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Welcoming Love As Our Reality

…[God] wills the happiness His Son inherited of Him be undisturbed; eternal and forever gaining scope, eternally expanding in the joy of full creation, and eternally open and wholly limitless in Him. ³That is His Will. ⁴And thus His Will provides the means to guarantee that it is done.”

Forgive, and you will see this differently.

²These are the words the Holy Spirit speaks in all your tribulations, all your pain, all suffering regardless of its form. ³These are the words with which temptation ends, and guilt, abandoned, is revered no more. ⁴These are the words which end the dream of sin, and rid the mind of fear. ⁵These are the words by which salvation comes to all the world.

Shall we not learn to say these words when we are tempted to believe that pain is real, and death becomes our choice instead of life? ²Shall we not learn to say these words when we have understood their power to release all minds from bondage? ³These are words which give you power over all events that seem to have been given power over you.

³I will forgive, and this will disappear. (A Course in Miracles, W-193.1:2-4;5:1–6:3;13:3. See also ACIM Lesson 193 Insights.)

Perception is a deception based on the belief in being separate and alone. In the reality of Love’s oneness, there is no “other” to perceive. The purpose of forgiveness is to clear away the deceptive perceptions that prevent us from recognizing we remain eternally in the oneness of God’s Love.

These perceptions take many forms. The process of waking up from the dream is quite simple. Forgive the perceptions and they will disappear. The peace and happiness of God’s Love returns to our awareness.

Today we continue on our journey of awakening as we commit to forgiving our perceptions and welcoming Love as our Reality.

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Finding Our Home in Present Love

I seek a future different from the past.

From new perception of the world there comes a future very different from the past. ²The future now is recognized as but extension of the present. ³Past mistakes can cast no shadows on it, so that fear has lost its idols and its images, and being formless, it has no effects. ⁴Death will not claim the future now, for life is now its goal, and all the needed means are happily provided. ⁵Who can grieve or suffer when the present has been freed, extending its security and peace into a quiet future filled with joy?

Father, we were mistaken in the past, and choose to use the present to be free. ²Now do we leave the future in Your Hands, leaving behind our past mistakes, and sure that You will keep Your present promises, and guide the future in their holy light. (A Course in Miracles, W-314. See also ACIM Lesson 314 Insights.)

The ego is always planning for the future, but always based upon past experiences. It does not want a future that is different from the past. Its plans are always with the intent of maintaining its seeming existence. But the past is not real; its plans for the future are equally unreal.

The reality of Love is always in the present. When we seek a future that extends the present, we are always extending Love, because only Love is real. Because of our alliance with the ego, we need help from outside its closed thought system. If we follow the Guide given us by our Father, we will be guided by the Light of Love.

This Guide knows only Love is real. It brings Its Light to our misperceptions to dispel them. In their place, we see Love that joins us with everyone and our Father. This future is different from the past because it extends the present. We choose to accept the lessons of our inner Teacher of Love. These lessons will lead us to our Home in the Love of our Father.

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Remembering Our Unbroken Unity with God

Let me remember that my goal is God.

All that is needful is to train our minds to overlook all little senseless aims, and to remember that our goal is God. ²His memory is hidden in our minds, obscured but by our pointless little goals which offer nothing, and do not exist. ³Shall we continue to allow God’s grace to shine in unawareness, while the toys and trinkets of the world are sought instead? ⁴God is our only goal, our only Love. ⁵We have no aim but to remember Him.

Our goal is but to follow in the way that leads to You. ²We have no goal but this. ³What could we want but to remember You? ⁴What could we seek but our Identity? (A Course in Miracles, W-258. See also ACIM Lesson 258 Insights.)

Everyone in the world is seeking for Love. The ego offers “help” to find love. But the best it can offer is some form of specialness. But because the ego thought system always demands sacrifice to obtain specialness, it also fosters guilt. The ego’s direction never leads us to what we really seek. It does not know what Love is.

We have been given another Guide, Who is our bridge to the Love we seek. The Holy Spirit knows the way to God, the way to Love. If we are willing to step back from the ego’s lead and open our mind to the Holy Spirit, we will move toward our ultimate and only goal. We will find the Love we seek; we will find our true Identity.

As we set aside the ego’s illusions, we will learn that we are the Love we seek. In gratitude we accept His help today to remember our unbroken unity with God.

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Our Opportunities to Bless the World

I can be hurt by nothing but my thoughts.

Father, Your Son is perfect. ²When I think that I am hurt in any way, it is because I have forgotten who I am, and that I am as You created me. ³Your Thoughts can only bring me happiness. ⁴If ever I am sad or hurt or ill, I have forgotten what You think, and put my little meaningless ideas in place of where Your Thoughts belong, and where they are. ⁵I can be hurt by nothing but my thoughts. ⁶The Thoughts I think with You can only bless. ⁷The Thoughts I think with You alone are true.

I will not hurt myself today. ²For I am far beyond all pain. ³My Father placed me safe in Heaven, watching over me. ⁴And I would not attack the Son He loves, for what He loves is also mine to love. (A Course in Miracles, W-281. See also ACIM Lesson 281 Insights.)

To see ourselves as a body is to place a limit on the Son of God. Our true Self shares God’s Love, strength and peace. His Will for us is perfect happiness. If we are not joyous, we are misperceiving the Self God created one with Him.

Today we choose to lay down our self-imposed limitations. They represent a false idea. With the Holy Spirit’s help, we can forgive these false ideas and remember that we are blessed as the Son of God. Each time we forgive a false idea, we bring blessing to the world. Today offers opportunities to forgive. We dedicate this day to recognizing opportunities to bless the world.

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How to Live in Happiness and Peace

If I accept that I am prisoner within a body, in a world in which all things that seem to live appear to die, then is my Father prisoner with me. ²And this do I believe, when I maintain the laws the world obeys must I obey; the frailties and the sins which I perceive are real, and cannot be escaped. ³If I am bound in any way, I do not know my Father nor my Self. ⁴And I am lost to all reality. ⁵For truth is free, and what is bound is not a part of truth.

Father, I ask for nothing but the truth. ²I have had many foolish thoughts about myself and my creation, and have brought a dream of fear into my mind. ³Today, I would not dream. ⁴I choose the way to You instead of madness and instead of fear. ⁵For truth is safe, and only love is sure. (A Course in Miracles, W-278.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 278 Insights.)

The ego does not want us to realize that all our pain and suffering, guilt and fear we bring upon ourselves. It is not God who condemns His Son to hell. It is our belief that we are separate, which aligns with the ego, that leads us to this experience. The truth that only Love is real is the release from hell.

Today we choose God’s plan for our release from the dream we have engaged in. He has given us the Holy Spirit in our mind to guide us through all our self-made stories to the certainty of Love’s safety. It is a journey of awakening to Love. With the Holy Spirit’s help we will live in peace and join in the joyous extension of eternal Love. We are grateful that we have this Guide to return to the awareness of our Home in Heaven.

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We Rest in the Certainty of God’s Love

Fear is not justified in any form.

Fear is deception. ²It attests that you have seen yourself as you could never be, and therefore look upon a world which is impossible. ³Not one thing in this world is true. ⁴It does not matter what the form in which it may appear. ⁵It witnesses but to your own illusions of yourself. ⁶Let us not be deceived today. ⁷We are the Sons of God. ⁸There is no fear in us, for we are each a part of Love Itself.

How foolish are our fears! ²Would You allow Your Son to suffer? ³Give us faith today to recognize Your Son, and set him free. ⁴Let us forgive him in Your Name, that we may understand his holiness, and feel the love for him which is Your Own as well. (A Course in Miracles, W-240. See also ACIM Lesson 240 Insights.)

God is eternal Love, and what He creates is like Himself. We are His Son, united as one in the Love we were created to be. What is eternal cannot be changed. This is why there is nothing to fear.

All our fears come from believing that we have successfully disconnected from eternal Love. We believe in an illusion. Illusions by definition are not real but our belief in them makes them seem real. We respond to illusions as if they were real.

The Course is helping us learn the difference between illusions and the truth; between self deceptions and reality. Today we remind ourselves that we remain Love as Love created us — eternal, invulnerable and radiant in Its Light. We re grateful that this is so.

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Today We Bless the World

Today belongs to love. Let me not fear.

Father, today I would let all things be as You created them, and give Your Son the honor due his sinlessness; the love of brother to his brother and his Friend. ²Through this I am redeemed. ³Through this as well the truth will enter where illusions were, light will replace all darkness, and Your Son will know he is as You created him.

A special blessing comes to us today, from Him Who is our Father. ²Give this day to Him, and there will be no fear today, because the day is given unto love. (A Course in Miracles, W-274. See also ACIM Lesson 274 Insights.)

To give today to Love, we must not judge anything on our own. If we turn over all judgments to the Holy Spirit, His judgment will be singular: It is Love or it is nothing. In the dream we may believe we are different, separate and vulnerable to change. The Holy Spirit sees this as a call for Love.

Love is universal and equal to all. Today we bless the world and ourselves by extending Love to all. We forgive our misperceptions and make way for the recognition of Love’s eternal presence. In happiness and peace we extend Love to every brother and join in celebration of our Creation by Love. We feel our unity as we acknowledge we are one Self, united with our Creator in His Love.

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