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Forgiving the Dream

God’s Son is perfect, or he cannot be God’s Son. Nor will you know him, if you think he does not merit the escape from guilt in all its consequences and its forms. There is no way to think of him but this, if you would know the truth about yourself. I thank you, Father, for Your perfect Son, and in his glory will I see my own. (A Course in Miracles T-30.VI.9:1-4)

My practice for today is to see past all differences to the fact that everyone in the dream is God’s one perfect Son. The illusion of differences does not matter and is only a representation of the ego’s wish to see a separated and guilty world outside itself. Today I choose to see past separation to oneness.

I am getting more and more clearly that forgiveness is the only purpose for the world because it is the Holy Spirit’s purpose. I can make up other seeming purposes, but they seem to have value only because I believe in a false world of separation. Since these made up purposes are based on illusion, they are meaningless.

Because I have bought in to the idea of separation, I need help from beyond this thought system to fulfill my purpose. This help is the Holy Spirit’s function. My part in forgiveness of the world is to bring every unforgiving thought, every image of separation, to the Holy Spirit with willingness to accept His help.

With His help, I can see the innocent face of Christ in every brother. With His help, I can see my Self reflected back to me in every brother. My prayer today is to be willing to accept Holy Spirit’s guidance in all my seeing today. This is how I will see a forgiven world — the real world.

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I Want to Serve God’s Plan Today

All I really want is to serve God’s plan today — to extend Love. To me this means that no matter what I am doing — whether it’s driving down the street, talking on the phone or working at the computer — beyond the form, Love is being extended. That means I’m not judging. Rather I’m letting Love guide all my thoughts.

To do this, I need to be vigilant for peace, which is an attribute of Love. Whenever there is a disturbance to my peace, it is a signal that I need to reinforce my focus on the peace that is within me. This is my practice for today. This is how I will serve God’s plan today.

I serve God’s Plan when I am willing to step back from making plans of my own. I serve God’s Plan when I am willing to go to a place of quiet in my mind and listen, instead of engaging in the ego’s constant chatter. I serve God’s Plan when I am willing to stop, relax, and let the Holy Spirit take charge.

God is very quiet. In God’s quiet I am led to be aware that I am one with every brother and that every brother is one with God. In this sacred place of quietness, I see that we share the same Mind of Love, eternally. This is where I place my trust today.

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Seeing the World Through Holy Spirit’s Eyes

This is salvation’s keynote: What I see reflects a process in my mind, which starts with my idea of what I want. From there, the mind makes up an image of the thing the mind desires, judges valuable, and therefore seeks to find. These images are then projected outward, looked upon, esteemed as real and guarded as one’s own. From insane wishes comes an insane world. From judgment comes a world condemned. And from forgiving thoughts a gentle world comes forth, with mercy for the holy Son of God, to offer him a kindly home where he can rest a while before he journeys on, and help his brothers walk ahead with him, and find the way to Heaven and to God.” (A Course in Miracles W-pII.325.1)

Today my practice is to recognize that the images I see through the body’s eyes are projections that are coming my mind. My practice today is to see these images through the eyes of the Holy Spirit. In this way I am able to see the real world. I am able to experience gentleness and kindness. I am able to extend Holy Spirit’s peace instead of the ego’s fear. What an important function I have today as I consistently practice stepping back and letting Holy Spirit lead the way.

The process of projection described in this paragraph from the ACIM Workbook is done unconsciously. So it seems like I have nothing to do with what I see through the body’s eyes. The Course is teaching me how to choose another Guide for seeing that does not use the body’s eyes. It is through this inner Vision with the Holy Spirit that I see the truth beyond the projected images.

As I am willing to accept and trust this inner Vision, I release the world from my projections, my judgments. It is through this inner vision with the Holy Spirit that I forgive, making way to remember that I am still at Home in God’s Love. Today my focus is on opening my mind to my inner vision with Holy Spirit.

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Accepting Your One Identity

Everyone is in God and of God. This is what you want to remember. This is the real world. Everyone’s real mind is one with God’s. Letting go of the false mind creates an opening where the Light of truth can shine through. The Light of truth is always there, waiting for acceptance. Willingness to let go of the false makes room for the true.

This is your practice for today – a willingness to let go of individuality, which makes room for the awareness of oneness. Awareness of oneness is awareness of your true Home and where you reside eternally. Let go and accept the fact that Love’s Presence is all that is real. Anything else is illusion created by the false idea of separation from Love.

Today practice letting the Light of Love shine on everything you see, on every thought. This Light will show you the truth beyond every image. It will show you the one Self you share with all. It will show you your Identity. This Light of Love shines from the peace in you. Be vigilant for peace and the Light of Love will reveal your Identity to you.

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Hearing the Holy Spirit in Every Brother

I love you for the truth in you, as God does. Your deceptions may deceive you, but they cannot deceive me. Knowing what you are, I cannot doubt you. I hear only the Holy Spirit in you, Who speaks to me through you. If you would hear me, hear my brothers in whom God’s Voice speaks. The answer to all prayers lies [in the Holy Spirit] in them. You will be answered as you hear the [Holy Spirit’s] answer in everyone. Do not listen to anything else, or you will not hear truly. (A Course in MiraclesT-9.II.7)

My practice for today is to hear only the Holy Spirit in every brother. If I pause and listen within, the Holy Spirit will speak to me through every brother. As I learn to focus on the Holy Spirit in every brother instead of a separate individual, I am helped to see the truth in myself. I am helped to see the real world instead of the false world of the ego.

This is God’s Answer to my prayer to awaken. As I strengthen the practice of seeing every brother as he truly is, I am blessed by every brother I come into contact with. What a wonderful practice to have for this beautiful day! This practice will turn every special relationship into a holy relationship. And for this I give thanks.

The truth in everyone is the one Self we share that is God’s one Son. To see the truth I need to set aside the false images made by the ego thought of separation that blind me to the truth. The truth is everywhere to be seen. Being eternal, the truth can never go away. But the choice to believe that separation is real makes me unaware of the truth, even though it is still present, now.

The practice of accepting Holy Spirit’s help to see past the deceiving images to the truth in my brother is how I awaken to the truth in myself. I am grateful that today I can join with the Holy Spirit and accept His help to see truly. This practice moves me closer to undoing the dream of self-deception.

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Letting Peace Carry Me to the Truth

Peace is my Home. It is the condition in which I was created. If I do not feel at peace, it is because I believe I am not in my natural habitat — I believe I have separated from Love. It is this belief that I am what I am not that needs to be undone for me to return to my natural state of peace. No matter how much I have invested in believing that I am separate and alone, peace is always within reach because it remains within me as What I am.

Today my focus is on remembering What I am, so I must be vigilant for peace. In peace, with Holy Spirit’s help, I recognize the false beliefs as meaningless and easily lay them down. This is how I will remember the truth of What I am along with all my brothers. I will remember that I am still as God created me.

I have within me a Source of peace so great that It dissolves all traces of separation at my request. My willingness to go to this Source of peace to let my mind be healed is how I return to my Source. It is how I remember God. This is my practice for today. Nothing is more important than letting peace carry me to the truth. Accepting peace is my one goal today. It is how my mind is healed. It is how the veil of illusions is lifted.

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Finding the Truth of Oneness

I thank You, Father, knowing You will come to close each little gap that lies between the broken pieces of Your holy Son. Your holiness, complete and perfect, lies in every one of them. And they are joined because what is one is in them all. How holy is the smallest grain of sand, when it is recognized as being part of the completed picture of God’s Son! The forms the broken pieces seem to take mean nothing. For the whole is in each one. And every aspect of the Son of God is just the same as every other part. (A Course in Miracles T-28.V.9)

My practice for today is to recognize that “the forms the broken pieces seem to take mean nothing” and that the whole of Love is in every brother. I have been used to thinking in terms of seeing differences. I see that this is just part of separation’s distraction from seeing the truth that Love is one.

The truth is in my mind and I am determined to find it there. I find the truth when I am willing to step back from the old habit of seeing separate bodies with personalities that are different and become willing to see God’s wholeness in every brother. I am once again returned to the truth that the Son of God is one.

If I want to learn the truth, I need to be willing to be taught by the Teacher of truth. The practice of staying in the center of peace within me is how I keep my mind open to my inner Teacher’s lessons. His lessons lovingly guide me to the recognition of the Love I share with everyone. My vigilance for peace today welcomes the lessons that will awaken me to the truth that we all remain as Love created us.

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