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Commitment to a Year of Gratitude

“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.)

The world of chaos is not our home. The ego thrives on conflict. It uses time to make a sense of continuity between the past and the future, while ignoring the present moment.

Only in the now moment, where the idea of time cannot enter, do we find peace. In the now moment we can experience changelessness in the oneness of God’s Love. In His Love, we are perfectly safe. This is our natural state of mind, for our mind remains united in the Mind of God, free to be Love.

This year, let us join in the commitment to let the Holy Spirit guide our thoughts, words and deeds. With His help, we will release the past to the nothingness from which it came. Our days will be happy. There is no greater joy than to join in the eternal flow of Love, giving Itself to all. We will know we are blessed as we bless our brothers. It will be a year of gratitude that we remain as God created us.

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Knowing Our Identity as Love

You cannot forget the Father because I am with you, and I cannot forget Him. ²To forget me is to forget yourself and Him Who created you. ³Our brothers are forgetful. ⁴That is why they need your remembrance of me and of Him Who created me. ⁵Through this remembrance, you can change their minds about themselves, as I can change yours. ⁶Your mind is so powerful a light that you can look into theirs and enlighten them, as I can enlighten yours. …I do want to share my mind with you because we are of one Mind, and that Mind is ours. ¹⁰See only this Mind everywhere, because only this is everywhere and in everything. ¹¹It is everything because it encompasses all things within itself. ¹²Blessed are you who perceive only this, because you perceive only what is true.

Come therefore unto me, and learn of the truth in you. ²The mind we share is shared by all our brothers, and as we see them truly they will be healed. ³Let your mind shine with mine upon their minds, and by our gratitude to them make them aware of the light in them. ⁴This light will shine back upon you and on the whole Sonship, because this is your proper gift to God. ⁵He will accept it and give it to the Sonship, because it is acceptable to Him and therefore to His Sons. ⁶This is true communion with the Holy Spirit, Who sees the altar of God in everyone, and by bringing it to your appreciation, He calls upon you to love God and His creation. ⁷You can appreciate the Sonship only as one. ⁸This is part of the law of creation, and therefore governs all thought. (A Course in Miracles, T-7.V.10:1-6,9–11:8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We need to appreciate every brother because of who they are in truth. Everyone shares the unity of God’s Love. Our gratitude for the Love every brother is helps us look past the illusion of a separate identity. In truth everyone is part of our one Self.

As we are willing to accept the Guidance of the Holy Spirit in our mind, we let go of valuing separate identities. We see that what bodies seem to do is not real and has no effect on the one Self we all share in God’s Love.

We ask the Holy Spirit’s help, today, to see the Love everyone is. With His help, we will enlighten the minds of our brothers to recognize the oneness we all share as God’s one Son. In this recognition, we walk in gratitude, knowing our Identity as Love.

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Remembering Our Home in Heaven

I will be still an instant and go home.

This world you seem to live in is not home to you. ²And somewhere in your mind you know that this is true.

We speak today for everyone who walks this world, for he is not at home. ²He goes uncertainly about in endless search, seeking in darkness what he cannot find; not recognizing what it is he seeks. ³A thousand homes he makes, yet none contents his restless mind. ⁴He does not understand he builds in vain. ⁵The home he seeks can not be made by him. ⁶There is no substitute for Heaven. ⁷All he ever made was hell.

…there is a Child in you Who seeks His Father’s house, and knows that He is alien here. ⁴This childhood is eternal, with an innocence that will endure forever. ⁵Where this Child shall go is holy ground. ⁶It is His Holiness that lights up Heaven, and that brings to earth the pure reflection of the light above, wherein are earth and Heaven joined as one.

It is this Child in you your Father knows as His Own Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-182.1:1-2;3;4:3–5:1. See also ACIM Lesson 182 Insights.)

Heaven is always at peace. Its stillness can never be disturbed. To remember Heaven as our Home, we must join in that stillness.

Each time we step back from the busyness of our lives and allow our mind to be still, we open to the stillness of our Home. Here the Light of Love fills our mind. We experience our true Self, which is held forever in our Father’s Love.

Today we practice pausing to let our mind be still. We want to remember our Home.

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Being Love’s Expression in the World

The Holy Spirit needs my voice today, that all the world may listen to Your Voice, and hear Your Word through me. ²I am resolved to let You speak through me, for I would use no words but Yours, and have no thoughts which are apart from Yours, for only Yours are true. ³I would be savior to the world I made. ⁴For having damned it I would set it free, that I may find escape, and hear the Word Your holy Voice will speak to me today.

We teach today what we would learn, and that alone. ²And so our learning goal becomes an unconflicted one, and possible of easy reach and quick accomplishment. ³How gladly does the Holy Spirit come to rescue us from hell, when we allow His teaching to persuade the world, through us, to seek and find the easy path to God. (A Course in Miracles, W-296.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 296 Insights.)

The Holy Spirit and our True Self are one and the same. When we let our True Self be expressed, we are speaking with the Holy Spirit’s Voice. It is the Voice of Love.

Forgiveness clears away the interference that blocks Love’s expression in the world. Today we seek to be Love’s expression in our thoughts, words and deeds. Thus we bring healing to the world as we let our minds be healed.

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Accepting Help to Remember Love’s Oneness

The Holy Spirit mediates between illusions and the truth. ²Since He must bridge the gap between reality and dreams, perception leads to knowledge through the grace that God has given Him, to be His gift to everyone who turns to Him for truth. ³Across the bridge that He provides are dreams all carried to the truth, to be dispelled before the light of knowledge. ⁴There are sights and sounds forever laid aside. ⁵And where they were perceived before, forgiveness has made possible perception’s tranquil end.”

²The Holy Spirit understands the means you made, by which you would attain what is forever unattainable. ³And if you offer them to Him, He will employ the means you made for exile to restore your mind to where it truly is at home.

From knowledge, where He has been placed by God, the Holy Spirit calls to you, to let forgiveness rest upon your dreams, and be restored to sanity and peace of mind. ²Without forgiveness will your dreams remain to terrify you. ³And the memory of all your Father’s Love will not return to signify the end of dreams has come.

Accept your Father’s gift. ²It is a Call from Love to Love, that It be but Itself. ³The Holy Spirit is His gift, by which the quietness of Heaven is restored to God’s beloved Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.7.1;3:2–5:3)

Forgiveness is the means to undo the dream that denies God’s Love. His Love continues unabated to embrace His Son. Yet the dream of denial leaves us unaware of His Love. It puts us on a path of searching for Love where It cannot be found.

The Holy Spirit is our best Friend. He is in our mind to guide us on the path of return to Love. Our part on this journey of return is to offer all our perceptions to the Holy Spirit for His reinterpretation. Where we have seen cause for guilt He shows us only the innocence of Love. Where we have perceived danger and loss, He shows us the unbreakable unity of Love’s oneness.

Today let us join in willingness to accept the Holy Spirit’s help to awaken to the Love we are.

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Accepting God’s Love Within Our Heart

I bless the world because I bless myself.

²God’s blessing shines upon me from within my heart, where He abides. ³I need but turn to Him, and every sorrow melts away, as I accept His boundless Love for me.”

The peace of God is shining in me now.

²I will be still, and let the earth be still along with me. ³And in that stillness we will find the peace of God. ⁴It is within my heart, which witnesses to God Himself.

⁵I am not a body. ⁶I am free.
⁷For I am still as God created me.
(A Course in Miracles, W-207.1:1-3;W-208.1. See also ACIM Lesson 207 Insights.)

When God created His one Son, He blessed him by giving him all of Himself. Our true Self is God’s Son, eternally blessed. God’s Love is forever within our heart. It is our source of strength and peace.

We start today by quieting our mind and letting God’s peace fill our awareness. In the stillness we remember that the truth in us is Love and nothing else. We see that truth in everyone and join with them in accepting God’s blessing. We accept our Identity as one with our Creator.

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Giving Love’s Blessings to the World

The holy Christ is born in me today.

Watch with me, angels, watch with me today. ²Let all God’s holy Thoughts surround me, and be still with me while Heaven’s Son is born. ³Let earthly sounds be quiet, and the sights to which I am accustomed disappear. ⁴Let Christ be welcomed where He is at home. ⁵And let Him hear the sounds He understands, and see but sights that show His Father’s Love. ⁶Let Him no longer be a stranger here, for He is born again in me today.

Your Son is welcome, Father. ²He has come to save me from the evil self I made. ³He is the Self that You have given me. ⁴He is but what I really am in truth. ⁵He is the Son You love above all things. ⁶He is my Self as You created me. ⁷It is not Christ that can be crucified. ⁸Safe in Your Arms let me receive Your Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-303. See also ACIM Lesson 303 Insights.)

Today we celebrate our acceptance of our Self, which is His one Son. We accept the Love our Father bestows on us without limit and without end. With this acceptance, we see a world of Love’s blessings, freely given and freely received. We are the Love our Father is. We accept His Love. By giving It equally to all.

We are free today because we are held in the Love of God, freely given. Today we bless the world as we remember the blessings we receive.

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