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Recognizing Our Holiness

Eternal holiness abides in me.

My holiness is far beyond my own ability to understand or know. ²Yet God, my Father, Who created it, acknowledges my holiness as His. ³Our Will, together, understands it. ⁴And Our Will, together, knows that it is so.

Father, my holiness is not of me. ²It is not mine to be destroyed by sin. ³It is not mine to suffer from attack. ⁴Illusions can obscure it, but can not put out its radiance, nor dim its light. ⁵It stands forever perfect and untouched. ⁶In it are all things healed, for they remain as You created them. ⁷And I can know my holiness. ⁸For Holiness Itself created me, and I can know my Source because it is Your Will that You be known. (A Course in Miracles, W-299. See also ACIM Lesson 299 Insights.)

All our judgments deny our holiness. We share God’s holiness because we share the oneness of His Love. The is no ‘other’ to judge within the Love that is our true Identity. The world in which we seem to live requires our judgment to ’survive’. But the image we are protecting is not real. Our judgments defend illusions.

To recognize our holiness, we need to lay down our defenses. Today we offer all our judgments, our opinions, to the Holy Spirit, asking for His help to see the reality of Love beyond the illusions of differences. He will teach us to see the Love that unites us with our Father. The Light He brings to our mind dispels the images that blocked our awareness of our holiness.

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Acknowledging Our True Will

²You want to accept God’s plan because you share in it. ³You have no will that can really oppose it, and you do not want to do so. ⁴Salvation is for you. ⁵Above all else, you want the freedom to remember Who you really are. ⁶Today it is the ego that stands powerless before your will. ⁷Your will is free, and nothing can prevail against it.

…God’s plan for salvation, and only His, is wholly in accord with your will. ²It is not the purpose of an alien power, thrust upon you unwillingly. ³It is the one purpose here on which you and your Father are in perfect accord. ⁴You will succeed today, the time appointed for the release of the Son of God from hell and from all idle wishes. ⁵His will is now restored to his awareness. ⁶He is willing this very day to look upon the light in him and be saved.

…tell yourself with gentle firmness and quiet certainty:

²I will there be light. ³Let me behold the light that reflects God’s Will and mine.

⁴Then let your [true] will assert itself, joined with the power of God and united with your Self. (W-73.7:2-7;9:1–10:4)

The ego is in constant battle with our true Self. As part of God’s Son, united with His Will, our true Self does not battle against the ego. It recognizes the ego as nothing more than a mistaken idea that could never be real. This recognition sets us free from the ego’s attempt to replace God and our one true Self.

Today we acknowledge our true will which wants only to remain in the oneness of Love that created It. As we accept our true Will, we remember that we are Love and nothing else. With this memory, we see everyone as our brother, joined with us in the Love of our Father.

We are grateful that God’s plan leads us to awaken from the mistaken identification with the ego. We gratefully acknowledge the Love in which we live. In Its Light, we see the presence of Love everywhere and always.

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Welcoming the Love That Is Our Inheritance

God’s peace and joy are mine.

²Today I will accept God’s peace and joy, in glad exchange for all the substitutes that I have made for happiness and peace.

“Let me be still and listen to the truth.

²Let my own feeble voice be still, and let me hear the mighty Voice for Truth Itself assure me that I am God’s perfect Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-118.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 118 Insights.)

If we want to experience the peace and joy that is our inheritance, we need to be willing to quiet our mind and listen to God’s Voice. It is ever present in our mind. Only our mistaken interest in the ego thought system makes us deaf to His Message.

God’s Voice always conveys His Love. But the ego is afraid of Love’s oneness, so it blocks out all thoughts of our true Self which accept that we remain Love as we were created.

Today we practice frequently pausing to welcome the Holy Spirit’s loving guidance. He will show us the Love that is the truth in every brother. And He will teach us to answer calls for Love with Love. This is how we will claim God’s gifts of peace and joy.

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Remembering Our Identity in God

The gift of Christ is all I seek today.

What but Christ’s vision would I use today, when it can offer me a day in which I see a world so like to Heaven that an ancient memory returns to me? ²Today I can forget the world I made. ³Today I can go past all fear, and be restored to love and holiness and peace. ⁴Today I am redeemed, and born anew into a world of mercy and of care; of loving kindness and the peace of God.

And so, our Father, we return to You, remembering we never went away; remembering Your holy gifts to us. ²In gratitude and thankfulness we come, with empty hands and open hearts and minds, asking but what You give. ³We cannot make an offering [illusion] sufficient for Your Son. ⁴But in Your Love the gift of Christ is his. (A Course in Miracles, W-306. See also ACIM Lesson 306 Insights.)

The key to finding the happiness and peace God wills for us is to lay down our mistaken wish to have an identity we can call our own. Our true Identity is shared with our Father. We remain united with God, no matter what dreams we may have.

Today we free ourselves from the dream of conflict and loss, fear and guilt. As we accept the Holy Spirit’s help to see with Christ’s vision, we overlook the world of form and accept the Love of God as our Identity. With this acceptance, fear and guilt disappear and we remember the joy and peace of our true Identity as God’s Son.

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Letting the Light Within Guide Our Doing

Who is the light of the world except God’s Son? ²This, then, is merely a statement of the truth about yourself. ³It is the opposite of a statement of pride, of arrogance, or of self-deception. ⁴It does not describe the self-concept you have made. ⁵It does not refer to any of the characteristics with which you have endowed your idols. ⁶It refers to you as you were created by God. ⁷It simply states the truth.

You will want to think about this idea as often as possible today. ²It is the perfect answer to all illusions, and therefore to all temptation. ³It brings all the images you have made about yourself to the truth, and helps you depart in peace, unburdened and certain of your purpose.

…begin with telling yourself:

³I am the light of the world. ⁴That is my only function. ⁵That is why I am here.

Today’s idea goes far beyond the ego’s petty views of what you are and what your purpose is. …⁵You are the light of the world. ⁶God has built His plan for the salvation of His Son on you. (A Course in Miracles, W-61.1;4;5:2-5;7:1,5-6. See also ACIM Lesson 61 Insights.)

Because our function is to be the Light of the world, we need to let the Light within be our Guide in all things. The practice of opening our mind to the Holy Spirit’s lead represents our willingness to be the Light of the world.

The Light is already in us, but we have hidden it behind a false image that separates us from Reality. The thought system that made that image denies the Light. So we must be willing to disregard all the “guidance” of the ego’s denial of our reality.

Today we dedicate to practicing opening our mind to the Light within to let It guide us to fulfill our function as the Light of the world.

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Forgiveness Leads Us Home to Love

Let us not fight our function. ²We did not establish it. ³It is not our idea. ⁴The means are given us by which it will be perfectly accomplished. ⁵All that we are asked to do is to accept our part in genuine humility, and not deny with self-deceiving arrogance that we are worthy. ⁶What is given us to do, we have the strength to do. ⁷Our minds are suited perfectly to take the part assigned to us by One Who knows us well.

³We will be certain only that He knows our strengths, our wisdom and our holiness. ⁴And if He deems us worthy, so we are.

Do as God’s Voice directs. ²And if It asks a thing of you which seems impossible, remember Who it is that asks, and who would make denial. ³Then consider this; which is more likely to be right? ⁴The Voice that speaks for the Creator of all things, Who knows all things exactly as they are, or a distorted image of yourself, confused, bewildered, inconsistent and unsure of everything? ⁵Let not its voice direct you. ⁶Hear instead a certain Voice, which tells you of a function given you by your Creator Who remembers you, and urges that you now remember Him.

⁴He has Thoughts which answer every need His Son perceives, although He sees them not. ⁵For Love must give, and what is given in His Name takes on the form most useful in a world of form.

⁵Salvation of the world depends on you who can forgive. ⁶Such is your function here. (A Course in Miracles, W-186.2;4:3-4;12;13:4-5;14:5-6. See also ACIM Lesson 186 Insights.)

Our true Self remains Love as God created us, His Son. There is nothing our true Self needs to forgive, for It remains eternally united with God’s Love.

But while we believe we are in a world of bodies and myriad forms, we do need to forgive. We need to forgive the mistaken beliefs that made up a world of shifting forms and changing circumstances where uncertainty is ever present. Fear is an underlying emotion with guilt beside it. The joy and peace of Love seem far off and difficult to experience.

Forgiveness of the beliefs that make this world of perception is the means to let Love return to our awareness. This is our function today and every day. It is the path that leads us Home to full remembrance that we remain as God created us — Love and nothing else.

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Finding the Love We Seek

You have so little faith in yourself because you are unwilling to accept the fact that perfect love is in you. ²And so you seek without for what you cannot find without. ³I offer you my perfect faith in you, in place of all your doubts. ⁴But forget not that my faith must be as perfect in all your brothers as it is in you, or it would be a limited gift to you. ⁵In the holy instant we share our faith in God’s Son because we recognize, together, that he is wholly worthy of it, and in our appreciation of his worth we cannot doubt his holiness. ⁶And so we love him.”

³In the holy instant you recognize the idea of love in you, and unite this idea with the Mind that thought it, and could not relinquish it. ⁴By holding it within itself, there is no loss. ⁵The holy instant thus becomes a lesson in how to hold all of your brothers in your mind, experiencing not loss but completion. ⁶From this it follows you can only give. ⁷And this is love, for this alone is natural under the laws of God.

¹⁰For in the holy instant you will recognize the only need the Sons of God share equally, and by this recognition you will join with me in offering what is needed. (A Course in Miracles, T-15.VI.2;5:3-7;6:10. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Fear is a sure sign that we are denying the Love that is our true Identity. Because of that denial, we cannot see the Love that is the Identity of everyone. We dream we are in a world where conflict is the norm. We need to be constantly alert to protect ourselves from harm and loss. We feel a lack of love that drives us on a constant search to find something or someone that offers some form of relief from our distress.

We already have the answer to our need. It is in our mind now. The Love we seek is eternally present in our mind. The Holy Spirit is always ready to help us let go of the misperceptions that come belief that we are separate and alone.

Today we practice offering every perception that disturbs our peace and happiness to Him for His reinterpretation. As we accept His help, we will learn that the Love we seek is already ours. We will see that this Love unites us with the Love that is the true Identity of everyone, including ourselves.

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