Daily Inspiration for Living A Course in Miracles

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How to Have a Happy Day

Go through your day one minute at a time, remembering that the Light of truth shines in your mind all through the day. Practice today allowing that Light through. Practice accepting the Light you are and extending the Light you are.

Notice what a happy and delightful experience it is to do this. This will motivate you to expand this practice consistently to every part of your day. Feel the peace and joy that comes with this practice. Have a happy day!

Only being your Self will bring you happiness. Your Self sees only the Light of Love, the face of Christ, everywhere. Forgiveness, letting go of belief in separation, removes the barriers to the Light of Love. With this Light comes supreme happiness and peace that cannot be disturbed. If you are not experiencing this, forgiveness will restore it to your awareness. Let your Self help you release these barriers today and you will have a joy filled day.

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Remembering What I Am in Truth

When I have opinions about what anything in the world should look like, I am setting myself up for disappointment and disillusionment. I am depending on an appearance that is itself an illusion to make me happy or secure or “complete.” Thus, when the appearance does not meet my liking, I become disillusioned.

Judgment is not the path to happiness. It is a barrier to happiness. All my judgments and opinions are based on what I think I am. I could only judge if I believed that I am a separate identity, different from what I am judging. This can only be a self-deception. There is no “other,” for I remain Love as God created me and Love is one.

A sense of disappointment is a sure sign that I am deceiving myself about what I am. It is this that I need to take to the Holy Spirit and ask for His help to recognize the Self I am in truth. This is the answer to every perceived problem. No problem could be perceived unless I believe am not my Self.

My prayer today is to ask for help to see my Self truly, to see past the images of the world to the one Love That is all there is.

To help me remember the truth today, it is helpful that I ask Holy Spirit, “What am I and where am I in truth?” This can help jar my thinking and remind me to open up to the Source of Light and Love That is always waiting for my willingness to accept. Once invited in, the Holy Spirit reminds me again that I am still as God created me. I am Love’s Extension and my one function is to extend the Love That I am.

I am reminded of the quote at the beginning of the Text of A Course in Miracles: “Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.” As I am willing to remember the truth, peace returns to my troubled mind. Once again, my most important function is to let the truth return to my awareness. Love is. God is. Nothing else is real. And I give thanks.

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Accepting Holy Spirit’s Miracles

This stood out in A Course in Miracles Lesson 159:

Christ has dreamed the dream of a forgiven world. It is His gift, whereby a sweet transition can be made from death to life; from hopelessness to hope. Let us an instant dream with Him. His dream awakens us to truth. His vision gives the means for a return to our unlost and everlasting sanctity in God. (W-pI.159.10:4-8)

The Holy Spirit sees everyone in the world as innocent. My job today is to see as the Holy Spirit sees the world. That is how I awaken from the dream. That is how I accept the happiness and joy that is innately mine. My practice for today is to step back in my mind and ask the Holy Spirit — my true Self — to show me what It sees. This is how I live in the world but not of it. This is how I let ego thoughts pass by and resist the pull to make them real. This is how I easily let go of fear thoughts instead of hooking into them. This is how I receive the miracles the Holy Spirit always lays out for me. This is how I have a happy day. And I give thanks accepting the miracles I have already received.

Judgment of any kind is a barrier that blocks awareness of Love’s presence, awareness of Christ’s vision. Judgment keeps me in the hell of believing separation is real. I am willing to let it go.

Today my focus is on staying in peace and holding my mind open to my true Self’s loving vision. This is how I will receive God’s gift of perfect happiness. This is how I will experience the joy of seeing my brother one with me. Oh happy day!

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The Gift of Christ’s Vision

In our reading in A Course in Miracles this morning, this stood out:

You have but two emotions, and one you made and one was given you. Each is a way of seeing, and different worlds arise from their different sights. See through the vision that is given you, for through Christ’s vision He beholds Himself. And seeing what He is, He knows His Father. Beyond your darkest dreams He sees God’s guiltless Son within you, shining in perfect radiance that is undimmed by your dreams. And this you will see as you look with Him, for His vision is His gift of Love to you, given Him of the Father for you. (T-13.V.10)

In each present moment I am being offered the gift of Christ’s vision, which is sanity. In each present moment I am being offered the gift of recognizing the truth beyond the insanity of separation. My most important function for today is to allow the Light of truth to enter my mind. Christ’s vision is always there waiting for my acceptance. Giving time to accepting Christ’s vision is my practice for today. There is nothing more important than this.

Judgment is always disturbing to my peace. Since peace is an attribute of Love and Love does not condemn, judgment is the denial of Love. Likewise, judgment and happiness are antithetical, because happiness is an attribute of Love. This is why forgiveness, letting go of judgment, is the key to happiness.

My level of happiness is consistently higher since I have been practicing applying ACIM in my life. I am much less prone to judgment, and I more quickly recognize my judgmental thoughts and let them go. I have great gratitude to the Course for teaching me how to recognize judgment. I am grateful that it has also taught me to turn those judgments over to the Voice of truth in me, where judgmental thoughts are seen through and Christ’s vision is revealed. Through this process I welcome the vision that shows me the innocence of Love everywhere.

Today is another day to open my mind to Christ’s vision through being vigilant for judgment and offering my judgmental thoughts to the Holy Spirit for reinterpretation.

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I Let Love Guide My Thoughts

I choose to let Love guide my thoughts today. Love is whole and complete, and sees only wholeness. Love is one and sees only unity. Love is eternal and sees only the timeless. Love guides me to see past the temporal images of the world of separation.

When I feel fear of loss, Love will help me see beyond it to changeless Love. It will help me recognize that images of loss do not come from the truth in me. Such images merely reflect the ego thought system, which is not what I am.

When I let Love guide my thoughts, I do not look to the world for safety or completion. I do not look to the world for happiness or peace. Love, of Itself, offers only peace and happiness, being the Will of God. If I choose to believe in fearful images, I am choosing to deny God’s Will.

God eternally offers His Love, His peace and His joy, whether or not I choose to accept it. With Love guiding my thoughts, I will accept God’s gifts today in gratitude.

My focus today is to accept God’s peace and extend God’s peace. I keep it simple and focus only on this.

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Awareness of Love’s Presence

My practice for today is to focus on my willingness to be aware of Love’s Presence. I am guided to ask myself frequently, “Am I aware of Love’s Presence right now?” This will be a reminder to me to hand over anything that is a barrier to the awareness of Love’s Presence.

I know that Love’s Presence is always there, everywhere, and if I am not aware of it, I need to allow any barriers to be removed by the Holy Spirit. This takes my willingness to remember that I know nothing on my own. Letting go of all I think I know is an important step in letting these barriers be removed. Only Love is real and so my focus today is to be willing to be aware of my Reality. What a happy practice! Only peace and joy will come from it.

I dedicate today to letting Love be my Guide in every moment. I make way for this to happen by being vigilant for peace. Peace is a condition of Love. So to receive Love’s Guidance, I need to be in peace.

Whenever I am aware of any sense of disturbance, I will pause and take the time I need to return to peace and open my mind and heart to Love’s Guidance. Love will always guide truly, showing me only the innocence in everyone, including me. In this peaceful condition I am open to inspiration that will express Love in a way that serves in the world of form. This is how I can be Love’s messenger today.

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I Place the Future in the Hands of God

This morning we were guided to read A Course in Miracles Workbook, Lesson 194: “I place the future in the Hands of God.” The part that stood out was:

If you can see the lesson for today as the deliverance it really is, you will not hesitate to give as much consistent effort as you can, to make it be a part of you. As it becomes a thought that rules your mind, a habit in your problem-solving repertoire, a way of quick reaction to temptation, you extend your learning to the world. And as you learn to see salvation in all things, so will the world perceive that it is saved. (W-pI.194:6)

As we read this lesson, it brought to my attention how much my mind jumps into the future or into the past, ignoring the present moment. I am reminded that God is in the eternal now. Love’s Presence is in me and all around me right now. In truth, God is all there is to know because God is all that is real. There is nothing other than God. There is not God and something else. This means that when I jump into the future or past in my mind, I am really leaping into oblivion. When I do this I am not realizing it. I am thinking that it is real.

Today I have a renewed commitment to join with the Holy Spirit in accepting the presence of all encompassing Love in the present moment. I have a renewed commitment to let myself be carried to the Source of truth that lies right within my mind in every present moment. In truth, I rest in God eternally.

Today it is my opportunity to let the truth of Love’s eternal Presence be at the forefront of my mind. There is no past or future here. There is only peace and gentleness and kindness.

At the end of this lesson, Jesus reassures us “Now we are saved indeed. For in God’s Hands we rest untroubled, sure that only good can come to us.” (9:1-2) This is my practice for today — to accept the Love that is always there. I am willing to receive It.

When I observe my thoughts, it is amazing how much of my time I am thinking about and planning for the future. It can be as simple as what will I have for dinner or as complex as what am I going to do with the rest of my life. The idea of placing the future in the Hands of God is pretty radical. Does God know I need to buy trash bags? Can I really count on Him to provide everything I need? I have my reservations.

Again, if I look honestly at my reservations, it’s not whether God will provide, it’s whether I will recognize His help and accept it. The “I” is the part of my mind that is identified with the ego thought system which depends on time to maintain the illusion of separation.

If I truly put the future in God’s Hands, I would be left with now, which is inconceivable to the ego. To be in the present moment is to be free of the past. To be in the always of now is to be in Love and nothing else. There is no ego here. There is no judgment. There are no dark shadows of the past. There is only perfect peace and the joyful extension of Love.

The way to experience this is to place the future in the Hands of God. As I practice this, I know I am only doing it halfheartedly right now. That’s okay. At least by doing it I am reminding myself of what I really want. With practice I will move closer to fully releasing the future into God’s Hands. This is how I return to the joy of Heaven. I am willing to practice.

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