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We Share One Identity

Father, our Name [Identity] is Yours. In [Your Identity] we are united with all living things, and You Who are their one Creator. What we made and call by many different names [identities] is but a shadow we have tried to cast across Your Own Reality. And we are glad and thankful we were wrong. All our mistakes we give to You, that we may be absolved from all effects our errors seemed to have. And we accept the truth You give, in place of every one of them. Your [Identity] is our salvation and escape from what we made. Your [Identity] unites us in the oneness which is our inheritance and peace. Amen. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 184, W-pI.184.15. See also ACIM Lesson 184 Insights.)

If God is our Identity, all His attributes are ours. Our Identity is at peace because God’s Identity is peace. We are Love because God is Love. Because God is our Identity, His joy is ours. Because God is our Identity, harm is impossible; there is nothing to fear.

The fact that we experience fear and guilt, lack and loss, a sense of being incomplete and isolated, simply shows that we have identified with a false image of what we are. It’s time to turn in our false ID and reclaim our real Identity. Our false ID has never given us access to anything that satisfied or fulfilled our need. Our true Identity unites us with Love, our only need. By this Unity, our only need is fulfilled.

We exchange our false ID for our true Identity through forgiveness. We forgive by bringing all our perceptions to the Holy Spirit to let Him shine the Light of truth on them and let them fade away into the nothingness from which they came. The Holy Spirit is the means through which we reclaim our Identity, given us by our Creator.

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We Are Spirit, at Home in Love

You are the spirit in whose mind abides the miracle in which all time stands still; the miracle in which a minute spent in using these ideas becomes a time that has no limit and that has no end. Give, then, these minutes willingly, and count on Him Who promised to lay timelessness beside them. He will offer all His strength to every little effort that you make. Give Him the minutes which He needs today, to help you understand with Him you are the spirit that abides in Him, and that calls through His Voice to every living thing; offers His sight to everyone who asks; replaces error with the simple truth.

Begin these happy exercises with the words the Holy Spirit speaks to you, and let them echo round the world through Him:

Spirit am I, a holy Son of God, free of all limits, safe and
healed and whole, free to forgive, and free to save the world. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 97, W-pI.97.4;7:1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 97 Insights.)

While we identify with the body as what we are, we experience the world of form as real. This identification is severely limiting. It makes us feel isolated, confused, uncertain about how to respond to everything. We don’t feel that we can trust anyone because we don’t know what their attitudes and beliefs are or what they might do to us based on them. We can’t see the future and memories of the past bring with them guilt and fear.

But when we identify with Spirit, all those limitations disappear. We experience God’s limitless gift of all His Love, His peace and joy. We know that our brothers’ only true motivation is Love. We freely join with that Love, knowing that this joining brings us happiness and peace. We experience the Spirit we are in the present moment. There is no past to bring us fear and guilt. We have the certainty of the changeless present that is not only our present but also our future. In this certainty, time becomes meaningless and we remember our Home in God.

Today we would remind ourselves frequently that we are Spirit, at Home in Love.

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Love Is the Answer

Steady our feet, our Father. Let our doubts be quiet and our holy minds be still, and speak to us. We have no words to give to You. We would but listen to Your Word, and make it ours. Lead our practicing as does a father lead a little child along a way he does not understand. Yet does he follow, sure that he is safe because his father leads the way for him.

So do we bring our practicing to You. And if we stumble, You will raise us up. If we forget the way, we count upon Your sure remembering. We wander off, but You will not forget to call us back. Quicken our footsteps now, that we may walk more certainly and quickly unto You. And we accept the Word You offer us to unify our practicing, as we review the thoughts that You have given us. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 171, W-pI.V.2-3. See also ACIM Lesson 171 Insights.)

Today we practice letting ourselves be carried by the Holy Spirit… Today we give time for quiet listening… We open our minds and hearts to Holy Spirit’s inspiration…

We let peace fill our minds… We let ourselves remember that we are still God’s perfect Love… We are still as God created us… We are eternally safe in the Mind of Love… and so is everyone else, no matter what the dream looks like.

We give this day to remembering that God is in our mind always… remembering that Love is always the answer, no matter what appears in the dream of separation.

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Remembering Our Oneness in Love

There is a deep responsibility you owe yourself, and one you must learn to remember all the time. The lesson may seem hard at first, but you will learn to love it when you realize that it is true and is but a tribute to your power. You who have sought and found littleness, remember this: Every decision you make stems from what you think you are, and represents the value that you put upon yourself. Believe the little can content you, and by limiting yourself you will not be satisfied. For your function is not little, and it is only by finding your function and fulfilling it that you can escape from littleness.

I asked you earlier, “Would you be hostage to the ego or host to God?” Let this question be asked you by the Holy Spirit every time you make a decision. For every decision you make does answer this, and invites sorrow or joy accordingly. When God gave Himself to you in your creation, He established you as host to Him forever. He has not left you, and you have not left Him. All your attempts to deny His magnitude, and make His Son hostage to the ego, cannot make little whom God has joined with Him. Every decision you make is for Heaven or for hell, and brings you awareness of what you decided for. (A Course in Miracles, T-15.III.3;6. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

The ego is the rejection of the Source of all power. By making up a world that keeps the Source of power out, the ego is in completion with God. Realizing its powerlessness, the ego is always in fear. While we identify with the ego, we are in a constant state of fear, ranging from mild angst to full blown terror.

Fortunately we have been given help out to get out of this hell. The Holy Spirit is always offering us the lesson that we still remain in God and still share all His strength and His Love. There is nothing that can harm God’s Creation. The images of harm we see in the world simply portray the ego’s belief in littleness. They have no effect whatsoever on what we are in truth — the Son of God.

We can reclaim our status as God’s Son by being vigilant against littleness. The Holy Spirit will help us recognize the falsity of the images we have accepted as ourself in the ego thought system. As we accept His help, we will learn the truth of What we are and remember our magnitude in God. We will remember we are safe. We will remember we are loved and loving. We will remember our oneness in Love.

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Opening to the Holy Instant

The holy instant is your invitation to love to enter into your bleak and joyless kingdom, and to transform it into a garden of peace and welcome. Love’s answer is inevitable. It will come because you came without the body, and interposed no barriers to interfere with its glad coming. In the holy instant, you ask of love only what it offers everyone, neither less nor more. Asking for everything, you will receive it.

Receive it now of Him, for He would have you know Him. Only a little wall of dust still stands between you and your brother. Blow on it lightly and with happy laughter, and it will fall away. And walk into the garden love has prepared for both of you.” (A Course in Miracles, T-18.VIII.11:1-5;13:5-8. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

The holy instant is a time free of conflict because we have been willing to set aside our judgments, if only for a moment. It is our judgments that make separation seem real. When we are willing to set them aside we welcome the loving vision of Christ, which shows us only the unity of Love.

In that instant, the sense of being separate and alone fades away and we welcome our brother as the Love he is. The body no longer dominates our attention. We no longer identify our brother with the body. Instead, we experience the joy of Heaven’s oneness.

Today we practice stepping back from judgment and welcoming the vision of Love that joins us together in the center of peace.

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Accepting the Love We Are

See no one from the battleground, for there you look on him from nowhere.

Think what is given those who share their Father’s purpose, and who know that it is theirs. They want for nothing. Sorrow of any kind is inconceivable. Only the light they love is in awareness, and only love shines upon them forever. [Love] is their past, their present and their future; always the same, eternally complete and wholly shared. They know it is impossible their happiness could ever suffer change of any kind. Perhaps you think the battleground can offer something you can win. Can it be anything that offers you a perfect calmness, and a sense of love so deep and quiet that no touch of doubt can ever mar your certainty? And that will last forever?

Those with the strength of God in their awareness could never think of battle. (A Course in Miracles, T-23.IV.7:1;8:1-9:1. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

We need not seek for Love, for Love is What we are. We need only accept What we are. We are surrounded, supported and embraced by God’s Love eternally. To find the Love we seem to lack, we need to seek out all the barriers against Love we have built in our mind.

As we take our barriers to Love to the Holy Spirit in our mind, He will shine His Light upon them, showing us they have no substance and revealing the Love That is there. This is the practice of forgiveness. This is how we heal the perceived lack of Love that makes us feel lacking, inadequate, unloved and guilty. As we let our self-made barriers be shined away with the Light of Love, we recognize that we are truly complete in the Heart of God. It is worthy of our vigilance.

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God’s Love Has Forgotten No One

…this course was sent to open up the path of light to us, and teach us, step by step, how to return to the eternal Self we thought we lost.

I take the journey with you. For I share your doubts and fears a little while, that you may come to me who recognize the road by which all fears and doubts are overcome. We walk together. I must understand uncertainty and pain, although I know they have no meaning. Yet a savior must remain with those he teaches, seeing what they see, but still retaining in his mind the way that led him out, and now will lead you out with him. God’s Son is crucified until you walk along the road with me.

My resurrection comes again each time I lead a brother safely to the place at which the journey ends and is forgot. I am renewed each time a brother learns there is a way from misery and pain. I am reborn each time a brother’s mind turns to the light in him and looks for me. I have forgotten no one. Help me now to lead you back to where the journey was begun, to make another choice with me. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 171, W-pI.V.5:4-7:5. See also ACIM Lesson 171 Insights.)

Contrary to the ego’s belief, we are never really alone. Jesus, the symbol of complete forgiveness, walks with us to lead us Home. We have the means to learn how to awaken to the Light of our true Self.

It is comforting to know that One Who has completed the journey of awakening from the dream is always with us to guide us along the path of Light. Let us today take His Hand and accept His strength when our willingness seems weak. He understands our doubts and fears and assures us from His experience that they can be overcome. He knows that our uncertainty has no meaning, remembering for us that we remain Love as Love created us. His Love has forgotten no one.

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