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Finding the Peace of God Within

There is no peace except the peace of God, because He has one Son who cannot make a world in opposition to God’s Will and to his own, which is the same as His. ²What could he hope to find in such a world? ³It cannot have reality, because it never was created. ⁴Is it here that he would seek for peace? ⁵Or must he see that, as he looks on it, the world can but deceive? ⁶Yet can he learn to look on it another way, and find the peace of God.

Peace is the bridge that everyone will cross, to leave this world behind. ²But peace begins within the world perceived as different, and leading from this fresh perception to the gate of Heaven and the way beyond. ³Peace is the answer to conflicting goals, to senseless journeys, frantic, vain pursuits, and meaningless endeavors. ⁴Now the way is easy, sloping gently toward the bridge where freedom lies within the peace of God.

⁶For peace is union, if it be of God. ⁷We seek no further. ⁸We are close to home, and draw still nearer every time we say:

⁹There is no peace except the peace of God, and I am glad and thankful it is so. (A Course in Miracles, W-200.7:1–8:4;11:6-9. See also ACIM Lesson 200 Insights.)

Conflict is inevitable when differences are valued. The ego is the idea that differences are valuable. The wish for specialness has led to a dream of conflict. Only when we are willing to accept the reality of Love’s oneness will we experience the peace of God.

Yet peace is the opening from this world of conflict that can lead us to the end of the dream. We ask for peace today. We call upon the Holy Spirit to help us change our perceptions to the recognition of God’s Love everywhere, always. It is our heart’s desire to cross the bridge from the world of conflict to the peace of God’s Love.

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Accepting the Oneness of Love

²Perhaps you think there is a kind of love for this, a kind for that; a way of loving one, another way of loving still another. ³Love is one. ⁴It has no separate parts and no degrees; no kinds nor levels, no divergencies and no distinctions. ⁵It is like itself, unchanged throughout. ⁶It never alters with a person or a circumstance. ⁷It is the Heart of God, and also of His Son.

Love’s meaning is obscure to anyone who thinks that love can change. ²He does not see that changing love must be impossible. ³And thus he thinks that he can love at times, and hate at other times. ⁴He also thinks that love can be bestowed on one, and yet remain itself although it is withheld from others. ⁵To believe these things of love is not to understand it. ⁶If it could make such distinctions, it would have to judge between the righteous and the sinner, and perceive the Son of God in separate parts.

Love cannot judge. ²As it is one itself, it looks on all as one. ³Its meaning lies in oneness. ⁴And it must elude the mind that thinks of it as partial or in part. ⁵There is no love but God’s, and all of love is His. ⁶There is no other principle that rules where love is not. ⁷Love is a law without an opposite. ⁸Its wholeness is the power holding everything as one, the link between the Father and the Son which holds Them both forever as the same.

Call to your Father, certain that His Voice will answer. ²He Himself has promised this. ³And He Himself will place a spark of truth within your mind wherever you give up a false belief, a dark illusion of your own reality and what love means. ⁴He will shine through your idle thoughts today, and help you understand the truth of love. ⁵In loving gentleness He will abide with you, as you allow His Voice to teach love’s meaning to your clean and open mind. ⁶And He will bless the lesson with His Love. (A Course in Miracles, W-127.1:2–3:8;9. See also ACIM Lesson 127 Insights.)

Love is one and indivisible. Recognition of this fact is the antidote to all the ego’s insanity of fear and guilt. We have one Source given equally to all. Our Father calls to us to return to Him to receive His blessing.

We need but call to Him. His Voice will guide us to the recognition that we remain Love, unchanged and unchangeable. We are assured that His Voice will answer. We only need to be willing to listen and follow His lead to know our Father’s blessing is eternal.

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The Lessons That Bring Peace and Joy

Forgiveness is the key to happiness.

Here is the answer to your search for peace. ²Here is the key to meaning in a world that seems to make no sense. ³Here is the way to safety in apparent dangers that appear to threaten you at every turn, and bring uncertainty to all your hopes of ever finding quietness and peace. ⁴Here are all questions answered; here the end of all uncertainty ensured at last.

The unforgiving mind is full of fear, and offers love no room to be itself; no place where it can spread its wings in peace and soar above the turmoil of the world. ²The unforgiving mind is sad,…

Forgiveness is acquired. ²It is not inherent in the mind, which cannot sin. ³As sin is an idea you taught yourself, forgiveness must be learned by you as well, but from a Teacher other than yourself, Who represents the other Self in you. ⁴Through Him you learn how to forgive the self you think you made, and let it disappear. ⁵Thus you return your mind as one to Him Who is your Self, and Who can never sin.

Each unforgiving mind presents you with an opportunity to teach your own how to forgive itself. ²Each one awaits release from hell through you, and turns to you imploringly for Heaven here and now. ³It has no hope, but you become its hope. ⁴And as its hope, do you become your own. ⁵The unforgiving mind must learn through your forgiveness that it has been saved from hell. ⁶And as you teach salvation, you will learn. ⁷Yet all your teaching and your learning will be not of you, but of the Teacher Who was given you to show the way to you. (A Course in Miracles, W-121.1:1–2:2;6-7. See also ACIM Lesson 121 Insights.)

We have taught ourselves that we are separate, disconnected from our Creator. The dream we experience as real is the effect of our belief that separation is real. The world we see is a reflection of our beliefs. Thus the world we see offers us opportunities to recognize the beliefs that need to be forgiven.

We have an inner Teacher outside of this belief system Who can teach us how to forgive the beliefs that make this dream seem real. The lessons this Teacher brings free us from fear and guilt so that we can experience the peace and happiness that is our natural state of mind.

Today we practice being mindful of our perceptions in the world. We ask our inner Teacher to help us release our misperceptions and welcome the Love our Creator gives us eternally.

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Finding Our True Origin

I am one Self, united with my Creator.

²Serenity and perfect peace are mine, because I am one Self, completely whole, at one with all creation and with God.

Salvation comes from my one Self.

²From my one Self, Whose knowledge still remains within my mind, I see God’s perfect plan for my salvation perfectly fulfilled. (A Course in Miracles, W-113.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 113 Insights.)

Why wait for peace of mind and happiness? It is ours now. We need only accept the Self we are to have the gifts God bestowed upon His one Son.

This dream world denies our origin. When we mistakenly identify with a body, we look to the body’s ancestors for images of our origin. This search continues the ego’s denial of our true origin.

By the grace of God, we have a Guide in our mind Who will lovingly lead us to our true origin — the Love of God. This is the true salvation we can seek and are guaranteed to find. Illusions will be dispelled and our Reality in the happiness, peace and Love of God will return to our mind. And we give thanks.

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Reclaiming Our True Identity in God

If you are trusting in your own strength, you have every reason to be apprehensive, anxious and fearful. ²What can you predict or control? ³What is there in you that can be counted on? ⁴What would give you the ability to be aware of all the facets of any problem, and to resolve them in such a way that only good can come of it? ⁵What is there in you that gives you the recognition of the right solution, and the guarantee that it will be accomplished?

Of yourself you can do none of these things.

God is your safety in every circumstance. ²His Voice speaks for Him in all situations and in every aspect of all situations, telling you exactly what to do to call upon His strength and His protection.

³It is not by trusting yourself that you will gain confidence. ⁴But the strength of God in you is successful in all things. (A Course in Miracles, W-47.1:1–2:1;3:1-2;5:3-4. See also ACIM Lesson 47 Insights.)

God surrounds us with His Love. It is always present, but we are unaware of It while we believe we are a separate self. This separate self identity seems weak and vulnerable to myriad outside sources we cannot control. The uncertainty that comes with our misidentification as a separate identity is because this identity is an illusion.

Because illusions have no foundation in truth, they can shift and change on a whim. But this is not our true existence. We remain one with God as He created us, His Son. We have all of God’s strength. We share His invulnerability. God does not change, and neither does our true Identity.

We reclaim our true Identity as we practice accepting the Holy Spirit’s lead in everything we do. He will always lead us to remember we are Love and nothing else.

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Recognizing the Need for Holy Spirit’s Help

There is nothing to fear.

The idea for today simply states a fact. ²It is not a fact to those who believe in illusions, but illusions are not facts. ³In truth there is nothing to fear. ⁴It is very easy to recognize this. ⁵But it is very difficult to recognize it for those who want illusions to be true.

The presence of fear is a sure sign that you are trusting in your own strength. ²The awareness that there is nothing to fear shows that somewhere in your mind, though not necessarily in a place you recognize as yet, you have remembered God, and let His strength take the place of your weakness. ³The instant you are willing to do this there is indeed nothing to fear. (A Course in Miracles, W-48.1;3. See also ACIM Lesson 48 Insights.)

We have been given a clear indicator that tells us when we are believing in illusions. If we experience fear, anxiety or worry we are believing illusions are real. Release these symptoms by forgiving our wish for specialness. Illusions come in to our mind when we prefer specialness over the unity of God’s Love. Specialness demands differences. But there can be no differences in Love’s oneness.

We need help from beyond the ego’s thought system to let go of illusions. When we are willing to give up our fears, our wish for specialness, we need to call upon the Holy Spirit for help. He recognizes our mistaken beliefs but does not believe in them.

As we accept His help, we can see past the illusions to the certainty of God’s changeless Love. The fear-based images are replaced by acceptance of the peace and joy that God’s Love offers us. This is our focus for today.

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Letting Love Be Our Guide

God is the Love in which I forgive.

³Forgiveness is the great need of this world, but that is because it is a world of illusions. ⁴Those who forgive are thus releasing themselves from illusions, while those who withhold forgiveness are binding themselves to them. ⁵As you condemn only yourself, so do you forgive only yourself.

Yet although God does not forgive, His Love is nevertheless the basis of forgiveness. ²Fear condemns and love forgives. ³Forgiveness thus undoes what fear has produced, returning the mind to the awareness of God. ⁴For this reason, forgiveness can truly be called salvation. ⁵It is the means by which illusions disappear.

⁴God is the Love in which I forgive you, [name].

³God is the Love in which I forgive myself.

⁵God is the Love with which I love myself.
⁶God is the Love in which I am blessed.

³I cannot be guilty because I am a Son of God.
⁴I have already been forgiven.
⁵No fear is possible in a mind beloved of God.
⁶There is no need to attack because love has forgiven me. (W-46.1:3–2:5;4:4;5:3,5-6;6:3-6)

Love does not condemn. A thought of judgment must therefore not be a thought of Love. Judgment denies Love. It is a construct of the thought of separation which is impossible in the oneness of Love.

Love is the basis of all forgiveness. When we forgive, the Light of Love brightens our mind. We see the world in Its Light, which dispels the darkness of judgment.

Today we choose Love as our guiding Light, for we would see the world that God sees. Thus we will remember we remain one with Him in perfect holiness.

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