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Remembering God’s Strength Is Ours

The mind can make the belief in separation very real and very fearful, and this belief is the “devil.” ²It is powerful, active, destructive and clearly in opposition to God, because it literally denies His Fatherhood. ³Look at your life and see what the devil has made. ⁴But realize that this making will surely dissolve in the light of truth, because its foundation is a lie. ⁵Your creation by God is the only Foundation that cannot be shaken, because the light is in it. ⁶Your starting point is truth, and you must return to your Beginning. ⁷Much has been seen since then, but nothing has really happened. ⁸Your Self is still in peace, even though your mind is in conflict. ⁹You have not yet gone back far enough, and that is why you become so fearful. ¹⁰As you approach the Beginning, you feel the fear of the destruction of your thought system upon you as if it were the fear of death. ¹¹There is no death, but there is a belief in death.

³The light will shine from the true Foundation of life, and your own thought system will stand corrected. ⁴It cannot stand otherwise. ⁵You who fear salvation are choosing death. ⁶Life and death, light and darkness, knowledge and perception, are irreconcilable. ⁷To believe that they can be reconciled is to believe that God and His Son can not. ⁸Only the oneness of knowledge is free of conflict. ⁹Your Kingdom is not of this world because it was given you from beyond this world. ¹⁰Only in this world is the idea of an authority problem meaningful. ¹¹The world is not left by death but by truth, and truth can be known by all those for whom the Kingdom was created, and for whom it waits.(A Course in Miracles, T-3.VII.5;6:3-11. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

God is our Foundation. The Life He has given us stands on all His Strength and Love. This Foundation cannot be altered because it is all that is Real.

The ego is an attempt to alter the unalterable. The most that it can offer is a dream in which our Foundation is hidden under lies that proclaim death is real. It is time to let go of that painful belief.

Today we pause to rest our troubled mind in the changeless peace of our Home in God. Here we remember our true Identity as His Son with all His Strength.

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The Practice That Will Make Conflict Disappear

…let us think about all things we saved to settle by ourselves, and kept apart from healing. ⁵Let us give them all to Him Who knows the way to look upon them so that they will disappear. ⁶Truth is His message; truth His teaching is. ⁷His are the lessons God would have us learn.

Each hour, spend a little time today, and in the days to come, in practicing the lesson in forgiveness in the form established for the day. ²And try to give it application to the happenings the hour brought, so that the next one is free of the one before. ³The chains of time are easily unloosened in this way. ⁴Let no one hour cast its shadow on the one that follows, and when that one goes, let everything that happened in its course go with it. ⁵Thus will you remain unbound, in peace eternal in the world of time.

This is the lesson God would have you learn: There is a way to look on everything that lets it be to you another step to Him, and to salvation of the world. ²To all that speaks of terror, answer thus:

³I will forgive, and this will disappear.

⁴To every apprehension, every care and every form of suffering, repeat these selfsame words. ⁵And then you hold the key that opens Heaven’s gate, and brings the Love of God the Father down to earth at last, to raise it up to Heaven. ⁶God will take this final step Himself. ⁷Do not deny the little steps He asks you take to Him. (A Course in Miracles, W-193.11:4–13:7. See also ACIM Lesson 193 Insights.)

Every moment is an opportunity to take another step toward awakening to the Love that is our Reality. Only our judgments stand as a prison door, preventing us from experiencing the peace of God.

True forgiveness is the key that opens our self-made prison. If we let Him, the Holy Spirit will help us see that our judgments are based on false ideas. With His vision, we can see past our mistaken beliefs and let them go. This release reveals the all encompassing Love that is our Home.

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The Happy Journey to Perfect Peace

Let us raise our hearts from dust to life, as we remember this [Self] is promised us, and that this course was sent to open up the path of light to us, and teach us, step by step, how to return to the eternal Self we thought we lost.

I take the journey with you. ²For I share your doubts and fears a little while, that you may come to me who recognize the road by which all fears and doubts are overcome. ³We walk together. ⁴I must understand uncertainty and pain, although I know they have no meaning. ⁵Yet a savior must remain with those he teaches, seeing what they see, but still retaining in his mind the way that led him out, and now will lead you out with him. ⁶God’s Son is crucified until you walk along the road with me.

My resurrection comes again each time I lead a brother safely to the place at which the journey ends and is forgot. ²I am renewed each time a brother learns there is a way from misery and pain. ³I am reborn each time a brother’s mind turns to the light in him and looks for me. ⁴I have forgotten no one. ⁵Help me now to lead you back to where the journey was begun, to make another choice with me. (A Course in Miracles, W-rV.in.5:4–7:5)

We have a holy Companion Who walks with us on every step we take. He is there to guide us on our journey Home to the Heaven of God’s Love. We have wandered into a wilderness of our own making by wanting to experience specialness. He understands the confusion in our troubled mind while knowing it is not real.

Today we welcome His lead. We gratefully follow, trusting that He knows the way to return us to Love’s Light where we happily rest in eternal perfect peace.

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Accepting the Holiness We Share with God

I choose to see my brother’s sinlessness.

Forgiveness is a choice. ²I never see my brother as he is, for that is far beyond perception. ³What I see in him is merely what I wish to see, because it stands for what I want to be the truth. ⁴It is to this alone that I respond, however much I seem to be impelled by outside happenings. ⁵I choose to see what I would look upon, and this I see, and only this. ⁶My brother’s sinlessness shows me that I would look upon my own. ⁷And I will see it, having chosen to behold my brother in its holy light.

What could restore Your memory to me, except to see my brother’s sinlessness? ²His holiness reminds me that he was created one with me, and like myself. ³In him I find my Self, and in Your Son I find the memory of You as well. (A Course in Miracles, W-335. See also ACIM Lesson 335 Insights.)

The body is the ego’s tool to hide our true Identity as God’s one Son from our awareness. Our true Self has no form; it is an extension of God’s Love. We hold our belief we are a body by perceiving others as bodies. The joy we would experience when we free ourselves from body identification is beyond anything this world has to offer.

Today we ask for help to use Christ’s vision to see the innocence in our brother. The radiant Light of Love that is his Identity will remind us of our Self which shares the holiness of God Himself.

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Resting in the Sanctuary of God’s Peace

You rest within the peace of God today, and call upon your brothers from your rest to draw them to their rest, along with you. ²You will be faithful to your trust today, forgetting no one, bringing everyone into the boundless circle of your peace, the holy sanctuary where you rest. ³Open the temple doors and let them come from far across the world, and near as well; your distant brothers and your closest friends; bid them all enter here and rest with you.

You rest within the peace of God today, quiet and unafraid. ²Each brother comes to take his rest, and offer it to you. ³We rest together here, for thus our rest is made complete, and what we give today we have received already. ⁴Time is not the guardian of what we give today. ⁵We give to those unborn and those passed by, to every Thought of God, and to the Mind in which these Thoughts were born and where they rest. ⁶And we remind them of their resting place each time we tell ourselves, “I rest in God. (A Course in Miracles, W-109.8–9. See also ACIM Lesson 109 Insights.)

A temple is a place where we rest in peace and honor God, our Creator. As an extension of His Love, the truth in us is a sanctuary of peace where all are welcome. God excludes no one, nor does our true Self, His Son.

Today we honor the Love that is our true Identity by offering our peace of mind and joyful hearts to all. We forgive our judgments and let the Love we are welcome all into the our sanctuary to rest together in God’s peace.

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Gratitude for Our Creator’s Love

The holy Christ is born in me today.

Watch with me, angels, watch with me today. ²Let all God’s holy Thoughts surround me, and be still with me while Heaven’s Son is born. ³Let earthly sounds be quiet, and the sights to which I am accustomed disappear. ⁴Let Christ be welcomed where He is at home. ⁵And let Him hear the sounds He understands, and see but sights that show His Father’s Love. ⁶Let Him no longer be a stranger here, for He is born again in me today.

Your Son is welcome, Father. ²He has come to save me from the evil [separate] self I made. ³He is the Self that You have given me. ⁴He is but what I really am in truth. ⁵He is the Son You love above all things. ⁶He is my Self as You created me. ⁷It is not Christ that can be crucified. ⁸Safe in Your Arms let me receive Your Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-303. See also ACIM Lesson 303 Insights.)

By identifying with the ego thought system of separation, we have denied our birthright; we have denied our Identity as God’s Son. But denial of Reality does not change Reality. Only the oneness of God’s Love is real.

Today let us accept our Identity as Love. We forgive our misidentification with the ego. Forgiveness releases us to see our brothers with Christ’s vision. No longer do we see adversaries. We recognize everyone as part of our one Self. We are grateful that we dwell together in the Love of our Father.

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Choosing Christ’s Vision

You make what you defend against, and by your own defense against it is it real and inescapable. ⁷Lay down your arms, and only then do you perceive it false.

The choice you make today is certain. ²For you look for the last time upon this bit of carven stone you made, and call it god no longer. …⁶And you return to a new world, unburdened by its weight; beheld not in its sightless eyes, but in the vision that your choice restored to you.

Now do your eyes belong to Christ, and He looks through them. ²Now your voice belongs to God and echoes His. ³And now your heart remains at peace forever.

Father, we are like You. ²No cruelty abides in us, for there is none in You. ³Your peace is ours. ⁴And we bless the world with what we have received from You alone. ⁵We choose again, and make our choice for all our brothers, knowing they are one with us. ⁶We bring them Your salvation as we have received it now. ⁷And we give thanks for them who render us complete. ⁸In them we see Your glory, and in them we find our peace. ⁹Holy are we because Your Holiness has set us free. ¹⁰And we give thanks. ¹¹Amen. (A Course in Miracles, W-170.2:6-7;11:1-2,6–12:3;13. See also ACIM Lesson 170 Insights.)

Our one problem, the cause of all our misery and fear, is our choice to value specialness over the oneness of our Father’s Love. In every instant we are free to make a different choice. We can lay down our mistaken values, and choose to forgive ourselves for our mistaken choice. We set ourselves free to accept the vision of Christ.

Now we clearly see the Love that unites us with all the universe. Nothing is left out of our all encompassing Love. Our mind is at peace. Joy fills our heart as we experience the blessing of freely sharing God’s Love with all.

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How to Read References for
Quotes from A Course in Miracles

Below are example references to specific sentences using the notation of the Second & Third Editions of A Course in Miracles published by the Foundation for Inner Peace:

T-26.IV.4:7 = Text, Chapt. 26, Section IV, paragraph 4, sentence 7.

W-169.5:2 = Workbook, Lesson 169, paragraph 5, sentence 2.

W-pII.1.1:1 = Workbook, Part II, Question 1, paragraph 1, sentence 1.

M-13.3:2 = Manual for Teachers, Question 13, paragraph 3, sentence 2.

C-6.4:6 = Clarification of Terms, Term 6, paragraph 4, sentence 6
The above numbering system of the Second & Third Editions published by The Foundation for A Course in Miracles

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