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Our Safety Is in Love

Today I claim the gifts forgiveness gives.

I will not wait another day to find the treasures that my Father offers me. ²Illusions are all vain, and dreams are gone even while they are woven out of thoughts that rest on false perceptions. ³Let me not accept such meager gifts again today. ⁴God’s Voice is offering the peace of God to all who hear and choose to follow Him. ⁵This is my choice today. ⁶And so I go to find the treasures God has given me.

I seek but the eternal. ²For Your Son can be content with nothing less than this. ³What, then, can be his solace but what You are offering to his bewildered mind and frightened heart, to give him certainty and bring him peace? ⁴Today I would behold my brother sinless. ⁵This Your Will for me, for so will I behold my sinlessness. (A Course in Miracles, W-334. See also ACIM Lesson 334 Insights.)

There is only one way to find peace of mind. We must forgive illusions of differences. We must accept the Love that unites us with our Father and every brother. This is the gift forgiveness brings. It clears away the false images that hide the eternal Love that never left us.

Our safety is in Love. Love never attacks because It sees only Itself everywhere. Today we accept Love’s blessings as we accept the Holy Spirit’s help to forgive our mistaken perceptions and welcome the truth.

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Transforming Our Self-Image

My mind is part of God’s. I am very holy.

Today’s idea does not describe the way you see yourself now. ²It does, however, describe what vision will show you. ³It is difficult for anyone who thinks he is in this world to believe this of himself. ⁴Yet the reason he thinks he is in this world is because he does not believe it.

You will believe that you are part of where you think you are. ²That is because you surround yourself with the environment you want. ³And you want it to protect the image of yourself that you have made. ⁴The image is part of this environment. ⁵What you see while you believe you are in it is seen through the eyes of the image. ⁶This is not vision. ⁷Images cannot see.

As often as possible during the day, pick up a specific attribute or attributes you are ascribing to yourself at the time and apply: [My mind is part of God’s. I am very holy.] (A Course in Miracles, W-35.1–2;9:1. See also ACIM Lesson 35 Insights.)

We need to change our mind about what we believe we are. We have convinced ourselves that we are a body, vulnerable to outside forces, and capable of harm. We see ourselves as anything but holy, because we do not see ourselves as one with God.

We need to practice accepting a different thought about what we are. When we remind ourselves that our mind is part of God’s, we are stepping back from the belief that we are separate. And if our mind is part of God’s, we must be holy because He is.

In our oneness with God, we have all of His attributes. We are loving and kind; peaceful and helpful. As we change our mind about what we believe we are, the need to protect and defend is dispelled. It is replaced by the joy of extending Love. This practice will lead to a transformed self-image that acknowledges the truth that we are one with God.

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Being a Carrier of Love

If you will lay aside the ego’s voice, however loudly it may seem to call; if you will not accept its petty gifts that give you nothing that you really want; if you will listen with an open mind, that has not told you what salvation is; then you will hear the mighty Voice of truth, quiet in power, strong in stillness, and completely certain in Its messages.

Listen, and hear your Father speak to you through His appointed Voice, which silences the thunder of the meaningless, and shows the way to peace to those who cannot see. ²Be still today and listen to the truth.

…reinforce your choice to hear and to receive the Word by this reminder, given to yourself as often as is possible today:

³Let me be still and listen to the truth.
⁴I am the messenger of God today, my voice is His, to give what I receive. (A Course in Miracles, W-106.1:1–2:2;10:2-4. See also ACIM Lesson 106 Insights.)

We make a choice today between Love and fear. The voice of fear speaks loudly in our mind. It tells us of chaos and conflict. The Voice of Love speaks to us in stillness. It tells us with certainty that we are safe and there is no conflict in Its peace.

Today we remind ourselves to quiet our mind and listen to the truth. In our quiet mind, all seeming conflicts are resolved. The Light of Love shines away dark shadows of fear. In this stillness, we hear the Voice for God tell us of the Love that joins us with every brother. His Voice guides us on the path of Love. We become Love’s messenger. We carry that message with quiet joy and awaken to the Truth.

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Celebrating Our Life in God

There is one life, and that I share with God.

…the idea of death takes many forms. ⁴It is the one idea which underlies all feelings that are not supremely happy. ⁵It is the alarm to which you give response of any kind that is not perfect joy. ⁶All sorrow, loss, anxiety and suffering and pain, even a little sigh of weariness, a slight discomfort or the merest frown, acknowledge death. ⁷And thus deny you live.

Let us today be children of the truth, and not deny our holy heritage. ²Our life is not as we imagine it. ³Who changes life because he shuts his eyes, or makes himself what he is not because he sleeps, and sees in dreams an opposite to what he is? ⁴We will not ask for death in any form today. ⁵Nor will we let imagined opposites to life abide even an instant where the Thought of life eternal has been set by God Himself. (A Course in Miracles, W-167.2:3-7;10. See also ACIM Lesson 167 Insights.)

We are entitled to perfect happiness. It is God’s gift to us, His Son. God sees us all united as His one Son.

When we are not supremely happy; when our perfect peace is disturbed by the tiniest ripple, we have accepted a false identity that denies our Reality. We experience it as life, but it denies the Life we live in God. And so it is not true.

We celebrate the Life we live in God by accepting Christ’s vision to see the world through forgiving eyes. With this vision, Love’s eternal presence is acknowledged. The joy of extending Love is our Life. Our minds are at peace and our hearts overflow with gratitude.

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Letting Our Light Shine in the World

A teacher of God is anyone who chooses to be one. ²His qualifications consist solely in this; somehow, somewhere he has made a deliberate choice in which he did not see his interests as apart from someone else’s. ³Once he has done that, his road is established and his direction is sure. ⁴A light has entered the darkness. ⁵It may be a single light, but that is enough. ⁶He has entered an agreement with God even if he does not yet believe in Him. ⁷He has become a bringer of salvation. ⁸He has become a teacher of God.

⁹Everyone will answer in the end, but the end can be a long, long way off. ¹⁰It is because of this that the plan of the teachers was established. ¹¹Their function is to save time. ¹²Each one begins as a single light, but with the Call at its center it is a light that cannot be limited. ¹³And each one saves a thousand years of time as the world judges it.

There is a course for every teacher of God. ²The form of the course varies greatly. ³So do the particular teaching aids involved. ⁴But the content of the course never changes. ⁵Its central theme is always, “God’s Son is guiltless, and in his innocence is his salvation.” ⁶It can be taught by actions or thoughts; in words or soundlessly; in any language or in no language; in any place or time or manner. ⁷It does not matter who the teacher was before he heard the Call. ⁸He has become a savior by his answering. ⁹He has seen someone else as himself. ¹⁰He has therefore found his own salvation and the salvation of the world. ¹¹In his rebirth is the world reborn. (A Course in Miracles, M-1.1;2:9-13;3)

We bring Light to the world when we recognize, for at least an instant, our oneness with a brother. This is a recognition of the reality that we are all one Self, united in Love. As we see that, in truth, our best interests are the same for everyone, our true Self is interested only in extending the oneness of God’s Love.

We make way for this recognition by forgiving our judgments that tell us that we are separate and alone. As we let the Holy Spirit teach us to see our brothers truly, the Light we are shines more brightly. We let the Light of Love flow freely from our mind to the unity of all minds. In this unity we are certain of our safety. We teach unity with our thoughts, our actions and our words.

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Welcoming the Love That Unites Us

Without forgiveness I will still be blind.

Sin is the symbol of attack. ²Behold it anywhere, and I will suffer. ³For forgiveness is the only means whereby Christ’s vision comes to me. ⁴Let me accept what His sight shows me as the simple truth, and I am healed completely. ⁵Brother, come and let me look on you. ⁶Your loveliness reflects my own. ⁷Your sinlessness is mine. ⁸You stand forgiven, and I stand with you.

So would I look on everyone today. ²My brothers are Your Sons. ³Your Fatherhood created them, and gave them all to me as part of You, and my own Self as well. ⁴Today I honor You through them, and thus I hope this day to recognize my Self. (A Course in Miracles, W-247. See also ACIM Lesson 247 Insights.)

Judgment is the ego’s tool to see sin. To see the innocence of the face of Christ in our brother, we need to let go of our judgments. Judgments blind us to the truth, for Love does not judge. Love sees only Itself, united with All That is.

Today we dedicate to taking the blindfold off. We offer our judgments to the Holy Spirit, Who will help us heal our fear-based thoughts. Where fear is released, Love is welcome. We recognize the Love in our one Self as we see the Love in our brothers.

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Letting Go of Barriers to Love

Let me not be Your critic, Lord, today, and judge against You. ²Let me not attempt to interfere with Your creation, and distort it into sickly forms. ³Let me be willing to withdraw my wishes from its unity, and thus to let it be as You created it. ⁴For thus will I be able, too, to recognize my Self as You created me. ⁵In love was I created, and in love will I remain forever. ⁶What can frighten me, when I let all things be exactly as they are?

Let not our sight be blasphemous today, nor let our ears attend to lying tongues. ²Only reality is free of pain. ³Only reality is free of loss. ⁴Only reality is wholly safe. ⁵And it is only this we seek today. (A Course in Miracles, W-268.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 268 Insights.)

The body cannot perceive anything real, because the body itself is an illusion. But beyond the illusions is the reality of Love. That means what we are and all things are is Love and nothing else.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit’s help to see all things exactly as they are; to see Love and nothing else. With His help, we will forgive the false images that hide the truth from our awareness. We will forgive the wish for specialness. As we let go of that mistake, the Love we are will fill our awareness and we will see the reality of Love everywhere. This is our calling.

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