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Atonement Accepts God’s Reality

Forgiveness recognizes what you thought your brother did to you has not occurred. ²It does not pardon sins and make them real. ³It sees there was no sin. ⁴And in that view are all your sins forgiven. ⁵What is sin, except a false idea about God’s Son? ⁶Forgiveness merely sees its falsity, and therefore lets it go. ⁷What then is free to take its place is now the Will of God.

An unforgiving thought is one which makes a judgment that it will not raise to doubt, although it is not true. ²The mind is closed, and will not be released.

Forgiveness, on the other hand, is still, and quietly does nothing. ²It offends no aspect of reality, nor seeks to twist it to appearances it likes. ³It merely looks, and waits, and judges not. …he who would forgive himself must learn to welcome truth exactly as it is.

Do nothing, then, and let forgiveness show you what to do, through Him Who is your Guide, your Savior and Protector, strong in hope, and certain of your ultimate success. ²He has forgiven you already, for such is His function, given Him by God. ³Now must you share His function, and forgive whom He has saved, whose sinlessness He sees, and whom He honors as the Son of God. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.1.1:1–2:2;4:1-3,5;5)

The ego tells us that we need to do things, pay a penalty or sacrifice to compensate for our sins. This is its version of atonement.

The Holy Spirit sees that no sin occurred in truth. Only in dreams does harm appear possible. But nothing can change the eternal Love that is God’s Son. Thus in truth, nothing has occurred that needs to be forgiven. He sees all of God’s Sons as united in the oneness of God’s eternal Love. Because nothing has changed this fact, nothing needs to be done.

Atonement is given us when we accept the Self we are as God’s Son. We awaken from a dream of sin to the reality of Love.

In the dream, forgiveness is needed. Forgiveness recognizes that what we thought occurred never happened in truth. It sees beyond the dream images to our unity with our Creator. Today we welcome the Holy Spirit’s help to see the truth that everyone is one as the Son of God.

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Resting in the Oneness of Love

The glory of my Father is my own.

Let not the truth about ourselves today be hidden by a false humility. ²Let us instead be thankful for the gifts our Father gave us. ³Can we see in those with whom He shares His glory any trace of sin and guilt? ⁴And can it be that we are not among them, when He loves His Son forever and with perfect constancy, knowing he is as He created him?

We thank You, Father, for the light that shines forever in us. ²And we honor it, because You share it with us. ³We are one, united in this light and one with You, at peace with all creation and ourselves. (A Course in Miracles, W-239. See also ACIM Lesson 239 Insights.)

Today let’s join in gratitude that our true Self unites us with every brother and our Creator. All that Love is, we are. Peace and joy are our natural state. Today when we think of anyone, we remind ourselves that they are the same Love that we are. We are joined in the Heart of Love.

Whatever appearances we perceive in the world are not true. If we believe they are true, they distract us from the truth of Love’s oneness. As we affirm the reality of Love, we free ourselves from perceptions of differences.

In gratitude we accept the Holy Spirit’s help to let go of our perceptions of differences. We rest in the oneness of Love.

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Accepting the Real World of Love

You are the dreamer of the world of dreams. ²No other cause it has, nor ever will. ³Nothing more fearful than an idle dream has terrified God’s Son, and made him think that he has lost his innocence, denied his Father, and made war upon himself. ⁴So fearful is the dream, so seeming real, he could not waken to reality without the sweat of terror and a scream of mortal fear, unless a gentler dream preceded his awaking, and allowed his calmer mind to welcome, not to fear, the Voice that calls with love to waken him; a gentler dream, in which his suffering was healed and where his brother was his friend. ⁵God willed he waken gently and with joy, and gave him means to waken without fear.

Accept the dream He gave instead of yours. ²It is not difficult to change a dream when once the dreamer has been recognized. ³Rest in the Holy Spirit, and allow His gentle dreams to take the place of those you dreamed in terror and in fear of death. ⁴He brings forgiving dreams, in which the choice is not who is the murderer and who shall be the victim. ⁵In the dreams He brings there is no murder and there is no death. ⁶The dream of guilt is fading from your sight, although your eyes are closed. ⁷A smile has come to lighten up your sleeping face. ⁸The sleep is peaceful now, for these are happy dreams. (A Course in Miracles, T-27.VII.13–14. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We pause frequently today to set aside our judgments. We remember to rest in the Holy Spirit, Whose guidance leads us to see the world forgiven. The Light of Love shines brighter as the shadows of fear and guilt are dispelled.

We let the Love in our hearts shine upon our brothers and join with the Love they are. We are grateful to accept the Holy Spirit’s vision that shows us the real world of Love in which we live.

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Seeing Love’s Reality Everywhere

Christ’s vision has one law. ²It does not look upon a body, and mistake it for the Son whom God created. ³It beholds a light beyond the body; an idea beyond what can be touched, a purity undimmed by errors, pitiful mistakes, and fearful thoughts of guilt from dreams of sin. ⁴It sees no separation. ⁵And it looks on everyone, on every circumstance, all happenings and all events, without the slightest fading of the light it sees.

This can be taught; and must be taught by all who would achieve it. ²It requires but the recognition that the world can not give anything that faintly can compare with this in value; nor set up a goal that does not merely disappear when this has been perceived. ³And this you give today: See no one as a body. ⁴Greet him as the Son of God he is, acknowledging that he is one with you in holiness.

Thus are his sins forgiven him, for Christ has vision that has power to overlook them all.

³This lesson is not difficult to learn, if you remember in your brother you but see yourself. ⁴If he be lost in sin, so must you be; if you see light in him, your sins have been forgiven by yourself. ⁵Each brother whom you meet today provides another chance to let Christ’s vision shine on you, and offer you the peace of God. (A Course in Miracles, W-158.7:1–9:1;10:3-5. See also ACIM Lesson 158 Insights.)

All our judgments are judgments on ourselves. We disguise these judgments by projecting them on an outside world. All our distress, unhappiness, fear and guilt are the effects on these judgments. They maintain the belief that we are separate from the Love of our Creator.

Christ is the Self that knows It is eternally united with our Father. Christ’s vision sees past all our judgments, for it sees with forgiving eyes. It does not overlook anything that is real. It looks only on the reality of Love.

Today we welcome Christ’s vision, which shows us the Love that is in everything, everywhere. It sees the unity with our Father that can never be broken. In this unity we know our innocence and find the peace of God.

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The Lessons That Free Us to Be Love

“Love is the way I walk in gratitude.

²The Holy Spirit is my only Guide. ³He walks with me in love. ⁴And I give thanks to Him for showing me the way to go.

⁵I am not a body. ⁶I am free.
⁷For I am still as God created me.
(A Course in Miracles, W-215.1:1-7. See also ACIM Lesson 215 Insights.)

We have taught ourselves that we are a body, subject to all its limitations. The Holy Spirit is in our mind to help us learn to undo this lesson that brought us pain and suffering, fear and guilt. He is our Guide to remember the Love which remains our true Identity.

Aș we learn His lessons and forgive the beliefs we taught ourselves, we walk in joy and gratitude. Today we choose to be vigilant for Love and the Holy Spirit’s guidance to help us live freely as Love’s extension.

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Accepting Love as Our Identity

⁶In quietness is [the peace of God] acknowledged universally. ⁷For what your inward vision looks upon is your perception of the universe.

Sit quietly and close your eyes. ²The light within you is sufficient. ³It alone has power to give the gift of sight to you. ⁴Exclude the outer world, and let your thoughts fly to the peace within. ⁵They know the way. ⁶For honest thoughts, untainted by the dream of worldly things outside yourself, become the holy messengers of God Himself.

We practice coming nearer to the light in us today. ²We take our wandering thoughts, and gently bring them back to where they fall in line with all the thoughts we share with God.

…we acknowledge that the peace of God still shines in us, and from us to all living things that share our life. ²We will forgive them all, absolving all the world from what we thought it did to us. ³For it is we who make the world as we would have it. ⁴Now we choose that it be innocent, devoid of sin and open to salvation. ⁵And we lay our saving blessing on it, as we say:

⁶The peace of God is shining in me now.
⁷Let all things shine upon me in that peace, and let me bless them with the light in me. (A Course in Miracles, W-188.5:6–6:6;9:1-2;10. See also ACIM Lesson 188 Insights.)

A fundamental message of the Course is that God is only Love and He creates by extending His Love. This is the basis for acknowledging that His Son shares His Love. To know the Love we are as His Son, we need to let go of the images we have made that seem to disconnect us from God.

We are called to quiet our mind and welcome God’s peace. He has given us His peace in our creation. We are simply being called to acknowledge our true Identity as Love. Love knows no conflict. As we forgive all the thoughts of lack and loss, fear and guilt, we awaken to the peace that is our natural state. We are grateful that we have a Guide to forgiveness Whose vision shows us the presence of Love within and all around us.

We are grateful to let God’s peace shine through us upon a forgiven world.

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Learning to Value Love’s Oneness

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.)

Because the body is part of the world of differences, we cannot use its senses to recognize the oneness of God’s Love. But we have another way to see. If, for even a moment, we accept the strength God offers us, we can free ourselves from the limitations of the body.

Christ’s vision shows us a forgiven world where no value is given to forms which define differences. We value the oneness of Love over the distinctions fear would have us perceive. This vision comes as we are willing to accept the strength God has given us, His Son.

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