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Pausing to Welcome God’s Gifts

The world fades easily away before [Christ’s] sight. ²Its sounds grow dim. ³A melody from far beyond the world increasingly is more and more distinct; an ancient call to which He gives an ancient answer. ⁴You will recognize them both, for they are but your answer to your Father’s Call to you. ⁵Christ answers for you, echoing your Self, using your voice to give His glad consent; accepting your deliverance for you.

How holy is your practicing today, as Christ gives you His sight and hears for you, and answers in your name the Call He hears! ²How quiet is the time you give to spend with Him, beyond the world. ³How easily are all your seeming sins forgot, and all your sorrows unremembered. ⁴On this day is grief laid by, for sights and sounds that come from nearer than the world are clear to you who will today accept the gifts He gives.”

…you can exchange all suffering for joy this very day. ⁵Practice in earnest, and the gift is yours. ⁶Would God deceive you? ⁷Can His promise fail? ⁸Can you withhold so little, when His Hand holds out complete salvation to His Son? (A Course in Miracles, W-164.2:1–3:4;9:4-8. See also ACIM Lesson 164 Insights.)

The vision of Christ is always available to us. We need only pause to quiet our mind to let His vision transform our perception of the world. Christ sees the Love that is everywhere around us and in us. With His vision, we welcome God’s gifts of joy and peace. This vision is what our true Self always sees. Only our mistaken identification with the ego makes us unaware of is always there to see.

Today we practice frequently pausing to welcome Christ’s vision; to see the world anew. Our pauses welcome God’s gifts. We remember we are as God created us.

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Finding Peace in the Oneness of Love

I want the peace of God.

To say these words is nothing. ²But to mean these words is everything. ³If you could but mean them for just an instant, there would be no further sorrow possible for you in any form; in any place or time. ⁴Heaven would be completely given back to full awareness, memory of God entirely restored, the resurrection of all creation fully recognized.

No one can mean these words and not be healed. ²He cannot play with dreams, nor think he is himself a dream. ³He cannot make a hell and think it real. ⁴He wants the peace of God, and it is given him. ⁵For that is all he wants, and that is all he will receive.

The mind which means that all it wants is peace must join with other minds, for that is how peace is obtained. ²And when the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is given, in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.

No one who truly seeks the peace of God can fail to find it. ²For he merely asks that he deceive himself no longer by denying to himself what is God’s Will. ³Who can remain unsatisfied who asks for what he has already? ⁴Who could be unanswered who requests an answer which is his to give? ⁵The peace of God is yours. (A Course in Miracles, W-185.1:1–2:5;6:1-2;11:1-5. See also ACIM Lesson 185 Insights.)

The wish for a special unique identity brings with it uncertainty and chaos. Uniqueness must be constantly defended in a dream where other figures are in search of the same specialness. The dream focuses on comparisons and finding differences. Where there are differences there is conflict. Peace is impossible.

When we honestly want the peace of God, the circumstances that bring peace come to us. No longer are we seeking to be different. Instead we seek to join in the oneness of Love. There are no differences in Love so there is no conflict or uncertainty. Our true Self is the peace that seems to be missing in the dream. Our innate desire is to remember the Love we are. In this we find the peace of God. It really is all that we want. We no longer seek to maintain a unique identity.

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Transforming Our Perception of the World

⁴Every thought you have makes up some segment of the world you see. ⁵It is with your thoughts, then, that we must work, if your perception of the world is to be changed.

If the cause of the world you see is attack thoughts, you must learn that it is these thoughts which you do not want. ²There is no point in lamenting the world. ³There is no point in trying to change the world. ⁴It is incapable of change because it is merely an effect. ⁵But there is indeed a point in changing your thoughts about the world. ⁶Here you are changing the cause. ⁷The effect will change automatically.

The world you see is a vengeful world, and everything in it is a symbol of vengeance. ²Each of your perceptions of “external reality” is a pictorial representation of your own attack thoughts.

…you are not trapped in the world you see, because its cause can be changed. ²This change requires, first, that the cause be identified and then let go, so that it can be replaced. (A Course in Miracles, W-23.1:4–3:2;5:1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 23 Insights.)

Every perception of separation or differences is an attack on the oneness of Love. This is why the ego’s wish for specialness is an attack on Love. To be special means to be different.

We always have the option of letting go of our wish for specialness and accepting Love’s oneness as our Identity. We have mistakenly identified with the ego, but we can change our identification. To make that change we must learn to recognize our judgments. They separate us from the Love that is the identity we share with every brother and our Creator. As we are willing to let go of these thoughts, we make way for Love to rush in and transform our perception of the world.

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Learning to Listen to the Voice for Love

God’s Voice speaks to me all through the day.

It is quite possible to listen to God’s Voice all through the day without interrupting your regular activities in any way. ²The part of your mind in which truth abides is in constant communication with God, whether you are aware of it or not.

The part that is listening to the Voice for God is calm, always at rest and wholly certain. ²It is really the only part there is. ³The other part is a wild illusion, frantic and distraught, but without reality of any kind. ⁴Try today not to listen to it. ⁵Try to identify with the part of your mind where stillness and peace reign forever. ⁶Try to hear God’s Voice call to you lovingly, reminding you that your Creator has not forgotten His Son.

Listen in deep silence. ²Be very still and open your mind. ³Go past all the raucous shrieks and sick imaginings that cover your real thoughts and obscure your eternal link with God. ⁴Sink deep into the peace that waits for you beyond the frantic, riotous thoughts and sights and sounds of this insane world. ⁵You do not live here. ⁶We are trying to reach your real home. ⁷We are trying to reach the place where you are truly welcome. ⁸We are trying to reach God.

…be sure to sit quietly and repeat the idea for today whenever you can, closing your eyes on the world, and realizing that you are inviting God’s Voice to speak to you. (A Course in Miracles, W-49.1:1-2;2;4;5:3. See also ACIM Lesson 49 Insights.)

The connection of our mind with the Mind of Love is unbreakable. It can and has been obscured by illusions that deny Love’s presence. These illusions are held in a mind apart from the Mind of our True Self. It obscures our real Mind only because we believe we want the illusions the mind apart conjures.

Today’s practice will help us lay down our mistaken beliefs that obscure the Love we are. As we let our mind go deep into peace, the Voice that speaks for Love is heard. This is the Voice we really want to hear. It leads us to unspeakable joy, peace of mind, and Love that cannot be contained. Love is the unifying power in our mind that joins with every brother and our Creator. This is our practice for today.

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Awakening to Our Home in Love

I will be still an instant and go home.

This world you seem to live in is not home to you. ²And somewhere in your mind you know that this is true.

We speak today for everyone who walks this world, for he is not at home. ²He goes uncertainly about in endless search, seeking in darkness what he cannot find; not recognizing what it is he seeks. ³A thousand homes he makes, yet none contents his restless mind. ⁴He does not understand he builds in vain. ⁵The home he seeks can not be made by him. ⁶There is no substitute for Heaven. ⁷All he ever made was hell.

…there is a Child in you Who seeks His Father’s house, and knows that He is alien here. ⁴This childhood is eternal, with an innocence that will endure forever. ⁵Where this Child shall go is holy ground. ⁶It is His Holiness that lights up Heaven, and that brings to earth the pure reflection of the light above, wherein are earth and Heaven joined as one.

It is this Child in you your Father knows as His Own Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-182.1:1-2;3;4:3–5:1. See also ACIM Lesson 182 Insights.)

The home we seek, a place of safety and love, is within our mind. It is the part that knows we remain united with our Father. This part is always with us wherever we go.

We find this Home when we dismiss the veil of separation that has left us feeling empty and alone. The Holy Spirit is in our mind to help us let go of the mistaken identification that leaves us feeling unsafe and unloved. Our Father loves us, now and forever. He holds His Son safely in His Mind, and sharing all His attributes of peace, joy and Love.

Today we welcome the help of the Holy Spirit to awaken to the Home we never left.

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Claiming Our Reality in Love

God is my strength. Vision is His gift.

The idea for today combines two very powerful thoughts, both of major importance. ²It also sets forth a cause and effect relationship that explains why you cannot fail in your efforts to achieve the goal of the course. ³You will see because it is the Will of God. ⁴It is His strength, not your own, that gives you power. ⁵And it is His gift, rather than your own, that offers vision to you.

God is indeed your strength, and what He gives is truly given. ²This means that you can receive it any time and anywhere, wherever you are, and in whatever circumstance you find yourself. ³Your passage through time and space is not at random. ⁴You cannot but be in the right place at the right time. ⁵Such is the strength of God. ⁶Such are His gifts.

²The idea for the day is a beginning step in bringing thoughts together, and teaching you that you are studying a unified thought system in which nothing is lacking that is needed, and nothing is included that is contradictory or irrelevant. (A Course in Miracles, W-42.1:1–2:6;7:2. See also ACIM Lesson 42 Insights.)

We experience uncertainty and vulnerability in the world because we are identifying with a false image. The ego thought system denies the certainty and strength of our unbreakable connection with our Creator. The connection cannot be broken, but we can become unaware of it when we accept the ego’s denial.

Today we are told that God is our strength and He has given us His vision which shows us there is nothing to fear. His gift of all of Himself makes us invulnerable because His Love never changes. As we practice reminding ourselves that God is our strength, we recognize more and more that there is nothing to fear.

Today is a good day to claim our Reality. We live in the Love of God.

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Accepting the Holy Spirit’s Lessons in Love

What fear has hidden still is part of you. ²Joining the Atonement is the way out of fear. ³The Holy Spirit will help you reinterpret everything that you perceive as fearful, and teach you that only what is loving is true. ⁴Truth is beyond your ability to destroy, but entirely within your ability to accept. ⁵It belongs to you because, as an extension of God, you created it with Him. ⁶It is yours because it is part of you, just as you are part of God because He created you. ⁷Nothing that is good can be lost because it comes from the Holy Spirit, the Voice for creation. ⁸Nothing that is not good was ever created, and therefore cannot be protected. ⁹The Atonement is the guarantee of the safety of the Kingdom, and the union of the Sonship is its protection. ¹⁰The ego cannot prevail against the Kingdom because the Sonship is united. ¹¹In the presence of those who hear the Holy Spirit’s Call to be as one, the ego fades away and is undone. (A Course in Miracles, T-5.IV.1:1-11. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Everyone is inherently loving, because our true Self is the extension of God’s Love. Any thought of fear or guilt is based on a mistaken belief in what we are. It is not real because it is not Love. It is an idea stemming from the ego’s denial of the oneness of Love.

Our misidentification with the ego has left us searching for the Love we think we lost. Love is not lost, but denial of It blocks It from our awareness. To undo this denial we need to look to a Teacher outside of the ego thought system. This Teacher, the Holy Spirit, is ever present in our mind, ready to help us see the Love beyond the ego’s denial.

He assures us that we already are the Love we seek. He is our Guide out of the ego’s denial. Today we practice pausing to let the peace of God quiet our mind and welcome the Holy Spirit’s lessons in Love.

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