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Walking the Path of Return to Love

This holy instant would I give to You. Be You in charge. For I would follow You, certain that Your direction gives me peace.

And if I need a word to help me, He will give it to me. ²If I need a thought, that will He also give. ³And if I need but stillness and a tranquil, open mind, these are the gifts I will receive of Him. ⁴He is in charge by my request. ⁵And He will hear and answer me, because He speaks for God my Father and His holy Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-361-365. See also ACIM Lesson 365 Insights.)

The ego always speaks first, because it wants to maintain its status as our primary advisor. The ego is the idea of being independent and in control. But we are learning that leaving the ego in control has resulted in our world of fear, guilt, loss and lack.

In every moment we have the opportunity to choose an Advisor Whose only purpose is to return us to awareness of our true Will. We share this Will with God. It is the Will that recognizes Love is the only Reality and desires only to extend It.

Every instant is holy because Love is always now. Love knows no past nor future, for it is changeless and eternal. This is What we are, What we have been and What we will always be. As we build a habit of stepping back from the ego thought system to welcome God’s Voice in our mind, we walk peacefully and happily on the path of return to Love.

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Letting God’s Peace Fill Our Mind

Into His Presence would I enter now.

Your body will be sanctified today, its only purpose being now to bring the vision of what you experience this day to light the world. ²We cannot give experience like this directly. ³Yet it leaves a vision in our eyes which we can offer everyone, that he may come the sooner to the same experience in which the world is quietly forgot, and Heaven is remembered for a while.

As this experience increases and all goals but this become of little worth, the world to which you will return becomes a little closer to the end of time; a little more like Heaven in its ways; a little nearer its deliverance. ²And you who bring it light will come to see the light more sure; the vision more distinct.

…the Holy One, the Giver of the happy dreams of life, Translator of perception into truth, the holy Guide to Heaven given you, has dreamed for you this journey which you make and start today, with the experience this day holds out to you to be your own.

Into Christ’s Presence will we enter now, serenely unaware of everything except His shining face and perfect Love. (A Course in Miracles, W-157.6:1–7:2;8:2–9:1. See also ACIM Lesson 157 Insights.)

The Holy Spirit is not only our best Friend, but also our holy Guide to lead us to the happy dream from which we will awaken to the Life we live in God. Our sole purpose is to let the Christ within our mind be in charge of all that we see.

Christ’s vision is the vision of Love. Love sees only Love, for nothing else is real. Christ’s vision is always available to us. We need only be willing to set aside our judgments and let ourselves sink deeply into the peace of God within. This peace is ever present, needing only our acceptance.

As we let His peace fill our mind, we experience Love’s presence. From this experience, we bring Christ’s vision to the world. We see beyond the images of separation to the reality of Love that joins us with every brother. This is the purpose that will free us from the dream of separation and return us to the experience of Love’s eternal oneness.

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Accepting the Holy Spirit’s Lessons in Love

I can give up but what was never real.

I sacrifice illusions; nothing more. ²And as illusions go I find the gifts illusions tried to hide, awaiting me in shining welcome, and in readiness to give God’s ancient messages to me. ³His memory abides in every gift that I receive of Him. ⁴And every dream serves only to conceal the Self which is God’s only Son, the likeness of Himself, the Holy One Who still abides in Him forever, as He still abides in me.

Father, to You all sacrifice remains forever inconceivable. ²And so I cannot sacrifice except in dreams. ³As You created me, I can give up nothing You gave me. ⁴What You did not give has no reality. ⁵What loss can I anticipate except the loss of fear, and the return of love into my mind? (A Course in Miracles, W-322. See also ACIM Lesson 322 Insights.)

Only the value we give illusions makes letting them go seem to be a sacrifice. The moment we recognize that illusions have no value, they are freely released, with gratitude. Illusions are a veil that hides from our awareness God’s gift of all His Love.

The Holy Spirit has been given us as our personal Teacher to help us recognize there is no value in any illusion. With His Help, we learn to freely let go of illusions of separation. We joyfully accept His Love and the Love we see in every brother. This is the only meaningful purpose in our journey through the dream of this world.

Every conflict, every perception of loss is an opportunity to receive another lesson from our inner Teacher. The question we can ask ourselves is, “Am I willing to learn the lessons that set me free? Am I willing to let go of my judgments?” These are the same question. Today we gratefully accept the Holy Spirit’s lessons in Love.

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Maintaining a Healing Attitude

The injunction “Be of one mind” is the statement for revelation-readiness. ²My request “Do this in remembrance of me” is the appeal for cooperation from miracle workers. ³The two statements are not in the same order of reality. ⁴Only the latter involves an awareness of time, since to remember is to recall the past in the present. ⁵Time is under my direction, but timelessness belongs to God. ⁶In time we exist for and with each other. ⁷In timelessness we coexist with God.

(8) You can do much on behalf of your own healing and that of others if, in a situation calling for help, you think of it this way:

²I am here only to be truly helpful.
³I am here to represent Him Who sent me.
⁴I do not have to worry about what to say or what to do, because He Who sent me will direct me.
⁵I am content to be wherever He wishes, knowing He goes there with me.
⁶I will be healed as I let Him teach me to heal.” (A Course in Miracles, T-2.V-A.17–18. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

While we believe the world is real, we are in a situation calling for help. We need help to let go of mistaken beliefs that hold us in a dream of fear and guilt, loss and pain. This prayer succinctly encapsulates key attitudes that help us let go of the dream and accept the Love of God without reservation.

We always have Help available to us. But while we try to make decisions on our own, we are denying the help given us by our Creator. God did not make a world of bodies and separation. He did create an extension of Himself, His Son, Who He retains one with Himself. This is why our true Self coexists with God in eternity. We return to awareness of our true Self as we practice this prayer that reminds us to accept the help we have to heal our mind.

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Acknowledging Our Desire to Live in Love

Now will I seek and find the peace of God.

In peace I was created. ²And in peace do I remain. ³It is not given me to change my Self. ⁴How merciful is God my Father, that when He created me He gave me peace forever. ⁵Now I ask but to be what I am. ⁶And can this be denied me, when it is forever true?

Father, I seek the peace You gave as mine in my creation. ²What was given then must be here now, for my creation was apart from time, and still remains beyond all change. ³The peace in which Your Son was born into Your Mind is shining there unchanged. ⁴I am as You created me. ⁵I need but call on You to find the peace You gave. ⁶It is Your Will that gave it to Your Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-230. See also ACIM Lesson 230 Insights.)

Peace of mind is our natural state. Only our wish for specialness has given us a dream of chaos and conflict. That wish denies the reality of the Love that is our true Nature. Fortunately dreams do not change Reality. We remain united with our Creator and His Love and peace.

The way to find the peace of God within is to accept the Holy Spirit’s help to reinterpret our perceptions. With His help, we can see the dream as having no effect. They only serve a mistaken goal that could never be real.

The desire of our true Self is only to live in Love. That means we accept God’s gift and offer Love to all. We acknowledge that we are eternally united in the oneness of Love. And thus we live in peace.

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Remembering Our True Self Is Love

You live by symbols. ²You have made up names for everything you see. ³Each one becomes a separate entity, identified by its own name.

²You have need to use the symbols of the world a while. ³But be you not deceived by them as well. ⁴They do not stand for anything at all, and in your practicing it is this thought that will release you from them. ⁵They become but means by which you can communicate in ways the world can understand, but which you recognize is not the unity where true communication can be found.

Thus what you need are intervals each day in which the learning of the world becomes a transitory phase; a prison house from which you go into the sunlight and forget the darkness. ²Here you understand the Word, the Name which God has given you; the one Identity which all things share; the one acknowledgment of what is true. ³And then step back to darkness, not because you think it real, but only to proclaim its unreality in terms which still have meaning in the world that darkness rules.

God has no name. ²And yet His Name becomes the final lesson that all things are one, and at this lesson does all learning end. ³All names are unified; all space is filled with truth’s reflection. ⁴Every gap is closed, and separation healed. ⁵The Name [Identity] of God is the inheritance He gave to those who chose the teaching of the world to take the place of Heaven. ⁶In our practicing, our purpose is to let our minds accept what God has given as the answer to the pitiful inheritance you made as fitting tribute to the Son He loves. (A Course in Miracles, W-184.1:1-3;9:2–10:3;12. See also ACIM Lesson 184 Insights.)

All of God’s Creation is one with His Identity. As His Son, we are included in God’s one Identity. This cannot change, for what is eternal is changeless by definition. This is the fact we are being called to remember.

Our true Self is Love, wholly included in the oneness of God’s Love. The ego has made a substitute world of empty, meaningless images. Our belief in this world blinds us, making us unaware of our true Self and the Love we are. God has given us the Answer in our mind that we can call upon for help to see past the barriers made by the ego. We are grateful that we have the means to remember we are Love and nothing else.

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Welcoming the Light of Love in Our Mind

Truth will correct all errors in my mind.

²I am mistaken when I think I can be hurt in any way. ³I am God’s Son, whose Self rests safely in the Mind of God.

To give and to receive are one in truth.

²I will forgive all things today, that I may learn how to accept the truth in me, and come to recognize my sinlessness. (A Course in Miracles, W-119.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 119 Insights.)

Separation demands judgment. If we are willing to suspend our judgments, we make way for the Holy Spirit to lead us to the truth of our oneness in Love. This is why forgiveness is key to the healing of our split mind. It is the way out of fear and guilt.

Our natural state is our unity with our Creator in His Love. Here is where we are eternally at peace, joyful and continually extending the Love that blesses us.

Today we practice suspending our judgments and asking the Holy Spirit to judge on our behalf. His judgment dismisses illusions and brings the Light of Love into our mind. We are grateful for His help.

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