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Finding Perfect Happiness Within

Just as God’s Son completes his Father, so your part in it completes your Father’s plan. ²Salvation must reverse the mad belief in separate thoughts and separate bodies, which lead separate lives and go their separate ways. ³One function shared by separate minds unites them in one purpose, for each one of them is equally essential to them all.

God’s Will for you is perfect happiness. ²Why should you choose to go against His Will? ³The part that He has saved for you to take in working out His plan is given you that you might be restored to what He wills. ⁴This part is as essential to His plan as to your happiness. ⁵Your joy must be complete to let His plan be understood by those to whom He sends you. ⁶They will see their function in your shining face, and hear God calling to them in your happy laugh.

…your part is to be happy. ⁴Only this is asked of you or anyone who wants to take his place among God’s messengers.

⁵Look deep within you, undismayed by all the little thoughts and foolish goals you pass as you ascend to meet the Christ in you.

He will be there. ²You are essential to His plan. ³You are His messenger today. ⁴And you must find what He would have you give. (A Course in Miracles, W-100.1–2;7:3-4;8:5;10:1-4. See also ACIM Lesson 100 Insights.)

Any mood that is less than perfect happiness is a sign that we are believing we are separate from our Creator. This belief veils our true Identity as God’s Son. What we see on the veil is a projection of what we believe we are.

With the help of the Holy Spirit, we can look past the veil and find the Love and joy that remains eternally in our mind. As we forgive our mistaken beliefs, our natural joy radiates to the world bringing God’s message that we remain safe in His Love. Today we let our true Self bring peace and happiness to the world.

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Willingness to Accept the Holy Spirit’s Light

You have been told to bring the darkness to the light, and guilt to holiness. ²And you have also been told that error must be corrected at its source. ³Therefore, it is the tiny part of yourself, the little thought that seems split off and separate, the Holy Spirit needs.

The body will remain guilt’s messenger, and will act as it directs as long as you believe that guilt is real. ²For the reality of guilt is the illusion that seems to make it heavy and opaque, impenetrable, and a real foundation for the ego’s thought system. ³Its thinness and transparency are not apparent until you see the light behind it. ⁴And then you see it as a fragile veil before the light.

This world of light, this circle of brightness is the real world, where guilt meets with forgiveness. ²Here the world outside is seen anew, without the shadow of guilt upon it. ³Here are you forgiven, for here you have forgiven everyone. ⁴Here is the new perception, where everything is bright and shining with innocence, washed in the waters of forgiveness, and cleansed of every evil thought you laid upon it. ⁵Here there is no attack upon the Son of God, and you are welcome. ⁶Here is your innocence, waiting to clothe you and protect you, and make you ready for the final step in the journey inward. ⁷Here are the dark and heavy garments of guilt laid by, and gently replaced by purity and love. (A Course in Miracles, T-18.IX.1:1-3;5;9. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We have so thoroughly taught ourselves that we are separate and alone, disconnected from our Creator and everything that is, that we need help to unlearn this self-deceptive lesson. This Help is the Holy Spirit, given us by our Creator to bridge the seeming gap between our Reality and our beliefs about our identity.

If we are willing to bring all our perceptions to Him and let Him shine the Light of Love on them, our dark thoughts of isolation and guilt will be dispelled by His Light. The Holy Spirit cannot help us without our willingness. Our willingness is the key that lets Him set us free to remember that we are Love and nothing else. Love is whole and complete in Itself. It can neither harm nor be harmed, being wholly innocent.

As we accept Love as our Identity, guilt is gone and we experience the joy of uniting with our Father and all our brothers. Today we offer our mistaken thoughts to the Holy Spirit with gratitude, and we accept His revelation of the Gift that was given us in our Creation.

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How to Have a Peaceful, Joyful Day

My holiness blesses the world.

This idea contains the first glimmerings of your true function in the world, or why you are here. ²Your purpose is to see the world through your own holiness. ³Thus are you and the world blessed together. ⁴No one loses; nothing is taken away from anyone; everyone gains through your holy vision. ⁵It signifies the end of sacrifice because it offers everyone his full due. ⁶And he is entitled to everything because it is his birthright as a Son of God.”

⁵Yet is his wholeness restored to his awareness through your vision. ⁶Your holiness blesses him by asking nothing of him. ⁷Those who see themselves as whole make no demands.

Your holiness is the salvation of the world. ²It lets you teach the world that it is one with you, not by preaching to it, not by telling it anything, but merely by your quiet recognition that in your holiness are all things blessed along with you.

…close your eyes and apply the idea to any person who occurs to you, using his name and saying:

⁶My holiness blesses you, [name].

…³It is essential to use the idea if anyone seems to cause an adverse reaction in you. ⁴Offer him the blessing of your holiness immediately, that you may learn to keep it in your own awareness. (A Course in Miracles, W-37.1;2:5–3:2;4:5-6;6:3-4. See also ACIM Lesson 37 Insights.)

When we look at the world through the body’s eyes, we are seeing through the ego’s filter. It only allows us to see its illusions of separation. We need to learn to see the world with the vision of holiness. This is how we bless the world.

Holiness sees only Itself because it is whole and all encompassing. It is the Reality we share with God. Holiness does not see the unreal — the ego’s illusions of separate identities. We bless the world by being true to our Self. This is our only calling in the world that has meaning.

Today will be a day of peace and happiness to the degree that we see our holiness in all things.

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Accepting Our True Identity

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. (W-93.4:1–5:5;6;11:2-4)

We need to let go of the false image we have made of ourselves. It is the source of all our pain, guilt and fear. This imagined false image only seems to exist because of our belief in it.

Yet it has no effect whatsoever on our true Self, created by God. It is our true Self in which Light and joy and peace abide. This is the Self that is Love and nothing else, eternally.

Today’s affirmations help us remember our true Identity. As we accept this fact, the false self image fades and disappears into the nothingness from which it came. We are grateful for this loving reminder.

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Seeing the Light of Love Within

I will not fear to look within today.

Within me is eternal innocence, because it is God’s Will that it be there forever and forever. ²I, His Son, whose will is limitless as is His Own, can will no change in this. ³For to deny my Father’s Will is to deny my own. ⁴To look within is but to find my will as God created it, and as it is. ⁵I fear to look within because I think I made another will that is not true, and made it real. ⁶Yet it has no effects. ⁷Within me is the Holiness of God. ⁸Within me is the memory of Him.

The step I take today, my Father, is my sure release from idle dreams of sin. ²Your altar stands serene and undefiled. ³It is the holy altar to my Self, and there I find my true Identity. (A Course in Miracles, W-309. See also ACIM Lesson 309 Insights.)

The ego tells us that if we look within, we will see darkness and sin; we will see justification for guilt and fear. This just shows us what the ego is. We are not the ego. The ego is afraid that we will recognize it for what it is, and let it go.

If we let the Holy Spirit show us what is really within, we will see that we are God’s Son, at one with all Reality in the unity of His Love. We will remember that God shares His Identity with His Son. His Will is our own. We will remember that our will is be Love and extend only Love, along with our Father.

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Accepting Our Future as Love

I place the future in the Hands of God.

Accept today’s idea, and you have passed all anxiety, all pits of hell, all blackness of depression, thoughts of sin, and devastation brought about by guilt. ²Accept today’s idea, and you have released the world from all imprisonment by loosening the heavy chains that locked the door to freedom on it. ³You are saved, and your salvation thus becomes the gift you give the world, because you have received.

In no one instant is depression felt, or pain experienced or loss perceived. ²In no one instant sorrow can be set upon a throne, and worshipped faithfully. ³In no one instant can one even die. ⁴And so each instant given unto God in passing, with the next one given Him already, is a time of your release from sadness, pain and even death itself.

Release the future. ²For the past is gone, and what is present, freed from its bequest of grief and misery, of pain and loss, becomes the instant in which time escapes the bondage of illusions where it runs its pitiless, inevitable course. ³Then is each instant which was slave to time transformed into a holy instant, when the light that was kept hidden in God’s Son is freed to bless the world. ⁴Now is he free, and all his glory shines upon a world made free with him, to share his holiness. (A Course in Miracles, W-194.2–3;5. See also ACIM Lesson 194 Insights.)

In the ego’s dream world, it seems that planning for the future is necessary for survival. Yet the ego’s ultimate goal is our death. If death of the body were real, it would be the ego’s confirmation that it has vanquished God. Yet this could never be true in reality, because only eternal Love is real.

God has given us a Guide Whose goal is to lead us to awaken to our real life in the changeless Love of God. The future is now. When we place our future in God’s Hands, we are accepting the peace and happiness that is ours now. We do not have to plan for this future. We need only accept Love’s oneness as our Identity now.

Today we practice turning over all our plans to the Holy Spirit. We welcome His loving inspiration that leads us Home to Love.

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Bringing Our Perceptions to Truth Sets Us Free

Truth answers every call we make to God, responding first with miracles, and then returning unto us to be itself.

Forgiveness, truth’s reflection, tells me how to offer miracles, and thus escape the prison house in which I think I live. ²Your holy Son is pointed out to me, first in my brother; then in me. ³Your Voice instructs me patiently to hear Your Word, and give as I receive. ⁴And as I look upon Your Son today, I hear Your Voice instructing me to find the way to You, as You appointed that the way shall be:

⁵“Behold his sinlessness, and be you healed.” (A Course in Miracles, W-357. See also ACIM Lesson 357 Insights.)

In the dream of separation, the world we see is a reflection of our beliefs about our own identity. Just as we cannot see our own face without looking in a mirror, we see what we believe is our identity reflected in the world.  This truth reflects the truth in our Self.

The practice of letting the Holy Spirit help us forgive our judgments of our perceptions helps us become aware of our own innocence. It lifts the veil so we can know our unity with every brother as God’s one Son. Today we practice forgiveness so that we can remember that we are Love and nothing else.

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