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Finding Our Safety in God’s Love

Pain is but witness to the Son’s mistakes in what he thinks he is. It is a dream of fierce retaliation for a crime that could not be committed; for attack on what is wholly unassail­able. [Pain] is a nightmare of abandonment by an Eternal Love, which could not leave the Son whom It created out of love.

It is your thoughts alone that cause you pain. Nothing external to your mind can hurt or injure you in any way. There is no cause beyond yourself that can reach down and bring oppression. No one but yourself affects you. There is nothing in the world that has the power to make you ill or sad, or weak or frail. But it is you who have the power to dominate all things you see by merely recognizing what you are. As you perceive the harm­lessness in [all things], they will accept your holy will as theirs. And what was seen as fearful now becomes a source of innocence and holiness. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 190, W-pI.190.2:3-5;5. See also ACIM Lesson 190 Insights.)

We are not the false identity constructed by the ego as a substitute for the Son God created one with Himself. This identity appears to be weak, vulnerable and capable of dying. Yet it is nothing but an hallucination which has never occurred in truth. Only our acceptance of this substitute identity makes fear, pain and death seem real.

We have taught ourselves to believe we are this substitute identity. It is time to learn the Holy Spirit’s lesson which teaches us to recognize the unreality of the ego and clear away the veil that has hidden the eternal Love we are. In this Love is our perfect safety and perfect happiness.

Today we practice opening our mind to the Holy Spirit’s lessons in Love’s reality.

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A Dedication to Awaken to Love

Sit silently and wait upon your Father. He has willed to come to you when you have recognized it is your will He do so.

Father, we give these holy times to You, in gratitude to Him Who taught us how to leave the world of sorrow in exchange for its replacement, given us by You. We look not backward now. We look ahead, and fix our eyes upon the journey’s end. Accept these little gifts of thanks from us, as through Christ’s vision we behold a world beyond the one we made, and take that world to be the full replacement of our own.

And now we wait in silence, unafraid and certain of Your com­ing. We have sought to find our way by following the Guide You sent to us.

…we need only call to God, and all temptations disappear. Instead of words, we need but feel His Love. Instead of prayers, we need but call His Name. Instead of judging, we need but be still and let all things be healed. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Part II Introduction, W-pII.in.5:5-6;6:2-7:2;10:2-5. See also ACIM Lesson 221 Insights.)

This prayer could be called a dedication to awaken to the Life we live in Love. Another lesson tells us we have only one Life, the Life we live in God. The only meaningful purpose for the “life” we experience in the world is to awaken from it to the Love we are. This dedication leads away from pain, suffering, sorrow, loneliness, lack and loss to the completion of our true Self forever one with God. It is the decision to disown the ego and all its judgments, fear and guilt, and take ownership of the Self God created one with Him.

Today we choose the vision of Love that we may see the unity we share with every brother in innocence, peace and happiness. This is how we welcome our Father in gratitude.

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Being Attentive to God’s Voice

God’s healing Voice protects all things today.

Let us today attend the Voice for God, which speaks an ancient lesson, no more true today than any other day. Yet has this day been chosen as the time when we will seek and hear and learn and understand. Join me in hearing. For the Voice for God tells us of things we cannot understand alone, nor learn apart. It is in this that all things are protected. And in this the healing of the Voice for God is found.

Your healing Voice protects all things today, and so I leave all things to You. I need be anxious over nothing. For Your Voice will tell me what to do and where to go; to whom to speak and what to say to him, what thoughts to think, what words to give the world. The safety that I bring is given me. Father, Your Voice protects all things through me. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 275, W-pII.275. See also ACIM Lesson 275 Insights.)

We have God’s Voice in our mind. We can “hear” It in many ways. Sometimes It comes as a thought that comforts or inspires us. It may be an inner knowing or a feeling that helps us know what to say or where to go. It may be an inspiration to take an action that is helpful. His Voice may come in a dream or upon waking that brings resolution to a perceived problem. It may come as a loving way of seeing a brother, even one we have perceived as an adversary. Always It comes with an underlying sense of peace.

The key to being attentive to God’s Voice is the practice of stilling our mind in the midst of everyday life. Peace is the condition in which God’s Voice can be accepted. We will practice this today to receive His guidance for what to think, say and do.

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Accepting God’s Gift of Limitless Love

By giving you receive. But to receive is to accept, not to get. It is impossible not to have, but it is possible not to know you have. The recognition of having is the willingness for giving, and only by this willingness can you recognize what you have. What you give is therefore the value you put on what you have, being the exact measure of the value you put upon it. And this, in turn, is the measure of how much you want it.

You can ask of the Holy Spirit, then, only by giving to Him, and you can give to Him only where you recognize Him. If you recognize Him in everyone, consider how much you will be asking of Him, and how much you will receive. He will deny you nothing because you have denied Him nothing, and so you can share everything. This is the way, and the only way to have His answer, because His answer is all you can ask for and want. Say, then, to everyone.

Because I will to know myself, I see you as God’s Son and my brother. (T-9.II.11:4-12:6)

All there is to have is Love because only Love is real. Our true Self already has this Love because God gave His Love to His Son in His creation.

The ego is the rejection of Love. It does not want Love because it wants specialness (more than everything.) We have chosen the ego as our identity and accepted its denial of Love. This rejection of Love needs to be forgiven because this rejection makes us unaware of the limitless Love we have and are. The world we perceive is the manifestation of the ego’s rejection of Love.

The Holy Spirit’s mission is to teach us that we are not the ego and that we are God’s Son, one Self united with every brother. As we forgive our beliefs in being a separate self, we make way for the acceptance of the Love of our true Self.

Each time we are able to recognize the Love in our brother, we are seeing the reflection of the Love in us. This is the gift we receive when we are willing to give our beliefs and perceptions to the Holy Spirit to be corrected with His Love. We learn that we have Love, and feel free to give It. As the Love flows through us It brings joy and peace with It. This is why forgiveness is the key to happiness.

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Freeing Ourselves from Suffering

I can be free of suffering today.

Father, I thank You for today, and for the freedom I am certain it will bring. This day is holy, for today Your Son will be redeemed. His suffering is done. For he will hear Your Voice directing him to find Christ’s vision through forgiveness, and be free forever from all suffer­ing. Thanks for today, my Father. I was born into this world but to achieve this day, and what it holds in joy and freedom for Your holy Son and for the world he made, which is released along with him today.

Be glad today! Be glad! There is no room for anything but joy and thanks today. Our Father has redeemed His Son this day. Not one of us but will be saved today. Not one who will remain in fear, and none the Father will not gather to Himself, awake in Heaven in the Heart of Love. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 340, W-pII.340. See also ACIM Lesson 340 Insights.)

Our true Self is God’s Son, forever united with his Creator. This Self does not need to be redeemed for It was never lost. But in time, we have lost touch with our true Self.

We have identified with a false self-image made by the belief in separation from God. The result of this belief is the world of time we experience. It has blinded and deafened us from seeing the reality of changeless Love everywhere and hearing the Voice for God.

It is from this blindness and deafness that we need to be redeemed. This redemption is available to us in every instant, now. But we must be willing to choose forgiveness by listening to the Voice for God and accepting Christ’s vision. Vision shows us the presence of Love’s innocence everywhere. God’s Voice teaches us how to heal our misperceptions through forgiveness. Though complete release from the world of time is available in every instant, our resistance and fear limits our willingness to fully accept our true Self now.

Today we practice pausing to let Love guide our thoughts, perceptions and actions. We frequently pause today to ask the Holy Spirit for His peace and vision.

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The Source of Our Completion

All idols of this world [of separation] were made to keep the truth within from being known to you, and to maintain allegiance to the dream that you must find what is outside yourself to be complete and happy. It is vain to worship idols in the hope of peace. God dwells within, and your completion lies in Him. No idol takes His place. Look not to idols. Do not seek outside yourself.

The fear of God is but the fear of loss of idols. It is not the fear of loss of your reality. But you have made of your reality an idol, which you must protect against the light of truth. And all the world becomes the means by which this idol can be saved.

It is not so. Salvation seeks to prove there is no death, and only life exists. The sacrifice of death is nothing lost. An idol cannot take the place of God. Let Him remind you of His Love for you, and do not seek to drown His Voice in chants of deep despair to idols of yourself. Seek not outside your Father for your hope. (A Course in Miracles, T-29.VII.6.1;9:6-9;10:1-6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The ego is dissatisfied with God’s gift of everything that is real. It is the wish to have more than everything. Because this is impossible, it has made up a world of empty images that appear to offer what the ego wants. Because the ego’s wish cannot be fulfilled in reality, the ego believes it is incomplete. So it makes up empty images that it imagines will complete it. Yet each time it seems to obtain an idol it thinks will complete it, its emptiness leaves the ego unfulfilled. This puts the ego on an endless quest of seeking outside of it for what cannot be found outside.

The Source of real completion is within. Our true Self remains completed in God. And God’s completion is His Son, the one Self we share with all our brothers. We have not lost this Self nor our unity with God. Joining with the ego’s quest has merely made us unaware that we are already complete and whole in the Love of God.

Today we affirm: I accept God’s Love is mine. I accept His peace and His joy, remembering these gifts are His Will for me.

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Remembering Our True Home

Reason will tell you that the only way to escape from misery is to recognize it and go the other way. Truth is the same and misery the same, but they are different from each other in every way, in every instance and without exception. …One illusion cherished and defended against the truth makes all truth meaningless, and all illusions real. Such is the power of belief.

There is no part of Heaven you can take and weave into illusions. Nor is there one illusion you can enter Heaven with. A savior cannot be a judge, nor mercy condemnation. And [Christ’s] vision cannot damn, but only bless.

Behold the great projection [the world], but look on it with the decision that it must be healed, and not with fear. Nothing you made has any power over you unless you still would be apart from your Creator, and with a will opposed to His. For only if you would believe His Son could be [God’s] enemy does it seem possible that what you made is [your enemy]. You would condemn His joy to misery, and make Him different. And all the misery you made has been your own. Are you not glad to learn it is not true? Is it not welcome news to hear not one of the illusions that you made replaced the truth?

Every illusion brought to …forgiveness is gently overlooked and disappears.

All you need do to dwell in quiet here with Christ is share His vision. Quickly and gladly is His vision given anyone who is but willing to see his brother sinless. (T-22.II.8:1-2,4-5;8:1-4;10;12:7;13:1-2)

The ego is the belief in limited “love.” In the pursuit of specialness, it carefully measures out the amount of love to be given to different individuals. This determined by the value the ego holds for object of this love. This limitation can only seem to occur in a dream that denies the equality and unity of God’s Love.

Christ’s vision sees all things as part of the oneness of God’s Love. It excludes no one and sees no differences. It sees only innocence because it sees no change in the equal sharing of Love. The world we see as a body needs the healing vision that the Christ in us sees clearly.

Today we ask for Christ’s vision to guide all our perceptions, for we would remember our true Home in the Heaven of God’s Love.

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