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The Love We Are Does Not Change

I seek a future different from the past.

From new perception of the world there comes a future very different from the past. ²The future now is recognized as but extension of the present. ³Past mistakes can cast no shadows on it, so that fear has lost its idols and its images, and being formless, it has no effects. ⁴Death will not claim the future now, for life is now its goal, and all the needed means are happily provided. ⁵Who can grieve or suffer when the present has been freed, extending its security and peace into a quiet future filled with joy?

Father, we were mistaken in the past, and choose to use the present to be free. ²Now do we leave the future in Your Hands, leaving behind our past mistakes, and sure that You will keep Your present promises, and guide the future in their holy light. (A Course in Miracles, W-314. See also ACIM Lesson 314 Insights.)

All our sadness, fear and guilt come from guilty thoughts about the past. We believe that what happened in the past determines our future. We expect there to be future consequences from past mistakes. This belief traps us in a cycle of guilt and fear.

But the past is gone. Only our wish to keep the past in our mind gives them influence over our present state. The ego dwells on the past and projects a future that repeats the past. Now we need to remember that the past is gone. We have no need to bring the past to the present. In the present is God’s promise that we dwell in the oneness of Love forever. Love does not change. It is all that is real.

As we learn to forgive our wish to bring the past to the present we welcome the changeless Love that is ours now and forever. In this remembrance, we find peace and happiness.

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Learning to See with Eyes of Love

⁷When you have learned to accept what you are, you will make no more gifts to offer to yourself, for you will know you are complete, in need of nothing, and unable to accept anything for yourself. ⁸But you will gladly give, having received. ⁹The host of God need not seek to find anything.

If you are wholly willing to leave salvation to the plan of God and unwilling to attempt to grasp for peace yourself, salvation will be given you. ²Yet think not you can substitute your plan for His. ³Rather, join with me in His, that we may release all those who would be bound, proclaiming together that the Son of God is host to Him. ⁴Thus will we let no one forget what you would remember. ⁵And thus will you remember it.

Call forth in everyone only the remembrance of God, and of the Heaven that is in him. ²For where you would have your brother be, there will you think you are. ³Hear not his appeal to hell and littleness, but only his call for Heaven and greatness. (A Course in Miracles, T-15.III.10:7–12:3. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

There is no greater gift than the eternal, all encompassing, limitless Love God has given His Son. Likewise, the greatest gift we can give is to extend His Love to all. By this giving, we know What we have received.

Whenever we feel lack of any kind, it is only because we have rejected God’s gift. It manifests in our world as loneliness, sadness, fear and guilt. As we let the Holy Spirit teach us how to forgive our rejection of God’s Love, we recognize the gift we have been given. We realize we are complete in His Love and need nothing else.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us see with the eyes of Love. Thus will we see Love and know that we are Love.

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Forgiveness Welcomes Love’s Eternal Presence

What God has given you is truly given, and will be truly received. ²For God’s gifts have no reality apart from your receiving them. ³Your receiving completes His giving. ⁴You will receive because it is His Will to give. ⁵He gave the holy instant to be given you, and it is impossible that you receive it not because He gave it. ⁶When He willed that His Son be free, His Son was free. ⁷In the holy instant is His reminder that His Son will always be exactly as he was created. ⁸And everything the Holy Spirit teaches is to remind you that you have received what God has given you.

There is nothing you can hold against reality. ²All that must be forgiven are the illusions you have held against your brothers. ³Their reality has no past, and only illusions can be forgiven. ⁴God holds nothing against anyone, for He is incapable of illusions of any kind. ⁵Release your brothers from the slavery of their illusions by forgiving them for the illusions you perceive in them. (A Course in Miracles, T-16.VII.8:1–9:5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The ego belief that the past is real is why the its world is filled with conflict for which it sees no end. In the history of the ego’s world, there has never been a time when there was no conflict.

The only way out of the ego’s recurring cycles of conflict is to learn that the past is not real. God has given us the holy instant in which we can experience the reality of peace where the past is gone. It cannot touch us. In that holy instant, we have forgiven the past and let the eternal presence of Love return to our awareness.

Forgiveness is our salvation from the ego’s world. It opens our awareness to the real world, where Love is recognized as all that is real. Today we welcome the Holy Spirit’s help to lead us to the holy instant in which we have forgiven an illusion of a past and accept the Reality of Love.

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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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