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Accepting Our Happiness in God’s Love

We have a mission here. ²We did not come to reinforce the madness that we once believed in. ³Let us not forget the goal that we accepted. ⁴It is more than just our happiness alone we came to gain. ⁵What we accept as what we are proclaims what everyone must be, along with us. ⁶Fail not your brothers, or you fail yourself. ⁷Look lovingly on them, that they may know that they are part of you, and you of them.

This does Atonement teach, and demonstrates the Oneness of God’s Son is unassailed by his belief he knows not what he is. ²Today accept Atonement, not to change reality, but merely to accept the truth about yourself, and go your way rejoicing in the endless Love of God. ³It is but this that we are asked to do. ⁴It is but this that we will do today.

³I will accept Atonement for myself, for I remain as God created me. (A Course in Miracles, W-139.9–10;11:3. See also ACIM Lesson 139 Insights.)

To accept Atonement is to accept the endless Love of God. There is nothing else we need. What else could we want? It is our sole purpose to be and extend only Love.

The wish for specialness can only lead to a sense of lack, an emptiness that cannot be filled by anything the world has to offer. The search for Love will continue as long as we value specialness over the oneness of God’s Love.

Today we are happy to accept Atonement and remember that we are all united in His Love.

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Recognizing Calls for Love

³Love is one. ⁴It has no separate parts and no degrees; no kinds nor levels, no divergencies and no distinctions. ⁵It is like itself, unchanged throughout. ⁶It never alters with a person or a circumstance. ⁷It is the Heart of God, and also of His Son.

Love’s meaning is obscure to anyone who thinks that love can change. ²He does not see that changing love must be impossible. ³And thus he thinks that he can love at times, and hate at other times. ⁴He also thinks that love can be bestowed on one, and yet remain itself although it is withheld from others. ⁵To believe these things of love is not to understand it. ⁶If it could make such distinctions, it would have to judge between the righteous and the sinner, and perceive the Son of God in separate parts.

Love cannot judge. ²As it is one itself, it looks on all as one. ³Its meaning lies in oneness. ⁴And it must elude the mind that thinks of it as partial or in part. ⁵There is no love but God’s, and all of love is His. ⁶There is no other principle that rules where love is not. ⁷Love is a law without an opposite. ⁸Its wholeness is the power holding everything as one, the link between the Father and the Son which holds Them both forever as the same.

Call to your Father, certain that His Voice will answer. ²He Himself has promised this. ³And He Himself will place a spark of truth within your mind wherever you give up a false belief, a dark illusion of your own reality and what love means. ⁴He will shine through your idle thoughts today, and help you understand the truth of love. ⁵In loving gentleness He will abide with you, as you allow His Voice to teach love’s meaning to your clean and open mind. ⁶And He will bless the lesson with His Love. (A Course in Miracles, W-127.1:3–3:8;9. See also ACIM Lesson 127 Insights.)

The judgments and concerns we have about the world are idle thoughts because they have no effect on our Reality as only Love. The source of these idle thoughts is the wish for specialness — to be separate and different. God’s Voice calls to us from beyond the thought system of separation. It calls to us from the Heart of Love within us all. It brings the message that we are Love and nothing else in truth.

To hear this Voice, we need to quiet our mind and let peace step forth. In this peace, we receive the guidance we need to lead us past our misperceptions. It shows us the presence of Love that surrounds us and is in us.

As we learn to accept this Love, we bring Its Light to the world. With His vision we see the conflicts in the world as calls for Love. As Love’s messengers we bring tidings of peace and joy as we reunite in Love’s oneness with every brother.

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Awakening from Guilt to Love

The happy dreams the Holy Spirit brings are different from the dreaming of the world, where one can merely dream he is awake. ²The dreams forgiveness lets the mind perceive do not induce another form of sleep, so that the dreamer dreams another dream. ³His happy dreams are heralds of the dawn of truth upon the mind. ⁴They lead from sleep to gentle waking, so that dreams are gone. ⁵And thus they cure for all eternity.

Atonement heals with certainty, and cures all sickness. ²For the mind which understands that sickness can be nothing but a dream is not deceived by forms the dream may take. ³Sickness where guilt is absent cannot come, for it is but another form of guilt. ⁴Atonement does not heal the sick, for that is not a cure. ⁵It takes away the guilt that makes the sickness possible. ⁶And that is cure indeed. ⁷For sickness now is gone, with nothing left to which it can return.

²We will be still and listen for the Voice of healing, which will cure all ills as one, restoring saneness to the Son of God. ³No voice but this can cure. ⁴Today we hear a single Voice which speaks to us of truth, where all illusions end, and peace returns to the eternal, quiet home of God. (A Course in Miracles, W-140.3–4;10:2-4. See also ACIM Lesson 140 Insights.)

The body is a manifestation of the denial of God’s Love. Individuality and Love’s oneness cannot coexist in reality. Guilt is an inevitable effect of denying Love and identifying with the body. Love does not condemn but the thought system of separation condemns itself to nothingness. Thus the answer to our self-imposed condemnation is to forgive the wish for specialness.

The Holy Spirit is in our mind to help us forgive what could never be true. We need to be willing to offer all our perceptions to Him for His loving correction. With His help, we will remember the Love that is our true Identity. We will learn to see the reality of Love that is everyone’s Identity, uniting us with our Creator. We will learn to see a forgiven world where conflict is recognized as nothing. In its place we will experience the peace that comes with joining in the Love of God.

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The Primary Lesson We Must Learn

²There is no world! ³This is the central thought the course attempts to teach.

…healing is the gift of those who are prepared to learn there is no world, and can accept the lesson now. ²Their readiness will bring the lesson to them in some form which they can understand and recognize.

²You are as God created you. ³There is no place where you can suffer, and no time that can bring change to your eternal state. ⁴How can a world of time and place exist, if you remain as God created you?

What is the lesson for today except another way of saying that to know your Self is the salvation of the world? ²To free the world from every kind of pain is but to change your mind about yourself. ³There is no world apart from your ideas because ideas leave not their source, and you maintain the world within your mind in thought. (A Course in Miracles, W-132.6:2-3;7:1-2;9:2–10:3. See also ACIM Lesson 132 Insights.)

We do not have to change the world to find peace and happiness. We have to change our beliefs about what we are. When we let go of identifying with a body and a separate personality in a world of myriad images of separation, we open our mind to receive Holy Spirit’s lessons in Love.

The lesson we must learn is that we are Love and nothing else. We were created by Love as an extension of Itself. The universality of Love excludes all the vain imaginings of a world of separation. Love is our true Identity.

An attribute of Love is peace because there is no conflict in Love’s oneness. Our true Self overlooks all the imagined differences. The practice of seeing only Love awakens our mind to our true Self. The Holy Spirit is in our mind to help us see past differences and recognize the unity that joins us with All That is in the Love of God. We welcome His help to have this vision today.

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Hearing His Voice Through the Day

Hear, holy Son of God, your Father speak. ²His Voice would give to you His holy Word, to spread across the world the tidings of salvation and the holy time of peace. ³We gather at the throne of God today, the quiet place within the mind where He abides forever, in the holiness that He created and will never leave.

He has not waited until you return your mind to Him to give His Word to you. ²He has not hid Himself from you, while you have wandered off a little while from Him. ³He does not cherish the illusions which you hold about yourself. ⁴He knows His Son, and wills that he remain as part of Him regardless of his dreams; regardless of his madness that his will is not his own.

Today He speaks to you. ²His Voice awaits your silence, for His Word can not be heard until your mind is quiet for a while, and meaningless desires have been stilled. ³Await His Word in quiet. ⁴There is peace within you to be called upon today, to help make ready your most holy mind to hear the Voice for its Creator speak.”

²He speaks from nearer than your heart to you. ³His Voice is closer than your hand. ⁴His Love is everything you are and that He is; the same as you, and you the same as He. (A Course in Miracles, W-125.4:1–6:4;7:2-4. See also ACIM Lesson 125 Insights.)

The peace of God is always in us. We can call upon it in every moment. It is our foundation that serves us to keep in place our true Identity. No matter what dreams we may experience, that foundation remains. We can call upon God’s peace to help us open our mind to hear His Voice. Our willingness to listen is the key to awakening from the dream of fear and guilt.

We start the day by calling upon this peace within. We let it fill our mind as we set aside our thoughts and plans. In peace we welcome God’s Love. We rest in His peace. From this resting place, we welcome inspiration from the Holy Spirit to guide us through the day. As we proceed through our busy doings, we remember to pause for peace. His Voice will guide us in the way of Love. We will be messengers of Love today.

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Being the Light of the World

²The purpose of the world you see is to obscure your function of forgiveness, and provide you with a justification for forgetting it. ³It is the temptation to abandon God and His Son by taking on a physical appearance.

Nothing the body’s eyes seem to see can be anything but a form of temptation, since this was the purpose of the body itself. ²Yet we have learned that the Holy Spirit has another use for all the illusions you have made, and therefore He sees another purpose in them. ³To the Holy Spirit, the world is a place where you learn to forgive yourself what you think of as your sins. ⁴In this perception, the physical appearance of temptation becomes the spiritual recognition of salvation.

…your function here is to be the light of the world, a function given you by God.… ³The world’s salvation awaits your forgiveness, because through it does the Son of God escape from all illusions, and thus from all temptation. ⁴The Son of God is you.

²Let me not forget my function.
³Let me not try to substitute mine for God’s.
⁴Let me forgive and be happy. (A Course in Miracles, W-64.1:2-3;2;3:1,3-4;6:2-4). See also ACIM Lesson 64 Insights.

Forgiveness brings happiness. As we learn to see beyond appearances in the world, we see that they are not real and can have no effect on our Reality as God’s Son. If we are willing, the Holy Spirit will show us the purpose of everything we see with the body’s perceptions.

To receive the Holy Spirit’s help, we can remind ourselves that we do not know what anything means. We can ask the Holy Spirit to show us His purpose in place of the meaning we have given it. With this practice, all our perceptions serve the purpose of forgiveness as we accept the Holy Spirit’s help. This is how we become a Light in the world where Love’s Light is denied.

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Seeing Everyone as Only Love

Why would you not be overjoyed to be assured that all the evil that you think you did was never done, that all your sins are nothing, that you are as pure and holy as you were created, and that light and joy and peace abide in you? ²Your image of yourself cannot withstand the Will of God. ³You think that this is death, but it is life. ⁴You think you are destroyed, but you are saved.

The self you made is not the Son of God. ²Therefore, this self does not exist at all. ³And anything it seems to do and think means nothing. ⁴It is neither bad nor good. ⁵It is unreal, and nothing more than that.

Your sinlessness is guaranteed by God. ²Over and over this must be repeated, until it is accepted. ³It is true. ⁴Your sinlessness is guaranteed by God. ⁵Nothing can touch it, or change what God created as eternal. ⁶The self you made, evil and full of sin, is meaningless. ⁷Your sinlessness is guaranteed by God, and light and joy and peace abide in you.

²Should you be tempted to become angry with someone, tell him silently:

³Light and joy and peace abide in you.
⁴Your sinlessness is guaranteed by God. (A Course in Miracles, W-93.4:1–5:5;6;11:2-4. See also ACIM Lesson 93 Insights.)

This affirmation can be used as an antidote to all our fears and feelings of guilt towards yourself and others. It is only our illusions of harm and loss that cause us to feel fear and guilt. But as we acknowledge the fact that nothing can change the Son of God, our true Self, all seeming causes for fear and guilt are dispelled.

The ego offers myriad reasons to condemn. Our true Self sees only one reason to offer Love. It sees everyone as included in the Love we are, held safely in the arms of God.

Today we practice accepting this fact as we remind ourselves that Love and peace abide in us, Our sinless is guaranteed by God.

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