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Identifying with Love Brings Happiness

I share God’s Will for happiness for me.

You do not want to suffer. ²You may think it buys you something, and may still believe a little that it buys you what you want.

⁶Be you free today to join the happy Will of God.

²Here is your home, and here your safety is. ³Here is your peace, and here there is no fear. ⁴Here is salvation. ⁵Here is rest at last.

Begin… with this acceptance of God’s Will for you:

²I share God’s Will for happiness for me, and I accept it as my function now.

Be happy, for your only function here is happiness. …pause frequently today, to tell yourself that you have now accepted happiness as your one function. ⁴And be sure that you are joining with God’s Will in doing this. (A Course in Miracles, W-102.1:1-2;2:6;3:2–4:2;5:1,3-4. See also ACIM Lesson 102 Insights.)

To know that we are Love and nothing else is to be happy. We were created by Love and as Love’s extension, happiness is an attribute of Love.

Any discomfort, suffering or disturbance to our peace is a sign that we are rejecting the Love that created us. We have a mistaken belief that identifying with a body that is vulnerable to outside forces offers something we want.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us identify with Love and offer It to the world.

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Seeing Love’s Presence in the World

God is my life. I have no life but His.

I was mistaken when I thought I lived apart from God, a separate entity that moved in isolation, unattached, and housed within a body. ²Now I know my life is God’s, I have no other home, and I do not exist apart from Him. ³He has no Thoughts that are not part of me, and I have none but those which are of Him.

Our Father, let us see the face of Christ instead of our mistakes. ²For we who are Your holy Son are sinless. ³We would look upon our sinlessness, for guilt proclaims that we are not Your Son. ⁴And we would not forget You longer. ⁵We are lonely here, and long for Heaven, where we are at home. ⁶Today we would return. ⁷Our Name is Yours, and we acknowledge that we are Your Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-223. See also ACIM Lesson 223 Insights.)

The face of Christ is a symbol of what we see with the vision of our true Self. This Self is God’s Son, wholly loving and innocent of any thoughts of harm. This is what we were created to be as God’s extension of Himself. And this is what we remain eternally.

It is a mistake to believe we are a body, existing in a world of other bodies. This belief imprisons us in a limited form that cannot know the joy that is ours in the oneness of God’s Love. It denies our real life which remains safe in the Mind of God. But we are free to change our beliefs and accept the life God shares with us.

The Holy Spirit is given us to help us awaken to our true Identity in the Mind of Love. Today we remind ourselves that on our own we do not know what anything means. We rely on the Holy Spirit to show us the presence of Love beneath all appearances in this world.

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Christ’s Vision Shows Us God’s Gift of Peace

There is a peace that Christ bestows on us.

Who uses but Christ’s vision finds a peace so deep and quiet, undisturbable and wholly changeless, that the world contains no counterpart. ²Comparisons are still before this peace. ³And all the world departs in silence as this peace envelops it, and gently carries it to truth, no more to be the home of fear. ⁴For love has come, and healed the world by giving it Christ’s peace.

Father, the peace of Christ is given us, because it is Your Will that we be saved. ²Help us today but to accept Your gift, and judge it not. ³For it has come to us to save us from our judgment on ourselves. (A Course in Miracles, W-305. See also ACIM Lesson 305 Insights.)

The wish for specialness is satisfied only through perception of differences. Yet God’s Love is one, wholly uniform with no differences possible within its holy Light. Perception of a world of differences makes us unaware of the peace that is our true nature in the Love of God.

Today we rely on Love’s vision to show us Its Presence all around us. We let go of our judgments, clearing our vision to see the Love that is everywhere to behold. We live in Love, the only Reality. In Its beneficent Light we know we are safe. We rest in its quiet peace.

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How to Have a Loving Day

Christ’s is the vision I will use today.

Each day, each hour, every instant, I am choosing what I want to look upon, the sounds I want to hear, the witnesses to what I want to be the truth for me. ²Today I choose to look upon what Christ would have me see, to listen to God’s Voice, and seek the witnesses to what is true in God’s creation. ³In Christ’s sight, the world and God’s creation meet, and as they come together all perception disappears. ⁴His kindly sight redeems the world from death, for nothing that He looks on but must live, remembering the Father and the Son; Creator and creation unified.

Father, Christ’s vision is the way to You. ²What He beholds invites Your memory to be restored to me. ³And this I choose, to be what I would look upon today. (A Course in Miracles, W-271. See also ACIM Lesson 271 Insights.)

Every moment that we choose to accept Christ’s vision in place of the ego’s seeing through the body’s eyes, we welcome God’s peace and joy. Christ’s vision is always available in our mind. It recognizes the Love that keeps us united with our Father and every brother. It sees past all the images of the world, knowing they are meaningless.

Today we practice stepping back from our experience of the world to let Christ’s vision have our full attention. It will lead us to experience a day filled with love, peace and happiness.

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Fulfilling Our Only Purpose in This World

Father, Christ’s vision is Your gift to me, and it has power to translate all that the body’s eyes behold into the sight of a forgiven world. ²How glorious and gracious is this world! ³Yet how much more will I perceive in it than sight can give. ⁴The world forgiven signifies Your Son acknowledges his Father, lets his dreams be brought to truth, and waits expectantly the one remaining instant more of time which ends forever, as Your memory returns to him. ⁵And now his will is one with Yours. ⁶[Your Son’s] function now is but Your Own, and every thought except Your Own is gone.

The quiet of today will bless our hearts, and through them peace will come to everyone. ²Christ is our eyes today. ³And through His sight we offer healing to the world through Him, the holy Son whom God created whole; the holy Son whom God created one. (A Course in Miracles, W-270.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 270 Insights.)

Everyone sees what they want to see. What we do not want to see does not exist in our experience. But this denial does not change Reality. It only makes us unaware of It. Yet we have the power to change what we want to see.

This vision shows us the real world where only the oneness of Love is seen. With the Holy Spirit’s help, we can shift our attention beyond what the body’s eyes see to the love we share with everyone, along with our Creator. We will remember we are God’s Son, complete and whole, with no need but to extend the Love we know we are. This is our only purpose in this world.

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The Power of Our Identity in Love

Today we will again give thanks for our Identity in God. ²Our home is safe, protection guaranteed in all we do, power and strength available to us in all our undertakings. ³We can fail in nothing. ⁴Everything we touch takes on a shining light that blesses and that heals. ⁵At one with God and with the universe we go our way rejoicing, with the thought that God Himself goes everywhere with us.

…God is our Companion as we walk the world a little while. ⁵And those who come to follow us will recognize the way because the light we carry stays behind, yet still remains with us as we walk on.

²And God, Who loves us with the equal love in which we were created, smiles on us and offers us the happiness we gave.

Today we will not doubt His Love for us, nor question His protection and His care. ²No meaningless anxieties can come between our faith and our awareness of His Presence. ³We are one with Him today in recognition and rememberance. ⁴We feel Him in our hearts. ⁵Our minds contain His Thoughts; our eyes behold His loveliness in all we look upon. ⁶Today we see only the loving and the lovable. (A Course in Miracles, W-124.1;2:4-5;3:2–4:6. See also ACIM Lesson 124 Insights.)

We never walk alone. God goes with us wherever go and in whatever we do. Even if we deny His Presence, He remains with because our true Identity is in Him. He offers us all of His Love without limit, keeping us safe and giving us His strength to do what we are called to do.

As we accept our Identity as Love, we see that Love reflected back to us from everyone we meet or think of. We see everyone as deserving of Love, for we know they all are united with us in the Love of God. And we give thanks.

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Learning to See with Loving Eyes

⁵The body is itself a sacrifice; a giving up of power in the name of saving just a little for yourself. ⁶To see a brother in another body, separate from yours, is the expression of a wish to see a little part of him and sacrifice the rest.

The world you see is based on “sacrifice” of oneness. ²It is a picture of complete disunity and total lack of joining.

The body is a loss, and can be made to sacrifice. ²And while you see your brother as a body, apart from you and separate in his cell, you are demanding sacrifice of him and you. ³What greater sacrifice could be demanded than that God’s Son perceive himself without his Father? ⁴And his Father be without His Son? ⁵Yet every sacrifice demands that They be separate and without the Other. ⁶The memory of God must be denied if any sacrifice is asked of anyone.

Those who would see the witnesses to truth instead of to illusion merely ask that they might see a purpose in the world that gives it sense and makes it meaningful. ²Without your special function has this world no meaning for you. ³Yet it can become a treasure house as rich and limitless as Heaven itself. ⁴No instant passes here in which your brother’s holiness cannot be seen, to add a limitless supply to every meager scrap and tiny crumb of happiness that you allot yourself.

You can lose sight of oneness, but can not make sacrifice of its reality. ²Nor can you lose what you would sacrifice, nor keep the Holy Spirit from His task of showing you that it has not been lost. (A Course in Miracles, T-26.I.1:5-6;2:1-2;4:1-6;5:1–6:2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We need to learn to see the world through the eyes of Love. Love is one. Love sees only Itself extending eternally to all. This is our innate vision, given us in our creation as God’s Son as an extension of Himself.

If we believe what we see through the body’s eyes is real, we are believing we are a false identity as a body. The body is the ego’s image that denies the oneness of Love.

With the Holy Spirit’s help we can learn to rely on His vision in our mind, instead of what the body shows us. This inner vision shows us the rich and limitless Love in which we live. It shows us a world of peace where we dwell in the holiness of our Creator with all our brothers.

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