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No Longer Falling for the Ego’s Story

This holy instant would I give to You. Be You in charge. For I would follow You, certain that Your direction gives me peace.

And if I need a word to help me, He will give it to me. ²If I need a thought, that will He also give. ³And if I need but stillness and a tranquil, open mind, these are the gifts I will receive of Him. ⁴He is in charge by my request. ⁵And He will hear and answer me, because He speaks for God my Father and His holy Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-361-365. See also ACIM Lesson 365 Insights.)

The ego is a fantasy of a “life” experience of what it would be like if we weren’t God’s Son as God created Him. It seems to offer specialness, a unique identity, with benefits that are enticing. We’ve fallen for the story and identified with its main character. The script is subtle and does not show openly that all the other characters in the script are projections of the main character.

The story is filled with adventure, some frightening, some rewarding. But none of it is real. We have fallen for this story and lost our way. Fortunately we have been given the Holy Spirit to guide us out of the story.

He helps us forgive ourselves for falling for the story. He shows us the Light that reveals the truth beyond the story.  It reveals the Love that embraces us all as one with our Creator. We no longer fall for the story. We are ready to wake up.

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We Have Help to Forgive Our Misperceptions

Father, Your Mind created all that is, Your Spirit entered into it, Your Love gave life to it. ²And would I look upon what You created as if it could be made sinful? ³I would not perceive such dark and fearful images. ⁴A madman’s dream is hardly fit to be my choice, instead of all the loveliness with which You blessed creation; all its purity, its joy, and its eternal, quiet home in You.

And while we still remain outside the gate of Heaven, let us look on all we see through holy vision and the eyes of Christ. ²Let all appearances seem pure to us, that we may pass them by in innocence, and walk together to our Father’s house as brothers and the holy Sons of God. (A Course in Miracles, W-263.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 263 Insights.)

We dream of being in a world that God did not create. It appears that lack and loss are real and fear and guilt are justified. Yet the forgiving eyes of Christ see past these images, knowing they have no effect on the reality of our oneness in the Love of God.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us forgive our misperceptions, to see past the images that once brought us fear and guilt. We want to see with Christ’s vision so that we can pass by the images of the dream and join with our brothers as we take the path together to Heaven the Holy Spirit has laid out for us.

As we join with our brothers in Love, we experience God’s peace and joy as He welcomes us Home.

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Accepting Love as Our Identity

I am not a body. I am free.

Freedom must be impossible as long as you perceive a body as yourself. ²The body is a limit. ³Who would seek for freedom in a body looks for it where it can not be found. ⁴The mind can be made free when it no longer sees itself as in a body, firmly tied to it and sheltered by its presence. ⁵If this were the truth, the mind were vulnerable indeed!

The mind that serves the Holy Spirit is unlimited forever, in all ways, beyond the laws of time and space, unbound by any preconceptions, and with strength and power to do whatever it is asked. ²Attack thoughts cannot enter such a mind, because it has been given to the Source of love, and fear can never enter in a mind that has attached itself to love. ³It rests in God. ⁴And who can be afraid who lives in Innocence, and only loves?

You are God’s Son. ²In immortality you live forever. ³Would you not return your mind to this? ⁴Then practice well the thought the Holy Spirit gives you for today. ⁵Your brothers stand released with you in it; the world is blessed along with you, God’s Son will weep no more, and Heaven offers thanks for the increase of joy your practice brings even to it. ⁶And God Himself extends His Love and happiness each time you say:

⁷I am not a body. ⁸I am free. ⁹I hear the Voice that God has given me, and it is only this my mind obeys. (W-199.1:1–2:4;8:1-9)

The Holy Spirit only speaks the truth to us. He speaks to us of Love’s reality. It guides us on a path that leads us out of the ego’s denial of Love. It reminds us that we are Love and nothing else.

Love is unlimited and eternal. It is not bound by the limits of a body. Today we identify with unlimited Love as our Identity. We remind ourselves that we share this Identity with every brother, for Love is one. We are grateful for God’s Voice to guide us Home to the Love of our Father.

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Seeing the Love in Our Brothers

Forget not that you came this far together, you and your brother. ²And it was surely not the ego that led you here. ³No obstacle to peace can be surmounted through its help. ⁴It does not open up its secrets, and bid you look on them and go beyond them. ⁵It would not have you see its weakness, and learn it has no power to keep you from the truth. ⁶The Guide Who brought you here remains with you, and when you raise your eyes you will be ready to look on terror with no fear at all. ⁷But first, lift up your eyes and look on your brother in innocence born of complete forgiveness of his illusions, and through the eyes of faith that sees them not.

No one can look upon the fear of God unterrified, unless he has accepted the Atonement and learned illusions are not real. ²No one can stand before this obstacle alone, for he could not have reached this far unless his brother walked beside him. ³And no one would dare to look on it without complete forgiveness of his brother in his heart.

⁴Before complete forgiveness you still stand unforgiving. ⁵You are afraid of God _because_ you fear your brother. ⁶Those you do not forgive you fear. ⁷And no one reaches love with fear beside him.

²Think who your brother is, before you would condemn him. ³And offer thanks to God that he is holy, and has been given the gift of holiness for you. ⁴Join him in gladness, and remove all trace of guilt from his disturbed and tortured mind. ⁵Help him to lift the heavy burden of sin you laid upon him and he accepted as his own, and toss it lightly and with happy laughter away from him. (T-19.IV-D.8:1-9:3;11:4-7;16:2-5)

The ego does not want us to see the truth in our brother. The brilliance of his Love would dispel all ego illusions and we would see the Love we are. We would recognize our unity in Love that forever binds us to the Love of our Father.

Today we practice seeing the Love in those whom we hold dear. We take that awareness of Love’s Presence and direct it to one we fear. The vision of the Love will show us that there is nothing to fear. What disturbed us was never real. We join with the Love he is with happy laughter as we are united with our Father. And we give thanks.

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Forgiving Our Illusions Set Us Free

I will accept my part in God’s plan for salvation.

Today is a day of special dedication. ²We take a stand on but one side today. ³We side with truth and let illusions go.

³We have a mighty purpose to fulfill, and have been given everything we need with which to reach the goal. ⁴Not one mistake stands in our way. ⁵For we have been absolved from errors. ⁶All our sins are washed away by realizing they were but mistakes.

The guiltless have no fear, for they are safe and recognize their safety. ²They do not appeal to magic, nor invent escapes from fancied threats without reality. ³They rest in quiet certainty that they will do what it is given them to do. ⁴They do not doubt their own ability because they know their function will be filled completely in the perfect time and place.

Here is an offer guaranteeing you your full release from pain of every kind, and joy the world does not contain. ²You can exchange a little of your time for peace of mind and certainty of purpose, with the promise of complete success. (A Course in Miracles, W-98.1:1-3;2:3–3:4;6:1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 98 Insights.)

We dedicate today to forgiving our illusions. If a judgment comes to mind, we offer it to the Holy Spirit. In our willingness to receive His response, we learn that only the reality of Love’s oneness is true. There is nothing to judge, nothing to fear. We dwell in the safety of God’s Love.

The plan He has given us is offered to lead us Home to Love, where we belong. And where, in truth, we never left. Everyone we see or even think of offers us an opportunity to see them truly. In this vision, we are saved from our errors and returned to Love.

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Making the Choice for Heaven

Heaven is the decision I must make.

Heaven is chosen consciously. ²The choice cannot be made until alternatives are accurately seen and understood. ³All that is veiled in shadows must be raised to understanding, to be judged again, this time with Heaven’s help. ⁴And all mistakes in judgment that the mind had made before are open to correction, as the truth dismisses them as causeless. ⁵Now are they without effects. ⁶They cannot be concealed, because their nothingness is recognized.

The conscious choice of Heaven is as sure as is the ending of the fear of hell, when it is raised from its protective shield of unawareness, and is brought to light.

We make the choice for Heaven as we wake, and spend five minutes making sure that we have made the one decision that is sane. ²We recognize we make a conscious choice between what has existence and what has nothing but an appearance of the truth.

⁵Heaven is the decision I must make. ⁶I make it now, and will not change my mind, because it is the only thing I want. (W-138.9:1–10:1;11:1-2;12:5-6)

The choice for Heaven is the choice for Love. They are one and the same. While we believe we live in a world of differences, we need to make the choice to let go of our mistaken judgments. Judgments can only seem to be needed when there is belief in differences.

We need help from the Holy Spirit to forgive our judgments. He will help us see that all differences are unreal. With His help, we will accept Christ’s vision to see the oneness of Love beyond the appearance of differences. This is the choice for Heaven.

We are grateful to our Creator for His gift of the Help we need to choose Love’s oneness as our Identity.

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Accepting God’s Strength as Our Own

My present happiness is all I see.

Unless I look upon what is not there, my present happiness is all I see. ²Eyes that begin to open see at last. ³And I would have Christ’s vision come to me this very day. ⁴What I perceive without God’s Own Correction for the sight I made is frightening and painful to behold. ⁵Yet I would not allow my mind to be deceived by the belief the dream I made is real an instant longer. ⁶This the day I seek my present happiness, and look on nothing else except the thing I seek.

With this resolve I come to You, and ask Your strength to hold me up today, while I but seek to do Your Will. ²You cannot fail to hear me, Father. ³What I ask have You already given me. ⁴And I am sure that I will see my happiness today. (A Course in Miracles, W-290. See also ACIM Lesson 290 Insights.)

The ego is on a constant quest to demonstrate its strength and power over “others.” That is because it recognizes that it has no power of its own. Apparent conquests only offer a semblance of strength that can disappear in an instant. The ego’s sense of weakness comes from denying the only real Source of power, which is the strength of God.

But the strength of God is forever part of His Son. Despite the ego’s denial, we remain God’s Son, collectively united in His Love. His strength is available in every instant. When we ask for His help, we open our mind to receive what has always been ours.

Today we ask for His help, opening our mind to receive His vision. Christ’s vision shows us that we remain fully empowered by His Love to extend It and join in the joy of Love’s eternal flow.

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