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The Bridge That Leads to God’s Love

I am sustained by the Love of God.

Here is the answer to every problem that will confront you, today and tomorrow and throughout time. ²In this world, you believe you are sustained by everything but God.

Only the Love of God will protect you in all circumstances. ²It will lift you out of every trial, and raise you high above all the perceived dangers of this world into a climate of perfect peace and safety. ³It will transport you into a state of mind that nothing can threaten, nothing can disturb, and where nothing can intrude upon the eternal calm of the Son of God.

Put not your faith in illusions. ²They will fail you. ³Put all your faith in the Love of God within you; eternal, changeless and forever unfailing. ⁴This is the answer to whatever confronts you today. ⁵Through the Love of God within you, you can resolve all seeming difficulties without effort and in sure confidence. ⁶Tell yourself this often today. ⁷It is a declaration of release from the belief in idols. ⁸It is your acknowledgment of the truth about yourself. (A Course in Miracles, W-50.1:1-2;3-4;. See also ACIM Lesson 50 Insights.)

Accepting all of God’s Love is the answer to all our perceived problems. While we identify with a body, it is difficult to give up seeking solutions in the world for our perceived problems. We have thoroughly taught ourselves that this world is real. We need help to unlearn our mistaken lessons.

The daily practice of pausing to quiet our mind and welcome God’s peace is key to opening our mind to God’s Teacher. The sole purpose of His Teacher is to help us recognize that we remain united with God in all His Love. The Holy Spirit recognizes our perceptions, but He does not believe them. He is the bridge between our mistaken beliefs and the truth of God’s Love, which is our true Identity.

Today, whenever we feel uncertain or vulnerable, we practice reminding ourselves that we are sustained by God’s Love. He is our strength, our happiness and our peace. We give thanks that this is so.

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The Safety of God’s Love

Son of God, be not content with nothing! ²What is not real cannot be seen and has no value. ³God could not offer His Son what has no value, nor could His Son receive it. ⁴You were redeemed the instant you thought you had deserted Him. ⁵Everything you made has never been, and is invisible because the Holy Spirit does not see it. ⁶Yet what He does see is yours to behold, and through His vision your perception is healed. ⁷You have made invisible the only truth that this world holds. ⁸Valuing nothing, you have sought nothing. ⁹By making nothing real to you, you have seen it. ¹⁰But it is not there. ¹¹And Christ is invisible to you because of what you have made visible to yourself.

⁸The unreal world is a thing of despair, for it can never be. ⁹And you who share God’s Being with Him could never be content without reality. ¹⁰What God did not give you has no power over you, and the attraction of love for love remains irresistible. ¹¹For it is the function of love to unite all things unto itself, and to hold all things together by extending its wholeness.

⁶Redeemed perception is easily translated into knowledge, for only perception is capable of error and perception has never been. ⁷Being corrected it gives place to knowledge, which is forever the only reality. ⁸The Atonement is but the way back to what was never lost. ⁹Your Father could not cease to love His Son. (A Course in Miracles, T-12.VIII.6;7:8-11;8:6-9. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

When we perceive conflict and turmoil, it is helpful to remember that God’s Love for His Son is eternal and changeless. We live in His Love. Pause and allow yourself to absorb this thought. Love never changes. It surrounds us and is what we are.

This Reality makes us invulnerable to change or loss or harm. This changelessness maintains our innocence. Because Love is always the same everywhere, everyone in this world shares the strength and innocence of God’s Love. We are united in this truth.

Today, for every disturbing perception, remember that we are God’s Love, whole and complete. We are safe.

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We Experience the Blessings We Give

³To give is to receive. ⁴Today we will attempt to offer peace to everyone, and see how quickly peace returns to us. ⁵Light is tranquility, and in that peace is vision given us, and we can see.

So we begin the practice periods with the instruction for today, and say:

²To give and to receive are one in truth.
³I will receive what I am giving now.

⁴Then close your eyes, and for five minutes think of what you would hold out to everyone, to have it yours. ⁵You might, for instance, say:

⁶To everyone I offer quietness.
⁷To everyone I offer peace of mind.
⁸To everyone I offer gentleness.

Say each one slowly and then pause a while, expecting to receive the gift you gave. ²And it will come to you in the amount in which you gave it. (A Course in Miracles, W-108.7:3–9:2. See also ACIM Lesson 108 Insights.)

In every moment, we have the option to be a healing presence in the world. We heal as we let the Holy Spirit teach us to heal. In any relationship that may disturb us, we can pause, let our mind settle into the quietness within, and offer that quietness to the other in our relationship.

This practice helps heal our mind, whether we are applying it to a relationship close to us or a figure in the dream we may never have met. The oneness of Love unites us with all of Reality. When we extend Love, we acknowledge our oneness. In order to extend Love, we must accept It for ourselves. We experience the blessing as we give the blessing.

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We Are Eternally Safe in Our Father’s Love

Each hour, spend a little time today, and in the days to come, in practicing the lesson in forgiveness in the form established for the day. ²And try to give it application to the happenings the hour brought, so that the next one is free of the one before. ³The chains of time are easily unloosened in this way. ⁴Let no one hour cast its shadow on the one that follows, and when that one goes, let everything that happened in its course go with it. ⁵Thus will you remain unbound, in peace eternal in the world of time.

This is the lesson God would have you learn: There is a way to look on everything that lets it be to you another step to Him, and to salvation of the world. ²To all that speaks of terror, answer thus:

³I will forgive, and this will disappear.

⁴To every apprehension, every care and every form of suffering, repeat these selfsame words. ⁵And then you hold the key that opens Heaven’s gate, and brings the Love of God the Father down to earth at last, to raise it up to Heaven. ⁶God will take this final step Himself. ⁷Do not deny the little steps He asks you take to Him. (A Course in Miracles, W-193.12:1–13:7. See also ACIM Lesson 193 Insights.)

Here we have the practice that will heal anything that disturbs our peace of mind. It requires vigilance throughout the day, because we have become accustomed to the ego thought system. We have convinced ourselves that we are a body, weak and vulnerable. This conviction is necessary to maintain the idea of specialness that we treasure.

Today we can accept a different view of our world. This view sees with forgiving eyes. It sees the certainty of Love in which we live. It forgives all the images that seem to attack us. It will help us disconnect from our mistaken identification with the body. The world we have seen will disappear when we identify with the Self that God created as His Son. Love is our Identity. Fear cannot exist in the oneness of Love. We remain eternally safe in our Father’s Love.

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Letting Love’s Oneness Set Us Free

God’s healing Voice protects all things today.

Let us today attend the Voice for God, which speaks an ancient lesson, no more true today than any other day. ²Yet has this day been chosen as the time when we will seek and hear and learn and understand. ³Join me in hearing. ⁴For the Voice for God tells us of things we cannot understand alone, nor learn apart. ⁵It is in this that all things are protected. ⁶And in this the healing of the Voice for God is found.

Your healing Voice protects all things today, and so I leave all things to You. ²I need be anxious over nothing. ³For Your Voice will tell me what to do and where to go; to whom to speak and what to say to him, what thoughts to think, what words to give the world. ⁴The safety that I bring is given me. ⁵Father, Your Voice protects all things through me. (A Course in Miracles, W-275. See also ACIM Lesson 275 Insights.)

We have the help we need to lead a life of blessing. His Voice will guide us in all our doing, all our words and thoughts. Are we willing to listen? The choice to listen is the choice to be free of fear and guilt. We choose to listen when we are willing to quiet our minds and welcome His lessons that teach us we are one with all that is real in the Love of God.

Today we are willing to bring all our perceptions to His Voice for help to sort the truth from the errors. Under His Guidance, the errors are dispelled and the truth sets us free to be the Love we were created to be.

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Living in the Presence of Love

⁶The resurrection is the complete triumph of Christ over the ego, not by attack but by transcendence. ⁷For Christ does rise above the ego and all its works, and ascends to the Father and His Kingdom.

Would you join in the resurrection or the crucifixion? ²Would you condemn your brothers or free them? ³Would you transcend your prison and ascend to the Father? ⁴These questions are all the same, and are answered together. ⁵There has been much confusion about what perception means, because the word is used both for awareness and for the interpretation of awareness. ⁶Yet you cannot be aware without interpretation, for what you perceive is your interpretation.

⁶I am leading you to a new kind of experience that you will become less and less willing to deny. ⁷Learning of Christ is easy, for to perceive with Him involves no strain at all. ⁸His perceptions are your natural awareness, and it is only the distortions you introduce that tire you. ⁹Let the Christ in you interpret for you, and do not try to limit what you see by narrow little beliefs that are unworthy of God’s Son. ¹⁰For until Christ comes into His Own, the Son of God will see himself as Fatherless.

I am your resurrection and your life. ²You live in me because you live in God. ³And everyone lives in you, as you live in everyone. ⁴Can you, then, perceive unworthiness in a brother and not perceive it in yourself? (A Course in Miracles, T-11.VI.1:6–2:6;3:6–4:4. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Our perceptions tell us what we believe about ourselves. If we perceive attack in others, we believe we can attack. If we perceive guilt in others, we believe in our own guilt. This is not what Christ sees.

Christ’s vision sees with forgiving eyes. This vision sees the innocence of Love in everyone. It recognizes everyone as one with us in the Love of our Father. What we see with Christ’s vision teaches us of our own innocence. It shows us the Love that we are. We are grateful that we have the Voice for God to guide us to see the presence of Love in which we live, along with everyone.

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Seeing a Forgiven World

My holy Self abides in you, God’s Son.

Father, You gave me all Your Sons, to be my saviors and my counselors in sight; the bearers of Your holy Voice to me. ²In them are You reflected, and in them does Christ look back upon me from my Self. ³Let not Your Son forget Your holy Name. ⁴Let not Your Son forget his holy Source. ⁵Let not Your Son forget his Name is Yours.

This day we enter into Paradise, calling upon God’s Name and on our own, acknowledging our Self in each of us; united in the holy Love of God. ²How many saviors God has given us! ³How can we lose the way to Him, when He has filled the world with those who point to Him, and given us the sight to look on them? (A Course in Miracles, W-266. See also ACIM Lesson 266 Insights.)

The body is the ego’s substitute for our true Identity as God’s Son. We think the body is our reality as long as we identify with the ego thought system of separation. The body is an obstacle that blocks our awareness of our one Self that is united with every brother.

The perception of other bodies can reinforce our belief in separation, or serve as a gift which reflects back to us our mistaken beliefs. They blind us to the Love that unites us in the oneness of God. They are our saviors when we let the Holy Spirit help us forgive our reflected projections. With forgiveness comes Christ’s vision, which sees a forgiven world in the unity of Love.

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