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Accepting Limitless Joy and Peace

Glory to God in the highest, and to you because He has so willed it. ²Ask and it shall be given you, because it has already been given. ³Ask for light and learn that you are light. ⁴If you want understanding and enlightenment you will learn it, because your decision to learn it is the decision to listen to the Teacher Who knows of light, and can therefore teach it to you. ⁵There is no limit on your learning because there is no limit on your mind. ⁶There is no limit on His teaching because He was created to teach. ⁷Understanding His function perfectly He fulfills it perfectly, because that is His joy and yours.

To fulfill the Will of God perfectly is the only joy and peace that can be fully known, because it is the only function that can be fully experienced. ²When this is accomplished, then, there is no other experience. ³Yet the wish for other experience will block its accomplishment, because God’s Will cannot be forced upon you, being an experience of total willingness. ⁴The Holy Spirit understands how to teach this, but you do not. ⁵That is why you need Him, and why God gave Him to you. ⁶Only His teaching will release your will to God’s, uniting it with His power and glory and establishing them as yours. ⁷You share them as God shares them, because this is the natural outcome of their being. (A Course in Miracles, T-8.III.1–2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Do we want joy and peace? We can have it without limit by accepting what has already been given us. It is God’s Will that we have all that He has, now and forever. Only our wish to experience separation prevents us from knowing the will we share with our Creator.

We have been given a Teacher in our mind Whose function is to teach us the truth about what we were created to be. We have taught ourselves to believe we are unique and different. Our inner Teacher’s function is to teach us to undo our mistaken beliefs and release our mind to accept God’s Will that we be one with Him in Love. As we learn His lessons, we will know limitless happiness and peace.

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Paying Attention to God’s Voice

God’s healing Voice protects all things today.

Let us today attend the Voice for God, which speaks an ancient lesson, no more true today than any other day. ²Yet has this day been chosen as the time when we will seek and hear and learn and understand. ³Join me in hearing. ⁴For the Voice for God tells us of things we cannot understand alone, nor learn apart. ⁵It is in this that all things are protected. ⁶And in this the healing of the Voice for God is found.

Your healing Voice protects all things today, and so I leave all things to You. ²I need be anxious over nothing. ³For Your Voice will tell me what to do and where to go; to whom to speak and what to say to him, what thoughts to think, what words to give the world. ⁴The safety that I bring is given me. ⁵Father, Your Voice protects all things through me. (A Course in Miracles, W-275. See also ACIM Lesson 275 Insights.)

We have a Comforter Who goes with us wherever we go. It does not matter what we think or who we think are. He remains with us. If we are in fear, He is there to assure us that we are safe. If we feel guilty, He tells us that we are forgiven. If we are sad, He reminds us that we are worthy of happiness beyond anything the world has to offer. If we are uncertain about what to do or where to go, He is present in our mind to guide us in the way of peace and Love.

We pause, today, to quiet our troubled mind to let peace come forward. In quiet, we give our attention to the Voice for God Which tells us of our Home, where we are united with all in our Father’s Love.

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The Transformative Power of Christ’s Vision

³Christ’s vision pictures Heaven, for it sees a world so like to Heaven that what God created perfect can be mirrored there. ⁴The darkened glass the world presents can show but twisted images in broken parts. ⁵The real world pictures Heaven’s innocence.

³It [Christ’s vision] is the bond by which the giver and receiver are united in extension here on earth, as they are one in Heaven. ⁴Christ beholds no sin in anyone. ⁵And in His sight the sinless are as one. ⁶Their holiness was given by His Father and Himself.

Christ’s vision is the bridge between the worlds. ²And in its power can you safely trust to carry you from this world into one made holy by forgiveness. ³Things which seem quite solid here are merely shadows there; transparent, faintly seen, at times forgot, and never able to obscure the light that shines beyond them. ⁴Holiness has been restored to vision, and the blind can see.

This is the Holy Spirit’s single gift; the treasure house to which you can appeal with perfect certainty for all the things that can contribute to your happiness. (A Course in Miracles, W-159.3:3-5;4:3–6:1. See also ACIM Lesson 159 Insights.)

We have the means within our minds to see a world that is a clear reflection of Heaven. This cannot be seen with the body’s eyes, which deny reality and can only see illusions. What we choose to see is determined by what we value. The wish for specialness denies Heaven.

Today we step back from our judgments of the world. We open our mind to receive Christ’s forgiving vision, which sees only innocence. It accepts the truth in everyone as Love and nothing else. With our emphasis on Christ’s vision, the images the body’s eyes present fade into the background. We welcome the happiness and peace of the real world in which we live.

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Accepting the Christ Within

The Christ in you is very still. ²He knows where you are going, and He leads you there in gentleness and blessing all the way. ³His Love for God replaces all the fear you thought you saw within yourself.

⁶His perfect lack of specialness He offers you, that you may save all living things from death, receiving from each one the gift of life that your forgiveness offers to your Self. ⁷The sight of Christ is all there is to see. ⁸The song of Christ is all there is to hear. ⁹The hand of Christ is all there is to hold. ¹⁰There is no journey but to walk with Him.

You who would be content with specialness, and seek salvation in a war with love, consider this: The holy Lord of Heaven has Himself come down to you, to offer you your own completion. ²What is His is yours because in your completion is His Own. ³He Who willed not to be without His Son could never will that you be brotherless. ⁴And would He give a brother unto you except he be as perfect as yourself, and just as like to Him in holiness as you must be?

⁴[Christ] will exchange His certainty for all your doubts, if you agree that He is One with you, and that this Oneness is endless, timeless, and within your grasp because your hands are His.  (A Course in Miracles, T-24.V.6:1-3;7:6–8:4;9:4. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The Christ within is certain that His Identity is Love and nothing else. He is our true Self, which we deny when we choose specialness in place of Love’s oneness. The result of this choice is a life of chaos and conflict, because we identify with illusions which are inherently unstable.

We lay illusions down and quiet our mind to welcome Christ’s presence in our mind. In quiet we receive His vision which shows us a forgiven world. We recognize our unity with every brother. Uncertainty and conflict are replaced by the sure reflection of our Father’s changeless Love in everyone we meet or even think of.

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Accepting the Blessings of Christ’s Vision

Father, Christ’s vision is Your gift to me, and it has power to translate all that the body’s eyes behold into the sight of a forgiven world. ²How glorious and gracious is this world! ³Yet how much more will I perceive in it than sight can give. ⁴The world forgiven signifies Your Son acknowledges his Father, lets his dreams be brought to truth, and waits expectantly the one remaining instant more of time which ends forever, as Your memory returns to him. ⁵And now his will is one with Yours. ⁶His function now is but Your Own, and every thought except Your Own is gone.

The quiet of today will bless our hearts, and through them peace will come to everyone. ²Christ is our eyes today. ³And through His sight we offer healing to the world through Him, the holy Son whom God created whole; the holy Son whom God created one. (A Course in Miracles, W-270.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 270 Insights.)

As an instrument of the ego, everything the body’s eyes see represents the wish for specialness. It denies the unity of the Love that created us. As long as we maintain allegiance to the ego, this is all that we will see.

But there is another way of seeing that does not use the body’s eyes. It is the vision of Christ. This vision in our minds sees a forgiven world where Love’s oneness is accepted. It accepts our eternal unity with our Father. Today we practice letting Christ’s vision show us the truth beyond the appearances the body’s eyes show us. With this vision we bring healing to the world.

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We All Were Created as Love by Love

Let me remember that there is no sin [lack of Love].

Sin is the only thought that makes the goal of God seem unattainable. ²What else could blind us to the obvious, and make the strange and the distorted seem more clear? ³What else but sin engenders our attacks? ⁴What else but sin could be the source of guilt, demanding punishment and suffering? ⁵And what but sin could be the source of fear, obscuring God’s creation; giving love the attributes of fear and of attack?

Father, I would not be insane today. ²I would not be afraid of love, nor seek for refuge in its opposite. ³For love can have no opposite. ⁴You are the Source of everything there is. ⁵And everything that is remains with You, and You with it. (A Course in Miracles, W-259. See also ACIM Lesson 259 Insights.)

Love does not condemn. It sees only itself everywhere because only Love is real. If we judge anything, we are not seeing reality. The insane are out of touch with reality. The ego denies Love, which is all that is real, so it is a wholly insane thought system.

God created His Son by extending all of His Love. As part of His one Son, our Reality is Love and nothing else. Love is our Identity and our function. As we forgive our judgments, we open our minds to receive and give the Love that created us. We join in our Father’s eternal extension of His Love.

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We Are Free to Bring Love to the World

The ego tries to teach that you want to oppose God’s Will. ²This unnatural lesson cannot be learned, and the attempt to learn it is a violation of your own freedom, making you afraid of your will because it is free. ³The Holy Spirit opposes any imprisoning of the will of a Son of God, knowing that the Will of the Son is the Father’s. ⁴The Holy Spirit leads you steadily along the path of freedom, teaching you how to disregard or look beyond everything that would hold you back.

We have said that the Holy Spirit teaches you the difference between pain and joy. ²That is the same as saying He teaches you the difference between imprisonment and freedom. ³You cannot make this distinction without Him because you have taught yourself that imprisonment is freedom.

⁴When you have learned that your will is God’s, you could no more will to be without Him than He could will to be without you. ⁵This is freedom and this is joy. (A Course in Miracles, T-8.II.4:1–5:3;6:4-5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The ego is the wish to be limited. Limitations are necessary for specialness to occur where some can have something that others do not have.

God’s Will is that all His Sons share His Will and have nothing less than all of His Love. He wills that we share His joy by extending His gift of Love without limit. Today we welcome the Holy Spirit’s help to let all our thoughts and actions bring Love to the world.

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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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