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Letting the Light Within Guide Our Doing

Who is the light of the world except God’s Son? ²This, then, is merely a statement of the truth about yourself. ³It is the opposite of a statement of pride, of arrogance, or of self-deception. ⁴It does not describe the self-concept you have made. ⁵It does not refer to any of the characteristics with which you have endowed your idols. ⁶It refers to you as you were created by God. ⁷It simply states the truth.

You will want to think about this idea as often as possible today. ²It is the perfect answer to all illusions, and therefore to all temptation. ³It brings all the images you have made about yourself to the truth, and helps you depart in peace, unburdened and certain of your purpose.

…begin with telling yourself:

³I am the light of the world. ⁴That is my only function. ⁵That is why I am here.

Today’s idea goes far beyond the ego’s petty views of what you are and what your purpose is. …⁵You are the light of the world. ⁶God has built His plan for the salvation of His Son on you. (A Course in Miracles, W-61.1;4;5:2-5;7:1,5-6. See also ACIM Lesson 61 Insights.)

Because our function is to be the Light of the world, we need to let the Light within be our Guide in all things. The practice of opening our mind to the Holy Spirit’s lead represents our willingness to be the Light of the world.

The Light is already in us, but we have hidden it behind a false image that separates us from Reality. The thought system that made that image denies the Light. So we must be willing to disregard all the “guidance” of the ego’s denial of our reality.

Today we dedicate to practicing opening our mind to the Light within to let It guide us to fulfill our function as the Light of the world.

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Forgiveness Leads Us Home to Love

Let us not fight our function. ²We did not establish it. ³It is not our idea. ⁴The means are given us by which it will be perfectly accomplished. ⁵All that we are asked to do is to accept our part in genuine humility, and not deny with self-deceiving arrogance that we are worthy. ⁶What is given us to do, we have the strength to do. ⁷Our minds are suited perfectly to take the part assigned to us by One Who knows us well.

³We will be certain only that He knows our strengths, our wisdom and our holiness. ⁴And if He deems us worthy, so we are.

Do as God’s Voice directs. ²And if It asks a thing of you which seems impossible, remember Who it is that asks, and who would make denial. ³Then consider this; which is more likely to be right? ⁴The Voice that speaks for the Creator of all things, Who knows all things exactly as they are, or a distorted image of yourself, confused, bewildered, inconsistent and unsure of everything? ⁵Let not its voice direct you. ⁶Hear instead a certain Voice, which tells you of a function given you by your Creator Who remembers you, and urges that you now remember Him.

⁴He has Thoughts which answer every need His Son perceives, although He sees them not. ⁵For Love must give, and what is given in His Name takes on the form most useful in a world of form.

⁵Salvation of the world depends on you who can forgive. ⁶Such is your function here. (A Course in Miracles, W-186.2;4:3-4;12;13:4-5;14:5-6. See also ACIM Lesson 186 Insights.)

Our true Self remains Love as God created us, His Son. There is nothing our true Self needs to forgive, for It remains eternally united with God’s Love.

But while we believe we are in a world of bodies and myriad forms, we do need to forgive. We need to forgive the mistaken beliefs that made up a world of shifting forms and changing circumstances where uncertainty is ever present. Fear is an underlying emotion with guilt beside it. The joy and peace of Love seem far off and difficult to experience.

Forgiveness of the beliefs that make this world of perception is the means to let Love return to our awareness. This is our function today and every day. It is the path that leads us Home to full remembrance that we remain as God created us — Love and nothing else.

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Finding the Love We Seek

You have so little faith in yourself because you are unwilling to accept the fact that perfect love is in you. ²And so you seek without for what you cannot find without. ³I offer you my perfect faith in you, in place of all your doubts. ⁴But forget not that my faith must be as perfect in all your brothers as it is in you, or it would be a limited gift to you. ⁵In the holy instant we share our faith in God’s Son because we recognize, together, that he is wholly worthy of it, and in our appreciation of his worth we cannot doubt his holiness. ⁶And so we love him.”

³In the holy instant you recognize the idea of love in you, and unite this idea with the Mind that thought it, and could not relinquish it. ⁴By holding it within itself, there is no loss. ⁵The holy instant thus becomes a lesson in how to hold all of your brothers in your mind, experiencing not loss but completion. ⁶From this it follows you can only give. ⁷And this is love, for this alone is natural under the laws of God.

¹⁰For in the holy instant you will recognize the only need the Sons of God share equally, and by this recognition you will join with me in offering what is needed. (A Course in Miracles, T-15.VI.2;5:3-7;6:10. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Fear is a sure sign that we are denying the Love that is our true Identity. Because of that denial, we cannot see the Love that is the Identity of everyone. We dream we are in a world where conflict is the norm. We need to be constantly alert to protect ourselves from harm and loss. We feel a lack of love that drives us on a constant search to find something or someone that offers some form of relief from our distress.

We already have the answer to our need. It is in our mind now. The Love we seek is eternally present in our mind. The Holy Spirit is always ready to help us let go of the misperceptions that come belief that we are separate and alone.

Today we practice offering every perception that disturbs our peace and happiness to Him for His reinterpretation. As we accept His help, we will learn that the Love we seek is already ours. We will see that this Love unites us with the Love that is the true Identity of everyone, including ourselves.

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Identifying with Love Brings Happiness

I share God’s Will for happiness for me.

You do not want to suffer. ²You may think it buys you something, and may still believe a little that it buys you what you want.

⁶Be you free today to join the happy Will of God.

²Here is your home, and here your safety is. ³Here is your peace, and here there is no fear. ⁴Here is salvation. ⁵Here is rest at last.

Begin… with this acceptance of God’s Will for you:

²I share God’s Will for happiness for me, and I accept it as my function now.

Be happy, for your only function here is happiness. …pause frequently today, to tell yourself that you have now accepted happiness as your one function. ⁴And be sure that you are joining with God’s Will in doing this. (A Course in Miracles, W-102.1:1-2;2:6;3:2–4:2;5:1,3-4. See also ACIM Lesson 102 Insights.)

To know that we are Love and nothing else is to be happy. We were created by Love and as Love’s extension, happiness is an attribute of Love.

Any discomfort, suffering or disturbance to our peace is a sign that we are rejecting the Love that created us. We have a mistaken belief that identifying with a body that is vulnerable to outside forces offers something we want.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us identify with Love and offer It to the world.

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Seeing Love’s Presence in the World

God is my life. I have no life but His.

I was mistaken when I thought I lived apart from God, a separate entity that moved in isolation, unattached, and housed within a body. ²Now I know my life is God’s, I have no other home, and I do not exist apart from Him. ³He has no Thoughts that are not part of me, and I have none but those which are of Him.

Our Father, let us see the face of Christ instead of our mistakes. ²For we who are Your holy Son are sinless. ³We would look upon our sinlessness, for guilt proclaims that we are not Your Son. ⁴And we would not forget You longer. ⁵We are lonely here, and long for Heaven, where we are at home. ⁶Today we would return. ⁷Our Name is Yours, and we acknowledge that we are Your Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-223. See also ACIM Lesson 223 Insights.)

The face of Christ is a symbol of what we see with the vision of our true Self. This Self is God’s Son, wholly loving and innocent of any thoughts of harm. This is what we were created to be as God’s extension of Himself. And this is what we remain eternally.

It is a mistake to believe we are a body, existing in a world of other bodies. This belief imprisons us in a limited form that cannot know the joy that is ours in the oneness of God’s Love. It denies our real life which remains safe in the Mind of God. But we are free to change our beliefs and accept the life God shares with us.

The Holy Spirit is given us to help us awaken to our true Identity in the Mind of Love. Today we remind ourselves that on our own we do not know what anything means. We rely on the Holy Spirit to show us the presence of Love beneath all appearances in this world.

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Christ’s Vision Shows Us God’s Gift of Peace

There is a peace that Christ bestows on us.

Who uses but Christ’s vision finds a peace so deep and quiet, undisturbable and wholly changeless, that the world contains no counterpart. ²Comparisons are still before this peace. ³And all the world departs in silence as this peace envelops it, and gently carries it to truth, no more to be the home of fear. ⁴For love has come, and healed the world by giving it Christ’s peace.

Father, the peace of Christ is given us, because it is Your Will that we be saved. ²Help us today but to accept Your gift, and judge it not. ³For it has come to us to save us from our judgment on ourselves. (A Course in Miracles, W-305. See also ACIM Lesson 305 Insights.)

The wish for specialness is satisfied only through perception of differences. Yet God’s Love is one, wholly uniform with no differences possible within its holy Light. Perception of a world of differences makes us unaware of the peace that is our true nature in the Love of God.

Today we rely on Love’s vision to show us Its Presence all around us. We let go of our judgments, clearing our vision to see the Love that is everywhere to behold. We live in Love, the only Reality. In Its beneficent Light we know we are safe. We rest in its quiet peace.

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How to Have a Loving Day

Christ’s is the vision I will use today.

Each day, each hour, every instant, I am choosing what I want to look upon, the sounds I want to hear, the witnesses to what I want to be the truth for me. ²Today I choose to look upon what Christ would have me see, to listen to God’s Voice, and seek the witnesses to what is true in God’s creation. ³In Christ’s sight, the world and God’s creation meet, and as they come together all perception disappears. ⁴His kindly sight redeems the world from death, for nothing that He looks on but must live, remembering the Father and the Son; Creator and creation unified.

Father, Christ’s vision is the way to You. ²What He beholds invites Your memory to be restored to me. ³And this I choose, to be what I would look upon today. (A Course in Miracles, W-271. See also ACIM Lesson 271 Insights.)

Every moment that we choose to accept Christ’s vision in place of the ego’s seeing through the body’s eyes, we welcome God’s peace and joy. Christ’s vision is always available in our mind. It recognizes the Love that keeps us united with our Father and every brother. It sees past all the images of the world, knowing they are meaningless.

Today we practice stepping back from our experience of the world to let Christ’s vision have our full attention. It will lead us to experience a day filled with love, peace and happiness.

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