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Being Determined to See Love’s Presence

³You want salvation. ⁴You want to be happy. ⁵You want peace. ⁶You do not have them now, because your mind is totally undisciplined, and you cannot distinguish between joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, love and fear. ⁷You are now learning how to tell them apart. ⁸And great indeed will be your reward.

Your decision to see is all that vision requires. ²What you want is yours. …⁶God has one Son, and he is the resurrection and the life. ⁷His will is done because all power is given him in Heaven and on earth. ⁸In your determination to see is vision given you.

…as you repeat the idea [I am determined to see], you are stating that you are determined to change your present state for a better one, and one you really want.

³The extra repetitions should be applied to any situation, person or event that upsets you. ⁴You can see them differently, and you will. ⁵What you desire you will see. ⁶Such is the real law of cause and effect as it operates in the world. (A Course in Miracles, W-20.2;3:1-2,6-8;4:3;5:3-6. See also ACIM Lesson 20 Insights.)

True vision cannot be seen with the body’s eyes. Determination to see means we do not want to give any meaning to what the body’s eyes see. We are determined to focus on the vision that shows us the Love in which we live. This vision shows our unity with our brothers and our Creator, because Love is one. Our determination to see is our commitment to disregard the dream of separation and welcome awareness that we are Love and nothing else.

In any situation where our peace of mind is disturbed today, we remind ourselves that we are determined to see Love’s presence. We are willing to accept help to let go of our mistaken focus. We want to know that we are Love.

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Learning the Lessons That Set Us Free

Father, today I am Your Son again.

Today we will anticipate the time when dreams of sin and guilt are gone, and we have reached the holy peace we never left. ²Merely a tiny instant has elapsed between eternity and timelessness. ³So brief the interval there was no lapse in continuity, nor break in thoughts which are forever unified as one. ⁴Nothing has ever happened to disturb the peace of God the Father and the Son. ⁵This we accept as wholly true today.

We thank You, Father, that we cannot lose the memory of You and of Your Love. ²We recognize our safety, and give thanks for all the gifts You have bestowed on us, for all the loving help we have received, for Your eternal patience, and the Word which You have given us that we are saved.” (A Course in Miracles, W-234. See also ACIM Lesson 234 Insights.)

As God’s Son, we remain eternally united with Him. This means that all God is, we are; we share all His attributes. We have made a dream of being different and separate from God, but dreams do not change Reality.

To reclaim our identity as God’s Son, we simply need to awaken from the dream. We have been given a Teacher Whose function is to help us learn our beliefs are mistaken and let them go. His loving lessons help us see the presence of Love that has never left us.

Today we welcome His help, knowing it will set us free from the limitations we have accepted in the dream. As we accept His help, the Light of Love dawns upon our mind. In gratitude we accept the peace and joy that is our natural state as God’s Son.

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Finding Our Home in God’s Love

Father, I will but to remember You.

What can I seek for, Father, but Your Love? ²Perhaps I think I seek for something else; a something I have called by many names. ³Yet is Your Love the only thing I seek, or ever sought. ⁴For there is nothing else that I could ever really want to find. ⁵Let me remember You. ⁶What else could I desire but the truth about myself?

This is your will, my brother. ²And you share this will with me, and with the One as well Who is our Father. ³To remember Him is Heaven. ⁴This we seek. ⁵And only this is what it will be given us to find. (A Course in Miracles, W-231. See also ACIM Lesson 231 Insights.)

Everyone in the world is searching for Love, because it is the only thing the world cannot provide. The best it can offer is some form of specialness as a substitute. This world is the ego’s alternative to God’s Love. The wish for specialness denies His Love. All the human behavior in the world, the attack and murder, fear and guilt, sadness and loneliness come from the lack of Love in the dream.

The Love we seek can only be found by awakening from the dream. It is our true Will to be united with God in His Love. We will remember It when we forgive our wish for specialness. Love is not a distant goal. It is here now, forever present in our right mind. As we recognize our judgments and let them go, we will know the Love we are. We will remember we live in the Heaven of God’s Love.

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We Are Forever Safe in God’s Love

The holy Christ is born in me today.

Watch with me, angels, watch with me today. ²Let all God’s holy Thoughts surround me, and be still with me while Heaven’s Son is born. ³Let earthly sounds be quiet, and the sights to which I am accustomed disappear. ⁴Let Christ be welcomed where He is at home. ⁵And let Him hear the sounds He understands, and see but sights that show His Father’s Love. ⁶Let Him no longer be a stranger here, for He is born again in me today.

Your Son is welcome, Father. ²He has come to save me from the evil self I made. ³He is the Self that You have given me. ⁴He is but what I really am in truth. ⁵He is the Son You love above all things. ⁶He is my Self as You created me. ⁷It is not Christ that can be crucified. ⁸Safe in Your Arms let me receive Your Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-303. See also ACIM Lesson 303 Insights.)

Christ is God’s Son, the extension of His Love. We are God’s Son, at one with Him in His Love. As we let go of our mistaken identity, we awaken to the fact that we were created by Love as Love.

This Love is invulnerable because Love does not change. The image of a separate self we made has no effect on the Self we are and have always been.

Today we stand before our Creator, bathed in His Love. In the presence of His Light, the false self-image is dispelled. Our hearts are filled with gratitude as we accept His gift that keeps us forever safe. We are truly blessed.

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Making Way for Love’s Return

Where darkness was I look upon the light.

Father, our eyes are opening at last. ²Your holy world awaits us, as our sight is finally restored and we can see. ³We thought we suffered. ⁴But we had forgot the Son whom You created. ⁵Now we see that darkness is our own imagining, and light is there for us to look upon. ⁶Christ’s vision changes darkness into light, for fear must disappear when love has come. ⁷Let me forgive Your holy world today, that I may look upon its holiness and understand it but reflects my own.

Our Love awaits us as we go to Him, and walks beside us showing us the way. ²He fails in nothing. ³He the End we seek, and He the Means by which we go to Him. (A Course in Miracles, W-302. See also ACIM Lesson 302 Insights.)

Christ’s vision sees past the loveless world to the eternal presence of Love. While judgment hides Love from our awareness, forgiveness makes way for Love’s return. We have a singular mission in this world: Forgive the world for all we thought it was. When that mission is fulfilled, we will awaken to our Home in the Heaven of God’s Love.

To fulfill our mission, we ask the Holy Spirit to guide our thoughts and actions.  We are grateful for our mighty Companion Whose vision is clear and Who knows the way to our Home in Love.

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Gratitude for Love’s Blessings

I love You, Father, and I love Your Son.

My gratitude permits my love to be accepted without fear. ²And thus am I restored to my reality at last. ³All that intruded on my holy sight forgiveness takes away. ⁴And I draw near the end of senseless journeys, mad careers and artificial values. ⁵I accept instead what God establishes as mine, sure that in that alone I will be saved; sure that I go through fear to meet my Love.

Father, I come to You today, because I would not follow any way but Yours. ²You are beside me. ³Certain is Your way. ⁴And I am grateful for Your holy gifts of certain sanctuary, and escape from everything that would obscure my love for God my Father and His holy Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-298. See also ACIM Lesson 298 Insights.)

Judgment blocks our awareness of Love. Forgiveness takes away the barriers. We cannot judge and experience Love’s oneness at the same time. When we forgive, we take away the ego’s mechanism for maintaining separation. What remains is the certainty of God’s Love.

Gratitude comes with forgiveness. With the barriers to Love removed, Love fills our awareness. The joy that comes with it creates an overwhelming sense of gratitude. The practice of counting our blessings helps to open the door to Love’s expression. Our true blessings are always extensions of Love.

If we feel blessed because we have more of something than someone else, this is an ego judgment that continues its endeavor to maintain separation. We are always truly blessed because God’s Love never ends. We accept His blessing by forgiving the wish for specialness. With forgiveness comes joy and peace, and we know we are truly blessed.

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Learning from Our Perceptions

Let not my world obscure the sight of Christ.

I can obscure my holy sight, if I intrude my world upon it. ²Nor can I behold the holy sights Christ looks upon, unless it is His vision that I use. ³Perception is a mirror, not a fact. ⁴And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward. ⁵I would bless the world by looking on it through the eyes of Christ. ⁶And I will look upon the certain signs that all my sins have been forgiven me.

You lead me from the darkness to the light; from sin to holiness. ²Let me forgive, and thus receive salvation for the world. ³It is Your gift, my Father, given me to offer to Your holy Son, that he may find again the memory of You, and of Your Son as You created him. (A Course in Miracles, W-304. See also ACIM Lesson 304 Insights.)

Our perceptions are always a reflection of what we believe we are — our state of mind. This means every perception teaches us. Either it reinforces our belief in being separate or it teaches us to see the Light of Christ in our brother. What our perceptions teach us depends on which guide we use to interpret our perceptions.

The ego always uses our perceptions to teach us that we are separate. The Holy Spirit offers us another way of seeing, Christ’s vision, which sees the holiness in everyone; the reality of Love and nothing else. The ego’s guidance always leads to pain and suffering, fear and guilt. The Holy Spirit always leads to salvation from the ego and the recognition that only Love is real.

Today we welcome the Holy Spirit’s guidance, for we would see with Christ’s vision and recognize that we are united as God’s one Son, eternally at Home in His Love.

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