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Accepting That Only Love Is Real

⁴[God’s] Word has promised peace. ⁵It has also promised that there is no death, that resurrection must occur, and that rebirth is man’s inheritance. ⁶The world you see cannot be the world God loves, and yet His Word assures us that He loves the world. ⁷God’s Word has promised that peace is possible here, and what He promises can hardly be impossible. ⁸But it is true that the world must be looked at differently, if His promises are to be accepted. ⁹What the world is, is but a fact. ¹⁰You cannot choose what this should be. ¹¹But you can choose how you would see it. ¹²Indeed, you must choose this.

The text explains that the Holy Spirit is the Answer to all problems you have made. ²These problems are not real, but that is meaningless to those who believe in them. ³And everyone believes in what he made, for it was made by his believing it. ⁴Into this strange and paradoxical situation,—one without meaning and devoid of sense, yet out of which no way seems possible,—God has sent His Judgment to answer yours. ⁵Gently His Judgment substitutes for yours. ⁶And through this substitution is the un-understandable made understandable. ⁷How is peace possible in this world? ⁸In your judgment it is not possible, and can never be possible. ⁹But in the Judgment of God what is reflected here is only peace.

Peace is impossible to those who look on war. ²Peace is inevitable to those who offer peace. ³How easily, then, is your judgment of the world escaped! ⁴It is not the world that makes peace seem impossible. ⁵It is the world you see that is impossible. ⁶Yet has God’s Judgment on this distorted world redeemed it and made it fit to welcome peace. ⁷And peace descends on it in joyous answer. ⁸Peace now belongs here, because a Thought of God has entered. (A Course in Miracles, M-11.1:4-12;3:1–4:8)

When we perceive conflict and war, it is because we are using the ego thought system for our judgments. The Holy Spirit in our mind offers His judgment to replace ours. His judgment is based on God’s Thought of Love, where no conflict exists.

As we are vigilant to let the Holy Spirit’s judgment replace ours, our outlook on the world is increasingly peaceful. Today let us accept the Holy Spirit’s mission to apply God’s judgment as our own. His judgment is that only Love is real. Conflict does not exist in Reality. The real world is recognized as the world of Love’s Reality.

Today we practice being messengers of Love and peace as we let the Holy Spirit’s judgment replace our mistaken perceptions.

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Following the Voice for Love

The mind that serves the Holy Spirit is unlimited forever, in all ways, beyond the laws of time and space, unbound by any preconceptions, and with strength and power to do whatever it is asked. ²Attack thoughts cannot enter such a mind, because it has been given to the Source of love, and fear can never enter in a mind that has attached itself to love. ³It rests in God. ⁴And who can be afraid who lives in Innocence, and only loves?

²Declare your innocence and you are free. ³The body disappears, because you have no need of it except the need the Holy Spirit sees. ⁴For this, the body will appear as useful form for what the mind must do. ⁵It thus becomes a vehicle which helps forgiveness be extended to the all-inclusive goal that it must reach, according to God’s plan.

You are God’s Son. ²In immortality you live forever. ³Would you not return your mind to this? ⁴Then practice well the thought the Holy Spirit gives you for today. ⁵Your brothers stand released with you in [this thought]; the world is blessed along with you, God’s Son will weep no more, and Heaven offers thanks for the increase of joy your practice brings even to it. ⁶And God Himself extends His Love and happiness each time you say:

⁷I am not a body. ⁸I am free. ⁹I hear the Voice that God has given me, and it is only this my mind obeys. (A Course in Miracles, W-199.2;4:2-5;8. See also ACIM Lesson 199 Insights.)

We have the Thought within our mind to be free of fear and guilt, anger and hate. This Thought is given us through God’s Voice, the Holy Spirit. This Voice, when followed consistently, sets us free to be the Love you were created to be. It is the Voice for Love.

When we give our allegiance to this Voice, all our doing serves Love’s purpose. We become God’s messengers in a world that has denied Love, yet seeks for It constantly.

Today we welcome Love as our Guide. As we follow Its lead, we bring joy and peace to the world.

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Bringing Blessing to the World

The world must thank you when you offer it release from your illusions. ²Yet your thanks belong to you as well, for its release can only mirror yours. ³Your gratitude is all your gifts require, that they be a lasting offering of a thankful heart, released from hell forever. ⁴Is it this you would undo by taking back your gifts, because they were not honored? ⁵It is you who honor them and give them fitting thanks, for it is you who have received the gifts.

It does not matter if another thinks your gifts unworthy. ²In his mind there is a part that joins with yours in thanking you. ³It does not matter if your gifts seem lost and ineffectual. ⁴They are received where they are given. ⁵In your gratitude are they accepted universally, and thankfully acknowledged by the Heart of God Himself. (A Course in Miracles, W-197.3:1–4:5. See also ACIM Lesson 197 Insights.)

Gratitude always invites more of what we are grateful for. Gratitude uplifts our spirit by showing us where we are truly helpful. The most important gift we can give is Love. When we have cleared away the barriers to Love’s extension, our hearts are filled with joy and gratitude. The Love we let flow through us blesses us as it blesses those to whom It is extended.

As we bless a brother, we bless ourselves. Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us clear away our barriers to Love and bring blessing to the world.

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Letting Love Guide Our Doing

God, being Love, is also happiness.

²Let me remember love is happiness, and nothing else brings joy. ³And so I choose to entertain no substitutes for love.

I seek but what belongs to me in truth.

²Love is my heritage, and with it joy. ³These are the gifts my Father gave to me. ⁴I would accept all that is mine in truth. (A Course in Miracles, W-117.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 117 Insights.)

The ego wants to own or have more of something no one else can have. This wish is the denial of God’s Love because He gives His Love equally to all.

God has already given us our full inheritance of all of His Love. But we are denying our inheritance when we accept the ego as our guide. We can recover our inheritance by letting the Holy Spirit correct our misperceptions, if we are willing.

The practice of forgiveness is the practice of being willing to let our perceptions be corrected. With the Holy Spirit’s help, we can see beyond the ego’s images to the eternal presence of Love. We can remember that we are joined in the eternal extension of God’s Love. In this joining we share His joy.

Today will be a joyful day as we let Love guide our thoughts, words and actions. And we will walk the day in gratitude for the blessing of God’s Love.

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Letting Our Magnificent Light Shine

Can you imagine how beautiful those you forgive will look to you? ²In no fantasy have you ever seen anything so lovely. ³Nothing you see here, sleeping or waking, comes near to such loveliness. ⁴And nothing will you value like unto this, nor hold so dear. ⁵Nothing that you remember that made your heart sing with joy has ever brought you even a little part of the happiness this sight will bring you. ⁶For you will see the Son of God. ⁷You will behold the beauty the Holy Spirit loves to look upon, and which He thanks the Father for. ⁸He was created to see this for you, until you learned to see it for yourself. ⁹And all His teaching leads to seeing it and giving thanks with Him.

This loveliness is not a fantasy. ²It is the real world….”

The real world is attained simply by the complete forgiveness of the old, the world you see without forgiveness. ²The great Transformer of perception will undertake with you the careful searching of the mind that made this world, and uncover to you the seeming reasons for your making it. ³In the light of the real reason that He brings, as you follow Him, He will show you that there is no reason here at all. ⁴Each spot His reason touches grows alive with beauty, and what seemed ugly in the darkness of your lack of reason is suddenly released to loveliness. ⁵Not even what the Son of God made in insanity could be without a hidden spark of beauty that gentleness could release. (A Course in Miracles, T-17.II.1:1–2:2;5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

There is no substitute for the Love of God. Nor is there a substitute for God’s Son, the extension of His Love. But by identifying with the ego, we have made up a false substitute that hides our true Self from our awareness. But this true Self remains untouched by our illusions.

Forgiveness of our illusions is the means to awaken to our true Self, Whose magnificent Light is beyond description in terms this world understands. God’s Love is our Reality. He has given us His Transformer in our mind to lead us back to awareness of our Light. As we follow His lead, we learn to see the loveliness which is the Love that unites us with all that lives. We have one Life and that we live in God.

Today we practice opening to the Light of Love. We are willing to let It shine through every brother. As we see the truth in him, we recognize the Love we are. This is how we bring healing to the world.

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Joining with the Joy of Extending Love

…gratitude remains a part of love.

Thanks be to you, the holy Son of God. ²For as you were created, you contain all things within your Self. ³And you are still as God created you. ⁴Nor can you dim the light of your perfection. ⁵In your heart the Heart of God is laid. ⁶He holds you dear, because you are Himself. ⁷All gratitude belongs to you, because of what you are.

Give thanks as you receive it. ²Be you free of all ingratitude to anyone who makes your Self complete. ³And from this Self is no one left outside. ⁴Give thanks for all the countless channels which extend this Self. ⁵All that you do is given unto Him. ⁶All that you think can only be His Thoughts, sharing with Him the holy Thoughts of God. ⁷Earn now the gratitude you have denied yourself when you forgot the function God has given you. ⁸But never think that He has ever ceased to offer thanks to you. (A Course in Miracles, W-197.7:5–9:8. See also ACIM Lesson 197 Insights.)

Whenever we feel distressed, it can be helpful to turn our thoughts to gratitude. When we focus on what we are grateful for, we are welcoming the Love that completes us in our unity with God. We may start with gratitude for things in the world. But as we let our thoughts of gratitude proceed to the deeper feelings of appreciation for kindness and helpfulness, our focus is elevated.

As we learn to recognize the Love that is the truth in every brother, in all of Reality, we realize that we are Love and nothing else. Today let us be grateful that God is in our heart; He will never leave us. In the certainty of His Love, we can rest in His peace. We gratefully join in His joy of extending Love without limit.

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Recognizing the Love We Are

⁴Deep in your mind the holy Christ in you is waiting your acknowledgment as you. ⁵And you are lost and do not know yourself while He is unacknowledged and unknown.

Seek Him today, and find Him. ²He will be your Savior from all idols you have made. ³For when you find Him, you will understand how worthless are your idols, and how false the images which you believed were you. ⁴Today we make a great advance to truth by letting idols go, and opening our hands and hearts and minds to God today.

We will remember Him throughout the day with thankful hearts and loving thoughts for all who meet with us today. ²For it is thus that we remember Him. ³And we will say, that we may be reminded of His Son, our holy Self, the Christ in each of us:

⁴I am as God created me.

⁵Let us declare this truth as often as we can. ⁶This is the Word of God that sets you free. ⁷This is the key that opens up the gate of Heaven, and that lets you enter in the peace of God and His eternity. (A Course in Miracles, W-110.9:4–11:7. See also ACIM Lesson 110 Insights.)

Christ is the truth in everyone. He is our true Self, and the true Self of everybody. This is the Son God created eternally one with Himself.

While we believe we are a body, the idea that we are the Christ seems absurd. Bodies seem to attack and need vigilant defense. But the body is not our identity. It is a false image that denies the truth. The idea that our true Self is the Christ needs much repetition to counteract our ingrained identification with the body.

As we recognize the reality of our true Self, we realize we are safe. We are loved eternally. We can relax in God’s peace, for we know His strength is ours. Our true Self shares God’s invulnerability, for He created us one with Himself. We are grateful that we remain as God created us.

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