the small, the weak, the sickly and the dying, those in need, the helpless and afraid, the sad, the poor, the starving and the joyless. These are seen through eyes that cannot see and cannot bless.

Strength overlooks these things by seeing past appearances. It keeps its steady gaze upon the light that lies beyond them. It unites with light, of which it is a part. It sees itself. It brings the light in which your Self appears. (A Course in Miracles W-pI.92.3,4:1-5)

Today we will practice accepting God’s strength in us. God’s strength comes with our willingness to receive it. We receive God’s strength when our mind is quiet and open to receive inspiration. Willingness to receive God’s peace is willingness to accept the Self that God created.

Belief that we are a body is a barrier that hides the Light of God from our awareness. This belief is the denial of the Light that is ever present. This is why the most repeated lesson in the Workbook is, “I am not a body. I am free. I am still as God created me.” Acceptance of this idea is the release from separation. In order to see beyond appearances we need to withdraw our identification with the body and redirect it to the Self that God created.

To help with this, we can affirm in our minds as we look on anyone that they are not the body our eyes show us. They are one Self with which we unite in the Light that is the strength of God. We can do this only by accepting the help of the Holy Spirit in our minds, Who does not share our mistaken belief in the body. Today we practice letting Holy Spirit guide our vision to see past appearances to the Light.

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Accepting the Oneness of Love

You are alike to God as God is to Himself. He is not special, for He would not keep one part of what He is unto Himself, not given to His Son but kept for Him alone. And it is this you fear, for if He is not special, then He willed His Son to be like Him, and your brother is like you. Not special, but possessed of everything, including you. Give him but what he has, remembering God gave Himself to you and your brother in equal love, that both might share the universe with Him Who chose that love could never be divided, and kept separate from what it is and must forever be. (A Course in Miracles T-24.II.10:3-7)

Returning to God is returning to oneness. We are like the prodigal son who is now willing to return to his Father. This return to our true Identity is our journey without distance now. We are learning from the Holy Spirit to accept a change of mind. We are learning to let go or forgive our images of separation. We are now becoming willing to be led back to the oneness of our Father. Love, our Source, sees only Love. As we are willing to be taught the truth, we see only Love. Being willing to see past differences to the changeless Love that is really there is our practice for today.

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Seeing the Light of Love in Our Brother

Remember that you always choose between truth and illusion; between the real Atonement that would heal and the ego’s “atonement” that would destroy. The power of God and all His Love, without limit, will support you as you seek only your place in the plan of Atonement arising from His Love. Be an ally of God and not the ego in seeking how Atonement can come to you. His help suffices, for His Messenger understands how to restore the Kingdom to you, and to place all your investment in salvation in your relationship with Him. (A Course in Miracles T-16.VII.10)

Denial makes us unaware of It, but we still have all of God’s power and all of His Love, without limit. The way to return to awareness of all that we have, is to forgive or let go of illusions of having changed What we are — the holy Son of God. The Course tells us to see no one as a body, for the body is an image made to hide from God.

Today we will practice remembering as we look upon or think of a brother that he is not a body nor the behavior of a body. We ask Holy Spirit to help us look past that image to the Light of Love in our brother. As we accept this Light, we release the false image, forgiving our brother and ourselves. With this practice we will see the Light of Love reflected back to us all through the day. And a happy day it will be.

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Joining with Holy Spirit to Shine the Ego Away

Watch your mind for the temptations of the ego, and do not be deceived by it. It offers you nothing. When you have given up this voluntary dis-spiriting, you will see how your mind can focus and rise above fatigue and heal. Yet you are not sufficiently vigilant against the demands of the ego to disengage yourself. This need not be.

The habit of engaging with God and His creations is easily made if you actively refuse to let your mind slip away. The problem is not one of concentration; it is the belief that no one, including yourself, is worth consistent effort. Side with me consistently against this deception, and do not permit this shabby belief to pull you back. The disheartened are useless to themselves and to me, but only the ego can be disheartened.

Your mind and mine can unite in shining your ego away, releasing the strength of God into everything you think and do. (A Course in Miracles T-4.IV.6-7;8:3)

We do not need to do battle with the ego, but we do need to be vigilant against accepting and believing the deceptions of the ego’s thought system. We have a well established habit of listening to the ego’s voice so that we have come to believe it’s direction will make us safe. Yet the ego is the denial of our perfect safety in the changelessness of God. But we can change our minds and awaken to the truth that we remain as God created us — perfectly safe in His Love. The key to this change of mind is vigilance against the temptation to believe that we are separate, vulnerable and alone.

Today is a day of vigilance against the ego thought system. With Holy Spirit’s help we can recognize deceptive thoughts for what they are and let them go to be replaced with the truth that we are one Self, united with our Creator and our brothers in the certainty of Love. With this practice, the defensiveness of the ego is transformed into joyous uniting with all our brothers.

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