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Remembering We Are in the Mind of God

“The ego is immobilized in the presence of God’s grandeur, because His grandeur establishes your freedom. Even the faintest hint of your reality literally drives the ego from your mind, because you will give up all investment in it. Grandeur is totally without illusions, and because it is real, it is compellingly convincing.”

“From your grandeur you can only bless, because your grandeur is your abundance. By blessing you hold it in your mind, protecting it from illusions and keeping yourself in the Mind of God. Remember always that you cannot be anywhere except in the Mind of God. When you forget this, you will despair, and you will attack.

“The ego depends solely on your willingness to tolerate it. If you are willing to look upon your grandeur you cannot despair, and therefore you cannot want the ego.” (T-9.VIII.4:1-3;5:1-6:2)

When we remember that our reality is only in the Mind of God, we also remember that this is true about everyone else in the dream of separation. As we remember our grandeur in God, we can only bless. As we bless, we are blessed and hold the memory of God in our mind. This is our practice for today.

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Finding the Peace of God

The peace of God is everything I want. The peace of God is
my one goal; the aim of all my living here, the end I seek,
my purpose and my function and my life, while I abide
where I am not at home.

I will be still, and let the earth be still along with me. And
in that stillness we will find the peace of God. It is within
my heart, which witnesses to God Himself.

I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 205, W-pI.205:2-3;208:1-7. See also ACIM Lesson 205 Insights.)

In this world almost all of our time is spent providing for our safety, searching for love and trying to find happiness. Yet searching for this in the world is a misguided attempt to find the peace of God. All the seeming needs in the world fade away as we realize that we already abide in the peace of God. His peace is ours. It will never go away, for God is eternal and He includes us in Himself.

Acknowledging that the peace of God is all we want is simply realizing what has always been. The conscious recognition of this leads to the choice to follow the Guide Whose job it is to teach us how to find the peace of God. We need to turn away from the false guide and focus our attention on the Guide Who knows what we really want, where it is and how to help us find it.

We will remind ourselves often that we are not a body and that the body cannot bring us the peace of God. But we are free to receive God’s peace because we are still as God created us.

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Forgiveness Welcomes the Love of God

Salvation is undoing in the sense that it does nothing, failing to support the world of dreams and malice. Thus it lets illusions go. By not supporting them, it merely lets them quietly go down to dust. And what they hid is now revealed; an altar to the holy Name of God whereon His Word is written, with the gifts of your forgiveness laid before it, and the memory of God not far behind.

Let us come daily to this holy place [with our gifts forgiveness], and spend a while together. Here we share our final dream. It is a dream in which there is no sorrow, for it holds a hint of all the glory given us by God. The grass is pushing through the soil, the trees are budding now, and birds have come to live within their branches. Earth is being born again in new perspective. Night has gone, and we have come together in the light. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 231, W-pII.2.3-4. See also ACIM Lesson 231 Insights.)

The image of spring with new growth and birds singing is a great metaphor for what we will experience as we let go of supporting illusions of separation in the dream of separation. We experience peace and a happy awakening to the awareness of God’s gifts as we let go of our judgments, our fears and our guilt.

The daily practice of forgiveness will bring us to our inner springtime. Our minds and hearts will remember the Love of God and see it everywhere. This practice is what time is for. It is the journey Home.

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Welcoming the Joy of God

O my child, if you knew what God wills for you, your joy would be complete! And what He wills has happened, for it was always true. When the light comes, and you have said, “God’s Will is mine,” you will see such beauty that you will know it is not of you. Out of your joy you will create beauty in His Name, for your joy could no more be contained than His. The bleak little world will vanish into nothingness, and your heart will be so filled with joy that it will leap into Heaven, and into the Presence of God. I cannot tell you what this will be like, for your heart is not ready. Yet I can tell you, and remind you often, that what God wills for Himself He wills for you, and what He wills for you is yours. (A Course in Miracles, T-11.III.3. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

God’s Will for us is perfect happiness. If we are not experiencing God’s joy wholly, then we are denying His Will for us. We are choosing to be separate from our Creator.

The good news is that we can choose again. We have been given a Guide to show us what we really want and help us decide against the false ideas that have limited our joy and darkened our minds. As we are willing to follow our Inner Guide, we will learn to see the magnificent Love that is the truth in our brothers and our self. Our Guide waits patiently for our willingness to follow His lead. He cannot leave us because He is one with us and our Creator.

Today we would follow and make no decisions on our own that our joy may be complete.

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Remembering the Peace of God Is in Me

Your peace is with me, Father.  I am safe.

Your peace surrounds me, Father. Where I go, Your peace goes there with me. It sheds its light on everyone I meet. I bring it to the desolate and lonely and afraid. I give Your peace to those who suffer pain, or grieve for loss, or think they are bereft of hope and happiness. Send them to me, my Father. Let me bring Your peace with me. For I would save Your Son, as is Your Will, that I may come to recognize my Self.

And so we go in peace. To all the world we give the message that we have received. And thus we come to hear the Voice for God, Who speaks to us as we relate His Word; Whose Love we recognize because we share the Word that He has given unto us. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 245, W-pII.245. See also ACIM Lesson 245 Insights.)

A sense of vulnerability and the need to protect ourselves comes from the belief that we are separate from our Creator. It is inevitable that we would feel weak if we believe we are separate from the only Source of strength. Fortunately, belief has no effect on Truth, which must be changeless. The Truth of our Creation remains in us. That Truth holds the peace of God and all His Love.

The Holy Spirit remains in our mind to remind us of the Truth of What we are. We have taught ourselves to believe in a world that denies our Self. But the Holy Spirit is ever present to show us the Truth beyond the mistaken beliefs.

Holy Spirit, help me with Your vision to see past the images of this world to the peace that is ever present. Teach me to recognize God’s Love beyond the form the body’s eyes see. Help me recognize calls for Love from others and myself and answer with Love. For I would remember God, my Father. Herein I find peace.

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Learning to Accept God’s Love

Grace is acceptance of the Love of God within a world of seeming hate and fear. By grace alone the hate and fear are gone, for grace presents a state so opposite to everything the world contains, that those whose minds are lighted by the gift of grace can not believe the world of fear is real.

Grace is not learned. The final step must go beyond all learning. Grace is not the goal this course aspires to attain. Yet we prepare for grace in that an open mind can hear the Call to waken. It is not shut tight against God’s Voice. It has become aware that there are things it does not know, and thus is ready to accept a state completely different from experience with which it is familiarly at home. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 169, W-pI.169.2-3. See also ACIM Lesson 169 Insights.)

This world was made as a place where God could not enter. It makes sense then that the way out of the world of hate and fear is to accept God, to accept Love.

Judgment denies God, for it is founded on the belief in separation, which denies the oneness of God. To accept God’s Love, we must let go of judgment; we must forgive. We have been given a Teacher Whose only function is to show us that only Love is real.

As we practice bringing all of our unloving, fearful and guilty thoughts to the Holy Spirit, our judgments are undone. We are shown that what we thought was cause for fear and guilt was only a harmless false image. What is not real can have no effect in reality. As we continue the practice, the appearances of the world has less affect on us, for we see past them to the truth that nothing is really happening.

We may still have beliefs we are protecting from the Holy Spirit’s Light. We think these beliefs are sacred and protect us from loss. But as we continue the practice of forgiving with the Holy Spirit’s help, we learn that these cherished beliefs do not serve us. We become willing to let them go. This is how we prepare to receive the grace of God, to accept God’s Love.

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We All Have a Role to Play

I follow in the way appointed me. I have a special place to fill; a role for me alone. Salvation waits until I take this part as what I choose to do. Until I make this choice, I am the slave of time and human destiny. But when I willingly and gladly go the way my Father’s plan appointed me to go, then will I recognize salvation is already here, already given all my brothers and already mine as well.

Father, Your way is what I choose today. Where it would lead me do I choose to go; what it would have me do I choose to do. Your way is certain, and the end secure. The memory of You awaits me there. And all my sorrows end in Your embrace, which You have promised to Your Son, who thought mistakenly that he had wandered from the sure protection of Your loving Arms. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 317, W-pII.317. See also ACIM Lesson 317 Insights.)

We have a purpose here. We are to follow and not lead. As we are ready and open to follow Holy Spirit’s plan for us, we will be carried… We will be shown, minute by minute, what our role is in the awakening of the Sonship to our one Self… As each of us awakens, we help the awakening of the whole.

As we let ourselves be led, Holy Spirit lights our way… As Holy Spirit lights our path, many are helped along with us… It is not our job to know how this is done. It simply is our job to listen and follow Holy Spirit’s lead. Holy Spirit will always lead us to rise above and see the Love behind the dream of separation… The Holy Spirit will show us our connectedness…

As we let Holy Spirit’s Love and light fill our mind, we are filled with a sense of peace and safety… As we extend the peace we receive, peace is strengthened in others and ourselves… A pervading sense of tranquility and deep sense of purpose fills the air… As we give our minds over to the Holy Spirit, we are given all that we need to fulfill our role…

All doubt and sense of loss and vulnerability fade away as we continue on the way appointed us… A sense of strength and certainty fills our being as we continue to let Holy Spirit carry us Home, along with all our brothers… We are filled with gratitude that we have a part to play and receive the means for it to be accomplished.

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