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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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Giving Ourselves the Gift of Forgiveness

This instant is the only time there is.

I have conceived of time in such a way that I defeat my aim. ²If I elect to reach past time to timelessness, I must change my perception of what time is for. ³Time’s purpose cannot be to keep the past and future one. ⁴The only interval in which I can be saved from time is now. ⁵For in this instant has forgiveness come to set me free. ⁶The birth of Christ is now, without a past or future. ⁷He has come to give His present blessing to the world, restoring it to timelessness and love. ⁸And love is ever-present, here and now.

Thanks for this instant, Father. ²It is now I am redeemed. ³This instant is the time You have appointed for Your Son’s release, and for salvation of the world in him. (A Course in Miracles, W-308. See also ACIM Lesson 308 Insights.)

Forgiveness is always about letting go of the past. Since the past does not exist except in memories in the mind, forgiveness lets go of illusions which were never real. They cannot exist in the present moment.

As we practice letting the Holy Spirit help us be aware of what is real and present now, we welcome the holy instant. In this instant we recognize that only Love is real. We see its unifying bond that keeps us eternally connected to our Creator and all His creations. In this instant of forgiveness, we experience the peace and joy that is our natural state. We see a forgiven world, wholly loving and free of guilt and fear.

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Asking of Holy Spirit, “What Is This For?”

The beautiful relationship you have with all your brothers is a part of you because it is a part of God Himself.

Either there is a gap between you and your brother, or you are as one. ²There is no in between, no other choice, and no allegiance to be split between the two. …[the body] can be seen as not your home, but merely as an aid to help you reach the home where God abides.

With this as purpose is the body healed. ²It is not used to witness to the dream of separation and disease. ³Nor is it idly blamed for what it did not do. ⁴It serves to help the healing of God’s Son, and for this purpose it cannot be sick. ⁵It will not join a purpose not your own, and you have chosen that it not be sick. ⁶All miracles are based upon this choice, and given you the instant it is made. ⁷No forms of sickness are immune, because the choice cannot be made in terms of form. ⁸The choice of sickness seems to be of form, yet it is one, as is its opposite. ⁹And you are sick or well, accordingly.

…the body can be seen as what it is, and neither less nor more in worth than the extent to which it can be used to liberate God’s Son unto his home. ⁸And with this holy purpose is it made a home of holiness a little while, because it shares your Father’s Will with you. (A Course in Miracles, T-28.VII.2:1;3:1-2,6;4;7:7-8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

What is this for? We must ask this question of Holy Spirit for all our perceptions. Our own answer would misinterpret everything as long as we identify with the ego. This is because the ego’s purpose for everything is to maintain our wish to be separate from our Creator. It denies God’s eternal union with all His creation.

The Holy Spirit sees a different purpose for all our perceptions. He sees them all as teaching aids to help us recognize them as reflections of our beliefs about ourselves that need to be forgiven. As we let Him answer this important question, we will learn to choose to see past form to the Light of Love that surrounds us. We will learn that we are free of the body’s limitations. His purpose sets us free to accept the eternal Love that is God’s Will for us.

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