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Where to Find the End of Fear

Be in my mind, my Father, through the day.

Be in my mind, my Father, when I wake, and shine on me throughout the day today. ²Let every minute be a time in which I dwell with You. ³And let me not forget my hourly thanksgiving that You have remained with me, and always will be there to hear my call to You and answer me. ⁴As evening comes, let all my thoughts be still of You and of Your Love. ⁵And let me sleep sure of my safety, certain of Your care, and happily aware I am Your Son.

“This is as every day should be. ²Today, practice the end of fear. ³Have faith in Him Who is your Father. ⁴Trust all things to Him. ⁵Let Him reveal all things to you, and be you undismayed because you are His Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-232. See also ACIM Lesson 232 Insights.)

God is our Source. He created us, His Son, to remain eternally united with Himself. This means all of God’s strength, His Love, His peace and joy remain with us, His creation. There is no strength but His in truth.

But if we believe we have broken our connection with our Creator, fear is inevitable. This we do believe because we want specialness, which can only occur if we deny our oneness in God’s Love.

Today’s prayer expresses the desire to accept God’s gift. In this acceptance, we find the end of fear. We accept His Love, which is all that is real. We are grateful that this is so. We can rest in His peace.

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The Light Within Brings True Perception

Everyone here has entered darkness, yet no one has entered it alone. ²Nor need he stay more than an instant. ³For he has come with Heaven’s Help within him, ready to lead him out of darkness into light at any time. ⁴The time he chooses can be any time, for help is there, awaiting but his choice. ⁵And when he chooses to avail himself of what is given him, then will he see each situation that he thought before was means to justify his anger turned to an event which justifies his love. ⁶He will hear plainly that the calls to war he heard before are really calls to peace. ⁷He will perceive that where he gave attack is but another altar where he can, with equal ease and far more happiness, bestow forgiveness. ⁸And he will reinterpret all temptation as just another chance to bring him joy.

How can a misperception be a sin? ²Let all your brother’s errors be to you nothing except a chance for you to see the workings of the Helper given you to see the world He made instead of yours. …⁸This world has much to offer to your peace, and many chances to extend your own forgiveness. ⁹Such its purpose is, to those who want to see peace and forgiveness descend on them, and offer them the light. (A Course in Miracles, T-25.III.6;7:1-2,8-9. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The Light of Love is within us. It is available in every instant to shine away the darkness of fear and guilt brought on by misperception. If we are not experiencing perfect happiness, a misperception needs to be corrected. As we are willing to let the Light within shine upon our world, our perceptions are transformed. Every moment becomes an opportunity to join in the oneness of Love or to answer calls for Love with Love.

Our perceptions begin in our mind according to the thought system we are aligned with. If we are engaged with belief in separation, our perceptions show us attack and loss. But if we let the Light that is in us shine upon our world, we see past the images that seemed to threaten us. We recognize the happiness that comes with being the Love we are.

Today we welcome the Light within to be our Guide to replace misperceptions with true perception.

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Remembering the Love We Are

There is a light in you the world can not perceive. ²And with its eyes you will not see this light, for you are blinded by the world. ³Yet you have eyes to see it. ⁴It is there for you to look upon. ⁵It was not placed in you to be kept hidden from your sight. ⁶This light is a reflection of the thought we practice now. ⁷To feel the Love of God within you is to see the world anew, shining in innocence, alive with hope, and blessed with perfect charity and love.

Who could feel fear in such a world as this? ²It welcomes you, rejoices that you came, and sings your praises as it keeps you safe from every form of danger and of pain. ³It offers you a warm and gentle home in which to stay a while. ⁴It blesses you throughout the day, and watches through the night as silent guardian of your holy sleep. ⁵It sees salvation in you, and protects the light in you, in which it sees its own.

This is the world the Love of God reveals. …A world in which forgiveness shines on everything, and peace offers its gentle light to everyone… (A Course in Miracles, W-189.1:1–2:5;3:1,5. See also ACIM Lesson 189 Insights.)

Here we have the benefits that forgiveness brings. Forgiveness lifts the veil the wish for specialness has made to hide the blessings of God’s Love that are already ours. It is assuring to know that we only need to be willing to accept His Help to transform our perceptions. His Voice will direct us to see beyond the veil to Light of Love that surrounds us and radiates from us.

In that Light, w We know we are loved and experience the joy of offering love without reservations. The Love we are embraces the Love that is the truth in everyone. We dwell in gratitude.

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Learning to Distinguish Hell from Heaven

There is a borderland of thought that stands between this world and Heaven. ²It is not a place, and when you reach it is apart from time. ³Here is the meeting place where thoughts are brought together; where conflicting values meet and all illusions are laid down beside the truth, where they are judged to be untrue. ⁴This borderland is just beyond the gate of Heaven. ⁵Here is every thought made pure and wholly simple. ⁶Here is sin denied, and everything that is received instead.

This is the journey’s end. ²We have referred to it as the real world. …⁵[Perception and knowledge] are brought together, and only one continues past the gate where Oneness is. ⁶Salvation is a borderland where place and time and choice have meaning still, and yet it can be seen that they are temporary, out of place, and every choice has been already made.

Salvation stops just short of Heaven, for only perception needs salvation. ²Heaven was never lost, and so cannot be saved. ³Yet who can make a choice between the wish for Heaven and the wish for hell unless he recognizes they are not the same? ⁴This difference is the learning goal this course has set. (A Course in Miracles, T-26.III.2;3:1-2,5-6;5:1-4. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

There is a song with the phrase, “I’m in heaven….” The lyrics go on to describe forms in the world that make the moment seem heavenly. Yet forms are not real and do not last. This perception is really hell because it lacks the formless, oneness of Love. The song demonstrates our confusion about what Heaven is.

The Course is teaching us to recognize that we need to let go of beliefs that any form in the world is valuable or real. As we learn to forgive our wish for specialness, we let go of our illusions. Christ’s vision shows us the presence of Love in everyone and everything. The judgements that divided us from the world are laid down. The unity of Love is welcomed.

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Awakening to the Heaven of God’s Love

I am forever an Effect of God.

Father, I was created in Your Mind, a holy Thought that never left its home. ²I am forever Your Effect, and You forever and forever are my Cause. ³As You created me I have remained. ⁴Where You established me I still abide. ⁵And all Your attributes abide in me, because it is Your Will to have a Son so like his Cause that Cause and Its Effect are indistinguishable. ⁶Let me know that I am an Effect of God, and so I have the power to create like You. ⁷And as it is in Heaven, so on earth. ⁸Your plan I follow here, and at the end I know that You will gather Your effects into the tranquil Heaven of Your Love, where earth will vanish, and all separate thoughts unite in glory as the Son of God.

Let us today behold earth disappear, at first transformed, and then, forgiven, fade entirely into God’s holy Will. (A Course in Miracles, W-326. See also ACIM Lesson 326 Insights.)

Only Love creates, and only like Itself. Love has no form and no limits. Being a Thought of Love in the Mind of God, the truth in us, His Son, is Love and nothing else. This Self has no limit in time or space.

Love always extends. This is what Creation is. As part of God’s Creation, we extend the same Love that created us as His Son.

As we let go of the false image of ourself we have made, we will experience the indescribable joy and peace of living in the Heaven of God’s Love. To rest in God is to be His Love.

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The Practice That Leads to Perfect Happiness

The ego does constant battle with the Holy Spirit on the fundamental question of what your function is. ²So does it do constant battle with the Holy Spirit about what your happiness is. ³It is not a two-way battle. ⁴The ego attacks and the Holy Spirit does not respond. ⁵He knows what your function is. ⁶He knows that it is your happiness.

…God has given you your function. ²We have seen that there are only two parts of your mind. ³One is ruled by the ego, and is made up of illusions. ⁴The other is the home of the Holy Spirit, where truth abides. ⁵There are no other guides but these to choose between, and no other outcomes possible as a result of your choice but the fear that the ego always engenders, and the love that the Holy Spirit always offers to replace it.

²Think also about the many forms the illusion of your function has taken in your mind, and the many ways in which you tried to find salvation under the ego’s guidance. …⁸Yet the ego is the only alternative to the Holy Spirit’s Voice. (A Course in Miracles, W-66.2;7;9:2,8. See also ACIM Lesson 66 Insights.)

Whatever we think will bring us happiness, we believe is our salvation. In truth salvation is our happiness if we follow the Holy Spirit’s guidance. The Holy Spirit knows God’s will for us is perfect happiness. The ego only provides empty illusions that cannot give lasting happiness.

The Holy Spirit always leads us to recognize that we remain at one with God, safe in His changeless Love. As we practice asking the Holy Spirit to guide us all through the day, we experience the joy of being the Love that is our true Identity.

Today we practice being open to the Holy Spirit’s interpretation of all our perceptions. With His vision, we will dismiss the ego’s illusions as meaningless. We will experience the peace and happiness God wills for us.

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Welcoming the One Solution to Every Problem

“…everyone is equally entitled to His gift of healing and deliverance and peace. ⁵To give a problem to the Holy Spirit to solve for you means that you want it solved. ⁶To keep it for yourself to solve without His help is to decide it should remain unsettled, unresolved, and lasting in its power of injustice and attack.”

“²Seek to deny and you will feel denied. ³Seek to deprive, and you have been deprived. ⁴A miracle can never be received because another could receive it not. ⁵Only forgiveness offers miracles. ⁶And pardon must be just to everyone.”

“⁶That is why your sole responsibility must be to take forgiveness for yourself.

“The miracle that you receive, you give. ²Each one becomes an illustration of the law on which salvation rests; that justice must be done to all, if anyone is to be healed. ³No one can lose, and everyone must benefit. ⁴Each miracle is an example of what justice can accomplish when it is offered to everyone alike. ⁵It is received and given equally. ⁶It is awareness that giving and receiving are the same. ⁷Because it does not make the same unlike, it sees no differences where none exists.

¹⁰What is God’s belongs to everyone, and is his due.” (A Course in Miracles, T-25.IX.7:4-6;8:2-6;9:6;10:1-7,10. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The ego is the belief that it can get what it wants for itself alone. Anything it perceives is wrong or undesired, it has a solution for. The problem is that everything the ego offers is illusion. Its solutions to problems are just replacement illusions that are more acceptable. But because all the ego offers is images of separation in myriad forms, it never offers the peace and joy and happiness that is our reality in the oneness of Love.

We have been given the Holy Spirit Who recognizes there is only one problem, no matter the forms, and one solution. The solution is forgiveness of the ego’s denial of Love. Forgiveness opens the gates to Heaven and welcomes God’s gift of all His Love, given equally to all. It accepts our inheritance as God’s one Son.

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