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Welcoming the Love That Is Our Identity

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.)

Christ is another name for God’s Son, our true Identity. In the stupor of our dream of separation, we are unaware of our Identity as Christ. But as we welcome the Love that is our true Self, we remember that we live in our Father’s Love. We remember the safety and peace of the Home our Father keeps for us, untouched by our fearful dreams.

Our heart dances with joy as we remember our unity with every brother. We celebrate the return of Christ as our true Self as we forgive our mistaken belief that we ever lost our Father’s Love.

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The Journey into Light

What do you want? ²Light or darkness, knowledge or ignorance are yours, but not both. ³Opposites must be brought together, not kept apart. ⁴For their separation is only in your mind, and they are reconciled by union, as you are. ⁵In union, everything that is not real must disappear, for truth is union. ⁶As darkness disappears in light, so ignorance fades away when knowledge dawns. ⁷Perception is the medium by which ignorance is brought to knowledge. ⁸Yet the perception must be without deceit, for otherwise it becomes the messenger of ignorance rather than a helper in the search for truth.

The Holy Spirit asks of you but this; bring to Him every secret you have locked away from Him. ²Open every door to Him, and bid Him enter the darkness and lighten it away. ³At your request He enters gladly. ⁴He brings the light to darkness if you make the darkness open to Him. ⁵But what you hide He cannot look upon. ⁶He sees for you, and unless you look with Him He cannot see. ⁷The vision of Christ is not for Him alone, but for Him with you. (A Course in Miracles, T-14.VII.1;6:1-7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The Holy Spirit is our Guide to awaken from the dream of separation. He sees the truth while recognizing our mistaken beliefs that hide the truth from our awareness. Thus He serves as a bridge. Like a seeing eye dog helps a blind person avoid obstacles, the Holy Spirit is present in our mind to help us dismiss false perceptions and lead us past them to true perception.

This is the journey that will bring us Home to the peace, happiness and eternal Love, where we belong. We take a step on this journey each time we offer our perceptions to the Holy Spirit for His loving correction. With practice, our hesitant, initial steps become more confident. We learn that we can count on the Holy Spirit to guide us to what we truly want.

The ego always deceives, but there is no deception in the Holy Spirit, for He represents the truth of our Reality in God. Today we practice letting the Holy Spirit help us advance on our journey to union in the Light of Love.

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Finding Our True Environment

I want the peace of God.

To say these words is nothing. ²But to mean these words is everything. ³If you could but mean them for just an instant, there would be no further sorrow possible for you in any form; in any place or time. ⁴Heaven would be completely given back to full awareness, memory of God entirely restored, the resurrection of all creation fully recognized.

No one can mean these words and not be healed. ²He cannot play with dreams, nor think he is himself a dream. ³He cannot make a hell and think it real. ⁴He wants the peace of God, and it is given him. ⁵For that is all he wants, and that is all he will receive.

The mind which means that all it wants is peace must join with other minds, for that is how peace is obtained. ²And when the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is given, in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.

No one who truly seeks the peace of God can fail to find it. ²For he merely asks that he deceive himself no longer by denying to himself what is God’s Will. ³Who can remain unsatisfied who asks for what he has already? ⁴Who could be unanswered who requests an answer which is his to give? ⁵The peace of God is yours. (A Course in Miracles, W-185.1:1–2:5;6:1-2;11. See also ACIM Lesson 185 Insights.)

Everyone in the world is seeking more peace. But our identification with the ego seems to make peace an impossible goal. The ego thrives on conflict. In fact it is afraid of peace and will do anything to distract us from finding the peace we seek.

To want the peace of God exclusively is to let go of any identification with the ego thought system of separation. We were created by the Source of peace to be held forever within Its presence. The peace we seek is already ours.

Today we acknowledge that we do not know the path to peace. And so we turn to the Guide in our mind Who was given us to lead us back to full remembrance of our eternal Identity in the peace of God. Of ourselves we do not know the way, but He does. We welcome His help as we remember we do not know the way on our own. We let Him show us the presence of peace that is our true environment. And we give thanks.

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Accepting the Truth Sets Us Free

Trusting your brothers is essential to establishing and holding up your faith in your ability to transcend doubt and lack of sure conviction in yourself. ²When you attack a brother, you proclaim that he is limited by what you have perceived in him. ³You do not look beyond his errors. ⁴Rather, they are magnified, becoming blocks to your awareness of the Self that lies beyond your own mistakes, and past his seeming sins as well as yours.

…if a brother’s sins occur to us, our narrowed focus will restrict our sight, and turn our eyes upon our own mistakes, which we will magnify and call our “sins.” ³So, for a little while, without regard to past or future, should such blocks arise we will transcend them with instructions to our minds to change their focus, as we say:

⁴It is not this that I would look upon.
⁵I trust my brothers, who are one with me.

…as our focus goes beyond mistakes, we will behold a wholly sinless world. ⁴When seeing [innocence] is all we want to see, when this is all we seek for in the name of true perception, are the eyes of Christ inevitably ours. ⁵And the Love He feels for us becomes our own as well. ⁶This will become the only thing we see reflected in the world and in ourselves. (A Course in Miracles, W-181.1;6:2-5;8:3-6. See also ACIM Lesson 181 Insights.)

Every brother deserves our trust because he is part of our one true Self. He is not a body, nor are we. As an illusion, whatever any body does is not real. It has no effect on reality. Seeing what is trustworthy in our brother depends our willingness to forgive our mistaken belief that separate images are real.

Forgiveness opens our mind to Christ’s vision, which recognizes his innocence as Love and nothing else. It sees the unity we share with every brother. As we see his innocence, we recognize our own. Recognizing the truth in our brothers sets us free from our own denial of our true Self.

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Receiving the Blessing of Our Brother’s Love

Today we practice differently, and take a stand against our anger, that our fears may disappear and offer room to love. …³Here is the answer to temptation which can never fail to welcome in the Christ where fear and anger had prevailed before.

⁵The purpose of all seeing is to show you what you wish to see. ⁶All hearing but brings to your mind the sounds it wants to hear.

Thus were specifics made. ²And now it is specifics we must use in practicing. ³We give them to the Holy Spirit, that He may employ them for a purpose which is different from the one we gave to them. ⁴Yet He can use but what we made, to teach us from a different point of view, so we can see a different use in everything.

One brother is all brothers. ²Every mind contains all minds, for every mind is one.

⁶Ask this of [your brother], that he may set you free:

⁷Give me your blessing, holy Son of God. ⁸I would behold you with the eyes of Christ, and see my perfect sinlessness in you. (A Course in Miracles, W-161:1,3;2:5–4:2;11:6-8. See also ACIM Lesson 161 Insights.)

The body’s eyes and ears were made to perceive differences, which the ego mind interprets according to its wishes. But we are asked to give these tools to the Holy Spirit to be used for a different purpose.

The Christ Mind, our true Self, recognizes only the Love that is the truth in every brother. Instead of interpreting based on the ego’s wishes, the Christ Mind interprets all as one, for It only recognizes Love as real. When we recognize the Love that is our brother, we receive His blessings, for we see the Love in our true Self.

Asking our brother to give us his blessing is accepting the Love that unites us all as one. When we see with the eyes of Christ, we have let go of the ego’s wishes and accepted our Identity as universal Love.

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Remembering Love Is Our Reality

Let miracles replace all grievances.

²By this idea do I unite my will with the Holy Spirit’s, and perceive them as one. ³By this idea do I accept my release from hell. ⁴By this idea do I express my willingness to have all my illusions be replaced with truth, according to God’s plan for my salvation. ⁵I would make no exceptions and no substitutes. ⁶I want all of Heaven and only Heaven, as God wills me to have.

Useful specific forms for applying this idea would be:

²I would not hold this grievance apart from my salvation.
³Let our grievances be replaced by miracles, [name].
⁴Beyond this is the miracle by which all my grievances are replaced. (A Course in Miracles, W-89.3–4. See also ACIM Lesson 89 Insights.)

All our judgments are based on grievances. We have no real basis for any judgment because they are based on illusions. Only Love is real and there are no differences in Love.

The Holy Spirit’s purpose is to show us that we are Love and nothing else. His judgments are very simple. He sees them either as true, which is Love, or false, which is nothing.

Today we offer all our judgments to the Holy Spirit with willingness to receive His perception in their place. As we accept His replacements, we will recognize Love’s Reality. We will give up all credence we have given to the ego’s images. We will remember our Reality is Love and nothing else.

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Christ’s Vision Is the Holy Spirit’s Single Gift

Christ’s vision is a miracle. ²It comes from far beyond itself, for it reflects eternal love and the rebirth of love which never dies, but has been kept obscure. ³Christ’s vision pictures Heaven, for it sees a world so like to Heaven that what God created perfect can be mirrored there. ⁴The darkened glass the world presents can show but twisted images in broken parts. ⁵The real world pictures Heaven’s innocence.

Christ’s vision is the miracle in which all miracles are born. ²It is their source, remaining with each miracle you give, and yet remaining yours. ³It is the bond by which the giver and receiver are united in extension here on earth, as they are one in Heaven. ⁴Christ beholds no sin in anyone. ⁵And in His sight the sinless are as one. ⁶Their holiness was given by His Father and Himself.

Christ’s vision is the bridge between the worlds. ²And in its power can you safely trust to carry you from this world into one made holy by forgiveness.

This is the Holy Spirit’s single gift; the treasure house to which you can appeal with perfect certainty for all the things that can contribute to your happiness. (A Course in Miracles, W-159.3:1–5:2;6:1. See also ACIM Lesson 159 Insights.)

Christ’s vision comes with welcoming our true Self. Our true Self knows that we are one with all Reality, for we live in Love. Love knows no differences. It sees only Itself, for that is all that is real. Our yearning to find Love is our yearning to remember our true Identity.

This Identity has been blocked from our awareness by the wish to be unique and have something we can call our own. Love is given equally to all and does not respond to the wish for specialness. When we are willing to forgive that wish and call upon Christ’s vision to see truly, the ego’s false images are dispelled. We remember that we are one with all Reality in our Father’s Love.

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