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Christ’s Vision Heals Our Thoughts

My holy vision sees all things as pure.

Father, Your Mind created all that is, Your Spirit entered into it, Your Love gave life to it. ²And would I look upon what You created as if it could be made sinful? ³I would not perceive such dark and fearful images. ⁴A madman’s dream is hardly fit to be my choice, instead of all the loveliness with which You blessed creation; all its purity, its joy, and its eternal, quiet home in You.

And while we still remain outside the gate of Heaven, let us look on all we see through holy vision and the eyes of Christ. ²Let all appearances seem pure to us, that we may pass them by in innocence, and walk together to our Father’s house as brothers and the holy Sons of God. (A Course in Miracles, W-263. See also ACIM Lesson 263 Insights.)

Christ’s vision is the means to release ourselves from this world of separation. Christ’s vision is seen with forgiving eyes. When we let go of our judgments, the forms of this world do not drag us into the dark shadows of fear and guilt. Forgiving eyes recognize the presence of Love in all things, everywhere. The world Christ’s vision sees is bright with Love. It brings us to Heaven’s gate, where we are welcomed in Love.

Today we bring all our judgments, our opinions, to the Holy Spirit. We ask His help to let them go so that Christ’s vision can replace the ego’s condemning thoughts.

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Awakening to Our Home in Love

I am surrounded by the Love of God.

Father, You stand before me and behind, beside me, in the place I see myself, and everywhere I go. ²You are in all the things I look upon, the sounds I hear, and every hand that reaches for my own. ³In You time disappears, and place becomes a meaningless belief. ⁴For what surrounds Your Son and keeps him safe is Love itself. ⁵There is no source but this, and nothing is that does not share its holiness; that stands beyond Your one creation, or without the Love which holds all things within itself. ⁶Father, Your Son is like Yourself. ⁷We come to You in Your Own Name today, to be at peace within Your everlasting Love.

My brothers, join with me in this today. ²This is salvation’s prayer. ³Must we not join in what will save the world, along with us? (A Course in Miracles, W-264. See also ACIM Lesson 264 Insights.)

We dwell in the Love of God. It is our Home. Nothing else exists. Only in dreams can we seem to lack Love and be vulnerable to loss. This prayer is a call to awaken to our true Self, God’s Son. It reflects a never ceasing call, which draws us Home to where our true Life remains.

As we awaken to our eternal Home in Love, we remember we are God’s Son. We remain eternally safe in God’s Love. He is our Sanctuary where nothing can touch the truth that we are Love, united with every brother in the Love of God.

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Remembering We Live in Love and Peace

God is my refuge and security.

“\I will identify with what I think is refuge and security. ²I will behold myself where I perceive my strength, and think I live within the citadel where I am safe and cannot be attacked. ³Let me today seek not security in danger, nor attempt to find my peace in murderous attack. ⁴I live in God. ⁵In Him I find my refuge and my strength. ⁶In Him is my Identity. ⁷In Him is everlasting peace. ⁸And only there will I remember Who I really am.

Let me not seek for idols. ²I would come, my Father, home to You today. ³I choose to be as You created me, and find the Son whom You created as my Self. (A Course in Miracles, W-261. See also ACIM Lesson 261 Insights.)

The body is a barrier made to wall us off from the Love of God. It keeps us separated from Reality and only provides confirmation that we live in an imaginary world. In this world we are not safe and must constantly plan for our protection. This is all a nightmare that could never be true.

Our real Life is in God. He is our Source and our strength. God does not change the Love He is. In this we can trust that we remain eternally united with Him. In God we trust because He is all that is Real. There is no conflict in Love and no harm can come because Love is changeless. We live in God. We affirm this fact today to remember that we live in perfect safety. We live in peace.

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We Practice Letting Go of Judgments

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.)

Christ’s vision shows us Love because It sees with forgiving eyes. When our judgments are forgiven, only Love remains. Love knows only itself.

As we let go of our judgments, conflict is dispelled. No longer is harm feared, for Love is constant, changeless and all that is Real. When we accept Christ’s vision, we accept Love as our Reality. In Love’s Reality, peace of mind is complete. We live in joy because we join in extending God’s Love.

Today we practice letting go of our judgments and welcoming the vision of Christ. This is how we find the peace of God.

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Joining Love’s Eternal Extension

Father, Your Will is mine, and only that. ²There is no other will for me to have. ³Let me not try to make another will, for it is senseless and will cause me pain. ⁴Your Will alone can bring me happiness, and only Yours exists. ⁵If I would have what only You can give, I must accept Your Will for me, and enter into peace where conflict is impossible, Your Son is one with You in being and in will, and nothing contradicts the holy truth that I remain as You created me.

And with this prayer we enter silently into a state where conflict cannot come, because we join our holy will with God’s, in recognition that they are the same. (A Course in Miracles, W-307.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 307 Insights.)

The ego is a demand that God give what He cannot give. God gives us all of His Love, which is all that is Real. He cannot give more than everything.

Because God cannot give what the ego demands, the ego made up a dream with images that appear to offer specialness. This substitute “will” we have accepted as our own. But it is not our real Will. Because we are extensions of God’s Love and remain united with Him, His Will is ours. Our only will is to be Love and extend Love. When we accept our will as God’s, the ego’s substitute is dispelled into the nothingness from which it came.

Today we choose to accept the Self that is God’s Love and join in Love’s eternal extension.

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Letting Love Correct Our Mind

Miracle-minded forgiveness is only correction. It has no element of judgment at all. The statement “Father forgive them for they know not what they do” in no way evaluates what they do. It is an appeal to God to heal their minds. There is no reference to the outcome of the error. That does not matter.

Time is under my direction, but timelessness belongs to God. In time we exist for and with each other. In timelessness we coexist with God.

You can do much on behalf of your own healing and that of others if, in a situation calling for help, you think of it this way:

I am here only to be truly helpful.
I am here to represent Him Who sent me.
I do not have to worry about what to say or what to do, because He Who sent me will direct me.
I am content to be wherever He wishes, knowing He goes there with me.
I will be healed as I let Him teach me to heal. (T-2.III.16;17:5-18:6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

What expresses God’s Love is truly helpful. When we let love direct us, we serve as Love’s expression in the world of form. Only our wish for specialness, to be separate and unique, interferes with the flow of God’s Love through us to the world. As we forgive this wish, our mind is corrected and the flow of Love is unblocked.

When we perceive an unloving thought or situation, we need to recognize that it is a call for Love. A mistaken belief in lack of Love needs to be corrected, not judged. The Voice for God will teach us how to answer the call for Love with Love.

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Letting Love Be Expressed Through Us

If you cannot hear the Voice for God, it is because you do not choose to listen. ²That you

do

listen to the voice of your ego is demonstrated by your attitudes, your feelings and your behavior.

²When your mood tells you that you have chosen wrongly, and this is so whenever you are not joyous, then know this need not be. ³In every case you have thought wrongly about some brother God created, and are perceiving images your ego makes in a darkened glass. ⁴Think honestly what you have thought that God would not have thought, and what you have not thought that God would have you think.

The habit of engaging with God and His creations is easily made if you actively refuse to let your mind slip away.

²There is no limit to the power of a Son of God, but he can limit the expression of his power as much as he chooses. ³Your mind and mine can unite in shining your ego away, releasing the strength of God into everything you think and do.

⁴His Mind shone on you in your creation and brought your mind into being. ⁵His Mind still shines on you and must shine through you. ⁶Your ego cannot prevent Him from shining on you, but it can prevent you from letting Him shine through you.

⁵Your mind will elect to join with mine, and together we are invincible. (A Course in Miracles, T-4.IV.1:1-2:2;2-4;7:1;8:2-3;9:4-6;11:5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

God is Love and everything He creates is Love. Only Love is real so there is no other force that can disturb the peace of Love. God’s Creations are His Thoughts of Love. His Thoughts never leave His Mind, but extend without limit.

To join with God is to join with His Thoughts of Love. As we go through our experience each day, we can ask ourselves, “How would Love see this? What would Love do or say in this situation?” As we focus on letting Love guide our thoughts and actions, we bring Love to the world. We join with the Love in all God’s Creations. We recognize every brother as one with us in Love. As we let the day be Love’s expression through us, it will be a day of joy and peace.

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