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Seeing Beyond Appearances

This is our prayer today: Holy Spirit, help us to see with Your vision today. Help us to see past appearances in the world to the loving innocence that is the truth in every brother. Help us step away from the temptation to judge the behavior of a body and remember that no one is a body. Everyone is the free, loving extension of God’s Love, and nothing else. We are willing to be taught. We are willing to learn the lessons that lead us Home to the joy of our Creator. Amen.

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Today We Celebrate Everyone’s Holiness

Today we were reminded that our holiness envelops everything we see. (ACIM WB Lesson 36) When we allow ourselves to feel this, our world feels very safe. Nothing but holiness surrounds us and everything is included in that holiness. With this recognition, there is nothing to defend against, nothing to conquer, nothing to hide.

Holiness is all there is to see and all there is to be. Peace flows through us and we welcome all our brothers with joy. As we recognize that holiness surrounds us, we recognize that we are part of this all-encompassing holiness. Nothing real is left out of holiness. This is the recognition of Heaven. Let’s celebrate our holiness together today.

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We Share One Life

We share one life because we have one Source, a Source from which perfection comes to us, remaining always in the holy minds which He created perfect. As we were, so are we now and will forever be. A sleeping mind must waken, as it sees its own perfection mirroring the Lord of life so perfectly it fades into what is reflected there. And now it is no more a mere reflection. It becomes the thing reflected, and the light which makes reflection possible. No vision now is needed. For the wakened mind is one that knows its Source, its Self, its Holiness. (A Course in Miracles W-pI.167.12)

The oneness of Life is what makes death impossible. Nothing exists separate from this one Life. We have done such a good job of making up images of separation and believing they are real that death seems to be inevitable. This seeming inevitability is really the sign that, despite all our efforts to believe separation is real, we know that it is inevitable that we will realize it is not true.

It could be said that this realization is the death of the idea of death. The ego proclaims death as an end. But when we realize that death is only a mistaken idea of being separate from Life, we easily let this false idea go and return to the full realization of the Life we share with God. The Course calls this waking up from the dream of death. Waking up only seems hard to do because we value the images in the dream.

Our practice today is to hold our minds open to Holy Spirit’s vision of all things, situations and events that seem to appear to us today. As we accept His vision, we let the Light of truth in and move closer to the full recognition that we share one Life with God.

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We Walk to God

Step back in faith and let truth lead the way. You know not where you go. But One Who knows goes with you. Let Him lead you with the rest.

We walk to God. Pause and reflect on this. Could any way be holier, or more deserving of your effort, of your love and of your full intent? What way could give you more than everything, or offer less and still content the holy Son of God? We walk to God. The truth that walks before us now is one with Him, and leads us to where He has always been. What way but this could be a path that you would choose instead? (A Course in Miracles W-pI.155.10:3-6;12)

We walk to God in each now moment as we step back and let Holy Spirit lead the way. We hand over our images of separation; we hand over our images of being separate bodies with differences and conflict. We hand over these foolish thoughts to let our true Self take over… We no longer try to control our dreams… We willingly hand the reins over to the Holy Spirit, Who truly knows the way to eternal happiness.

The ego’s goal is to avoid God at the cost of Truth. Today we let go of the ego’s goal and choose the goal of Truth instead. As we let go and let Truth be our Guide, we let It lighten the path ahead that leads us Home to God.

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Love Created Us Like Itself

Today our prayer is to remember that we remain as we were created by God; we remain the pure Spirit of Love, along with every brother. As the pure Spirit of Love, our happiness comes from giving and sharing all the Love we are with the whole Sonship. Sharing Love’s oneness is our only function today.

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Your Will Be Done in Us

Father, we do not know the way to You. But we have called, and You have answered us. We will not interfere. Salvation’s ways are not our own, for they belong to You. And it is unto You we look for them. Our hands are open to receive Your gifts. We have no thoughts we think apart from You, and cherish no beliefs of what we are, or Who created us. Yours is the way that we would find and follow. And we ask but that Your Will, which is our own as well, be done in us and in the world, that it become a part of Heaven now. Amen. (A Course in Miracles W-pI.189.10)

The ego is a control freak — so much so that it made up a world to keep God out. It is no wonder that the ego incessantly directs us to plan for our future and defends against myriad potential threats. Loss of control is its greatest fear. If we identify with the ego, it’s no wonder that accepting God’s will seems like a sacrifice. Yet in order to be in control, the ego has sacrificed everything — all of God’s Love — to make its private little world made up of empty fantasies.

This world will never satisfy the Son of God, our true Self. The time has come to let go of this false image of ourselves and open our hands to receive the gifts of God already given us. The time has come to accept our true will, which is the same as God’s. As we accept His gifts, we remember that we are in Heaven now.

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Identify with Love, Your Safety

You will identify with what you think will make you safe. Whatever it may be, you will believe that it is one with you. Your safety lies in truth, and not in lies. Love is your safety. Fear does not exist. Identify with love, and you are safe. Identify with love, and you are home. Identify with love, and find your Self. (A Course in Miracles W-pII.5.5)

Today it is our opportunity to identify with the Love we are. The Love we are shares all Love with all equally. What a happy experience we will have today as we share all the Love we are with all… Love, to be Itself, shares all Its Love… What a happy day we have today, sharing our function of extending Love… We are filled with joy and peace as we practice our one function today… We bless and are blessed all through the day…

As we see in everyone the opportunity to extend Love, all sense of threat disappears. Love and fear cannot coexist. When we join in Love, we remember our perfect safety in Love’s changelessness. Every encounter becomes a reminder of Love’s peace and joy. We identify with the Love we are by seeing the Love in every brother. It is the one Self we share, which is God’s one Son.

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