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How to Experience Peace and Happiness

You who were created by love like itself can hold no grievances and know your Self. ²To hold a grievance is to forget who you are. ³To hold a grievance is to see yourself as a body. ⁴To hold a grievance is to let the ego rule your mind and to condemn the body to death. ⁵Perhaps you do not yet fully realize just what holding grievances does to your mind. ⁶It seems to split you off from your Source and make you unlike Him. ⁷It makes you believe that He is like what you think you have become, for no one can conceive of his Creator as unlike himself.

…he who holds grievances denies he was created by love, and his Creator has become fearful to him in his dream of hate. ⁵Who can dream of hatred and not fear God?

²It is as sure that those who hold grievances will suffer guilt, as it is certain that those who forgive will find peace. ³It is as sure that those who hold grievances will forget who they are, as it is certain that those who forgive will remember.

…think of yourself as completely at peace with everyone and everything, safe in a world that protects you and loves you, and that you love in return. ⁵Try to feel safety surrounding you, hovering over you and holding you up. ⁶Try to believe, however briefly, that nothing can harm you in any way. (A Course in Miracles, W-68.1;2:4-5;3:2-3;6:4-6. See also ACIM Lesson 68 Insights.)

Holding a grievance has no effect on the object of our grievance. But it is literally devastating to our awareness of our true Self. We have accepted in place of our Self a false image that is weak, vulnerable, isolated and in need of constant defense. This is not God’s Creation, nor What we were created to be by our Creator.

We were created to be Love as His extension of His Love. To be Love, we must extend Love, for that is Love’s nature. As we let go of our grievances, we remove the barriers to Love’s extension. Simultaneously, as we extend Love, we experience the Love we are. We experience the peace and happiness that are Love’s attributes.

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Letting Today Be Happy

Happiness is an attribute of love. ²It cannot be apart from it. ³Nor can it be experienced where love is not. ⁴Love has no limits, being everywhere. ⁵And therefore joy is everywhere as well. ⁶Yet can the mind deny that this is so, believing there are gaps in love where sin can enter, bringing pain instead of joy. ⁷This strange belief would limit happiness by redefining love as limited, and introducing opposition in what has no limit and no opposite.

Fear is associated then with love, and its results become the heritage of minds that think what they have made is real. ²These images, with no reality in truth, bear witness to the fear of God, forgetting being Love, He must be joy. ³This basic error we will try again to bring to truth today, and teach ourselves:

⁴God, being Love, is also happiness.
⁵To fear Him is to be afraid of joy.

…happiness belongs to you, because of what He is.

Allow this one correction to be placed within your mind each waking hour today. ²Then welcome all the happiness it brings as truth replaces fear, and joy becomes what you expect to take the place of pain. ³God, being Love, it will be given you. (A Course in Miracles, W-103.1:1–2:5;2:7–3:3. See also ACIM Lesson 103 Insights.)

If we are not happy, we are denying God’s Will for us. We are denying His gift of all His Love. Thus, if we are not happy, we have accepted an idea that we are not as God created us. Though we live in His Love, we have accepted the thought of death.

Fortunately belief does not make reality, though we experience what we believe as real. The belief in being separate that we accepted changed our experience. But our beliefs can change. The changeability of beliefs is the opening to release from the fear of Love, the fear of Life.

Today we remind ourselves with the affirmation: ‘God is Love and His Will for me is happiness.’ With this reminder, we can undo our mistaken belief that denies God’s Love. Today will be a happy day.

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Moving from Misperceptions to True Perception

Let me forget my brother’s past today.

This is the thought that leads the way to You, and brings me to my goal. ²I cannot come to You without my brother. ³And to know my Source, I first must recognize what You created one with me. ⁴My brother’s is the hand that leads me on the way to You. ⁵His sins are in the past along with mine, and I am saved because the past is gone. ⁶Let me not cherish it within my heart, or I will lose the way to walk to You. ⁷My brother is my savior. ⁸Let me not attack the savior You have given me. ⁹But let me honor him who bears Your Name, and so remember that It is my own.

Forgive me, then, today. ²And you will know you have forgiven me if you behold your brother in the light of holiness. ³He cannot be less holy than can I, and you can not be holier than he. (A Course in Miracles, W-288. See also ACIM Lesson 288 Insights.)

The key to remembering God is to remember what He created one with me as His Son. To see my brother as one with me, I must see him without the past. This is the vision forgiveness brings. It forgives myself along with my brother. We are not different. We were created one and the same. This is why all forgiveness is really forgiveness of our false beliefs about ourselves.

Misperceptions are always the result of believing we are a separate identity. Whether it appears we are forgiving a brother or ourselves, the effect is the same. For it is letting go of a false image that stands as a veil between our awareness and the truth that we are Love and nothing else.

Today we welcome the Holy Spirit’s help to let go of the past and let the Light of Love fill our world.

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Today We Choose to Be Love

My Father gives all power unto me.

The Son of God is limitless. ²There are no limits on his strength, his peace, his joy, nor any attributes his Father gave in his creation. ³What he wills with his Creator and Redeemer must be done. ⁴His holy will can never be denied, because his Father shines upon his mind, and lays before it all the strength and love in earth and Heaven. ⁵I am he to whom all this is given. ⁶I am he in whom the power of my Father’s Will abides.

Your Will can do all things in me, and then extend to all the world as well through me. ²There is no limit on Your Will. ³And so all power has been given to Your Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-320. See also ACIM Lesson 320 Insights.)

Our true Self has all of God’s power, for It shares His Will. But the separate self identity we think we are has no power whatsoever. It can make illusions and believe they are real, but they do nothing to change God’s Son.

Today we are reminded of What we are in truth. We are Love and Love is the only power. When we accept our Self, we create by extending Love as our Creator extended It to His Son. This is all we can do because Love is everything that Is. Today we choose to be our Self. We choose to be Love.

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We Have Constant Support to Awaken

Steady our feet, our Father. ²Let our doubts be quiet and our holy minds be still, and speak to us. ³We have no words to give to You. ⁴We would but listen to Your Word, and make it ours. ⁵Lead our practicing as does a father lead a little child along a way he does not understand. ⁶Yet does he follow, sure that he is safe because his father leads the way for him.

“So do we bring our practicing to You. ²And if we stumble, You will raise us up. ³If we forget the way, we count upon Your sure remembering. ⁴We wander off, but You will not forget to call us back. ⁵Quicken our footsteps now, that we may walk more certainly and quickly unto You.

³We walk together. ⁴I must understand uncertainty and pain, although I know they have no meaning. ⁵Yet a savior must remain with those he teaches, seeing what they see, but still retaining in his mind the way that led him out, and now will lead you out with him. (A Course in Miracles, W-rV.in.2:1–3:5;6:3-5)

Like sponsor support in 12 step programs, we can think of Jesus as our sponsor. He has been there, done that with experiences in the dream. But he knows the path that led him out of the dream. He is fully qualified to lead us Home to freedom from our addiction to individuality and specialness.

He is ever present in our mind to be called upon when we need support. He is there to remind us of his vision that reveals the forgiven world to us. With his help, we recognize the dream is meaningless and unreal. He stands with us to show us the Love in which we live and have our Being.

We can call him for help in any instant, and he will respond with Love. He reminds us of our innocence. And we give thanks.

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Letting Love Light Our World

Salvation is my only function here.

Salvation and forgiveness are the same. ²They both imply that something has gone wrong; something to be saved from, forgiven for; something amiss that needs corrective change; something apart or different from the Will of God.

²The mind that sees illusions thinks them real. ³They have existence in that they are thoughts. ⁴And yet they are not real, because the mind that thinks these thoughts is separate from God.

⁴Unshaken does the Holy Spirit look on what you see; on sin and pain and death, on grief and separation and on loss. ⁵Yet does He know one thing must still be true; God is still Love, and this is not His Will.

³Let in the light, and you will look upon no obstacle to what He wills for you. ⁴Open your secrets to His kindly light, and see how bright this light still shines in you. (A Course in Miracles, W-99.1:1-2;3:2-4;5:4-5;8:3-4. See also ACIM Lesson 99 Insights.)

The Light of Love is What we are. Yet we have divorced the Light and made a substitute which seems to allow us to see without Light. What we see are images projected by the ego thought of separation. In keeping with this thought, these images appear to be separate and different from What we are. We accept this appearance of images as our world, but none of it is real. It is a world of fear and guilt, anger and loss.

But we can remember the Light we are and let It shine. This Light reveals the truth of Love’s presence everywhere beyond the ego’s projected images. This Light brings us the correction that frees us from the limitations of separation, fear and guilt. The Light of Love dispels projections. In this Light, we see our brothers united with us, at one in God’s Love. The Holy Spirit is given us to help us see the Love in which we live and let go of the false images we thought were true.

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Seeing the Reflection of Our Holiness

“Now” has no meaning to the ego. ²The present merely reminds it of past hurts, and it reacts to the present as if it were the past.… ⁴It dictates your reactions to those you meet in the present from a past reference point, obscuring their present reality. ⁵In effect, if you follow the ego’s dictates you will react to your brother as though he were someone else, and this will surely prevent you from recognizing him as he is.

⁵Unless you learn that past pain is an illusion, you are choosing a future of illusions and losing the many opportunities you could find for release in the present.… ⁹The Holy Spirit teaches that you always meet yourself, and the encounter is holy because you are.

⁴He regards the function of time as temporary, serving only His teaching function, which is temporary by definition. ⁵His emphasis is therefore on the only aspect of time that can extend to the infinite, for now is the closest approximation of eternity that this world offers. ⁶It is in the reality of “now,” without past or future, that the beginning of the appreciation of eternity lies. ⁷For only “now” is here, and only “now” presents the opportunities for the holy encounters in which salvation can be found.

³Healing cannot be accomplished in the past. ⁴It must be accomplished in the present to release the future. ⁵This interpretation ties the future to the present, and extends the present rather than the past. (A Course in Miracles, T-13.IV.5:1-2,4-5;6:5,9;7:4-7;9:3-5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

To see our brother truly is to see him as Love and nothing else. We cannot see him as he is if we use memories of the past as our reference to decide what he represents to us. This is what the ego does to give “meaning” to our world. Yet the past is an illusion, a dream of past hurts which never occurred in truth.

Because only Love is real and It never changes, we can only know in the present moment. Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us let go of the past. With His help, we can see the present with the forgiving eyes of Christ’s vision. And our encounters will be holy. We will see reflections of our holiness in everyone.

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