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Judgment Is the Holy Spirit’s Function, Not Ours

⁸To order is to judge, and to arrange by judgment. ⁹Therefore it is not your function, but the Holy Spirit’s.”

The only judgment involved is the Holy Spirit’s one division into two categories; one of love, and the other the call for love. ²You cannot safely make this division, for you are much too confused either to recognize love, or to believe that everything else is nothing but a call for love. ³You are too bound to form, and not to content. ⁴What you consider content is not content at all. ⁵It is merely form, and nothing else. ⁶For you do not respond to what a brother really offers you, but only to the particular perception of his offering by which the ego judges it.

⁴Every interpretation you would lay upon a brother is senseless. ⁵Let the Holy Spirit show him to you, and teach you both his love and his call for love. ⁶Neither his mind nor yours holds more than these two orders of thought.

The miracle is the recognition that this is true. ²Where there is love, your brother must give it to you because of what [love] is. ³But where there is a call for love, you must give it because of what you are. (A Course in Miracles, T-14.X.5:8-9;7;11:4-12:3. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Our true Self shares the oneness of God’s Love. This Self cannot judge because It knows of nothing outside Itself. When we perceive ourselves as a body in a world with other bodies, we are engaged with the ego’s judgments. This is why we need to rely on the Holy Spirit to judge all things on our behalf.

We have confused ourselves by accepting the ego’s false misrepresentations of love. We need to practice consistently asking the Holy Spirit to replace our interpretations with His. As we accept His help, we become increasingly aware that we are always in the Presence of Love. We will feel blessed by the Love we recognize in our brothers and by opportunities to answer his calls for Love with Love.

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Joining with the Eternal Extension of Love

Christ’s is the vision I will use today.

Each day, each hour, every instant, I am choosing what I want to look upon, the sounds I want to hear, the witnesses to what I want to be the truth for me. ²Today I choose to look upon what Christ would have me see, to listen to God’s Voice, and seek the witnesses to what is true in God’s creation. ³In Christ’s sight, the world and God’s creation meet, and as they come together all perception disappears. ⁴His kindly sight redeems the world from death, for nothing that He looks on but must live, remembering the Father and the Son; Creator and creation unified.

Father, Christ’s vision is the way to You. ²What He beholds invites Your memory to be restored to me. ³And this I choose, to be what I would look upon today. (A Course in Miracles, W-271. See also ACIM Lesson 271 Insights.)

Christ’s vision is the remedy for the distorted vision the ego offers with its images of separation. What we see with a body is a display of the ego belief system set in images made to make separation appear real. The body itself is an ego-made image that it uses as a projector. What it “sees” is only a reflection of the beliefs that are the foundation of the ego. Without our decision to accept beliefs that deny the oneness of God’s Love, the ego would not seem to exist.

Because we are accustomed to seeing a world outside us, we need to learn that these perceptions are not real. Christ’s vision shows us transformed perceptions that see past the ego’s denial of Love to Love’s innocence everywhere. It seems that we are constantly needing to choose between alternatives in the ego’s world. Christ’s vision is the only alternative that leads us back to awareness of Love’s unity.

Like forgiveness, Christ’s vision leads us to awareness of the real world. It is not needed in Heaven, but His vision brings us to Heaven’s gate, free of the ego’s limitations. Here we are welcomed into Love’s oneness where we are joined with our Creator in the eternal extension of Love.

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Undoing Our Barriers to Love

When you accept a brother’s guiltlessness you will see the Atonement in him. ²For by proclaiming it in him you make it yours, and you will see what you sought. ³You will not see the symbol of your brother’s guiltlessness shining within him while you still believe it is not there. ⁴His guiltlessness is your Atonement.

²The state of guiltlessness is only the condition in which what is not there has been removed from the disordered mind that thought it was. ³This state, and only this, must you attain, with God beside you. ⁴For until you do, you will still think that you are separate from Him. ⁵You can perhaps feel His Presence next to you, but cannot know that you are one with Him.

When you have let all that obscured the truth in your most holy mind be undone for you, and therefore stand in grace before your Father, He will give Himself to you as He has always done.” (A Course in Miracles, T-14.IV.1:1-4;2:2-5;3:1. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Our experience of this world comes from our belief that we are separate and different from God. It is the manifestation of the wish for specialness. Because of this wish, we are unwilling and therefore unable to know the oneness of God’s Love. Having built a barrier against His Love, we have imprisoned ourselves in a closed thought system that cannot find its way out of its own thought system.

This is why we need our mistaken thoughts to be undone for us. This can be accomplished only if we are willing for these thoughts to be undone. The Holy Spirit is ready to correct our errors when we are willing to accept His help. When we ask for His help to undo our fear based thoughts, we are expressing our willingness to be helped. That is the key that opens our prison door.

This willingness welcomes the Love we had denied. When the mistaken beliefs have all been undone, our barriers to Love’s presence are let go. Our healing is complete and we have accepted God’s gift of all His Love without limit. We know we are one with all in His Love.

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The Practice That Leads to Peace and Joy

…[We] invite the memory of God to come again.

…to all the seeming happenings throughout the day.

[We say:] ³I am not a body. ⁴I am free.
⁵For I am still as God created me.

²Permit no idle thought [of separation] to go unchallenged. ³If you notice one, deny its hold and hasten to assure your mind that this is not what it would have. ⁴Then gently let the thought which you denied be given up, in sure and quick exchange for the idea we practice for the day.

When you are tempted, hasten to proclaim your freedom from temptation, as you say:

²This thought I do not want. ³I choose instead _____________.

…let Him teach you what to do and say and think, each time you turn to Him. ³He will not fail to be available to you, each time you call to Him to help you. (A Course in Miracles, W-rVI.in.1:4;2:2;3:3-5;5:2–6:3;7:2-3)

Just as an athlete needs to be wholeheartedly dedicated to the practice of his sport, we need to be wholeheartedly dedicated to the practice that will free our minds from idle thoughts of separation. We have been given a powerful mind training program. It will save us from pain, fear and guilt. It will free us to return to the Life we live in Love. But only if we make no exceptions to the application of the practices we have been given.

An athlete does not start at the top of his game. But he must practice exercises that will take him to the top. Do we want to reach the top — to be wholly free of fear and guilt? This is the dedication we must make.

When we seem to fall short of complete willingness, we remember we are still innocent. We don’t use the seeming failure as an excuse to give up. Rather we use it as a reminder to strengthen our dedication. This practice leads to peace and joy beyond words. It frees us to be as God created us.

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Healing Temporary Misperceptions

The stillness of the peace of God is mine.

Perhaps we are now ready for a day of undisturbed tranquility. ²If this is not yet feasible, we are content and even more than satisfied to learn how such a day can be achieved. ³If we give way to a disturbance, let us learn how to dismiss it and return to peace. ⁴We need but tell our minds, with certainty, “The stillness of the peace of God is mine,” and nothing can intrude upon the peace that God Himself has given to His Son.

Father, Your peace is mine. ²What need have I to fear that anything can rob me of what You would have me keep? ³I cannot lose Your gifts to me. ⁴And so the peace You gave Your Son is with me still, in quietness and in my own eternal love for You.

(A Course in Miracles, W-273. See also ACIM Lesson 273 Insights.)

God has given us His peace. It is more certain than anything the world can offer. It is ours because it is God’s Will to share His peace with His Son. We dwell in His peace.

Whenever we notice any disturbance, we call upon His peace to remind ourselves that His peace is ours. We remind ourselves that a disturbance is only a reflection of a temporary misperception. We can let it go by calling upon the Holy Spirit to help us see as He sees. With His loving correction, we will remember God’s peace is ours.

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Awakening to the Love We Are

Love created me like itself.

Today’s idea is a complete and accurate statement of what you are. ²This is why you are the light of the world. ³This is why God appointed you as the world’s savior. ⁴This is why the Son of God looks to you for his salvation. ⁵He is saved by what you are. ⁶We will make every effort today to reach this truth about you, and to realize fully, if only for a moment, that it is the truth.

…think about your reality and its wholly unchanged and unchangeable nature.…

³Holiness created me holy.
⁴Kindness created me kind.
⁵Helpfulness created me helpful.
⁶Perfection created me perfect.

⁷Any attribute which is in accord with God as He defines Himself is appropriate for use. ⁸We are trying today to undo your definition of God and replace it with His Own. ⁹We are also trying to emphasize that you are part of His definition of Himself.

²You need to hear the truth about yourself as frequently as possible, because your mind is so preoccupied with false self-images. …remind yourself that love created you like itself. (A Course in Miracles, W-67.1;2:1,3-9;5:2-3. See also ACIM Lesson 67 Insights.)

We have trained ourselves to believe that we are a body, a false image. This image appears to be anything but holy. With this false identity we experience fear, anger, sadness, loneliness and seem to be capable of harm.

The practice in this lesson is leading us to let go of this false image and remember What we are in truth. We are an extension of God Himself. Everything He is we are. The false image is not real.

As we focus on what Love created us to be, we are training ourselves to remember what we have taught ourselves to forget. We are an extension of God Himself. His Love is ours. As Love’s extension, our only function is to be Love, which is always extending Itself to all of Itself.

This practice leads to a change of mind from false perception to awareness that we are Love and nothing else.

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Accepting Our Completion in God

My holiness blesses the world.

This idea contains the first glimmerings of your true function in the world, or why you are here. ²Your purpose is to see the world through your own holiness. ³Thus are you and the world blessed together. ⁴No one loses; nothing is taken away from anyone; everyone gains through your holy vision. ⁵It signifies the end of sacrifice because it offers everyone his full due. ⁶And he is entitled to everything because it is his birthright as a Son of God.

⁵Yet is his wholeness restored to his awareness through your vision. ⁶Your holiness blesses him by asking nothing of him. ⁷Those who see themselves as whole make no demands.

Your holiness is the salvation of the world. ²It lets you teach the world that it is one with you, not by preaching to it, not by telling it anything, but merely by your quiet recognition that in your holiness are all things blessed along with you.

³It is essential to use the idea if anyone seems to cause an adverse reaction in you. ⁴Offer him the blessing of your holiness immediately, that you may learn to keep it in your own awareness. (A Course in Miracles, W-37.1;2:5–3:2;6:3-4. See also ACIM Lesson 37 Insights.)

All our pain, fear and guilt come from our denial of our completion in God. We believe we are alone and missing something. This sense of being incomplete drives us on a constant search to fill the void, while defending the little we believe we have of our own. All this stems from our belief that we are separate from our Creator.

But we can only dream that we are separate. We are forever united with the Source of holiness, which we share. Our function as God’s Creation is to share His holiness. As we let the Holy Spirit help us look past appearances in the world to see the holiness in our brothers, we remember our own holiness.

This practice can bring amazing results. Our pain diminishes. Fear is replaced by the embrace of Love. The darkness of guilt is dispelled by the Light of Love’s innocence. Sadness is replaced by joy. It is worth the practice.

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