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Dreaming the Forgiven Dream

Behold the store of miracles set out for you to give. ²Are you not worth the gift, when God appointed it be given you? ³Judge not God’s Son, but follow in the way He has established. ⁴Christ has dreamed the dream of a forgiven world. ⁵It is His gift, whereby a sweet transition can be made from death to life; from hopelessness to hope. ⁶Let us an instant dream with Him. ⁷His dream awakens us to truth. ⁸His vision gives the means for a return to our unlost and everlasting sanctity in God. (A Course in Miracles, W-159.10. See also ACIM Lesson 159 Insights.)

To dream with Christ is to dream the forgiven dream. Forgiveness clears away our barriers to Love’s presence. It welcomes the gift of Love that has been given us for eternity. This Love was never withdrawn, but only hidden by our wish for specialness. The wish for specialness leads to thoughts of fear and guilt. The oneness of Love cannot be experienced when differences are cherished.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit’s help to heal our fear-based thoughts. For we would welcome Christ’s vision which shows us a forgiven world. In this world we accept the gifts of peace and joy that Love has always offered us. As we accept these gifts, we extend them to our brothers, knowing we are one with them in Love.

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Remembering Our Oneness with God

Sickness is but another name for sin.
Healing is but another name for God.
The miracle is thus a call to Him.

Father, You promised You would never fail to answer any call Your Son might make to You. ²It does not matter where he is, what seems to be his problem, nor what he believes he has become. ³He is Your Son, and You will answer him. ⁴The miracle reflects Your Love, and thus it answers him. ⁵Your Name replaces every thought of sin, and who is sinless cannot suffer pain. ⁶Your Name gives answer to Your Son, because to call Your Name is but to call his own. (A Course in Miracles, W-356. See also ACIM Lesson 356 Insights.)

Our only problem is our wish for specialness, which could only seem to occur in a world separate from God. Such a world could never be real so we can only experience it in dreams. In the dream we forget our eternal unity with our Father. Awakening means remembering that we remain His Son, at one with Him.

Our thoughts of separation are calls for Love. Our Father answers our calls for Love in every moment. While we believe the dream is real, we do not hear our Father’s answer. By the grace of God, we have the Holy Spirit in our mind, Who can translate God’s Answer into forms we understand.

He helps us recognize our misperceptions and provides true perception in their place. With the Holy Spirit’s help, we forgive our misperceptions and welcome the Love we have been denying. We let our mind be healed. We remember God and our true Self, His Son.

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The Choice for Peace of Mind

Vision will come to you at first in glimpses, but they will be enough to show you what is given you who see your brother sinless. ²Truth is restored to you through your desire, as it was lost to you through your desire for something else. ³Open the holy place that you closed off by valuing the “something else,” and what was never lost will quietly return. ⁴It has been saved for you. ⁵Vision would not be necessary had judgment not been made. ⁶Desire now [judgment’s] whole undoing, and it is done for you.

Do you not want to know your own Identity? ²Would you not happily exchange your doubts for certainty? ³Would you not willingly be free of misery, and learn again of joy? ⁴Your holy relationship offers all this to you.… ¹⁰Vision is freely given to those who ask to see.

Your brother’s sinlessness is given you in shining light, to look on with the Holy Spirit’s vision and to rejoice in along with Him. ²For peace will come to all who ask for it with real desire and sincerity of purpose, shared with the Holy Spirit and at one with Him on what salvation is. ³Be willing, then, to see your brother sinless, that Christ may rise before your vision and give you joy. ⁴And place no value on your brother’s body, which holds him to illusions of what he is. (A Course in Miracles, T-20.VIII.1:1–2:5,10;3:1-4. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Our salvation is found when we see our brother as an equal in the oneness of God’s Son. We see our brother truly when we forgive our illusions of being separate individuals in separate bodies. Without the idea of individuality and differences, there is nothing left to judge. The cloud of judgment is dispelled and the Light of Love joins us together in Its oneness.

This is the gift the Holy Spirit’s vision offers us. The choice to accept His vision is the choice for peace of mind, unlimited joy and the certainty of our eternal unity with our Creator. Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us see, with His vision, our Reality in Love.

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Willingness to See Christ’s Innocence in Everyone

God’s Son is perfect, or he cannot be God’s Son. Nor will you know him, if you think he does not merit the escape from guilt in all its consequences and its forms. There is no way to think of him but this, if you would know the truth about yourself. I thank you, Father, for Your perfect Son, and in his glory will I see my own. (A Course in Miracles, T-30.VI.9:1-4. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Today we practice accepting the Holy Spirit’s help to see past all differences to the fact that everyone in the dream is God’s one perfect Son. The illusion of differences does not matter and is only a representation of the ego’s wish to see a separated and guilty world outside itself.
With this choice, we see past separation to oneness.

Forgiveness is the only purpose for the world because it is the Holy Spirit’s purpose. We may make up other seeming purposes, but they only seem to have value we believe in a false world of separation. Since these made up purposes are based on illusion, they are meaningless.

Because we have bought into the idea of separation, we need help from beyond this thought system to fulfill our purpose. This help is the Holy Spirit’s function. Our part in forgiveness of the world is to bring every unforgiving thought, every image of separation, to the Holy Spirit with willingness to accept His help.

With His help, we can see the innocent face of Christ in every brother. We can see our Self reflected back to us in every brother. As we are willing to accept Holy Spirit’s guidance in all our seeing today, we will see a forgiven world — the real world.

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Vigilance for the Kingdom of Love

Today the lights of Heaven bend to you, to shine upon your eyelids as you rest beyond the world of darkness. ²Here is light your eyes can not behold. ³And yet your mind can see it plainly, and can understand. ⁴A day of grace is given you today, and we give thanks. ⁵This day we realize that what you feared to lose was only [the idea of] loss.

Now do we understand there is no loss. ²For we have seen its opposite at last, and we are grateful that the choice is made. ³Remember your decision hourly, and take a moment to confirm your choice by laying by whatever thoughts you have, and dwelling briefly only upon this:

⁴The world I see holds nothing that I want.
⁵Beyond this world there is a world I want. (A Course in Miracles, W-129.8:1–9:5. See also ACIM Lesson 129 Insights.)

We do not need to strive for anything. Only in this dream does lack seem possible. But we dwell in the House of God where Love is everything. It is already ours. To know this fact we need to be vigilant of our thoughts, that we keep them focused on the truth of What we are.

In the world we do want and seek for the peace and Love of God, only because we have denied that it is ours now. With vigilance, we can recognize the mistaken beliefs which accept that lack as real. We call upon the Holy Spirit to release these thoughts so that we may recognize that we already have everything we want in truth.

With this practice the importance we place upon this world fades. Our attention dwells increasingly on the world beyond this dream. We recognize the Light of Heaven as our Home.

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Accepting Our Safety in God’s Love

Fear binds the world. Forgiveness sets it free.

The ego makes illusions. ²Truth undoes its evil dreams by shining them away. ³Truth never makes attack. ⁴It merely is. ⁵And by its presence is the mind recalled from fantasies, awaking to the real. ⁶Forgiveness bids this presence enter in, and take its rightful place within the mind. ⁷Without forgiveness is the mind in chains, believing in its own futility. ⁸Yet with forgiveness does the light shine through the dream of darkness, offering it hope, and giving it the means to realize the freedom that is its inheritance.

We would not bind the world again today. ²Fear holds it prisoner. ³And yet Your Love has given us the means to set it free. ⁴Father, we would release it now. ⁵For as we offer freedom, it is given us. ⁶And we would not remain as prisoners, while You are holding freedom out to us. (A Course in Miracles, W-332. See also ACIM Lesson 332 Insights.)

Forgiveness welcomes the Light of Love to shine away our dark, fearful thoughts. With the wish for specialness comes the need to battle for status. Yet this status is based on illusions because, in the Love which is our truth, there can be no hierarchy, no status that sets us apart from another. We are all united in the Love of God.

Today we welcome the truth that keeps us safely encompassed within God’s Love.

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Accepting Our Father’s Gift of Peace

“Peace be to me, the holy Son of God.
Peace to my brother, who is one with me.
Let all the world be blessed with peace through us.

Father, it is Your peace that I would give, receiving it of You. ²I am Your Son, forever just as You created me, for the Great Rays remain forever still and undisturbed within me. ³I would reach to them in silence and in certainty, for nowhere else can certainty be found. ⁴Peace be to me, and peace to all the world. ⁵In holiness were we created, and in holiness do we remain. ⁶Your Son is like to You in perfect sinlessness. ⁷And with this thought we gladly say “Amen.” (A Course in Miracles, W-360. See also ACIM Lesson 360 Insights.)

Everyone in this world seeks for peace. It can be found within us all, in the unity of Love that we all share. But while we identify with the ego, we will search for peace where it cannot be found. It will direct us on myriad journeys that seem to offer temporary respite while we wait for the next upset to our peace.

This is not the world God wills for us. His Will is that we share all that He is. He is the peace we seek. He has given His peace to us, His Son, never to be withdrawn. To guide us out of the ego’s madness, He gave us the Holy Spirit. It is His function to teach us how to forgive our misidentification and accept our Father’s gift. Today we welcome His Help.

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