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Having a Day of Gratitude and Love

⁴Deep in your mind the holy Christ in you is waiting your acknowledgment as you. ⁵And you are lost and do not know yourself while He is unacknowledged and unknown.

Seek Him today, and find Him. ²He will be your Savior from all idols you have made. ³For when you find Him, you will understand how worthless are your idols, and how false the images which you believed were you. ⁴Today we make a great advance to truth by letting idols go, and opening our hands and hearts and minds to God today.

We will remember Him throughout the day with thankful hearts and loving thoughts for all who meet with us today. ²For it is thus that we remember Him. ³And we will say, that we may be reminded of His Son, our holy Self, the Christ in each of us:

⁴I am as God created me.

⁵Let us declare this truth as often as we can. ⁶This is the Word of God that sets you free. ⁷This is the key that opens up the gate of Heaven, and that lets you enter in the peace of God and His eternity. (A Course in Miracles, W-110.9:4–11:7. See also ACIM Lesson 110 Insights.)

Love and gratitude walk hand in hand. There is great delight in seeing the Love in another. It is the delight that comes with recognizing our unity with our true Self. The truth in everyone is our best Friend. Joy comes naturally with this recognition.

To remember we are as God created us is to remember that we are Love. As we practice reminding ourselves today “I am a God created me” we are seeing our unity with our Creator. It is a day of gratitude and joy as we join in the eternal giving and receiving of Love. We are truly blessed.

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Letting the Holy Spirit Be Our Guide

“I rest in God.” ²Completely undismayed, this thought will carry you through storms and strife, past misery and pain, past loss and death, and onward to the certainty of God. ³There is no suffering it cannot heal. ⁴There is no problem that it cannot solve. ⁵And no appearance but will turn to truth before the eyes of you who rest in God.

This is the day of peace. ²You rest in God, and while the world is torn by winds of hate your rest remains completely undisturbed. ³Yours is the rest of truth. ⁴Appearances cannot intrude on you. ⁵You call to all to join you in your rest, and they will hear and come to you because you rest in God. ⁶They will not hear another voice than yours because you gave your voice to God, and now you rest in Him and let Him speak through you.

In Him you have no cares and no concerns, no burdens, no anxiety, no pain, no fear of future and no past regrets. ²In timelessness you rest, while time goes by without its touch upon you, for your rest can never change in any way at all. (A Course in Miracles, W-109.3:1–5:2. See also ACIM Lesson 109 Insights.)

These paragraphs describe what we will experience when we identify solely with our true Self. As the Son of God, we rest safely in the protection of His Love, unaffected by dreams of chaos and conflict.

This state of mind is attainable with the help of the Holy Spirit. The practice of letting the Holy Spirit guide our thoughts and actions helps us remember we rest in God. We welcome His help today.

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Removing the Cause of Fear

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. (A Course in Miracles, W-46.1:3–2:5;4:4;5:3;5:5-6;6:3-6. See also ACIM Lesson 46 Insights.)

If we want to be more loving, we need to be more forgiving. Unforgiveness holds fear and guilt in place, blinding us to the awareness of Love’s presence. Fear is always based on perception of form that is not real. Forgiveness lets go of the form so the cause for fear is gone.

The affirmations in this lesson help us realize the steps we need to take to release ourselves from our attachment to our unique identity. And they remind us of our true Identity as God’s Son.

What we see in others is always a reflection of what we believe about ourselves. When we forgive another for their perceived error, we are forgiving the same error in ourselves. The ego uses different forms to disguise the sameness of the error. At its core, the error is always some form of the wish for specialness.

Today is a day of offering all our fear-based thoughts to the Holy Spirit for His loving healing.

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Remembering the Strength of God in Us

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.)

Here is the answer to any feeling of frustration, incompetence, unhappiness, weakness or loss. This only comes from belief that we are separate from God. This is a mistaken belief which can be corrected.

We need only turn to the Voice for God in our mind to be led to remember the strength of God in us. His Voice will teach us to see past the images that seem to threaten us. It will lead us to see the eternal, unlimited Love in which we live. When we remember we are Love and nothing else, we are confident that we are safe. We remember we are at Home in God’s Love.

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Learning to Recognize Our Wholeness

Take pity on yourself, so long enslaved. ²Rejoice whom God hath joined have come together and need no longer look on sin apart. …⁴Sin is a strictly individual perception, seen in the other yet believed by each to be within himself.

Who has need for sin? ²Only the lonely and alone, who see their brothers different from themselves. ³It is this difference, seen but not real, that makes the need for sin, not real but seen, seem justified. ⁴And all this would be real if sin were so. ⁵For an unholy relationship is based on differences, where each one thinks the other has what he has not.

A holy relationship starts from a different premise. ²Each one has looked within and seen no lack. ³Accepting his completion, he would extend it by joining with another, whole as himself. ⁴He sees no difference between these selves, for differences are only of the body.

Think what a holy relationship can teach! ²Here is belief in differences undone. ³Here is the faith in differences shifted to sameness. ⁴And here is sight of differences transformed to vision. …⁶It must extend, as you extended when you and he joined. ⁷It must reach out beyond itself, as you reached out beyond the body, to let you and your brother be joined. ⁸And now the sameness that you saw extends and finally removes all sense of differences, so that the sameness that lies beneath them all becomes apparent. (A Course in Miracles, T-22.in.1:1-2,4;2:1-5;3:1-4;4:1-4,6-8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Perception of differences is the foundation of the dream of fear and guilt. Without differences there is no justification for attack nor loss. The fact that God’s Love is uniformly one, with no differences, keeps us eternally safe in the Heart of God.

We have the means within our mind to awaken us from our dream of fear and guilt to the Life we live in Love. Our willingness to let the Holy Spirit show us the reality of Love beyond every appearance of differences opens the door to our return to Heaven, the Home we never truly left.

Today we practice looking on every brother as an opportunity to see him united with us in Love. In the recognition of his wholeness, we join with him and awaken to Love.

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Remembering Our Natural State of Mind

‘There is no will but God’s’ can be regarded as the central thought toward which all our exercises are directed. ²God’s is the only Will. ³When you have recognized this, you have recognized that your will is His. ⁴The belief that conflict is possible has gone. ⁵Peace has replaced the strange idea that you are torn by conflicting goals. ⁶As an expression of the Will of God, you have no goal but His.

There is great peace in today’s idea…. ²The idea itself is wholly true. ³Therefore it cannot give rise to illusions. ⁴Without illusions conflict is impossible.

²There is no will but God’s. ³I cannot be in conflict.…
⁵I am at peace.
⁶Nothing can disturb me. ⁷My will is God’s.
⁸My will and God’s are one.
⁹God wills peace for His Son.”

²There is no will but God’s. ³I seek His peace today. (A Course in Miracles, W-74.1:1–2:4;3:2-3,5-9;7:2-3. See also ACIM Lesson 74 Insights.)

This lesson reminds us of the condition that is our natural state of mind. It is not something we must achieve, but something we must let be. Only our insistence on having a unique identity that we can call our own makes us unaware of this state of mind.

The affirmations given here help us focus on the conditions of our true Self. Our true Self remains as God created It. It shares His Will. No other “will” exists in truth.

Today we can be grateful that we share God’s Will. As we acknowledge this, we find peace that cannot be disturbed.

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Remembering the Love That Unites Us

To give and to receive are one in truth.

Vision depends upon today’s idea. ²The light is in it, for it reconciles all seeming opposites. ³And what is light except the resolution, born of peace, of all your conflicts and mistaken thoughts into one concept which is wholly true? ⁴Even that one will disappear, because the Thought behind it will appear instead to take its place. ⁵And now you are at peace forever, for the dream is over then.

True light that makes true vision possible is not the light the body’s eyes behold. ²It is a state of mind that has become so unified that darkness cannot be perceived at all. ³And thus what is the same is seen as one, while what is not the same remains unnoticed, for it is not there.

This is the light that shows no opposites, and vision, being healed, has power to heal. ²This is the light that brings your peace of mind to other minds, to share it and be glad that they are one with you and with themselves. ³This is the light that heals because it brings single perception, based upon one frame of reference, from which one meaning comes.

Here are both giving and receiving seen as different aspects of one Thought whose truth does not depend on which is seen as first, nor which appears to be in second place. ²Here it is understood that both occur together, that the Thought remain complete. (A Course in Miracles, W-108.1:1–4:2. See also ACIM Lesson 108 Insights.)

The Light of Love dispels all images of separation. It sees only Love because only Love is real. It does not see any conflict or potential loss because the eternal giving and receiving of Love never changes. It is this Love that unites us with our Father and all our brothers.

The vision this Light brings cannot be seen with the body’s eyes. It is seen in our mind where the unity of Love is our Identity. Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us see truly and remember the Love we share with our Father and brothers.

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