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Giving Today to Love

Today belongs to love. Let me not fear.

Father, today I would let all things be as You created them, and give Your Son the honor due his sinlessness; the love of brother to his brother and his Friend. ²Through this I am redeemed. ³Through this as well the truth will enter where illusions were, light will replace all darkness, and Your Son will know he is as You created him.

A special blessing comes to us today, from Him Who is our Father. ²Give this day to Him, and there will be no fear today, because the day is given unto love. (A Course in Miracles, W-274. See also ACIM Lesson 274 Insights.)

The myriad appearances of conflict in the world today seem to justify fear and guilt. Today we are given an opportunity to see the world differently. Our true Self sees only Love or a call for Love. There is only the appearance of conflict where there is a belief that lack of Love is possible. This belief is the call for Love that needs to be answered. 

Giving this day to Love means we are committed to answering calls for Love with Love. We let Love guide us in all our thoughts and actions. The Light of Love shows us that appearances of conflict are based on false beliefs. It reveals the oneness of Love beyond the appearance of differences.

Today we choose to identify with the Love that is our true Self. We let It guide all our thoughts and actions. Images of conflict will fade in Its Light. We feel the comfort and certainty that unites us in the Love that remains our true Identity.

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Remembering the Stillness of Love’s Presence

Now do we come to Him with but His Word upon our minds and hearts, and wait for Him to take the step to us that He has told us, through His Voice, He would not fail to take when we invited Him.

⁵Sit silently and wait upon your Father. ⁶He has willed to come to you when you have recognized it is your will He do so.

²We have found the way He chose for us, and made the choice to follow it as He would have us go. ³His Hand has held us up. ⁴His Thoughts have lit the darkness of our minds. ⁵His Love has called to us unceasingly since time began.

…we need only call to God, and all temptations disappear. ³Instead of words, we need but feel His Love. ⁴Instead of prayers, we need but call His Name. ⁵Instead of judging, we need but be still and let all things be healed. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.in.4:1;5:5-6;8:1-5;10:2-5)

The ego keeps our mind cluttered with thoughts that distract us from the stillness of God’s Love. Though ego thoughts seem to be ending, they are all illusions which can be dispelled. We can call upon God’s Voice to help us let go of our addiction to the ego. We do this by our willingness to let our mind be still, to pause and focus on the center of peace within.

In the stillness, we remember His Love. We experience His comfort and strength. We are content to rest in His Love. The certainty of His eternal presence comforts our troubled mind. We feel safe, loved and loving. We awaken to our true Home in the Love of God.

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Remembering Love Is Our Home

God is my refuge and security.

I will identify with what I think is refuge and security. ²I will behold myself where I perceive my strength, and think I live within the citadel where I am safe and cannot be attacked. ³Let me today seek not security in danger, nor attempt to find my peace in murderous attack. ⁴I live in God. ⁵In Him I find my refuge and my strength. ⁶In Him is my Identity. ⁷In Him is everlasting peace. ⁸And only there will I remember Who I really am.

Let me not seek for idols. ²I would come, my Father, home to You today. ³I choose to be as You created me, and find the Son whom You created as my Self. (A Course in Miracles, W-261. See also ACIM Lesson 261 Insights.)

Everyone has a place to go where they can find peace and a sense of safety that cannot be disturbed. This place is always with them, no matter what they do or where the body seems to be. This place is in our mind, the Mind we share with God. This is the Home of our true Self, the Son of God. This place is held safe for us within the Mind of God.

Today, and every day, we can reach this place by letting our mind be quiet and welcoming the peace of God. We have been given the Holy Spirit to help us remember this place is our true Home. As we welcome peace, the Holy Spirit’s vision shows us that all of Reality is Love.

Every brother is one with us in this Love. In the certainty of this oneness, there is no need to attack for defend — only to join in Love and extend It without limit, as It has been given us. We are grateful to remember Love is our Home.

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The Path from Fear to Love

This course is not beyond immediate learning, unless you believe that what God wills takes time. ²And this means only that you would rather delay the recognition that His Will is so. ³The holy instant is this instant and every instant. ⁴The one you want it to be it is. ⁵The one you would not have it be is lost to you. ⁶You must decide when it is. ⁷Delay it not. ⁸For beyond the past and future, where you will not find it, it stands in shimmering readiness for your acceptance. ⁹Yet you cannot bring it into glad awareness while you do not want it, for it holds the whole release from littleness.

Your practice must therefore rest upon your willingness to let all littleness go. ²The instant in which magnitude dawns upon you is but as far away as your desire for it. ³As long as you desire it not and cherish littleness instead, by so much is it far from you. ⁴By so much as you want it will you bring it nearer. ⁵Think not that you can find salvation in your own way and have it. ⁶Give over every plan you have made for your salvation in exchange for God’s. ⁷His will content you, and nothing else can bring you peace. ⁸For peace is of God, and no one beside Him.

The necessary condition for the holy instant does not require that you have no thoughts that are not pure. ²But it does require that you have none that you would keep. (A Course in Miracles,T-15.IV.1–2;9:1-2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The choice to maintain a unique and separate identity is the choice for littleness. To accept the fact that we are God’s one Son is to accept His magnitude as ours. Only acceptance of this can bring us peace and happiness. God has a plan that will lead us to the full realization that we are Love and nothing else.

The Holy Spirit in our minds is the communication link between the majesty of God and our dream of littleness and isolation. As we are willing to attend to His guidance, we will be led gently down a path of kindness and Love.

This path leads to the vision that shows every brother as one with us, with no distance between us and no differences. As we let go of our images of separation, limitless Love will fill our heart. Hate, fear and guilt will be dispelled. We will joyfully join with every brother. Together we bring Love to the world.

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Letting Perceptions of Lovelessness Be Healed

I am surrounded by the Love of God.

Father, You stand before me and behind, beside me, in the place I see myself, and everywhere I go. ²You are in all the things I look upon, the sounds I hear, and every hand that reaches for my own. ³In You time disappears, and place becomes a meaningless belief. ⁴For what surrounds Your Son and keeps him safe is Love itself. ⁵There is no source but this, and nothing is that does not share its holiness; that stands beyond Your one creation, or without the Love which holds all things within itself. ⁶Father, Your Son is like Yourself. ⁷We come to You in Your Own Name today, to be at peace within Your everlasting Love.

My brothers, join with me in this today. ²This is salvation’s prayer. ³Must we not join in what will save the world, along with us? (A Course in Miracles, W-264. See also ACIM Lesson 264 Insights.)

No matter what we believe, we cannot lose the Love of God. We live in His Love. We may dream of living in a loveless world, but His Love is still with us, calling to us to awaken. We can answer His call today, in any moment.

We answer this call whenever we let our mind quiet and welcome the peace of God that is within. In peace, our mind is open to receive the loving corrections offered by the Holy Spirit.

Today let us join in our commitment to accept Love’s call to awaken. Whenever we recognize our peace is disturbed, we accept it as a reminder to pause and let our mind return to the peace of God within. Here we receive a vision that heals our perception of lovelessness and welcomes the return of God’s Love to our mind.

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Letting Go of Our Fake Identity

Let me remember that my goal is God.

All that is needful is to train our minds to overlook all little senseless aims, and to remember that our goal is God. ²His memory is hidden in our minds, obscured but by our pointless little goals which offer nothing, and do not exist. ³Shall we continue to allow God’s grace to shine in unawareness, while the toys and trinkets of the world are sought instead? ⁴God is our only goal, our only Love. ⁵We have no aim but to remember Him.

Our goal is but to follow in the way that leads to You. ²We have no goal but this. ³What could we want but to remember You? ⁴What could we seek but our Identity? (A Course in Miracles, W-258. See also ACIM Lesson 258 Insights.)

The ego has one goal: To replace God with its own image. It denies God’s Love and offers a special identity as a substitute for God’s creation of His one Son. This substitute has no life, only a dream in which the body is the central figure representing a special, separate identity. This is what we believe we are when we identify with the ego.

By the grace of God, we cannot obliterate our Self that is God’s Son. We can hide from our true Self and believe in dreams of a separate identity. But dreams are held in place only by the wish for specialness. They have no effect whatsoever on reality.

No matter what dreams have come into our mind, they do not change the Reality of our true Self. This Self is forever united with God. Beneath the images of dreams, the memory of God remains. It calls us to awaken and remember the Love that dreams have hidden from our awareness. This call is our only real goal. All we really want is to remember the Reality of Love. We want to remember God.

Today we welcome the vision of our true Self, which shows us we remain at Home in God’s Love. This vision shows us the Love that unites us with every brother. In this unity, we find the peace that is characteristic of Love’s oneness.

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Forgiving Perceptions of Differences

Let me perceive no differences today.

Father, You have one Son. ²And it is he that I would look upon today. ³He is Your one creation. ⁴Why should I perceive a thousand forms in what remains as one? ⁵Why should I give this one a thousand names, when only one suffices? ⁶For Your Son must bear Your Name, for You created him. ⁷Let me not see him as a stranger to his Father, nor as stranger to myself. ⁸For he is part of me and I of him, and we are part of You Who are our Source, eternally united in Your Love; eternally the holy Son of God.

We who are one would recognize this day the truth about ourselves. ²We would come home, and rest in unity. ³For there is peace, and nowhere else can peace be sought and found. (A Course in Miracles, W-262. See also ACIM Lesson 262 Insights.)

The perception of differences is the cause of all conflict. This perception denies the oneness of God’s Love. He created His Son one with Himself in this Love.

We perceive differences because we have accepted a false image of our identity. The core of this image is the body, which reports a world with images of differences. Everything that seems to live in this world is competing for nourishment to keep it alive. These perceptions see only limitations. But the Love of God knows no limits. Love is the same always and everywhere.

In every moment, we have the option to give precedence to the inner vision of our true Self, which sees only Love’s oneness. To choose this option, we need to forgive our choice to believe in differences. The choice to accept Love as It is, is the choice for peace and happiness.

Today we ask for the Holy Spirit’s help to see with the vision of our true Self. We want to remember that all is Love and nothing else is true. We want the peace of God. We accept the Holy Spirit’s help to forgive our false images and remember we are all united as God’s one Son.

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