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We Live in Gratitude

I rest in God.

²I rest in God today, and let Him work in me and through me, while I rest in Him in quiet and in perfect certainty.

I am as God created me.

²I am God’s Son. ³Today I lay aside all sick illusions of myself, and let my Father tell me Who I really am. (A Course in Miracles, W-120.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 120 Insights.)

It is time to stop participating in the ego’s rebellion against God’s Will. We pay a steep price for this rebellion. It leaves us without awareness of the Reality of God’s limitless Love for us, His Son. In its place, we dream of lack of Love in myriad forms — guilt, fear, anger, sadness, sickness and death.

In any now moment we can lay aside the rebellion and accept the Reality of our eternal Life held safely in the Love of God. With this acceptance, we find peace and happiness. The joy of extending the gift of Love we receive lights our life. We live in gratitude.

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Finding Life’s True Meaning

³The world the holy see is beautiful because they see their innocence in it. ⁴They did not tell it what it was; they did not make adjustments to fit their orders. ⁵They gently questioned it and whispered, “What are you?” ⁶And He Who watches over all perception answered.

Such is my will for you and your brother, and for each of you for one another and for himself. ²Here there is only holiness and joining without limit. ³For what is Heaven but union, direct and perfect, and without the veil of fear upon it? ⁴Here are we one, looking with perfect gentleness upon each other and on ourselves. ⁵Here all thoughts of any separation between us become impossible. ⁶You who were a prisoner in separation are now made free in Paradise. ⁷And here would I unite with you, my friend, my brother and my Self.

³There is no fear in perfect love because it knows no sin, and it must look on others as on itself. ⁴Looking with charity within, what can it fear without? ⁵The innocent see safety, and the pure in heart see God within His Son, and look unto the Son to lead them to the Father. ⁶And where else would they go but where they will to be? ⁷You and your brother now will lead the other to the Father as surely as God created His Son holy, and kept him so. ⁸In your brother is the light of God’s eternal promise of your immortality. ⁹See him as sinless, and there can be no fear in you. (A Course in Miracles, T-20.III.6:3-6;10;11:3-9. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The way out of the ego’s dream of separation and specialness is to ask the Holy Spirit of everything, “What is this for?” This question, asked with an open mind, will let the truth be revealed to you beyond the ego’s images of fear and death.

The Holy Spirit will show you that all meaning is found in Love. Love joins us with everyone and everything. Love is one and sees Its unity everywhere. Love does not judge because It sees all things unified with Itself. With Him as our Guide, our journey is Light, lit with the peace and joy of Love. It is a happy journey because It leads us Home to the Heaven of God’s Love.

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The Gift We Give Our Self and the World

The memory of God comes to the quiet mind. ²It cannot come where there is conflict, for a mind at war against itself remembers not eternal gentleness. ³The means of war are not the means of peace, and what the warlike would remember is not love. ⁴War is impossible unless belief in victory is cherished. ⁵Conflict within you must imply that you believe the ego has the power to be victorious.

Conflict must be between two forces. ²It cannot exist between one power and nothingness. ³There is nothing you could attack that is not part of you. ⁴And by attacking it you make two illusions of yourself, in conflict with each other. ⁵And this occurs whenever you look on anything that God created with anything but love. …⁹Let all this madness be undone for you, and turn in peace to the rememberance of God, still shining in your quiet mind.

Illusion meets illusion; truth, itself. ²The meeting of illusions leads to war. ³Peace, looking on itself, extends itself. ⁴War is the condition in which fear is born, and grows and seeks to dominate. ⁵Peace is the state where love abides, and seeks to share itself. ⁶Conflict and peace are opposites. ⁷Where one abides the other cannot be; where either goes the other disappears. ⁸So is the memory of God obscured in minds that have become illusions’ battleground. ⁹Yet far beyond this senseless war it shines, ready to be remembered when you side with peace. (A Course in Miracles, T-23.I.1:1-5;8:1-5,9;12. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Imagine what life would be like without any conflict. To the ego, this would be impossible. To our true Self, this is the only Reality. There is no conflict within what is all the same; this is the condition of Love’s oneness.

Any moment our peace is disturbed is a call for Love. The means for release from all pain and suffering is to forgive the wish for specialness. This wish is the cause of all division, and subsequent conflict.

Today we can give ourselves a gift — the decision to be vigilant for any sign of conflict and recognize it as our call for Love. This is the first step toward healing our mind. When recognized, the call for Love is responded to with Love. Division is healed and the peace of Love’s unity replaces division and conflict. This gift is given to our Self and every brother, for we are one and the same.

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Forgiveness Lets Love Be

I have no cause for anger or for fear, for You surround me. And in every need that I perceive, Your grace suffices me.

Father, let me remember You are here, and I am not alone. ²Surrounding me is everlasting Love. ³I have no cause for anything except the perfect peace and joy I share with You. ⁴What need have I for anger or for fear? ⁵Surrounding me is perfect safety. ⁶Can I be afraid, when Your eternal promise goes with me? ⁷Surrounding me is perfect sinlessness. ⁸What can I fear, when You created me in holiness as perfect as Your Own?

God’s grace suffices us in everything that He would have us do. ²And only that we choose to be our will as well as His. (A Course in Miracles, W-348. See also ACIM Lesson 348 Insights.)

Being Love, God’s Will is to Love. As His extension of Love, we share that same function to Love. In this dream, forgiveness is the way we let Love be. Forgiveness releases us to be joyous and at peace.

The Voice for Love, our true Voice, will always lead us to extend Love. Whenever we feel unhappy, fearful or guilty, we have put a loveless thought in charge of our mind. We have denied the limitless Love we are. Each time we experience any form of lack of Love, it is our call for Love. It may appear to be a brother’s call for Love or our own. In either case the answer is to let Love come forth.

When we let this happen, joy replaces sadness, peace replaces guilt, and Love replaces fear. We accept our Reality as God’s Son.

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Celebrate the Truth Today

God’s peace and joy are mine.

²Today I will accept God’s peace and joy, in glad exchange for all the substitutes that I have made for happiness and peace.

Let me be still and listen to the truth.

²Let my own feeble voice be still, and let me hear the mighty Voice for Truth Itself assure me that I am God’s perfect Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-118.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 118 Insights.)

Today can be a day of celebration. Today we can let ourselves hear God’s Voice tell us that we are His beloved Son. He has given us all His joy, peace and Love. There is no greater gift. It lasts forever.

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Everyday Opportunities

When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. ²As you see him you will see yourself. ³As you treat him you will treat yourself. ⁴As you think of him you will think of yourself. ⁵Never forget this, for in him you will find yourself or lose yourself. ⁶Whenever two Sons of God meet, they are given another chance at salvation. ⁷Do not leave anyone without giving salvation to him and receiving it yourself. ⁸For I am always there with you, in remembrance of you.

The goal of the curriculum, regardless of the teacher you choose, is “Know thyself.” ²There is nothing else to seek. ³Everyone is looking for himself and for the power and glory he thinks he has lost. ⁴Whenever you are with anyone, you have another opportunity to find them. ⁵Your power and glory are in him because they are yours. ⁶The ego tries to find them in yourself alone, because it does not know where to look. ⁷The Holy Spirit teaches you that if you look only at yourself you cannot find yourself, because that is not what you are. ⁸Whenever you are with a brother, you are learning what you are because you are teaching what you are. ⁹He will respond either with pain or with joy, depending on which teacher you are following. ¹⁰He will be imprisoned or released according to your decision, and so will you. ¹¹Never forget your responsibility to him, because it is your responsibility to yourself. ¹²Give him his place in the Kingdom and you will have yours. (A Course in Miracles, T-8.III.4–5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Today, like every day, is an opportunity to heal our mind and remember our true Self. Whether or not we accept the opportunity depends upon whom we choose to accept as our guide. The ego always seeks to imprison us in an image of separation — a body, a personality, status or any other form of specialness. The ego always leads to illusions and denial of Love.

But we can choose the Holy Spirit to be our Guide. He will help us overlook the images of the world, the forms we ascribe to our brothers, to the Light of Love everywhere, in anyone. What we see in our brother tells us which guide we are following.

When we join with our brother in Love’s oneness, our true Self is our Guide. What we see in our brother teaches us what we are. That lesson returns us to our true Identity. We remember we are God’s Son, created by Love as Love and nothing else. Today is a wonderful opportunity to return to the truth.

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Freedom from Conflict

I am one Self, united with my Creator.

²Serenity and perfect peace are mine, because I am one Self, completely whole, at one with all creation and with God.

Salvation comes from my one Self.

²From my one Self, Whose knowledge still remains within my mind, I see God’s perfect plan for my salvation perfectly fulfilled. (W-113)

In the oneness of our true Self there are no differences, nothing that can conflict with anything, for all is the same Love. Without conflict, we remain in perfect peace. This is our natural state. We can bring this state to our awareness when we are willing to forgive the wish for specialness.

We have not lost our true Self, but we have denied Reality and made a dream where peace of mind seems impossible. But in truth, only peace is possible. Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us look past the dream to the Reality of the one Love in which we live. In that recognition, the world is saved from conflict.

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