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Our Safety Lies in the Love We Are

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

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

Love’s mean­ing is your own, and shared by God Himself. For what you are is what He is. There is no love but His, and what He is, is every­thing there is. There is no limit placed upon Himself, and so are you unlimited as well. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 127, W-pI.127.1:3-7;3;4:2-5. See also ACIM Lesson 127 Insights.)

The uniformity and limitlessness of Love binds us to the certainty of our safety in God. What He is, we are, for God has given all of Himself to His Creation. Nothing else exists, for only Love is real.

When we experience fear, we are responding to an apparition, made by the ego, which we believe is real. We are responding to a false belief. Beyond this belief, God’s Voice waits on our willingness to hear Him teach us of our perfect safety in God’s Love.

Today let us use every perception of fear as a reminder to turn our attention to the Holy Spirit and open our minds to His vision, which looks past the ego’s apparitions to the certainty of God’s Love. Let Him comfort us as He reminds us of our unity in Love, where harm is impossible. Together we awaken to the Love we are eternally.

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Bringing Love’s Unity to the World

Judgment and love are opposites. From one
Come all the sorrows of the world. But from
The other comes the peace of God Himself.

Forgiveness looks on sinlessness alone, and judges not. Through this I come to You. Judgment will bind my eyes and make me blind. Yet love, reflected in forgiveness here, reminds me You have given me a way to find Your peace again. I am redeemed when I elect to follow in this way. You have not left me comfortless. I have within me both the mem­ory of You, and One Who leads me to it. Father, I would hear Your Voice and find Your peace today. For I would love my own Identity, and find in It the memory of You. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 352, W-pII.352. See also ACIM Lesson 352 Insights.)

Judgment and blame are rampant in the world — in direct conversations, in the media and on social networks. The ego is on the prowl, searching for anything and anyone to judge or blame for what is wrong. No one is excluded from consideration, including ourselves. The ego thrives on guilt and cultivates it through judgment, blame and shame. This is the home the ego has built. We believe it is our home, our reality, as long as we believe in a separate identity, different from everyone else.

But this is not our home. We can leave it behind and walk into a world of Light and freedom to be the Love we were created to be. We open the door by choosing the Holy Spirit as our Guide and Interpreter of everything we perceive in the world. Following His lead, we will see past the ego’s façade of false images to the innocence of Love that is the only reality.

His vision transforms our fear-based perception to the recognition of Love’s unity, joining us with every brother and our Creator. With His vision, the ego’s search for justification of guilt is transformed into a steady flow of Love that answers every call for Love, bringing unity in place of division.

Today we reinforce our dedication to asking the Holy Spirit for His vision all through the day. This is the choice to accept with gratitude God’s gift of all His Love, joy and peace.

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Being an Open Channel of God’s Love

The Holy Spirit takes you gently by the hand, and retraces with you your mad journey outside yourself, leading you gently back to the truth and safety within.

In your [holy] relationship with your brother, where [the Holy Spirit] has taken charge of everything at your request, He has set the course inward to the truth you share. In the mad world outside you nothing can be shared but only substituted, and sharing and substituting have nothing in common in reality. Within yourself you love your brother with a perfect love.

You have been called, together with your brother, to the most holy function this world contains. It is the only one that has no limits, and reaches out to every broken fragment of the Sonship with healing and uniting comfort. This is offered you, in your holy relationship. Accept it here, and you will give as you have accepted. The peace of God is given you with the glowing purpose in which you join with your brother. The holy light that brought you and him together must extend, as you accepted it. (A Course in Miracles, T-18.I.8:3;9:1-3;13. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Our relationship with a brother is holy when we request the Holy Spirit to be in charge. With Him in charge of our perception, illusions about our brother and our self are dispelled. No longer are we deceived by appearances interpreted by the ego as confirming the reality of separation. No longer are we guided by the ego’s insanity which insists illusions are real.

With the Holy Spirit in charge, we see past the insanity to the changeless truth of Love’s reality. Our brother is accepted as one with us in Love. With the Holy Spirit in charge, we walk with our brother in perfect unity, sharing in the limitless flow of God’s Love.

Today we request the Holy Spirit to be in charge of all our doing. With His help, we will bring sanity to the world. We will be open channels of God’s Love.

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Being a Messenger of Love in the World

Fear is not justified in any form.

Fear is deception. It attests that you have seen yourself as you could never be, and therefore look upon a world which is impos­sible. Not one thing in this world is true. It does not matter what the form in which it may appear. It witnesses but to your own illusions of yourself. Let us not be deceived today. We are the Sons of God. There is no fear in us, for we are each a part of Love Itself.

How foolish are our fears! Would You allow Your Son to suffer? Give us faith today to recognize Your Son, and set him free. Let us forgive him in Your Name, that we may understand his holiness, and feel the love for him which is Your Own as well.

Hear His Voice alone in all that speaks to you. And let Him give you peace and certainty, which you have thrown away, but Heaven has preserved for you in Him. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 240, W-pII.240;3.4:4-5. See also ACIM Lesson 240 Insights.)

We believe we are a body capable of being harmed and dying. If this were our real identity, fear would be inevitable. Yet the Course asks us to repeat many times a day for 20 days, “I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.” (Lessons 201-220) This fact, fully accepted as true, releases us of all fear. It returns us to the awareness of the invulnerability of the Love we are eternally.

In the world there seems to be much justification for fear of pain, loss and death. This comes only from believing the body is our identity. The Holy Spirit can help each of us release this fear if we are willing to open our minds to His vision. He will help heal our fear-based thoughts by showing us our invulnerability as God’s one Son. The Holy Spirit’s vision sees past the illusions of the world to the eternal, universal Presence of God’s Love.

Today, whenever we notice a fearful, guilty or judgmental thought, we ask the Holy Spirit to heal our fear-based thoughts. As we accept His healing, we become messengers of Love in a fearful and loveless world.

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Joining with the Truth in Our Brothers

You look still with the body’s eyes, and they can see but thorns [attack]. Yet you have asked for and received another sight. Those who accept the Holy Spirit’s purpose as their own share also His vision. And what enables Him to see His purpose shine forth from every altar now is yours as well as His. He sees no strangers; only dearly loved and loving friends. He sees no thorns but only lilies, gleaming in the gentle glow of peace that shines on everything He looks upon and loves.

You have the vision now to look past all illusions. It has been given you to see no thorns, no strangers and no obstacles to peace. The fear of God is nothing to you now. Who is afraid to look upon illusions, knowing his savior [brother] stands beside him? With him, your vision has become the greatest power for the undoing of illusion that God Himself could give. For what God gave the Holy Spirit, you have received. (A Course in Miracles, T-20.II.5;7:1-6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

When we look through the body’s eyes, we see our brother as a body, a false image that hides the truth of what our brother is. Being an illusion no body nor what it does can be our savior. But the recognition of the truth in our brother as the Self that is God’s Son is our savior. This recognition teaches us that we, too, are this same Self, at one with our brother. Instead of seeing a brother as an adversary, he is a reminder of our unity with him as God’s Son. We remember our brother is joined with us, sharing the Love and peace of Heaven.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us see our brother truly, for our deepest desire is to awaken to the Heaven that is our Home. With His help, we become channels of God’s Love, extending It to all the world. Thus will we save the world we see from illusions of separation and awaken to our Home in God.

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Choosing the Light of Love Within

In quietness is [the peace of God] acknowledged universally. For what your inward vision looks upon is your perception of the universe.

Sit quietly and close your eyes. The light within you is sufficient. It alone has power to give the gift of sight to you. Exclude the outer world, and let your thoughts fly to the peace within. They know the way. For honest thoughts, untainted by the dream of worldly things outside yourself, become the holy messengers of God Himself.

…we acknowledge that the peace of God still shines in us, and from us to all living things that share our life. We will forgive them all, absolving all the world from what we thought it did to us. For it is we who make the world as we would have it. Now we choose that it be innocent, devoid of sin and open to salvation. And we lay our saving blessing on it, as we say:

The peace of God is shining in me now.
Let all things shine upon me in that peace,
And let me bless them with the light in me. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 188, W-pI.188.5:6-6:6;10. See also ACIM Lesson 188 Insights.)

The ego is dishonest. It denies the truth that only the oneness of Love is real. When we accept the ego and its images of separate personalities and bodies as our identity, we are being dishonest with our Self. Because of our dishonesty, we believe in a false image of ourselves and we see a false world. Lies do not change the Truth but they hide It from our awareness. The world we see is the effect of our belief in the ego’s lies.

When we choose to go to the center of peace within us beyond the ego’s false images, we open our minds to the Holy Spirit’s vision of Truth. This vision shows us that the ego’s denials are meaningless. The false identity we have accepted is nothing more than a shadow hiding the presence of Love from our awareness.

As we let the Holy Spirit guide our seeing, we let go of belief in false images, releasing them to the nothingness from which they came. This is true forgiveness. Today we choose the Light of God’s peace and Love to let it dispel the ego’s darkness. This Light reveals our unity with every brother and with God. And we give thanks.

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Letting God’s Love Flow Through Us

Forgiveness is the only thing that stands for truth in the illusions of the world. It sees their nothingness, and looks straight through the thousand forms in which they may appear.

Across this bridge [of forgiveness], as powerful as love which laid its blessing on it, are all dreams of evil and of hatred and attack brought silently to truth. They are not kept to swell and bluster, and to terrify the foolish dreamer who believes in them. He has been gently wakened from his dream by understanding what he thought he saw was never there. And now he cannot feel that all escape has been denied to him.

Forgiveness must be practiced, for the world cannot perceive its meaning, nor provide a guide to teach you its beneficence.

Today we practice true forgiveness, that the time of joining be no more delayed. For we would meet with our reality in free­dom and in peace. Our practicing becomes the footsteps lighting up the way for all our brothers, who will follow us to the reality we share with them. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 134, W-pI.134.7:1-2;11;13:1;14:1-3. See also ACIM Lesson 134 Insights.)

The ego is a thought of unforgiveness, the rejection of God’s gift of all of His Love. We cannot ask the thought of unforgiveness to teach us how to forgive.

But we have a Guide Whose function is to teach us to see past the illusions made by the thought of unforgiveness. As a bridge of God’s Love into the world, the Holy Spirit lovingly teaches us to recognize the unreality of illusions. Recognized for what they are, we easily overlook illusions, for they have had no effect on the reality of the Self God created one with Him.

The Holy Spirit’s lessons will never increase our fear. They gently awaken us from the dream of fear and guilt to the experience of God’s peace and joy. Each lesson accepted strengthens our willingness to let the Love of God flow through us. We awaken to the Love we are and remember every brother is one with us in that Love.

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