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Gratitude for Love’s Blessings

I love You, Father, and I love Your Son.

My gratitude permits my love to be accepted without fear. ²And thus am I restored to my reality at last. ³All that intruded on my holy sight forgiveness takes away. ⁴And I draw near the end of senseless journeys, mad careers and artificial values. ⁵I accept instead what God establishes as mine, sure that in that alone I will be saved; sure that I go through fear to meet my Love.

Father, I come to You today, because I would not follow any way but Yours. ²You are beside me. ³Certain is Your way. ⁴And I am grateful for Your holy gifts of certain sanctuary, and escape from everything that would obscure my love for God my Father and His holy Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-298. See also ACIM Lesson 298 Insights.)

Judgment blocks our awareness of Love. Forgiveness takes away the barriers. We cannot judge and experience Love’s oneness at the same time. When we forgive, we take away the ego’s mechanism for maintaining separation. What remains is the certainty of God’s Love.

Gratitude comes with forgiveness. With the barriers to Love removed, Love fills our awareness. The joy that comes with it creates an overwhelming sense of gratitude. The practice of counting our blessings helps to open the door to Love’s expression. Our true blessings are always extensions of Love.

If we feel blessed because we have more of something than someone else, this is an ego judgment that continues its endeavor to maintain separation. We are always truly blessed because God’s Love never ends. We accept His blessing by forgiving the wish for specialness. With forgiveness comes joy and peace, and we know we are truly blessed.

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Learning from Our Perceptions

Let not my world obscure the sight of Christ.

I can obscure my holy sight, if I intrude my world upon it. ²Nor can I behold the holy sights Christ looks upon, unless it is His vision that I use. ³Perception is a mirror, not a fact. ⁴And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward. ⁵I would bless the world by looking on it through the eyes of Christ. ⁶And I will look upon the certain signs that all my sins have been forgiven me.

You lead me from the darkness to the light; from sin to holiness. ²Let me forgive, and thus receive salvation for the world. ³It is Your gift, my Father, given me to offer to Your holy Son, that he may find again the memory of You, and of Your Son as You created him. (A Course in Miracles, W-304. See also ACIM Lesson 304 Insights.)

Our perceptions are always a reflection of what we believe we are — our state of mind. This means every perception teaches us. Either it reinforces our belief in being separate or it teaches us to see the Light of Christ in our brother. What our perceptions teach us depends on which guide we use to interpret our perceptions.

The ego always uses our perceptions to teach us that we are separate. The Holy Spirit offers us another way of seeing, Christ’s vision, which sees the holiness in everyone; the reality of Love and nothing else. The ego’s guidance always leads to pain and suffering, fear and guilt. The Holy Spirit always leads to salvation from the ego and the recognition that only Love is real.

Today we welcome the Holy Spirit’s guidance, for we would see with Christ’s vision and recognize that we are united as God’s one Son, eternally at Home in His Love.

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Releasing the Past to Return to Love

Creation’s freedom promises my own.

The end of dreams is promised me, because God’s Son is not abandoned by His Love. ²Only in dreams is there a time when he appears to be in prison, and awaits a future freedom, if it be at all. ³Yet in reality his dreams are gone, with truth established in their place. ⁴And now is freedom his already. ⁵Should I wait in chains which have been severed for release, when God is offering me freedom now?

I will accept Your promises today, and give my faith to them. ²My Father loves the Son Whom He created as His Own. ³Would You withhold the gifts You gave to me? (A Course in Miracles, W-279. See also ACIM Lesson 279 Insights.)

This dream is a self-made prison. We already have the key to unlock the door. Only our wish for specialness keeps the door locked. Now is the time to forgive that wish. Now is the time we are free. Our imprisonment is maintained by our attachment to the past. The ego uses the past to justify the locked prison door; to justify guilt, shame, anger and fear.

As long as we pay attention to the ego, we will defend our imprisonment. Forgiveness is the key. As we forgive the past, we recognize that we are free to be Love now. We ask the Holy Spirit today to help us forgive our mistaken beliefs so that we may dwell in the now moment of God’s Love.

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Accepting God’s World As Our Own

Father, unless I judge I cannot weep. ²Nor can I suffer pain, or feel I am abandoned or unneeded in the world. ³This is my home because I judge it not, and therefore is it only what You will. ⁴Let me today behold it 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-301.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 301 Insights.)

We make a world of fear and guilt with our judgments. These judgments come from the split mind, which does not know what Love is. It does not know what Reality is. Love does not judge. It sees only Itself in all things because Love is one. This world of Love is God’s World. It is our Home where we can rest in His peace and experience His joy.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us recognize our judgments and let them go. We want to see God’s happy world and know It as our own.

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Following the Guide to Lasting Happiness

I place the future in the Hands of God.

Accept today’s idea, and you have passed all anxiety, all pits of hell, all blackness of depression, thoughts of sin, and devastation brought about by guilt. ²Accept today’s idea, and you have released the world from all imprisonment by loosening the heavy chains that locked the door to freedom on it. ³You are saved, and your salvation thus becomes the gift you give the world, because you have received.

In no one instant is depression felt, or pain experienced or loss perceived. ²In no one instant sorrow can be set upon a throne, and worshipped faithfully. ³In no one instant can one even die. ⁴And so each instant given unto God in passing, with the next one given Him already, is a time of your release from sadness, pain and even death itself.

Release the future. ²For the past is gone, and what is present, freed from its bequest of grief and misery, of pain and loss, becomes the instant in which time escapes the bondage of illusions where it runs its pitiless, inevitable course. ³Then is each instant which was slave to time transformed into a holy instant, when the light that was kept hidden in God’s Son is freed to bless the world. ⁴Now is he free, and all his glory shines upon a world made free with him, to share his holiness. (A Course in Miracles, W-194.2–3;5. See also ACIM Lesson 194 Insights.)

The ego wants us dead, its ultimate “proof” that separation is real. All the pain and suffering it leads us through is all intended to lead us to the final proof.

On the other hand, God’s Will for us, His Son, is eternal Life held happily in changeless Love. His Will for us is happiness and peace. Putting our future in His hands is certainly a better choice than giving any credence to the ego.

To guide us to the future God wills for us, He gave us the Holy Spirit. When we let the Holy Spirit guide our thoughts and actions, He will guide us safely through and out of the ego’s thought system of separation.

Because the Holy Spirit is God’s Teacher in our mind, when we put Him in charge, we are putting the future in God’s Hands. Today we choose to follow the Teacher Who leads us Home.

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Welcoming Love As Our Reality

…[God] wills the happiness His Son inherited of Him be undisturbed; eternal and forever gaining scope, eternally expanding in the joy of full creation, and eternally open and wholly limitless in Him. ³That is His Will. ⁴And thus His Will provides the means to guarantee that it is done.”

Forgive, and you will see this differently.

²These are the words the Holy Spirit speaks in all your tribulations, all your pain, all suffering regardless of its form. ³These are the words with which temptation ends, and guilt, abandoned, is revered no more. ⁴These are the words which end the dream of sin, and rid the mind of fear. ⁵These are the words by which salvation comes to all the world.

Shall we not learn to say these words when we are tempted to believe that pain is real, and death becomes our choice instead of life? ²Shall we not learn to say these words when we have understood their power to release all minds from bondage? ³These are words which give you power over all events that seem to have been given power over you.

³I will forgive, and this will disappear. (A Course in Miracles, W-193.1:2-4;5:1–6:3;13:3. See also ACIM Lesson 193 Insights.)

Perception is a deception based on the belief in being separate and alone. In the reality of Love’s oneness, there is no “other” to perceive. The purpose of forgiveness is to clear away the deceptive perceptions that prevent us from recognizing we remain eternally in the oneness of God’s Love.

These perceptions take many forms. The process of waking up from the dream is quite simple. Forgive the perceptions and they will disappear. The peace and happiness of God’s Love returns to our awareness.

Today we continue on our journey of awakening as we commit to forgiving our perceptions and welcoming Love as our Reality.

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Finding Our Home in Present Love

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.)

The ego is always planning for the future, but always based upon past experiences. It does not want a future that is different from the past. Its plans are always with the intent of maintaining its seeming existence. But the past is not real; its plans for the future are equally unreal.

The reality of Love is always in the present. When we seek a future that extends the present, we are always extending Love, because only Love is real. Because of our alliance with the ego, we need help from outside its closed thought system. If we follow the Guide given us by our Father, we will be guided by the Light of Love.

This Guide knows only Love is real. It brings Its Light to our misperceptions to dispel them. In their place, we see Love that joins us with everyone and our Father. This future is different from the past because it extends the present. We choose to accept the lessons of our inner Teacher of Love. These lessons will lead us to our Home in the Love of our Father.

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