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Letting Love Bless the World Through Us

A major learning goal this course has set is to reverse your view of giving, so you can receive. ²For giving has become a source of fear, and so you would avoid the only means by which you can receive. ³Accept God’s peace and joy, and you will learn a different way of looking at a gift. ⁴God’s gifts will never lessen when they are given away. ⁵They but increase thereby.

As Heaven’s peace and joy intensify when you accept them as God’s gift to you, so does the joy of your Creator grow when you accept His joy and peace as yours. ²True giving is creation. ³It extends the limitless to the unlimited, eternity to timelessness, and love unto itself. ⁴It adds to all that is complete already, not in simple terms of adding more, for that implies that it was less before. ⁵It adds by letting what cannot contain itself fulfill its aim of giving everything it has away, securing it forever for itself.

Today accept God’s peace and joy as yours. (A Course in Miracles, W-105.3:1–5:1. See also ACIM Lesson 105 Insights.)

Our true Self is eternal Love. Its nature is to eternally extend Itself. It finds joy in giving of Itself. Its peace comes from Its changelessness.

While we believe Love can be limited, we do not experience Love. But as we forgive our belief in limitation and give the Love we receive, joy is inevitable. As we accept the Love we are, we rest in peace.

Today is an opportunity to let Love show us the universe of Love. As we willingly extend Love, we experience Its blessing. We bless ourselves as we bless the world.

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Seeing the Love in Which We Live

God is my life. I have no life but His.

I was mistaken when I thought I lived apart from God, a separate entity that moved in isolation, unattached, and housed within a body. ²Now I know my life is God’s, I have no other home, and I do not exist apart from Him. ³He has no Thoughts that are not part of me, and I have none but those which are of Him.

Our Father, let us see the face of Christ instead of our mistakes. ²For we who are Your holy Son are sinless. ³We would look upon our sinlessness, for guilt proclaims that we are not Your Son. ⁴And we would not forget You longer. ⁵We are lonely here, and long for Heaven, where we are at home. ⁶Today we would return. ⁷Our Name is Yours, and we acknowledge that we are Your Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-223. See also ACIM Lesson 223 Insights.)

Our judgments make a veil that hides the face of Christ from our awareness. Judgments are the ego’s way of maintaining a belief that separation is real. Yet when we are willing to forgive our judgments, we see the innocence in every brother and ourselves. In truth, we live in God’s innocence. His Love is our Home.

Today we call upon the Love within us to guide our vision. Love always shows us Itself in everything and everyone. Nothing else is real. We are grateful that this is our Home.

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Remembering the Will We Share with God

²You want to accept God’s plan because you share in it. ³You have no will that can really oppose it, and you do not want to do so. ⁴Salvation is for you. ⁵Above all else, you want the freedom to remember Who you really are. ⁶Today it is the ego that stands powerless before your will. ⁷Your will is free, and nothing can prevail against it.

…God’s plan for salvation, and only His, is wholly in accord with your will. ²It is not the purpose of an alien power, thrust upon you unwillingly. ³It is the one purpose here on which you and your Father are in perfect accord. ⁴You will succeed today, the time appointed for the release of the Son of God from hell and from all idle wishes. ⁵His will is now restored to his awareness. ⁶He is willing this very day to look upon the light in him and be saved.

…tell yourself with gentle firmness and quiet certainty:

²I will there be light. ³Let me behold the light that reflects God’s Will and mine.

⁴Then let your will assert itself, joined with the power of God and united with your Self. (A Course in Miracles, W-73.7:2-7;9;10:1-4. See also ACIM Lesson 73 Insights.)

Willing there be Light does not mean we have to force Light to be present. It means accepting our only will, which we share with God. The Light is always there. We are only unaware of It when we deny the Love that created us.

With this acceptance we remember the peace and joy that is our natural habitat. Today we choose to accept our will and know that we remain as God created us.

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Opening to the Joy of Present Love

Forgiveness lets the veil be lifted up that hides the face of Christ from those who look with unforgiving eyes upon the world. ²It lets you recognize the Son of God, and clears your memory of all dead thoughts so that remembrance of your Father can arise across the threshold of your mind.

God’s plan for your salvation cannot change, nor can it fail. ²Be thankful it remains exactly as He planned it. ³Changelessly it stands before you like an open door, with warmth and welcome calling from beyond the doorway, bidding you to enter in and make yourself at home, where you belong.

³Forgive and be forgiven. ⁴As you give you will receive. ⁵There is no plan but this for the salvation of the Son of God. ⁶Let us today rejoice that this is so, for here we have an answer, clear and plain, beyond deceit in its simplicity. ⁷All the complexities the world has spun of fragile cobwebs disappear before the power and the majesty of this extremely simple statement of the truth. [Forgiveness offers everything I want.] (A Course in Miracles, W-122.3:1-2;5;6:3-7. See also ACIM Lesson 122 Insights.)

Our true Self and God are eternal and exist only in the now moment. In eternity there is no past nor future — only now.

The ego denies eternity. It depends upon “memories” of the past to maintain the illusion of existence. When we forgive, we let go of the past. Without the past, the ego no longer seems to exist. To the ego the future is only a rehash of the past, disguised in different forms. Thus when we forgive the past, we open our mind to the Light of present Love. This is why forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us let go of the past so that we can experience the joy of present Love.

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Expressing the Attributes We Share with God

My mind is part of God’s. I am very holy.

Today’s idea does not describe the way you see yourself now. ²It does, however, describe what vision will show you. ³It is difficult for anyone who thinks he is in this world to believe this of himself. ⁴Yet the reason he thinks he is in this world is because he does not believe it.

You will believe that you are part of where you think you are. ²That is because you surround yourself with the environment you want. ³And you want it to protect the image of yourself that you have made. ⁴The image is part of this environment. ⁵What you see while you believe you are in it is seen through the eyes of the image. ⁶This is not vision. ⁷Images cannot see.

³Try to recognize that the direction of your fantasies about yourself does not matter. ⁴Illusions have no direction in reality. ⁵They are merely not true.

As often as possible during the day, pick up a specific attribute or attributes you are ascribing to yourself at the time and apply the idea for today to them, … (A Course in Miracles, W-35.1:1–2:7;5:3-5;9:1. See also ACIM Lesson 35 Insights.)

Today’s idea is part of the Course’s lessons in thought reversal. We think of ourselves as weak, vulnerable, capable of harm and being harmed. But this is not what God created. We are not a body. We are mind in the Mind of God.

As we practice applying this idea, it helps us open to the fact that we remain united in Love with Love. That is our Reality. As we apply the idea, we learn that we share God’s attributes. It opens our mind to release our beliefs in loss, fear and guilt.

We put emphasis on expressing the attributes we share with God. With this practice we acknowledge our holiness. We step away from identifying with the ego’s belief in separation.

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Letting Love Direct All Our Seeing

I will not hurt myself again today.

Let us this day accept forgiveness as our only function. ²Why should we attack our minds, and give them images of pain? ³Why should we teach them they are powerless, when God holds out His power and His Love, and bids them take what is already theirs? ⁴The mind that is made willing to accept God’s gifts has been restored to spirit, and extends its freedom and its joy, as is the Will of God united with its own. ⁵The Self which God created cannot sin, and therefore cannot suffer. ⁶Let us choose today that He be our Identity, and thus escape forever from all things the dream of fear appears to offer us.

Father, Your Son can not be hurt. ²And if we think we suffer, we but fail to know our one Identity we share with You. ³We would return to It today, to be made free forever from all our mistakes, and to be saved from what we thought we were. (A Course in Miracles, W-330. See also ACIM Lesson 330 Insights.)

Our Identity is in God. Everything He is we are, because He has given Himself to His Son. God is only Love, so we, His Son, are only Love.

If we experience anything but the peace and joy of Love, we have accepted a mistaken identity. This is why our only function in this dream is to forgive, to let go of this mistaken identity.

Today is a day to remember Love and let Love direct all our seeing. Thus will we remember our true Identity. We will remember we are Love and nothing else.

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Seeing Through the Eyes of Love

I am not asked to make a sacrifice to find the mercy and the peace of God.

The end of suffering can not be loss. ²The gift of everything can be but gain. ³You only give. ⁴You never take away. ⁵And You created me to be like You, so sacrifice becomes impossible for me as well as You. ⁶I, too, must give. ⁷And so all things are given unto me forever and forever. ⁸As I was created I remain. ⁹Your Son can make no sacrifice, for he must be complete, having the function of completing You. ¹⁰I am complete because I am Your Son. ¹¹I cannot lose, for I can only give, and everything is mine eternally.

The mercy and the peace of God are free. ²Salvation has no cost. ³It is a gift that must be freely given and received. ⁴And it is this that we would learn today. (A Course in Miracles, W-343. See also ACIM Lesson 343 Insights.)

Because God is only Love, we, His Son, must also be only Love. Love is given us in limitless supply. By extending the Love we have been given, we teach ourselves that we are Love.

The ego is the idea of keeping something for itself alone, which no one else has. This attitude of limitation makes us unaware of our limitless supply of Love. It gives us a sense of loss, lack and a need to sacrifice to get. This thought must be forgiven and let go for us to know the limitless love we are.

Today we practice looking at the world through eyes of Love. As we see the Love that surrounds us, we awaken to the Love we are.

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