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What Am I and Where Am I in Truth?

If I am willing to accept the truth, I will remember that I am Spirit, one with Love. Because I am Love and nothing else, my only function is to extend the Love I am. Because Love is one, everyone I see in this world of separate bodies is the exact same Love that I am. This is what I am willing to remember today. This is what today is for.

Whatever I think I am will be reflected back to me in everything I see. If I identify with the ego, I will see the ego thought system of separation reflected back everywhere. But the Course reminds me that the ego is not what I am. As I focus on the vision Holy Spirit shows me, which is always that I am Spirit, the extension of Love, I will see the oneness of Love reflected back to me. My practice today is to keep my mind open to the Holy Spirit’s vision that I may see and remember What I am.

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I Need Add Nothing to His Plan

I who am host to God am worthy of Him.
He Who established His dwelling place in me created it as He would have it be.
It is not needful that I make it ready for Him, but only that I do not interfere with His plan to restore to me my own awareness of my readiness, which is eternal.
I need add nothing to His plan.
But to receive it, I must be willing not to substitute my own in place of it. (A Course in Miracles T-18.IV.5:9-13)

God’s Will for us is perfect happiness. That sounds like a pretty good plan. We can have perfect happiness by simply not interfering with His plan. That seems to be the challenge.

Every day I observe how frequently I slip into making my own plans, deciding what anything means on my own. That is just interference that limits happiness. My practice for today is to be vigilant to step back from my plans and interpretations, and open my mind and heart to the Holy Spirit’s plan. This is how I welcome happiness.

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Accepting Our Inner Guide Now

There is an inner Guide in all of us That goes with us all through the day. It shows us how to see past ego thoughts to the truth that Love is all there is to see. Our practice for today is to accept our inner Guide and the help that It offers in every situation and circumstance.

“I will let step back and let Him lead the way” is our mantra for the day. This Guide helps us to see past the stories of separate bodies to the one universal Love that is eternally there to see. This practice leads away from fear and doubt and toward certainty and happiness.

The way this Guide leads us on is the way of peace. It is a way free of conflict and full of the joy of unity in Love. It shows us that every brother is one with us. And with this vision, every encounter is a glad reunion of Self with Self. Every brother is a witness to the Love we are. This is the journey Home.

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Forgiveness Offers Everything We Want

What could you want forgiveness cannot give? Do you want peace? Forgiveness offers it. Do you want happiness, a quiet mind, a certainty of purpose, and a sense of worth and beauty that transcends the world? Do you want care and safety, and the warmth of sure protection always? Do you want a quietness that cannot be disturbed, a gentleness that never can be hurt, a deep, abiding comfort, and a rest so perfect it can never be upset?

All this forgiveness offers you, and more.… Forgiveness lets the veil be lifted up that hides the face of Christ from those who look with unforgiving eyes upon the world. It lets you recognize the Son of God, and clears your memory of all dead thoughts so that remembrance of your Father can arise across the threshold of your mind. (A Course in Miracles W-pI.122.1:1-2:1,3:1-2)

In ACIM Workbook Lesson 24, we are asked to look at the many goals we have for situations in our lives. It points out that the goals we have for each situation often conflict with each other. These goals are reflections of unforgiveness because they are our insistence on having an outcome other than the full experience of our oneness with our Source.

Forgiveness offers us everything we want because it is the way we let go of the ego’s agenda to maintain separation and hide from our oneness with the Love of God. All we really want is to return to His Love. The ego may offer appealing substitutes that seem to be what we want. But we soon discover they are empty.

Forgiveness does not offer an empty promise. It offers us the return to awareness of the Reality of Love we really want and never really lost. Today is happy day of practice to bring all our interpretations in the world to Holy Spirit to let Him replace them with His clear vision. This is how we return to happiness beyond description in this world.

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Learning to Recognize the Truth

What do we really want? We want the truth. The truth is that we remain as Love created us. We are eternal Spirit, complete and healed and whole. The body is not what we are. We have and are the peace and joy of God eternally because we remain one with Him.

The world we see through the body’s eyes does not seem to show us this because it is the denial of the truth. If we really want the truth, we need to be willing to hold our minds open in peace to the Holy Spirit’s vision that sees past all images. Today our practice is to be hand in hand with the Holy Spirit in each moment, giving Him our full attention. We invite the Holy Spirit into our awareness when we accept His gift of peace instead of focusing on solving the ‘problems’ that continuously show up in the dream of separation.

This is how we will learn to see past the dream to recognize the truth of Love’s oneness. By deciding nothing on our own, we can learn that we are not on our own. We open to the truth that we remain as God created us and nothing else is real.

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Receiving Holy Spirit’s Healing Inspiration

This is our focus for today: We open our minds to the healing inspiration of the Holy Spirit in each present moment, all through the day… We trust that Holy Spirit’s inspiration provides all that we need to know… Our minds are calm and serene in this all-encompassing trust….

We are brought to the awareness that we are in Heaven now because we are joined in the one Mind of God… We remember that God’s Son is one, and all differences are merely illusions.… We trust in Holy Spirit’s inspiration as we keep an open mind to receive His healing Light throughout the day.… We give thanks.

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Begin the Year in Joy and Freedom

This is the time in which a new year will soon be born from the time of Christ. I have perfect faith in you to do all that you would accomplish. Nothing will be lacking, and you will make complete and not destroy. Say, then, to your brother:

I give you to the Holy Spirit as part of myself. I know that you will be released, unless I want to use you to imprison myself. In the name of my freedom I choose your release, because I recognize that we will be released together.

So will the year begin in joy and freedom. There is much to do, and we have been long delayed. Accept the holy instant as this year is born, and take your place, so long left unfulfilled, in the Great Awakening. Make this year different by making it all the same. And let all your relationships be made holy for you. This is our will. Amen. (A Course in Miracles T-15.XI.10)

We join the Great Awakening as we are willing to see no one as a body. No one is separate and alone, different from ourselves. We see everyone anew as we are willing to see through Holy Spirit’s vision. We free our brothers and ourselves as we see the Christ in everyone. We see holiness instead of separation. This is how we begin the year in joy and freedom.

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