Living A Course in Miracles — Our Promised Resurrection to Love

The Practice That Awakens Us to Love

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

Loss is not loss when properly perceived. ²Pain is impossible. ³There is no grief with any cause at all. ⁴And suffering of any kind is nothing but a dream. ⁵This is the truth, at first to be but said and then repeated many times; and next to be accepted as but partly true, with many reservations. ⁶Then to be considered seriously more and more, and finally accepted as the truth. ⁷I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt. ⁸And I would go beyond these words today, and past all reservations, and arrive at full acceptance of the truth in them.

Father, what You have given cannot hurt, so grief and pain must be impossible. ²Let me not fail to trust in You today, accepting but the joyous as Your gifts; accepting but the joyous as the truth. (A Course in Miracles, W-284. See also ACIM Lesson 284 Insights.)

God’s Will for us is the perfect peace and indescribable joy that come with the eternal gift of His limitless Love. If we experience anything but His Love, it is because we have chosen to believe that we have separated from our Creator. This can only seem to be true in dreams.

We have the means to let go of our mistaken beliefs and accept God’s gift. It seems to take time to achieve this change of mind only because we thoroughly convinced ourselves that we are an identity separate from God. We take the first step by affirming that we are worthy of God’s Love. With practice, the truth of our Self as God’s Son begins to be more fully accepted. As we persist with this practice we will awaken to the fact that we remain at Home in the Heaven of God’s Love.

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Being a Messenger of Life

Death is a thought that takes on many forms, often unrecognized. ²It may appear as sadness, fear, anxiety or doubt; as anger, faithlessness and lack of trust; concern for bodies, envy, and all forms in which the wish to be as you are not may come to tempt you. ³All such thoughts are but reflections of the worshipping of death as savior and as giver of release.

⁵There is no death, and we renounce it now in every form, for their salvation and our own as well. ⁶God made not death. ⁷Whatever form it takes must therefore be illusion. ⁸This the stand we take today. ⁹And it is given us to look past death, and see the life beyond.

Our Father, bless our eyes today. ²We are Your messengers, and we would look upon the glorious reflection of Your Love which shines in everything. ³We live and move in You alone. ⁴We are not separate from Your eternal life. ⁵There is no death, for death is not Your Will. ⁶And we abide where You have placed us, in the life we share with You and with all living things, to be like You and part of You forever. ⁷We accept Your Thoughts as ours, and our will is one with Yours eternally. ⁸Amen. (A Course in Miracles, W-163.1;8:5–9:8) See also ACIM Lesson 163 Insights.

If our peace of mind is disturbed at any time, it is because we have accepted the belief that we are separate from our Creator, our Source of Life. We live in God’s Love. There is no other reality but His Love. It is only our belief that we are excluded from His Reality that leads to our perception of pain, loss, fear and guilt. This perception has no foundation except in dreams.

We choose Life in place of death when we choose to accept our unbroken connection with our Father. Today we would be messengers of Life by expressing Love’s oneness to all our brothers. We live in Love.

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Choosing Love’s Oneness Brings Peace

If you were one with God and recognized this oneness, you would know His power is yours. ²But you will not remember this while you believe attack of any kind means anything.”

¹⁰And therefore it is necessary that you have other experiences, more in line with truth, to teach you what is natural and true.

This is the function of your holy relationship. ²For what one thinks, the other will experience with him. ³What can this mean except your mind and your brother’s are one? ⁴Look not with fear upon this happy fact, and think not that it lays a heavy burden on you. ⁵For when you have accepted it with gladness, you will realize that your relationship is a reflection of the union of the Creator and His Son. ⁶From loving minds there is no separation. ⁷And every thought in one brings gladness to the other because they are the same. ⁸Joy is unlimited, because each shining thought of love extends its being and creates more of itself. ⁹There is no difference anywhere in it, for every thought is like itself.

The light that joins you and your brother shines throughout the universe, and because it joins you and him, so it makes you and him one with your Creator. ²And in Him is all creation joined. ³Would you regret you cannot fear alone, when your relationship can also teach the power of love is there, which makes all fear impossible? ⁴Do not attempt to keep a little of the ego with this gift. ⁵For it was given you to be used, and not obscured. ⁶What teaches you that you cannot separate denies the ego. ⁷Let truth decide if you and your brother be different or the same, and teach you which is true. (A Course in Miracles, T-22.VI.12:1-2;13:10–15:7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We are all united as one Self, the Son of God. This fact guarantees that we have the power of Love in us which sees past all appearances of conflict and loss. When we are willing to let Love guide all our thoughts and actions, we become Love’s messengers in the ego’s dream of separation. Love’s light dispels the dark shadows of the ego’s wish for differences. It reveals the limitless peace and joy that are our natural state.

Today we choose peace; we choose happiness; we choose Love’s oneness.

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Accepting the Love That Is Our Identity

God is the only goal I have today.

The way to God is through forgiveness here. ²There is no other way. ³If sin had not been cherished by the mind, what need would there have been to find the way to where you are? ⁴Who would still be uncertain? ⁵Who could be unsure of who he is? ⁶And who would yet remain asleep, in heavy clouds of doubt about the holiness of him whom God created sinless? ⁷Here we can but dream. ⁸But we can dream we have forgiven him in whom all sin remains impossible, and it is this we choose to dream today. ⁹God is our goal; forgiveness is the means by which our minds return to Him at last.

And so, our Father, would we come to You in Your appointed way. ²We have no goal except to hear Your Voice, and find the way Your sacred Word has pointed out to us. (A Course in Miracles, W-256. See also ACIM Lesson 256 Insights.)

Every judgment denies our Identity as God’s Son. Judgement depends on perceiving differences. Yet in the oneness of God’s Love, all is the same. All is united in the joy and peace of God. God is our Home. In Him we live. There is no other life.

There is a way that sets us free from our perceived world of differences. It is the path God has chosen for us to free us from our mistaken beliefs that seem to separate us from our Creator and our one Self.

Forgiveness is the path that clears the way for our return Home to the Love we never left and never left us. Today we are grateful that we can ask the Holy Spirit to help us heal our mistaken beliefs. He will answer with a vision that shows us the Love that keeps us whole in the Heart of God.

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Dwelling in the Safety of God’s Love

This day I choose to spend in perfect peace.

It does not seem to me that I can choose to have but peace today. ²And yet, my God assures me that His Son is like Himself. ³Let me this day have faith in Him Who says I am God’s Son. ⁴And let the peace I choose be mine today bear witness to the truth of what He says. ⁵God’s Son can have no cares, and must remain forever in the peace of Heaven. ⁶In His Name, I give today to finding what my Father wills for me, accepting it as mine, and giving it to all my Father’s Sons, along with me.

And so, my Father, would I pass this day with You. ²Your Son has not forgotten You. ³The peace You gave him still is in his mind, and it is there I choose to spend today. (W-255)

There is no place in the ego’s dream where perfect peace is possible. The ego sends us on countless searches on the quest for peace, certain that it must not be found. The one place where perfect peace exists is denied by the ego. It’s forbidden territory. The ego can only dream and make up illusions that can never be real.

Our true Self, God’s one Son, is untouched by these dreams. Today we remind ourselves to pause and step back from the dream in our mind. We let our focus sink deeply within to the place where God’s certain peace resides. Here is our Home, which we have never left in truth. In gratitude, we accept the Holy Spirit’s help to set these dreams aside. With His vision we will see that we dwell safely in the eternal Love of God.

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Learning to Live in Present Love

God holds your future as He holds your past and present. ²They are one to Him, and so they should be one to you. ³Yet in this world, the temporal progression still seems real. ⁴And so you are not asked to understand the lack of sequence really found in time. ⁵You are but asked to let the future go, and place it in God’s Hands. ⁶And you will see by your experience that you have laid the past and present in His Hands as well, because the past will punish you no more, and future dread will now be meaningless.

What worry can beset the one who gives his future to the loving Hands of God? ²What can he suffer? ³What can cause him pain, or bring experience of loss to him? ⁴What can he fear? ⁵And what can he regard except with love? ⁶For he who has escaped all fear of future pain has found his way to present peace, and certainty of care the world can never threaten.

Place, then, your future in the Hands of God. ²For thus you call the memory of Him to come again, replacing all your thoughts of sin and evil with the truth of love.

²For in God’s Hands we rest untroubled, sure that only good can come to us. (A Course in Miracles, W-194.4;7:1-6;8:1-2;9:2. See also ACIM Lesson 194 Insights.)

Time is used by the ego thought system as a way of reinforcing a belief in separation. It tells us the past is ‘real’ and cannot be changed. Yet it uses the past as the basis for judgment and condemnation. It builds stories of the future based on memories of the past. All this is fantasy and cannot be real because God’s Love is eternal and changeless.

When we place the future in God’s hands, we are telling ourselves to forgive the past. Forgiveness opens our mind to the eternal Present, which is Love and nothing else. In the eternal Present, there can be no loss, no harm. We live in Present Love, perfectly safe and held lovingly in the Arms of our Creator.

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Our Restoration to Heaven’s Love Is Guaranteed

⁶Pursuit of the imagined leads to death because it is the search for nothingness, and while you seek for life you ask for death. ⁷You look for safety and security, while in your heart you pray for danger and protection for the little dream you made.

Yet searching is inevitable here. ²For this you came, and you will surely do the thing you came for. ³But the world can not dictate the goal for which you search, unless you give it power to do so.

Be glad that search you must. ²Be glad as well to learn you search for Heaven, and must find the goal you really want. ³No one can fail to want this goal and reach it in the end.”

No one remains in hell, for no one can abandon his Creator, nor affect His perfect, timeless and unchanging Love. ²You will find Heaven. ³Everything you seek but this will fall away. ⁴Yet not because it has been taken from you. ⁵It will go because you do not want it. ⁶You will reach the goal you really want as certainly as God created you in sinlessness. (A Course in Miracles, W-131.2:6–3:3;4:1-3;5. See also ACIM Lesson 131 Insights.)

Everyone in this world is seeking for love. This is because this world is a dream where Love’s Reality is denied. It denies our true Identity as Love. It is only natural that we would seek to return to our natural, happy and peaceful Identity.

Because we innately seek for the truth of What we are, we are guaranteed that we will find It. But we must be willing to forgive the wish for specialness that denies Love’s Reality. Today we ask the Holy Spirit to heal our mistaken wishes. We want to remember the Love of Heaven That is our Home.

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