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Forgiving What Disturbs Our Peace

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.)

Our world seems to be filled with reasons to fear. But in the Light of God’s Love, every reason disappears into the nothingness from which it came. We let that Light shine by forgiving our mistaken belief that we are separate and have lost our connection to God’s Love.

We can be grateful today, that our beliefs can be changed. We have the power of God available to us through His Voice to help us forgive these false beliefs. Today, with each recognition that our peace is disturbed, we welcome the Holy Spirit’s help to forgive whatever disturbed our peace. We are grateful for God’s gift of all of His Love, which is now and forever.

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Celebrating Our Inheritance of God’s Love

I can be hurt by nothing but my thoughts.

Father, Your Son is perfect. ²When I think that I am hurt in any way, it is because I have forgotten who I am, and that I am as You created me. ³Your Thoughts can only bring me happiness. ⁴If ever I am sad or hurt or ill, I have forgotten what You think, and put my little meaningless ideas in place of where Your Thoughts belong, and where they are. ⁵I can be hurt by nothing but my thoughts. ⁶The Thoughts I think with You can only bless. ⁷The Thoughts I think with You alone are true.

I will not hurt myself today. ²For I am far beyond all pain. ³My Father placed me safe in Heaven, watching over me. ⁴And I would not attack the Son He loves, for what He loves is also mine to love. (A Course in Miracles, W-281. See also ACIM Lesson 281 Insights.)

It is time to give away our inheritance. God has given us all His Love. We acknowledge that we have It by giving It away. This is the law of Love. It is impossible to lose the only real thing we can give — Love.

We celebrate today by accepting the Holy Spirit’s help to let go of our misperceptions and see the presence of Love in which we live.

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Forgiveness Welcomes Love

Forgiveness is the only gift I give.

Forgiveness is the only gift I give, because it is the only gift I want. ²And everything I give I give myself. ³This is salvation’s simple formula. ⁴And I, who would be saved, would make it mine, to be the way I live within a world that needs salvation, and that will be saved as I accept Atonement for myself.

Father, how certain are Your ways; how sure their final outcome, and how faithfully is every step in my salvation set already, and accomplished by Your grace. ²Thanks be to You for Your eternal gifts, and thanks to You for my Identity. (A Course in Miracles, W-297. See also ACIM Lesson 297 Insights.)

Every perception depends upon the belief that we are separate from all that is around us. Perception requires an external image seen as separate from the observer. This is the ego’s world.

But when we forgive our perceptions, we open the door that welcomes the Love which is our Identity. Our very life exists only in the oneness of God’s Love. When we let go of belief in an external world, we welcome God’s Love. Our forgiveness blesses the appearance that is forgiven as it blesses ourselves.

Forgiveness brings with it the acceptance of God’s gift of His Identity, which is Love and nothing else. Today we welcome the Holy Spirit’s help to forgive our mistaken perceptions. As we forgive, we become messengers of Love.

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Forgiveness Lets Our Light Shine

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

Loss is not loss when properly perceived. ²Pain is impossible. ³There is no grief with any cause at all. ⁴And suffering of any kind is nothing but a dream. ⁵This is the truth, at first to be but said and then repeated many times; and next to be accepted as but partly true, with many reservations. ⁶Then to be considered seriously more and more, and finally accepted as the truth. ⁷I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt. ⁸And I would go beyond these words today, and past all reservations, and arrive at full acceptance of the truth in them.

Father, what You have given cannot hurt, so grief and pain must be impossible. ²Let me not fail to trust in You today, accepting but the joyous as Your gifts; accepting but the joyous as the truth. (A Course in Miracles, W-284. See also ACIM Lesson 284 Insights.)

The ego uses guilt as a motivator. Because of guilt, we try to fix our misperceptions by doing something that will correct the thing we believe we did wrong. Yet all this is based on illusion. Our true Self is Love and nothing else. Love can only extend Love. It finds great joy in extending Itself to embrace all with Love. This is the Identity we must accept to remember the joy that is God’s gift.

This acceptance seems difficult because we have so much invested in the ego thought system. We try to acknowledge that we are Love but we seem to fall short. The ego tells us we have failed. It is important to be gentle with ourselves. Love does not condemn.

The process of accepting the truth that we are Love in the dream takes time. This lesson acknowledges the process. Remembering this helps us dismiss the guilt the ego offers. Our function is to remember by forgiving our identification with the ego. With our forgiveness, our identity as Love shines brightly.

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The Choice to Accept Happiness

…[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

⁴God does not perceive at all. ⁵Yet it is He Who gives the means by which perception is made true and beautiful enough to let the light of Heaven shine upon it.

These are the lessons God would have you learn.… ⁵They are the same in fundamental content. ⁶It is this:

⁷Forgive, and you will see this differently.

“Certain it is that all distress does not appear to be but unforgiveness. ²Yet that is the content underneath the form. (A Course in Miracles, W-193.1:2;2:4-5;3:1,5–4:2. See also ACIM Lesson 193 Insights.)

Forgiveness is the key to happiness because it lets go of the barriers that stand against Love’s joy. The Love we are is hidden behind our judgments. We remain that Love but dream of a loveless world where differences and conflict appear to be real.

Today we choose to accept the Holy Spirit’s help to recognize the unreality of separation. As we accept His help, we will see a forgiven world. We will let the Light of Love be reflected to us in all that we see.

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The One Choice We Must Make

The Christ in you is very still. ²He knows where you are going, and He leads you there in gentleness and blessing all the way. ³His Love for God replaces all the fear you thought you saw within yourself.

⁶His perfect lack of specialness He offers you, that you may save all living things from death, receiving from each one the gift of life that your forgiveness offers to your Self. ⁷The sight of Christ is all there is to see. ⁸The song of Christ is all there is to hear. ⁹The hand of Christ is all there is to hold. ¹⁰There is no journey but to walk with Him.

You who would be content with specialness, and seek salvation in a war with love, consider this: The holy Lord of Heaven has Himself come down to you, to offer you your own completion. ²What is His is yours because in your completion is His Own. ³He Who willed not to be without His Son could never will that you be brotherless. ⁴And would He give a brother unto you except he be as perfect as yourself, and just as like to Him in holiness as you must be?

⁴He will exchange His certainty for all your doubts, if you agree that He is One with you, and that this Oneness is endless, timeless, and within your grasp because your hands are His. (A Course in Miracles, T-24.V.6:1-3;.7:6–8:4;9:4. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Our forgiveness offers us the gift of Life. In the dream it seems that life has a beginning and an end. But our Self, created by God as His Son, lives eternally. It dwells in the timelessness of our Creator. We have but one simple choice to make: To accept the Self that God created one with Him or accept the ego’s image that denies God’s Creation. It is the choice between Life or the denial of Life.

Today we choose to hold the hand of Christ and let it guide us to see the presence of Love everywhere, for so it is. In the acceptance of Christ, we accept our Life as God’s Son. We accept peace that cannot be disturbed, joy beyond description and Love without limit. This is our focus for today.

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Remembering Our Identity Is Love

God’s Name is holy, but no holier than yours. ²To call upon His Name is but to call upon your own. ³A father gives his son his name, and thus identifies the son with him. ⁴His brothers share his name, and thus are they united in a bond to which they turn for their identity. ⁵Your Father’s Name reminds you who you are, even within a world that does not know; even though you have not remembered it.

Repeat the Name of God, and call upon your Self, Whose Name is His. ²Repeat His Name, and all the tiny, nameless things on earth slip into right perspective. ³Those who call upon the Name of God can not mistake the nameless for the Name, nor sin for grace, nor bodies for the holy Son of God. ⁴And should you join a brother as you sit with him in silence, and repeat God’s Name along with him within your quiet mind, you have established there an altar which reaches to God Himself and to His Son.

All little things are silent. ²Little sounds are soundless now. ³The little things of earth have disappeared. ⁴The universe consists of nothing but the Son of God, who calls upon his Father. ⁵And his Father’s Voice gives answer in his Father’s holy Name. ⁶In this eternal, still relationship, in which communication far transcends all words, and yet exceeds in depth and height whatever words could possibly convey, is peace eternal. ⁷In our Father’s Name, we would experience this peace today. ⁸And in His Name, it shall be given us. (A Course in Miracles, W-183.1;5;11. See also ACIM Lesson 183 Insights.)

Because our true Self is one with our Father, we share the same Identity. A call to our Father is a call to remember our Identity. As God is only Love, our Identity is only Love. To perceive anything but Love’s oneness is to perceive illusions.

A call to our Father is a request to remember the Love we are. We can practice looking on the world and reminding ourselves that beyond the forms we perceive is Love’s oneness. Nothing else is real. The remembrance of our Identity sets us free from the false limitations the ego assigns us with a bodily identity.

Today we let our minds sink into the quiet peace within. We remember our true Identity as Love and nothing else. With this remembrance Christ’s vision shows us a forgiven world. We recognize our unity with every brother and our Creator.

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