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Welcoming Our Unity in Love

We have a mission here. ²We did not come to reinforce the madness that we once believed in. ³Let us not forget the goal that we accepted. ⁴It is more than just our happiness alone we came to gain. ⁵What we accept as what we are proclaims what everyone must be, along with us. ⁶Fail not your brothers, or you fail yourself. ⁷Look lovingly on them, that they may know that they are part of you, and you of them.

This does Atonement teach, and demonstrates the Oneness of God’s Son is unassailed by his belief he knows not what he is. ²Today accept Atonement, not to change reality, but merely to accept the truth about yourself, and go your way rejoicing in the endless Love of God. ³It is but this that we are asked to do. ⁴It is but this that we will do today.

⁴We have not lost the knowledge that God gave to us when He created us like Him. ⁵We can remember it for everyone, for in creation are all minds as one. ⁶And in our memory is the recall how dear our brothers are to us in truth, how much a part of us is every mind, how faithful they have really been to us, and how our Father’s Love contains them all. (A Course in Miracles, W-139.9–10;11:4-6)

It’s good news to know that no matter how far we wander in dreams of being alone and separate, we remain the Love that created us one with Itself. Our mission now is to remember that we are Love and nothing else.

This mission leads us to awaken from the hell we have made to the joy of Heaven. And our Father welcomes us Home. Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us see our brothers as He sees them. We want to see the Love every brother is.

As we forgive our mistaken perceptions, the truth in our brothers reminds us of our true Identity. Our mind rests naturally in peace. We respond with Love to every brother. We naturally dismiss perceptions that do not align with the Reality of Love. We know we are safe. Each day brings gratitude to our hearts as we welcome our unity in Love.

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Blessing Comes as We Extend Love

Today belongs to love. Let me not fear.

Father, today I would let all things be [Love] 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.)

In this Christmas season, the greatest gift we can give is Love. Love recognizes Itself and everyone everywhere. As we let Love guide our perceptions, our thoughts and actions, we join with the eternal extension of Love that is God’s Love.

To join with Love is to join with strength and peace. We accept God’s Love by giving It. In this giving, we are blessed.

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We Choose to Extend Love Today

I have given what I see all the meaning it has for me.

²I have judged everything I look upon, and it is this and only this I see. ³This is not vision. ⁴It is merely an illusion of reality, because my judgments have been made quite apart from reality. ⁵I am willing to recognize the lack of validity in my judgments, because I want to see. ⁶My judgments have hurt me, and I do not want to see according to them.

These thoughts do not mean anything.

²The thoughts of which I am aware do not mean anything because I am trying to think without God. ³What I call “my” thoughts are not my real thoughts. ⁴My real thoughts are the thoughts I think with God. ⁵I am not aware of them because I have made my thoughts to take their place. ⁶I am willing to recognize that my thoughts do not mean anything, and to let them go. ⁷I choose to have them be replaced by what they were intended to replace. ⁸My thoughts are meaningless, but all creation lies in the thoughts I think with God. (A Course in Miracles, W-51.2;4. See also ACIM Lesson 51 Insights.)

God is only Love, so all His Thoughts are extensions of Love. Because our only real Thoughts are the Thoughts we share with God, these Thoughts are extensions of Love also. Any thought that does not extend Love is not real and has no effect on Reality.

The ego cannot understand what Love is because it is wholly out of touch with Reality. We have identified with the ego thought system and believe the thoughts that it generates. As long as we believe these thoughts, we cannot understand the Reality behind anything. The ego’s denial of Love makes it impossible to know what anything means.

Forgiveness is the key to release our mind from this mistaken identification. The way to forgive is to ask for the Holy Spirit’s vision to replace our perceptions. With His help, we will learn to let all of our thoughts be extensions of Love. Today is a day to choose Love and extend It to every brother.

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Happiness and Peace Are Ours Now

Can you imagine what it means to have no cares, no worries, no anxieties, but merely to be perfectly calm and quiet all the time? ²Yet that is what time is for; to learn just that and nothing more.

…time, according to [the ego’s] teaching, is nothing but a teaching device for compounding guilt until it becomes all-encompassing, demanding vengeance forever.

The Holy Spirit would undo all of this now. ²Fear is not of the present, but only of the past and future, which do not exist. ³There is no fear in the present when each instant stands clear and separated from the past, without its shadow reaching out into the future. ⁴Each instant is a clean, untarnished birth, in which the Son of God emerges from the past into the present. ⁵And the present extends forever. ⁶It is so beautiful and so clean and free of guilt that nothing but happiness is there. ⁷No darkness is remembered, and immortality and joy are now.

⁵Take this very instant, now, and think of it as all there is of time. ⁶Nothing can reach you here out of the past, and it is here that you are completely absolved, completely free and wholly without condemnation. ⁷From this holy instant wherein holiness was born again you will go forth in time without fear, and with no sense of change with time. (A Course in Miracles, T-15.I.1:1-2;7:7;8;9:5-7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Happiness and peace are ours now. It is only the ego’s dream that makes us unaware of this fact. Through forgiveness, we awaken from this dream in which the past is held dear and makes fear and guilt justified. Through forgiveness, we let go of the past. Each judgment released allows a spark of Light to enlighten the part of our mind that has not known the Self we are. This Self is known only in the present.

As we release the past, the Love and peace of God dawns upon our mind. It is a new day in the eternal now where joy is a constant state of mind. Today we are willing to accept the Holy Spirit’s help to release the past and welcome the eternal presence of Love now.

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The Value of Wishing Our Brothers Well

Today accept God’s peace and joy as yours. ²Let Him complete Himself as He defines completion. ³You will understand that what completes Him must complete His Son as well. ⁴He cannot give through loss. ⁵No more can you. ⁶Receive His gift of joy and peace today, and He will thank you for your gift to Him.

²Begin today by thinking of those brothers who have been denied by you the peace and joy that are their right under the equal laws of God. ³Here you denied them to yourself. ⁴And here you must return to claim them as your own.

Think of your “enemies” a little while, and tell each one, as he occurs to you:

My brother, peace and joy I offer you, that I may have God’s peace and joy as mine.

³Thus you prepare yourself to recognize God’s gifts to you, and let your mind be free of all that would prevent success today. ⁴Now are you ready to accept the gift of peace and joy that God has given you. ⁵Now are you ready to experience the joy and peace you have denied yourself. ⁶Now you can say, “God’s peace and joy are mine,” for you have given what you would receive. (A Course in Miracles, W-105.5;6:2–4;7. See also ACIM Lesson 105 Insights.)

When we judge anyone, we judge ourselves. Anger, resentment or fear do not affect their object, but they hurt our own state of mind by denying the peace and joy of God. To be happy, we must want happiness for our brothers. To be peaceful, we must want peace for our brothers. Only in recognizing our oneness with our brothers can we know the joy and peace God wills for us.

Today we wish all our brothers well, knowing the joy and peace we give is given to ourselves as well. This is how we remember our oneness with God.

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Let’s Be the Love We Are Today

The power of decision is our own. ²And we accept of Him that which we are, and humbly recognize the Son of God. ³To recognize God’s Son implies as well that all self-concepts have been laid aside, and recognized as false. ⁴Their arrogance has been perceived. ⁵And in humility the radiance of God’s Son, his gentleness, his perfect sinlessness, his Father’s Love, his right to Heaven and release from hell, are joyously accepted as our own.

Now do we join in glad acknowledgment that lies are false, and only truth is true. ²We think of truth alone as we arise, and spend five minutes practicing its ways, encouraging our frightened minds with this:

³The power of decision is my own. ⁴This day I will accept myself as what my Father’s Will created me to be.

⁵Then will we wait in silence, giving up all self-deceptions, as we humbly ask our Self that He reveal Himself to us. ⁶And He Who never left will come again to our awareness, grateful to restore His home to God, as it was meant to be.

In patience wait for Him throughout the day, and hourly invite Him with the words with which the day began, concluding it with this same invitation to your Self. ²God’s Voice will answer, for He speaks for you and for your Father. ³He will substitute the peace of God for all your frantic thoughts, the truth of God for self-deceptions, and God’s Son for your illusions of yourself. (A Course in Miracles, W-152.10-12. See also ACIM Lesson 152 Insights.)

Our true Self is happy, loving and calm. Nothing occurs to disturb Its peace. It joyfully sees Love everywhere and extends Itself in that oneness. Fear cannot occur to this Self. This is What we are.

If we do not experience this Self, it is because we have decided against It in favor of a separate identity. This choice to be separate brings with it fear and guilt, unhappiness and lack of peace. But we can choose to remember the Self that God created as His Son. Every time we lay aside a fearful thought, let go of a judgment or sense of guilt, we take a step towards awakening to our true Self.

Without a body and a personality, we join in the oneness of Love. We remember our Home in Love.  It is a happy day indeed.

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News That Can Awaken Us to Love

There are not different kinds of life, for life is like the truth. ²It does not have degrees. ³It is the one condition in which all that God created share. ⁴Like all His Thoughts, it has no opposite. ⁵There is no death because what God created shares His life. ⁶There is no death because an opposite to God does not exist. ⁷There is no death because the Father and the Son are one.

Death is the thought that you are separate from your Creator. ²It is the belief conditions change, emotions alternate because of causes you cannot control, you did not make, and you can never change. ³It is the fixed belief ideas can leave their source, and take on qualities the source does not contain, becoming different from their own origin, apart from it in kind as well as distance, time and form.

His holy home we strive to keep today as He established it, and wills it be forever and forever. ²He is Lord of what we think today. ³And in His Thoughts, which have no opposite, we understand there is one life, and that we share with Him, with all creation, with their thoughts as well, whom He created in a unity of life that cannot separate in death and leave the Source of life from where it came.

We share one life because we have one Source, a Source from which perfection comes to us, remaining always in the holy minds which He created perfect. ²As we were, so are we now and will forever be. (A Course in Miracles, W-167.1;4;11;12:1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 167 Insights.)

The news that thoughts do not leave their source is news that ends all news. It establishes the fact that change is impossible in what is created by the changeless. This idea, when accepted without reservation, returns us the to the changeless Love of our Creator. News is always about change; if there is no change, there is no news.

While we seem to dream of change, the changeless continues unaffected. In the dream, the idea that thoughts do not leave their Source is news. Today we welcome this news with willingness to accept It as our Reality. With this acceptance, we awaken to Love’s oneness.

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