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Returning to the Love We Are

The world you see is an illusion of a world.

The body’s eyes are therefore not the means by which the real world can be seen, for the illusions that they look upon must lead to more illusions of reality. ²And so they do. ³For everything they see not only will not last, but lends itself to thoughts of sin and guilt. ⁴While everything that God created is forever without sin and therefore is forever without guilt.

²The one correction possible for false perception must be true perception. ³It will not endure. ⁴But for the time it lasts it comes to heal. ⁵For true perception is a remedy with many names. ⁶Forgiveness, salvation, Atonement, true perception, all are one. ⁷They are the one beginning, with the end to lead to Oneness far beyond themselves.

O my brothers, if you only knew the peace that will envelop you and hold you safe and pure and lovely in the Mind of God, you could but rush to meet Him where His altar is. ²Hallowed your Name and His, for they are joined here in this holy place. ³Here He leans down to lift you up to Him, out of illusions into holiness; out of the world and to eternity; out of all fear and given back to love. (A Course in Miracles, C-4.1:1;2;3:2-7;8)

We have accepted an identity as a body, which is not real. Separate from other bodies and the world, it is incapable of recognizing the reality of Love’s oneness. We need a means to awaken from this mistaken identity. True perception is the way to return to awareness of our true Identity.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit, our true Self, to help us let go of our mistaken belief in a false identity. We want to see the Light of Love that unites us with every brother and our Father. We want to remember the peace that is our natural state. We want to return to Love.

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The Choice That Frees Us to Be Love

Father, my freedom is in You alone.

I did not understand what made me free, nor what my freedom is, nor where to look to find it. ²Father, I have searched in vain until I heard Your Voice directing me. ³Now I would guide myself no more. ⁴For I have neither made nor understood the way to find my freedom. ⁵But I trust in You. ⁶You Who endowed me with my freedom as Your holy Son will not be lost to me. ⁷Your Voice directs me, and the way to You is opening and clear to me at last. ⁸Father, my freedom is in You alone. ⁹Father, it is my will that I return.

Today we answer for the world, which will be freed along with us. ²How glad are we to find our freedom through the certain way our Father has established. ³And how sure is all the world’s salvation, when we learn our freedom can be found in God alone. (A Course in Miracles, W-321. See also ACIM Lesson 321 Insights.)

We have a Guide in our mind Whose function is to lead us home to the Heaven of God’s Love. As long as we choose to identify with the ego, we deny the guidance that sets us free. It is time to choose once again.

Of our self we do not know the way to freedom. Today we choose to quiet our mind and welcome the guidance of God’s Voice. This is the choice that frees us to be the Love we were created to be. His Voice will lead us directly to the Heart of Love. We make this choice in gratitude for the eternal Love that is our strength and safety.

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Love Supports Us Without Limit

A day devoted now to gratitude will add the benefit of some insight into the real extent of all the gains which you have made; the gifts you have received. ²Be glad today, in loving thankfulness, your Father has not left you to yourself, nor let you wander in the dark alone. ³Be grateful He has saved you from the self you thought you made to take the place of Him and His creation. ⁴Give Him thanks today.

Give thanks that He has not abandoned you, and that His Love forever will remain shining on you, forever without change. ²Give thanks as well that you are changeless, for the Son He loves is changeless as Himself. ³Be grateful you are saved. ⁴Be glad you have a function in salvation to fulfill.

³Today we smile on everyone we see, and walk with lightened footsteps as we go to do what is appointed us to do.

Receive His thanks, and you will understand how lovingly He holds you in His Mind, how deep and limitless His care for you, how perfect is His gratitude to you. ²Remember hourly to think of Him, and give Him thanks for everything He gave His Son, that he might rise above the world, remembering his Father and his Self. (A Course in Miracles, W-123.2:1–3:4;8:1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 123 Insights.)

Think of the most loving being you can imagine fully embracing you; how safe and nurtured you feel. This brings but a faint inkling of the Love our Father holds for us, His Son. His Love shines so brightly on us that nothing is seen that could disturb our peace.

We give thanks for our Father’s Love today. We are grateful for His sure protection which guarantees that we are changeless, forever one with Himself. From this state of peacefulness, we look upon the world with Loving eyes. Today we go through our appointed doing uplifted by the Love that supports us without limit.

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We Are United with God in His Love

I am God’s Son, complete and healed and whole, shining in the reflection of His Love. ²In me is His creation sanctified and guaranteed eternal life. ³In me is love perfected, fear impossible, and joy established without opposite. ⁴I am the holy home of God Himself. ⁵I am the Heaven where His Love resides. ⁶I am His holy Sinlessness Itself, for in my purity abides His Own.

Ours are the eyes through which Christ’s vision sees a world redeemed from every thought of sin. ²Ours are the ears that hear the Voice for God proclaim the world as sinless. ³Ours the minds that join together as we bless the world. ⁴And from the oneness that we have attained we call to all our brothers, asking them to share our peace and consummate our joy.

We are the holy messengers of God who speak for Him, and carrying His Word to everyone whom He has sent to us, we learn that it is written on our hearts. ²And thus our minds are changed about the aim for which we came, and which we seek to serve. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.14.1;4:1–5:2)

Here is the culmination of the thought reversal A Course in Miracles offers. We have believed that we are a body, isolated from other bodies, weak and vulnerable to change and loss.

But the Course is telling us that this belief is mistaken. Nothing has occurred that has changed God’s one Son. And we are His Son, united with Him in His Love. It is reminding us of our true Identity.

Our function is to awaken to our true Identity and offer the message that this Identity is everyone’s Identity. As we accept this fact, we recognize we share our oneness as God’s one Son.

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Remembering Our Eternal Unity in Love

¹¹Holy are you, eternal, free and whole, at peace forever in the Heart of God. ¹²Where is the world, and where is sorrow now?

Is this your judgment on yourself, teacher of God? ²Do you believe that this is wholly true? ³No; not yet, not yet. ⁴But this is still your goal; why you are here. ⁵It is your function to prepare yourself to hear this Judgment and to recognize that it is true. ⁶One instant of complete belief in this, and you will go beyond belief to Certainty. ⁷One instant out of time can bring time’s end. ⁸Judge not, for you but judge yourself, and thus delay this Final Judgment. ⁹What is your judgment of the world, teacher of God? ¹⁰Have you yet learned to stand aside and hear the Voice of Judgment in yourself? ¹¹Or do you still attempt to take His role from Him? ¹²Learn to be quiet, for His Voice is heard in stillness. ¹³And His Judgment comes to all who stand aside in quiet listening, and wait for Him.

⁶There is no deceit in God. ⁷His promises are sure. ⁸Only remember that. ⁹His promises have guaranteed His Judgment, and His alone, will be accepted in the end. ¹⁰It is your function to make that end be soon. ¹¹It is your function to hold it to your heart, and offer it to all the world to keep it safe. (A Course in Miracles, M-15.1:11–2:13;3:6-11)

Everyone has an assigned function to fulfill. We have wandered down a wayward path in a dream that denies God’s eternal gift to His Son. We have accepted the ego’s judgment which tells us that have separated from our Creator and lost our way.

Now we must be willing to quiet our mind and welcome the Voice for God. It reminds us of the eternal truth that we remain united with our Father in His Love. It was given without limit when He created His Son. As we lay aside the ego’s judgments, we welcome our Father’s final judgment that we are holy, free and eternally at peace.

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Setting Aside Our False Identity

God is my Father, and He loves His Son.

My true Identity is so secure, so lofty, sinless, glorious and great, wholly beneficent and free from guilt, that Heaven looks to It to give it light. ²It lights the world as well. ³It is the gift my Father gave to me; the one as well I give the world. ⁴There is no gift but this that can be either given or received. ⁵This is reality, and only this. ⁶This is illusion’s end. ⁷It is the truth.

My Name, O Father, still is known to You. ²I have forgotten It, and do not know where I am going, who I am, or what it is I do. ³Remind me, Father, now, for I am weary of the world I see. ⁴Reveal what You would have me see instead. (A Course in Miracles, W-224. See also ACIM Lesson 224 Insights.)

When we identify with the ego, we accept a fake identity in place of the Identity given us by our Creator. This false identity denies all Reality. It shows us a dream that seems real but has no reality in truth. This dream is like a costume ball where everyone presents an identity that is not real. Nothing is as it is in truth.

It is time to let go of this charade. Our true Identity remains unaffected by the costumes we have accepted as real. As we lay these costumes aside, we no longer see them in others. We recognize our Selves and every brother as Love and nothing else. Love sees only Itself, for It sees all of Reality. We are grateful that our misadventure into a dream of false identities has had no effect on our true Identity, given us by our Father.

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Accepting Our Unity as God’s One Son

Let me perceive no differences today.

Father, You have one Son. ²And it is he that I would look upon today. ³He is Your one creation. ⁴Why should I perceive a thousand forms in what remains as one? ⁵Why should I give this one a thousand names, when only one suffices? ⁶For Your Son must bear Your Name, for You created him. ⁷Let me not see him as a stranger to his Father, nor as stranger to myself. ⁸For he is part of me and I of him, and we are part of You Who are our Source, eternally united in Your Love; eternally the holy Son of God.

We who are one would recognize this day the truth about ourselves. ²We would come home, and rest in unity. ³For there is peace, and nowhere else can peace be sought and found. (A Course in Miracles, W-262. See also ACIM Lesson 262 Insights.)

The Love that is our true Self unites us with everyone and with our Father. In this unity there is only peace because there are no differences that can conflict.

When our peace is disturbed, it is always because we are seeing conflicting differences which cannot be real. It is time to let the Holy Spirit help us overlook these mistaken perceptions to see the eternal Love that unites us as God’s one Son.

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