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Only Be Still

There is peace within you to be called upon today, to help make ready your most holy mind to hear the Voice for its Creator speak.

He speaks from nearer than your heart to you. His Voice is closer than your hand. His Love is everything you are and that He is; the same as you, and you the same as He.

It is your [True] voice to which you listen as He speaks to you. It is your word He speaks. It is the Word of freedom and of peace, of unity of will and purpose, with no separation nor division in the single Mind of Father and of Son. In quiet listen to your Self today, and let Him tell you God has never left His Son, and you have never left your Self. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 125, W-pI.125.6:4;7:2-8:. See also ACIM Lesson 125 Insights.4)

The peace everyone seeks in this world is ever-present within. Though a quiet environment can help minimize distraction, the Source of peace is within our minds. It is the part that remembers its unity with Love. Here is where we find solace to comfort us in a chaotic world. Here is where the quiet stillness of changeless Love can be received and inspire us in the way to walk lovingly in the world.

Let us today take time to be still, quiet our minds and remember the peace of God within. Let us take this peace with us into the world and extend it to our brothers. Peace belongs to all without exception. As we offer it we bless our brothers and experience that same blessing for ourselves. We need only to be still.

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Joining Christ in Peace

The Christ in you is very still. He looks on what He loves, and knows it as Himself. And thus does He rejoice at what He sees, because He knows that it is one with Him and with His Father.

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. How beautiful His hand that holds His brother’s, and how lovingly He walks beside him, showing him what can be seen and heard, and where he will see nothing and there is no sound to hear.

The Christ in you is very still. He knows where you are going, and He leads you there in gentleness and blessing all the way. His Love for God replaces all the fear you thought you saw within yourself.

His perfect lack of specialness He offers you, that you may save all living things from death, receiving from each one the gift of life that your forgiveness offers to your Self. The sight of Christ is all there is to see. The song of Christ is all there is to hear. The hand of Christ is all there is to hold. There is no journey but to walk with Him. (A Course in Miracles, T-24.V.1:1-3;3:2-7;6:1-3;7:6-10. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Christ’s vision sees only innocence. But the ego’s judgment and condemnation block the vision of innocence from our awareness. If we want to experience the peace Christ’s vision offers us, we have to give up our judgments; we have to forgive.

Fortunately, we do not have to figure out how to justify forgiveness on our own. The Voice for God will guide us and His strength supports us to learn that forgiveness is always justified in truth. We need only recognize the false foundation upon which judgment rests and we will naturally let it go.

Today we gratefully take Christ’s hand to walk with Him and let Him show us the innocence that He sees everywhere. For we would join Him in peace.

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Remembering Our Unity with God

God’s Name is holy, but no holier than yours. To call upon His Name is but to call upon your own. A father gives his son his name, and thus identifies the son with him. His brothers share his name, and thus are they united in a bond to which they turn for their identity. Your Father’s Name reminds you who you are, even within a world that does not know; even though you have not remembered it.

God’s Name can not be heard without response, nor said without an echo in the mind that calls you to remember. Say His Name, and you invite the angels to surround the ground on which you stand, and sing to you as they spread out their wings to keep you safe, and shelter you from every worldly [separation] thought that would intrude upon your holiness [oneness].”

All little things are silent. Little sounds are soundless now. The little things of earth have disappeared. The universe consists of nothing but the Son of God, who calls upon his Father. And his Father’s Voice gives answer in his Father’s holy Name. In this eternal, still relationship, in which communication far transcends all words, and yet exceeds in depth and height whatever words could possibly convey, is peace eternal. In our Father’s Name, we would experience this peace today. And in His Name, it shall be given us. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 183, W-pI.183.1-2;11. See also ACIM Lesson 183 Insights.)

What a beautiful and happy practice we have today to remember our true Identity as God’s perfect Love… As we practice this consistently through the day, we are able to feel God’s peace… God’s all inclusiveness… the perfect Love of God That everyone is in truth…

Worry thoughts disappear. It is easier to discern between the real and the unreal. We are able to feel God’s strength… God’s Love… God’s joy… and extend it to the world…

Because we are one with God, this remembering is very powerful. We connect with every brother at this holy level of truth. We are so grateful to practice this all through the day.

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How Our Holiness Heals the World

Your holiness reverses all the laws of the world. It is beyond every restriction of time, space, distance and limits of any kind. Your holiness is totally unlimited in its power because it establishes you as a Son of God, at one with the Mind of his Creator.

Through your holiness the power of God is made manifest. Through your holiness the power of God is made available. And there is nothing the power of God cannot do. Your holiness, then, can remove all pain, can end all sorrow, and can solve all problems. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 38, W-pI.38.1:1-2:4. See also ACIM Lesson 38 Insights.)

The laws of the world are the laws of separation. Our holiness comes from our oneness with our Creator, the Source of holiness. Our holiness is independent and unaffected by the worlds laws of separation because separation and oneness cannot coexist. Our belief in the world denies our holiness but does not affect it at all. It only makes us unaware of our holiness.

We reverse the laws of the world as we let go of believing we are separate from each other and our Source. Holiness cannot conceive of pain, sorrow or any problem. Being one and united with God, our holiness is changeless. The way to undo our perceptions of pain and sorrow, conflict and loss is to accept the truth of what we are — our wholeness with the Mind of God. This is how the laws of the world are reversed.

The Holy Spirit is present in our minds to teach us of our holiness, our oneness with God. As we are willing to learn His loving lessons, the appearance of problems in the world fade, for they are increasingly recognized as nothing but illusions. This is how our holiness heals the world.

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Recognizing Our Best Friend Forever

Truth does not come and go nor shift nor change, in this appearance now and then in that, evading capture and escaping grasp. It does not hide. It stands in open light, in obvious accessibility. It is impossible that anyone could seek it truly, and would not succeed. Today belongs to truth. Give truth its due, and it will give you yours. You were not meant to suffer and to die. Your Father wills these dreams be gone. Let truth correct them all.

Truth will correct all errors in your mind which tell you you could be apart from Him. You speak to Him today, and make your pledge to let His function be fulfilled through you. To share His function is to share His joy. His confidence is with you, as you say:

Truth will correct all errors in my mind,
And I will rest in Him Who is my Self.

Then let Him lead you gently to the truth, which will envelop you and give you peace so deep and tranquil that you will return to the familiar world reluctantly.

And yet you will be glad to look again upon this world. For you will bring with you the promise of the changes which the truth that goes with you will carry to the world. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 107, W-pI.107.6;9:1-10:2. See also ACIM Lesson 107 Insights.)

Truth is always present in our minds. It doesn’t seem to be there because we believe in the ego’s lie that tells us separation is real. The illusion of separation draws a veil that hides the truth from our awareness. But truth is still there. We cannot banish truth from our minds because it is What we are.

We can sweep away the cobwebs of illusion by letting truth correct our mistaken minds. Truth waits on welcome. As we welcome it, its Light dispels the darkness of illusions. We welcome the truth by asking it in just as we welcome a friend at the door by inviting him in.

Truth is our best Friend forever. This BFF will show us that everyone we look upon or think about is our BFF. As we let truth correct all errors in our minds, we see everyone as our Friend, for we see past the veil of forms to the Light of truth in them and know it as our own. A world of best friends is a world of joy. We choose to accept truth today.

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Freeing Ourselves from the Past

How can the Holy Spirit bring His interpretation of the body as a means of communication into relationships whose only purpose is separation from reality? What forgiveness is enables Him to do so. If all but loving thoughts have been forgotten, what remains is eternal. And the transformed past is made like the present. No longer does the past conflict with now. This continuity extends the present by increasing its reality and its value in your perception of it. In these loving thoughts is the spark of beauty hidden in the ugliness of the unholy relationship where hatred is remembered; yet [the loving thoughts are] there to come alive as the relationship is given to Him Who gives it life and beauty. That is why Atonement centers on the past, which is the source of separation, and where it must be undone. For separation must be corrected where it was made.”

“[To the ego,] the past becomes the justification for entering into a continuing, unholy alliance with the ego against the present. For the present is forgiveness.

“For you can never choose except between God and the ego. Thought systems are but true or false, and all their attributes come simply from what they are. Only the Thoughts of God are true.” (A Course in Miracles, T-17.III.5;8:1-2;9:5-7. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Forgiveness is selective remembering — remembering only our loving thoughts and forgetting unloving thoughts. That is what the Holy Spirit helps us do to undo the past and bring our attention to the now moment, which is the presence of Love.

Love is eternal, timeless and always now. As we let the Holy Spirit help us forget our thoughts of the past which seem to make separation real, the presence of Love now comes into focus.

While we experience ourselves in the dream of separation, it is impossible to see the past as meaningless and unreal. The Holy Spirit knows only the truth of God, yet sees the illusions that we are believing in. Because He does not believe them, He can teach us that our dreams are untrue. As we learn His important lessons, we free ourselves from the past to experience the joy and Love of the present. That is why forgiveness is the key to happiness.

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Taking Holy Spirit’s Helpful Hand

Free your brother here, as I freed you. Give him the selfsame gift, [and do not] look upon him with condemnation of any kind. See him as guiltless as I look on you, and overlook the sins he thinks he sees within himself.

Together we will disappear into the Presence beyond the veil, not to be lost but found; not to be seen but known. …This is the journey’s purpose, without which is the journey meaningless. Here is the peace of God, given to you eternally by Him. Here is the rest and quiet that you seek, the reason for the journey from its beginning. Heaven is the gift you owe your brother, the debt of gratitude you offer to the Son of God in thanks for what he is, and what his Father created him to be.

As he is seen as either the giver of guilt or of salvation, so will his offering be seen and so received. The crucified give pain because they are in pain. But the redeemed give joy because they have been healed of pain. (A Course in Miracles, T-19.IV.D.18:1-3;19:1,3-6;20:2-4. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Trying to find meaning in the values of the world is like being stuck in the mud and spinning our wheels. The more we spin our wheels the deeper we dig ourselves into the quagmire of fear and guilt. But there is a way to find meaning in the world. Meaning comes with fulfilling our purpose, which is to learn to see our brother as the Son of God He is.

The Holy Spirit is ever present to help us learn to see with Christ’s vision, to see our brother’s innocence and the gift of salvation he offers us. Salvation is freedom from the self-imposed limitation of believing we are separate and alone. The Holy Spirit is always offering us a hand to lift us out of the quagmire of the world and bring us to the Light of Heaven. Now is the time to choose to take His Hand. And joy will be His gift.

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