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Walking the Path to Lasting Happiness

All idols of this world were made to keep the truth within from being known to you, and to maintain allegiance to the dream that you must find what is outside yourself to be complete and happy. ²It is vain to worship idols in the hope of peace. ³God dwells within, and your completion lies in Him. ⁴No idol takes His place. ⁵Look not to idols. ⁶Do not seek outside yourself.

Let us forget the purpose of the world the past has given it. ²For otherwise, the future will be like the past, and but a series of depressing dreams, in which all idols fail you, one by one, and you see death and disappointment everywhere.

To change all this, and open up a road of hope and of release in what appeared to be an endless circle of despair, you need but to decide you do not know the purpose of the world.

⁵Let Him remind you of His Love for you, and do not seek to drown His Voice in chants of deep despair to idols of yourself. ⁶Seek not outside your Father for your hope. ⁷For hope of happiness is not despair. (A Course in Miracles, T-29.VII.6:1–8:1;10:5-7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The wish to be unique and special denies the Source of true happiness. The ego thought system is a demand to be unique and special. Only in dreams can this appear to be true. The ego offers myriad forms it tells us will make us happy. They may seem to give us moments of pleasure, but they do not last.

The way to open the door to lasting happiness is to acknowledge that, on our own, we do not know what the world is for. With an open mind, we can turn to the Holy Spirit in our mind. He is the Voice for Truth. He will help us realize that we live in God’s Love. Love’s oneness is our Reality. God’s joy is His gift to His Son, our true Self.

Today we can put ourselves on the path to lasting happiness by frequently pausing to remember we do not know what anything is for. Then ask the Holy Spirit to show us the real meaning. He will help us see that all circumstances are opportunities to join with Love. Appearances of attack are calls for Love. When we answer these calls, we remember the Love that we are as God’s one Son.

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Offering Our Open Minds to God

This day is God’s. It is my gift to Him.

I will not lead my life alone today. ²I do not understand the world, and so to try to lead my life alone must be but foolishness. ³But there is One Who knows all that is best for me. ⁴And He is glad to make no choices for me but the ones that lead to God. ⁵I give this day to Him, for I would not delay my coming home, and it is He Who knows the way to God.

And so we give today to You. ²We come with wholly open minds. ³We do not ask for anything that we may think we want. ⁴Give us what You would have received by us. ⁵You know all our desires and our wants. ⁶And You will give us everything we need in helping us to find the way to You. (A Course in Miracles, W-242. See also ACIM Lesson 242 Insights.)

Who do we choose as our advisor today? Do we choose a guide who wants us dead, as the ego does? Or do we choose a Guide Who would lead us to a life of joy and peace and Love? This Guide is with us now, ready to give His gifts when we are willing to receive them.

On our own, we do not know what is in our best interest. We have been wrongly advised. But the Holy Spirit knows how to help us let go of our mistaken beliefs that interfere with our acceptance of His gifts.

As we forgive, the Love in which we were created flows freely into our mind bringing all we really want — the unity of Love.

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Forgiveness Opens Our Mind to Love’s Reality

What has been given you? ²The knowledge that you are a mind, in Mind and purely mind, sinless forever, wholly unafraid, because you were created out of love. ³Nor have you left your Source, remaining as you were created. ⁴This was given you as knowledge which you cannot lose. ⁵It was given as well to every living thing, for by that knowledge only does it live.

You have received all this. ²No one who walks the world but has received it. …⁷Experience cannot be shared directly, in the way that vision can. ⁸The revelation that the Father and the Son are one will come in time to every mind.

The time is set already. ²It appears to be quite arbitrary. ³Yet there is no step along the road that anyone takes but by chance. …⁶We but undertake a journey that is over. ⁷Yet it seems to have a future still unknown to us.

Time is a trick, a sleight of hand, a vast illusion in which figures come and go as if by magic. ²Yet there is a plan behind appearances that does not change. ³The script is written. ⁴When experience will come to end your doubting has been set. ⁵For we but see the journey from the point at which it ended, looking back on it, imagining we make it once again; reviewing mentally what has gone by. (A Course in Miracles, W-158.1:1–2:2,7-8;3:1-3,6-7;4. See also ACIM Lesson 158 Insights.)

The ego uses time to make us unaware of the eternal present in which we live in the oneness of God’s Love. By dwelling on the past, we carry images of separation which we use to judge what we perceive in the present. Because our perception of the present is based on past images, we cannot see the unity of Love that is our reality.

Forgiveness is the key that dispels the veil of the past. By forgiving our past learning, we let the Holy Spirit show us our true Self, which lives in Love. We joyously recognize that our brothers are joined with us as our one Self. Forgiveness opens our mind to receive the revelation that we remain at one with our Creator in changeless Love.

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We Gratefully Choose Christ’s Vision

Christ’s is the vision I will use today.

Each day, each hour, every instant, I am choosing what I want to look upon, the sounds I want to hear, the witnesses to what I want to be the truth for me. ²Today I choose to look upon what Christ would have me see, to listen to God’s Voice, and seek the witnesses to what is true in God’s creation. ³In Christ’s sight, the world and God’s creation meet, and as they come together all perception disappears. ⁴His kindly sight redeems the world from death, for nothing that He looks on but must live, remembering the Father and the Son; Creator and creation unified.

Father, Christ’s vision is the way to You. ²What He beholds invites Your memory to be restored to me. ³And this I choose, to be what I would look upon today. (A Course in Miracles, W-271. See also ACIM Lesson 271 Insights.)

Christ’s vision sees through forgiving eyes. It means we no longer prefer specialness over the unity of Love. Without this preference distorting our vision, we see the world God created one with Himself. We see no cause for conflict or loss. We see only our brothers united with us in the sameness of God’s Love.

With Christ’s vision, we are at peace because we see nothing that conflicts with our true Identity. We joyously join with the eternal giving and receiving of Love that is our Identity. Today we gratefully choose Christ’s vision.

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Accepting Our Life in God

Salvation requires the acceptance of but one thought;—you are as God created you, not what you made of yourself. ²Whatever evil you may think you did, you are as God created you. ³Whatever mistakes you made, the truth about you is unchanged. ⁴Creation is eternal and unalterable. ⁵Your sinlessness is guaranteed by God. ⁶You are and will forever be exactly as you were created. ⁷Light and joy and peace abide in you because God put them there.”

…for the first five minutes of every waking hour, begin by stating the truth about your creation:

²Light and joy and peace abide in me.
³My sinlessness is guaranteed by God.

⁴Then put away your foolish self-images, and spend the rest of the practice period in trying to experience what God has given you, in place of what you have decreed for yourself.

You are what God created or what you made. ²One Self is true; the other is not there. ³Try to experience the unity of your one Self. ⁴Try to appreciate Its Holiness and the love from which It was created. ⁵Try not to interfere with the Self which God created as you, by hiding Its majesty behind the tiny idols of evil and sinfulness you have made to replace It. ⁶Let It come into Its Own. ⁷Here you are; This is You. ⁸And light and joy and peace abide in you because this is so. (A Course in Miracles, W-93.7;8–9. See also ACIM Lesson 93 Insights.)

The image we have made about ourselves makes us feel weak, vulnerable, unworthy, fearful and guilty. It is a false image. It is time to let that image go.

Today we are shown how God sees us and knows we are. We have a decision to make. Do we want to accept a made up self image or accept the Self God knows as His Son eternally? The first choice is a nightmare dream. The second choice accepts our Self as God created It. God wants us to remember Him as our Source and our Life.

He has given us a Teacher in our mind to help us remember that we are loved and loving. His joy and peace live in us, His Son, as we live in Him. Today we choose to accept the help given us to remember the Life we live in God.

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A Gift We Give Ourselves and the World

²It seems to you that other people are apart from you, and able to behave in ways which have no bearing on your thoughts, nor yours on theirs. ³Therefore, your attitudes have no effect on them, and their appeals for help are not in any way related to your own. ⁴You further think that they can sin without affecting your perception of yourself, while you can judge their sin, and yet remain apart from condemnation and at peace.

…true forgiveness, as the means by which it is attained, must heal the mind that gives, for giving is receiving.

Today we try to understand the truth that giver and receiver are the same.

In silence, close your eyes upon the world that does not understand forgiveness, and seek sanctuary in the quiet place where thoughts are changed and false beliefs laid by. ²Repeat today’s idea, and ask for help in understanding what it really means. ³Be willing to be taught. ⁴Be glad to hear the Voice of truth and healing speak to you, and you will understand the words He speaks, and recognize He speaks your words to you.

…tell yourself:

³All that I give is given to myself. ⁴The Help I need to learn that this is true is with me now. ⁵And I will trust in Him.

⁶Then spend a quiet moment, opening your mind to His correction and His Love. ⁷And what you hear of Him you will believe, for what He gives will be received by you. (W-126.2:2-4;7:5;8:1;10:1-4;11:2-7)

There is a way to see the world anew. We welcome it by pausing to quiet our mind to rest in the peace of God within. In this place we hear His Voice which teaches us to forgive the beliefs that have disturbed our peace. In their place we experience the joy of giving and receive Love.

We give ourselves and the world a gift each time we are willing to open our minds to His lessons in giving and receiving Love.

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Accepting God’s Gift of All His Love

What seems to be the second place is first, for all things we perceive are upside down until we listen to the Voice for God. ²It seems that we will gain autonomy but by our striving to be separate, and that our independence from the rest of God’s creation is the way in which salvation is obtained. ³Yet all we find is sickness, suffering and loss and death. ⁴This is not what our Father wills for us, nor is there any second to His Will. ⁵To join with His is but to find our own. ⁶And since our will is His, it is to Him that we must go to recognize our will.

There is no will but Yours. ²And I am glad that nothing I imagine contradicts what You would have me be. ³It is Your Will that I be wholly safe, eternally at peace. ⁴And happily I share that Will which You, my Father, gave as part of me. (A Course in Miracles, W-328.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 328 Insights.)

The wish to be independent from our Creator is the cause of all our problems in this world. God’s Will for us is perfect happiness and peace that cannot be disturbed. In fact, He gave His Will to His Son. It is our only true Will. When we are willing to set aside our demand to be different, we free ourselves to join in the eternal happiness of God’s Love.

Today we accept God’s outstretched Hand inviting us to come Home to Love, where we belong in Truth. It is an eternal invitation. Every now moment offers an opportunity to accept.

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