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Choosing Forgiveness to Awaken to Love

I love You, Father, and I love Your Son.

My gratitude permits my love to be accepted without fear. ²And thus am I restored to my reality at last. ³All that intruded on my holy sight forgiveness takes away. ⁴And I draw near the end of senseless journeys, mad careers and artificial values. ⁵I accept instead what God establishes as mine, sure that in that alone I will be saved; sure that I go through fear to meet my Love.

Father, I come to You today, because I would not follow any way but Yours. ²You are beside me. ³Certain is Your way. ⁴And I am grateful for Your holy gifts of certain sanctuary, and escape from everything that would obscure my love for God my Father and His holy Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-298. See also ACIM Lesson 298 Insights.)

Love is our true Nature. We live in Love. The dream world we see with the body’s eyes portrays the effect of denying Love. To return to our true Identity, we need to forgive our denial of Love. This denial shows up as judgment, victimhood, a need to be right, depression, a sense of loss of any kind, wrapped in a garment of fear and guilt.

None of this is in God’s plan. As we forgive our mistaken beliefs, we clear away the veil and the Love we are, along with our Father, is revealed. Today we choose forgiveness, for we want to remember the Love we are.

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Dwelling in Love with All

It is God’s strength in you that is the light in which you see, as it is His Mind with which you think. ²His strength denies your weakness. ³It is your weakness that sees through the body’s eyes, peering about in darkness to behold the likeness of itself…

Strength overlooks these things by seeing past appearances. ²It keeps its steady gaze upon the light that lies beyond them. ³It unites with light, of which it is a part. ⁴It sees itself.

³Truth is a savior and can only will for happiness and peace for everyone. ⁴It gives its strength to everyone who asks, in limitless supply. ⁵It sees that lack in anyone would be a lack in all. ⁶And so it gives its light that all may see and benefit as one. ⁷Its strength is shared, that it may bring to all the miracle in which they will unite in purpose and forgiveness and in love.

The light of strength is constant, sure as love, forever glad to give itself away, because it cannot give but to itself. (A Course in Miracles, W-92.3:1-3;4:1-4;5:3-7;8:1. See also ACIM Lesson 92 Insights.)

The world we seem to live in is a place of division and conflict. We react to it as if it were real because we have chosen to believe that a unique, separate identity is valuable. This denies the power of Love’s oneness to keep us safe.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us forgive this choice.  As we forgive our mistaken beliefs, we see past the conflicting images to the Love that unites us with our brothers. We increasingly experience the peace and joy of dwelling in the Love we share with all our brothers.

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Letting the Christ Within Lead Us to Peace

The Christ in you is very still. ²He looks on what He loves, and knows it as Himself. ³And thus does He rejoice at what He sees, because He knows that it is one with Him and with His Father. ⁴Specialness, too, takes joy in what it sees, although it is not true. ⁵Yet what you seek for is a source of joy as you conceive it. ⁶What you wish is true for you. ⁷Nor is it possible that you can wish for something and lack faith that it is so. ⁸Wishing makes real, as surely as does will create. ⁹The power of a wish upholds illusions as strongly as does love extend itself. ¹⁰Except that one deludes; the other heals.

There is no dream of specialness, however hidden or disguised the form, however lovely it may seem to be, however much it delicately offers the hope of peace and the escape from pain, in which you suffer not your condemnation. ²In dreams effect and cause are interchanged, for here the maker of the dream believes that what he made is happening to him.

Where could your peace arise but from forgiveness? ²The Christ in you looks only on the truth, and sees no condemnation that could need forgiveness. ³He is at peace because He sees no sin. ⁴Identify with Him, and what has He that you have not? ⁵He is your eyes, your ears, your hands, your feet. ⁶How gentle are the sights He sees, the sounds He hears. ⁷How beautiful His hand that holds His brother’s, and how lovingly He walks beside him, showing him what can be seen and heard, and where he will see nothing and there is no sound to hear. (A Course in Miracles, T-24.V.1:1–2:2;3. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Forgiveness lets the Christ in us step to the forefront. Christ is the Self that is our true Identity. This Self sees Itself united with the one Self that we all share as God’s one Son. It sees nothing to condemn, for It sees only the reality of Love. This Self calls to us in our dream of separation, isolation, loss and guilt. It calls to us to awaken to the Love we are and always have been in truth.

As we let go of our judgments, our mind is open to receive the Light of Love. It sees Love radiating from the truth in every brother. It freely disregards images that seem to hide Love’s presence. As we welcome the Mind of Christ within, today is a time of peace and happiness.

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Letting Love Guide Us to Peace of Mind

Where darkness was I look upon the light.

Father, our eyes are opening at last. ²Your holy world awaits us, as our sight is finally restored and we can see. ³We thought we suffered. ⁴But we had forgot the Son whom You created. ⁵Now we see that darkness is our own imagining, and light is there for us to look upon. ⁶Christ’s vision changes darkness into light, for fear must disappear when love has come. ⁷Let me forgive Your holy world today, that I may look upon its holiness and understand it but reflects my own.

Our Love awaits us as we go to Him, and walks beside us showing us the way. ²He fails in nothing. ³He the End we seek, and He the Means by which we go to Him. (A Course in Miracles, W-302. See also ACIM Lesson 302 Insights.)

Our forgiveness welcomes the Light of Love. Our judgments blind us to the Love that forever surrounds and is in us.

We start our day by opening our mind to the Holy Spirit. We relax into His peace. We remember that He is present to guide us to see with Christ’s forgiving eyes. His vision shows us the Love that is the truth in everyone. There is no distance between us, for we are all united in Love’s oneness. As we accept His help, we become beacons of Light to guide our bothers Home to the quiet safety of our Father.

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Willingness to Let Holy Spirit Lead the Way

Let not my world obscure the sight of Christ.

I can obscure my holy sight, if I intrude my world upon it. ²Nor can I behold the holy sights Christ looks upon, unless it is His vision that I use. ³Perception is a mirror, not a fact. ⁴And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward. ⁵I would bless the world by looking on it through the eyes of Christ. ⁶And I will look upon the certain signs that all my sins have been forgiven me.

You lead me from the darkness to the light; from sin to holiness. ²Let me forgive, and thus receive salvation for the world. ³It is Your gift, my Father, given me to offer to Your holy Son, that he may find again the memory of You, and of Your Son as You created him. (A Course in Miracles, W-304. See also ACIM Lesson 304 Insights.)

The sight of Christ is seen through forgiving eyes. We have the Holy Spirit in our mind to help us forgive our illusions of separation and differences. By accepting His help, we open our mind to see as He sees. What we see with this vision is the Presence of Love everywhere, and nothing else.

We heal our brothers as we see past forms to the Love that keeps us one with everyone, including our Father. We are willing to to step back from our perceptions and let the Holy Spirit lead the way.

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Passing By the Stories of This World

³The only purpose worthy of your mind this world contains is that you pass it by…

Pause and be still a little while, and see how far you rise above the world, when you release your mind from chains and let it seek the level where it finds itself at home. ²[Your mind] will be grateful to be free a while. ³It knows where it belongs. ⁴But free its wings, and it will fly in sureness and in joy to join its holy purpose. ⁵Let it rest in its Creator, there to be restored to sanity, to freedom and to love.

…when your eyes are opened afterwards, you will not value anything you see as much as when you looked at it before. ³Your whole perspective on the world will shift by just a little, every time you let your mind escape its chains. ⁴The world is not where it belongs. ⁵And you belong where it would be, and where it goes to rest when you release it from the world. ⁶Your Guide is sure. ⁷Open your mind to Him. ⁸Be still and rest.

Protect your mind throughout the day as well. ²And when you think you see some value in an aspect or an image of the world, refuse to lay this chain upon your mind, but tell yourself with quiet certainty:

³This will not tempt me to delay myself.
⁴The world I see holds nothing that I want. (A Course in Miracles, W-128.2:3;6;7:2–8:4. See also ACIM Lesson 128 Insights.)

Every day in this world there are stories of disaster, deprivation and disease. Our only purpose in the world is to not fall for these stories. They are not real. They have no effect whatsoever on our true Self, which remains united with the Love of our Creator.

This Love is one and eternal. It never changes, cannot be lost, and flows freely through the universe without limit. This is our shared Identity.

We can train ourselves to pass by the stories of this world by reminding ourselves not to be tempted to believe them. As we accept the Love that is our Identity, we can observe the images of this world and let them pass by. We remain in peace in the oneness of the Love of our Creator.

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Forgiveness Reveals Love’s Presence

Condemn and you are made a prisoner. ²Forgive and you are freed. ³Such is the law that rules perception. ⁴It is not a law that knowledge understands, for freedom is a part of knowledge. ⁵To condemn is thus impossible in truth. ⁶What seems to be its influence and its effects have not occurred at all. ⁷Yet must we deal with [effects] a while as if they had. ⁸Illusion makes illusion. ⁹Except one. ¹⁰Forgiveness is illusion that is answer to the rest.

Forgiveness sweeps all other dreams away, and though it is itself a dream, it breeds no others. ²All illusions save this one must multiply a thousandfold. ³But [forgiveness] is where illusions end. ⁴Forgiveness is the end of dreams, because it is a dream of waking. ⁵It is not itself the truth. ⁶Yet does it point to where the truth must be, and gives direction with the certainty of God Himself. ⁷It is a dream in which the Son of God awakens to his Self and to his Father, knowing They are one.

Forgiveness is the only road that leads out of disaster, past all suffering, and finally away from death. ²How could there be another way, when this one is the plan of God Himself? (A Course in Miracles, W-198.2:1–4:2. See also ACIM Lesson 198 Insights.)

Forgiveness clears away the veil that hides the presence of Love from our awareness. This veil represents the ego’s refusal to accept all of God’s Love. It is only a belief that denies reality.

But we have been given the means to undo our mistaken belief. Forgiveness lets the Presence of Love be recognized and accepted. We need help to see past our self-imposed veil. The Holy Spirit takes our willingness to changing our perceptions to offer us Christ’s vision, which shows us the Love that is always present.

As we let Love be revealed, we awaken and are freed to join in the eternal Love of God’s Love.

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