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³You want salvation. ⁴You want to be happy. ⁵You want peace. ⁶You do not have them now, because your mind is totally undisciplined, and you cannot distinguish between joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, love and fear. ⁷You are now learning how to tell them apart. ⁸And great indeed will be your reward.
Your decision to see is all that vision requires. ²What you want is yours. …⁶God has one Son, and he is the resurrection and the life. ⁷His will is done because all power is given him in Heaven and on earth. ⁸In your determination to see is vision given you.
…as you repeat [“I am determined to see”], you are stating that you are determined to change your present state for a better one, and one you really want.
³The extra repetitions should be applied to any situation, person or event that upsets you. ⁴You can see them differently, and you will. ⁵What you desire you will see. ⁶Such is the real law of cause and effect as it operates in the world. (A Course in Miracles, W-20.2:3-8;3:1-2,5-8;4:3;5:3-6. See also ACIM Lesson 20 Insights.)
As God’s one Son, we were created to be in perfect peace and joy eternally. We don’t experience this only because we have accepted a false identity that denies our unity with our Creator. But we can choose to let go of this false identity by forgiving the wish to have a unique, special identity. To declare our determination to see is to be willing to change our mind about what we believe is our identity. We are willing to exchange a false identity for our true Identity as God’s Son.
We are grateful that we have help, given us by our Creator, to let go of our mistaken beliefs and claim our inheritance as God’s one Son. Peace and joy our ours now. We are determined to accept our Reality.
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²Everything you see is the result of your thoughts. ³There is no exception to this fact. ⁴Thoughts are not big or little; powerful or weak. ⁵They are merely true or false. ⁶Those that are true create their own likeness. ⁷Those that are false make theirs.
There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of “idle thoughts.” ²What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can hardly be called idle. ³Every thought you have contributes to truth or to illusion; either it extends the truth or it multiplies illusions. ⁴You can indeed multiply nothing, but you will not extend it by doing so.
Besides your recognizing that thoughts are never idle, salvation requires that you also recognize that every thought you have brings either peace or war; either love or fear. ²A neutral result is impossible because a neutral thought is impossible. ³There is such a temptation to dismiss fear thoughts as unimportant, trivial and not worth bothering about that it is essential you recognize them all as equally destructive, but equally unreal. ⁴We will practice this idea in many forms before you really understand it. (A Course in Miracles, W-16.1:2–3:4. See also ACIM Lesson 16 Insights.)
As long as we believe there is value in having something we alone can possess, we will experience a life of conflict, fear, guilt and loss. This is what we believe when we identify with the ego. We perceive a world we value, whether it is an hallucination or reality.
By definition, hallucinations are not real and have no effect on reality. Fortunately, we can change our values. If we are willing to reconsider what we value, we have a Guide in our mind who can help us recognize the value of God’s gift of all His Love, eternally. He will help us recognize the nothingness of our dream of specialness and show us the radiant light of Love that is our true Self. We will joyously accept our Identity as Love.
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This instant is the only time there is.
“I have conceived of time in such a way that I defeat my aim. ²If I elect to reach past time to timelessness, I must change my perception of what time is for. ³Time’s purpose cannot be to keep the past and future one. ⁴The only interval in which I can be saved from time is now. ⁵For in this instant has forgiveness come to set me free. ⁶The birth of Christ is now, without a past or future. ⁷He has come to give His present blessing to the world, restoring it to timelessness and love. ⁸And love is ever-present, here and now.”
Thanks for this instant, Father. ²It is now I am redeemed. ³This instant is the time You have appointed for Your Son’s release, and for salvation of the world in him. (A Course in Miracles, W-308. See also ACIM Lesson 308 Insights.)
The ego believes that past learning is essential to its survival. This seems to be true in the ego’s dream of the world. Without “memories” of the past, the ego would seem to cease to seem to exist. When the past is forgiven and let go, only the present remains. Without the past clouding our mind, we know that we are Love, eternally united in the present with our Creator. This is why forgiveness is the key to our salvation. Forgiveness frees us from dreams of fear and anger, retribution and loss.
Today we welcome the Holy Spirit’s help to forgive the past and all its dark thoughts. We want to remember the Love we have always been and will remain through all eternity.
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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, W-311. See also ACIM Lesson 311 Insights.)
The ego is afraid of God’s judgment. This is because it is afraid of Love’s oneness. God’s judgment is that we remain at one with Him as His one Son. The instant we fully accept this fact the ego will simply cease to seem to exist.
Our true Self knows that we are eternally one with our Father. We cannot lose our true Identity. All we need do to remember It is to forgive our mistaken belief that we have succeeded in separating from God.
This forgiveness is a gentle process under the Holy Spirit’s tutelage. The Holy Spirit patiently helps us forgive the seeming forms for the ego’s denial of Love. As we practice following the Holy Spirit’s lead, we realize that all the forms have one common trait. They are not real. When we fully accept the reality of Love, we awaken to our Home in the Heart of God.
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In me salvation’s means and end are one.
In me, God’s holy Son, are reconciled all parts of Heaven’s plan to save the world. ²What could conflict, when all the parts have but one purpose and one aim? ³How could there be a single part that stands alone, or one of more or less importance than the rest? ⁴I am the means by which God’s Son is saved, because salvation’s purpose is to find the sinlessness that God has placed in me. ⁵I was created as the thing I seek. ⁶I am the goal the world is searching for. ⁷I am God’s Son, His one eternal Love. ⁸I am salvation’s means and end as well.
Let me today, my Father, take the role You offer me in Your request that I accept Atonement for myself. ²For thus does what is thereby reconciled in me become as surely reconciled to You. (A Course in Miracles, W-318. See also ACIM Lesson 318 Insights.)
Our belief that we are a body in a world of other bodies is a mistaken identification. In truth, we are God’s one Son, which includes all of His Creation. The truth about those whom we perceive as separate from us is that they are part of our one Self joined with our Father as His one Son. This is the Identity that is forever peaceful, loving and joyful.
We claim our true Identity by forgiving our mistaken belief that we are separate. To set ourselves free from the dream of individuality and differences, we need to accept the help of the Holy Spirit. Our singular purpose of accepting our Self as God created us makes us one with God’s plan for our awakening.
We facilitate our awakening by our willingness to accept His help to see that we are one with every brother in God’s Love. This is our practice for today.
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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.)
Today can be a day of joy and peace. If we are willing to look within, we will see that we remain eternally united with our Creator. All our dreams of fear, attack, loss and guilt have not changed our true Identity. When we are willing to reconsider the meaning we give our perceptions and ask for Holy Spirit’s loving correction, we will find the peace of God is our Home.
Today we make the decision to bring our perceptions to the Holy Spirit for His interpretation. He will dismiss the errors that disturb our peace and show us the unity of Love that is ever present. We will remember the certainty of our Home within God’s Love. We will remember our unity with our Creator and our one Self in every brother.
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The gift of Christ is all I seek today.
What but Christ’s vision would I use today, when it can offer me a day in which I see a world so like to Heaven that an ancient memory returns to me? ²Today I can forget the world I made. ³Today I can go past all fear, and be restored to love and holiness and peace. ⁴Today I am redeemed, and born anew into a world of mercy and of care; of loving kindness and the peace of God.
And so, our Father, we return to You, remembering we never went away; remembering Your holy gifts to us. ²In gratitude and thankfulness we come, with empty hands and open hearts and minds, asking but what You give. ³We cannot make an offering sufficient for Your Son. ⁴But in Your Love the gift of Christ is his. (A Course in Miracles, W-306. See also ACIM Lesson 306 Insights.)
Our true Home is a place of care, loving kindness and peace. Yet we do not experience this Home in this world. This is because, when we identify with the ego, we choose to accept its barriers to Love. We accept conflict as part of “life”. This need not be.
The forgiving eyes of Christ show us vision that reveals the truth of our Home in God’s Love. The passage out of the dream of conflict is through the door of forgiveness. We open this door by being willing to reconsider our judgments. As we are willing to accept the Holy Spirit’s help to reinterpret our perceptions, we open our mind to the Light of Love, which dispels the ego’s images of isolation and differences.
Today we welcome the Holy Spirit’s help to let go of our mistaken beliefs and remember our Home in the Heart of God’s Love.
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