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Accepting Our Life in Love

Atonement brings a re-evaluation of everything you cherish, for it is the means by which the Holy Spirit can separate the false and the true, which you have accepted into your mind without distinction. ²Therefore you cannot value one without the other, and guilt has become as true for you as innocence. ³You do not believe the Son of God is guiltless because you see the past, and see him not.

See no one, then, as guilty, and you will affirm the truth of guiltlessness unto yourself. ²In every condemnation that you offer the Son of God lies the conviction of your own guilt. ³If you would have the Holy Spirit make you free of it, accept His offer of Atonement for all your brothers. ⁴For so you learn that it is true for you. ⁵Remember always that it is impossible to condemn the Son of God in part.

⁷Within you is the holy sign of perfect faith your Father has in you. ⁸He does not value you as you do. ⁹He knows Himself, and knows the truth in you. ¹⁰He knows there is no difference, for He knows not of differences. ¹¹Can you see guilt where God knows there is perfect innocence? ¹²You can deny His knowledge, but you cannot change it. ¹³Look, then, upon the light He placed within you, and learn that what you feared was there has been replaced with love. (A Course in Miracles, T-13.IX.4:1-3;6:1-5;8:7-13. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

God is only Love, and Love does not condemn. God knows His Son is one with Himself and in this oneness, His Son’s innocence is eternal.

The ego uses judgment to justify guilt. Therefore it keeps our mind dwelling on the past, for without the past, there is no justification for guilt. We let go of the past when we let go of judgment. The Atonement occurs in our mind when we let go of all judgment and accept the oneness of Love that unites us with our Creator.

When we turn over all our judgments to the Holy Spirit, we are released from the thought of guilt. The Holy Spirit reinterprets our judgments as calls for healing. As we accept His help, forgiveness heals the guilt in our mind and we remember the eternal Love that is our true Self. We accept the life we live in Love.

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Reclaiming Our Identity as Spirit

[“I am spirit”] identifies you with your one Self. ²It accepts no split identity, nor tries to weave opposing factors into unity. ³It simply states the truth. ⁴Practice this truth today as often as you can, for it will bring your mind from conflict to the quiet fields of peace.

²You are the spirit lovingly endowed with all your Father’s Love and peace and joy. ³You are the spirit which completes Himself, and shares His function as Creator. ⁴He is with you always, as you are with Him.

³He will offer all His strength to every little effort that you make. ⁴Give Him the minutes which He needs today, to help you understand with Him you are the spirit that abides in Him, and that calls through His Voice to every living thing; offers His sight to everyone who asks; replaces error with the simple truth.

²Spirit am I, a holy Son of God, free of all limits, safe and healed and whole, free to forgive, and free to save the world.

⁵The Holy Spirit gives you peace today. ⁶Receive His words, and offer them to Him. (A Course in Miracles, W-97.1:1-4;2:2-4;4:3-4;7:2;8:5-6. See also ACIM Lesson 97 Insights.)

Everyone in this world who believes they are a body is suffering from an identity crisis. The body is vulnerable and capable of harm. It suffers because it is perceived to be weak. It tries to protect itself with myriad defense mechanisms.

Here we are given an alternative to this misidentification. We are not a body. We are spirit. Our Identity as spirit remains eternally united with our Creator. All of our Creator’s Love is ours. His peace and joy remain with us without limit. As we remind ourselves that we are spirit, we are reclaiming our true Identity.

In the dream of bodies, this seems difficult to recognize. But the Holy Spirit is in our mind offering us all of God’s strength in support of the recognition, “I am spirit.” Today we remind ourselves with this one thought to reclaim our true Identity.

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Our Eternal Unity with God’s Love

⁴If you remain as God created you fear has no meaning, evil is not real, and misery and death do not exist.

²All this has not occurred, if you remain as God created you. ³You need no thought but just this one, to let redemption come to light the world and free it from the past.

In this one thought is all the past undone; the present saved to quietly extend into a timeless future. ²If you are as God created you, then there has been no separation of your mind from His, no split between your mind and other minds, and only unity within your own.

The healing power of today’s idea is limitless. ²It is the birthplace of all miracles, the great restorer of the truth to the awareness of the world. ³Practice today’s idea with gratitude. ⁴This is the truth that comes to set you free. ⁵This is the truth that God has promised you. ⁶This is the Word [Thought] in which all sorrow ends. (A Course in Miracles, W-110.1:4;3:2-3;4–5. See also ACIM Lesson 110 Insights.)

What is sorrow but a thought of lost Love. With the ego wish for specialness, awareness of Love’s oneness is lost. The sorrow that comes with this lost Love is experienced in the dream as fear, anxiety, sadness and guilt. All this seems to occur while in reality we remain safe in God’s Love.

His Love is eternal and changeless. Our unity with Him remains unbroken, no matter what we may dream. God created us as His Son by extending His limitless Love. His Will is that His Son remain eternally one with Himself. No separation is possible in God’s Creation.

The recognition that we remain as God created us dispels the dream. It returns our awareness that we are God’s one Son, eternally united in His Love.

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A Practice That Will Return Us to Love

We ask for rest today, and quietness unshaken by the world’s appearances. ²We ask for peace and stillness, in the midst of all the turmoil born of clashing dreams. ³We ask for safety and for happiness, although we seem to look on danger and on sorrow.

“I rest in God.” ²This thought will bring to you the rest and quiet, peace and stillness, and the safety and the happiness you seek. ³“I rest in God.” ⁴This thought has power to wake the sleeping truth in you, whose vision sees beyond appearances to that same truth in everyone and everything there is.

In Him you have no cares and no concerns, no burdens, no anxiety, no pain, no fear of future and no past regrets. ²In timelessness you rest, while time goes by without its touch upon you, for your rest can never change in any way at all. (A Course in Miracles, W-109.1:1-3;2:1-4;5:1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 109 Insights.)

We have been given a very simple practice that can transform our mind to awareness of a world beyond every dream. It is the real world God created one with Himself. This is where we have always been, no matter what dream we have dreamed.

“I rest in God.” The frequent reminder of this in our mind can help us step away from fear, guilt, sadness and a sense of loss. Whenever we feel anxious, we can affirm this in our mind as a way to bring us back to remembrance of our true Home. This affirmation of the truth cannot be repeated too often.

Each time we remind ourselves of this fact, we help our mind awaken to the awareness of the Life we live in God. It is a call to remember that we live in eternal unity with the Love of God. This is our natural state. We rest in God, where nothing can disturb our peace or disrupt the joy we share with Him.

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Resting in Perfect Peace and Happiness

Perception is consistent. ²What you see reflects your thinking. ³And your thinking but reflects your choice of what you want to see. ⁴Your values are determiners of this, for what you value you must want to see, believing what you see is really there. ⁵No one can see a world his mind has not accorded value. ⁶And no one can fail to look upon what he believes he wants.

Fear has made everything you think you see. ²All separation, all distinctions, and the multitude of differences you believe make up the world. ³They are not there. ⁴Love’s enemy has made them up. ⁵Yet love can have no enemy, and so they have no cause, no being and no consequence. ⁶They can be valued, but remain unreal.

It is impossible to see two worlds which have no overlap of any kind. ²Seek for the one; the other disappears. ³But one remains. ⁴They are the range of choice beyond which your decision cannot go. ⁵The real and the unreal are all there are to choose between, and nothing more than these.

⁵It is impossible to see two worlds. ⁶Let me accept the strength God offers me and see no value in this world, that I may find my freedom and deliverance.

God will be there. ²For you have called upon the great unfailing power which will take this giant step with you in gratitude. ³Nor will you fail to see His thanks expressed in tangible perception and in truth. (A Course in Miracles, W-130.1;4:1-6;5;8:5–9:3. See also ACIM Lesson 130 Insights.)

We all have the power of God in us. It is the power of Love, the only power. Love does not conquer fear; it simply dispels it. Love sees no cause for fear, because It sees only Itself in all things.

Today we choose Love as our Guide. It will show us the Love that is present everywhere, beneath the dream images we have made. With this Guide, we rest in perfect peace and happiness that cannot be disturbed.

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Accepting the Gifts Our Brothers Offer

Dream softly of your sinless brother, who unites with you in holy innocence. ²And from this dream the Lord of Heaven will Himself awaken His beloved Son. ³Dream of your brother’s kindnesses instead of dwelling in your dreams on his mistakes. ⁴Select his thoughtfulness to dream about instead of counting up the hurts he gave. ⁵Forgive him his illusions, and give thanks to him for all the helpfulness he gave. ⁶And do not brush aside his many gifts because he is not perfect in your dreams. ⁷He represents his Father, Whom you see as offering both life and death to you.

Brother, He gives but life. ²Yet what you see as gifts your brother offers represent the gifts you dream your Father gives to you. ³Let all your brother’s gifts be seen in light of charity and kindness offered you. ⁴And let no pain disturb your dream of deep appreciation for his gifts to you. (A Course in Miracles, T-27.VII.15:1–16:4. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We can choose how we see our brother. Our choice depends on what we believe we are. If we follow the ego’s dictates, we will judge our brother as we judge ourselves. We will judge what his body does, how it looks, what it says and how it behaves.

The Course is teaching us to see our brother differently. If we can choose change our focus to recognize his kindness and his helpfulness, and forgive his illusions. With this choice, we do the same for ourselves. What we forgive in a brother, we forgive in ourselves. The gratitude that comes with forgiving our brother brings us happiness and peace.

Today is a great day for us to focus on what we are grateful for in our brother and experience the happiness that gratitude brings.

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Remembering the Life We Live in God

Death is a thought that takes on many forms, often unrecognized. ²It may appear as sadness, fear, anxiety or doubt; as anger, faithlessness and lack of trust; concern for bodies, envy, and all forms in which the wish to be as you are not may come to tempt you. ³All such thoughts are but reflections of the worshipping of death as savior and as giver of release.

⁵There is no death, and we renounce it now in every form, for their salvation and our own as well. ⁶God made not death. ⁷Whatever form it takes must therefore be illusion. ⁸This the stand we take today. ⁹And it is given us to look past death, and see the life beyond.

Our Father, bless our eyes today. ²We are Your messengers, and we would look upon the glorious reflection of Your Love which shines in everything. ³We live and move in You alone. ⁴We are not separate from Your eternal life. ⁵There is no death, for death is not Your Will. ⁶And we abide where You have placed us, in the life we share with You and with all living things, to be like You and part of You forever. ⁷We accept Your Thoughts as ours, and our will is one with Yours eternally. ⁸Amen. (A Course in Miracles, W-163.1;8:5–9:8. See also ACIM Lesson 163 Insights.)

It is important to realize how much the thought of death pervades our “life” experience in this world. These thoughts generally are focused on the body, the central figure in the ego’s dream of separation. In the ego’s denial of God’s Love, it denies the Source of Life.

The Course is helping us learn that the body is not real and the thought of death has no real basis. Today we accept the prayer in this lesson. It is expressing our willingness to see with the eyes of Christ. With His vision, we forgive our mistaken wishes for separation and see the unity of Love that keeps us forever safe in God’s eternal Life. As we accept this fact, we relax in the certainty of God’s Love.

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