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Strength Comes as We Trust God’s Voice

God is the strength in which I trust.

If you are trusting in your own strength, you have every reason to be apprehensive, anxious and fearful. ²What can you predict or control? ³What is there in you that can be counted on? ⁴What would give you the ability to be aware of all the facets of any problem, and to resolve them in such a way that only good can come of it? ⁵What is there in you that gives you the recognition of the right solution, and the guarantee that it will be accomplished?

Of yourself you can do none of these things.

God is your safety in every circumstance. ²His Voice speaks for Him in all situations and in every aspect of all situations, telling you exactly what to do to call upon His strength and His protection.

³It is not by trusting yourself that you will gain confidence. ⁴But the strength of God in you is successful in all things.

The recognition of your own frailty is a necessary step in the correction of your errors,… (A Course in Miracles, W-47.1:1–2:1;3:1-2;5:3–6:1. See also ACIM Lesson 47 Insights.)

The ego has a high opinion of its abilities, and believes that God has abandoned His children. Our choice to align with the ego’s thought system of separation makes us fear God. This fear makes the strength He has given to all His Creation unavailable to us.  The ego believes that It is our only resource for solutions to our problems.

Our true Self has all the attributes of God — all His strength and Love. His knowledge is ours, but we are helpless to solve our perceived problems while we identify with the ego. Our mistaken beliefs have not changed the fact that the strength of God is in us, now and forever. As we accept God’s gifts, and listen to His Voice, we will share in His peace, joy and Love.

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In Gratitude We Accept Our Father’s Love

I judge all things as I would have them be.

Judgment was made to be a weapon used against the truth. ²It separates what it is being used against, and sets it off as if it were a thing apart. ³And then it makes of it what you would have it be. ⁴It judges what it cannot understand, because it cannot see totality and therefore judges falsely. ⁵Let us not use it today, but make a gift of it to Him Who has a different use for it. ⁶He will relieve us of the agony of all the judgments we have made against ourselves, and re-establish peace of mind by giving us God’s Judgment of His Son.

Father, we wait with open mind today, to hear Your Judgment of the Son You love. ²We do not know him, and we cannot judge. ³And so we let Your Love decide what he whom You created as Your Son must be. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson , W-311 See also ACIM Lesson 311 Insights.))

The ego is a tyrannical judge. It uses judgment to protect its domain against intrusion of the truth that only the oneness of Love is real. It denies all appeals for Love by sending all who seek It to search for Love where it cannot be found — in meaningless forms that never satisfy. All the ego’s judgments are based on the false premise that separation is real.

Today we pause and wait with an open heart and mind to hear our Father’s single Judgment based on the only true premise that Love is all that is real. He sees us all as His one Son, forever one with Himself. His Final Judgment is that we remain eternally united with Him in His Love. And we are grateful that this is so.

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Remembering Love Is Our True Identity

I will not fear to look within today.

Within me is eternal innocence, because it is God’s Will that it be there forever and forever. ²I, His Son, whose will is limitless as is His Own, can will no change in this. ³For to deny my Father’s Will is to deny my own. ⁴To look within is but to find my will as God created it, and as it is. ⁵I fear to look within because I think I made another will that is not true, and made it real. ⁶Yet it has no effects. ⁷Within me is the Holiness of God. ⁸Within me is the memory of Him.

The step I take today, my Father, is my sure release from idle dreams of sin. ²Your altar stands serene and undefiled. ³It is the holy altar to my Self, and there I find my true Identity. (A Course in Miracles, W-309. See also ACIM Lesson 309 Insights.)

This world is a game of make-believe. It has no effect whatsoever on our true Identity as an extension of God’s Love. We have become so enamored with the game of an outside world that we are afraid of the image we have made of our Father. We have projected on Him the characteristics of the frightening characters in our game. We believe He is judgmental and vindictive.

But if we are willing to pause the game and look within, we will find a Love that is all encompassing. It protects us from all effects of our imagined game. It holds us in perfect innocence, serene in our certainty that we remain Love as Love created us.

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We Are Extensions of God’s Love

Grace is acceptance of the Love of God within a world of seeming hate and fear. ²By grace alone the hate and fear are gone, for grace presents a state so opposite to everything the world contains, that those whose minds are lighted by the gift of grace can not believe the world of fear is real.

Oneness is simply the idea God is. ²And in His Being, He encompasses all things. ³No mind holds anything but Him. ⁴We say “God is,” and then we cease to speak, for in that knowledge words are meaningless. ⁵There are no lips to speak them, and no part of mind sufficiently distinct to feel that it is now aware of something not itself. ⁶It has united with its Source. ⁷And like its Source Itself, it merely is.

³What is the face of Christ but his who went a moment into timelessness, and brought a clear reflection of the unity he felt an instant back to bless the world?

Be grateful to return, as you were glad to go an instant, and accept the gifts that grace provided you.

³By grace I live. ⁴By grace I am released.
⁵By grace I give. ⁶By grace I will release (A Course in Miracles, W-169.2;3;13:3;14:1;15:3-6. See also ACIM Lesson 169 Insights.)

The world we seem to live in appears very real. We seem to be surrounded by circumstances that justify fear and guilt. We believe we need to constantly focus on ways to protect ourselves.

But there is another way to look at the world. If we allow ourselves to step back a moment from the world we see with the body, and open our mind and heart to receive the Love of our Father, we can experience an instant of timelessness.

In that holy moment, we are certain of our safety and unity in the oneness of God’s Love. We can return to the world and see it through forgiving eyes. We know that nothing has ever changed our Identity as an extension of our Father’s Love.

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Opening to Receive God’s Gift of Love

Yet the essential thing is learning that you do not know. ²Knowledge is power, and all power is of God. ³You who have tried to keep power for yourself have “lost” it. ⁴You still have the power, but you have interposed so much between it and your awareness of it that you cannot use it. ⁵Everything you have taught yourself has made your power more and more obscure to you. …⁹Yet all that stands between you and the power of God in you is but your learning of the false, and of your attempts to undo the true.

⁵Learn of His happiness, which is yours. ⁶But to accomplish this, all your dark lessons must be brought willingly to truth, and joyously laid down by hands open to receive, not closed to take. ⁷Every dark lesson that you bring to Him Who teaches light He will accept from you, because you do not want it. ⁸And He will gladly exchange each one for the bright lesson He has learned for you. ⁹Never believe that any lesson you have learned apart from Him means anything.

You have one test, as sure as God, by which to recognize if what you learned is true. ²If you are wholly free of fear of any kind, and if all those who meet or even think of you share in your perfect peace, then you can be sure that you have learned God’s lesson, and not your own. ³Unless all this is true, there are dark lessons in your mind that hurt and hinder you, and everyone around you. ⁴The absence of perfect peace means but one thing: You think you do not will for God’s Son what his Father wills for him. ⁵Every dark lesson teaches this, in one form or another. ⁶And each bright lesson with which the Holy Spirit will replace the dark ones you do not accept, teaches you that you will with the Father and His Son. (A Course in Miracles, T-14.XI.1:1-5,9;4:5–5:6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

While we believe we are a body with a separate identity, we are dreaming we are in a fearful world that denies the Reality of God’s limitless eternal Love. It is an attempt to keep power for ourselves alone. But to know our real power, we must accept God’s Will, which is to share all that He is with all. Only in accepting His Gift of all of Himself can we experience His perfect peace and happiness.

If we are not in perfect peace, it is a sure sign that we are rejecting our Father’s Gifts. We need to recognize that we believing in a false idea of our identity. It is time to offer that false idea to Him, and open our heart and mind to receive His gift of universal Love for all that is.

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Choose to Let Love Lead the Way

Into His Presence would I enter now.

Your body will be sanctified today, its only purpose being now to bring the vision of what you experience this day to light the world. ²We cannot give experience like this directly. ³Yet it leaves a vision in our eyes which we can offer everyone, that he may come the sooner to the same experience in which the world is quietly forgot, and Heaven is remembered for a while.

As this experience increases and all goals but this become of little worth, the world to which you will return becomes a little closer to the end of time; a little more like Heaven in its ways; a little nearer its deliverance. ²And you who bring [the world] light will come to see the light more sure; the vision more distinct.

…the Holy One, the Giver of the happy dreams of life, Translator of perception into truth, the holy Guide to Heaven given you, has dreamed for you this journey which you make and start today, with the experience this day holds out to you to be your own.

“Into Christ’s Presence will we enter now, serenely unaware of everything except His shining face and perfect Love. (A Course in Miracles, W-157.6:1–7:2;8:2–9:1. See also ACIM Lesson 157 Insights.)

As God’s unified Son, we all were created to bring the Light of His Love to the world. But to fulfill our given purpose, we need to forgive our mistaken wish for specialness. Our identification with the false idea that we are a separate identity denies the truth of our unbroken unity with our Creator.

Today we can make a different choice. We can choose to let our true Self guide our vision. It will show us that only God’s Love is real. It will show us our unity with the truth in everyone. With this choice we will share the vision that brings Light to unify all minds in the oneness of God’s Love. Today we practice stepping back to let Love lead the way.

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Freedom to Be Love’s Extension

I am spirit.

²I am the Son of God. ³No body can contain my spirit, nor impose on me a limitation God created not.

I will accept my part in God’s plan for salvation.

²What can my function be but to accept the Word of God, Who has created me for what I am and will forever be? (A Course in Miracles, W-114.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 114 Insights.)

Our seemingly unique identity as a body is solely a construct of the wish for specialness. It is not God’s creation because separation is not His Will. We are spirit, free to extend our Father’s Love without limit while remaining eternally one with Him. The body is a limit we have accepted in order to have special status. It is an image, made by the ego, to hide the Self that is God’s Son.

Our Father has not forgotten us. He has offered us a plan that will set us free to return to our natural loving Self. We have been given the Holy Spirit to help us forgive our mistaken beliefs and remember the Love that keeps us forever safe. As we forgive, or let go of, our mistaken beliefs, we are free to remember the Love we were created to be.

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How to Read References for
Quotes from A Course in Miracles

Below are example references to specific sentences using the notation of the Second & Third Editions of A Course in Miracles published by the Foundation for Inner Peace:

T-26.IV.4:7 = Text, Chapt. 26, Section IV, paragraph 4, sentence 7.

W-169.5:2 = Workbook, Lesson 169, paragraph 5, sentence 2.

W-pII.1.1:1 = Workbook, Part II, Question 1, paragraph 1, sentence 1.

M-13.3:2 = Manual for Teachers, Question 13, paragraph 3, sentence 2.

C-6.4:6 = Clarification of Terms, Term 6, paragraph 4, sentence 6
The above numbering system of the Second & Third Editions published by The Foundation for A Course in Miracles

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