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Remembering the Love We Are

I seek my own Identity, and find It in these words: “Love, which created me, is what I am.” ²Now need I seek no more. ³Love has prevailed. ⁴So still It waited for my coming home, that I will turn away no longer from the holy face of Christ. ⁵And what I look upon attests the truth of the Identity I sought to lose, but which my Father has kept safe for me.

Father, my thanks to You for what I am; for keeping my Identity untouched and sinless, in the midst of all the thoughts of sin my foolish mind made up. ²And thanks to You for saving me from them. ³Amen. (A Course in Miracles, W-229.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 229 Insights.)

The ego believes that lack of Love is possible. It sends us on endless searches for outside sources to find it where it cannot be found. This is its defense against the thing it fears the most. When we realize that we are the Love we seek, the ego will cease to seem to exist.

The Course is teaching us that we are not the ego or any of its illusions. We already are the Love we thought we lost when we bought into the ego though system. Love is everywhere and in everyone.

As we let go of our identification with the ego, we increasingly experience the joy and peace that comes with accepting that we are Love and nothing else. We recognize everyone as part of our one Self, the Son of God. In gratitude, we rest in God’s Love.

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Remembering All We Truly Want

God does not suffer conflict. ²Nor is His creation split in two. ³How could it be His Son could be in hell, when God Himself established him in Heaven? ⁴Could he lose what the Eternal Will has given him to be his home forever? ⁵Let us not try longer to impose an alien will upon God’s single purpose. ⁶He is here because He wills to be, and what He wills is present now, beyond the reach of time.

²No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth, and it is truth we seek to reach today. …we will ask to see the rising of the real world to replace the foolish images that we hold dear, with true ideas arising in the place of thoughts that have no meaning, no effect, and neither source nor substance in the truth.

Remember often that today should be a time of special gladness, and refrain from dismal thoughts and meaningless laments. ²Salvation’s time has come. ³Today is set by Heaven itself to be a time of grace for you and for the world. ⁴If you forget this happy fact, remind yourself with this:

⁵Today I seek and find all that I want.
⁶My single purpose offers it to me.
⁷No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth. (A Course in Miracles, W-131.8;10:2-3;15. See also ACIM Lesson 131 Insights.)

As God’s Son, we have never left the Heaven of His Love. But our wish for specialness has made an alternate ‘reality’ which we have accepted in place of the reality of Love’s oneness. Yet our heart still yearns to respond to the Love’s call. It is the call of Truth.

Today we remember that our heart’s desire is to be the Love we were created to be. We accept this reality with the singular purpose of forgiving the wish for specialness. As we learn to forgive its myriad forms, we learn that they all represent the single mistaken belief that we could be separate from our Source. With this practice, we reach the truth. We remember the life we live in God’s eternal Love.

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Letting Forgiveness Take Us Home to Love

It is your forgiveness that will bring the world of darkness to the light. ²It is your forgiveness that lets you recognize the light in which you see. ³Forgiveness is the demonstration that you are the light of the world. ⁴Through your forgiveness does the truth about yourself return to your memory. ⁵Therefore, in your forgiveness lies your salvation.

Illusions about yourself and the world are one. ²That is why all forgiveness is a gift to yourself. ³Your goal is to find out who you are, having denied your Identity by attacking creation and its Creator. ⁴Now you are learning how to remember the truth. ⁵For this attack must be replaced by forgiveness, so that thoughts of life may replace thoughts of death.

Remember that in every attack you call upon your own weakness, while each time you forgive you call upon the strength of Christ in you. ²Do you not then begin to understand what forgiveness will do for you? ³It will remove all sense of weakness, strain and fatigue from your mind. ⁴It will take away all fear and guilt and pain. ⁵It will restore the invulnerability and power God gave His Son to your awareness.

²Forgiveness is my function as the light of the world.
³I would fulfill my function that I may be happy. (A Course in Miracles, W-62.1:1–3:5;5:2-3. See also ACIM Lesson 62 Insights.)

The world we see is a reflection of our projections of what we believe we are. When we forgive our mistaken belief that we are a separate identity, the world we perceive changes. Thus forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves.

We want to be happy. Each time we forgive a perception of differences, we let the Light we are dispel a barrier that has hidden the presence of Love. We take another step toward awakening to the Love in which we live. Forgiveness is the way Home.

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Recognizing Our Holiness

Eternal holiness abides in me.

My holiness is far beyond my own ability to understand or know. ²Yet God, my Father, Who created it, acknowledges my holiness as His. ³Our Will, together, understands it. ⁴And Our Will, together, knows that it is so.

Father, my holiness is not of me. ²It is not mine to be destroyed by sin. ³It is not mine to suffer from attack. ⁴Illusions can obscure it, but can not put out its radiance, nor dim its light. ⁵It stands forever perfect and untouched. ⁶In it are all things healed, for they remain as You created them. ⁷And I can know my holiness. ⁸For Holiness Itself created me, and I can know my Source because it is Your Will that You be known. (A Course in Miracles, W-299. See also ACIM Lesson 299 Insights.)

All our judgments deny our holiness. We share God’s holiness because we share the oneness of His Love. The is no ‘other’ to judge within the Love that is our true Identity. The world in which we seem to live requires our judgment to ’survive’. But the image we are protecting is not real. Our judgments defend illusions.

To recognize our holiness, we need to lay down our defenses. Today we offer all our judgments, our opinions, to the Holy Spirit, asking for His help to see the reality of Love beyond the illusions of differences. He will teach us to see the Love that unites us with our Father. The Light He brings to our mind dispels the images that blocked our awareness of our holiness.

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Acknowledging Our True Will

²You want to accept God’s plan because you share in it. ³You have no will that can really oppose it, and you do not want to do so. ⁴Salvation is for you. ⁵Above all else, you want the freedom to remember Who you really are. ⁶Today it is the ego that stands powerless before your will. ⁷Your will is free, and nothing can prevail against it.

…God’s plan for salvation, and only His, is wholly in accord with your will. ²It is not the purpose of an alien power, thrust upon you unwillingly. ³It is the one purpose here on which you and your Father are in perfect accord. ⁴You will succeed today, the time appointed for the release of the Son of God from hell and from all idle wishes. ⁵His will is now restored to his awareness. ⁶He is willing this very day to look upon the light in him and be saved.

…tell yourself with gentle firmness and quiet certainty:

²I will there be light. ³Let me behold the light that reflects God’s Will and mine.

⁴Then let your [true] will assert itself, joined with the power of God and united with your Self. (W-73.7:2-7;9:1–10:4)

The ego is in constant battle with our true Self. As part of God’s Son, united with His Will, our true Self does not battle against the ego. It recognizes the ego as nothing more than a mistaken idea that could never be real. This recognition sets us free from the ego’s attempt to replace God and our one true Self.

Today we acknowledge our true will which wants only to remain in the oneness of Love that created It. As we accept our true Will, we remember that we are Love and nothing else. With this memory, we see everyone as our brother, joined with us in the Love of our Father.

We are grateful that God’s plan leads us to awaken from the mistaken identification with the ego. We gratefully acknowledge the Love in which we live. In Its Light, we see the presence of Love everywhere and always.

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Welcoming the Love That Is Our Inheritance

God’s peace and joy are mine.

²Today I will accept God’s peace and joy, in glad exchange for all the substitutes that I have made for happiness and peace.

“Let me be still and listen to the truth.

²Let my own feeble voice be still, and let me hear the mighty Voice for Truth Itself assure me that I am God’s perfect Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-118.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 118 Insights.)

If we want to experience the peace and joy that is our inheritance, we need to be willing to quiet our mind and listen to God’s Voice. It is ever present in our mind. Only our mistaken interest in the ego thought system makes us deaf to His Message.

God’s Voice always conveys His Love. But the ego is afraid of Love’s oneness, so it blocks out all thoughts of our true Self which accept that we remain Love as we were created.

Today we practice frequently pausing to welcome the Holy Spirit’s loving guidance. He will show us the Love that is the truth in every brother. And He will teach us to answer calls for Love with Love. This is how we will claim God’s gifts of peace and joy.

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Remembering Our Identity in God

The gift of Christ is all I seek today.

What but Christ’s vision would I use today, when it can offer me a day in which I see a world so like to Heaven that an ancient memory returns to me? ²Today I can forget the world I made. ³Today I can go past all fear, and be restored to love and holiness and peace. ⁴Today I am redeemed, and born anew into a world of mercy and of care; of loving kindness and the peace of God.

And so, our Father, we return to You, remembering we never went away; remembering Your holy gifts to us. ²In gratitude and thankfulness we come, with empty hands and open hearts and minds, asking but what You give. ³We cannot make an offering [illusion] sufficient for Your Son. ⁴But in Your Love the gift of Christ is his. (A Course in Miracles, W-306. See also ACIM Lesson 306 Insights.)

The key to finding the happiness and peace God wills for us is to lay down our mistaken wish to have an identity we can call our own. Our true Identity is shared with our Father. We remain united with God, no matter what dreams we may have.

Today we free ourselves from the dream of conflict and loss, fear and guilt. As we accept the Holy Spirit’s help to see with Christ’s vision, we overlook the world of form and accept the Love of God as our Identity. With this acceptance, fear and guilt disappear and we remember the joy and peace of our true Identity as God’s Son.

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