Living A Course in Miracles — Changing Our Mind to Accept the Truth

Accepting Our Identity in God

I will not hurt myself again today.

Let us this day accept forgiveness as our only function. Why should we attack our minds, and give them images of pain? Why should we teach [our minds] they are powerless, when God holds out His power and His Love, and bids [our minds] take what is already theirs? The mind that is made willing to accept God’s gifts has been restored to spirit, and extends [the mind’s] freedom and its joy, as is the Will of God united with its own. The Self which God created cannot sin, and therefore cannot suffer. Let us choose today that [this Self] be our Identity, and thus escape forever from all things the dream of fear appears to offer us.

Father, Your Son can not be hurt. And if we think we suffer, we but fail to know our one Identity we share with You. We would return to It today, to be made free forever from all our mistakes, and to be saved from what we thought we were. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 330, W-pII.330. See also ACIM Lesson 330 Insights.)

We believe we are powerless and vulnerable to outside forces which we cannot control. This is because we have accepted the ego’s definition of our identity — separate and powerless. Yet our true Mind is an extension of God’s Mind and shares all His power because it is His Will to share It.

The ego thinks it has a “better” idea, offering us a special something we can call our own, separate from everything else. But God’s Will is that we have everything He Is. Nothing else is real. The only way we can seem to have something of our own is in a dream.

Today we choose to no longer hurt ourselves by accepting our one Self as God’s Identity instead of the ego as our identity. We choose to let the Holy Spirit show us this one Self in every brother and learn the truth of our own Identity. In gratitude we accept the Holy Spirit’s help.

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Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of Opinions

Today I will judge nothing that occurs.

I will be honest with myself today. I will not think that I already know what must remain beyond my present grasp. I will not think I understand the whole from bits of my perception, which are all that I can see. Today I recognize that this is so. And so I am relieved of judgments that I cannot make. Thus do I free myself and what I look upon, to be in peace as God created us.

Father, today I leave creation free to be itself. I honor all its parts, in which I am included. We are one because each part contains Your memory, and truth must shine in all of us as one. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 243, W-pII.243. See also ACIM Lesson 243 Insights.)

Having an opinion about anything in the world is hazardous to our health. Opinions are judgments. We like some things and dislike others. This could only be because we perceive them as different. Differences can only seem to occur in the dream of separation. Opinions keep us engaged in the dream.

Our safety lies in the truth of What we are. We are one, indivisible Love, united with our Creator. In this oneness we are invulnerable, for Love does not change. It can neither harm nor be harmed. This is our natural state. The practice of turning over all our opinions, our judgments, to the Holy Spirit to let Him purify them frees us from the ego’s world of fear and guilt. It restores us to the joy and peace of our Home in God.

Today we would keep no opinions to ourself alone. We choose the Holy Spirit’s vision instead.

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We Are Forever in the Heart of God

Fear is not justified in any form.

Fear is deception. It attests that you have seen yourself as you could never be, and therefore look upon a world which is impossible. Not one thing in this world is true. It does not matter what the form in which it may appear. It witnesses but to your own illusions of yourself. Let us not be deceived today. We are the Sons of God. There is no fear in us, for we are each a part of Love Itself.

How foolish are our fears! Would You allow Your Son to suffer? Give us faith today to recognize Your Son, and set him free. Let us forgive him in Your Name, that we may understand his holiness, and feel the love for him which is Your Own as well. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 240, W-pII.240. See also ACIM Lesson 240 Insights.)

We’ve all experienced being startled by an unfamiliar sound and instantly shifting into self-protection mode. Seconds later we learn that it was nothing to be concerned about, there was no potential harm to protect against.

The fear we experience in the world has no more substance to it than a meaningless noise which can do no harm. Fear comes only from believing in a vulnerable identity. To be free of fear we need only let go of our belief in a false identity that could never be true. The truth of What we are is forever safe in God’s changeless Love.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to heal our minds of the fearful thoughts that come from believing in a false identity. He will help us remember we are God’s Son, complete and whole, forever in the Heart of God.

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