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Walking in Love and Peace

Miracles are seen in light.

⁵Denial of light leads to failure to perceive it. ⁶Failure to perceive light is to perceive darkness.

⁵Your faith lies in the darkness, not the light [of Love]. ⁶How can this be reversed? ⁷For you it is impossible, but you are not alone in this.

Your efforts, however little they may be, have strong support. ²Did you but realize how great this strength, your doubts would vanish. ³Today we will devote ourselves to the attempt to let you feel this strength. ⁴When you have felt the strength in you, which makes all miracles within your easy reach, you will not doubt. ⁵The miracles your sense of weakness hides will leap into awareness as you feel the strength in you.

²It is from [God’s Thoughts] that your strength will come. ³It is through Their strong support that you will feel the strength in you. (W-91.2:5-6;3:5–4:5;10:2-3)

The ego is the idea of being separate and alone. Yet we are never alone, for God goes with us wherever we go. No matter how fearful we may feel as perceptions of harm and loss dominate our mind, God’s strength is with us. Nothing in this world can change that. Nothing can change God nor His Will that we have all His strength. Our true Self remains wholly contained within His Love and strength.

In every moment we can call upon His strength to help us see past the ego’s illusions of separation. His strength shows us the reality of our true Self in Him is invulnerable to anything the ego can conjure. We are not a body. We are the thought of Love held eternally in the Mind of God. We are safe. We are loved without limit.

We call upon His strength today to walk in the way of Love with peace in our hearts. With His help we awaken to the Light of Love that illuminates our Home in Heaven.

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Love Makes No Exceptions

…everyone is equally entitled to [the Holy Spirit’s] gift of healing and deliverance and peace. ⁵To give a problem to the Holy Spirit to solve for you means that you want it solved. ⁶To keep it for yourself to solve without His help is to decide it should remain unsettled, unresolved, and lasting in its power of injustice and attack.

Seek to deny and you will feel denied. ³Seek to deprive, and you have been deprived. ⁴A miracle can never be received because another could receive it not. ⁵Only forgiveness offers miracles. ⁶And pardon must be just to everyone.

That is why your sole responsibility must be to take forgiveness for yourself.

The miracle that you receive, you give. ²Each one becomes an illustration of the law on which salvation rests; that justice must be done to all, if anyone is to be healed. ³No one can lose, and everyone must benefit. ⁴Each miracle is an example of what justice can accomplish when it is offered to everyone alike. ⁵It is received and given equally. ⁶It is awareness that giving and receiving are the same.…

What is God’s belongs to everyone, and is his due. (A Course in Miracles, T-25.IX.7:4-6;8:2-6;9:6–10:6,10. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The miracle is the last thing the ego wants. It undoes the ego’s denial of the oneness of God’s Love. Therefore the miracle brings the end to the ego.

If we are willing to bring all our perceptions and thoughts to the Holy Spirit for Him to undo all aspects of fear they hold, we are willing to accept the gift of miracles. Our acceptance of this miracle extends to everyone and everything. Its extension depends only on our willingness for it to be applied to everyone and every situation.

As we begin our practice of bringing everything to the Holy Spirit, most of us are not willing for the miracle to apply to everything. But the more we practice, the more we recognize the miracle of forgiveness has no exceptions. The oneness of Love leaves nothing out.

Today let’s practice being open to the Holy Spirit’s gift of the miracle. Our acceptance brings the miracles’ blessings to us and the world.

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Awakening to Our Life in God

There is one life, and that I share with God.

There are not different kinds of life, for life is like the truth. It does not have degrees. It is the one condition in which all that God created share. Like all His Thoughts, it has no opposite.
There is no death because what God created shares His life.
There is no death because an opposite to God does not exist.
There is no death because the Father and the Son are one.

…the idea of death takes many forms. It is the one idea which underlies all feelings that are not supremely happy. It is the alarm to which you give response of any kind that is not perfect joy. All sorrow, loss, anxi­ety and suffering and pain, even a little sigh of weariness, a slight discomfort or the merest frown, acknowledge death.

What seems to be the opposite of life is merely sleeping. When the mind elects to be what it is not, and to assume an alien power which it does not have, a foreign state it cannot enter, or a false condition not within its Source, it merely seems to go to sleep a while. It dreams of time; an interval in which what seems to happen never has occurred, the changes wrought are substanceless, and all events are nowhere. When the mind awakes, it but continues as it always was.

Let us today be children of the truth, and not deny our holy heritage. Our life is not as we imagine it. Who changes life because he shuts his eyes, or makes himself what he is not because he sleeps, and sees in dreams an opposite to what he is? We will not ask for death in any form today. Nor will we let imagined opposites to life abide even an instant where the Thought of life eternal has been set by God Himself. (W-pI.167.1;2:3-6;9;10)

Death is the idea of being separate from the Source of Life. God (Love) is one, changeless and eternal. The Life we live in God is equally eternal. We remain eternally safe in our oneness with our Source.

Yet we seem to be in a world where safety is impossible, change is inevitable and our life ends in death. This could only seem to be real in a dream in which we are unaware of the reality of our Life in God. This dream is fraught with uncertainty, conflict, loss, fear and guilt. While we are engaged in this dream, the Life of our true Self continues unchanged, forever held in the certainty of changeless Love. We dream we are a stranger in a strange, loveless land.

Like all dreams, we can awaken to remember our true Home. God has not forgotten us. He offers us His helping Hand to guide us gently and lovingly to release our mistaken belief in death and awaken to our eternal Life in Him.

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Trusting the Holy Spirit’s Guidance

Be glad today how very easily is hell undone. You need but tell yourself:

I am the holy Son of God Himself. I cannot suffer, cannot be in pain; I cannot suffer loss, nor fail to do all that salvation asks.

And in that thought is everything you look on wholly changed.

All power is given unto you in earth and Heaven. There is nothing that you cannot do.

…let the Son of God awaken from his sleep, and opening his holy eyes, return again to bless the world he made. In error it began, but it will end in the reflection of his holiness. And he will sleep no more and dream of death. Then join with me today. Your glory is the light that saves the world. Do not withhold salvation longer. Look about the world, and see the suffering there. Is not your heart willing to bring your weary brothers rest?

You are the holy Son of God Himself. Remember this, and all the world is free. Remember this, and earth and Heaven are one. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 191, W-pI.191.7;9:1-2;10;11:6-8. See also ACIM Lesson 191 Insights.)

The perception that we live in an unsafe world that is lacking the Love we need is an illusion reflecting the ego’s lie—that we are separate from the Love of God. This world seems out of our control, caused by a source outside our mind. Yet its cause is simply a mistaken belief in our mind that we are separate from God. Let go of this one belief and the Heaven of God’s Love dawns upon our mind.

This is our Home. Here we abide in perfect safety. We have all God’s Love and live in joy as His Son. To claim It we only need to accept His gift already given us for eternity. We claim this inheritance by forgiving the world for all we thought it was. The world is simply a smokescreen of illusions that are dispelled through forgiveness.

Today we hold the Holy Spirit’s hand, trusting in His strong and kindly guidance to awaken to the Love we are.

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Love’s Guarantee of Lasting Happiness

A happy outcome to all things is sure.

God’s promises make no exceptions. And He guarantees that only joy can be the final outcome found for everything. Yet it is up to us when this is reached; how long we let an alien will appear to be opposing His. And while we think this will is real, we will not find the end He has appointed as the outcome of all problems we perceive, all trials we see, and every situation that we meet. Yet is the ending certain. For God’s Will is done in earth and Heaven. We will seek and we will find according to His Will, which guarantees that our will is done.

We thank You, Father, for Your guarantee of only happy outcomes in the end. Help us not interfere, and so delay the happy endings You have promised us for every problem that we can perceive; for every trial we think we still must meet. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 292, W-pII.292. See also ACIM Lesson 292 Insights.)

Happiness is an attribute of God’s Love. The ego, in its quest for specialness, denies the oneness of Love. Everything the ego directs us to do is guaranteed to disappoint. Because our true Self is part of God’s Love, seeking anything separate from Love is meaningless. It accomplishes nothing, disguised in illusions of forms. Seeking status, a relationship with another body, possessions we can call our own, can never bring us lasting happiness.

God has given us the Guide we need to lead us out of meaningless quests on a path that leads to awakening to the true Love we are. Following this Guide is guaranteed to bring us happiness because It leads us back to the Source of happiness.

Today we practice stepping back from our self-made goals by focusing on the peace of God within us. In this peace we welcome the lead of His Guide. It directs us to overlook the meaningless pursuits of the ego to see the Light of Love that we would recognize as our true Self. The Holy Spirit will lead us on the path to lasting happiness and awaken to the Home we never left in truth.

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Listen to the Voice That Guides Us to Love

Only God’s plan for salvation will work.

All things are possible to God. Salvation must be yours because of His plan, which cannot fail.

Ask Him very specifically:

What would You have me do?
Where would You have me go?
What would You have me say, and to whom?

Give Him full charge of [your life], and let Him tell you what needs to be done by you in His plan for your salvation. He will answer in proportion to your willingness to hear His Voice. Refuse not to hear. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 71, W-pI.71.6:4;7:3-4;9:2-8. See also ACIM Lesson 71 Insights.)

The only Source of power there is supports our release from the ego’s attempt to limit our identity in a loveless world. This Help is ever present in our mind, available in every instant to guide us back to Love. We need only be willing to listen to His Voice instead of the ego’s directions. It’s directions always direct us on a fruitless search to find freedom from fear and guilt where it cannot be found. The ego’s goal is to avoid God’s Love, even unto death. But if we are willing to hear God’s Voice, we will be guided step by step to return to Love.

In the world it seems that problems that interfere with our peace of mind abound. They stand as barriers against Love. His Voice offers specific solutions to our perceived problems that show us there is really only one problem and one solution.

The problem is accepting the ego’s belief in separation. The solution is learning to see that only Love is real, and we are that Love, now and forever. Each solution accepted brings us closer to the experience of deep peace, indescribable joy and Love without limit. We awaken to our Home in the Heart of God.

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Following the Path to Peace of Mind

First, [the teacher of God] must go through what might be called “a period of undoing.” This need not be painful, but it usually is so experienced. It seems as if things are being taken away, and it is rarely understood initially that their lack of value is merely being recognized. How can lack of value be perceived unless the perceiver is in a position where he must see things in a different light?

…the teacher of God [must] understand that he did not really know what was valuable and what was valueless. All that he really learned so far was that he did not want the valueless, and that he did want the valuable. Yet his own sorting out was meaningless in teaching him the difference. The idea of sacrifice, so central to his own thought system, had made it impossible for him to judge. …He must learn to lay all judgment aside, and ask only what he really wants in every circumstance.

…[tranquility is] the outcome of honest learning, consistency of thought and full transfer. This is the stage of real peace, for here is Heaven’s state fully reflected. (A Course in Miracles, M-4.I.A.1:1-4;7:2-5,8;8:4-5)

It does seem difficult to accept that nothing in the world we experience has any value. But we are not asked to make this seemingly giant leap of faith. Instead we are asked to be willing to relinquish our judgments about everything in the world to the Holy Spirit’s judgment.

The Holy Spirit is our key to freedom from the ego’s misperceptions that bring us fear and guilt. When we are willing to ask the Holy Spirit to judge every perception on our behalf, we are led on a journey to peace of mind.

With each judgment relinquished to the Holy Spirit, the Love of God flows more freely into our separated mind. The shadows of Love’s denial fade in Its Light. Our lives become increasingly peaceful and happy. The uncertainty and guilt that seem to dominate our daily experience fade as we increasingly see each day as an opportunity to accept and extend Love. Today we ask the Holy Spirit to be the judge of all our perceptions, for we would find the way to God’s Love.

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