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Claiming Our Invulnerability

[I am as God created me is] the one idea which brings complete salvation; the one statement which makes all forms of temptation powerless; the one thought which renders the ego silent and entirely undone. ²You are as God created you. ³The sounds of this world are still, the sights of this world disappear, and all the thoughts that this world ever held are wiped away forever by this one idea. ⁴Here is salvation accomplished. ⁵Here is sanity restored.

True light is strength, and strength is sinlessness. ²If you remain as God created you, you must be strong and light must be in you. ³He Who ensured your sinlessness must be the guarantee of strength and light as well. ⁴You are as God created you.

⁵Now try to reach the Son of God in you. ⁶This is the Self that never sinned, nor made an image to replace reality. ⁷This is the Self that never left Its home in God to walk the world uncertainly. ⁸This is the Self that knows no fear, nor could conceive of loss or suffering or death.

…be sure to respond to anyone who seems to irritate you with these words:

⁶You are as God created you.
⁷You are His Son eternally. (A Course in Miracles, W-94.1:1–2:4;3:5-8;5:5-7. See also ACIM Lesson 94 Insights.)

Because we are as God created us, we must be Love and nothing else. Because Love is one and all of Reality, there is no greater strength. Love is our Reality. When we affirm that we are as God created us, we claim the strength of Love.

In this world we can remind ourselves of our strength and Love when we affirm, “I am as God created me.” We also remind ourselves of this Reality when we respond to another with the thought, “You are as God created you. You are His Son eternally.” This is our practice for today.

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Choosing to Be the Love We Are

It is hard to understand what “The Kingdom of Heaven is within you” really means. ²This is because it is not understandable to the ego, which interprets it as if something outside is inside, and this does not mean anything. ³The word “within” is unnecessary. ⁴The Kingdom of Heaven is you. ⁵What else but you did the Creator create, and what else but you is His Kingdom? ⁶This is the whole message of the Atonement; a message which in its totality transcends the sum of its parts. ⁷You, too, have a Kingdom that your spirit created. ⁸It has not ceased to create because of the ego’s illusions. ⁹Your creations are no more fatherless than you are. ¹⁰Your ego and your spirit will never be co-creators, but your spirit and your Creator will always be. ¹¹Be confident that your creations are as safe as you are.

¹²The Kingdom is perfectly united and perfectly protected, and the ego will not prevail against it. ¹³Amen.

This is written in the form of a prayer because it is useful in moments of temptation. ²It is a declaration of independence. ³You will find it very helpful if you understand it fully. ⁴The reason you need my help is because you have denied your own Guide and therefore need guidance. ⁵My role is to separate the true from the false, so truth can break through the barriers the ego has set up and can shine into your mind. ⁶Against our united strength the ego cannot prevail. (A Course in Miracles, T-4.III.1:1–2:6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Perceiving any form of separation in the world as real is a temptation. It is offered by the ego to validate its seeming existence. The body is the central figure in its scheme to attract us to believe in its offerings.

But we are not a body, with all its limitations. We are spirit with limitless Love that unites us with our Creator. Our extension of Love is our creation. This is our Reality — Love and nothing else.

To help us learn to dismiss the ego’s temptations, we have a mighty Companion Whose mission is to help us learn to recognize temptations for what they are — denial of God’s Love.  We choose the one Self that we are which unites us with our Creator and every brother. It is the choice to love and be Love. And we give thanks.

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The Calling of Our True Self

The lilies [holiness] that your brother offers you are laid upon your altar, with the ones you offer him beside them. ²Who could fear to look upon such lovely holiness? ³The great illusion of the fear of God diminishes to nothingness before the purity that you will look on here. ⁴Be not afraid to look. ⁵The blessedness you will behold will take away all thought of form, and leave instead the perfect gift forever there, forever to increase, forever yours, forever given away.

Now are we one in thought, for fear has gone. ²And here, before the altar to one God, one Father, one Creator and one Thought, we stand together as one Son of God. ³Not separate from Him Who is our Source; not distant from one brother who is part of our one Self Whose innocence has joined us all as one, we stand in blessedness, and give as we receive. ⁴The Name of God is on our lips. ⁵And as we look within, we see the purity of Heaven shine in our reflection of our Father’s Love.

Now are we blessed, and now we bless the world. ²What we have looked upon we would extend, for we would see [Love] everywhere. (A Course in Miracles, W-187.9:1–11:2. See also ACIM Lesson 187 Insights.)

We are called to be true to our Self. This Self was created by Love as Its extension. It is one now and forever. This is What we have always been. But we have dreamed of a different life in which there is no connection between the images we see. Everything is separate. It is a dream of loneliness, fear and guilt.

This dream has no effect on the Self we are. It is time to awaken to our true Self and know that we are Love. We have been given the Holy Spirit to help us see past the dream and remember the Love we are. We choose Love to be our Guide today, for we would bring blessing to the world. And with this Thought, we know that we are blessed.

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Learning That Peace Is Ours

You are your brother’s savior. ²He is yours. ³Reason speaks happily indeed of this. ⁴This gracious plan was given love by Love. ⁵And what Love plans is like Itself in this: Being united, It would have you learn what you must be. ⁶And being one with [Love], it must be given you to give what It has given, and gives still. ⁷Spend but an instant in the glad acceptance of what is given you to give your brother, and learn with him what has been given both of you. ⁸To give is no more blessed than to receive. ⁹But neither is it less.

The Son of God is always blessed as one. ²And as his gratitude goes out to you who blessed him, reason will tell you that it cannot be you stand apart from blessing. ³The gratitude he offers you reminds you of the thanks your Father gives you for completing Him. ⁴And here alone does reason tell you that you can understand what you must be. ⁵Your Father is as close to you as is your brother. ⁶Yet what is there that could be nearer you than is your Self? (A Course in Miracles, T-21.VI.9–10. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We bless our brothers by recognizing we are one and the same Love. This recognition must apply to both ourself and our brother. The Holy Spirit’s singular teaching is that we are one in Love and nothing else. The ego cannot show us this reality. Its voice speaks only of Love’s denial.

The Holy Spirit’s Voice speaks only of Love. As we accept Its lessons, we learn to see past the conflicts in the world to the unity of Love that keeps us eternally united with our Creator. Today we welcome the Holy Spirit’s lessons. With His help, we will teach peace and learn that it is ours.

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Letting Our Misperceptions Be Healed

²Truth has no meaning in illusion. ³The frame of reference for its meaning must be itself. ⁴When you try to bring truth to illusions, you are trying to make illusions real, and keep them by justifying your belief in them. ⁵But to give illusions to truth is to enable truth to teach that the illusions are unreal, and thus enable you to escape from them. ⁶Reserve not one idea aside from truth, or you establish orders of reality that must imprison you. ⁷There is no order in reality, because everything there is true.

Be willing, then, to give all you have held outside the truth to Him Who knows the truth, and in Whom all is brought to truth. ²Salvation from separation would be complete, or will not be at all. ³Be not concerned with anything except your willingness to have this be accomplished. ⁴He will accomplish it; not you. ⁵But forget not this: When you become disturbed and lose your peace of mind because another is attempting to solve his problems through fantasy, you are refusing to forgive yourself for just this same attempt. ⁶And you are holding both of you away from truth and from salvation. ⁷As you forgive him, you restore to truth what was denied by both of you. ⁸And you will see forgiveness where you have given it. (A Course in Miracles, T-17.I.5:2–6:8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

In any moment that our peace is disturbed, it means we are believing an illusion is real. The ego wants us to believe that the disturbance is caused by something real and outside of us. But we are really seeing what we believe about ourselves projected on an “outside” world.

When we believe we are separate, we see an outside world, separate from us, filled with images of separation. This is why the ego’s world is filled with fear and guilt. It sees itself reflected everywhere, although the external forms seem completely out of our control.

As we are willing to give our perceptions to the Holy Spirit in our mind, He will help us recognize their unreality. Our function is only to hand our perceptions to Him and be willing to let them go. The Holy Spirit will do the rest in bringing healing to our troubled mind. As we accept His help, we can be at peace in the appearance of turmoil. We can offer Love in answer to calls for Love. Each time we accept His help, the Light of Love within shines more brightly in our mind.

Today we practice accepting the Holy Spirit’s help.

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Awakening to Our Home in Love

All things are given you. ²God’s trust in you is limitless. ³He knows His Son. ⁴He gives without exception, holding nothing back that can contribute to your happiness. ⁵And yet, unless your will is one with His, His gifts are not received. ⁶But what would make you think there is another will than His?

Here is the paradox that underlies the making of the world. ²This world is not the Will of God, and so it is not real.

Yet in his lonely, senseless wanderings, God’s gifts go with him, all unknown to him. ²He cannot lose them. ³But he will not look at what is given him. ⁴He wanders on, aware of the futility he sees about him everywhere, perceiving how his little lot but dwindles, as he goes ahead to nowhere. ⁵Still he wanders on in misery and poverty, alone though God is with him, and a treasure his so great that everything the world contains is valueless before its magnitude.

One walks with you Who gently answers all your fears with this one merciful reply, “It is not so.” ⁴He points to all the gifts you have each time the thought of poverty oppresses you, and speaks of His Companionship when you perceive yourself as lonely and afraid.

⁴Be witness in your happiness to how transformed the mind becomes which chooses to accept His gifts, and feel the touch of Christ. (A Course in Miracles, W-166.1:1–2:2;5;11:3-4;15:4. See also ACIM Lesson 166 Insights.)

We have a mighty Companion Whose purpose is to show us the way to peace and joy; to show us the reality of our true Self, eternally one with God. As His Son, our Home is in Him. Everything He is, we are in truth. We are Love’s oneness. We are in eternal peace. We share God’s joy in the eternal extension of Love.

The body’s senses cannot fathom our true Reality because the body itself is not real. Everything we perceive through the body’s senses is therefore not real. Only our belief gives it a semblance of reality.

Our mighty Companion is with us to help us recognize the unreality of the images in the world. With His help, we see the Light of Love beyond the images of fear and hate. We see the all encompassing oneness in place of loneliness. Today w

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Being Thankful for God’s Love

A day devoted now to gratitude will add the benefit of some insight into the real extent of all the gains which you have made; the gifts you have received. ²Be glad today, in loving thankfulness, your Father has not left you to yourself, nor let you wander in the dark alone. ³Be grateful He has saved you from the self you thought you made to take the place of Him and His creation. ⁴Give Him thanks today.

Give thanks that He has not abandoned you, and that His Love forever will remain shining on you, forever without change. ²Give thanks as well that you are changeless, for the Son He loves is changeless as Himself. ³Be grateful you are saved. ⁴Be glad you have a function in salvation to fulfill.

³Today we smile on everyone we see, and walk with lightened footsteps as we go to do what is appointed us to do.

Receive His thanks, and you will understand how lovingly He holds you in His Mind, how deep and limitless His care for you, how perfect is His gratitude to you. ²Remember hourly to think of Him, and give Him thanks for everything He gave His Son, that he might rise above the world, remembering his Father and his Self. (A Course in Miracles, W-123.2:1–3:4;4:3;8. See also ACIM Lesson 123 Insights.)

Gratitude is a thought of welcome. It invites more of what we are grateful for by opening our mind to receive.

The ego is not grateful for God’s Love. It denies His Love because God’s Love is one. It has no room for differences. Our choice to accept the ego wish for specialness and differences has hidden God’s Love from our awareness.

But our gratitude for His gift of all His Love opens our mind to welcome the reality of our unity with Him. We are grateful that He has given us the means in our mind to heal our fear based thoughts that seem to separate us from His Love. Awareness of His Love is magnified with each thought of gratitude.

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