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Accepting Love’s Function

…try to understand and accept what [“my only function is the one God gave me”] really means. Today’s idea offers you escape from all your perceived difficulties. It places the key to the door of peace, which you have closed upon yourself, in your own hands. It gives you the answer to all the searching you have done since time began.

“…try to uncover each thought that arises to interfere with it. Note each one as it comes to you, with as little involvement or concern as possible, dismissing each one by telling yourself:

This thought reflects a goal that is preventing me from accepting my only function.

After a while, interfering thoughts will become harder to find. Try, however, to continue a minute or so longer, attempting to catch a few of the idle thoughts that escaped your attention before, but do not strain or make undue effort in doing this. Then tell yourself:

On this clean slate let my true function be written for me.

(A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 65, W-pI.65.3;5:4-6:4. See also ACIM Lesson 65 Insights.)

We accept Love’s function when we do what Love does, which is to extend Love. As we remember that Love is One and that Love shares all Love with all, we are remembering our function. Loving all equally all the time is our function. Because giving is receiving, as we extend Love we are receiving Love. The circle of Love never ends. This is the only function God (Love) has given us. Love sees only Love and extends only Love, without exception.

Today we practice uncovering each thought that interferes with Love’s extension. We hand each thought over to the Holy Spirit, where it dissolves in Love’s Light, because we clearly see that it is just a meaningless thought. The joy that comes with accepting Love’s function fills our heart and mind. Our mind is cleansed of all idols that lead nowhere. We let our mind be healed along with every brother. We are filled with peace and gratitude as we accept Love’s function.

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Welcoming God’s Peace

God’s is the only Will. When you have recognized this, you have recognized that your will is His. The belief that conflict is possible has gone. Peace has replaced the strange idea that you are torn by conflicting goals. As an expression of the Will of God, you have no goal but His.

I am at peace.
Nothing can disturb me. My will is God’s.
My will and God’s are one.
God wills peace for His Son.

There is no will but God’s. I seek His peace today.
(A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 74, W-pI.74.1:2-6;3:5-9;7:2. See also ACIM Lesson 74 Insights.)

Peace and happiness are our birthright because, as God’s Son, we were created by the Source of peace and happiness. If we experience anything else, it must be based on a false idea that is the denial of our birthright.

If we want to experience God’s peace and happiness, we need to stop denying our birthright. We need to let go of or forgive our wish to be anything other than the extension of Love that is God’s Son, our Self.

Today we practice recognizing when we are not experiencing God’s peace and bring our perception to the Holy Spirit to receive His correction and welcome God’s peace.

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Trust In Our One Self Brings Joy

Your present trust in Him is the defense that promises a future undisturbed, without a trace of sorrow, and with joy that constantly increases, as this life becomes a holy instant, set in time, but heeding only immortality. Let no defenses but your present trust direct the future, and this life becomes a meaningful encounter with the truth that only your defenses would conceal.

Without defenses, you become a light which Heaven gratefully acknowledges to be its own. And it will lead you on in ways appointed for your happiness according to the ancient plan, begun when time was born. Your followers will join their light with yours, and it will be increased until the world is lighted up with joy. And gladly will our brothers lay aside their cumbersome defenses, which availed them nothing and could only terrify. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 135, W-pI.135.19-20. See also ACIM Lesson 135 Insights.)

Everyone in the world is seeking happiness. If we think happiness can be found in forms of the world, our search is unending, for we are searching where happiness cannot be found. Yet happiness beyond description is available to us in each now moment, not in the world but in our unity with our Creator.

Our Source is happiness and shares all happiness with us, Its creation. We claim our happiness by putting our present trust in our one Self, united with our Creator. Nothing else is worthy of our trust. Nothing else can offer us perfect happiness and peace that cannot be disturbed.

As we practice bringing all our thoughts to our one Self to be interpreted from the perspective of the Christ Mind, we are placing our trust where trust is justified. This is done in each now moment. We let go of trying to use the past as the basis for our interpretation. We let go of planning for an unknown future. We build our trust that the future will be the same as the present moment — safe in the changeless Love which fills us with limitless joy.

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Remembering We Are Safe and Loved

…think of yourself as completely at peace with everyone and everything, safe in a world that protects you and loves you, and that you love in return. Try to feel safety surrounding you, hovering over you and holding you up. Try to believe, however briefly, that nothing can harm you in any way.

Love holds no grievances. When I let all my grievances
go I will know I am perfectly safe.

Love holds no grievances. I would wake to my Self by
laying all my grievances aside and wakening in Him. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 68, W-pI.68.6:6-9;7:2-3. See also ACIM Lesson 68 Insights.)

Thinking of our self as perfectly at peace with everyone and everything seems like a fantasy. Yet the actual fantasy is believing that we are not at peace, that we are vulnerable and always in conflict. God created us like Himself, sharing His perfect peace with us. Believing we are a body, vulnerable to harm, is a grievance against God. It is refusing to accept what God has given us.

This is why letting go of grievances is the key that will bring us back to the awareness that we are perfectly safe always. We are loved always. We are love and loving always. As we let go of grievances, we welcome God’s gifts and remember Who we are.

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We Seek for Innocence Now

Perception has a focus. It is this that gives consistency to what you see. Change but this focus, and what you behold will change accordingly. Your vision now will shift, to give support to the intent which has replaced the one you held before. Remove your focus on your brother’s sins, and you experience the peace that comes from faith in sinlessness. This faith receives its only sure support from what you see in others past their sins. For their mistakes, if focused on, are witnesses to sins in you. And you will not transcend their sight and see the sinlessness that lies beyond.

We seek for innocence and nothing else. We seek for it with no concern but now.

For the past is gone; the future but imagined. These concerns are but defenses against present change of focus in perception.” (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 181, W-pI,181.2;3:5-6;5:2-3. See also ACIM Lesson 181 Insights.)

As we consistently ask to see as Holy Spirit sees, we see the Light of Truth in everyone… We see the Holy Spirit in everyone… We see that they are still perfect Love as God created them…

We practice this today in each now moment. If we notice our intent slipping away, we just renew our focus and dedication to see as Holy Spirit sees. We want to see the Truth. We want to feel God’s peace and joy as we see with Him. We want to feel and extend the Love for every brother as the Holy Spirit does.

As this practice gets stronger and stronger with our single intent, we feel so loved… This Love overflows continuously to every brother we encounter or even think of. Love carries us through the day and our happiness overflows into every aspect of our lives. All this comes with seeking to see only innocence now.

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Forgiveness Ends All Suffering

When the time comes to let it all go, will you be ready? To let go is to relinquish all attachment, all need to hold on to something. The end of suffering is the release of all that causes it. What are the causes? False beliefs about yourself and the world. What else could bring about a state of suffering in the mind created perfect by God? Suffering is illusion; the mind that thinks suffering real, has forgotten what it is and imagines itself to be something else entirely. That something else is a body, housing a mind with which it is identical. Could such an identity shift truly occur? Only in dreams where you seem to be as you are not. All authentic spiritual thought systems attempt to teach that you are not a body, separate from everything you see and your creative Source. You are Mind and Reality Itself. Only your ignorance of your eternal Reality, a kind of amnesia that is actively maintained, keeps the true experience of your Self from your awareness. (From the Christ Mind Book II, page 174)

A painful sense of profound loss is inevitable if we believe we are separate from our Source of Life and Love. A world of separation is a loveless and lonely world, experienced only because of accepting this false belief in separation. We made the choice to accept the belief. Likewise, we can make the choice to change our minds and reject the belief.

Forgiveness is the means to let go of all that is false. When we have let it all go, we will remember that we, along with all our brothers, are Love and nothing else. We will experience the infinite joy of our oneness in the Source of all Love. Forgiveness is the means to end all suffering. It is worth the moment by moment practice of letting Holy Spirit guide all our thoughts.

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Letting Truth Enter

A quiet mind, resting in the present, is ready and open to receive Truth. Truth cannot enter a mind that is busy, driven to distraction, filled with its own ideas and goals. In such a mind, there is no room for Truth nor would It be welcome, for the restless, constantly active mind is interested only in itself, its needs and wants. Virtually all spiritual practices aim to achieve just this quietness of mind that is the condition in which Truth can be experienced. Patience is a part of preparation, a quality of mind that must be developed, that awareness be able to rest quietly in the present. Patience rests on surrender and deepens it until they become one. (From the Christ Mind, Book II, p. 230)

Our practice for today is letting truth enter our minds. We do this by opening up to the eternal now of the Holy Spirit… In the eternal now the deep peace of Heaven is experienced… The joy of Love’s oneness returns…

In this quietness, the eternal beingness of our true Nature is witnessed and experienced… We innately know that It cannot be lost, because our true Nature is eternal… 

We give time today to let Truth in and receive inspiration in how to be truly helpful… We give Love a home in our minds and extend It freely to every brother, knowing we are one.

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