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Opening to the Certainty of Heaven

Deny not Heaven. ²It is yours today, but for the asking. ³Nor need you perceive how great the gift, how changed your mind will be before it comes to you. ⁴Ask to receive, and it is given you. ⁵Conviction lies within it. ⁶Till you welcome it as yours, uncertainty remains. ⁷Yet God is fair. ⁸Sureness is not required to receive what only your acceptance can bestow.

Ask with desire. ²You need not be sure that you request the only thing you want. ³But when you have received, you will be sure you have the treasure you have always sought. ⁴What would you then exchange for it? ⁵What would induce you now to let it fade away from your ecstatic vision? ⁶For this sight proves that you have exchanged your blindness for the seeing eyes of Christ; your mind has come to lay aside denial, and accept the Thought of God as your inheritance.

Now is all doubting past, the journey’s end made certain, and salvation given you. ²Now is Christ’s power in your mind, to heal as you were healed. ³For now you are among the saviors of the world. ⁴Your destiny lies there and nowhere else. ⁵Would God consent to let His Son remain forever starved by his denial of the nourishment he needs to live? ⁶Abundance dwells in him, and deprivation cannot cut him off from God’s sustaining Love and from his home. (A Course in Miracles, W-165.4:1–6:6. See also ACIM Lesson 165 Insights.)

The power of Christ is in our mind now. Only our denial of our true Identity makes it seem that we are weak, vulnerable and destined to die. This is what the ego thought system believes.

Yet healing of our mistaken beliefs is forever within our reach. When no longer want to settle for the ego’s direction on futile searches for happiness and peace, we become willing to ask for a better way. This better way is available but for the asking with desire. Our open mind is willing to accept the gift of Heaven. Uncertainty fades and we become messengers to the world of the power of Love.

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Learning to Accept Love’s Presence

³Love is one. ⁴It has no separate parts and no degrees; no kinds nor levels, no divergencies and no distinctions. ⁵It is like itself, unchanged throughout. ⁶It never alters with a person or a circumstance. ⁷It is the Heart of God, and also of His Son.

Love’s meaning is obscure to anyone who thinks that love can change. ²He does not see that changing love must be impossible. ³And thus he thinks that he can love at times, and hate at other times. ⁴He also thinks that love can be bestowed on one, and yet remain itself although it is withheld from others. ⁵To believe these things of love is not to understand it. ⁶If it could make such distinctions, it would have to judge between the righteous and the sinner, and perceive the Son of God in separate parts.

Love cannot judge. ²As it is one itself, it looks on all as one. ³Its meaning lies in oneness. ⁴And it must elude the mind that thinks of it as partial or in part. ⁵There is no love but God’s, and all of love is His. ⁶There is no other principle that rules where love is not. ⁷Love is a law without an opposite. ⁸Its wholeness is the power holding everything as one, the link between the Father and the Son which holds Them both forever as the same.

Call to your Father, certain that His Voice will answer. ²He Himself has promised this. ³And He Himself will place a spark of truth within your mind wherever you give up a false belief, a dark illusion of your own reality and what love means. ⁴He will shine through your idle thoughts today, and help you understand the truth of love. ⁵In loving gentleness He will abide with you, as you allow His Voice to teach love’s meaning to your clean and open mind. ⁶And He will bless the lesson with His Love. (A Course in Miracles, W-127.1:3–3:8;9. See also ACIM Lesson 127 Insights.)

Love is everywhere and universally one. But if we deny Its presence, we will experience a world where Love seems to be absent. This is the ego’s wish, which manifests as a dream of separate images in constant conflict built on false beliefs.

The ego always judges against Love. As we let go of our identification with the ego, we open our mind to accept Love’s Presence. Love flows freely through the door held open by forgiveness.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us see past our judgments to the reality of Love everywhere and in everyone.

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Bringing Blessings to the World

We ask for rest today, and quietness unshaken by the world’s appearances. ²We ask for peace and stillness, in the midst of all the turmoil born of clashing dreams. ³We ask for safety and for happiness, although we seem to look on danger and on sorrow.

“I rest in God.” ²This thought will bring to you the rest and quiet, peace and stillness, and the safety and the happiness you seek. ³“I rest in God.” ⁴This thought has power to wake the sleeping truth in you, whose vision sees beyond appearances to that same truth in everyone and everything there is. ⁵Here is the end of suffering for all the world, and everyone who ever came and yet will come to linger for a while. ⁶Here is the thought in which the Son of God is born again, to recognize himself.

…as you close your eyes, sink into stillness. ⁵Let these periods of rest and respite reassure your mind that all its frantic fantasies were but the dreams of fever that has passed away. ⁶Let it be still and thankfully accept its healing. ⁷No more fearful dreams will come, now that you rest in God. ⁸Take time today to slip away from dreams and into peace.

Each hour that you take your rest today, a tired mind is suddenly made glad, a bird with broken wings begins to sing, a stream long dry begins to flow again. ²The world is born again each time you rest, and hourly remember that you came to bring the peace of God into the world, that it might take its rest along with you. (A Course in Miracles, W-109.1:1-3;2;5:4–6:2. See also ACIM Lesson 109 Insights.)

These four words, “I rest in God” are a call from our true Self to awaken from dreams of conflict and differences. It is a statement of the changeless truth of our Identity. We are asked to pause hourly to quiet our mind and allow ourselves to experience the calm safety that is ours as we remember that we rest in God.

By taking time to welcome the Presence of God in our mind, we can bring His Light into world. Because we are one with everyone, the healing we accept blesses everyone. With this practice, we will bring blessings to everyone in this world.

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Letting Peace Return to Our Mind

[There is no will but God’s] can be regarded as the central thought toward which all our exercises are directed. ²God’s is the only Will. ³When you have recognized this, you have recognized that your will is His. ⁴The belief that conflict is possible has gone. ⁵Peace has replaced the strange idea that you are torn by conflicting goals. ⁶As an expression of the Will of God, you have no goal but His.

There is great peace in today’s idea, and the exercises for today are directed towards finding it. ²The idea itself is wholly true. ³Therefore it cannot give rise to illusions. ⁴Without illusions conflict is impossible.

…hold [these thoughts] in mind:

²There is no will but God’s. ³I cannot be in conflict.…

⁵I am at peace.
⁶Nothing can disturb me. ⁷My will is God’s.
⁸My will and God’s are one.
⁹God wills peace for His Son.…

¹²There is no will but God’s. ¹³These conflict thoughts are meaningless.

³There is no will but God’s. ⁴I share it with Him.
⁵My conflicts about _________ cannot be real.

²There is no will but God’s. ³I seek His peace today. (A Course in Miracles, W-74.1:1–2:4;3:1-3,5-9,12-13;4:3-5;7:2-3. See also ACIM Lesson 74 Insights.)

This lesson is training our mind to identify with the truth that we are an extension of God’s Love. As His extension, we have an unbreakable unity with everything His, including His Will. In the oneness of His Love, conflict is impossible. His peace cannot be disturbed.

Our misidentification with the ego thought system of separation sees conflict everywhere. As we affirm that conflict is not real, we are opening our mind to Christ’s vision. We learn to overlook the meaningless images of the ego’s dream of differences. We see our brothers as part of our one Self. With this recognition, peace returns to our mind.

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Extending Love Without Reservation

There is a place in you where this whole world has been forgotten; where no memory of sin and of illusion lingers still. ²There is a place in you which time has left, and echoes of eternity are heard. ³There is a resting place so still no sound except a hymn to Heaven rises up to gladden God the Father and the Son. ⁴Where Both abide are They remembered, Both.

³The changelessness of Heaven is in you, so deep within that nothing in this world but passes by, unnoticed and unseen. ⁴The still infinity of endless peace surrounds you gently in its soft embrace, so strong and quiet, tranquil in the might of its Creator, nothing can intrude upon the sacred Son of God within.

³Nothing is asked of you but to accept the changeless and eternal that abide in him, for your Identity is there. ⁴The peace in you can but be found in him. ⁵And every thought of love you offer him but brings you nearer to your wakening to peace eternal and to endless joy.

²Be very still and hear God’s Voice in him, and let It tell you what his function is.

…seek not the eternal in this world. ⁵Forgiving dreams are means to step aside from dreaming of a world outside yourself. ⁶And leading finally beyond all dreams, unto the peace of everlasting life. (A Course in Miracles, T-29.V.1:1-4;2:3-4;3:3-5;4:2;8:4-6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The peace of God is available to us now. We need only forgive our belief in a world outside ourselves. This simple requirement seems hard only because we have taught ourselves that we are a body with a separate identity, living in a world where Love’s unity is denied.

When we are willing to accept the Holy Spirit’s help, we will find the peace within that protects our true Self. We will remember that we are forever loved and loving. We will remember the eternal joy that is part of our unity with our Father. Today we choose to be still and welcome God’s Voice Which guides us to fulfill our function by extending His Love without reservation.

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Learning of Our Oneness with All

Christ’s vision has one law. ²It does not look upon a body, and mistake it for the Son whom God created. ³It beholds a light beyond the body; an idea beyond what can be touched, a purity undimmed by errors, pitiful mistakes, and fearful thoughts of guilt from dreams of sin. ⁴It sees no separation. ⁵And it looks on everyone, on every circumstance, all happenings and all events, without the slightest fading of the light it sees.

[Christ’s vision] can be taught; and must be taught by all who would achieve it. ²It requires but the recognition that the world can not give anything that faintly can compare with this in value; nor set up a goal that does not merely disappear when this has been perceived. ³And this you give today: See no one as a body. ⁴Greet him as the Son of God he is, acknowledging that he is one with you in holiness.

Thus are his sins forgiven him, for Christ has vision that has power to overlook them all.

²And thus Christ’s vision looks on you as well. ³This lesson is not difficult to learn, if you remember in your brother you but see yourself. ⁴If he be lost in sin, so must you be; if you see light in him, your sins have been forgiven by yourself. ⁵Each brother whom you meet today provides another chance to let Christ’s vision shine on you, and offer you the peace of God. (A Course in Miracles, W-158.7:1–9:1;10:2-5. See also ACIM Lesson 158 Insights.)

Nothing the body’s eyes show is has any reality, because the body itself is not real. The body and the world of separation stands as a barrier that hides the truth of our Reality in the oneness of God’s Love. We have trained ourselves to trust what the body’s eyes see.

We have not lost the means to see the presence of Love. We simply need to retrain our mind to trust our inner vision which looks on all from the perspective of Love. This is Christ’s vision. It sees only the holiness of Love everywhere and in everyone. It overlooks the meaningless images of the ego’s world. As we give Christ’s vision priority, we learn that we are united with All in the peace of God.

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Remembering Our Purpose to Be Love

My only function is the one God gave me.

The idea for today reaffirms your commitment to salvation. ²It also reminds you that you have no function other than that. ³Both these thoughts are obviously necessary for a total commitment. ⁴Salvation cannot be the only purpose you hold while you still cherish others. ⁵The full acceptance of salvation as your only function necessarily entails two phases; the recognition of salvation as your function, and the relinquishment of all the other goals you have invented for yourself.

³This is the only way in which you can find peace of mind.

²Today’s idea offers you escape from all your perceived difficulties. ³It places the key to the door of peace, which you have closed upon yourself, in your own hands. ⁴It gives you the answer to all the searching you have done since time began.

…close your eyes, repeat the idea to yourself once again, and watch your mind carefully to catch whatever thoughts cross it. ³At first, make no attempt to concentrate only on thoughts related to the idea for the day. ⁴Rather, try to uncover each thought that arises to interfere with it. ⁵Note each one as it comes to you, with as little involvement or concern as possible, dismissing each one by telling yourself:

⁶This thought reflects a goal that is preventing me from accepting my only function.

⁴On this clean slate let my true function be written for me.

…try to get the sense of being willing to have your illusions of purpose be replaced by truth.”

²My only function is the one God gave me. ³I want no other and I have no other. (W-65.1;2:3;3:2-4;5:2-6;6:4-5;8:2-3)

We were created by Love as Love, and nothing else. As Love, our only function is to extend Love without limit.

When we believe we are limited by a body in a world of separation, we believe we have added something else to our identity. By forgiving this mistaken belief, we save ourselves from the illusion that Love can be limited in any way.

When we recognize a thought that interferes with our extension of Love, we need to let it pass by and welcome the thoughts of Love that unite us with our brothers and our Father. As we assert our dedication to being Love’s expression, we identify with our true Self as God’s extension of His Love.

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