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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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Dwelling in the House of Love

Your Son is free, my Father. ²Let me not imagine I have bound him with the laws I made to rule the body. ³He is not subject to any laws I made by which I try to make the body more secure. ⁴He is not changed by what is changeable. ⁵He is not slave to any laws of time. ⁶He is as You created him, because he knows no law except the law of love.

Let us not worship idols, nor believe in any law idolatry would make to hide the freedom of the Son of God. ²He is not bound except by his beliefs. ³Yet what he is, is far beyond his faith in slavery or freedom. ⁴He is free because he is his Father’s Son. ⁵And he cannot be bound unless God’s truth can lie, and God can will that He deceive Himself. (A Course in Miracles, W-277.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 277 Insights.)

We are all held safely in the oneness of God’s Love. If we perceive anything else, we are believing illusion is real. These are the perceptions we must forgive in order to remember that we live only under the law of Love.

Today we practice monitoring our thoughts. Do they feel peaceful? Are they happy and expressions of Love? If not, we ask the Holy Spirit to help us see beyond the misperception that is interfering with our experience of the law of Love. We want to let the interferences go.

As we open our minds to the presence of Love within, the guilt and fear from past thoughts will fade. Love’s Light will illuminate our minds and we will remember we dwell in the House of Love eternally.

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The Path That Leads to Love

We walk to God. ²Pause and reflect on this. ³Could any way be holier, or more deserving of your effort, of your love and of your full intent? ⁴What way could give you more than everything, or offer less and still content the holy Son of God? ⁵We walk to God. ⁶The truth that walks before us now is one with Him, and leads us to where He has always been. ⁷What way but this could be a path that you would choose instead?

Your feet are safely set upon the road that leads the world to God. ²Look not to ways that seem to lead you elsewhere. ³Dreams are not a worthy guide for you who are God’s Son. ⁴Forget not He has placed His Hand in yours, and given you your brothers in His trust that you are worthy of His trust in you. ⁵He cannot be deceived. ⁶His trust has made your pathway certain and your goal secure. ⁷You will not fail your brothers nor your Self.

And now He asks but that you think of Him a while each day, that He may speak to you and tell you of His Love, reminding you how great His trust; how limitless His Love. ²In your Name and His Own, which are the same, we practice gladly with this thought today:

³I will step back and let Him lead the way, for I would walk along the road to Him. (W-155.12–14)

We are on a journey of awakening to the realization that we have one Life which we live in the Love of God. We have been given a Guide Who’s sole purpose is to lead us Home. If we wander off the path, He waits patiently for our willingness to return to the path that leads to Love.

His Love for us is never diminished, no matter what we think we have done. Love does not condemn. It holds us safely in the heart of Love eternally.

We rest in this comforting thought, assured of His unconditional Love. Love is our Identity. We pause frequently today to let this thought grow stronger in our mind. It is the thought that leads to peace and joy. We are grateful for the Guide Who helps us remember our true Identity.

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Offering Happiness to the World

“[Your brother] is your savior from your specialness. ²He is in need of your acceptance of himself as part of you, as you for his. ³You are alike to God as God is to Himself. ⁴He is not special, for He would not keep one part of what He is unto Himself, not given to His Son but kept for Him alone. ⁵And it is this you fear, for if He is not special, then He willed His Son to be like Him, and your brother is like you. ⁶Not special, but possessed of everything, including you. ⁷Give him but what he has, remembering God gave Himself to you and your brother in equal love, that both might share the universe with Him Who chose that love could never be divided, and kept separate from what it is and must forever be.”

“The key you threw away God gave your brother, whose holy hands would offer it to you when you were ready to accept His plan for your salvation in the place of yours. ²How could this readiness be reached save through the sight of all your misery, and the awareness that your plan has failed, and will forever fail to bring you peace and joy of any kind? ³Through this despair you travel now, yet it is but illusion of despair. ⁴The death of specialness is not your death, but your awaking into life eternal. ⁵You but emerge from an illusion of what you are to the acceptance of yourself as God created you.” (A Course in Miracles, T-24.II.10;14. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Today we traditionally say to everyone, “Happy New Year!” We are learning that our happiness cannot be found in the world of form and differences. But the Source of happiness is with us always.

To recognize our happiness, we need to see that our brothers are one with us, held eternally safe in the Love of God. In this recognition we find happiness beyond this world that words cannot describe. It is joy unspeakable and full of glory.

Today we offer happiness to all our brothers by letting Christ’s vision show us the truth that unites us in the Love of God.

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Commitment to a Year of Gratitude

“I rest in God.” ²Completely undismayed, this thought will carry you through storms and strife, past misery and pain, past loss and death, and onward to the certainty of God. ³There is no suffering it cannot heal. ⁴There is no problem that it cannot solve. ⁵And no appearance but will turn to truth before the eyes of you who rest in God.

This is the day of peace. ²You rest in God, and while the world is torn by winds of hate your rest remains completely undisturbed. ³Yours is the rest of truth. ⁴Appearances cannot intrude on you. ⁵You call to all to join you in your rest, and they will hear and come to you because you rest in God. ⁶They will not hear another voice than yours because you gave your voice to God, and now you rest in Him and let Him speak through you.

In Him you have no cares and no concerns, no burdens, no anxiety, no pain, no fear of future and no past regrets. ²In timelessness you rest, while time goes by without its touch upon you, for your rest can never change in any way at all. (A Course in Miracles, W-109.3:1–5:2. See also ACIM Lesson 109 Insights.)

The world of chaos is not our home. The ego thrives on conflict. It uses time to make a sense of continuity between the past and the future, while ignoring the present moment.

Only in the now moment, where the idea of time cannot enter, do we find peace. In the now moment we can experience changelessness in the oneness of God’s Love. In His Love, we are perfectly safe. This is our natural state of mind, for our mind remains united in the Mind of God, free to be Love.

This year, let us join in the commitment to let the Holy Spirit guide our thoughts, words and deeds. With His help, we will release the past to the nothingness from which it came. Our days will be happy. There is no greater joy than to join in the eternal flow of Love, giving Itself to all. We will know we are blessed as we bless our brothers. It will be a year of gratitude that we remain as God created us.

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Knowing Our Identity as Love

You cannot forget the Father because I am with you, and I cannot forget Him. ²To forget me is to forget yourself and Him Who created you. ³Our brothers are forgetful. ⁴That is why they need your remembrance of me and of Him Who created me. ⁵Through this remembrance, you can change their minds about themselves, as I can change yours. ⁶Your mind is so powerful a light that you can look into theirs and enlighten them, as I can enlighten yours. …I do want to share my mind with you because we are of one Mind, and that Mind is ours. ¹⁰See only this Mind everywhere, because only this is everywhere and in everything. ¹¹It is everything because it encompasses all things within itself. ¹²Blessed are you who perceive only this, because you perceive only what is true.

Come therefore unto me, and learn of the truth in you. ²The mind we share is shared by all our brothers, and as we see them truly they will be healed. ³Let your mind shine with mine upon their minds, and by our gratitude to them make them aware of the light in them. ⁴This light will shine back upon you and on the whole Sonship, because this is your proper gift to God. ⁵He will accept it and give it to the Sonship, because it is acceptable to Him and therefore to His Sons. ⁶This is true communion with the Holy Spirit, Who sees the altar of God in everyone, and by bringing it to your appreciation, He calls upon you to love God and His creation. ⁷You can appreciate the Sonship only as one. ⁸This is part of the law of creation, and therefore governs all thought. (A Course in Miracles, T-7.V.10:1-6,9–11:8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We need to appreciate every brother because of who they are in truth. Everyone shares the unity of God’s Love. Our gratitude for the Love every brother is helps us look past the illusion of a separate identity. In truth everyone is part of our one Self.

As we are willing to accept the Guidance of the Holy Spirit in our mind, we let go of valuing separate identities. We see that what bodies seem to do is not real and has no effect on the one Self we all share in God’s Love.

We ask the Holy Spirit’s help, today, to see the Love everyone is. With His help, we will enlighten the minds of our brothers to recognize the oneness we all share as God’s one Son. In this recognition, we walk in gratitude, knowing our Identity as Love.

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Remembering Our Home in Heaven

I will be still an instant and go home.

This world you seem to live in is not home to you. ²And somewhere in your mind you know that this is true.

We speak today for everyone who walks this world, for he is not at home. ²He goes uncertainly about in endless search, seeking in darkness what he cannot find; not recognizing what it is he seeks. ³A thousand homes he makes, yet none contents his restless mind. ⁴He does not understand he builds in vain. ⁵The home he seeks can not be made by him. ⁶There is no substitute for Heaven. ⁷All he ever made was hell.

…there is a Child in you Who seeks His Father’s house, and knows that He is alien here. ⁴This childhood is eternal, with an innocence that will endure forever. ⁵Where this Child shall go is holy ground. ⁶It is His Holiness that lights up Heaven, and that brings to earth the pure reflection of the light above, wherein are earth and Heaven joined as one.

It is this Child in you your Father knows as His Own Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-182.1:1-2;3;4:3–5:1. See also ACIM Lesson 182 Insights.)

Heaven is always at peace. Its stillness can never be disturbed. To remember Heaven as our Home, we must join in that stillness.

Each time we step back from the busyness of our lives and allow our mind to be still, we open to the stillness of our Home. Here the Light of Love fills our mind. We experience our true Self, which is held forever in our Father’s Love.

Today we practice pausing to let our mind be still. We want to remember our Home.

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