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Seeing Love’s Reflection Everywhere

All things I think I see reflect ideas.

This is salvation’s keynote: What I see reflects a process in my mind, which starts with my idea of what I want. ²From there, the mind makes up an image of the thing the mind desires, judges valuable, and therefore seeks to find. ³These images are then projected outward, looked upon, esteemed as real and guarded as one’s own. ⁴From insane wishes comes an insane world. ⁵From judgment comes a world condemned. ⁶And 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.

Our Father, Your ideas reflect the truth, and mine apart from Yours but make up dreams. ²Let me behold what only Yours reflect, for Yours and Yours alone establish truth. (A Course in Miracles, W-325. See also ACIM Lesson 325 Insights.)

As long as we identify with the ego, we see a world of separate conflicting images. They seem to compete with each other for time and space. We constantly evaluate what we want to spend time on. We judge whether we want something in our space or not. These conflicts can lead to war. But it is a battle of false images.

When we are willing to forgive the wish for specialness, we see a world of happiness and oneness. Conflict disappears, to be replaced by happy peace. We see a forgiven world where Love’s reality is accepted.

Today we choose to accept the Holy Spirit’s lessons in Love, and we will see Love’s reflection everywhere.

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Our Journey of Awakening

In order to see, you must recognize that light is within, not without. ²You do not see outside yourself, nor is the equipment for seeing outside you. ³An essential part of this equipment is the light that makes seeing possible. ⁴It is with you always, making vision possible in every circumstance.

…leave behind everything that you now believe, and all the thoughts that you have made up. ⁵Properly speaking, this is the release from hell. ⁶Yet perceived through the ego’s eyes, it is loss of identity and a descent into hell.

If you can stand aside from the ego by ever so little, you will have no difficulty in recognizing that its opposition and its fears are meaningless.

…what is needful is a sense of the importance of what you are doing; its inestimable value to you, and an awareness that you are attempting something very holy. ²Salvation is your happiest accomplishment. ³It is also the only one that has any meaning, because it is the only one that has any real use to you at all.

²Try to think of light, formless and without limit, as you pass by the thoughts of this world. ³And do not forget that they cannot hold you to the world unless you give them the power to do so. (A Course in Miracles, W-44.2;5:4–6:1;8;10:2-3. See also ACIM Lesson 44 Insights.)

Today’s exercise is done only in the mind. The vision it will bring us cannot come through the body’s perceptions. The body was made only to see separation and individuality. But this practice focuses on bringing the mind back to awareness that it is unified with the Mind of God. Only in His Mind will we know lasting happiness and peace.

The Light of God’s Love dispels the dark, loveless thoughts of the ego. Today we continue our journey of awakening to our Home in Heaven.

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Resolving Problems with the Holy Spirit

Every child of God is one in Christ, for his being is in Christ as Christ’s is in God. ²Christ’s Love for you is His Love for His Father, which He knows because He knows His Father’s Love for Him. ³When the Holy Spirit has at last led you to Christ at the altar to His Father, perception fuses into knowledge because perception has become so holy that its transfer to holiness is merely its natural extension. ⁴Love transfers to love without any interference, for the two are one. ⁵As you perceive more and more common elements in all situations, the transfer of training under the Holy Spirit’s guidance increases and becomes generalized. ⁶Gradually you learn to apply it to everyone and everything, for its applicability is universal. ⁷When this has been accomplished, perception and knowledge have become so similar that they share the unification of the laws of God.

What is one cannot be perceived as separate, and the denial of the separation is the reinstatement of knowledge. ²At the altar of God, the holy perception of God’s Son becomes so enlightened that light streams into it, and the spirit of God’s Son shines in the Mind of the Father and becomes one with it. ³Very gently does God shine upon Himself, loving the extension of Himself that is His Son. ⁴The world has no purpose as it blends into the purpose of God. ⁵For the real world has slipped quietly into Heaven,… (A Course in Miracles, T-12.VI.6:1–7:5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The ego insists that every problem is unique, and has a unique solution. The Holy Spirit tells us there is only one problem and one solution that resolves all perceives problems. If the ego had its way, we would have an endless list of problems to solve. We would be locked in a continuous cycle of perceived problems, with the next one popping up as soon as the previous one is resolved.

This is why we need the Holy Spirit to lead us to freedom. He is not deceived by the complexity of the ego’s perceptions. As we let the Holy Spirit heal our fear-based thoughts, we recognize what is the same in every problem more readily.

One problem, resolved with the Holy Spirit’s vision, helps us recognize the commonality of all problems. This generalization reduces the list of problems in our mind. Eventually we see that there really is only one problem — the belief in separation. When separation is recognized as impossible and we accept the oneness of God’s Love, we accept our place in Heaven. We realize that in truth, we never left.

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Choosing God’s Joy as Our Own

…today we do not choose the way in which we go to [God]. ²But we do choose to let Him come. ³And with this choice we rest. ⁴And in our quiet hearts and open minds, His Love will blaze its pathway of itself. ⁵What has not been denied is surely there, if it be true and can be surely reached. ⁶God knows His Son, and knows the way to him. ⁷He does not need His Son to show Him how to find His way. ⁸Through every opened door His Love shines outward from its home within, and lightens up the world in innocence.

Father, we do not know the way to You. ²But we have called, and You have answered us. ³We will not interfere. ⁴Salvation’s ways are not our own, for they belong to You. ⁵And it is unto You we look for them. ⁶Our hands are open to receive Your gifts. ⁷We have no thoughts we think apart from You, and cherish no beliefs of what we are, or Who created us. ⁸Yours is the way that we would find and follow. ⁹And we ask but that Your Will, which is our own as well, be done in us and in the world, that it become a part of Heaven now. ¹⁰Amen. (A Course in Miracles, W-189.9–10. See also ACIM Lesson 189 Insights.)

It is time to let go of trying to be the master of our own destiny. Our destiny was set by God when He created us as His Son. His Will is that we be forever joined in His Love and joy. As we repeat this prayer, we are stating our willingness to let go of our little ideas of what we are.

We are willing to open our mind to receive His eternal gift. He has maintained our Home in Heaven, knowing we could never leave in truth. We remain as God created us. We are willing today to accept His gift and choose His joy in the eternal extension of Love.

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The Practice That Leads to Happiness and Peace

Forgiveness ends all suffering and loss.

Forgiveness paints a picture of a world where suffering is over, loss becomes impossible and anger makes no sense. ²Attack is gone, and madness has an end. ³What suffering is now conceivable? ⁴What loss can be sustained? ⁵The world becomes a place of joy, abundance, charity and endless giving. ⁶It is now so like to Heaven that it quickly is transformed into the light that it reflects. ⁷And so the journey which the Son of God began has ended in the light from which he came.

Father, we would return our minds to You. ²We have betrayed them, held them in a vise of bitterness, and frightened them with thoughts of violence and death. ³Now would we rest again in You, as You created us. (W-249)

Suffering and loss can only occur in a world where differences and separation are deemed real. The oneness of Love is unknown in this world. Yet we constantly search to find Love, seeking where It cannot be found.

Forgiveness lets go of the mistaken belief that separation is real. This belief comes from the wish for specialness. This wish denies the equality of Love, which is given eternally without limit.

Today we ask for the Holy Spirit’s help to forgive this wish. We want to remember the Love in which we live and have our being. We want to return to the Heaven God created for His Son.

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Pausing to Bring Peace to the World

The miracle comes quietly into the mind that stops an instant and is still. ²It reaches gently from that quiet time, and from the mind it healed in quiet then, to other minds to share its quietness. ³And they will join in doing nothing to prevent its radiant extension back into the Mind which caused all minds to be. ⁴Born out of sharing, there can be no pause in time to cause the miracle delay in hastening to all unquiet minds, and bringing them an instant’s stillness, when the memory of God returns to them. ⁵Their own remembering is quiet now, and what has come to take its place will not be wholly unremembered afterwards.

He to Whom time is given offers thanks for every quiet instant given Him. ²For in that instant is God’s memory allowed to offer all its treasures to the Son of God, for whom they have been kept. …⁵The instant’s silence that His Son accepts gives welcome to eternity and Him, and lets Them enter where They would abide. ⁶For in that instant does the Son of God do nothing that would make himself afraid.

How instantly the memory of God arises in the mind that has no fear to keep the memory away! (A Course in Miracles, T-28.I.11;12:1-2,5-6;13:1. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The practice of pausing to quiet our mind has long-term benefits. When we have welcomed that instant of quietness, our mind is open to God’s Voice. It brings the memory of God’s peace and joy to our awareness. Even if that moment of quietness is only an instant, the memory of God it welcomed is not completely forgotten as we return to the busyness of the world.

In the quiet instant, we see past the judgments of the world to recognize we dwell in Love. We remember our true Home. This moment is shared because it is the automatic joining that comes with Love’s oneness.

Our outlook on the world is changed as we share the Love we receive. We bring quietness to our brothers. Today we practice pausing to quiet our mind and bring Love’s peace to the world.

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Willingness to Be as We Were Created

Steady our feet, our Father. ²Let our doubts be quiet and our holy minds be still, and speak to us. ³We have no words to give to You. ⁴We would but listen to Your Word, and make it ours. ⁵Lead our practicing as does a father lead a little child along a way he does not understand. ⁶Yet does he follow, sure that he is safe because his father leads the way for him.

So do we bring our practicing to You. ²And if we stumble, You will raise us up. ³If we forget the way, we count upon Your sure remembering. ⁴We wander off, but You will not forget to call us back. ⁵Quicken our footsteps now, that we may walk more certainly and quickly unto You. ⁶And we accept the Word You offer us to unify our practicing, as we review the thoughts that You have given us. (A Course in Miracles, W-rV.in.2:1–3:6)

This prayer acknowledges that we need help to remember our Identity as God’s one Son. It proclaims our willingness to listen with an open mind.

This prayer helps neutralize the ego’s arrogance that proclaims it has made a world to its own liking. Our attachment to the ego brings with it a resistance to accepting God’s gift of all His Love. Yet this is the only gift that will bring us true happiness and lasting peace.

Each time we repeat this prayer, we are reminding ourselves to open to the healing of our mind that will free us from the limitations of the ego’s wish for specialness. It is a prayer of freedom and willingness to be as we were created.

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