Living A Course in Miracles — Welcoming the Love That Unites Us

Reclaiming the Certainty of God’s Love

⁵God is the strength in which I trust.

…try to slip past all concerns related to your own sense of inadequacy. ²It is obvious that any situation that causes you concern is associated with feelings of inadequacy, for otherwise you would believe that you could deal with the situation successfully. ³It is not by trusting yourself that you will gain confidence. ⁴But the strength of God in you is successful in all things.

The recognition of your own frailty is a necessary step in the correction of your errors, but it is hardly a sufficient one in giving you the confidence which you need, and to which you are entitled. ²You must also gain an awareness that confidence in your real strength is fully justified in every respect and in all circumstances.

…try to reach down into your mind to a place of real safety. ²You will recognize that you have reached it if you feel a sense of deep peace, however briefly. ³Let go all the trivial things that churn and bubble on the surface of your mind, and reach down and below them to the Kingdom of Heaven. ⁴There is a place in you where there is perfect peace. ⁵There is a place in you where nothing is impossible. ⁶There is a place in you where the strength of God abides.

³Remember that peace is your right, because you are giving your trust to the strength of God. (A Course in Miracles, W-47.4:5–7:6;8:3). See also ACIM Lesson 47 Insights.

We have taught ourselves to trust what the body’s senses tell us. We are trusting in the ego’s denial of Love, the only thing that is real in the world. But the ego has no strength of its own, no understanding of Reality and cannot Love. This misplaced reliance on the body and the ego leaves us in a constant state of uncertainty. Nothing in the ego or the body’s perception is stable.

The Love of God is eternal. It never changes. It is the only source of strength. We find peace when we shift our allegiance to the Truth in us, the Love of God. In His Love we are invulnerable. We can be certain of our safety in Love’s changelessness.

As we practice pausing to let our mind settle into the quiet place within where God’s Love dwells eternally, the uncertainty and apprehension we experience in the world fades. Peace replaces conflict. Love replaces fear. The darkness in our mind is dispelled by the Light of Love. Today is a good day to practice.

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Being True to the Will We Share with God

Perception selects, and makes the world you see. ²It literally picks it out as the mind directs. ³The laws of size and shape and brightness would hold, perhaps, if other things were equal. ⁴They are not equal. ⁵For what you look for you are far more likely to discover than what you would prefer to overlook. ⁶The still, small Voice for God is not drowned out by all the ego’s raucous screams and senseless ravings to those who want to hear It. ⁷Perception is a choice and not a fact. ⁸But on this choice depends far more than you may realize as yet. ⁹For on the voice you choose to hear, and on the sights you choose to see, depends entirely your whole belief in what you are. ¹⁰Perception is a witness but to [what you believe you are], and never to reality.

³Listen to what the ego says, and see what it directs you see, and it is sure that you will see yourself as tiny, vulnerable and afraid. ⁴You will experience depression, a sense of worthlessness, and feelings of impermanence and unreality.

There is another vision and another Voice in which your freedom lies, awaiting but your choice. ²And if you place your faith in Them, you will perceive another Self in you. ³This other Self sees miracles as natural. ⁴They are as simple and as natural to it as breathing to the body. ⁵They are the obvious response to calls for help, the only one [this Self] makes. ⁶Miracles seem unnatural to the ego because it does not understand how separate minds can influence each other. ⁷Nor could they do so. ⁸But minds cannot be separate. ⁹This other Self is perfectly aware of this. ¹⁰And thus it recognizes that miracles do not affect another’s mind, only its own. ¹¹They always change your mind. ¹²There is no other [mind].

God’s plan is simple; never circular and never self-defeating. ²He has no Thoughts except the Self-extending, and in this your will must be included. ³Thus, there must be a part of you that knows His Will and shares It. (A Course in Miracles, T-21.V.1:1-10;2:3-4;3;6:1-3. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

When we believe we are a body, we are listening to the ego which tells us that we are little, vulnerable, of little value and we need to be afraid in the world. With this belief, happiness and Love allude us, for the ego actively denies their Source.

But we can choose to listen to the Voice for God instead. This choice tells us we are one with the Mind of God and with every brother. This Voice directs our thoughts to recognize the presence of Love everywhere. It tells us we share God’s strength, joy and Love, for we remain eternally one with Him. His Will is to extend Love, and so it is our will as well.

When we perceive a brother who is unaware of the Love he is, we naturally respond with Love. Our true Self dismisses the ego’s denial when we are willing to see with the eyes of Love. Today we choose to let Love guide our thoughts and vision, for we would be true to the Will we share with God.

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True Vision Reveals Love’s Presence Everywhere

It is important to remember that miracles and vision necessarily go together. ²This needs repeating, and frequent repeating. ³It is a central idea in your new thought system, and the perception that it produces. ⁴The miracle is always there. ⁵Its presence is not caused by your vision; its absence is not the result of your failure to see. ⁶It is only your awareness of miracles that is affected. ⁷You will see them in the light; you will not see them in the dark [absence of Love].

³You do not doubt that the body’s eyes can see. ⁴You do not doubt the images they show you are reality. ⁵Your faith lies in the darkness, not the light. ⁶How can this be reversed?

…instruct yourself that you are not a body. ³Faith goes to what you want, and you instruct your mind accordingly. ⁴Your will remains your teacher, and your will has all the strength to do what it desires. ⁵You can escape the body if you choose. ⁶You can experience the strength in you.

⁷What you think you are is a belief to be undone. ⁸But what you really are must be revealed to you. ⁹The belief you are a body calls for correction, being a mistake. ¹⁰The truth of what you are calls on the strength in you to bring to your awareness what the mistake conceals.

³Remember that all sense of weakness is associated with the belief you are a body, a belief that is mistaken and deserves no faith.

…your efforts, however meager, are fully supported by the strength of God and all His Thoughts. (A Course in Miracles, W-91.1;3:3-6;5:2-6;6:7-10;9:3;10:1. See also ACIM Lesson 91 Insights.)

Our true Self is God’s Son, at one with Him in His Love. This unity means that all the strength of God is ours. He holds nothing back from His Creation.

The belief we are a body denies the oneness of our true Self with God. This mistaken belief is the cause that made the body with its inability to see the Light of Love. Our belief makes the body seem real, but it is only a veil that hides the truth.

We call upon the truth in us as we remind ourselves that we are not a body and ask the Holy Spirit for His vision to help us see the Light of Love. In this Light, we see Love everywhere, for so It is. Love is the truth in our brother as It is in ourselves. In truth nothing exists but Love. As we accept the strength of God in us to help us see truly, we withdraw our belief in the body. We remember God’s strength, Love, peace and joy are ours now.

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Release from Our Self-Made Prison

God’s answer is some form of peace. All pain
is healed; all misery replaced with joy.
All prison doors are opened. And all sin
is understood as merely a mistake.

Father, today we will forgive Your world, and let creation be Your Own. ²We have misunderstood all things. ³But we have not made sinners of the holy Sons of God. ⁴What You created sinless so abides forever and forever. ⁵Such are we. ⁶And we rejoice to learn that we have made mistakes which have no real effects on us. ⁷Sin is impossible, and on this fact forgiveness rests upon a certain base more solid than the shadow world we see. ⁸Help us forgive, for we would be redeemed. ⁹Help us forgive, for we would be at peace. (A Course in Miracles, W-359. See also ACIM Lesson 359 Insights.)

Over and over, in many ways, the Course tells us that we are not what we think we are. In truth we remain eternally united with God’s Love as His holy Son. This fact cannot be changed because God’s Love never changes. This is our assurance that we remain held safely in His Love, invulnerable to dreams of sin, guilt, fear and hate. We can count on this invulnerability as the foundation of our release from dreams of separation. What is not real can have no effect on Reality.

The prayer in this lesson expresses willingness to receive the healing forgiveness offers. It reminds us that we have Help to forgive, even the things we think are unforgivable. Let’s join together affirming this prayer to bring release from our self-made prison and awaken to the Love we are in God.

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Choosing the Truth That Leads Us Home

What can correct illusions but the truth? ²And what are errors but illusions that remain unrecognized for what they are? ³Where truth has entered errors disappear. ⁴They merely vanish, leaving not a trace by which to be remembered. ⁵[Illusions] are gone because, without belief, they have no life. ⁶And so they disappear to nothingness, returning whence they came. ⁷From dust to dust they come and go, for only truth remains.

Can you imagine what a state of mind without illusions is? ²How it would feel? ³Try to remember when there was a time,—perhaps a minute, maybe even less—when nothing came to interrupt your peace; when you were certain you were loved and safe.

Begin by asking Him Who goes with you upon this undertaking that He be in your awareness as you go with Him.

…make your pledge to let His function be fulfilled through you. ³To share His function is to share His joy. ⁴His confidence is with you, as you say:
⁵Truth will correct all errors in my mind,
and I will rest in Him Who is my Self.

⁶Then let Him lead you gently to the truth, which will envelop you and give you peace so deep and tranquil that you will return to the familiar world reluctantly.

And yet you will be glad to look again upon this world. ²For you will bring with you the promise of the changes which the truth that goes with you will carry to the world. (A Course in Miracles, W-107.1:1–2:3;8:1;9:2–10:2. See also ACIM Lesson 107 Insights.)

The gift we receive for accepting truth in our mind to correct all errors is far beyond our limited imagination. By definition, imagination is image-making, which denys the truth. Love cannot be limited to an image. But even our limited imagination can be used by the Holy Spirit to motivate us to choose truth in place of illusions, to choose God’s gift of Love instead of the ego’s denial.

We have been given a Helper to show us how to welcome truth in our mind. We choose truth today by committing to follow the Holy Spirit’s lead in our thoughts and actions. We want the certainty of our safety that comes with accepting the truth that we are Love and nothing else. We want the joy and peace of mind it offers. We went to remember the Home God has held open to us, for we would remember that we are His Son, forever loved and loving.

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Finding Our Safety in God’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 [loveless] 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.)

Everyone in the world wants to be safe. If we accept the ego as our identity, we will seek for safety through inappropriate means, guaranteed not to work. Our only source of safety is rejected by the ego. It does not want the oneness of God’s Love.

Today we are reminded that Love walks with us everywhere and always. Love’s changelessness is the safety we seek in truth. The certainty of God’s unlimited Love offers comfort, security, happiness and peace. We need not seek for God’s Love, for it is already given us. But we do need to seek out our self-made barriers that hide the eternal presence of Love.

There is no need to be afraid of uncovering these barriers, because the Holy Spirit is with us. His sole purpose is to help us forgive these mistaken barriers. He shows us they have no substance in truth. He is the truth in us that guides us to the full remembrance of the Love we are. With His help the barriers fade away and we rest in the comfort and happiness of the Love we are, at one with God.

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Accepting God’s World of Love

Father, unless I judge I cannot weep. ²Nor can I suffer pain, or feel I am abandoned or unneeded in the world. ³[Your world] is my home because I judge it not, and therefore is it only what You will. ⁴Let me today behold [Your world] uncondemned, through happy eyes forgiveness has released from all distortion. ⁵Let me see Your world instead of mine. ⁶And all the tears I shed will be forgotten, for their source is gone. ⁷Father, I will not judge Your world today.

God’s world is happy. ²Those who look on it can only add their joy to it, and bless it as a cause of further joy in them. ³We wept because we did not understand. ⁴But we have learned the world we saw was false, and we will look upon God’s world today. (A Course in Miracles, W-301. See also ACIM Lesson 301 Insights.)

Our wish for specialness produces a projected world of separation and differences. There can be no difference in the oneness of God’s Love. It is the same everywhere and always. To maintain the illusions of specialness, we must judge the world. This judgment puts a dark veil over the Light of Love. On this veil we project images of a false world where conflict and loss are possible and guilt and fear are inevitable. This is the world we see while we want specialness. It is not God’s world.

God’s world is Love. It is wholly joyous and peaceful. We see this world when we forgive and withdraw our judgments on His World. As we accept the World of Love God has given us, sadness, guilt and fear fade away. And our life is filled with happy laughter and peace of mind.

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