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Remembering Who Walks With Me

I walk with God in perfect holiness.

You cannot walk the world apart from God, because you could not be without Him. He is what your life is. Where you are He is. There is one life. That life you share with Him. Nothing can be apart from Him and live.

There is a light in you which cannot die; whose presence is so holy that the world is sanctified because of you.

This is the way salvation works. As you step back, the light in you steps forward and encompasses the world.

Who walks with me?” This question should be asked a thousand times a day, till certainty has ended doubting and estab­lished peace. Today let doubting cease. God speaks for you in answering your question with these words:

I walk with God in perfect holiness. I light the world, I light my mind and all the minds which God created one with me. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 156, W-pI.156.3:4-9;4:1;6:1-2;8. See also ACIM Lesson 156 Insights.)

Despite the ego’s efforts to convince us otherwise, we do not walk alone in a loveless world. We were created as a Thought in the Mind of Love. We remain eternally in the Love that created us. Love is our Home and our Life. What is not Love does not exist. Only in dreams can we seem to be in a loveless world where everything is different and separate.

Though we believe this world is our home, we have never left the Love that created us. Today we remind ourselves frequently that Love walks with us in every moment. Love fills our mind and unites us with the Love in the mind of every brother. Love brings us comfort when we forget and engage in the ego’s denial of Love.

The Life we live in God remains untouched by our chaotic dreams. We can remember our safety by stepping back a moment from our engagement in the world and remind ourself, “I walk with God in perfect peace.”

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Being a Messenger of Love

We walk to God. Pause and reflect on this. Could any way be holier, or more deserving of your effort, of your love and of your full intent? What way could give you more than everything, or offer less and still content the holy Son of God? We walk to God. The truth that walks before us now is one with Him, and leads us to where He has always been. What way but this could be a path that you would choose instead?

Your feet are safely set upon the road that leads the world to God. Look not to ways that seem to lead you elsewhere. Dreams are not a worthy guide for you who are God’s Son. Forget not He has placed His Hand in yours, and given you your brothers in His trust that you are worthy of His trust in you. He cannot be deceived. His trust has made your pathway certain and your goal secure. You will not fail your brothers nor your Self.

And now He asks but that you think of Him a while each day, that He may speak to you and tell you of His Love, reminding you how great His trust; how limitless His Love. In your Name and His Own, which are the same, we practice gladly with this thought today:

I will step back and let Him lead the way,
For I would walk along the road to Him. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 155, W-pI.155.12-14. See also ACIM Lesson 155 Insights.)

The ego is the idea of wanting to be independent and in charge of his own “destiny.” It does not tell you its destiny is hell, complete isolation and lack of Love. It hides this fact beneath appealing projected images that seem to offer possibilities of happiness, pleasure and safety. But these images only reinforce the belief that separation and lack of Love are real. No relief or happiness it seems to offer lasts.

Our only satisfaction comes with fulfilling the purpose God gave us—to extend Love and nothing else. When we let Love guide all our words and actions, we become messengers of Love in the world. The Love we are joins with the Love that is the truth in every brother. This joining fulfills our purpose to extend Love and join with God’s creation. This is how we walk with God. When we walk in Love, we are joined with our brothers in God’s Love. Let’s do it together.

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How to Live in Happiness and Love

We ask for rest today, and quietness unshaken by the world’s appearances. We ask for peace and stillness, in the midst of all the turmoil born of clashing dreams. We ask for safety and for happiness, although we seem to look on danger and on sorrow.

“I rest in God.” This thought will bring to you the rest and quiet, peace and stillness, and the safety and the happiness you seek. “I rest in God.” This thought has power to wake the sleep­ing truth in you, whose vision sees beyond appearances to that same truth in everyone and everything there is.

This is the day of peace. You rest in God, and while the world is torn by winds of hate your rest remains completely undis­turbed. Yours is the rest of truth.

In Him you have no cares and no concerns, no burdens, no anxiety, no pain, no fear of future and no past regrets. In time­lessness you rest, while time goes by without its touch upon you, for your rest can never change in any way at all. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 109, W-pI.109.1:1-3;2:1-4;4:1-3;5:1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 109 Insights.)

When we remember our unbreakable unity with God, no appearances in the world can disturb our peace. Vigilance to frequently remind ourselves that we rest in God promises certainty of our safety and a life of happiness and Love. It’s worth the effort.

Let’s join together in this vigilance to do our part to bring peace to the world.

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Choosing Love as Our Guide Blesses the World

The truth maintains that giving will increase what you possess.

…things but represent the thoughts that make them. And you do not lack for proof that when you give ideas away, you strengthen them in your own mind.

Ideas must first belong to you, before you give them. If you are to save the world, you first accept salvation for yourself. …Now you can perceive that by your giving is your store increased.

Protect all things you value by the act of giving them away, and you are sure that you will never lose them. What you thought you did not have is thereby proven yours. Yet value not its form. For this will change and grow unrecognizable in time, however much you try to keep it safe. No form endures. It is the [loving] thought behind the form of things that lives unchangeable.

Give gladly. You can only gain thereby. The thought remains, and grows in strength as it is reinforced by giving. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 187, W-pI.187.1:8;2:3-4;3:1-2,5;4:1-5:3. See also ACIM Lesson 187 Insights.)

Beyond all forms in the world there are only two orders of thought—Love or a call for Love. If we are engaged with the ego thought system, we will see only our own calls for Love reflected back to us. The ego cannot recognize Love’s presence.

When we are willing to accept Christ’s vision in our mind, we are open to true perception that reveals the presence of Love. It also responds to calls for Love by giving Love.

The forms in which we respond varies widely. The underlying thought system that motivates our response leads either to the furtherance of our descent into hell or leads to our awakening to our oneness in the Heaven of God’s Love. We make this choice in every moment.

Today let’s join together in choosing Love as our Guide and awaken to the oneness of our true Self in God.

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Accepting God’s Strength as Our Own

If you are trusting in your own strength, you have every reason to be apprehensive, anxious and fearful. What can you predict or control? What is there in you that can be counted on? What would give you the ability to be aware of all the facets of any problem, and to resolve them in such a way that only good can come of it? What is there in you that gives you the recognition of the right solution, and the guarantee that it will be accomplished?

Of yourself you can do none of these things.

God is your safety in every circumstance. His Voice speaks for Him in all situations and in every aspect of all situations, telling you exactly what to do to call upon His strength and His protec­tion.

…reach down into your mind to a place of real safety. You will recognize that you have reached it if you feel a sense of deep peace, however briefly. …There is a place in you where there is perfect peace. There is a place in you where nothing is impossible. There is a place in you where the strength of God abides.

Remember that peace is your right, because you are giving your trust to the strength of God. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 47, W-pI.47.1;2:1;3:1-2;7:1-2,4-6;8:3. See also ACIM Lesson 47 Insights.)

The strength of God is in us, guaranteed by our Creator. But our allegiance to the ego, which denies God, leaves us feeling weak, vulnerable, unloved and unworthy. All this comes only because we are denying God’s gift of all of Himself. It is time to deny the ego’s denial.

We are assured that we have not lost God’s strength. It remains in us now, available to be claimed in every moment. We have a process to follow to reclaim the strength we have denied.

Pause and step back from the chaos and uncertainty of the world. We let our minds return to the place in us where God’s strength abides, never to be lost. As we welcome His peace, our minds are open to His Voice. We will be told exactly what to do and say from the Holy Spirit’s perspective. He knows how to lead us to full awareness of our safety, our comfort and our well being. 

Today we choose peace, for we would accept God’s strength as our own.

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The Light of Love Leads Us Home

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 practice coming nearer to the light in us today. We take our wandering thoughts, and gently bring them back to where they fall in line with all the thoughts we share with God.

…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;9:1-2;10. See also ACIM Lesson 188 Insights.)

The practice of frequently quieting our mind and going to the Light within helps welcome the Holy Spirit’s voice. This is key to letting the Holy Spirit’s insight and guidance into our awareness. He shines His Light upon our thoughts. This Light dispels the dark shadows of ego’s misperceptions, revealing the Love that joins us with all of Reality. With the Holy Spirit’s help we see the truth in our brothers that unites us in the one Self we share as God’s Son.

The more frequently we remember to pause and welcome the peace of God, the greater will be our happiness. We learn to see all things in His Light. And the ego’s darkness fades away as we journey Home to Love.

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Giving Allegiance to Love Instead of Fear

When your body and your ego and your dreams are gone, you will know that you will last forever. Perhaps you think this is accomplished through death, but nothing is accomplished through death, because death is nothing. Everything is accomplished through life, and life is of the mind and in the mind. The body neither lives nor dies, because it cannot contain you who are life. If we share the same mind, you can overcome death because I did. Death is an attempt to resolve conflict by not deciding at all. Like any other impossible solution the ego attempts, it will not work.

God did not make the body, because it is destructible, and therefore not of the Kingdom. The body is the symbol of what you think you are. It is clearly a separation device, and therefore does not exist. The Holy Spirit, as always, takes what you have made and translates it into a learning device. Again as always, He reinterprets what the ego uses as an argument for separation into a demonstration against [separation]. If the mind can heal the body, but the body cannot heal the mind, then the mind must be stronger than the body. Every miracle demonstrates this. (A Course in Miracles, T-6.V.A.1-2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Because of our allegiance to the ego, we accept the body as what we are. The body is a symbol made by the ego. But symbols cannot be real. They can only seem real in dreams. The body is made real by our mistaken belief that a symbol could be real. Without this belief, the symbol is disregarded, making way for us to awaken to the reality of our real Mind in the Mind of God.

We awaken from the dream by withdrawing our allegiance from the ego. If we are willing to give our allegiance to the Holy Spirit, He will use the body to teach us that we are not limited to it. We are Mind. We share the one Mind of God with Jesus. He demonstrated that what appeared to happen to his body had no effect on his Life in God. His demonstration shows us that we can do the same. We need only accept the help of the Holy Spirit as he did.

As we give our allegiance to the Holy Spirit in our mind, He will guide us to let go of our mistaken allegiance to the ego and the body. His lessons will teach us that the body cannot limit us. We are free to be Love in the one Mind of Love. We will see that we can let Love be extended through us in a world filled with symbols of separation. As we let the Light of Love illuminate our vision, we see the truth in our brothers with whom we share the one Mind of Love. We awaken from the dream of separation to the truth of the one Self Love created like Itself.

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