Living A Course in Miracles — The Decision to Accept Peace and Joy

See the Truth of Love in Everyone

Call forth in everyone only the remembrance of God, and of the Heaven that is in him. For where you would have your brother be, there will you think you are. Hear not his appeal to hell and littleness, but only his call for Heaven and greatness. Forget not that his call is yours, and answer him with me. (A Course in Miracles T-15.III.12:1-4)

Our job is to see the truth of Love in everyone. The perception of anything else is just a false image. If we identify with being a body, separate from other bodies in a world of separation, we are simply believing in a false image and will not be able to see the truth of Love anywhere. Yet within our minds, the recognition of Love is still with us. This is our true Self, the Holy Spirit.

As we let this Self guide our seeing, we will see the truth of Love in our brother and learn to recognize that it is our Self as well. As this is practiced with vigilance and diligence, we move from the littleness of belief in a separate identity to the recognition that we are one with the magnitude of God’s Love.

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Accepting What Is Given Us by God

God’s joy and peace are given us in our creation. If we are not experiencing this, it is because we are choosing not to accept His gifts. Any judgement, any unforgiveness, is a denial of God’s gift. It is a defense against our Self. This is why forgiveness is the key to happiness.

The ego is incapable of forgiveness because it is the decision not to forgive. But through the strength of God in us, His Voice can teach us to see beyond the images of the world to the Light of Love that is everywhere. Our focus today is on our willingness to be taught of our innocence and the innocence of all our brothers. As we learn this joyful lesson, we recognize our dearest Friend everywhere.

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Let Love Be

To let Love be is to let your Self be. They are one in the same. To let your Self be is also to let your brother be, for you are one in that Self. There really is nothing else. We let Love be through forgiveness, by letting go of judgment.

Today our practice is to make no decisions on our own, but to let ourselves be guided by Holy Spirit’s vision throughout the day. His vision will show us the Love beyond the forms in every circumstance. As we accept His vision as our own, we let Love be.

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Let Conflict Be Replaced by Peace

The memory of God comes to the quiet mind. It cannot come where there is conflict, for a mind at war against itself remembers not eternal gentleness.

Welcome your brother to the home where God has set him in serenity and peace, and dwells with him. Illusions have no place where love abides, protecting you from everything that is not true. You dwell in peace as limitless as its Creator, and everything is given those who would remember Him. Over His home the Holy Spirit watches, sure that its peace can never be disturbed. (A Course in Miracles T-23.I.1:1-2;10:5-8)

When we think we are in conflict with a brother we are letting illusions of separation be our guide. The good news is that we can choose once again. We can remember that every brother resides in God, along with us. We can remember our holy Home in God, and that God’s peace can never be disturbed. With the Holy Spirit’s help, we can let conflict be replaced by peace. This is our practice for today.

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Our Prayer for Today

Holy Spirit, today we accept your healing Light… We accept your healing peace… We accept and extend your healing Love…

We know that accepting Your perception is the solution for every perceived problem… We choose quiet listening to walk with You today…

We remember we know nothing on our own… We follow in complete confidence, knowing that You will lead us Home, where we belong.

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Identifying with the Christ in You

Where could your peace arise but from forgiveness? The Christ in you looks only on the truth, and sees no condemnation that could need forgiveness. He is at peace because He sees no sin. Identify with Him, and what has He that you have not? He is your eyes, your ears, your hands, your feet. How gentle are the sights He sees, the sounds He hears. (A Course in Miracles T-24.V.3:1-6)

Our opportunity today is to accept the Christ Mind as our one true Identity. Doing this requires a willingness to forgive all the false ideas of individuality and separation. Forgiveness brings the awareness of the peace of God.

We want what forgiveness brings and are willing to join with the true perception that comes with the forgiving mind. Here we see that all are blessed as one, united Mind. There are no differences. We accept the miracle forgiveness brings today. We accept the one Christ Mind we all are. With this acceptance, we recognize that there is nothing to forgive; only Love is real.

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Choose Quiet Listening to Truth

We have a mission here. We did not come to reinforce the madness that we once believed in. Let us not forget the goal that we accepted. It is more than just our happiness alone we came to gain. What we accept as what we are proclaims what everyone must be, along with us. Fail not your brothers, or you fail yourself. Look lovingly on them, that they may know that they are part of you, and you of them.” (A Course in Miracles W-pI.139.9)

The Voice of Truth is ever present in our minds. It is always our choice whether or not to listen to this Voice. This Voice will always speak to us of reality that is the complete opposite of everything we perceive through the body’s eyes. When we choose to follow the ego thought system, conflict and uncertainty is inevitable. But the Voice for Truth brings certainty because it always speaks of changeless Reality. There can be no doubt in what never changes.

When we choose to listen to the Voice of Truth, we choose the way to perfect happiness because it is the way of Love. Our practice today is to choose quiet listening to the Voice that will undo all uncertainty, all guilt and fear so that we can recognize the changeless, loving Self we are.

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