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Accepting the Will We Share with Our Father

I will there be light.

³The will you share with God has all the power of creation in it. ⁴The ego’s idle wishes are unshared, and therefore have no power at all. ⁵Its wishes are not idle in the sense that they can make a world of illusions in which your belief can be very strong. ⁶But they are idle indeed in terms of creation. ⁷They make nothing that is real.

Idle wishes and grievances are partners or co-makers in picturing the world you see. ²The wishes of the ego gave rise to it, and the ego’s need for grievances, which are necessary to maintain it, peoples it with figures that seem to attack you and call for “righteous” judgment. ³These figures become the middlemen the ego employs to traffic in grievances. ⁴They stand between your awareness and your brothers’ reality. ⁵Beholding them, you do not know your brothers or your Self.

Your picture of the world can only mirror what is within. ²The source of neither light nor darkness can be found without. ³Grievances darken your mind, and you look out on a darkened world. ⁴Forgiveness lifts the darkness, reasserts your will, and lets you look upon a world of light. (A Course in Miracles, W-73.1:3–2:5;5:1-4. See also ACIM Lesson 73 Insights.)

As long as we believe the forms we see in the world are real, we are believing in the ego’s fantasy of a world of specialness. We use the images to justify our grievances and our special status. Because the images are illusions, they are seen as unreliable, requiring constant defense. But all these fantasies cast a dark shadow on the reality of the world of Love in which we truly live.

If we want to be happy and at peace, we need to forgive our belief in the ‘reality’ of the images of ego’s fantasies. Through forgiveness, the Light of Love is welcomed in our mind. We remember that our true will is shared with our Father, Whose Will is that only Love is real. We joyfully accept the life we live in His Love.

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Answering Calls for Love

Now let a new perception come to me.

Father, there is a vision which beholds all things as sinless, so that fear has gone, and where it was is love invited in. ²And love will come wherever it is asked. ³This vision is Your gift. ⁴The eyes of Christ look on a world forgiven. ⁵In His sight are all its sins forgiven, for He sees no sin in anything He looks upon. ⁶Now let His true perception come to me, that I may waken from the dream of sin and look within upon my sinlessness, which You have kept completely undefiled upon the altar to Your holy Son, the Self with which I would identify.

Let us today behold each other in the sight of Christ. ²How beautiful we are! ³How holy and how loving! ⁴Brother, come and join with me today. ⁵We save the world when we have joined. ⁶For in our vision it becomes as holy as the light in us. (A Course in Miracles, W-313. See also ACIM Lesson 313 Insights.)

In every moment the Holy Spirit calls to us to join with Him in the vision that reveals the reality of Love. When we are willing to join with Him, we will see only innocence, only the constant giving and receiving of Love. This is the vision of Christ, which sees that only Love is real.

Each time our peace of mind is disturbed, it is our own call to remember Love’s reality. By offering the disturbing perception to the Holy Spirit, we make way for Love to answer the call.

Today we walk in gratitude by letting Love show us the truth within all our perceptions. With this vision, we recognize the holiness of our Home in Heaven’s Love.

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The Choice to Be Love’s Messenger

There is a light in you which cannot die; whose presence is so holy that the world is sanctified because of you.

This is the way salvation works. ²As you step back, the light in you steps forward and encompasses the world.

“Who walks with me?” ²This question should be asked a thousand times a day, till certainty has ended doubting and established peace. ³Today let doubting cease. ⁴God speaks for you in answering your question with these words:

⁵I walk with God in perfect holiness. ⁶I light the world, I light my mind and all the minds which God created one with me. (A Course in Miracles, W-156.4:1;6:1-2;8. See also ACIM Lesson 156 Insights.)

For most of us, most of the time, the answer to “Who walks with me?” is the ego. But God does not condemn us for this mistaken choice. He has given us the Holy Spirit who waits patiently for us to choose Him instead.

The choice to walk with the Holy Spirit is the choice for peace of mind that cannot be disturbed. It is the choice for lasting happiness and joyous union with all our brothers in the Mind of God.

Today we have the opportunity to diligently practice making this choice. Each time we make this choice, our confidence in our perfect holiness and unity with our Creator grows stronger. Our light in the world becomes brighter. We become messengers of Love to the world.

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Opening Our Mind to Receive God’s Love

Truth will correct all errors in my mind.

²I am mistaken when I think I can be hurt in any way. ³I am God’s Son, whose Self rests safely in the Mind of God.

To give and to receive are one in truth.

²I will forgive all things today, that I may learn how to accept the truth in me, and come to recognize my sinlessness. (A Course in Miracles, W-119.1:1–2:2. See also ACIM Lesson 119 Insights.)

If the oneness of Love is all that is real, our minds must deny the truth in order for individuality to seem real. This is the ego’s goal in order to defend its belief in separation. Despite all its efforts, the ego cannot change reality. The most it can do is make up a dream of separation which hides the presence of Love. When we identify with the ego, we believe its dream is our reality.

Forgiveness is the key to waking up from the ego’s painful and fearful dream. Because we have accepted the ego’s belief system, we need the Holy Spirit to help us let go of our errors. He is the bridge between the ego’s dream and our reality in the oneness of God’s Love.

As we let Him show us Love’s Reality beyond the images in the dream, we learn to overlook the ego’s lies and focus instead on the Love that is our real Identity. As we forgive our mistaken perceptions, we receive the blessing of Love’s peace and joy. We remember our Home in the Heaven of God’s Love.

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Welcoming Love’s Healing Embrace

Christ’s Second Coming, which is sure as God, is merely the correction of mistakes, and the return of sanity. ²It is a part of the condition that restores the never lost, and re-establishes what is forever and forever true. ³It is the invitation to God’s Word to take illusion’s place; the willingness to let forgiveness rest upon all things without exception and without reserve.

It is the all-inclusive nature of Christ’s Second Coming that permits it to embrace the world and hold you safe within its gentle advent, which encompasses all living things with you. ²There is no end to the release the Second Coming brings, as God’s creation must be limitless. ³Forgiveness lights the Second Coming’s way, because it shines on everything as one. ⁴And thus is oneness recognized at last. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.9.1–2)

Forgiveness is the way our minds welcome our true Identity as God’s one Son. We have accepted a false narrative that we live in a world of differences which conflict with each other; where individual identities need to be defended and loss seems possible.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us forgive the fearful thoughts that deny Love’s oneness. We want to remember the peace and joy of our true Identity in God’s Love. We want to see the innocence of Christ in everyone, including ourselves. We want to welcome Love’s healing embrace.

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Forgiveness Lets Us Recognize Our Unity with All

I am entitled to miracles.

²I am entitled to miracles because I am under no laws but God’s. ³His laws release me from all grievances, and replace them with miracles. ⁴And I would accept the miracles in place of the grievances, which are but illusions that hide the miracles beyond. ⁵Now I would accept only what the laws of God entitle me to have, that I may use it on behalf of the function He has given me.

You might use these suggestions for specific applications of this idea:

²Behind this is a miracle to which I am entitled.
³Let me not hold a grievance against you, [name], but offer you the miracle that belongs to you instead.
⁴Seen truly, this offers me a miracle. (A Course in Miracles, W-89. See also ACIM Lesson 89 Insights.)

Remembering that God is only Love, His creations are subject to the laws of Love. These laws are very simple. Because only Love is real, nothing else exists. Because Love is one, there is no conflict in Love. Love is eternally giving and receiving without limit.

Miracles are offered when we forgive grievances, which removes barriers against the eternal giving and receiving of Love. Whenever our peace of mind is disturbed, we have an opportunity to forgive. Our vision is cleared so that we see the innocence of Love that was hidden by the grievance. Today we choose Love as our Guide to see the unity we share with All.

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Settling in to Heaven’s Peace

This is a day of stillness and of peace.

Christ’s vision looks through me today. ²His sight shows me all things forgiven and at peace, and offers this same vision to the world. ³And I accept this vision in its name, both for myself and for the world as well. ⁴What loveliness we look upon today! ⁵What holiness we see surrounding us! ⁶And it is given us to recognize it is a holiness in which we share; it is the Holiness of God Himself.

This day my mind is quiet, to receive the Thoughts You offer me. ²And I accept what comes from You, instead of from myself. ³I do not know the way to You. ⁴But You are wholly certain. ⁵Father, guide Your Son along the quiet path that leads to You. ⁶Let my forgiveness be complete, and let the memory of You return to me. (A Course in Miracles, W-291. See also ACIM Lesson 291 Insights.)

In stillness, nothing changes; there is no movement. Our true Self is perfectly still, because Love is eternally the same. In this sameness is the eternal giving and receiving of Love without limit.

The wish for specialness is the wish to limit Love. While we dream of specialness, we need a Guide to show us the way to release the limits we have attempted to place on Love. We are grateful that we have Christ’s vision to show us the reality of Love beyond the images of separation. As we accept His vision, we settle into the peace of Heaven’s Love.

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