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Opening to the Presence of Love

³Delay does not matter in eternity, but it is tragic in time. ⁴You have elected to be in time rather than eternity, and therefore believe you are in time. ⁵Yet your election is both free and alterable. ⁶You do not belong in time. ⁷Your place is only in eternity, where God Himself placed you forever.

Guilt feelings are the preservers of time. ²They induce fears of retaliation or abandonment, and thus ensure that the future will be like the past. ³This is the ego’s continuity. ⁴It gives the ego a false sense of security by believing that you cannot escape from it. ⁵But you can and must. ⁶God offers you the continuity of eternity in exchange. ⁷When you choose to make this exchange, you will simultaneously exchange guilt for joy, viciousness for love, and pain for peace. ⁸My role is only to unchain your will and set it free. ⁹Your ego cannot accept this freedom, and will oppose it at every possible moment and in every possible way. ¹⁰And as its maker, you recognize what it can do because you gave it the power to do it.

Remember the Kingdom always, and remember that you who are part of the Kingdom cannot be lost. ²The Mind that was in me is in you, for God creates with perfect fairness. ³Let the Holy Spirit remind you always of His fairness, and let me teach you how to share it with your brothers. (A Course in Miracles, T-5.VI.1:3–3:3. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Guilt feelings keep our thoughts anchored on the past and maintain our belief that time is real. They cover the present with images of the past. These images are a veil that hides the glorious Light of Love that joins us with All That is.

When we are willing to turnover all our perceptions to the Holy Spirit for his loving correction, we free ourselves from the past. We open our minds to the timeless presence of Love. We remember the peace of God is ours to hold and keep.

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Deconstructing Our Barriers to Love

I have no cause for anger or for fear, for You surround me. And in every need that I perceive, Your grace suffices me.

Father, let me remember You are here, and I am not alone. ²Surrounding me is everlasting Love. ³I have no cause for anything except the perfect peace and joy I share with You. ⁴What need have I for anger or for fear? ⁵Surrounding me is perfect safety. ⁶Can I be afraid, when Your eternal promise goes with me? ⁷Surrounding me is perfect sinlessness. ⁸What can I fear, when You created me in holiness as perfect as Your Own?

God’s grace suffices us in everything that He would have us do. ²And only that we choose to be our will as well as His. (A Course in Miracles, W-348. See also ACIM Lesson 348 Insights.)

Anger or fear are sure signs that we are engaged with the ego. We believe we have separated from our Creator and therefore lost His support. Fortunately we can deny God’s Love, but we cannot stop Love’s reality. His Love is always with us, whether we accept it or not.

With today’s lesson, we are reminded that His Love surrounds us. We will experience His Love more and more as we dismantle the barriers we have built to keep out His Love. The Holy Spirit is our deconstruction specialist. If we are willing, He will help us remove each block we have accepted that denies awareness of Love’s presence.

Today we walk holding the Holy Spirit’s hand as we are willing to accept the Love that has always been ours. With His help, we will be messengers of Love to the world.

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Lessons Learned from the Present

All fear is past and only love is here.

All fear is past, because its source is gone, and all its thoughts gone with it. ²Love remains the only present state, whose Source is here forever and forever. ³Can the world seem bright and clear and safe and welcoming, with all my past mistakes oppressing it, and showing me distorted forms of fear? ⁴Yet in the present love is obvious, and its effects apparent. ⁵All the world shines in reflection of its holy light, and I perceive a world forgiven at last.

Father, let not Your holy world escape my sight today. ²Nor let my ears be deaf to all the hymns of gratitude the world is singing underneath the sounds of fear. ³There is a real world which the present holds safe from all past mistakes. ⁴And I would see only this world before my eyes today. (A Course in Miracles, W-293. See also ACIM Lesson 293 Insights.)

While we believe we are a body, we have lessons to learn. The ego teaches that these lessons must be learned from the past. Thus it uses the body to keep our attention on past mistakes. This focus on the past brings fear with it because it keeps images of hurt and loss in our awareness.

The Holy Spirit offers us lessons from the present. These lessons teach only of Love. They teach us that Love’s changelessness keeps us safe. Love’s oneness brings us peace. Love’s eternal extension brings us joy.

These are the lessons we must learn to awaken to the real world where the past is dismissed because it is not here. It has no real effect on the present moment. Only Love is real.

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The Practice That Returns Us to Love

God goes with me wherever I go.

Today’s idea will eventually overcome completely the sense of loneliness and abandonment all the separated ones experience. ²Depression is an inevitable consequence of separation. ³So are anxiety, worry, a deep sense of helplessness, misery, suffering and intense fear of loss.

The separated ones have invented many “cures” for what they believe to be “the ills of the world.” ²But the one thing they do not do is to question the reality of the problem. ³Yet its effects cannot be cured because the problem is not real. ⁴The idea for today has the power to end all this foolishness forever. ⁵And foolishness it is, despite the serious and tragic forms it may take.

Deep within you is everything that is perfect, ready to radiate through you and out into the world. ²It will cure all sorrow and pain and fear and loss because it will heal the mind that thought these things were real, and suffered out of its allegiance to them.

You can never be deprived of your perfect holiness because its Source goes with you wherever you go. ²You can never suffer because the Source of all joy goes with you wherever you go. ³You can never be alone because the Source of all life goes with you wherever you go. ⁴Nothing can destroy your peace of mind because God goes with you wherever you go. (A Course in Miracles, W-41.1–4. See also ACIM Lesson 41 Insights.)

The changeless of God’s Love is always with us. Only our belief in the ego thought system of separation makes us unaware of God’s presence. All the problems we see in our lives and the world come from this insane obsession. The insane believe what they perceive is real and do not question it.

The key to release from our insanity is to question the reality of our perceived problems. With the Holy Spirit’s help, we can see beyond our misperceptions if we are willing to take them to Him for correction. The practice of reminding ourselves that problems are not real and bringing them to the Holy Spirit for His correction is the path of return to our natural state. Our nature as God’s Son is to be loving, peaceful and happy.

Today we practice taking every perceived problem to the Holy Spirit for His loving correction.

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Remembering the Truth

You who were created by Love like Itself can hold no grievances and know your Self. ²To hold a grievance is to forget who you are. ³To hold a grievance is to see yourself as a body. ⁴To hold a grievance is to let the ego rule your mind and to condemn the body to death. ⁵Perhaps you do not yet fully realize just what holding grievances does to your mind. ⁶It seems to split you off from your Source and make you unlike Him. ⁷It makes you believe that He is like what you think you have become, for no one can conceive of his Creator as unlike himself.

…he who holds grievances denies he was created by love, and his Creator has become fearful to him in his dream of hate. ⁵Who can dream of hatred and not fear God?

²It is as sure that those who hold grievances will suffer guilt, as it is certain that those who forgive will find peace. ³It is as sure that those who hold grievances will forget who they are, as it is certain that those who forgive will remember.

…think of yourself as completely at peace with everyone and everything, safe in a world that protects you and loves you, and that you love in return. ⁵Try to feel safety surrounding you, hovering over you and holding you up. ⁶Try to believe, however briefly, that nothing can harm you in any way. (A Course in Miracles, W-68.1;2:4-5;3:2-3;6:4-6. See also ACIM Lesson 68 Insights.)

Take time today to pause and step back from the world. Follow the instructions in the last paragraph quoted above. This “imagining” is not an idle exercise. It is helping your mind become aware of your true Identity as God’s Son. You are reminding yourself of your natural state because, in truth, you are safe, free from conflict, loved and wholly loving.

As you set the day with this practice, your experience will confirm the imagining is really remembering the truth.

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How to Have a Blessed Day

The ego is the part of the mind that believes in division. ²How could part of God detach itself without believing it is attacking Him? …⁵If you identify with the ego, you must perceive yourself as guilty. ⁶Whenever you respond to your ego you will experience guilt, and you will fear punishment. ⁷The ego is quite literally a fearful thought. …¹⁰Listening to the ego’s voice means that you believe it is possible to attack God, and that a part of Him has been torn away by you. ¹¹Fear of retaliation from without follows, because the severity of the guilt is so acute that it must be projected.

Whatever you accept into your mind has reality for you. ²It is your acceptance of it that makes it real. ³If you enthrone the ego in your mind, your allowing it to enter makes it your reality. ⁴This is because the mind is capable of creating reality or making illusions. ⁵I said before that you must learn to think with God. ⁶To think with Him is to think like Him. ⁷This engenders joy, not guilt, because it is natural. ⁸Guilt is a sure sign that your thinking is unnatural. ⁹Unnatural thinking will always be attended with guilt, because it is the belief in sin. ¹⁰The ego does not perceive sin as a lack of love, but as a positive act of assault. ¹¹This is necessary to the ego’s survival because, as soon as you regard sin as a lack, you will automatically attempt to remedy the situation. ¹²And you will succeed. ¹³The ego regards this as doom, but you must learn to regard it as freedom. (A Course in Miracles, T-5.V.3:1-2,5-7,10-11;4. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Guilt is a valuable signal that our thinking is unnatural. If we practice being mindful of these signals and asking the Holy Spirit to help us heal our thoughts, we can change our life experience. Instead of experiencing fear, we can have our perception transformed and experience peace and joy. Our natural thinking is always an expression of Love.

The more we set aside our fear-based thoughts, the more we will experience the Heaven of God’s Love. Today we practice taking our guilty thoughts to the Holy Spirit to exchange them for His Thoughts of Love. It will be a day of many blessings.

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Our Best Friend Leads Us to Love

²Your Friend goes with you. ³You are not alone. ⁴No one who calls on Him can call in vain. ⁵Whatever troubles you, be certain that He has the answer, and will gladly give it to you, if you simply turn to Him and ask it of Him. ⁶He will not withhold all answers that you need for anything that seems to trouble you. ⁷He knows the way to solve all problems, and resolve all doubts. ⁸His certainty is yours. ⁹You need but ask it of Him, and it will be given you.

…hear but the Voice for God and for your Self when you retire from the world, to seek reality instead. ³He will direct your efforts, telling you exactly what to do, how to direct your mind, and when to come to Him in silence, asking for His sure direction and His certain Word. ⁴His is the Word that God has given you. ⁵His is the Word you chose to be your own.

And now I place you in His hands, to be His faithful follower, with Him as Guide through every difficulty and all pain that you may think is real.

³You will be told exactly what God wills for you each time there is a choice to make. ⁴And He will speak for God and for your Self, thus making sure that hell will claim you not, and that each choice you make brings Heaven nearer to your reach. (A Course in Miracles, W-ep.1:2-9;3:2–4:1;5:2-4)

The Holy Spirit is our best Friend. He always has our best interest in mind. He is ever present, ready and willing to help us on the way that brings us happiness and peace.

The consistent practice of attending to His Voice will return us to full awareness that we dwell in Love. As we accept the Love within us, we have a loving outlook on our world. Love guides us to be truly helpful. With His Guidance we will awaken to our Home in God’s Love.

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