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The Practice That Leads Us Home

I will be still an instant and go home.

This world you seem to live in is not home to you. ²And somewhere in your mind you know that this is true.

We speak today for everyone who walks this world, for he is not at home. ²He goes uncertainly about in endless search, seeking in darkness what he cannot find; not recognizing what it is he seeks. ³A thousand homes he makes, yet none contents his restless mind. ⁴He does not understand he builds in vain. ⁵The home he seeks can not be made by him. ⁶There is no substitute for Heaven. ⁷All he ever made was hell.

When you are still an instant, when the world recedes from you, when valueless ideas cease to have value in your restless mind, then will you hear His Voice.

Take time today to lay aside your shield which profits nothing, and lay down the spear and sword you raised against an enemy without existence.

You have not lost your innocence. ²It is for this you yearn. ³This is your heart’s desire. ⁴This is the voice you hear, and this the call which cannot be denied. …⁸And now the way is open, and the journey has an end in sight at last. ⁹Be still an instant and go home with Him, and be at peace a while. (A Course in Miracles, W-182.1:1-2;3;8:1;11:1;12:1-4,8-9. See also ACIM Lesson 182 Insights.)

The reason we seem to be living in a world of separation and bodies is because we value illusions over truth; we value specialness over the oneness of Love. The key to awakening to our Home in God’s Love is to forgive our wish for specialness. Our Home cannot be found in this dream, where Love’s oneness is denied. But there is a path that leads to our Home.

The practice of pausing in our mind to step back from our involvement in the world and step into God’s peace opens our mind to the healing that will take us Home. This stepping back can be done in a brief mental pause in the midst of our doing. It is also beneficial to set aside a period of quiet in which we rest in God’s peace.

When we set the intent to let Love lead the way, we will be helped throughout the day. We support that intent each time we pause for a moment to let the truth of Love shine in our mind. Even a brief pause helps us let go of valueless illusions and remember our Home in Heaven.

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Fulfilling Our Function as God’s Son

³Let us turn to Him Who leads the way and makes our footsteps sure.

His is the only way to find the peace that God has given us. ²It is His way that everyone must travel in the end, because it is this ending God Himself appointed. ³In the dream of time it seems to be far off. ⁴And yet, in truth, it is already here; already serving us as gracious guidance in the way to go. ⁵Let us together follow in the way that truth points out to us. ⁶And let us be the leaders of our many brothers who are seeking for the way, but find it not.

And to this purpose let us dedicate our minds, directing all our thoughts to serve the function of salvation. ²Unto us the aim is given to forgive the world. ³It is the goal that God has given us. ⁴It is His ending to the dream we seek, and not our own. ⁵For all that we forgive we will not fail to recognize as part of God Himself. ⁶And thus His memory is given back, completely and complete. (A Course in Miracles, W-fl.in.1:3;2–3)

When we practice true forgiveness with the Holy Spirit’s help, we show the way to all our brothers that leads us Home to the Heaven of God’s Love. His Love is our only need. It is our Life. The dream in which we see ourselves as bodies, separate from all others, is dispelled as we let go of our mistaken beliefs.

The core belief is that we are separate, which could never be true. For we were created by Love, forever united with It. We ask for the Holy Spirit’s help to see, with Christ’s vision, the Love that is the truth of What we are. This is our only function as God’s Son.

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Accepting Love as Our Life

My home awaits me. I will hasten there.

If I so choose, I can depart this world entirely. ²It is not death which makes this possible, but it is change of mind about the purpose of the world. ³If I believe it has a value as I see it now, so will it still remain for me. ⁴But if I see no value in the world as I behold it, nothing that I want to keep as mine or search for as a goal, it will depart from me. ⁵For I have not sought for illusions to replace the truth.

Father, my home awaits my glad return. ²Your Arms are open and I hear Your Voice. ³What need have I to linger in a place of vain desires and of shattered dreams, when Heaven can so easily be mine? (A Course in Miracles, W-226. See also ACIM Lesson 226 Insights.)

We can leave the world of fear and guilt by no longer valuing holding anything for ourselves alone. The truth in us, the oneness of Love, cannot conceive of any value in keeping something for Itself. It sees nothing but the joy and peace of Love everywhere. It knows this Love as Home.

Today we ask the Voice of Love to guide all our seeing and all our actions. In the awareness of Love, Its only response to anything is Love. This is the Heaven Love created as our Home. Only in this Home do we truly live, for Love is Life and Life is Love.

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Accepting the Love in Which We Live

“I am spirit.

²I am the Son of God. ³No body can contain my spirit, nor impose on me a limitation God created not.

“I will accept my part in God’s plan for salvation.

²What can my function be but to accept the Word of God, Who has created me for what I am and will forever be? (A Course in Miracles, W-114.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 114 Insights.)

To accept our part in God’s plan for salvation is to accept a life of Love, happiness and peace. This is God’s Will for us. If we do not experience this, it is only because we have denied God’s Will.

But we can change our mind. With the Holy Spirit’s help, we can turn away from the ego’s wish for specialness and separation. We can let go of the insane wish to have more than everything. That wish has made us unaware us everything that is real.

Today we are willing to step back from this world and accept the Holy Spirit’s help to rise above and see that we live in God’s Love and nowhere else.

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Gratitude for Our Identity as Love

Love, which created me, is what I am.

I seek my own Identity, and find It in these words: “Love, which created me, is what I am.” ²Now need I seek no more. ³Love has prevailed. ⁴So still It waited for my coming home, that I will turn away no longer from the holy face of Christ. ⁵And what I look upon attests the truth of the Identity I sought to lose, but which my Father has kept safe for me.

Father, my thanks to You for what I am; for keeping my Identity untouched and sinless, in the midst of all the thoughts of sin my foolish mind made up. ²And thanks to You for saving me from them. ³Amen. (A Course in Miracles, W-229. See also ACIM Lesson 229 Insights.)

In this world everyone searches for Love in some form. But we are searching only because we have denied What we are. The illusionary substitutes we have made for Love have introduced belief in differences and conflict into our minds. With this belief comes fear and guilt, for the differences hide the Love we are from our awareness. We are not different from each other. We are one with every brother in the Love of God.

Today we call upon the Love we are to guide our thoughts and heal our mistaken beliefs. Mistakes are healed when we forgive our wish to be special and different. No longer do we accept a false identity. As we accept the Love we are, we live in God’s joy and peace. We know we are safe and innocent. No harm can come to our Identity as Love’s creation. What is changeless cannot suffer harm.

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Being Revitalized in God’s Love

“We ask for rest today, and quietness unshaken by the world’s appearances. ²We ask for peace and stillness, in the midst of all the turmoil born of clashing dreams. ³We ask for safety and for happiness, although we seem to look on danger and on sorrow.”

“I rest in God.” ²This thought will bring to you the rest and quiet, peace and stillness, and the safety and the happiness you seek. ³“I rest in God.” ⁴This thought has power to wake the sleeping truth in you, whose vision sees beyond appearances to that same truth in everyone and everything there is.

You rest within the peace of God today, and call upon your brothers from your rest to draw them to their rest, along with you. ²You will be faithful to your trust today, forgetting no one, bringing everyone into the boundless circle of your peace, the holy sanctuary where you rest. ³Open the temple doors and let them come from far across the world, and near as well; your distant brothers and your closest friends; bid them all enter here and rest with you. (A Course in Miracles, W-109.1:1-3;2:1-4;8. See also ACIM Lesson 109 Insights.)

It’s exhausting to deny our unity with Love and maintain an illusion of a separate identity. The illusion of the body has to be rested every day. But the most important rest we can take is to rest in God. This rest revitalizes us because it reminds us of the Life we live in God. This is our real Life, our only true Life.

We can pause for moments throughout the day today to remind ourselves to rest in God. This pause will revitalize our connection with our Source. It helps us let Love guide all our doing. This is our practice today. It is how we will remember the Love we are, and see the Love every brother is. When we rest in God, we rest in His peace and joy.

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Letting Love Guide Our Way

God is my Father, and His Son loves Him.

Father, I must return Your Love for me, for giving and receiving are the same, and You have given all Your Love to me. ²I must return it, for I want it mine in full awareness, blazing in my mind and keeping it within its kindly light, inviolate, beloved, with fear behind and only peace ahead. ³How still the way Your loving Son is led along to You!

Brother, we find that stillness now. ²The way is open. ³Now we follow it in peace together. ⁴You have reached your hand to me, and I will never leave you. ⁵We are one, and it is but this oneness that we seek, as we accomplish these few final steps which end a journey that was not begun. (A Course in Miracles, W-225. See also ACIM Lesson 225 Insights.)

We can only give something we know we have. If we do not give the Love God gives us, we do not know we have it. So the way to know God’s peace and Love is to give It. We can only give His Love without judgment. His Love is not given selectively; It is given equally to all.

This is why forgiveness is essential to know God’s peace and Love. We have to let go of our selectivity, our wishes that things be a certain way. This applies to everything in this dream of a world of separation. To forgive truly, we need to see with the eyes of Love. We can call on the Holy Spirit in our minds to help us see with Christ’s vision. There is no judgment in His vision. It sees only Love’s oneness and equality.

We dedicate today to letting Love guide our way, moment by moment.

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